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World famous street artist Banksy has resurfaced and this time painted a surprise mural on the wall of a primary school in his hometown of Bristol, England.

The artwork on the wall of Bridge Farm Primary was a gift from Banksy to the school after a student named a schoolhouse in honor of the anonymous artist, a spokesperson confirmed to the Independent.

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Seeking to appeal to guests’ desire for new experiences and stand out in a competitive market, hotel brand managers are mining their local art communities for everything from inspiration to installations.

“I think the travelers today are exposed to more,” said Dan Vinh, vice president for global marketing of Marriott’s lifestyle portfolio. “When they travel, they want an experience that they can talk about, that they can bring back and share stories about.”

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For mere mortals — those of us who can’t swing from a trapeze or balance on our heads — it’s hard to believe that someone who grew up as a circus performer was afraid of anything, let alone his own art, until three or four years ago.

But that was Sergio Kiss’s deal.

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The West Lafayette Public Library will host a one-man art exhibit for the month of June. The self-taught artist started painting a year ago as part of her therapy ritual. News 18 reports the powerful message behind the striking exhibit.

Lafayette resident Heather Berg was diagnosed with anxiety and panic disorder nearly two years ago.

“Every night before I would go to bed, that’s usually when my mind was racing,” she said.

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Two California teenagers who recently visited the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art were less than impressed by some of the exhibits and wondered if they could do better.

And thus a scheme was hatched: They placed a pair of eyeglasses on the floor, stood back and watched as, within minutes, visitors regarded their prank as a work of art, with some even taking photos of the fake installation.

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Shia LaBeouf, the thinking man's Buñuel, has taken his quest for True Art on the road, a brave move considering his enemies' thirst for violence. Indeed, it appears Shia & Friends are hitchhiking around Colorado, following in the footsteps of the John Waterses and Liz Taylorses that came before them.

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The human first plays a short tune, and the computer follows up with a longer variation of the tune. Is the computer-generated melody an original piece of music? Is it art?

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A controversial painting has gone on display at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA).

The painting, titled "Rosie's Tea Party," shows a young girl dressed for her First Communion while cutting into a ham labeled "Mystici Corporis Christi," which is Latin for "mystical body of Christ." A bottle of wine portraying a picture of Jesus also sits on the table.

Painted by artist Mark Ryden, the work is part of a new exhibit that is a collaboration with California-based magazine Hi-Fructose.

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Every artist’s story hits me in a profound way, but sometimes the heartstrings get pulled in an astounding and unforgettable way.

I recently became aware of an incredible 12-year-old named Nolan Cooley, who was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder at age 2, and since age 6 has been creating beautiful works of repetition as his artistic channel.

This collection allows virtual visitors to safely experience malicious programs of the past

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When the telltale signs of a computer virus invading your device appear on-screen, waves of panic might set in. But at the Internet Archive, a San Francisco-based non-profit digital library, the Malware Museum allows visitors to experience the viruses of decades past in complete safety.

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“In the final days of a damp, misty November, the body of a young woman is found in the icy embrace of the waters off Kaivopuisto Park. Her short dress and silk stockings prompt the press to dub her ‘the belle of Kaivopuisto.’ Who is this long-legged lovely, and what has occurred under cover of the shadowy stone city blocks? Helsinki’s busy police force gets a tragic new crime to solve.”

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A sharp-eyed art professor recently helped solve a mystery that began 13 years ago, when a legendary South Carolina equestrian’s multimillion-dollar art collection vanished from the sprawling estate she left for the public to enjoy.

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When Amy Pekal signed up for the New York Academy of Art to hone her skills as a sculptor, she never thought she would end up assisting in a police investigation.

Yet the 22-year-old student from Brooklyn and about a dozen of her classmates are doing just that by helping anthropologists at New York City's Office of Chief Medical Examiner identify nameless corpses that have gone unclaimed, sometimes for decades.

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The New York of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s day did not respect female artists, did not prize contemporary artists and did not appreciate American artists.

Mrs. Whitney set out to change all that, working out of a crazy warren of studios and salons cobbled together a century ago from abutting townhouses and carriage houses on West Eighth Street in Greenwich Village.