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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.

Rhode Island artist Al Cave’s style ranges from abstracts to photo-realism. His paintings depict the salt marshes of Provincetown, as well as the beaches and lighthouses which adorn its shores. He also has captured places in his travels, from the North Dakota prairie to his great grandparents’ Iowa farm. EDGE spoke to the artist about his eclectic body of work.

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.

An exhibit of prints and drawings by African American artist John Wilson features 20 works that span his remarkable career. The exhibit continues at Martha Richardson Fine Arts gallery on Newbury Street.

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.

A beautifully staged exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Luis Meléndez Master of the Spanish Still Life invites visitors to enjoy the wonder room as it might possibly have been had the royals intended it to be hospitable.