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Google Arts & Culture compiles over 500 virtual tours of museums around the world
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On coronavirus lockdown? The top online museum and art tours to enjoy from home
If you are in self-isolation or your local galleries have closed, here are the best digital initiatives to feed your need for art
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As coronavirus (Covid-19) continues to spread and disrupt the daily lives of people across the globe, forcing many to self-quarantine, we are compiling the best online offerings from artists, museums and galleries. Whether you are staying at home or your local museums and galleries have closed, here are some of the best digital initiatives to satisfy your creative cravings.
Stuck at home because of coronavirus? How to get your art and design fix from your couch
Just because coronavirus has you avoiding public spaces doesn’t mean you can’t get cultured from home.
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Tech Is Democratizing Art Patronage and Other Key Findings from a New Report on Philanthropy in the Arts
The results are in from the latest edition of the TEFAF Art Market Report, written by Anders Petterson.
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In the Face of the Coronavirus Crisis, Hong Kong’s Art World Has Banded Together to Launch a New Online Platform for Art
Galleries, museums, and auction houses are hoping that ART Power HK will pave the way for a “post-virus comeback."
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Hong Kong’s beleaguered art community is pulling together to show the world that it remains a creative hot spot despite the coronavirus emergency.
Before Michael Bloomberg Spent a Fortune Running for President, He Spent a Fortune on Art. Here’s What’s Inside His Very Private Collection
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The billionaire presidential candidate is an active arts philanthropist. But what has he purchased for his 12 private homes?
Do you like weird art? Blame your brain
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To many people’s eyes, artist Mark Rothko’s enormous paintings are little more than swaths of color. Yet a Rothko can fetch nearly $100 million. Meanwhile, Pablo Picasso’s warped faces fascinate some viewers and terrify others.
The Catholic nun who made joyous, politically charged Pop Art
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At the end of the turbulent 1960s, the United States became enamored with Corita Kent, a nun who made joyous, politically charged and boldly colorful screen prints.
Featured on the cover of Newsweek in 1967 under the headline "The nun: Going modern," she symbolized an evolving and more liberal Catholic Church. When she designed a stamp in 1985, the US Postal Service sold over 700 million of them.
The entrance to a Minneapolis museum has been covered with 2,400 life jackets that refugees once wore
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The Minneapolis Institute of Art's neoclassical columns, flanked by two stone guardian lions, are one of the first things visitors to the museum will notice. And now, those columns stand out even more, after being covered by thousands of multicolored lifejackets.
It's not vandalism. It's art -- an installation called "Safe Passage" by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. Those life jackets were once discarded, worn by refugees making the journey from Turkey to Greece. They were originally donated to Ai by authorities of Lesbos, Greece.
Pennsylvania museum's disputed portrait is a Rembrandt, research says
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A small Pennsylvania museum has declared that a 17th-century portrait, long considered the work of someone in Rembrandt's studio, is in fact by the Dutch master himself.
After sending the painting away for routine restoration, the Allentown Art Museum said that advanced imaging and conservation techniques had unveiled "clear evidence" that the artwork is a genuine masterpiece.
Artists showcase their unique visions at the "On Our Own Time" art exhibit
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Artists from vastly different backgrounds showcased their unique and individual visions of the art for the finale of the 10th annual “On Our Own Time” art exhibit, which ran Feb. 3- 15. University of Arizona employees and their immediate families gathered at Biosciences Research Lab lobby to celebrate the last night of the exhibit.
Why we swing for the fences: Gates Foundation 2020 Annual Letter
Twenty years after starting our foundation, we’re just as optimistic about the power of innovation to drive progress.
By Bill and Melinda Gates: February 10, 2020
Reflecting on the first two decades of our foundation
When we started our foundation 20 years ago, the world was, in many ways, very different from the one we live in now. It was before 9/11, before the Great Recession, and before the rise of social media.
Carilion Clinic Patient Exhibit Reminds Us of the Power of Art
Carilion Clinic in Virginia has been hosting an annual patient centered National Arts Program exhibit and in its fourth year continues to be very well received. The shows patient participants represent multiple community hospitals across Southwest Virginia. Coordinator Katie Biddle told us that, “as participants drop off their work, they shared stories of how creating art has facilitated greater joy, fun, release and meaning in their lives. They discussed their connection to the content of the work, which often carried a deep meaning.
NAP exhibit is considered a cornerstone of MSP art programming
The Scream’ Is Fading. New Research Reveals Why.
The art world is increasingly turning to scientific analysis of pigments to find out how time has changed some famous paintings.
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“The Scream” is fading. And tiny samples of paint from the 1910 version of Edvard Munch’s famous image of angst have been under the X-ray, the laser beam and even a high-powered electron microscope, as scientists have used cutting-edge technology to try to figure out why portions of the canvas that were a brilliant orangeish-yellow are now an ivory white.