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Have you ever been watching your favorite TV show and suddenly notice the painting hanging in the suspect’s home, and you think, "Huh, pretty good taste for a serial killer, I wonder where that came from?"

It happens more than you think, and thanks to Hollywood’s fear of lawsuits, artists and galleries are starting to cash in.

“Every week we have a police station, morgue, no art there…”

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The Bronx Museum of the Arts and the National Museum of Fine Arts in Cuba announced Wednesday that a major exchange of works from their collections would take place this year and next in the most sweeping collaboration between the two countries’ museums in more than 50 years.

The arrangement is the fruit of curatorial negotiations that began long before the recent thaw in diplomatic relations, said Holly Block, the Bronx Museum’s executive director, who has traveled to Cuba and followed the work of artists there for two decades.

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We had always hoped the real life super-heroines of our time would wear masks. And then there were the Guerrilla Girls, a feminist art collective that started kicking the art world's ass 20 years ago -- disguises and all.

Donning gorilla masks and mini skirts, and sporting pseudonyms of deceased lady artists like Frida Kahlo, Kathe Kollwitz, and Alma Thomas, the avengers aimed to shed light on the inequality of major art world traditions and institutions, using dismal facts and razor sharp wit to restore justice to a faulty system.

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This migratory species regularly congregates in Switzerland in June, in Britain and France in October, and in Italy every second summer. More recently, it has gathered in Hong Kong in the spring. Generally black in plumage, and most frequently seen in habitats with bare white walls, contemporary art collectors have proved elusive subjects for systematic study.

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Monday, Jan. 19, marks the annual remembrance of civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Helping to put MLK Day in the forefront of computer users' and mobile device frequenters' minds is local artist Ekua Holmes, who created today's Google Doodle.

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It won't just be athletic prowess on display at the new Vikings stadium when it opens in 2016. Minnesota artists will get a chance to show their stuff just about everywhere except the playing field.

The Vikings plan to purchase as many as 100 works of original art for the new stadium. Team officials say the art-buying spree will amount to a multimillion dollar upgrade to the $1 billion stadium's amenities.

Minnesota-made works will be the focus, said Tanya Dreesen, who's leading the art project for the team.

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Jenna Bass wrote an autobiography in watercolor.

As the Hunterdon County, N.J., artist began to recover from the eating disorders that were ruining her life, blood reds receded and bright pinks proliferated in her work.

"Looking back on these paintings is really profound for me," says Bass, 26. "They're so far from where I am now."

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Relaxing at the beach can be great, but who has time for all that frolicking in the sand? We already have robotsthat can do the jobs of many people, but what happens when they take over leisure for us too? Disney research has partnered with engineers at ETH Zurich to create the Beachbot, a robot that can trundle around in the sand and construct vast designs without human interaction.

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The arts have long been recognized for their power to heal, provide calm during a storm, and keep the mental clouds at bay, and they may be just the mental break from routine your team needs to clear their minds of the suffocating strategic, financial, and operational demands that are part and parcel of organizational life.

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Museum Looks to Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD Series for Inspiration

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The vibrant colors of Henri Matisse move from white walls to the silver screen on Tuesday, when three New York City cinemas, along with hundreds more across the U.S., screen a new film about the artist’s blockbuster show at the Museum of Modern Art.

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Artists, it’s fair to say, usually don’t know much about bacteria. Vik Muniz is an exception. Mr. Muniz, the Brazilian-born photographerknown for his unorthodox materials, has been working with the M.I.T. bioengineer and designer Tal Danino on a series of trompe l’oeil images of microscopic organisms: cancer cells, healthy cells and bacteria.

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