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On BibliOdysee: Victorian Infographics. Among them: Tableau De L'Histoire Universelle depuis la Creation jusqu'a ce jour (Table of universal history, from creation to today).

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This is a fold-out print depicting all of human history from the time of creation (4693 BC = Adam & Eve; the great flood [...]

Prepare for a backlash: Fréderic Mitterand's "La Mauvaise Vie" gets an American release.

French culture minster Fréderic Mitterand can't do anything wrong in France. In his 2005 autobiography he admitted to paying for sex with young boys but was allowed to keep his job (“I got into the habit of paying for boys…All these rituals of [...]

Graphics artist Stéphane Massa-Bidal created a wonderful series of retro book covers of today's popular web services. They can be ordered as small or large posters here.

Some Japanese could learn a thing or two from Eric Joisel, the French Origami Master:

Visit his site (in English)

Pixel artists attempt to reduce images to their absolute minimum, while still keeping them recognizable. Here is an example (made in Australia), called Group of Eight. Can you name all world leaders?

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Surrealist artist Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968, wiki) was a playful man, challenging conventional thought about artistic processes and art marketing through subversive actions such as dubbing a urinal "art" and naming it Fountain. He was also fascinated with chess, and considered for a while becoming a professional player. In 1963 Duchamp posed with American writer Eve [...]

Sothebys is auctioning this photo by one of the most famous French photographers of the nineteenth century, Adrien Tournachon. It's called "Nadar: portrait of a cow" and dates from circa 1854. It should yield between 4,500 and 6,000 euros.

It looks like French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand (YAB for the initimi) found a lot of inspiration in [...]

Last week was the 169th birthday of Claude Monet, the founder of the impressionist movement in art. Digital artists were challenged to add modern elements to Monet's paintings. I particularly liked this one:

Many more here

Vincent Perrottet is a graphic artist who appears to be anti-capitalist and anti-consumerist. His website is one long scrollable string of (sometimes) very clever posters.

Street artist Gorellaume creates funny and sometimes gruesome murals across Paris. Here's one of them:

He also proves that you can have a watchable website which doesn't get wasted by annoying Flash technology.
Via Wooster Collective

The Redundant Photography of Fred Lebain:

French photographer Fred Lebain went to New York City and took a series of photos around town. He then revisited those sites after printing out huge poster versions of his shots, which he carefully re-aligned into the original scene. The results are pretty amazing.
More here | Via Neatorama | Fred [...]

Over a period of five years, designer Arnaud Jourdain took thousands of photos of the graffiti on the facade of Serge Gainsbourg's last home adress, at 5a Rue de Verneuil, in the fifth arrondissement of Paris. He then converted his images into a wonderful animated 3D sequence of colors and collages. Impressive!

More images here

The FIAC is an annual art exhibition, held last week in Paris. It drew all sorts of people and other creatures, including these two.

They're called Adèle and Eva, but something tells me that one of them is not a girl.
(Via Bobines)

We've already seen the Mona Lisa enjoying a Happy Meal. Here's another artful McMashup: Edouard Manet's Le Bar aux Folies-Bergère.

It's from yet another article about McDonald's plan to open a fast food restaurant in the Louvre.

I have no idea who hides behind the name Bonom, but his work is everywhere in Paris. The Bonom Flickr pool has even over a thousand photos of street art signed by him (or her or them).