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Harriet Claire Wadeson loved to create works of art when she was growing up, but she never considered pursuing the solitary career of an artist. She was determined to be involved with others, she said, so she earned a bachelor's degree to become a therapist.

When she learned about the emerging field of art psychotherapy, "it was the marriage of my two major interests, and it was at a time that the field had only just begun," recalled Wadeson, 84, now retired and living in Evanston.

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It's a warm evening back in mid-May. A few stray latecomers are just finding their seats as Christie's auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen starts up the bidding. "Wonderful painting," he says. "One hundred million to open it."

And so it begins, the numbers rising quickly: one hundred five, one hundred ten, one hundred fifteen million. One hundred twenty.

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has given several of its paintings new, more PC titles – but how far should such changes go? Joseph Harker and Stephen Moss debate.

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Joseph Harker: ‘Changing the words can bring a story into line with the original intention’

Ms. Longshore isn't mocking the American dream— she's trying to make sense of it

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Trade unions in Barcelona are fighting to prevent Pablo Picasso’s former art school being turned into a museum devoted to the film director Woody Allen, which they say would hold more appeal for the city’s legions of tourists than for its residents.

Cheyenne came bouncing back in 2015 with a renewed vigor in the National Arts Program®. With some hard work and help from past participants the show set record breaking numbers with over 250 pieces displayed! The show which included works from 155 individual artists was hung in the Cheyenne Civic Center. This beautiful performing arts theatre is the perfect place to showcase the creative talents of this wonderful community.

Through their National Arts Program® exhibits the University of Chicago Medicine has proudly displayed the artwork of its employees and their family members for ten years now. An extraordinary show was hung for their tenth NAP Anniversary including over 150 works in total. Janet Seitzer and Monica Hork are an amazing team and once again proved that there are many extremely talented individuals within the UCM community.

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For people who buy, sell or collect old art, the hope of unearthing a new work by a big name is a motivating dream. And names don’t come much bigger than that of Leonardo da Vinci.

An art installation questions why the CIA is keeping mum about a series of abstract paintings

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There are 29 paintings hanging on the walls of the CIA’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia. But as Portland artist Johanna Barron discovered first-hand, if you want to learn more about them than what's given in the pithy descriptions provided on the Agency’s website, you'll likely be out of luck. Barron filed several Freedom of Information Act requests to attain information about the paintings but got nowhere.

Twelve unique works from artists like Hua Tunan were commissioned by the company and projected by outdoor advertising company BEAM INC

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A few years ago, the old control tower at La Guardia Airport in New York caught the eye of Carolyn J. Russo, a staff photographer at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., who was pregnant at the time and completing another photographic project related to flight. These two things, she said, inspired her newest project.

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Perhaps it’s appropriate that Karen Rexrode creates her work in a studio owned by the Center for the Arts at the Candy Factory, and that it’s displayed in a gallery called Art a La Carte.

Many of her pieces begin with the edible. Or, at least, a vehicle for the edible.

The Loudoun County resident is an assemblage artist. She puts together unrelated items — such as parts of old toys and other, well, junk — to form three-
dimensional compositions. And the most popular of those are altered Pez dispensers.

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For an entire month, 33 of the billboards you see around Los Angeles will display pieces of art instead of ads.

The Billboard Creative is a nonprofit that turns empty billboards into art, according to WeLikeLA. They partner with companies that rent outdoor ad space, then fund the rentals with submission fees from artists—$26 for the first submission, $6 for each additional piece. A guest curator then chooses which submissions will appear on the billboards.

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"If I'm allowed to have a favorite forger, which I know sounds a little bit funny, it would be Eric Hebborn, who's really the prince of art forgers," Noah Charney says. "He's the only one of over sixty that I look at in my book who I think is at the same level as the artists he forged."

This week on Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam explores how we tell real from fake, when it comes to fine art and fine wine. As Noah Charney, author of The Art of Forgeryexplains, the primary motivation for many of the forgers he studied is not money, but revenge.

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Even the name was a secret. In the autumn of 1915, as the Russian avant-garde prepared to show their latest work in a ramshackle Petrograd apartment, Kazimir Malevich boasted that he’d covertly developed a method of painting that would obliterate Western art. Rumors spread and suspicions mounted until the December 19th opening, when his fellow artists and the Russian public encountered a room full of paintings, some still wet, exhibited under the banner of Suprematism.