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Jeff Koons at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao: the American artist is disputed among art critics, but the audience clearly loves him.

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Jeff Koons has a knack for combining art and commerce. The American artist is taken seriously as a contemporary artist, and his works fetch top prices at international art auctions. The Guggenheim Museum in the Spanish city of Bilbao, renowned for its crowd-pleasing exhibitions, presents a Koons retrospective that runs until September 27, 2015.

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The Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders announce that a selection of prize-winning art work by Union County employees and their family members is on display through July 14, in the Freeholders Gallery, located on the 6th floor of the Union County Administration Building, Elizabethtown Plaza at Rahway Avenue, in Elizabeth. The gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.

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Where do you make art?

It's a simple question with an infinite and colorful range of answers, from a swarming corner of your bedroom to a tranquil space in your backyard. Whatever your artistic studio may look like, its purpose remains the same: a holy place designed specifically for the goal of making art, whatever that means.

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It’s still an open question whether high-end art buying on the Internet will take off. But one online auction site, Paddle8, says it is enjoying a bit of a breakthrough. Its highest price points are rising, regularly breaking $100,000, according to Kate Brambilla, a senior director of business development. And as both buyers and consignors become more comfortable with the Web, the site is seeing a rising trend of single-owner sales — those where a single collector is willing to consign a group of works to the auction house for sale at once.

Despite decades of Soviet-era isolation and today’s economic and political tensions, Moscow is positioning itself as a center for cutting-edge art

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There’s no Russian expression for “contemporary art”—the closest is “modern”—but that hasn’t stopped Moscow’s bold campaign to become the world’s next contemporary-art hub.

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Visitors coming to Philadelphia to see the pope will also be able to view treasured art from the Vatican.

"Vatican Splendors" opens Sept. 19 at The Franklin Institute. It will include artwork by Michelangelo, embroidered silk vestments, religious relics and bone fragments of Saints Peter and Paul.

The exhibit traces the evolution of the Roman Catholic Church through objects such as mosaics, frescoes, maps and documents. Galleries aim to recreate environments such as catacombs and the papal chambers.

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The Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders announced that a selection of prize-winning art work by County employees and their family members is on display through July 14 in the Freeholders Gallery, located on the 6th floor of the Union County Administration Building, Elizabethtown Plaza at Rahway Ave., in Elizabeth. The gallery is open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. weekdays.

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The District of Columbia is hoping to raise awareness for the city’s recycling program by wrapping trucks with artwork done by local artists.

The D.C. Department of Public Works teamed up with the Commission on the Arts and Humanities to solicit artwork to feature on the sides of the trucks. The two agencies eventually chose 10 winners who were all paid $2,500 each for their submissions.

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Museums find they’re scrambling to adapt their business models — with mixed results.

When The Broad contemporary art museum opens its doors this fall in Los Angeles, it will join the ranks of America’s big free museums, reviving a frequent refrain: Why aren’t they all free?

In the case of The Broad, it’s almost entirely philanthropy supporting the bottom line.

When does appropriation go too far?

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An art show featuring works created by folks employed at the City of Carlsbad opens tomorrow at the city’s William D. Cannon Art Gallery.

The exhibit, called “On Your Own Time: The National Arts Program® at Carlsbad” consists of 192 pieces of art submitted by 125 employees and family members. Works range from painting and sculpture to photography.

The 8th annual exhibition is one of 82 similar programs in 450 cities across the country as part of the National Art Program®.

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School is the first medical school to host The National Arts Program®

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A pelican was too busy gorging on fish to notice Barry Wise taking pictures 10 feet away on a beach in Cancun.

Stolen pieces can vanish for decades and losses are difficult to estimate.

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Sculpture specialist Alice Levi Duncan was cataloging two early 20th-century bronze statuettes this winter when she realized something unusual.

Both of the pieces were unique casts, meaning no subsequent editions had been made from that mold—“very rare in the bronze world,” said Ms. Duncan, a director at Gerald Peters Gallery. “It’s like winning the lottery twice.”

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People inside and outside the art market trying to make sense of the huge quantities of money that the world’s richest 0.1 percent threw at last week’s auctions in New York have come to at least one conclusion: The art world is in the midst of a spectacular seller’s market.