The November issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK features its cover star, German supermodel Claudia Schiffer, as the muse to contemporary british artists…

[here and here]

Carmen Freudenthal (photographer) and Elle Verhagen (stylist) have been working as a photographer/ creative team since 1989. Their collaboration with fashion designers, performers and other artists results in a wide variety of work, which is, at the same time, always recognizable by a typical humoristic approach of daily life and an undeniable own style, using and abusing contemporary imagery and (photo)graphic techniques.

Takashi Murakami shows a new major work at Gagosian Gallery (NY).

“In this new work, Murakami depicts the legend of the Karajishi or “China-lion”, the mythological animal that guards the thresholds of Japanese Buddhist temples, separating sacred precincts from secular areas, averting evil, and promoting happiness and joy.”

[read more here / watch video here]

Shohei draws stunning pictures with a ball-point pen.

Olaf Breuning Skeletons installed in the garden of  Villa Medici (Rome – 2002).

Tia Pulitzer has a thing for deers…