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A 91-year-old woman recently did what any 91-year-old woman is wont to do when visiting an art museum in Germany: She came across a crossword puzzle and decided she would fill it out. But what this enterprising woman didn't account for is the fact that the crossword puzzle she'd happened upon was actually a piece of art hanging in the museum. Uh oh.

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For two years, the National September 11 Memorial Museum, built at ground zero, has presented visitors with a collection that reflects the moments of horror and heroism 15 years ago when terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center.

Now the museum is moving beyond its array of mainly historical items to include for the first time an exhibition of artworks created as a response to the attacks of Sept. 11.

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Around 400 pieces from David Bowie’s private art and furniture collection, including work by Marcel Duchamp, Henry Moore, Damien Hirst and Jean-Michel Basquiat, will go on sale at Sotheby’s here in November. The sale will be preceded by a three-week exhibition from July 20 to Aug. 9; the exhibition will then travel to Los Angeles, New York and Hong Kong.

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The Worcester Art Museum welcomed its newest "purrformers" over the weekend and on Wednesday the public will be invited in to meet them, too.

Four cats now call the art museum home thanks to a Cats-in-Residence art installation which brings in cats up for adoption to interact with people inside a "social sculpture."

The cats are the first of many expected to live in the museum from Wednesday through September 4 while they await adoption.

Recycled rebar will make the Seattle North Transfer Station more beautiful

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Sculptor Jean Shin relies on other people’s castaways to create art. So it made sense that she was hired to create public art for the renovation of a long-time Seattle dump site—and even more sense that she used trash from the renovation itself to create the art. As ArtNet reports, Shin used 10,000 linear feet of rebar to create something new (and unexpectedly beautiful) at Seattle’s North Transfer Station.

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Amid all the hype for Pokémon Go this week, one non-game release that's enjoying relatively quiet success in the App Store is a new photo editor called Prisma. 

The brainchild of a team of Russian developers, Prisma describes itself simply as an "editor for Instagram", but has attracted far wider attention thanks to an impressive series of stylistic and art-inspired filters. 

Artists behind the Seattle Demo Project alter doomed buildings with dramatic art installations, and hope to work with squatters to turn the buildings into transitional housing.

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If you happen to stroll by, the old house on the corner of 12th Avenue and Thomas Street looks like other empty houses waiting to be knocked down across Seattle: peeling gray paint, crumbling red shingles, rickety front steps that seem as if they’d melt the next time it rains.

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Art is intrinsically linked to humanity.

We've been making it for about as long as we've been called humans, and few would argue against its value as culturally enriching as well as emotionally and often intellectually rewarding. Making art for art's sake is plenty. 

Yet as scientific research has shown, our minds seem built to enjoy and analyze art deeply, and creating it, no matter your skill level, is good for you.

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A Moorhead teen has earned some bragging rights.

He is the youngest artist chosen to have his work displayed in the new Sanford Hospital.

Elias Harris is looking for the perfect angle. The young, aspiring photographer likes to capture colorful outdoor shots.

"Mostly of nature and photos of like butterflies and flowers and kids and stuff like that," said Elias Harris.

For the tenth year, Tacoma once again featured the artwork of their employees and their family members. Naomi Strom-Avila, who has run the program from the beginning, was presented with a Tenth Anniversary Award by Jackie Szafara, Executive Director, who made the cross country trip to Tacoma for the reception. City Manager Marty Campbell and Assistant Manager Mark Lauzier both attended the event and spoke on the popularity and relevance of the show for the employees and their family members. 

Pinellas County, Florida celebrated their Tenth Anniversary with the NAP with record breaking numbers.  This year’s exhibition featured 240 pieces of art from more than 180 artists!  Organizing and installing a show of this magnitude is no small undertaking, but co-coordinator Sarah Markofski does it with true professionalism. The result, a courthouse lobby full of the tremendous talents of employees, retirees, volunteers and their family members.  

The Third Annual Exhibit of The National Arts Program® for Carilion Clinic employees and their family members was a fantastic occasion. There were many officials in attendance at the May reception including; Virginia State Senator John Edwards, Steve Arner the President and CEO of Carilion Medical Center, Sheila Lambert the Vice President of Carilion’s Pediatric  and Guest Services, and Carilion’s Chief Development Officer Kay Strickland. They were there to honor both the artists and The Dr. Robert L. A. Keeley Healing Arts Program. 

Because even your creative preferences are a matter of left or right, hot or not.

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You’re crammed onto a couch with friends, all hunched around a single glowing iPhone like cavemen absorbing the warmth of a fire. Squeals and giggles erupt along with the sounds of “Ew, no!” and “OMG, yes!” The barely audible swish of a finger swiping back and forth conducts the scene. 

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When we think about the good life, art and food rank pretty high in importance. (OK, we at The Salt might be a little biased.) So it seems only natural that the two mix. Foods crop up in all kinds of art — from ancient Egyptian tomb walls to European still life paintings.

But in art, an apple isn't always just an apple. Many foods carry specific meanings for different global artistic traditions, and those meanings can change over time.

How well do you understand the secret language of foods in art? Take this quiz to find out.

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It's never too early to start earning money as an artist in Asheville.

Mason McNabb, age 6, sold one of his paintings for $160 at the Art in the Park event June 25.