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The Mona Lisa Takes Her Coffee With Cream

STEVE INSKEEP, Host:

Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep.

Australians created a work of art that can inspire you, and also keep you awake. At a festival in Sydney, they recreated the Mona Lisa using coffee. They placed 3,000 cups of coffee on the ground in a giant rectangle, and they created different shades in the black-and-white image by adding different amounts of milk to each cup. She's got that famous, mysterious smile. Maybe it turns out the smile means cream and sugar, please.

It's MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.