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First Street Art trail gets off to enthusiastic start
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Get up and explore the art.
That’s what Councilman Bob Coffin and the Las Vegas Arts Commission want people to do the next time they find themselves on First Street in downtown Las Vegas.
The city unveiled the First Street Art Trail on Nov. 6 with four, of what officials hope to become many more, art projects.
The art trail, which Coffin said is funded by gasoline taxes, is spread out between Boulder and Bridger avenues on First Street.
Record breaking auction at Christie's
A bidding war drove Warhol's "Triple Elvis (Ferus Type)" to $81.9 million, while "Four Marlons" fetched $69.6 million to lead the sale of 80 works in a packed saleroom where only five works failed to find buyers.
The blind sculptor who thinks everyone should touch art
A blind Italian sculptor thinks people should have the right to touch art, though most exhibitions forbid it.
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Felice Tagliaferri has a personal motto: "you are forbidden not to touch". It's about making art inclusive to everyone through the use of all five senses and stems from an incident which started a mini revolution.
Pressing Buttons in the Art World
Amy Li Sets Up a Gallery in Her Father’s Button Shop
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For 32 years, the He Zhen Snap Button Co. in Chinatown, its storefront cluttered with rivets and snaps, was one of many businesses that catered to the New York garment industry.
Exhibit explores secret art created by concentration camp residents
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An exhibit featuring 20 works of art made by prisoners in concentration camps during World War II will be showcased at the Polish Museum of America, 984 N. Milwaukee Ave.
The exhibition, titled “Forbidden Art,” is a cooperative initiative between the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland and The Polish Mission of The Orchard Lake Schools in Michigan. The exhibit has traveled across the U.S. since 2012 and will move to the United Nations headquarters in New York City after it concludes its run in Chicago in January 2015.
How to make a statement with art
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Designer and design blogger Erin Gates offered her expert advice on statement art pieces in our recent Home Front online chat. Here are some of our favorite tips.
Portrait of a veteran: Art helps vet overcome PTSD
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Just a few years ago, U.S. Air Force veteran Shawn Ganther was avoiding social situations, shutting people out, and waiting for his daughter's bedtime so he could have a drink to try to decompress.
Ganther, now 37, was suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, but he hadn't sought counseling.
How to Choose the Right Frame for Your Art
Practical and Aesthetic Tips for Making the Most of a Piece
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It doesn’t make sense to agonize over the purchase of a special painting for days, weeks, or even a few hours, then choose the frame in minutes.
But that’s the way a lot of people do it.
“I would prefer to view a work of art unframed than to put it in the wrong frame,” says Eli Wilner, chief executive of Wilner & Co., a New York frame dealer. “The wrong frame will destroy the artist’s intentions.”
Dislike Abstract Art? Try It Again With a Less-Cluttered Mind
Italian researchers pinpoint a psychological factor that helps determine our reaction to non-representational artworks.
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The last time you visited an art museum, did you find the abstract paintings sort of … annoying? Were you drawn to the landscapes and portraits, but turned off by the squiggles and dots?
The Museum of Modern Art, Then and Now
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MoMA opened 85 years ago — but not in the building art aficionados know today
New Coordinator Brings Record Numbers to Front Range, CO
Art helps hungry families through 'Canstruction'
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Local architects, engineers, students and community members are using art to help hungry families eat over the holidays.
This is all part of "Canstruction," a project partnership with the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, Feeding America Southwest Virginia and other organizations.
Teams had 12 hours on Thursday to build sculptures out of canned food. Each team was required to raise money or get donations for cans of food.
Behind the idea of an app that lets you virtually see art on your wall
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Like many technology startup founders, Cari Sacks is a student who built a mobile app to solve a problem. Sacks, a Highland Park art collector and master’s candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, wanted to visualize how art would fit on her walls. So she set out to build Curate, even though she couldn’t write code. A board member of the Museum of Contemporary Art and the wife of hedge fund CEO Michael Sacks, she explains the big insight she missed as company founder and how she plans to fix it.
Exciting Tenth Anniversary for Osceola Arts
The Osceola Center for the Arts is now ‘Osceola Arts’ and this year they celebrated their Tenth Anniversary with the National Arts Program®. This was a big year for Osceola, not only did they revamp their name, but they brought on Marilyn Cortes-Lovato as their new Visual Arts Director. With the help of other team members, Marilyn took on the responsibility of coordinating the NAP show and she did a phenomenal job.
