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Time moves quickly, and so does technology. What was once state of the art will soon become simply art behind a building on Duke University's campus.

Eight satellite dishes are clustered together behind an arts building, and rather than remove them, the school has decided to repurpose them.

Durham artist Bethany Bash wants to turn the obsolete satellite dishes into something valuable once again.

Kelsey Graywill, a senior at Duke, agrees. She is overseeing the project.

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As a member of a millennia-old profession, 28-year-old artist Laura Rokas can do her job — painting, sculpting, drawing, weaving — without the help of most modern technology. But the Bay Area artist makes one exception: Instagram.

Since its launch in 2010, the photo and video sharing app has become a mainstay in the art world. Originally an app that used filters to add a retro aesthetic to photos taken on phones, the Facebook-owned platform has become a home to artists, art collectors and curators like no other social network.

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“How did the ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’ come to life? What steps did Vermeer take to make this painting?”

These are some of the fundamental questions we still have about Johannes Vermeer’s beloved 1665 painting of a young woman in a blue and yellow turban, glancing beguilingly over her shoulder, according to Abbie Vandivere, paintings conservator at the Mauritshuis Royal Picture Galleryhere.

The street artist JR has brought his trademark oversized photographs to an abandoned immigrants' hospital, but there's more than meets the eye

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It's faces that interest JR the most. The French artist, profiled by Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes this week, made his mark on the art world—and the cities he visits—through the smirks and smiles he photographs.

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For decades, the Merchandise Mart has loomed over the bend in the Chicago River, its great limestone walls projecting stolidity and art deco style.

This fall, the megabuilding’s front wall will become vivid with video images and projected artwork as a permanent nighttime riverfront feature visible from the Riverwalk and Wacker Drive, if a plan announced Sunday by building owners and city officials goes through.

An art collection amassed by billionaire David Rockefeller could raise more than $500 million for charity when it is auctioned this spring.

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An art collection amassed by billionaire David Rockefeller could raise more than $500 million for charity when it is auctioned this spring.

Auctioneer Christie's is selling hundreds of artworks including major paintings by Claude Monet, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, from the collection of the oil-family scion and his wife Peggy .

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Perched in its new home on a stand by a window overlooking Millennium Park, the newest sculpture in the Art Institute of Chicago looked, well, ordinary.

And in any number of French households throughout the 20th Century this series of iron pegs on iron hoops held aloft by a set of iron legs would have been unremarkable, whether or not it was adorned with clean bottles hanging upside down to dry.

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Not long ago, Jasper Johns, who is now 87 and widely regarded as America’s foremost living artist, was reminiscing about his childhood in small-town South Carolina. One day when he was in the second grade, a classmate named Lottie Lou Oswald misbehaved and was summoned to the front of the room. As the teacher reached for a wooden ruler and prepared to paddle her, Lottie Lou grabbed the ruler from the teacher’s hand and broke it in half. Her classmates were stunned.

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The financially strapped Berkshire Museum will be allowed to sell dozens of its artworks, but one of them, a beloved Norman Rockwell painting, “Shuffleton’s Barbershop,” will be sold to another museum and remain on public view, under an agreement announced Friday between the Berkshire museum and the Massachusetts attorney general’s office.

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The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston (ICA Boston) is planning what it is calling the first major US exhibition devoted to the impact of Internet culture on visual art, featuring works that date back to the year Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. 

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Now that the game has been won, it’s time to collect on the bet.

Several Philadelphia institutions made wagers with their Boston counterparts that the Eagles would prevail over the Patriots in the Super Bowl. Most of the stakes were relatively low-key; the loser would be required to wear the winner’s football jersey or send a package of the city’s signature foods.

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You can’t walk away from a winning bid.

That’s Sotheby’s message to a New York art collector who allegedly refused to honor his $6.5 million offer for an untitled 1982 Keith Haring painting, a record price for the beloved American pop artist.

The auction house sued Anatole Shagalov in August for $2.13 million -- the difference between his winning bid at the May 2017 auction and the price Sotheby’s got for the work after it was forced to resell it.

Johns Hopkins Medicine is a world class health care system that sets a standard of excellence in all that they do. It’s no surprise with such a diverse and highly dedicated community of employees that they would also produce an incredible group of talented artists. The Johns Hopkins Medicine National Arts Program® Exhibit’s coordinator is Amanda Myers. Since 2009 Amanda has made the tremendous task of hanging such a large art show, look effortless. She has consistently demonstrated a dedication to this program and this year was no different.