Russian Art Finally Arrives in London Video (2min 16sec). A major art exhibition featuring Russian masterpieces has finally arrived in London. The show was almost canceled after Russian authorities feared the paintings would be seized because of concerns of who they belong to.

"The Dance by Matisse, one of the most famous paintings in the world, in the UK for the first time. It's just one of dozens of masterpieces from Russian state collections which make up the "From Russia" exhibition at London's Royal Academy of Arts.

With works from Picasso, Rousseau and Gauguin, it's little surprise that hundreds of thousands of people are expected to visit this exhibition. What might be surprising is that it didn't geet the go-ahead until 2 weeks ago...."

Creativity Vacation by Jen Louden.

I was reflecting on how I spend a week each year in Taos, New Mexico at the Mable Dodge Luhan House co-leading a retreat with author and performer Suzanne Falter-Barns (www.howmuchjoy.com). Another Taos Writer’s Spa is coming up at the end of July this summer. We create a circle for women where we are safe, fed, supported, heard, and given gentle, individual direction, and then do we soar! I think back to a week in which my heart grew two sizes bigger because of my gratitude for simply being around women who are healing, claiming their talents, and throwing their arms open wide and declaring "YES" to the creative process.

This amazing video shows 90 art masterpieces from the second half of the 12th century until 1946. This video features paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Rafael, Sandro Botticelli, Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Giovanni Bellini, Pietro Perugino, Antonello da Messina, Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Hans Memling, Hans Holbein the Younger, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Pierre Gobert, Caspar Netscher, Pierre Mignard, Jean-Marc Nattier, Fyodor Rokotov, Peter Paul Rubens, El Greco, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Alexei Vasilievich Tyranov, Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky, Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov, Antoine-Jean Gros, Joseph Karl Stieler, Orest Adamovich Kiprensky, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Edouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, Alexei Vasilievich Tyranov, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Mary Cassatt, Alphonse Maria Mucha, John Everett Millais, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Gustav Klimt, Rene Magritte, Amedeo Modigliani, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, and more.

Video (7 min 49sec) of David LaChapelle a photographer and director who works in the fields of fashion, advertising, and fine art photography, and is noted for his surreal and often humorous style. Legendary lensman David LaChapelle recently celebrated a twenty year retrospective of his work at New York's Deitch Gallery. Thousand turned out to see his show "Artists & Prostitutes. David Chapelle does it all - fashion photography, art photography, exceptional almost surreal music videos for many stars, and a wonderful dance video called "Rize about a new form of dance invented in East L. A..

David LaChapelle knows a thing or two about fun as his photographs can clearly attest. He got his first photography job at Andy Warhol's "Interview" magazine when he was just 18. Since then he has gone on to work with most of the leading pop culture icons.