A Quartet like None Other: Salut Salon "Wettstreit zu viert"

This link was sent to me without any information on who the artists are, but seemed to come from an Israeli site.  Later I found it on You Tube.  The Salut Salon group was formed in Hamburg and is well known in Europe.  They can play it straight or they can do the hard way like in this clip.  You can use either of these links or just Google Salut Salon.  If you go to You Tube, the clip that follows is a flash mob paying Beethoven's 9th in a city square -- a delight.

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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=RDBKezUd_xw20&v=BKezUd_xw20

Incredible Photographs

There is painting and sculpture and dance and ceramics and any number of other creative media like weaving and then there are photographs, maybe a latecomer but certainly an art form for the last 150 years.  The url below will take you to some amazing photographs

http://imgur.com/a/2jtOG#YxlDfjM

500 Years of Female Portraits

http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/portraits_women.html

Here's an incredible collection of portraits from Botticelli to Cindy Sherman.  If you stop the action, you can see small versions of the individual portraits.

Google Art Project

My brilliant friend who introduced me to Arts & Letters Daily has now sent me a link to a site which allows you to view the collections of many of the world's greatest art museums.  It is going to take some practice before I can navigate the site easily, but I can already say it is fabulous.
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 http://www.googleartproject.com/
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A Museum I didn't find on the  art project site is the Pushkin in Moscow.  I have been looking at its collection of late 19th and early 20th C art -- many works I had never seen before by artists I know well.
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http://www.newpaintart.ru/reference_book/type/

Pictures from on High

If these photographs, aren't art, I don't know what is:

http://justpaste.it/3ky

A Store In Berlin

Here's something new.  I had seen a lot of trompe l'oeil German art work on the sides of trucks, but this goes way farther:   

                       

The Arts on the Internet

Friends keep sending me incredible things and I'm going to keep adding them to this post.  This first one will be hard to top:

The Great Chinese Circus: ballet / acrobatic dancers  SWAN LAKE:   But never like this Amazing &  beautiful.....

                  http://www.nzwide.com/swanlake.htm


Not the Georgia Your Were Expecting:  Fantastic reminiscence of Tbilisi by a group of famous actors in Georgia who were well known during the Soviet era.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb8dZ0z2j-c&feature=related

The Sistine Chapel   It may take a minute to figure out how to move things around.  Right click to get to full screen

http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html

Flash Mob Art  If this isn't performance art, then what is?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80aE5Z0Gpb4&NR=1

http://mashable.com/2010/06/20/flash-mob-videos/#VcvmSBCJwKE

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Montreal Topiary Gardens hortisculpture   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNmdm4J-YRw