Express your inner artist with the Olympus TG-320's in-camera Magic Art Filters that enable users to enhance and customize images as they're being captured.

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Today, the Magic Gardens serve as Zagar's headquarters: the space hosts folk concerts and events, the artist himself leads workshops, and a steady stream of visitors come to revel in this one-of-a-kind artistic playground.

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Beneath a railway bridge, Swiss artist Franziska Furter's "Mojo" (2012), a colorful concoction of magic amulets, hangs like a chandelier, moving and tinkling with the wind.

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Writers and artist colonies like Yaddo in upstate New York hope that peaceful natural surroundings and stimulating company will work magic, and they may have: Yaddo alumni have collectively won 61 Pulitzer Prizes, 56 National Book Awards and a Nobel Prize in literature.

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