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A mix of visual, performance and culinary art has arrived in Chelsea in the form of chocolate-covered marshmallow. NY1's Stephanie Simon filed the following report.

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In Chelsea, it's the sweet smell of success, and the even sweeter taste of chocolate-covered marshmallow.

"I thought it was absolutely delicious. It is very sweet," said one taste-tester.

"I like the marshmallow," said another.

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At one North Texas art museum, millions of visitors pass through each year, but many may not realize they’re even in a gallery. They’re just trying to catch their next flight.

Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport houses an estimated $8 million art collection and regularly displays works on loan from the Nasher Sculpture Center. You just have to know where to look.

Edouard Manet – A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882)

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From Manet's dreamy barmaid to Warhol's multicoloured Marilyn Monroe, ancient Egypt's beauty queen and Da Vinci's enigmatic lady … here are the painted faces you'll never forget.

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A creative Starbucks employee has come up with a unique take on the coffee chain’s ‘name on a cup’ policy – by giving away customised art to a few lucky customers.

Talented barista Gabriel Nkweti Lafitte, 41, spends his spare time creating intricate line drawings on Starbucks’ disposable paper cups for people he has served.

The French artist’s work is on display inside the Starbucks opposite the British Museum in central London and has attracted visitors who have heard about the fabulous designs.

Swiss museum shocked to learn it will inherit Cornelius Gurlitt’s collection of art looted by Nazis during WWII. Gurlitt died Tuesday at 81.

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A Swiss museum has announced that it has been named the "unrestricted and unfettered sole heir" of a German art collector who, two years ago, was found hoarding more than 1,000 missing artworks in his Munich apartment.

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Gregory Kloehn goes dumpster diving, but not for the reason that most people would think. He isn’t homeless. In fact, he is an artist from Oakland that is trying to help the homeless and develop his craft at the same time.

Instead of building sculptures that he would sell to rich people to add to their massive homes, he decided to focus his efforts on helping house the homeless population in California.

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The women at the Northern Treatment and Remand Centre have big issues they can’t always explain, not even to themselves.

So they do artwork.

The institution, seeing the benefit to inmates of art linked with psychotherapy, has employed Maria Parella Illaria as its “art therapist” for the past 18 years.

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The Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders will recognize local artists and present awards at a reception on Tuesday, May 6, at the 13th Annual Exhibit and Contest for County of Union Employees and their families. The free reception and awards ceremony will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the Elizabethtown Gas Company, located in the Liberty Hall Center, 1085 Morris Avenue in Union.

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The jumbo-size art pieces that can be seen scraping the sky, at three outdoor sculpture gardens this summer, may not be quite as big as all outdoors.

But judge for yourself — because in all three cases, the sculpture is seen in a setting as vast as nature itself. 

How migrant workers produce replications of Western masterpieces.

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The southern Chinese city of Shenzhen is well known for the easy availability of cheap electronics and its bustling export-oriented economy. But when the city's authorities mounted a pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo in 2010, they wanted to show a more cultured face. That's when they turned to the painters of Dafen, the subject of art historian Winnie Wong's recently published book " Van Gogh on Demand."

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Daredevils or athletes? It's hard to decide as you watch skateboarders fly up, down and go airborne at designated parks that are growing in number.

And now those skateboarders are showing their culture with a new art exhibit, "All Decked Out," at the Polk Museum of Art, 800 E. Palmetto St.

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The soup can looks familiar in an unfamiliar way, but the name at the bottom of the image is unmistakable: Andy Warhol.

The Andy Warhol Museum announced Thursday the discovery of new works by the pop artist, works which had been trapped on floppy disks for close to 30 years.

They were made on an Amiga computer in 1985 and were unlocked by the Carnegie Mellon University Computer Club and its Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, according to a statement from the museum.

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At an April 9 auction, Mary Carroll, Dominique Pierre-Toussaint and Tracie Nelson Stanton kept their eyes peeled for a bus “with good bones.”

“We didn’t care if the bus had a few bumps and bruises,” Carroll said.

They lucked out with an old Metro Transit bus that was used to carry people to and from the “dales,” like the Southdale shopping mall. It’s still in good shape, she said.

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Thousands of economically disadvantaged Philadelphia students will be able to explore and develop an appreciation for art at the Barnes Foundation, thanks to an endowment gift from a global pharmaceutical giant.

When Glaxo Smith Kline moved into its new , open-plan building without offices at the Navy Yard in South Philadelphia, it couldn’t take the company-owned art on the walls with it.  So it sold off the art and created a $500,000 endowment, according to GSK’s North America president, Deirdre Connelly.