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Leroy Bergstrom of Maple Plain, Minn. arrives with his cat Maestro before the Walker Art Center's first "Internet Cat Video Film Festival," showcasing the best of cat films on the Internet in Minneapolis on August 30, 2012.

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The Associated Press reports — The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis tested the boundaries of legitimate art Thursday with a film festival devoted to the online cat videos that pervade YouTube and social networks. 

Organizers said they wanted to find out whether the private experience of viewing the videos online would translate to a shared and social experience when shown on an outdoor screen on the museum's grounds.

The festival made room for various kinds of cat videos, with categories for comedy, drama, foreign, animated, musical, art-house and documentary. Participants voted on a "People's Choice" award, and several "lifetime achievements" were handed out to a few of the all-time popular videos. Read the full story.

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Melisande Charles of St. Paul, Minn., center, sits in the audience.

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Runners and walkers dressed in light emitting suits and holding light sticks make their way up Arthur's Seat as part of a dress rehearsal of a mass participation public art piece called 'Speed of Light' on August 8, 2012 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The piece which forms part of the annual Edinburgh Festival is set to illuminate the iconic natural monument as hundreds of people make their way up and around the hill, creating streaks of light as they go, Getty Images reports. Each of the walkers' glowing sticks is also set to provide a musical accompaniment as their movement triggers the sticks to create different sounds.

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Walkers holding light sticks prepare for the final assent to the summit of Arthur's Seat.

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Runners taking part in NVA's Speed of Light run in a circle to warm up before the performance.

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The summit of Arthur's Seat, at an altitude of 822 feet, offers panoramic views of the city of Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth.

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A girl with a papier-mache creature on her head is helped down a street during the Edinburgh Fringe on Aug. 6, in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festivals in the world, it was established as an alternative to the International Festival also held in August, and celebrates it's 66th anniversary this year.

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Street entertainers perform on the Royal Mile to promote their shows during in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival on Aug. 6, in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Reuters -- The serious, anarchic and comedy-strewn Edinburgh Fringe has kicked into high gear this past weekend with a record number of shows and performers crowding the Scottish capital and giving a welcome boost to the economy as the city's population doubles over the month-long festival season.

The official Fringe program lists a record 2,695 shows, plus more on the "Free Fringe", with an influx of nearly 23,000 performers this year. Festivals in Scotland are worth some 250 million pounds ($389.99 million) to the Scottish economy annually, with the Fringe itself bringing in 140 million pounds to Edinburgh alone.

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Street entertainers perform on the Royal Mile to promote their shows during in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival on Aug. 6, in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Mum and kid. From a series looking at the lives of a community in Tallaght, Ireland.

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Central Highlands, Papua New Guinea.

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Untitled #01. Taken from the series 'We Live As We Dream', a nocturnal study of youth in Neuköln, Berlin. Produced in collaboration with Derzeit.

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#OccupyWallStreet, No. 2. An Occupy Wall Street protester meditates in Zuccotti park after the movement was evicted by NYPD the prior evening.

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Untitled, from the series 'We Make The Path By Walking', which deals with the subject of long distance walking as a means of meditation and personal transformation, and aims to immerse the viewer in a fictional journey which evokes this subtle internal progress and change.

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World-travellers.

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Tuxedo Pee Break. Toilet break during a formal student initiation in the garden of a student flat in Dunedin, New Zealand.

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The Libyan Wish. A Libyan fighter sits on a rocket launcher mounted on a pickup truck outside the walls of Sirte. The Battle of Sirte was the toughest fighting of the Libyan war.

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Untitled, from the series '4,480 KwH'. Ferrybridge power station, West Yorkshire.

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Mojo, 2011. From the series 'To a Place I can't Pronounce'.

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Pianists perform KUN, a composition for 64 baby grand toy pianos and 64 toy pianists by Wendy Mae Chambers, on a pier as part of Make Music New York Day in New York, New York, USA, 21 June 2012. The sixth annual event features free small concerts all around the city in public spaces on the first day of summer.

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A Catalan performance troupe attempted to set a new world record against the stunning backdrop of the New York City skyline on Wednesday.  

The 150-strong Castellers de Vilafranca were trying to build the first eight-level human tower or castell ever assembled on a rooftop, Agence France Presse reports.

The performance on a 5th Avenue roof deck was the first in a series of events to be held by the group throughout the city in honor of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center complex.

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Wayang Orang dancers prepare for their show at the Bharata Theatre in Jakarta May 5, 2012.

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Wayang Orang, or Human Theater, is a type of traditional Javanese dance. A revival of immemorial culture allows the Bharata Theatre to show Jakarta an art once restricted to aristocrats. Wayang Orang is influenced by Hinduism and can involve more than 100 people as dancers and musicians.

Wayang Orang dancers sit backstage and wait to perform

A Wayang Orang dancer smokes before a show.

Spectators watch a Wayang Orang performance at the Bharata Theatre.

Wayang Orang dancers perform at the Bharata Theatre in Jakarta on May 5, 2012.

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Kay Solberg takes photos of the "Persian Ceiling" during a preview of the Chihuly Garden and Glass exhibit at the Seattle Center on Thursday, May 17 in Seattle.

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Dale Chihuly is seen silhouetted in the entryway to the "Mille Fiori" during a preview of his show at the Seattle Center.

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Dale, left, and Leslie Chihuly walk into the garden area and past the Glasshouse during a preview of the Chihuly Garden and Glass exhibit.

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A chandelier is seen from underneath during a preview of the Chihuly Garden and Glass exhibit.

KING5-TV reports: It promises to be one of the most spectacular art displays Seattle has ever seen. The 12,000-square-foot gallery includes a café housing Dale Chihuly's own quirky collections of accordions and vintage radios. Outdoor works include the "Icicle Tower" and "Sun," along with plants and trees that create a luminous living landscape that will grow on the grounds of the old Fun Forest.

"This is going to change, not just by day and night, but over the next 15-20 years," said Executive Director Michelle Bufano.

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The "Macchia Forest" is seen during a preview of the Chihuly Garden and Glass exhibi.

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The Space Needle is seen through the walls and ceiling of the "Glasshouse," featuring a 100-foot suspended, 1,340-piece sculpture.

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A life size animatronic Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur arrives at Bristol Zoo Gardens on May 14, 2012 in Bristol, England.

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Twelve animatronic dinosaurs arrived at Bristol Zoo Gardens in the west of England this morning after being transported in crates from Texas. They will form part of the zoo's summer exhibition 'DinoZoo' which opens later this month. 

Take a look at more unusual artworks on msnbc.com, from 'The Godzilla of public art' at London's Olympic Park to a sculpture mistaken for a suicide jumper in Sao Paulo.

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A 26-foot tall statue of Marilyn Monroe is separated into four pieces in Chicago on May 7, 2012.

NBC Chicago reports — A 40,000-pound, 26-foot statue of Marilyn Monroe's famous pose from "The Seven-Year Itch" was dismantled Monday night in preparation for the long drive to its new home in California.

The initially controversial "Forever Marilyn" creation by Seward Johnson was unveiled last July. She now heads to Palm Springs, where the actress was discovered by a Hollywood agent. 

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It's a bittersweet moment for some who viewed Monroe's iconic, skirt-billowing pose as sexist. One website, VirtualTourist.com, ranked her the worst piece of public art in the world.

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VirtualTourist also questioned why a likeness of the star's famous, New York City-based stance was placed in Chicago and said the towering, blown dress forced many to peer up at Marilyn's panties.

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The statue will be installed in Palm Springs by the end of May, where it is expected to stay in place until June 2013.

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Slideshow: Rare look at Marilyn Monroe

A collection of photographs and memorabilia from Marilyn's longtime makeup artist, Allan "Whitey" Snyder," is set for auction.

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