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Spectacular launch photography from Ben Cooper.

Kseniya Simonova's spectacular sand animation from Ukraine's Got Talent.

New rules to prevent companies from blocking web traffic.

Newspapers will be testing readers' willingness to pay for information online.

In an act of outright heresy, Marvel Comics sold the rights to 5000 characters, including Spiderman, Iron Man, and the X-Men to Disney.

TECH BUZZ It's a motorized unicycle with gyroscopic stabilizers. Awesome.

Last fall, Annie Leibovitz, the photographer, borrowed $5 million from a company called Art Capital Group. In December, she borrowed $10.5 million more from the same firm. As collateral, among other items, she used town houses she owns in Greenwich

Hundreds Try Out for Art-World Reality Show produced by Sarah Jessica Parker.

Seattle resident Derrick Coetzee uploaded 3,000 high-resolution photos of portraits in the UK National Portrait Gallery to Wikipedia.

Plagiarist, Shepard Fairey, rides "Hope" to a slap on the wrist.

LACMA to pay $25 million for a giant train-shaped phallus masquerading as "sculpture".

NYC unveils idyllic elevated green space.

Another art heist in Paris nets robber an $11 million sketchbook.

This fascinating seven part series entitled "Bamboozling Ourselves", written by filmmaker Errol Morris, explores the life of Han van Meegeren, arguably the the most successful art forger of all time.

David Hockney has been a famous artist longer than I've been alive. Best known for his contributions to the Pop art movement of the 1960's, a rapacious homosexual urge, and his friendship with Andy Warhol this British artist is considered, by some,