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How a Wild $136 Million Art Fraud Connects to Prince Charles
Without knowing it, the royal was showcasing elaborate counterfeits.
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What does Britain's National Gallery, the Tate Modern and Dumfries House all have in common? Why, priceless original works of art by the great mast-- oh, wait, strike that last one.
Fire rages around famous California Getty museum, but priceless art is staying put
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Sitting in the Santa Monica Mountains, the Getty Center is no stranger to wildfires in its proximity. Just two years ago during the Skirball Fire, a small fire started on the museum's adjoining hill. It was put out without incident, in part thanks to the Getty's massive irrigation system.
Q&A: Kate Hoffman, CEO of Spacey, on Breaking Down the Barriers to Investing in Art
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The couple giving away one of the largest private collections of Marcel Duchamp
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Over the last three decades, Aaron and Barbara Levine have amassed an impressive melange of conceptual and minimalist art. But, they jokingly say, they loathe calling it a "collection."
"When you get the word 'collection,' it seems limited, like 'I only collect minimalism' or 'I cannot look at anything beyond the parameters of my focus,'" said Barbara, who served on the board of Washington, D.C's Hirshhorn Museum for over a decade. "And we don't -- we are all over the place."
The Art of Cancer Caregiving: How Art Therapies Can Benefit Those Caring for Cancer Patients
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A cancer diagnosis is incredibly stressful for the person receiving the diagnosis. But those caring for the patient, both informally and formally, also experience stress, which can affect their own health and the patient’s outcome. A study, led by researchers from Drexel University’s Creative Art Therapies department in the College of Nursing and Health Professions, as well as researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, showed coloring and open-studio art therapy benefits stressed caregivers of cancer patients.
With the Guggenheim, Frank Lloyd Wright Built a Soaring and Intimate Sanctuary for Art
Just before he died, the architect created a spiraling city square that elevates the work it houses.
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is still a shock on Fifth Avenue. The architecture declines to fade into the background or get old, never mind the building turns 60 this month.
The Art Institute of Chicago is doing something remarkable with women artists, and not only with the compelling 'In A Cloud, In A Chair’ exhibition
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The Art Institute of Chicago is having a feminist moment.
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VCU Health Exhibit Serves as Respite
VIA Puts Employee Talents On Display
NAP Attends PA Conference for Women
The people making million-dollar art deals for the super rich
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I'm always flying by the seat of my pants," says Lisa Schiff with engaging and, I suspect, characteristic honesty. "I never know what we're going to make each month -- five dollars or a million!"
She works mostly on commission.
An art academic until the age of 30, Schiff's initial ambition was to be an art professor. But then, as she tells it, her parents cut her off and she had to make a living.
She's been a professional art adviser since 2002 and now runs her own company, SFA Advisory, based in New York.
Art classes instead of court dates? In low-level cases, Brooklyn DA says yes.
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People arrested on low-level misdemeanors in Brooklyn will now have the option to complete a one-day arts course at the Brooklyn Museum instead of ever having to appear in court, thanks to a newly expanded diversion program offered by the Brooklyn District Attorney.
Keith Haring on the Importance of Imagination in Art and Life
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“People always ask me: ‘Where do you get all these ideas?’” Keith Haring mulled in a 1984 journal entry. “Information is coming from all kinds of sources, new sources every day…I digest [it], channel it through my own imagination, and put it back into the world.”
A Viral Art Project Exposed Biases in Facial Recognition Technology—and Spurred the Largest AI Database to Remove Hundreds of Thousands of Images
Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford's viral "ImageNetRoulette" project has made the subject of bias in AI viral.
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If you have been on social media at all in the past week, chances are you might have seen people sharing photos of themselves tagged #ImageNetRoulette, accompanied by amusing, sometimes less than flattering, annotations. Indeed, you may have been perplexed or even angered by these viral images, as the captions tipped over from amusing to offensive.