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July 23, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Giant Wooded Knot Sprouts From Museum Walls Somewhere between a fairy tale beanstalk and a botanical oddity lands "Baitogogo," an oversized knotted growth constructed by Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira. "Baitogogo" takes the shape of a Gordion Knot, meaning the wooded network is physically impossible to disentangle by hand. The crisp white pillars of Paris' Palais de Tokyo erode into wooden forms that coil and snag beyond recognition. The white-walled gallery is transformed from a tabula rosa into a forest playground in what the museum calls an act of "architectural anthropomorphism." The work riffs on the bland associations with museum walls, aligning them instead with the dense and dangerous depths of the wild. Continue reading... Famous Emails Are Just Like Yours... Kinda Behold: The Modern Art Cookbook Montreal Celebrates Street Art WATCH: What Was It Like To Ride The Subway In 1905? PHOTOS: Amusing Reactions To Being Splashed In The Face Happy Birthday, Edward Hopper! WATCH: What Was It Like To Ride The Subway In 1905? Giant Wooded Knot Sprouts From Museum Walls WATCH: What Was It Like To Ride The Subway In 1905? 30 Black Artists Under 40 You Should Know Woman Unknowingly Uses James Turrell Piece As Storage Space EMILY ELYSE MILLER elBulli: Ferran Adrià and The Art of Food An epicurean haven has just arrived to London's Somerset House, where a vast array of elBulli-everything is on display for all to see. Continue reading... PAM PETERSON Less Is More A striking white modernist structure is tucked into the Square du Docteur Blanche, a stark contrast to the traditional stone chimney-topped townhouses. Continue reading... STEVE MARIOTTI What I Learned About Busking, Entrepreneurship and the Viola From Wendy Yates Busking -- playing music or improvising in the streets and other public places -- is a fascinating and beautiful tradition that dates back to antiquity. So, it was only fitting that I got my own introduction to this art form on the breathtaking streets of Florence. Continue reading... DAVID FINKLE First Nighter: Joe Orton's Astute Loot, Matthew-Lee Erlbach's Probing Handbook Can it be that one of the funniest and one of the most anarchic comic writers of the 20th century, a true member of the exclusive Sui Generis Club, is already forgotten? Not at the Westport Country Playhouse, he isn't. Continue reading... IOANNIS PAPPOS The Ease of Photographer Constantine Manos Take a stroll on the second floor of the Benaki Museum in Athens, and photographer Constantine Manos' exhibition will take you to a world of lost slowness. His peripatetic years in rural Greece, are captured in "A Greek Portfolio 50 Years Later," Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003