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To most people, apres-ski means a warm chalet, hot drink, spa or dinner. To Simon Beck of Great Britain, it means creating intricate pictures in the snow. And not just snow angels: Beck’s snow art involves mathematical patterns and often stretches the length of several soccer fields.

"There’s a frozen lake outside where I stay, and one day after skiing I thought, wouldn’t it be fun to make a pattern?" he said. "I didn’t have any snow shoes, just walking boots, but the snow wasn’t too deep and it worked perfectly well."

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We leave our DNA everywhere, from the side of a glass at a restaurant, to a stand of hair that falls from our head.

Now a New York City artist is taking a unique, and perhaps controversial, approach to her craft by using the DNA to create more than you might imagine.

You may want to think twice the next time you spit out your gum or drop a cigarette butt in public.

New York artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg might pick it up, extract the DNA and turn it into a 3D face that could like you.

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Boston-area artists who have barely eked out a living by selling their creations on street corners, at craft fairs, and at open-air markets now have an online marketplace to sell their art.

Brother-sister duo Spencer and Liz Powers recently launched ArtLifting, which sells artwork created by people in art therapy programs. They created the site, artlifting.com, with the work of four artists who participate in Common Art, an art therapy program in Boston for homeless and low-income residents.

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We know that stray dogs get euthanized in shelters, but An Act of Dog aims to show how dire the problem really is -- and inspires us to solve it.

When Mark Barone and Marina Dervan decided to start a nonprofit company to create a way to remember dogs that lost their lives in kill shelters, they had no way of knowing that the project would take on a life of its own.

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Those silly smiley faces that you text to your friends are now works of art.

The “millennial” generation uses such emoticons — from the original Japanese “emojis” — to express themselves when words are just too cumbersome.

Naturally, artists are now commenting on the younger generation’s decision to shun sentences for high-tech hieroglyphs of gusts of wind, smiley faces or even grinning piles of poop.

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The MSP Arts and Culture Program, in conjunction with The National Arts Program®, presents another fun and inspiring exhibit of MSP employees' and their families' paintings, photographs, ceramics, textiles, sculptures, and mixed media objects.

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With a ruling by a federal judge on Tuesday that Detroit is eligible to enter bankruptcy, the fate of the city’s art collection — one of the finest in the country — now moves front and center in the legal battle over the city’s future.

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The New York art world’s attitude toward New Jersey has not changed much since the art critic Ted Castle wrote in 1978, “New Jersey is practically not a place.”

The residents of Castle Rock have come forth with their incredible talents once again for the Seventh Annual Greater Castle Rock Art Guild National Arts Program® Exhibit. Coordinator and Art Guild President, Ellie Ludvigsen commented that, “this was the first year we asked a youth to help give out awards and we will do that every year from now on. It emphasized the focus on youth and teens. We were especially gratified that the number of teens again doubled from last year.

Wow! After twenty four years of holding National Arts Program® exhibitions, Lubbock is still going strong. Longtime Coordinator Paula Griffith was able to hit our goal and hung 143 works in the Lubbock Municipal Garden & Arts Center. It was beautifully displayed and the Mayor, Assistant City Manager and Managing Director were all in attendance for the awards reception which took place on November 1st. 

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Art Basel Miami Beach, the largest U.S. art fair, will offer more than $3 billion of mostly postwar and contemporary works when it opens to a select group of collectors today, a 20 percent increase from two years ago.

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If you’ve wandered around Wynwood, chances are you’ve noticed all the murals. And if you wander around there months later, you'll probably notice a lot of them are gone.

And when Art Basel comes around, Wynwood is like a whole new place.

She’s painting a piece on the front wall of ABC Costume Shop, a store on Northwest 24th Street near the I-95.

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In anticipation of Art Basel: Miami, Grey Area owner and art world scion, Kyle DeWoody, gives ELLE a cheatsheet on how to begin a collection of your own. For more on Kyle and her bonafides, see inside Grey Area (and Kyle’s closet), in our December issue.

For the neophyte collector, the art world can be intimidating. How would you suggest getting started?

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"We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell." -- Pablo Picasso

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As this glorious year draws to a close, we'd like to take a minute to remember all the little viral moments along the way. Whether they made you LOL, "like," or grow very agitated very fast, these memes and popular stories helped make 2013 the strange, beastly beauty that it was. From a vagina stadium to a giant rubber duck, here are our favorite viral memories of 2013.

1. Giant Rubber Ducky