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The Arc of the Capital Area offers innovative programs for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and one of those programs is bringing some color into their lives and helping them find their dreams of independence.

With the greatest of care, 33-year-old Mary Elizabeth put the finishing touches on her newest creation.

"I like mice and elephants and tightrope walkers and clowns. Because that's what you usually find in the circus," she said. "This is a really cool piece, because I started it from a movie I really like."

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From a sea of 888,000 ceramic poppies spilling from the tower of London, to a towering underwater sculpture, and a digital artwork spanning the ceiling of Rotterdam’s Markthal, 2014 saw a number of large scale installations completed around the globe. all of the work is monumental in scale, engaging audiences in a memorable and engaging experience. continuing our annual review of the year’s BIG stories, we take a look at the top 10 installations that caught our eye in 2014.

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The ancient, big-bodied relatives of modern-day humans not only ate freshwater shellfish, but engraved their shells and used them as tools, a new study finds.

Researchers in Java, Indonesia, discovered engravings on a shell that dates to between 540,000 and 430,000 years ago. The ancient artwork could be the oldest known geometric carving made by a human ancestor, the researchers said.

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A movement designed to be the charitable answer to Black Friday and Cyber Monday will have a powerful new tool this year for visualizing giving.

The fundraising platform website Crowdrise is offering an app that allows people to see the amount of giving. The app creates a virtual giving tower when a smartphone is pointed at a dollar. It also will create the tower on a bigger scale inside the app for users who point it at the National Mall and Worldwide Plaza in New York City.

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Thanksgiving is, at best, the July Fourth of winter.

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Ernie Button, a photographer in Phoenix, found art at the bottom of a whisky glass. Howard A. Stone, a mechanical and aerospace engineering professor at Princeton, found the science in the art.

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The art world is full of rivalries: the competition between Ghiberti and Brunelleschi for the Florence Baptistry doors, the lifelong creative sparring between Picasso and Matisse, and let’s not forget that time Robert Rauschenberg erased a deKooning drawing. Add to this list Echo Park denizens Robin and Noodles.

Kunstmuseum Bern’s Move Could Help Conclude Limbo for Collection With Nazi-Era Links

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A Swiss art museum said Monday it will accept artworks bequeathed by the late son of one of Hitler ’s main art dealers, a move that could conclude a period of legal limbo for a collection whose Nazi-era roots gripped the nation for over a year.

A Vast, Private Collection of Tiny Folk-Art Structures

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Few know exactly what to call the collection of Americana that fills Steven Burke and Randy Campbell’s Greek Revival compound.

Mr. Burke, 66, prefers the term American folk art buildings. Those less enamored of the form have been known to refer to the little structures derisively as hobby art.

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Richard Johnson can see right through the masterpieces of Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

The Cornell University electrical and computer engineering professor is a digital art detective, able to unlock the mysteries of a work's age and authenticity by analyzing its underlying canvas or paper.

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What does it take to become a world-class art collector? These days, you need to build not only a great collection, but a great museum to house it in. Over the past few years, a rash of art-loving billionaires have dedicated themselves, or their foundations, to the construction of spectacular new venues to show off their finest acquisitions.

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In October 1912, the Metropolitan Museum of Art established its beloved Arms and Armor Department. Three weeks earlier, the Ottoman Empire had lurched into the First Balkan War. Poignantly, the Met chose to acknowledge the elegance of antiquated weaponry against the prelapsarian backdrop of warhorses and bayonets.

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Without the care of dozens of local artists, the local theater would have been filled with trash on Saturday.

That would-have-been junk was transformed into works of arts and unique crafts, many on sale for the public, at Saturday's fifth annual Eco-Art Show at the Marion Palace Theater.

"Everything in here would have been in a landfill," Angie Carbetta said, wearing a pair of earrings made from soda can tabs. "All the art that has been transformed from trash would have ended up in a landfill."

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When Sophia Lombardo logged on to her Tumblr account one day in February 2012, she found more than 100 anonymous messages in her inbox.

“You’re ugly,” one read.

“Nobody likes you.”

“The world would be a better place if you dropped dead.”

A few months later, she found out that she knew the bullies who had sent her the messages. They were her friends.

“It was horrific,” she said. “I was astoundingly depressed.”

Andy Warhol’s ‘Triple Elvis [Ferus Type]’ Sells for $82 Million

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Contemporary art collectors can be summed up in a word right now: Insatiable. Christie’s International in New York made auction history Wednesday when it sold $853 million of contemporary art in about the same time it takes to watch a movie.