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A Glimpse Inside Claude Monet’s Private Art World
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Almost a century since his death, the French painter Claude Monet enjoys near-universal notoriety. His depictions of the water lilies in his pond at Giverny, outside Paris, appear on coffee mugs, posters and coasters around the world, and have helped turn Monet into a household name.
What few people realize is that Monet was also a major art collector. He possessed dozens of paintings, including masterpieces, by both his precursors and his contemporaries — from Delacroix and Corot to Manet, Renoir and Cézanne.
Denver Artists Are Hiding Works Across the City For Art Drop Day
If you can find it, you can keep it.
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Keep your eyes peeled as you walk around Denver today—you could find little pieces of art hidden across the city as part of Art Drop Day Denver.
A "centrepiece of the whole of 20th-century art": rediscovered Francis Bacon piece to be auctioned at Christie's
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A rediscovered painting by Francis Bacon is to be shown for the first time in over 50 years at next month’s contemporary art sales in London. The 1955 painting of Pope Pius X11 seated on a golden throne, his hand raised in some enigmatic gesture, was last exhibited in 1962 and sold the following year in Turin. Since then it has been locked away in a very private collection.
Putting Art on Wheels and Taking It Back to the Streets
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Jaime Colsa owns a transport company that delivers ordinary consumer goods — computers, food, drinks. The contents of his trucks aren’t eye-catching, but his vehicles certainly are, adorned with paintings showing cartoonlike faces, dogs, brightly colored geometric patterns, spirals and landscapes.
These trucks that crisscross Spain have been painted by artists as part of the Truck Art Project. Financed by Mr. Colsa, the project aims in part to bring street art back to its roots.
Taiwan to host LGBTQ show following landmark same-sex marriage ruling
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In May 2017, a groundbreaking court ruling put Taiwan on course to become the first place in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage.
A few months on, a Taiwanese art museum is set to achieve another milestone by hosting what it believes to be the first major exhibition dedicated to LGBTQ-themed art in Asia.
Titled "Spectrosynthesis -- Asian LGBTQ Issues and Art Now," the upcoming show at Taipei's Museum of Contemporary Art will feature 50 works by 22 ethnically Chinese artists from around the world.
An art project forces people to consider online recommendations in the real world
What do online recommendations mean for our decisions in the real world?
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You’ve seen them on Amazon.com or places like Facebook: “helpful” recommendations for other, similar products, games, or even content that you might like, based on your internet history. According to two artists, the algorithms that make these recommendations rule the internet, and with a new project called Signs of the Times, they aim to get people to think about their impact.
Who Is Really Making ‘Chihuly Art’?
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More than 40 years later, Jeffrey Beers still vividly remembers what it felt like to have Dale Chihuly call up to convene a pre-dawn glassblowing session. You felt flattered and inspired, he said, jazzed by Mr. Chihuly’s caffeinated freight train of energy and the idea of making art with him while most of the world slept in.
In New York, modern art is going to the dogs
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Shortly after I met him, the curator of a group show opening in Manhattan sat beside me on the floor of a studio in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. I reached over and petted his fur, and he licked my hand. The curator’s name was Rocky. He’s a Morkshire terrier with final approval over the artworks in Dogumenta, which caters to the sensibilities of a previously underserved demographic: dogs.
These incredible works of art will make you look twice
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Photorealism -- the process of replicating a photograph through a different medium -- was once considered a fad, but the 1970s arts movement has stood the test of time.
Now, nearly five decades after the term was first coined by art dealer Louis K. Meisel, the works of some of the movement's most influential artists are being displayed together at "From Lens to Eye To Hand: Photorealism 1969 to Today," a new exhibition at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York.
How Do You Paint an Eclipse? Work Fast in the Dark
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A third of the way through “Macbeth,” right after the antihero murders the king of Scotland, two noblemen look up into the sky and behold a celestial horror. “By the clock, ’tis day,” says the Thane of Ross, “And yet dark night strangles the traveling lamp.” The sun has been blotted out over the Highlands, and Ross has a sense of why; the political has become astronomical, and crimes on earth are reflected above.
How Tattooed Mom became Philly's premier street-art museum
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There is no admission fee at Philly’s premier street art museum, better known as the bar Tattooed Mom. So, drink in hand, I took a self-guided tour.
Westminster Employees Embrace NAP Exhibit
How online art galleries are serving up talent — and sales — without the 'tude
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You know that awful feeling of walking into a snooty art gallery and the staff vaguely lifts up their heads and gives you the once-over?
“We’re the opposite of that,” said Rebecca Wilson, chief curator for SaatchiArt.com.
What Wilson is describing speaks to the engine behind the online market for original art, which saw global sales rise 15% in 2016 to $3.75 billion — because when you’re browsing online art galleries, no one cares how big your entourage is.
Themes Emerge at Atlantic Health
All of our venue coordinators have their favorite aspect of our show. For Ania Lesiak, our Atlantic Health System coordinator, it’s curating the displays. With a venue that averages between 180 to 200 pieces each year, this task may seem overwhelming so we asked Ania to describe her process for organizing the artwork on drop off day.
Mayor Celebrates Artistic Talent in Pittsburgh
Leona Frankowski, who is the Art Education Coordinator for the City of Pittsburgh’s Parks and Recreation Department, has been coordinating their Annual National Arts Program® Exhibit entitled ARTWorks since it began eighteen years ago. Le commented that, “the program continues to be highly valued by the Mayor’s Administration and by city employees.