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Miriam Sutton likes to wander around her neighborhood in Northeast Washington with secrets in her pocket: palm-size handmade stickers, decorated to look like Japanese paper cranes. She started making them for a friend who'd fallen ill — in line with the belief that if you make 1,000 paper cranes, you get a wish. Her friend died before she got to 1,000, but she keeps making them in his memory. When she thinks no one is looking, she'll stick one onto a newspaper box or the back of a stop sign.

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Millennials snapped up $28 million worth of art inspired by the Simpsons television show, along with skateboarding shoes and cans of spray paint at a Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong as a new generation of collectors comes of age.

“The auction room suddenly got a lot hipper, with all these cool millennial buyers in hoodies,” said Edie Hu, art advisory specialist at Citi Private Bank in Hong Kong. “Their tastes are very different from their parents, and Sotheby’s is tapping into that.”

The celebrity artist says a religious epiphany inspired the unexpected decision.

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In a surprise statement released last night by his publicist, mega-celebrity pop artist Jeff Koons announced the end of his career in art and the termination of all projects and staff at his Manhattan studio by the end of 2019.

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Arthur Brand, a man nicknamed the “Indiana Jones of the art world,” has done it again.

The Dutch art historian and art crime investigator recently located Pablo Picasso’s Portrait of Dora Maar ( also known as Buste de Femme) after it was stolen from a Saudi sheikh’s yacht on the French Riviera in 1999.

Curators at Paris exhibition tracked down names of models used by likes of Manet, Picasso and Cézanne

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French art masterpieces have been renamed after their long-overlooked black subjects in a ground-breaking new Paris show on the representation of people of colour in art.

Edouard Manet’s Olympia, the scandalous painting of a naked reclining prostitute that marks the birth of modern art, has been renamed Laure after the woman who posed as her black maid.

In her project Archiving Eden, photographer Dornith Doherty explores the beauty and necessity of the world's botanical stockpiles.

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No bigger than a speck of dust, an orchid seed seems like a fragile thing. Yet, under the right conditions, this tiny grain—among the smallest from any flowering plant—can survive in the wild for years, eventually germinating and producing one of botany’s most exquisite blooms.

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What if your child could color with the hues of  Claude Monet’s waterlilies, draw in the tradition of Surrealists, and sculpt in the spirit of Joseph Cornell? Making with MoMA, a new line of art kits and supplies inspired by the legendary art collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, takes cues from modern masters to inspire creativity.

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Saving the planet.

It’s not just the subject of passionate political debate.

It’s at the heart of a growing number of museum exhibitions this year, including the works of old masters and exhibits built with high-tech innovations, designed to inspire artistic appreciation and a desire to respond to environmental challenges.

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Thousands of George Michael fans lined up around the block to see the late singer's impressive art collection, before it sold at auction raising more than £11 million ($14,597,000) for charity.

The singer-songwriter, who died suddenly on Christmas Day 2016, was a major supporter of British artists, including the likes of Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst.

Michael, who shot to fame in the 1980s as one half of pop band Wham!, amassed a noteworthy and valuable collection during his lifetime.

For eight years Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and the National Arts Program have partnered to bring forth some amazing art from their medical community. The show consisted of over 200 pieces of varied visual artworks this year from many talented artists including health care providers, professional staff, students, teachers, alumni, volunteers and their family members. Coordinator Noreen Gomez has certainly set the bar high when it comes to showcasing the arts.

The judges had so many wonderful things to say about the artworks in the Ventura County National Arts Program Exhibition.  Some of the comments included; “I couldn’t stop staring at it. Well done”, “a striking painting by a budding painter”, “Perfectly captured”, “This artist shows great potential and I can see them going far”, and “The joy of creativity jumps off the canvas!” These art professionals had nothing but positive thoughts on the talents that existed in all ages and levels of ability in this showcase.

Stéphane Breitwieser robbed nearly 200 museums, amassed a collection of treasures worth more than $1.4 billion, and became perhaps the most prolific art thief in history. And as he reveals to GQ’s Michael Finkel, how Breitwieser managed to do all this is every bit as surprising as why.

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3 Rock the Arts is a team of three very talented ladies – Toni Brock, Evette Goldstein and Jeanne Trueax – who put on three large annual art shows in the Castle Rock, CO area as well as assist the Parker Artist Guild with other sponsored projects. These ladies are also the ones responsible for bringing the NAP exhibit back to Front Range in 2018 after a brief two year break due to the disbandment of the Greater Castle Rock Arts Guild, which had previously provided a coordinator for the show.

With storage spaces filled with works that may never be shown, some museums are rethinking the way they collect art, and at least one is ranking what it owns

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Fueled by philanthropic zeal, lucrative tax deductions and the prestige of seeing their works in esteemed settings, wealthy art owners have for decades given museums everything from their Rembrandts to their bedroom slippers.