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At Boston’s MFA, the comedian Steve Martin has curated an exhibition of the great Canadian artist Lawren Harris’s work—which incorporates, he said, ‘the self, the soul, an exhalation of mankind.’

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The first time the comedian Steve Martin came across the work of renowned Canadian landscape painter Lawren Harris, he thought he’d stumbled upon an unknown.

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Ever wondered what to do with that special memento from a past relationship, that token that's just too challenging to toss, not feasible to return, but yet too painful to hold on to?

And no, we're not talking about your broken heart, although we would all relish a quick fix for such.

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The collage artist Ruth Jacobsen, 83, and the handbag designer Judith Leiber, 95, both Holocaust survivors, have relied on the creative process and a strong-willed entrepreneurial spirit to reclaim their lives and break glass ceilings for women in the United States.

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Galleries have always provided scholarly support for museums exhibiting their artists’ work.

Now they’re expected to provide money, too.

In today’s exploding art market, amid diminishing corporate donations and mounting exhibition costs, nonprofit museums have been leaning more heavily on commercial galleries for larger amounts of money — anywhere from $5,000 to $200,000 each time — to help pay for shows featuring work by artists the galleries represent.

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There are only six surviving sculptures by Jackson Pollock.

Now the Dallas Museum of Art owns one of them.

The museum has acquired one of two untitled works created by Pollock in the summer of 1956, while he was recovering from depression at the home of his friend Tony Smith.

Only one other museum in the world has a Pollock sculpture (the other is the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), and the work joins the museum’s Pollock paintings: “Cathedral” (1947) and “Portrait and a Dream” (1953).

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There is no bad day to raise awareness about the lack of gender equality in the art world. But there are some that just particularly scream, "Celebrate the women artists in your favorite museum's collections and demand way more of them!" And those are the days in Women's History Month -- i.e., right now. 

Happy Women's History Month, by the way! 

Throughout the month of March, the National Museum of Women in the Arts will be celebrating gifted lady artists past and present with the social media campaign #5womenartists.

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These relatively early days of “post-Internet” art might feel something like the early days of conceptual art. The idea that an artist issues a set of rules and makes art by following them (or enlisting other people to follow them) was a game-changer in the 1960s. It didn’t always matter what the result looked like or meant.

The film will incorporate over 120 of van Gogh's paintings, animated and brought to life.

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In one of the last letters artist Vincent van Gogh ever wrote, he proclaimed: "The truth is, we cannot speak other than by our paintings." Today, a group of filmmakers, artists and hardcore van Gogh devotees are taking the artist's words quite seriously. 

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ON FRIDAY EVENING, inside an old-movie-house-cum-art-gallery at the heart of San Francisco’s Mission district, Google graphics guru Blaise Agüera y Arcas delivered a speech to an audience of about eight hundred geek hipsters.

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The latest interior design fashions – crockery splattered lightly with paint, feature walls that have had the Farrow & Ball treatment, or Indian-inspired upholstery – cannot fabricate a sense of soul in your home.

That “lived-in” feel is created by the knick-knacks, photographs and paintings displayed throughout the house, and while your “art collection” may or may not help to sell your property eventually, it will give it a personality.

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It’s hard to believe that the Philadelphia Museum of Art has never had a Hopper.

But every institution has its gaps, and now the Philadelphia Museum is filling in this particular one with “Road and Trees,” Edward Hopper’s 1962 depiction of a copse silhouetted against the sky. 

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“Remember how insane the 1960s felt, every day?” someone asked me at a preview of the traveling exhibition “International Pop,” which is making its final stop here at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Absolutely I remember, and the show — brash, manic and acid-tinged — took me right back there.

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If Stephen Lund's giraffe looks amateurish, consider his medium: his bicycle and a GPS tracking app.

At a TEDx Talk, Lund explained how his Strava app tracks cycling trips for fitness and marks the route on a map.

"It just struck me immediately that there had to be some creative potential to it," Lund told CBS News.

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