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Helena’s City Commission on Monday agreed with a novel way to add public art to the community and raise money for city services and local nonprofit groups.

A half dozen surplus parking meters will be converted from drab steel gray to become something far more colorful as works of art that will benefit city facilities and four nonprofit organizations.

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For nearly 60 years, a small painting with swirls and splotches of red, black and silver has stood as a symbol of enmity between two women: Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock’s widow, and Ruth Kligman, his lover.

Until her death, in 2010, Ms. Kligman, herself an artist, insisted the painting was a love letter to her created by Pollock in the summer of 1956, just weeks before he died in a car crash. But the painting was rejected by an expert panel set up to authenticate and catalog all of Pollock’s works by a foundation established by Ms. Krasner.

Devilliers makes the creatures out of recycled tin cans and other materials. He sells his art at First Fridays on Roosevelt Row in Phoenix as well as at Method Art Gallery in Scottsdale.

Instead of pocketing the profits, he uses them to purchase ingredients for meals he then donates to people who are homeless.

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On a good day, art can be a portal to another dimension. On a great day, it's a staircase to nowhere. Meet "Diminish and Ascend," or as we like to call it, the infinite staircase.

Designed by New Zealand artist David McCracken, this magnificent illusion stems from the seashore in Bondi, Australia and rises up into the heavens above. Depending on the atmosphere and weather conditions, the stairway appears to reach beyond the clouds into the celestial realms overhead. It's basically an M.C. Escher drawing in real life.

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DrawQuest is one of those iPad apps that, though it appears like an unlikely experiment on the surface, actually makes sense. Developed by 4Chan creator Christopher “moot” Poole, the low-pressure challenge to answer a prompt (“What’s in this swamp?”) with a drawing has cultivated a niche community filled with artists of all ages since it launched in February of this year. Now, it’s trying to do the same for the iPhone to bring daily drawing anywhere.

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Victoria Manheim, a senior in art from Illinois State University, painted a scene based on a pencil sketch by Roberta Fuller.

Fuller, holding the pencil and sitting beside Manheim, suggested colors as Manheim painted while balancing the canvas on her lap.

"I sketched what gives me hope," said Fuller, 55, of Bloomington.

As Fuller received a chemotherapy drug by intravenous drip, the painting — of the biblical empty tomb in the foreground and Mount Calvary and a sunrise in the background — took shape.

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The reclusive German collector who kept a priceless trove of art, possibly including works stolen by the Nazis, hidden for half a century says he did so because he "loved" them and that he wants them back.

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Scribble Art Workshop seeks to raise money for low-income students. Don't say 'My kid could do that' before you see these beauties!

Think your kid could do that? Well, you’re right — but it’s unlikely your kid’s fingerpainting be sold for $3,000 at an auction.

But Scribble Art Workshop will sell off three dozen works by their pre-school “artists” — some as young as 17 months old — in hopes of raising tens of thousands of dollars for scholarships to the after-school program on Broadway near 212th St.

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You can live in a city all your life and only see about 1 percent of its hidden beauty. That's the message one could easily draw from this crowd-sourced caboodle of public art in the Bay Area, which includes everything from a 1930s beach-chalet mural to a bronze Willie Mays to "Kittenzillas" shooting lasers from their eyes to a tiny Statue of Liberty on Alcatraz.

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When a painting by British artist Francis Bacon sold for $142.4 million at Christie's in New York this week, the media coverage blared it was the most expensive artwork ever sold at public auction.

Which immediately led some to ask: What are the top five? Answer: It's complicated.

But one thing is clear: Auction sales of valuable art don't always produce higher prices than private sales.

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Travelers aren't sure what to make of the newest art installation at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport — and that doesn't surprise its creator at all.

A series of five videos , being looped on banks of television monitors alongside CNN in Terminal 1, Concourse B, is that artist's impressions of the airport's current runway expansion project.

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Community Renewal Team is giving area artists a chance to showcase their local color as part of the National Arts Program. From now through Jan. 5 artists of all ages who live in Greater Hartford or in Middlesex County are invited to submit an original work of art created within the past three years, for judging and a gallery display at Capital Community College.