Style
November 10, 2017

Paris Apartment Looks Exactly Like a Wes Anderson Film Inside (and It’s For Sale)

Director Wes Anderson is known for his visually striking aesthetic in both how his characters look and the places they inhabit. There are entire subreddits and Instagram accounts dedicated to finding locales that have the same sort of off-beat colors and vintage-style opulence that make his films so alluring. With projects like Accidental Wes Anderson, however, we hardly ever see what’s beyond the facade of these quirky buildings—until now.

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Funny
November 9, 2017

Photographer Exposes What Really Happens Behind the Scenes of a “Perfect” Shot

Photographers are a bit like magicians—creating picture-perfect fantasies by any means necessary. What often ends up as a stunning Instagram or Facebook photo often has a much different story if we take a step back behind the curtain. Luckily, Brazilian wedding and family photographer Gilmar Silva lets us into his creative process with images that expose how far he'll go to get the perfect shot.

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Resources
November 8, 2017

Over 2,000 Paintings by Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masters Now Free Online

The Barnes Foundation is a gem of a collection in Philadelphia put together by Dr. Albert C. Barnes in the early 20th century as a space to stimulate art appreciation. Using his personal collection amassed between 1912 and 1951, Barnes believed in teaching people about art through their visual relationships and has a forerunner in public arts education, it's only fitting that the Foundation joins the myriad of institutions placing their collections online.

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Painting
November 8, 2017

Watch as 200 Years of Varnish Is Wiped Away From a 17th Century Oil Painting

Art dealer, author, and BBC presenter Philip Mould makes the painstaking process of art restoration look easy with his hypnotic set of Twitter videos documenting the restoration of a 17th-century painting. Working with quick precision, it's magical to watch as he wipes away centuries of dirt and grime, revealing the gleaming oil paint beneath the yellowed surface.

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My Modern Met

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