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Delaware Does it Again
Participants See Themselves as Artists in Santa Rosa
Spring Sale: $2.3 Billion of Art
Auction houses ask record prices for Picasso and others; Sotheby’s kicks off with a major van Gogh
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The art market is redefining sticker shock.
Quite a lot of art as guerrilla gallery fills parking spaces
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Before sunrise Saturday, Joey Enos was driving on the Bay Bridge with a 4-foot orange pyramid on his roof and a traffic sign reading, “We Are All Going to Die.” Enos is not a doomsayer but an artist determined to get the front spot at the Parking Lot Art Fair, a guerrilla happening that took over the free public pavement at the harbor across from the Marina Safeway.
The fair opened at 6, and by 10 Enos had no offers. “Business is slow,” he said cheerfully, “partially because people are told they aren’t supposed to sell anything.”
Museum of Biblical Art to Close, Despite Recent Crowds
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Since it opened in 2005 in a modest space at 61st Street and Broadway, the Museum of Biblical Art has been the little museum that could, the home of many highly focused, critically lauded shows that looked at Western art through the lens of the Bible and its legacy in Christian and Jewish tradition. Over the last two months, the museum has been drawing the largest crowds in its history for a curatorial coup, a show of sculpture by Donatello from the Duomo museum in Florence, pieces never before seen in the United States.
Why One Art Gallery Is Hanging AK47s On Its Walls
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Guns have long had an extraordinary and terrible influence over us," artist McCrow writes on his website. "There are those who glorify them, those that subjugate through them and those who suffer by them."
Philly Art Museum Creates Community Exhibits With Art Copies
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art plans to bring its paintings to the people, placing reproductions of famous works outdoors in about dozen communities over the coming months, officials said Thursday.
The "Inside Out" initiative, funded by a $340,000 grant from the Knight Foundation, features high-quality copies of pieces by artists such as Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso.
Adobe's Project Para: Where Art Meets Programming
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Artists’ tools have traditionally been defined by the familiar: a paintbrush, paint, a potters wheel, a camera, etc. Over time, with the advent of the technology, we’ve seen a transformation of art to a digital form.
A Dozen Whitney Works to Be Displayed in Lights on the Empire State Building
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“King Kong” was so 20th century. All that climbing and heavy breathing — so low-tech. This is the 21st century. Marc Brickman can have his way with the Empire State Building from wherever he happens to be, which, on Friday, will probably be his usual hangout, somewhere in a hotel with an unobstructed view.
Say Hello To The Online Art Rental Market; Can It Make A Dent In A £50bn Industry?
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A new generation of art lovers and buyers is emerging as having faced down economic meltdown, political insecurity, a super competitive jobs market, and the hardship of getting onto the housing ladder, the offspring of the baby boomer generation are finally settling down, and thinking about what to hang on the walls of their homes and offices.
Art Institute of Chicago gets its largest gift ever, including 9 Warhols
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A major private contemporary art collection with a value estimated at $400 million is being donated to the Art Institute of Chicago by local philanthropists Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson, in what the museum is calling the largest gift of art in its history and a coup for the institution and the city.
Picking Up Art Later in Life Could Help the Brain
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You’re never too old to follow your dreams, or so the saying goes. If yours involves making art, there might be some brainy benefits to finally doing so.
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota have found that beginning to paint, draw, or sculpt in old age could actually ward off the muddled thinking and slips in memory that befall many.
What does classic art look like without the gluten?
Inside the online Gluten Free Museum are images of classic works of art with all of the wheat-containing products deftly airbrushed.
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Thinking of Investing in Art? This Collector Offers Rules
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Bob Rennie is a buy-and-hold kind of guy.
At 18, he scraped together $375 to buy his first artwork, a print by Norman Rockwell. Now 58, the Vancouver real-estate entrepreneur has a private museum that houses his collection of more than 1,400 works. He still owns the Rockwell and says he’ll never part with it.
For the growing number of wealthy investors who are entering the art market, Rennie offers a few rules: Diversify the portfolio, buy for the long term and cultivate connoisseurship.