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Baltimore Museum of Art to Sell Seven Works by Men, Hopes to Diversify Collection
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The Best Leaders See Things That Others Don’t. Art Can Help.
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I don’t often start essays about leadership with insights from French novelists, but in this case it seems appropriate. “The real act of discovery,” Marcel Proust wrote, “consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes.” Today the most successful companies don’t just outcompete their rivals. They redefine the terms of competition by embracing one-of-a-kind ideas in a world of copycat thinking. Which means, almost by definition, that the best leaders see things that other leaders don’t see.
A Paris Auction Helps Bring Art to Children
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“We’re counting on you and your raised hands to bid for the street art selected by the M.B.A. students and go home victorious!” said Arnaud Oliveux, the auctioneer and specialist in urban art at the French auction house Artcurial.
Mr. Oliveux, 43, strode theatrically across the stage, hammer in hand, at the Théâtre de la Ville-Espace Pierre Cardin in the Eighth Arrondissement and officially opened the second edition of the charity auction Street for Kids.
Public art trail in the works for Oregon Coast
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As a modern homage to the Oregon Trail, the Oregon Coast Visitors Association is developing a public art trail that will stretch from Astoria to the California border.
The idea of the program is to connect and promote existing public statues, murals and more in each of the Oregon Coast's 27 communities. The visitors association is working to catalogue these pieces to create a comprehensive map of all the art in the public sphere for a self-guided tour by next year.
Making Art for Bees
Michael Candy’s Synthetic Pollenizer is “a sculpture for a different species.”
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Not Enough Color In American Art Museums
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The current furor over the Brooklyn Museum's appointment of a white woman to oversee the museum's African Art collection is not surprising or infuriating to Steven Nelson. Nelson is an African American art historian at UCLA who specializes in African art, and he says, "There are very few of us in the field."
Stolen Art Returned
Chagall Oil Painting Recovered Nearly 30 Years After Heist
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Nearly 30 years after an elderly New York couple’s 1911 painting by Marc Chagall was stolen from their Manhattan home, the modernist oil-on-canvas work is being returned to the family’s estate.
The Alabama Women Who Made Their Quilts a Part of Modern Art
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As the Alabama River wends its way south and west, it meanders in a series of bends before emptying its muddy waters into Mobile Bay. Along the way, about 30 miles from Selma, one of those bends cuts deep into the land to form an isolated peninsula, which is filled by the hamlet of Gee’s Bend.
Forensics expert suggests Bristol’s Banksy is Gorillaz founder Jamie Hewlett
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A forensic expert claims to have revealed the identity of Bristol’s anonymous street artist Banksy – and he says it's Gorillaz founder Jamie Hewlett.
The expert, who asked to remain anonymous because he might get “hate mail for unmasking him”, believes he has proof of the graffiti star’s real identity – after following a company ownership trail.
The data, according to The Metro , shows that a ‘J Hewlett’ is associated with every company known to be connected to the anonymous artist.
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Can These Street-Art Pranksters Really Rally the Resistance?
The would-be Banksys of the street-art collective Indecline have been doing their damndest to wreak mischief in the Trump era. But in a world of weaponized memes and total media saturation, can they break through?
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Is art for pleasure or politics?
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Henri Matisse famously declared that he dreamed of an art "devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter ... a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair." His close friend Picasso, who more often indulged the darker sides of human emotion, wasn't especially political in his art either.
How Van Gogh's love affair with Japan changed art history
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Vincent van Gogh is often called the most beloved artist of all time, his work influencing authors, filmmakers, designers and countless other artists who succeeded him. Now, a major exhibition is exploring the Japanese art and ideas that inspired the master himself.