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For Sale: 1 Red Ferrari. Made of Wool.

The classified ad might read: "Sports car seeks permanent home, very good condition, one lady owner." Oh, and another important point: "Made of wool." After traveling the world for the past five years, British artist Lauren Porter is seeking a permanent home for her knitted red Ferrari sports car....

Couple Beats Medical Odds by Conceiving Two Sets of Identical Twins [VIDEO]

A North Carolina couple has astonished the reproductive medical community by beating incredible odds and conceiving two sets of identical twins. ABC reported the story of Miranda and Josh Crawford of Charlotte, N.C., who became parents to a baby girl born in 2009 after one round of in-vitro fertilization. A year later,...

High-Heeled Legos: The Snappiest Snap-Together Shoes You'll Ever Wear

A pair of playful stilettos can make a woman feel young again -- especially if those high heels are covered in tiny toys from her childhood. Last month, British artist Finn Stone unveiled one seriously funky fashion accessory at the Affordable Art Fair in London: a pair of stilettos covered in hundreds of colorful little...

Artist-Musician Sculpts the Sound of the Sun

Craig Colorusso is chasing the sun, not in search of a break from the winter chill or a good tan but in search of music. The Massachusetts-based artist and musician's newest project is sound sculpture called sun boxes, which rely solely on the sun to create music. Each sun box has its own printed circuit board with a...

Atlanta 6-Year-Old Sells Art for Japan

Like many a sentimental mom, Keely Muse kept all of her daughter's preschool artwork. She probably never dreamed she'd one day sell it to help struggling people across the globe. Tuesday Muse, a 6-year-old kindergartner, may not understand the scope of devastation in Japan, but she knows enough to want to help. "I saw...

Background on art

Art is a term that describes a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, but is most often understood to refer to painting, film, photography, sculpture, and other visual media.

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