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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.

‘Dr. Seuss’s Horse Museum’ features an ‘affable horse’ who guides students through a museum of horse-themed artwork 

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Theodor Seuss Geisel died in 1991, but his books continue to delight children across the globe. And come September, little readers will have the opportunity to delve into a never-before-seen world of Seussian wonder. As Minyvonne Burke of NBC News reports, Random House has announced that it is releasing a previously unpublished Seuss story about an art-loving horse.

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Roads gridlocked with trucks. Empty supermarket shelves. An economy thrown into paralysis.

The images seem extreme, but as the possibility looms that Britain might leave the European Union on March 29 without an agreement, businesses are preparing for the worst. The art trade is one of them.

Dealers, auctioneers, artists and their supporting services are all trying to weigh up the challenges of the withdrawal, known as Brexit, including the tariffs to be paid and saved, and the opportunities lost and gained.

Researchers at the Art Institute of Chicago, partnered with the UChicago School of Medicine, used CT scanning to discover a set of Malian figures were older and more unique than believed.

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A new imaging technique could help art curators track destructive bumps over time

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Like pubescent children, the oil paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe have been breaking out with “acne” as they age, and now scientists know why.

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Auguste Rodin couldn’t bear it when an argument temporarily ruptured his romantic relationship with fellow sculptor Camille Claudel. “In a single instant I feel your terrible force,” he wrote to her in a passionate 1883 letter. “Atrocious madness, it’s the end. I won’t be able to work anymore…yet I love you furiously.”

But Rodin did work throughout their volatile romance, creating some of his most desperately passionate sculptures, including both The Kiss (1882) and The Eternal Idol (1890–93).