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Flavorwire offers cultural news and critique around books, music, film, TV, art, and pop culture the world over. Highbrow, lowbrow, and everything in between.

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It’s been a stressful couple of weeks. You deserve these.

Heartwarming Photos of Polar Bears and Cubs

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Xavi Bou’s “Ornitographies" is a combination of photography and motion study, capturing the shapes generated by migratory flight patterns, and creating something uniquely beautiful in the process. 

Striking Photos Capture the Flight Patterns of Birds

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Penny Hardy’s life-sized sculptures are crafted "from found bits and pieces of scrap metal, used to create a piece with renewed life and energy."

Striking Sculptures Capture Intense Emotions via Scrap Metal

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The Gallery1988 show features work inspired by Yankovic's songs, his 1989 cult movie ‘UHF,’ and the man himself. 

Awesome Art Inspired by ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic

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Photographer Teemu Jarvinen found film noir and cyberpunk in his images of Sapporo, Japan.

Noir-Infused Images of Snowy Japan

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Artist Agnieszka Nienartowicz replicates not only the style of the old masters, but the realism of the human canvas. 

Incredible, Photorealistic Paintings of Tattooed Women

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The latest show at Gallery1988 features terrific new pieces inspired by “National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation,” “Elf,” “Die Hard,” “Love, Actually,” and more.

Awesome Art Inspired By Your Favorite Holiday Movies

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Kelly Pratt Kreidich and Ian Kreidich’s “Dancers & Dogs” pairs professional dancers with their charming pooches. 

Adorable Photos of Dancers and Their Dogs

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Blain Hefner’s inventive designs put the likes of ‘They Live,’ ‘Spinal Tap,’ and ‘Bill & Ted’ atop your Christmas tree. 

Awesome, Pop Culture-Inspired Holiday Tree Toppers

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"A Glitch in the System, deconstructing stereotypes," a new exhibition in the Photo Vogue Festival, collects and presents “new ways of looking at gender fluidity, at the diverse wealth of body types and appearances and at the endless forms of beauty, of ethnic backgrounds and origin.”

Gorgeous Photos Masterfully Deconstruct Social Stereotypes

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Mondo Gallery’s “It’s an Art Show, Charlie Brown” reproduces sixteen iconic “Peanuts” panels and strips; we’re pleased to share some of our favorites, including five Flavorwire exclusives. 

Iconic, Melancholy Panels from ‘Peanuts’ Comics

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In its newest exhibition, Booth Gallery gathers the work of eleven modern visual artists experimenting with the style and themes of the Surrealists.

Disturbing Works of Modern Surrealism

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Dano Brown’s hilariously inappropriate action figures (now on display at Gallery1988) include characters from “The Sopranos,” “Chappelle’s Show,” “The Shining,” and more. 

Hilarious Action Figures from Grown-Up Movies and TV

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“The very particular place of the photograph of a woman in contemporary culture means we scarcely pause to take a second or prolonged look, but swipe swiftly on. This unequal treatment of photographs of women unfortunately connects to a wider gender inequality that affects every single country in the world. If we aren’t able to see more than an expression of feminism or femininity in a photograph of a female figure, how can we expect to see more than this when we encounter women elsewhere?”

Book Excerpt: ‘Girl on Girl: Art and Photography in the Age of the Female Gaze”

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Jonathan Higbee’s series (now collected in book form) captures surprising, witty, and unexpected juxtapositions on the streets and subways of New York City. 

Inventive Images Capture Amusing ‘Coincidences’ on NYC Streets

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The Mill Shop gives us a kinder, gentler way to look at ‘Alien,’ ‘The Shining,’ ‘Jaws,’ and more.

Iconic Horror Movie Posters Reimagined in Fuzzy Felt

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The new, curated series “Hidden” (from Magnum Photos in partnership with Aperture) posits that photographers glimpse scenes that are often hidden from the rest of the world, capturing those people and places that others do not see.

Famed Photographers Share Their Favorite ‘Hidden’ Images