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The personal art collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller will end up at Christie’s — no surprise, given the return to that auction house from Sotheby’s of Marc Porter, who has a long working relationship with the Rockefellers.

Welcome to the future of multi-storey art: move over paint by numbers, it’s time to paint by drones.

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It’s time for your career as an artist to take off – literally.

Italian design and innovation company, Carlo Ratti Associati, have developed a new piece of tech that can help people collaborate with each other to make huge urban works of art.

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Imagine if President Trump's tweets provoked calm and beauty rather than rage and fury.

Such a realm really exists, though you'll have to slink beneath New York City to find it.

A subterranean exhibition in Manhattan's Midtown neighborhood features hundreds of lavender plants and a lighting system powered by Twitter streams. When @realDonaldTrump or @POTUS fires off an early-morning musing, the small room's ceiling glows. As statements are retweeted, the fluorescent bulbs brighten to match the growing intensity.

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Jeff Gillette invites you to trash his artworks — to step on them, kick them, wade through the hundreds of drawings and prints littering the floor of Gregorio Escalante Gallery in L.A.’s Chinatown. This is where Gillette’s solo show “Total Dismay” opened on Saturday. It’s where the artist has created what he calls “an art landfill.”

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It has been 27 years since two thieves dressed as police officers made their way into a Boston museum and disappeared $500 million worth of art.

Now the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has announced it is offering a reward of $10 million — in return for help solving the mystery of the missing masterpieces.

The museum had previously offered a $5 million reward, but has temporarily upped that figure as it solicits a new generation for information leading to the return of the stolen works.

A project called “In Care of the White House” asks citizens to send art in hope it will be included in the National Archives.

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On Jan. 16, just days before Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, artist and teacher Steven Silberg asked people to welcome the commander in chief with a letter ― more specifically, a letter that functions as a work of art.

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“This is my paint gear,” George Anthony Morton said, apologizing for splatters that only he could see on his black T-shirt. He had spent the afternoon at his easel, painting a portrait of someone he had asked to pose for him.

“This hasn’t gotten to the stage where it’s satisfactory yet,” he said, but he was upbeat — he had two more sessions with her. “Hopefully, I’ll be able to refine it,” he said.

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The smell of cinnamon, cloves and peppercorns greeted visitors at the entrance to an exhibition last year at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts. Large jars filled with the spices acted as the prologue to “Asia in Amsterdam: The Culture of Luxury in the Golden Age,” conjuring the vibrant city in its 17th-century glory, when the Dutch East India Co. was importing exotic goods from Asia and inspiring artists to make iconic works we now associate with that time and place.

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Anthony Mason paints a picture of race car art:

Unveiled at Art Basel in Miami in November, it was tearing up the track in Daytona in January: The BMW M6 painted by renowned artist John Baldessari is a high-performance racing machine. As BMW Motorsport's director put it, "On the outside, it's a piece of art. But on the inside it wants to go out today and wants to win."

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Dirty air is part of life in China, unavoidable and in your face. It has inspired a tremendous boom in renewable energy, as the Chinese government begins to try to wean the country off coal. It has also inspired a level of citizen action that is unusual in an autocratic country.

And some of those active citizens are artists.

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What once were pieces of John F. Kennedy's home are now pieces of art.

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Denver International Airport is moving forward with plans to remove a large and now controversial piece of art in the middle of the Concourse C but not everyone is onboard.

“This piece has been particularly problematic and it’s reached a point where it’s both dangerous for people traveling and very cost prohibitive for a maintenance schedule,” said Heath Montgomery, a spokesman for the airport.

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English artist Damien Hirst has been accused of cultural appropriation after his exhibition, "Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable," featured a "golden head" that appears to mirror sculpted heads created by African artists from Ile-Ife Nigeria.

"For the thousands of viewers seeing this for the first time, they won't think Ife, they won't think Nigeria," Nigerian visual artist Victor Ehikhamenor wrote on his Instagram page, along with a picture he took of Hirst's "golden head" behind glass.

Titles devoted to Picasso, Rothko, Lichtenstein, Klimt and more are now available for your reading pleasure

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