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Sometime after graduating from college-era dorm posters and Ikea art, many young professionals decide it’s time to invest in art that’s worth something, elevating their home decor while possibly making some money.

And while developing a personal art collection is a form of social currency, it’s also a quantifiable investment—one that may feel intimidating to anyone getting started. 

It’s a widely accepted fact now a days that displaying art in hospital settings provides healing benefits to patients during their stay, but at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, employees are enjoying the benefits as well during their annual NAP exhibit.

Dallas/ Fort Worth International Airport has been showcasing the artistic talents of their employees and families for twelve wonderful years through their National Arts Program exhibit. Coordinator Kori Stolar who has been involved with the program since the beginning said, “the quality of artwork amazes me every year. The employees, volunteers and their families are extremely talented, and I am always excited to give our customers some visually stimulating material to enjoy while they traverse our airport.”

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San Francisco looks different through an iPhone XS Max — it’s still a city, but now there are floating balls of fabric, speech bubbles, and words popping out from the trees and buildings.

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When people enter the Matthias Baldwin Park in Philadelphia’s Spring Garden neighborhood, they may not know they are literally walking into a work of art.

The two-acre park was designed by the Greek-American artist Athena Tacha with a huge centerpiece of swirling, tiered plantings and dramatic rock outcroppings. Called “Connections,” it is so large, its curving patterns can only be seen from an aerial view.

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If the word “hospital” elicits a mental image of sterile rooms and hallways and dreary decor, think again.

Modern hospitals have hit on a simple but effective way to foster even more healing: art.

It’s a creative approach to an age-old need — and one that’s transforming not just the walls of modern hospitals but the atmosphere in which patients heal. In an engaging feature for Artnet, journalist Menachem Wecker dives into the world of hospital art.

It’s a much deeper well than you might think.

Social media stars who use murals as a backdrop for sponsored posts are in the crosshairs of artists who claim infringement: "I have had about a dozen of these cases already this year."

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The Louvre and Musée d'Orsay may be just over a mile away, but this new Parisian art center is already causing a stir in the art community.

For starters, it floats.

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A famous artist once said, “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”

While those words can apply to any artistic expression, this sentiment also pertains to how we – as a society —  judge what might or might not be worthy of our time, attention and resources. If something is not considered “of value,” then it doesn’t attract the investment necessary to increase its worth over time.

Brian Donnelly, a.k.a. KAWS, short-circuited the fine-art galleries and auction houses when his playful paintings and cartoon-inspired cast of recurring characters (known by their signature ‘XX’ eyes) led to record-breaking sales. Now his outsize success may forever alter the perceived legitimacy of artists who came up honing their skills on the streets.

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When faced with catastrophe -- war, famine or natural disaster -- most peoples' first priority is simply to survive. Art is often not made until the aftermath, by those who survived or were far away.

It's this distance -- of both time and place -- that produces the tensions at the heart of art's response to human catastrophes, since, in the end, the question asked of such an artwork is always: What good can this do?

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As technology moves the world at ever greater speeds and artificial intelligence becomes the electricity of the twenty first century, engineers are revered, and STEM subjects encouraged. At times, this comes at the cost of art and the human element. A computer science graduate is currently guaranteed to find a well-paying job, whereas a liberal arts graduate may find it harder. 

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Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Friday, July 19, and I’m writing from Los Angeles.

Once upon a time, the California coast was a place where one could live strangely and cheaply, out on the fringes.

There were wild, sacred landscapes, like something out of a Robinson Jeffers poem. Rugged places that still had room for restless eccentrics and searchers and cranks.

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The museum says the gift will play an important role in the reconfiguration of its permanent collection

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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) announced today that the collector and photographer Jean Pigozzi was donating a “transformative” gift of 45 works of contemporary African art to the museum, positioning MoMA to become a “unique institutional leader” in the field.