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Aug 13, 2015

13 Art History Emojis We Desperately Wish Were Real

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This one goes out to all the art-savvy texters of the world, looking to add some of history's finest manifestations of creative expression to their OMGs and LOLs. 

Aug 11, 2015

Five Summertime Art Road Trips

Follow these five art-filled itineraries for summertime road trips to far-flung museums, installations, galleries and private collections

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Art lovers, start your engines.

For a trove of van Gogh paintings, take U.S. Route 7 to the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass. For a minigolf course designed by artists: Interstate 94 to theWalker Art Center in Minneapolis. A James Turrell light installation: Interstate 10 to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Aug 10, 2015

MoMA’s latest art piece is causing a buzz

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What piece of art has generated the biggest buzz in the city?
 
Since its arrival this summer at the Museum of Modern Art, thousands of visitors have made a beeline for French sculptor Pierre Huyghe’s “Untilled (Liegender Frauenakt).” Not because it’s ­another nude, but because this one’s head is a beehive.
 
Curator Laura Hoptman says it’s the first living thing MoMA has put on display — though the Whitney has trotted out a parakeet — and a “notable” example of integrating art with nature.
 
Aug 06, 2015

Sharing Art Helps Medical Students Connect With Dementia Patients

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Hannah Roberts was a first-year-medical student at Columbia University College of Physicians in 2013 when she noticed her classmates were having an especially tough time relating to dementia patients.
 
"There's a misconception that dementia patients are like toddlers in a way," Roberts says.
Aug 04, 2015

Instagram Takes on Growing Role in the Art Market

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Anyone in the art market who was not already paying attention to the social media platform Instagram had to sit up and take notice in late April after the actor Pierce Brosnan visited the showroom of Phillips auction house in London. Mr. Brosnan snapped a selfie in front of a work he admired: the “Lockheed Lounge” a space-age aluminum chaise longue by the industrial designer Marc Newson.
Aug 03, 2015

How art therapy can help cancer patients

Whether you are a seasoned professional or a total beginner, participation in one of the arts can be of enormous help in giving vent to feelings of anger, fear and isolation.
 
Featured on telegraph.co.uk
 
Managing the complex emotional response to a cancer diagnosis is one of the hardest aspects of the ‘journey’ – not only for the patient, but for family and friends too. Stress, anxiety, panic attacks and pain can force a loneliness which eats away at confidence.
Jul 31, 2015

How The University Of Miami Uses Art To Train Future Doctors

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The University of Miami is adding Baroque paintings and Greek vases to its diagnostic arsenal.

Medical, nursing and physical therapy students at UM are supplementing their clinical training with visits to the Lowe Art Museum at the university’s Coral Gables campus. There, they discuss works of art in small groups and make connections to health care.

Jul 30, 2015

Veterans embrace the power of art

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During their first tour of the Philadelphia Museum of Art last summer, the military veterans entered a modern-art gallery displaying a series of paintings that troubled them.

Something about the scribbly nature of Cy Twombly's Fifty Days at Iliam, based on Alexander Pope's translation of Homer's Iliad, stirred visceral emotions, dark memories of their service. One veteran teared up.

Jul 29, 2015

Huntington gallery puts street art on the walls

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Jamie Johnson originally wanted his artwork to appear in newspaper comics.
Jul 28, 2015

At some museums, blind visitors can touch the art

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Before this April, Kathy Nimmer had visited an art museum only “somewhat hesitantly” as part of a group. The English teacher, who has been blind since the third grade, says she felt at the mercy of sighted guides’ descriptions.
Jul 27, 2015

Find Unforgettable Art In A Most Unlikely Place: A Pittsburgh Mattress Factory

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The Mattress Factory hasn't been an actual mattress factory for a while now. Built on a hillside in the Central Northside neighborhood of Pittsburgh, back at the turn of the last century, it was used as a warehouse and showroom for Stearns & Foster until the 1960s.
 
Today, it's one of the country's more unusual art museums.
Jul 24, 2015

CSA program distributes art, not veggies

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CSA boxes just got a whole new meaning and a lot less kale.

Community Supported Agriculture programs, or CSAs, provide buyers with a box of produce each week from local farmers. The programs ensure that producers sell all their products, while strengthening relationships between farmers and consumers and putting an emphasis on buying direct and local.

Jul 23, 2015

UAB Hospital using art to help sick patients

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Spending time in a hospital can be tough for a lot of people so UAB Hospital is looking to make it easier with the new Institute for Arts in Medicine (AIM).
 
The hospital launched a small scale program back in September of 2013 to see how patients would react. AIM Program Director Kimberly Kirklin says the response was great. The art activities helped to lower a patient's perception of pain and reduce anxiety.
Jul 22, 2015

This startup wants to shake up the fine art market by allowing people to invest in a 'mutual fund for art'

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Madelaine D’Angelo wants to build the next generation of great art collectors online, and she plans to do it by creating investment funds that take cues from the “sharing economy.”
 
The 28-year-old thinks her generation isn’t engaged by the current model of fine art ownership, even at a time when trendy startups are taking that model into the digital space.
 
Here's the old model: you plunk down money to buy a painting, then you own a painting.
 
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Jul 21, 2015

Disabled youth and siblings gain empowerment through art

Featured on deseretnews.com
 
Children with varying degrees of disabilities and their siblings gathered together in a hunter green yurt on Tuesday to take part in a mixed media abstract art activity.
 
"A really important part of this superhero project is that you have to focus on yourself," said Jenny Diersen, the artist leading the project.