Rembrandt's Birthday, Hyperrealism, Trippy Bacteria Art... And More!

July 15, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Google Celebrates A Dutch Master Today marks the birthday of painter, etcher and self-portraitist extraordinaire Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. The Dutch master would turn 407 if he were miraculously alive today, and to honor the artist, Google has created a timely doodle. Behold! Continue reading... ONE ARTIST'S HYPERREALITY Bacteria Has Never Looked So Trippy What Happens When Online Dating Profiles Are Reimagined As Art? Here's What Vincent Kartheiser Looks Like As Mr. Darcy Google Celebrates A Dutch Master LOOK: Have We Found A Six-Year-Old Jackson Pollock? The Floating Pool Is Officially Coming To NYC! LOOK: Putting A Real Face To Homelessness MICHAEL KAISER Are the Wealthy Obligated to Support the Arts? Arts institutions -- and all not for profit organizations for that matter -- must make it engaging, fun, enlightening and inspiring to participate. They must earn their donors. Continue reading... ROGER WRIGHT Jeff Garlin's Dealin' With Idiots Garlin's new movie tells the stories of a group of parents and coaches on a youth baseball team. But even thinking of this hilarious gem as a baseball movie for a moment is wrong. Baseball is part of the set design, but that's where it stops. Continue reading... JULIE BAUMGARDNER James Turrell's Light Art Installation Opens in Las Vegas In a bait 'n switch as every mastermind has been known to do, Turrell has undertaken a project almost anathema to the earth-connected, sensory-perception art that he's invented. Continue reading... FERN SIEGEL Stage Door: Forever Tango, Exodus Code: Advice for Wanderers Tango, both sexy and sinister in its passionate embrace, is a precise art form of nearly sculptural perfection. The drama of the tango explodes on stage, aided by that distinct, melancholic sound. While there is sensual choreography here, the focus is the disciplined, stylized beauty of the genre. Continue reading... SOPHIA STUART Women With Balls and Hot Flashes The Hot Flashes is definitely sweet -- and pretty salty too -- with a witty script from Brad Hennig that gives Wanda Sykes and Camryn Manheim the sort of lines that make you whoop out loud. 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