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Are Smartphones Keeping Us from Appreciating Art?
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According to recent estimates, by 2018, there will be 2.59 billion smartphone users on planet earth. That’s around a third of the world’s current population. Yet despite their ubiquity, what smartphones do to our brains over the long term remains murky.
There is, however, a rich discussion as to how the technology in our pockets is impacting our day-to-day lives. For instance: Should we bring our phones to a museum, especially if we’re looking to have a rewarding, meditative experience with a work of art?
A mystery woman is leaving little works of art around NYC
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By day, Amy Young is an art professor at City College. But, when she’s not lecturing on the history of graffiti, she’s engaging in a little illicit art-making of her own.
“I’m less of a vandal than a graffiti artist [is],” the Carroll Gardens resident who works under the name See Me Tell Me told The Post. “The only reason I would get into trouble is if [the authorities] consider it littering.”
Poignant works of art show the reality of mental illness
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im Noble has 21 personalities. Her alter egos include Judy the teenage bulimic, Salamoe the devout Catholic, a little boy who speaks only Latin, and an elective mute.
Noble suffers from dissociative identity disorder, a condition in which separate personalities coexist within an individual, alternatively taking control. Many of Noble's identities are artists, each with their own style.
Is it an art space or a backdrop for selfies? Does it matter anymore?
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Artworks by Kennedy and Trump up for auction
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One piece of art features a row of tall New York City buildings rising above squiggly green trees and bright-yellow taxi cabs that wind through the streets below. The other shows a collection of homes with slanted roofs packed along a scenic waterfront, with several sailboats bobbing nearby.
Both were created by US presidents and both are for sale to the public.
8,000-Year-Old Rock Art Includes the World's Oldest Images of Dogs
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Etched into the rock walls of dried-out valleys and slopes in the Arabian Peninsula, the 8,000-year-old hunting scenes even feature some dogs on leashes. Those images —the oldest archaeological evidence of dog leashes —suggest humans were controlling and training dogs even before they settled down into farming communities.
Who owns art made by Guantanamo detainees? The artist captives? Or the US?
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An art exhibit in New York City of cell block art made by detainees at Guantánamo is raising questions about ownership of intellectual property.
Who owns the art? The government or the artist?
According to The Miami Herald, the U.S. military has decided that art made by wartime captives at Guantánamo is government property and officials have stopped releases of security-screened prisoner art to the public.
At MOMA, Cat Instagram Has Finally Clawed Its Way Into The Art World
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How Leonardo Da Vinci’s last work was discovered and sold for $450.3 million
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This is probably the biggest irony of life: that the portrait of Jesus Christ by Leonardo Da Vinci who, from all available records, did not believe in God or Christianity, would become the most expensive artwork to be auctioned today in the world. Last week, Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi (Saviour of the world) – a painted bust of Jesus Christ, was sold for $450.3 million at Christie’s auction house in New York.
This New International Modern Art Museum Is A First For Indonesia
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Having amassed some of the world's largest and most valuable art collections, Asia's super-rich are now on a mission to share their treasures with the public, and have begun pouring their money into private museums. This trend is most prevalent in China, where Budi Tek has unveiled the sprawling Yuz Museum, nightclub entrepreneur Qiao Zhibing is currently building the 60,000-square-meter arts space Tank Shanghai and Liu Yiquan and his wife Wang Wei operate both the Long Museum Pudong and the Long Museum West Bund. And that’s just in Shanghai.
NAP Show Provides a Sense of Community at Orlando International Airport
As the second busiest airport in the state of Florida, Orlando International Airport (OIA) reported that 42 million travelers passed through their corridors in 2016, with 13% being international visitors. Now imagine having the opportunity to have your artwork be seen by even just a fraction of these millions of people to view during their travels. That’s just what Coordinator Vera Walker and the Greater Orlando Airport Authority do by hosting an annual NAP exhibit.
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Exploring Christie’s Vault, Jam-Packed With $200 Million in Art
Works by Rothko, Basquiat, Cy Twombly, and more bump up against each other in this humble storage space.
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Every November, often for no more than a day or two, some of the most valuable of art in the world sits unseen, frame against frame, in the bowels of Christie’s Auction House in New York’s Rockefeller Center.
What a Work of Art Can Teach Us About Dishonest Portrayals of Immigrants
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Mayra’s eyes stared upward, unblinking despite the desert sun.
Her eyes—or, rather, a massive photograph of them—were the centerpiece of a picnic and installation by the French artist JR that united residents on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border in October. JR chose Mayra, who is a “Dreamer”—or a young undocumented immigrant who falls under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program—to represent many things, all at once: Humanity. Hope. Beauty. Division.
Crafty Hackers Are Stealing Millions From Art Galleries And Buyers
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Cyber criminals looking to make a quick buck have increasingly turned to ransomware in recent years. More patient types are working a more elaborate scheme that's yielding paydays of tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars per victim. It all centers around works of art.