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Paintings to go: Starbucks now sells art with its lattes
Works by emerging artists are available in new Chelsea branch
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Why does contemporary art look so simple? You asked Google – here’s the answer
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Why do the lights keep going on and off? How is less more? What place does a balloon dog have in an art gallery? Or, as a lot of people have been asking Google: “Why does contemporary art look so simple?”
I am tempted to answer – because it’s idiotic. But first, we need to define what contemporary art means in this question.
Vote Now for "Best of the Best" 2015
The National Arts Program® is excited to announce our second annual online art exhibit featuring our Best of Show winners from 2015 and we’re asking you to be the judge once again!
These pieces were all selected as the Best of Show from our participating venues for exhibits which took place in 2015.
“Like” your favorite piece. The piece with the most “Likes” at the end of the voting period will be named the “Best of the Best” for 2015.
Voting is open now and ends on Thursday, March 31 at noon (EST). All winners will be announced via our Facebook page.
The Greatest Cat Painting Ever Is Coming to the Portland Art Museum
The reveal is slated for Friday, but winter weather is delaying the 6-foot-tall artwork.
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Put down your LaCroix so you don't drop it: PAM has announced the "imminent display of the greatest cat painting ever made."
Italy’s Strange Choice to Hide Its Art
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Anyone receiving a special visitor understands the desire to be a gracious host. But there’s no point in beating around the bush here: Italian officials have gone to an absurd length in kowtowing to President Hassan Rouhani of Iran on his first visit since the lifting of economic sanctions as a result of the nuclear deal.
Art Institute receives largest cash gift in its history
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e Art Institute of Chicago on Tuesday announced the largest cash bequest in its history, a donation of more than $35 million from one of its steadiest benefactors in recent decades.
Massachusetts collector Dorothy Braude Edinburg, who died in Jan. 2015, donated the money in her will and, in an unusual move, earmarked it for new art purchases. The final figure is still being determined.
Kids produce a lot of art, but what's a parent to do with it all?
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Kids produce a lot of art, but what's a parent to do with it all?
If the piles of artwork created by your little Picasso are threatening to overwhelm your home—as well as your sanity—you may need a strategy for preserving it in a meaningful but manageable way.
"I think kids' art is so unique," said Courtney Olson, a graduate of The Art Institute in Minneapolis who teaches art to kids, ages 2 to 12, at The Ember in downtown Grand Forks.
Mass. doctors get lesson in art to improve patient care
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An innovative program in Boston shows medicine is an art as much as a science. It teaches physicians in training to use their eyes and ears to connect with patients and enhance the practice of medicine, reports CBS medical contributor Dr. Tara Narula.
At the Brigham and Women's Hospital, doctors, nurses and Harvard medical students are helping reshape medical education. By day, members of the integrated teaching unit, or ITU, focus on treating patients. But at night, they fix their sights on works of art.
The Challenge of Translating Site-Based Art to the Museum Setting
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Museums are keeping a ton of the world’s most famous art locked away in storage
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Most of Georgia O’Keeffe’s work is in storage.
Nearly half of Pablo Picasso’s oil paintings are put away.
Not a single Egon Schiele drawing is on display.
CHAGALL, MATISSE, HARING ART LEFT ON STREET IS STOLEN, OF COURSE
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Here's a pro tip:
If you have a quarter-million dollars worth of Chagall, Matisse and Keith Haring art stuffed in a trailer, try not to park it on a Los Angeles street and leave it there.
The Los Angeles Police Department today asked for the public's help in its search for the stolen art.
The theft happened way back in November, on the 20th to be precise, when a parked 2005 Haulmark trailer was hauled off with the art inside, according to an LAPD statement.
University Of Houston Brain Study Explores Intersection Of Art And Science
The theory that the brain has a positive response to art is not new to science. But a researcher at the University of Houston is using a different approach to test that belief.
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When I’m at an art museum, I never know what piece will catch my eye.
Few Answers on True Owners of Art Found in Gurlitt Trove
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After a two-year, nearly $2 million investigation, a German government task force set up to determine ownership of an art collection amassed by a Nazi-era dealer announced Thursday that it had identified the rightful owners of just five of the works whose provenance was in doubt.
Student gallery builds art skills
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Art students at Buffalo Grove High School are learning career skills such as curating, marketing and event planning with the recent debut of the student-operated One Grove Gallery.
A fine arts component of Township High School District 214's Career Pathways program, the gallery also is intended to showcase student art work.
Take a Peek at David Bowie's Idiosyncratic Art Collection
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"Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own," legendary musician David Bowie, who died on Sunday, January 10 at age 69, told theNew York Times in 1998. "It can change the way that I feel in the mornings."