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Kisha Hall glanced up from her iPhone, alarmed, as Ryan Strand Greenberg loomed over her at City Hall’s trolley platform.

He reached for the empty frame on the pale brick wall behind her and slid in a portrait.

“I didn’t know what he was doing,” Hall, 22, laughed after Greenberg, a Philadelphia photographer who’s spent the last four months decorating the platforms beneath City Hall with pictures, stepped back.

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While working as a research assistant at the Metropolitan Museum of Art – a treasure trove of some of the world’s finest art – University of Virginia graduate student Eric Hupe helped conduct a study proving that most visitors spent about 15-30 seconds in front of any given masterpiece.

“Other museums were conducting similar studies, which sparked a lot of questions and debate in the art world,” he said. “How do we get people to slow down?”

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One hundred years ago, the U.S. entered the first global war — an ugly, dirty, agonizing conflict that cost millions of lives and changed the world. Now, the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., is observing the centennial with art and artifacts in an exhibition called Artist Soldiers.

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The latest art-world pop-up is a meditation on NYC’s trendy spas.

The Soothing Center is part gallery, part ramshackle New Age studio, where all the “treatments” are free.

“We’ve become pawns to get money,” Soothing Center curator Jesse Bandler Firestone tells The Post. “When you go online and do a video meditation, halfway through the therapy you’ll get an ad for Bacardi.”

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Science, Labor and Art had been living outdoors for more than a decade. They endured autumn rains and winter winds. In the springtime, pollen clung to their bodies and clothes. In the summer, beads of condensation streamed down the layer of wax that covers their motionless forms. Regardless of the season, uncouth humans touched them without permission. Occasionally, a bird pooped on one of their heads.

Granddaughter of Holocaust survivors Rotem Bides claims she took contested items from nearby rather than from museum itself

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A controversial project from an art student in Israel is to go ahead despite claims that objects displayed in it were stolen from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum.

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Clothing. Food. Razors. Beer. Coffee. Books.

There’s a subscription service for that. But what about art?

Southwest valley artist Susan Tosches-Deneau has tapped into the subcription craze with her business, Art Box Surprise. For $15 to $100 per month, art enthusiasts can have work by Las Vegas artists shipped to their door. Tosches-Deneau works with more than 25 artists, including Robin Slonina of Skin City Body Painting and Alexander P. Huerta, owner of PeaceNArt studio at The Arts Factory.

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French police are trying to track down the owners of hundreds of works of art stolen by a compulsive thief who went on a twenty-year binge in hotels, museums, shops and galleries across France.

Officers found the works when they raided the 45-year-old alleged thief’s apartment in Avignon and came across what they described as an “Aladdin’s cave” of art.

“There were pieces everywhere, piled on top of each other,” said Captain François Toulouse, the head of departmental security in the local Vaucluse region.

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Surrealist master Salvador Dali's trademark moustache is in perfect shape in its "ten past ten" position, the foundation that runs his estate said Friday, a day after his remains were exhumed to settle a paternity claim.

Narcis Bardalet, who was responsible for embalming Dalí's body 28 years ago was at his grave the moment he was exhumed on Thursday night for DNA tests.

"It was a moving moment for him and for us," Lluis Penuelas Reixach, the secretary general of the Salvador Dali Foundation, told a press conference.

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When you think about the world of cartography, antique sepia maps are likely the first images that come to mind. But nomadic digital cartographer Robert Szucs saw the potential to turn nature's patterns into contemporary artwork.

Under his moniker Grasshopper Geography, the Hungarian artist uses open-source software and satellite data to paint the world's rivers. As a result, China's Yangtze swims in a sea of colors, while the Mississippi swirls in soft pastels.

Why rivers?

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Teenagers often have to wait years to do the things they want to do — drive, drink, vote. But for Mara Clawson, it was something different.

As a teen, Clawson loved making art — specifically drawing with pastels.

So at 14, she reached out to Art Enables, a studio, gallery and vocational program in Washington, D.C., where she really wanted to make that art. But Art Enables requires its members to be at least 21 years old.

That didn't deter her. During the seven-year wait, Clawson stayed focused.

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One of the savviest, wisest, most revealing museum exhibitions of the summer may not have much actual art in it. But it circles the subject relentlessly like a satellite around a planet, wobbling in and out of art’s force field. We’re along for the ride, courtesy of a series of often riveting, mostly wordless visual dialogues between artists, conducted entirely by cellphone.

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In recent history comic art has crossed boundaries to enter other mediums. We can watch comic book adaptations in movies and on TV, read about comic books in popular novels, and see comic art on the walls of our local museums. Katherine Roeder examines why art historians are not paying more attention.

One of DFW Airport’s Art Program goals is to keep travelers passing through inspired by their surroundings. They manage to do this successfully by featuring more than thirty pieces of art by local, national and international artists in and around the airport grounds. These installations not only provide an artistic environment to those just moving through the busy airport, but to the hard working employees who often spend more hours at the airport than they do at home.