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With art funds, wealthy investors get a piece of a painting indirectly.

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Most art collectors own pieces they can hang on their walls to admire and show off. But for those who are also in it for the money, there’s another option: owning a share of an art fund.

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The artists commissioned to create works for One World Trade Center were given only one guideline by the developers: The work had to be unifying. There's no mention of the site's history, but all the artists understood they had to somehow live up to it, reports CBS News correspondent Anthony Mason.

Many of the 104 floors of the new World Trade Center are vacant. The tenants are still moving in, but the art is up on the walls.

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Thieves have broken into Fontainebleau palace and stolen 15 Chinese artefacts in a lightning raid, the French culture ministry has said.

The robbery, at the Empress' Chinese Museum housed by the palace, was over in seven minutes, the authorities said.

Among the items taken was a replica of a crown of the King of Siam, now Thailand, given to Emperor Napoleon III in 1861.

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The latest creation from a controversial artist renowned for her nude performances, has unleashed her latest work on unsuspecting members of the German public.

Swiss born Milo Moiré, 32 stunned visitors at the ‘Naked Life’ exhibition at the LWL Museum for Art and Culture in the city of Naked Life in north-western Germany, by walking naked around an exhibition of nude paintings, while carrying a baby.

The National Arts Program® is excited to announce our first ever online art exhibit featuring our Best of Show winners from 2014 and we’re asking you to be the judge!

Visit our Facebook page and “Like” your favorite piece. The piece with the most “Likes” at the end of the voting period will be named the “Best of the Best” for 2014.  Voting is open now and ends on Tuesday, March 31 at noon (EST). All winners will be announced via our Facebook page. 

Treat a tweet like a canvas, 140 characters at a time.

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A typical Twitter feed is a stream of letters and words. There is photo-sharing, and plenty of it, but Twitter isn't meant for album-making (that's a job for Facebook, Flickr, Imgur, etc.); it's meant for real-time, text-based, 140-character updates.

And yet, every now and then, tweets like this one pop up:

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When he was a boy growing up in a village in Poland, Joe Grosnacht and his brothers would line up six chairs to make a pretend train to ride.

Years later, when Grosnacht re-created that scene in a picture, he drew himself seated in the front chair, with the other five empty.

“They didn’t survive,” he explained at the time. All five of his younger brothers, along with his parents, had lost their lives to the Nazis.

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Peter Rinaldi touched his right index finger to a small button on his throat, activating a voice box prosthesis, and spoke in a slightly froggy but pleasant tone:

"They're kind of all my favorites," he said as surveyed his work on prominent display at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. Doctors and nurses - some of them his caregivers as he receives treatment for cancer - hobnobbed at the first-ever opening for a patient/artist.

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If you love art and you "art" (sorry) afraid to show it, then maybe you should participate in the Hearts for Art project at the Denver Art Museum. The campaign starts Tuesday and runs through Sunday.

Here's how it works:

1. Pick up a single heart at the museum and hold it close until you see a piece of artwork that interests you.

2. Once you fall in love, you can then show it how much you care by placing your heart on the floor in front of the piece.

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Just eat it.

It's hard to look at these stylish packages of citrus fruit, bearing Nike's iconic swoosh, without having the athletic company's famous slogan "Just do it" immediately come to mind. And that's precisely the point, says Israel-based designer Peddy Mergui.

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We know, we know: Your social media followers insist — nay! demand! — that you chronicle every single thing you do in your life. But displaying your best duck face in a selfie will be a bit trickier at some museums soon, as various cultural institutions nationwide are putting a ban on selfie sticks.

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There's something particularly special about viewing a piece of art in a museum setting. Or it feels that way, at least, when you imagine seeing a painting in person versus viewing a replica in postcard or desktop-background form. A new study in Acta Psychologia tried to better understand the reasons for this by asking a bunch of students to view either the museum or replica versions of art, then asking the students about their experiences.

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"Art is the best way to say the things that words can't," said Granada High School senior Chance Owens.

Chance was one of 13 Granada Art Club members who last week completed portraits for the Memory Project.

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"I feel home, you know, it's like the best way to put it," Duluth East High School student Abigail Mitchell said.

It was in middle school during a time when she was bullied that Mithchell found her voice through art.

"It was hard for me to talk about my feelings with other people like my parents, my friends and so if I could just draw how I feel,” said Mithcell, “maybe write a poem or song it just really helped me get my feelings out."

Jared Williams' story echoes a similar sentiment.