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New Space & New Coordinator for the University of Arizona
Practice makes even more perfect in the State of Delaware
Art Helps Heal at Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center
How did the Rockefellers shape the modern art market?
Ahead of the sale of the David and Peggy Rockefeller collection at Christie’s this week, the family's archivist examines their approach
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The name Rockefeller is inextricably linked with an astute understanding of markets. In 1870, aged barely 30, John D. Rockefeller, Senior created Standard Oil, and by the early 20th century, he was worth at least a billion dollars. His descendants displayed similar market savvy in investing their considerable inheritance, notably in art.
An alleged art swindle involving two Warhols, 6,800 miles, and a guy from Lynn
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A Lynn man was charged in federal court in Boston Wednesday with an international art swindle involving two Andy Warhol paintings and spanning more than 6,800 miles, according to the US Attorney’s Office.
Brian R. Walshe, 43, was arrested and charged in a criminal complaint with one count of wire fraud. He was detained pending a probable cause and detention hearing scheduled for Friday, prosecutors said in a statement.
Top Collectors Reveal the Secrets of How to Invest in Art
Returns can be eye-popping, but collectors must avoid the pitfalls of forgeries, fakes and rapidly changing tastes.
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Andy Warhol once said: “Making money is art.” But what about making money from art?
A boom in the global market has delivered some eye-popping returns in the past few years, drawing new collectors keen to invest in an asset class that offers cultural as well as financial appreciation.
New VA Telehealth Program Brings Art Therapy To Vets At Home
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Without leaving the comfort of his Ocala, Fla. apartment, Joshua Lawhorn, 28, is getting help with his memory problems by learning to play the guitar.
Lawhorn, an active-duty solider, is recovering from post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury after a couple of tours in Afghanistan. He is one of hundreds of people enrolled in the Telehealth Creative Arts Therapy program offered by the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center in Gainesville.
L.A. gave local artists $10,000 to create work. An exhibition at Barnsdall Art Park shows off what they made
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To Steven Wong, the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery's curator, contemporary art is a sign of the times and local art reflects the pulse of the city.
Where Art Forgeries Meet Their Match
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Jamie Martin has some advice for criminals: “Never wear synthetic fibers while making a forgery.” They’ll show up in the lab.
And everybody knows that Vermeer didn’t wear polyester.
Mr. Martin shared that wisdom while showing a guest around his fifth-floor laboratory-office at Sotheby’s New York on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It’s a large, windowless white room filled with technology, some of the equipment owned by only a handful of institutions worldwide.
What the Mona Lisa Tells Us About Art in the Instagram Era
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The young couple moved to the front of the crowd to look at the painting. After a few seconds, the woman turned around, smiled into her cellphone and took some selfies. Next, she handed her device to her husband, who took more formal shots of her in front of the work. The two then posed arm in arm for selfies together, turned to have a last brief look at the painting — and moved away.
Virtual Reality Asserts Itself as an Art Form in Its Own Right
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As virtual reality breaks into the art world at all levels, a host of questions about curation, conservation and commercial value is still being explored.
The Berlin-based artist Olafur Eliasson said that we were only in “the Stone Age” or prehistoric period for the medium.
This French Art Museum Discovers Over Half of Its Collection Is Fake
Over 80 works by Étienne Terrus—a friend and contemporary of Henri Matisse—were just found to be fraudulent in a museum bearing his name
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Hotel Art Is Being Redefined by Luxury Properties with Warhols and Slim Aarons in Their Collections
From the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York to Miami’s Fontainebleau, luxury hotels are now competing in a new space—the pedigree of the art on their walls
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School of the Art Institute students to show how art combats loneliness on 'Today' show
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Beginning college can be a difficult experience. It’s the first time many teenagers are living on their own. Some are nervous about making new friends and adjusting to new spaces.
Nearly one in five university students report experiencing anxiety or depression. To help students, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, mental health professionals are zeroing in on a word they say people are using more — loneliness.
Building owners are making a fortune from Banksy’s art
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Early last month, residents of Midwood woke up to a pair of new neighborhood beautification projects.
At the corner of Coney Island Avenue and Avenue I, an empty single-story building suddenly sported an anti-gentrification mural: the silhouette of a suit-clad real-estate developer wielding a jagged graph line — the kind associated with rising stock prices — as people ran ahead of him, as if being chased. Next door, an abandoned gas station boasted a painting of a seal balancing a red-orange ball that was once part of a Mobil logo.