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Photographer Patrick Joust’s images of 40 gigantic, 3 tonne busts of American presidents mouldering away in a field on a private farm in Virginia.

Originally commissioned as the centerpiece of Presidents Park – a ten acre site in Williamsburg opened in 2004 and shut six years later on foot of poor attendance.

Redolent of similarly apocalyptic symbols of human folly and simian demagoguery seen, for example, in Planet of The Apes.

Or Donald Trump’s campaign. 

More here.

READ ON: How 43 Giant, Crumbling Presidential Heads Ended Up in a Virginia Field (Smithsonian)

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Vincent Van Gogh’s painting of his bedroom at 2, Place Lamartine in Arles recreated in loving detail by The Art Institute of Chicago.

The room, in all its haphazard glory is part of a larger exhibition entitled ‘Van Gogh’s Bedrooms’, running at the Institute until May this year.

But that’s not all.

Starting this week, it’s available to rent on Airbnb for $10 a night.

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Opening to the besnorkelled public later this month, the Museo Atlantico is Europe’s first underwater art museum. Fourteen meters underwater off the canarian island of Lanzarote, artist Jason deCaires Taylor will be the first to exhibit .

His two hyperrealistic installations – The Rubicon, an assembly of 35 figures walking toward the great unknown, blind of staring down at their devices and The Raft of Lampedusa, a reference to collective responsibility and the ongoing Syrian humanitarian crisis.

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