Visitors of the dOCUMENTA (13) contemporary art festival in Kassel, Germany, pose with portraits of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in front of "The Importance of Telepathy," a sculpture by Thai artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Friday's demonstration was part of "All for…

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Mike Ford is broke, facing a mountain of debt from hospitals bills after his mother's death, has a father in jail and is unable to pay his tuition to Harvard Law School when he's offered what seems like a dream…

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Work by controversial Los Angeles-based French pop artist Thierry Guetta, aka Mr Brainwash, is displayed at the Old Sorting Office in London during his first solo European art show. Mr Brainwash was the subject of the 2010 film "Exit Through…

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Richard Ford's Latest Novel 'Canada' Is Actually an American Morality Tale…

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More of Jeffrey Brown's conversation with Richard Ford. Ford reads an excerpt from his novel "Canada."…

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A sculpture by Carl F. Reutersward is part of the Brazilian Global Campaign for Peace in Sao Paulo.

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The trigger for this post is the publication of a new book on Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, "Bernini's Beloved: A Portrait of Costanza Piccolomini." The author, Emory University art historian Sarah McPhee, is the daughter of New Yorker writer…

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Phyllis Diller is remembered Monday on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The trailblazing comic and actress died earlier in the day at the age of 95.

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Joseph Campana a poet, critic and scholar of Renaissance literature. He is the author of two collections of poetry, "The Book of Faces" (Graywolf, 2005) and "Natural Selections," which won the 2011 Iowa Poetry Prize. He teaches Renaissance literature and…

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Omowale Cultural Society dancers perform Saturday at the 2012 African World Festival at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit.

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