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High-octane celebrity and fashion photographer Mike Ruiz is having quite a summer: a gallery show of his photography and a reality series. EDGE spoke to the multi-talented Ruiz about his career and interests.

One has to marvel at the impressive marketing savvy of the four galleries who pooled their resources and p.r., invited four artists from their respective stables to choose favorite works from the galleries’ collective inventories, then asked each artist t

Artists from around the world flocked to Austria to compete in a body painting competition. CBSNews.com’s Shira Lazar reports.

Although many won’t recognize Maira Kalman’s name, they’re likely familiar with her witty covers for The New Yorker magazine; her online, illustrated odysseys for The New York Times such as "Principles of Uncertainty" or "And the Pursuit of Happiness," an

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, word has reached you that SFMOMA and late Gap founder Don Fisher and his wife, Doris, struck a deal on the disposition of their extensive contemporary art collection shortly before Fisher’s death in September, after

Photographer Daniel Nicoletta discusses his storied career

Cleveland-based artist Paul Richmond brings his latest exhibit - Cheesecake - to Chicago this week. The show features features over a dozen "gaylebrities," including James St. James, Del Shores and many others, depicted in the style of 1940s and ’50s pin-up art. The work is refreshingly humorous and points to a promising career ahead for the budding 30-year-old, whom EDGE’s Joe Erbentraut spoke with last week about his concept for the show, pin-up art and his love of divas.

In his new creative nonfiction book Role Models (Farrar Straus Giroux), independent film director John Waters writes about people who have inspired him in his brilliant career.

If you’ve been looking forward to Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musee d’Orsay, the blockbuster exhibition of nearly 100 paintings that opened at the de Young Museum last week, and you’re expecting an easily digestible parade of familiar, iconic works of Classical Impressionism, you will be in for something of a surprise.

During this brief lull between the wind-up of winter museum shows and the launch of summer blockbuster attractions like the Fisher Collection unveiling at SFMOMA in late June, there’s an assortment of interesting, idiosyncratic gallery shows to tickle the palette. Here’s a small and by no means comprehensive sample itinerary for the adventurously inclined.