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Published 02/22/2012 - 4:03 p.m. EST

With an estimated price tag of more than $80 million, some may gawk right back at Edvard Munch's "The Scream," the iconic painting to be auctioned in May. But based on recent sales, potential buyers are likely anxious to get out their checkbooks. One of four versions of Norwegian expressionist painter Munch's classic piece of work will soon be auctioned by Sotheby's for an estimated $80 million.
Published 02/22/2012 - 3:02 p.m. EST
John Maeda is a world-renowned artist and graphic designer; he's also a computer scientist and an electrical engineer. He's a recipient of the National Design Award and has work in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
Published 02/22/2012 - 2:02 p.m. EST
It's not every day that a little girl can transform into Super Mario, ride a flying bicycle, or let down her hair like Rapunzel (and then have her sister swing from it). But when your dad's a photographer and you're adorable, the magical becomes possible According to The Daily Mail, Jason Lee was inspired to start documenting his daughters' growth when his mom was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 2006.
Published 02/22/2012 - 2:02 p.m. EST
Parisian-born Lise Sarfati has shown internationally and her predominantly female subjects are utterly uneventful and hugely momentous at once. Rose Gallery will show back to back venues, first opening Feb.
Published 02/22/2012 - 2:02 p.m. EST
Many would agree that a child deserves to see the entire world and to know that he or she can be anything that they want to be. This is what we are taught in elementary school, and yet, the primary options are always limited.
Published 02/22/2012 - 1:01 p.m. EST
Cindy Sherman is both one woman and an infinite number of real and imagined women. She is not only one of the most influential contemporary photographers but she is also her own makeup artist, hair stylist and subject.
Published 02/22/2012 - 1:01 p.m. EST
DALLAS — The bulk of a man's childhood comic book collection that included many of the most prized issues ever published has sold for about $3.5 million. Lon Allen, managing director of comics for Dallas-based Heritage Auctions, says Billy Wright's 1939 copy of Detective Comics No. Batman got the top bid at the New York City auction Wednesday.
Published 02/22/2012 - 3:02 p.m. EST
If heights aren't your thing, than this epic freefall YouTube video is probably not for you. Devin Graham has created what he calls the world's largest rope swing, which boasts a whopping 130 foot drop, the Sun reports. Shot over two days in Bootlegger Canyon, Moab Utah, the video features Graham's friends flying through the air, secured only by rock climbing ropes.
Published 02/22/2012 - 2:02 p.m. EST
Just imagine you're sitting in your own living room and it's nice and cozy and quiet, and across from you in two comfy chairs are Dion DiMucci and Steven Van Zandt talking, for 90 minutes, about Dion's long and amazing career. That's what it felt like last Sunday night at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, as Van Zandt engaged DiMucci in conversation about everything from the songs that excited him on the radio as a child, to the time that Jerry Lieber called him "the best white blues singer he had ever heard." This remarkable evening was part of the 92Y's lecture series and is yet another reason why, if you have some spare cash lying around, you should put it into an envelope and send it their way.
Published 02/22/2012 - 2:02 p.m. EST
Do you suppose she's wearing underwear?" Lola whispered, her query only loud enough for my ears. The woman in question was a statuesque Greek goddess of a gal, sitting bewitchingly on a stone outcropping with her elbow poised on one shapely knee. Just below her, coming up the path, strode a handsome youth with love, or at least lust, in his eyes.
Published 02/22/2012 - 2:01 p.m. EST
Heggie, librettist Gene Scheer, director Leonard Foglia, set designer Robert Brill, costume designer Jane  Greenwood and the projection designer Elaine J. McCarthy (who is responsible for much of the visual razzle-dazzle) take no chances.
Published 02/22/2012 - 1:01 p.m. EST
Although it not the first time Michael O'Connor has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design, the Brit confesses he was "like a child" when he heard the news that he was up again for his work on "Jane Eyre." "It's a strange feeling," O'Connor says, "It feels a little different [than the first time I was nominated], but not too different. You donâ??t expect it, but then people say, 'I knew this would happen.' Itâ??s quite an honor.
Published 02/22/2012 - 1:01 p.m. EST
The exhibition for The Queen's Diamond Jubilee held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, illustrates a long period in the history of England through the portraits of young Elizabeth realized by Cecil Beaton from the '30s to the '60s.   Everything had started years earlier, when Elizabeth, Queen Consort of King George VI, appointed Cecil Beaton to take portraits of the family and the very young princesses, as Cecil Beaton recalled in his diaries. Besides the pictures, letters, notes and invitations illustrate the long-lasting friendships, which bonded the queen to her favorite photographer.
Published 02/22/2012 - 1:01 p.m. EST
We first checked in with filmmaker Lucas McNelly last July, just four months into his project A Year Without Rent. For a year, McNelly has been acting as the indie film world's embedded journalist, traveling around the country and beyond and working for free on just about any project that would have him. Read Turnstyle News on FLUD's social reader. His role as an embedded journalist means that he sometimes painted projects in a less than flattering light, which he thinks made some filmmakers reluctant to bring him on board.