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Artists from around the world flocked to Austria to compete in a body painting competition. CBSNews.com’s Shira Lazar reports.

Cleveland-based artist Paul Richmond brings his latest exhibit - Cheesecake - to Chicago this week. The show features features over a dozen "gaylebrities," including James St. James, Del Shores and many others, depicted in the style of 1940s and ’50s pin-up art. The work is refreshingly humorous and points to a promising career ahead for the budding 30-year-old, whom EDGE’s Joe Erbentraut spoke with last week about his concept for the show, pin-up art and his love of divas.

Antonio Costa is a Cuban native artist. He has mastered his most favorite art, makeup! His innovative creations have paraded among the most famous showcases and Halloween contests throughout the years in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and South Florida in general. Read about him!

A new photography exhibit in the Chelsea section of New York celebrates the most famous structure by iconic gay architect Philip Johnson :: his Glass House. EDGE’s David DeBacco takes a look at Johnson’s career, the exhibit and the methods that photographer used in taking the photographs.

Those who love Hollywood photography are in for a rare treat this weekend when Michael H. Epstein and Scott E. Schwimer, owners of the largest, privately held collection of glamour photography, open their vaults for the first time to sell their photographic and fine art masterpieces.

If you live in LA or visiting the city, you may want to catch The Museum of Modern Art’s retrospective of its first 30 years, which includes works by some major gay artists. EDGE’s David De Bacco offers this report.

Perhaps thinking of the central role the fruit plays in human culture, history and iconography, Paul Cézanne made it his ambition to "astound Paris with the painting of a single apple."

Gay soap opera star Thom Bierdz’s personal tragedy helped him develop a greater sense of compassion.

The United States Attorney named a West Hollywood antiques dealer in a federal fraud case involving the $2 million sale of a fake Pablo Picasso that she paid an artist $1,000 to counterfeit.

The 15th Annual Los Angeles Art Show, the largest art fair on the West-Coast, returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center January 20-24, 2010.