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Christo presents The Mastaba, his new large-scale art object in London
Composed of over 7,000 oil barrels, the sculpture by the revered artist floats on the Serpentine Lake in London's Hyde Park through September 23. It accompanies a retrospective of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's work.
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Renowned environmental artist Christo presented his latest work, titled The Mastaba, on Monday.
The ambitious artist originally conceived the installation in 1977 with his wife, Jeanne-Claude, who died in 2009.
17 Years of Celebrating the Art in Union County, NJ
How the quest for the 'perfect blue' changed art forever
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The color blue has had a remarkable impact on the history of world trade. Rarely occurring in the natural world, blue pigments were, for centuries, highly sought-after by craftsmen and merchants.
This quest for the perfect blue has also transformed artistic traditions, from modern painting and jewelry to Turkish tilework, Persian glassware and Ming dynasty pottery.
It's a story explored in "The Blue Road," a Hong Kong exhibition whose title plays on the name given to ancient trade routes now known as the Silk Road.
'Beyond The Streets,' And Far From Vandalism: Street Art Gets A Massive Show
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Outlaws. That's what they were considered when they spray-painted walls and bombed subway cars with modern-day hieroglyphics. They worked in alleys and train yards, bridges and tunnels. Now, many of them are being celebrated in a massive warehouse near Los Angeles' Chinatown.
Enhancing the Community Through Art at DFW Airport
3 Travel-Worthy Art Museums Created by Women
Largely underrated and intimate in scale, these female-founded, world-class institutions—from Texas to Switzerland—are priceless
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Can Art Help People Feel the Devastation of Climate Change?
Miranda Massie hopes the Climate Museum in New York City can convince visitors to be better stewards of the climate—by appealing at once to their intellect and their emotions.
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A Public Art Campaign Will Commission Political Billboards Across the Country
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This fall, thousands of billboard and lawn signs will be erected all over the country in advance of the midterms, bearing names of politicians up for election. But a new campaign by the organization For Freedoms aims to use those tools not to promote specific candidates but to galvanize debate and political participation through art. The organization has enlisted artists like Sam Durant, Theaster Gates and Marilyn Minter to create public artwork and lead town halls as part of a $1.5 million-dollar campaign.
"The Museum of Lost Art": Examining the vulnerability of the world's treasures
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Carolyn Riccardelli will never forget the day in 2002 when a sculpture named Adam took a terrible fall. The conservator for the Metropolitan Museum of Art says the 6-foot-3-inch "Adam" was gravely damaged after his plywood pedestal buckled.
"I went upstairs and I saw the sculpture in pieces all over the floor. … He was in 28 large pieces and hundreds of small pieces," Riccardelli told CBS News' Dana Jacobson.
How to Take Honest, High-Quality Photos with Your iPhone
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Brooklyn-based portrait photographer Aundre Larrow seeks to convey truth in his images—be it in a personal project capturing New Yorkers on the G train, or a commissioned campaign on the die-hard fans of the Golden State Warriors.
Art gives a lifeline to help veterans cope with traumatic memories
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As part of a Marine Corps K team sent to the front lines since Vietnam, Sgt. Mike Dowling and his military dog, Rex, ventured into Baghdad streets to sniff out suicide bombers, improvised explosive devices and weapons caches.
In 2010, he was given a new assignment: working with wounded veterans at the Naval Medical Center San Diego who had lost limbs, suffered severe burns or had lost their sight. He also tracked down veterans who had lapsed into substance abuse or were suicidal.
Photographs of Buildings that Become Abstract Art
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During the week, Nikola Olic spends his time building user interfaces as a software designer in Dallas. On weekends and vacations, though, he applies his systematic rigor to a very different pastime: taking pictures of buildings.
"I like clean lines, minimalism, simplicity," Olic explains. "And that expands into photography."
Las Vegas casino unveils multimillion-dollar art collection
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Las Vegas is no stranger to over-the-top gambling joints. But the Palms Casino Resort’s latest revamp is one for the books.
$620 million later, the Palms is practically a modern art museum, with millions of dollars worth of eye-popping work lining the walls.
Original pieces by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Richard Prince give gamblers something more compelling to look at than their diminishing chip stacks.
How to Get Scotch Tape Off of a Work of Art
“Tape is the bane of the conservator’s existence.”
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Sticky tape was first invented in the mid-19th century, and it’s been making conservators’ lives hell ever since.
“Tape is the bane of the conservator’s existence,” says Margaret Holben Ellis, a professor of paper conservation at New York University. The problem is simply that tape works too well. Removing it can easily take off a layer of paper, and adhesives from old tape can sink into paper, staining it an unsightly yellow or brown.
Robert Indiana, 89, Who Turned ‘Love’ Into Enduring Art, Is Dead
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Robert Indiana, the Pop artist whose bold rendering of the word “love” became one of the most recognizable artworks of the 20th century, gracing hundreds of prints, paintings and sculptures, some 330 million postage stamps that he authorized and countless tchotchkes that he did not, died on Saturday at his home in Vinalhaven, Me. He was 89.
His lawyer, James W. Brannan, said the cause was respiratory failure.