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Famed Portraits and Paintings Recreated with Found Objects
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UK-based artist Jane Perkins produces incredible pieces that recreate classic works of art and portraits of iconic figures using thousands of multicolored found objects. Each of the artist’s creations is a compilation of numerous objects that range in color, size, and texture. She works with anything from buttons and beads to LEGO pieces, shells, plastic spoons, and clothespins.
People with this Personality Trait are more Inclined to Appreciate Art
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Have you ever found yourself dragging a less-than-enthusiastic friend along behind you during a visit to Melbourne’s NGV–or, perhaps, Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art?
According to a recent study at the University of Melbourne, there could be a scientific reason why some people enjoy art more than others.
At Some Museums, the Art Is Now on the Outside
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Pictures of a 5-year-old girl from suburban Seattle, dressed up as her heroines — Angela Davis, Rosa Parks and other African-American women who fought for freedom — were shown at the International Center of Photography recently. On Thursday night, they were followed by images of displaced migrants in a Tunisian refugee camp.
Is Political Art the Only Art That Matters Now?
The art world is going to war with Trump. If it doesn’t shoot itself in the foot first.
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Cai Guo-Qiang’s Next Big Art Project: Lighting Up Philadelphia
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Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the Champs-Élysées of Philadelphia and the nexus of that city’s great museums, turns 100 this year. To celebrate, this fall the artist Cai Guo-Qiang will turn the boulevard into a nocturnal dreamscape with one of his largest public artworks in the United States.
Coachella 2017: Art is always more than just music at the festival
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While the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has always revolved around music, the festival’s most unique and enduring images – and those most likely to grace fans’ selfies and profile pictures – are the large-scale art installations.
This year’s four major art works, including one that’s 75 feet tall and another that takes up more than an acre of the grassy festival grounds at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, are all about architectural scale and visual impact, said Raffi Lehrer, associate art director for the festival.
This twisted, sky-high art exhibit has everyone talking
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Just in time for Passover and Easter, the Met has set up a feast for the eyes, right upon its roof.
Laid out along nine white banquet tables or looming along the sidelines are life-size human figures that sit, sleep, glower and kiss. Scattered around them are goblets, cutlery and currency, all of it rendered in ghostly white. Disembodied arms hold aloft dinner plates and, here and there, a head.
Philadelphia Museum of Art’s construction fence is a work of art
Can this happen at every construction site?
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Let’s face it: More often than not, construction sites aren’t all that pretty. And over at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, there is a whole lot of it going on, from work on the $196 million Core Project by Frank Gehry to the construction of an outdoor festival for this month’s NFL Draft.
But it doesn’t surprise us that the art museum has figured out a pretty creative way to minimize all that mess: By building a construction wall made of art.
Jackie’s Renderings: A message from the Executive Director
‘Charging Bull’ sculptor says ‘Fearless Girl’ distorts his art. He’s fighting back.
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With hopes of dispensing the “perfect antidote” to the stock market crash of 1987, Italian-born sculptor Arturo Di Modica spent two years welding a 7,000 pound bronze bull statue designed to capture the resilience of the American people.
Cleveland Clinic Will Sell Prized Art to Benefit Heart Research
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The Cleveland Clinic is selling art to benefit hearts. WKSU’s Phil de Oliveira reports next month’s auction at Christie’s in New York will include items from the Clinic’s collection.
The eight works for sale include sculptures and paintings by Roy Lichtenstein, Marc Chagall, and Pablo Picasso.
Rutgers University encourages the “A” in S.T.E.A.M.
Artistic Talent Abounds in Delaware
NAP Welcomed Back with Open Arms at AMITA
Coordinator Sue Kett is an avid believer that the creation of art and the healing environment go hand and hand. A belief that has only grown stronger over the course of her time coordinating the NAP exhibit as she continues to see the profound effect the annual show has on the employees. A fact that became even more apparent with the tremendous response to this year’s call for entries after AMITA Health (previously Adventist Midwest Health) had to take time off between exhibitions due to a major merger.
New Website Lets You Fax Art to Congress to Save the NEA
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In the months since President Donald Trump took office, members of Congress have watched their phone lines reach capacity and their email inboxes overflow as constituents voice their displeasure with the administration’s policies and appointees. One Utah women, unable to reach her senator by phone, went so far as to order a pizza and have it delivered to his office with a note reading “vote NO on Betsy DeVos.”