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7 Ways to Incorporate Art Into Your Daily Routine
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Most of us don’t get enough art and creativity in our day-to-day.
When was the last time you noticed something artistic? It may have been a piece of music, something you saw at a visit to the theater, or a sculpture. These items surround us, but we often overlook them.
An appreciation for art is one of the transcendent values of life, and a great source of happiness. But like many transcendent values, it can sometimes be hard to wedge into your ordinary day.
100 Disposable Cameras Were Given To Homeless People In London. They Then Created Works Of Art
The project hoped “to provide people affected by homelessness an outlet to express their talent and creativity.”
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In July, Café Art, a U.K.-based arts initiative, gave 100 Fujifilm disposable cameras to homeless people in London with just one instruction: take photographs that capture “My London.”
Artscape: Science Inspires Art To Explore Alzheimer's
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Art and medicine have long been intertwined - from the earliest depictions of human anatomy to modern art therapy. A new art exhibit (“Interstice: Memory, Mind, and Alzheimer's Disease," open through September 9 in the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at Brown University) takes that relationship in a new direction. A neuroscientist and artist teamed up with fellow artists to explore what it’s like to have Alzheimer’s Disease.
Brown University neuroscientist and Lifespan vice president Peter Snyder spends a lot of time staring at eyeballs.
Germany Installs Art Vending Machines Where Cigarettes Were Once Sold
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The small Bavarian town of Landsberg, located about 60 kilometers west of Munich, is making headlines with an new initiative that plans to convert cigarette vending machine into tiny, coin-operated art shops.
It seems hard to imagine now, but up until only a few years ago, these cigarette vending machines—accessible to anyone—were still installed in public. As new restrictions on smoking age were instituted, these machines were taken down. This innovative idea could give them new life.
Why making art is the new meditation
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Many of us have heard about the benefits of meditation, but sometimes find it hard to do. Fewer of us know about the profound benefits of artistic expression. Creating art, however, is another way to access a meditative state of mind and the profound healing it brings.
Watch This Kid Fall Into a Piece of Art Worth Over $1.5 Million and Put a Hole in It
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Every curator’s worst fear came true Saturday for the stewards of an exhibition of Italian masterpieces in Taiwan, when a visitor stumbled and accidentally punched a hole in one of the paintings.
The exhibit in this case was the 17th century oil painting Flowers by Italian master Paolo Porpora (1617–1673). It is, according to theGuardian, which cited a database of European art, the only one of Porpora’s works that is signed. Taiwan’s official Central News Agency (CNA) reported that the work was valued at over $1.5 million.
Soaring Art Market Attracts a New Breed of Advisers for Collectors
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Amy Cappellazzo jolted New York’s art world recently when she left her powerful position as chairwoman of Christie’s postwar and contemporary department to become a private art adviser, quickly brokering sales like Christie’s $82 million sale of a Rothko painting this spring.
Tobias Meyer, the regal chief auctioneer of Sotheby’s auction house, also surprisingly stepped down from his podium less than two years ago to become an adviser.
Giant red ball breaks free from art installation, rolls down Ohio street striking cars in wild ride
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Holy Toledo!
A towering red ball ran over several parked cars as it barreled down an Ohio street in a modern art installation gone wrong.
Brooklyn artist Kurt Perschke's RedBall Project has been to more than 300 locations in 25 cities, but none had the performance art quality of Wednesday's breakaway moment fueled by a gust of wind and caught on video.
Welcome to Dismaland: A First Look at Banksy’s New Art Exhibition Housed Inside a Dystopian Theme Park
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Instagram’s Mark on Public Art
The healing properties of art
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You want your skin to be purple? Make it so. That is the power of art. It’s empowering. Even when shreveporttimes.comsick.
13 Art Trips You Need To Take
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One of our favorite things to do on a trip is to visit a top-notch museum, whether we see a blockbuster exhibit by an internationally known artist or we stumble upon a little-known institution with an exciting collection. Our Forbes Travel Guide editors give you the list of new exhibits, museum openings and hidden gem museums that should help you craft your own masterpiece of an art trip this year.
Destination: Florence
Pop-up art comes to West Chester
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Residents can play a new type of treasure hunt as they scour West Chester Borough for 13 different works of art scattered about.
In conjunction with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the borough’s Park & Recreation Department, Inside/Out brings replicas from the museum have sprung up for anyone to view over the next three months.