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Artists vs. Influencers: Why That Street Art Selfie Could Get You Sued
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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Paris's First Floating Art Museum Just Opened — and It’s Completely Free
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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.
Using art to transform a community
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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.
Generation XX: How Kaws Short-Circuited the Art World
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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How art deals with disaster, from Guernica to the climate crisis
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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?
Art Is At The Core Of Entrepreneurship, Ignore It At Your Peril
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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.
A folk art trash palace in the shadow of Hearst Castle
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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.
Betting Big on Art: Can Las Vegas Philanthropists Succeed in Getting Their City a Museum?
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With Jean Pigozzi's contemporary African art donation, MoMA to become a 'leader' in the field
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.
Feminist Art Pioneer Judy Chicago Will Get First-Ever Retrospective in 2020
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Forty years after her landmark installation The Dinner Party (1974–79) made its debut in San Francisco, Judy Chicago will get a homecoming of sorts in the largest exhibition of her work to date—a full-dress retrospective set to open next year in the Californian city’s de Young Museum. The artist announced the exhibition, which will open in May 2020, on Friday night at a celebration for her 80th birthday held in Belen, New Mexico, where she lives.
The brutal death that politicized New York’s art world
In the early 1980s, the death of a young graffiti artist in police custody shocked and enraged the likes of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring – and changed the city’s creative community for ever, writes Matt Barker.
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Art Is Good for Your Brain
The field of neuroaesthetics uses neuroscience to understand how art affects our brains, both when we’re making it and when we’re viewing it.
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Are nature documentaries the greatest art of our time?
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The dentist I went to as a child had posters of Impressionist paintings on the ceiling. I remember lying back and gazing through my discomfort and pain at a thronging lunch party by Renoir, a Degas ballerina, and a sunlit field of poppies by Monet.
20th Anniversary in Pittsburgh
The National Arts Program has been privileged to have a long-standing NAP exhibit in the City of Pittsburgh. This was their 20th Annual Showcase and in honor of this anniversary the NAP presented long time coordinator, Le Frankowski, with a piece of art from a local Pittsburgh artist named Murph McCulloch. Her artwork was entitled ‘Shapes of the Rainbow’ and the statement which accompanied the piece stated that “this painting was one of my first pieces showcasing my transition from artist to woodworker. Looking at this now, it is evident the things I would change.
Westminster Returns for Second Year
The National Arts Program was pleased to welcome back the City of Westminster, Colorado for their second NAP exhibit under the new coordination of Kristen Koehler, Cultural Affairs Specialist for the City’s Parks, Recreation & Libraries Department. Kristen stepped right in and was extremely proactive in her new role as coordinator. As a result, this year’s exhibition showcased 122 pieces from city employees, volunteers, retirees and their immediate family members.