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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.

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

Artist Robert Blanchon died from complications from AIDS at the age of 34. One of his last requests was to have his work exhibited in a a prestigious academic institution that would insure his legacy and give the public enduring access to his work. New York University’s Fales Library and Special Collection honored his request with their current exhibit You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real): The Work of Robert Blanchon, which runs through March 25. EDGE spoke to the exhibit’s co-curator Sasha Archibald about the show and Blanchon’s work.

Art experts believe they have identified a new Leonardo da Vinci - in part by examining a fingerprint on the canvas.

An exhibit in conjunction with Stonewall 40 celebrates gay artists’ views of the movement, from sardonic to sexy.