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ARTISTS SANDWICH of the DAY!

1. Dutch fashion photographer Rohn Meijer applies a chemical cocktail to old negatives in order to produce stunning effects of surreal color and distortion.

2.In a classical compositional style, Photographer Phillip Toledano‘s series A New Kind of Beauty depicts subjects that have drastically augmented their bodies.  The photographs contrast classical ideas of beauty with the contemporary and nearly obsessive pursuit of it.

3. For his series, “The Architecture of Density,” German photographer Michael Wolf captures the intense suffocating density of the city of Hong Kong. The framing of the buildings and apartment units creates a flattened, patterned image with details of individual residencies apparent only on closer inspection.

NEWS of the last WEEKs IN PICS

A victim, with her eyes wide open, lies on a hospital bed after an attack on a passenger bus by an unidentified group in Kathmandu, Nepal, November 13, 2013. At least eight people were injured in the attack when a group of unidentified men hurled a petrol bomb at the microbus, according to police.

Shia Muslims boys flagellate themselves during a Muharram procession ahead of Ashura in Amroha, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, India

Children play as they pass debris and damaged houses after super typhoon Haiyan battered Tacloban City, in central Philippines

The bare feet of a student are pictured below a table in a flooded classroom in Lopang Domba Elementary School in Serang, Indonesia's Banten province, Indonesia

Brazilian indigenous people use computers inside a tent during the XII Games of the Indigenous People in Cuiaba

Turkish Shi'ite girls watch a re-enactment of the battle of Kerbala on a huge screen during an Ashura procession in Istanbul

November 9th marked the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, also referred to as "the night of broken glass," when the Nazis conducted a wave of violent attacks on Jewish stores, buildings and synagogues in 1938.

Kusama's new exhibition, titled "I Who Have Arrived in Heaven," is showing at the David Zwirner gallery in New York and features two mirrored rooms, a video installation and over 30 new large-scale paintings highlighting her unique amalgamation of representational and non-representational subject matter.

Students from St. Andrew's University in Scotland indulge in a tradition of covering themselves with foam, part of the college's Raisin Weekend, on Nov. 4. The tradition, held every November, started when first-year students used to give raisins (now foam) to their elders as a thank-you for their guidance.

Robot guitarist Mach and robot drummer Ashura, members of a robot rock band "Z-Machines", perform during the two day art and technology event "Maker Faire Tokyo" at the National Museum in Tokyo

Drumming sensation Spark perform as part of the Shimmer 2013 digital arts festival on Whitley Bay seafront, North Tyneside. Part performance-piece, and part mobile installation, seven mysterious characters composed of light and sound transform the landscape around them using cutting-edge technology to make dramatic visual interventions with the architecture, landscape and audience.

Galaxy NGC 4945, which is similar in overall appearance to our own Milky Way, but contains a much more active supermassive black hole within the white area near the top. Approximately 13 million light years from earth, X-rays from Chandra (blue), which have been overlaid on an optical image from the European Space Observatory (ESO), reveal the presence of the supermassive black hole at the centre of this galaxy.