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Fire scene gets art ahead of rebuild
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The construction fencing around the site of last December's Pine Yard restaurant fire is being turned into a temporary public art project.
The project, at the corner of Davis Street and Oak Avenue, is called “Geocommunetrics: An Intersection of Evanstons.”
Over the next two weeks, local artists will work with designer Jason Brown, also known as "The Zip Code Kid," to complete the art display intended to represent three Evanston zip codes: 60201, 60202 and 60203 -- served from the post office located just across Oak Avenue.
Using technology to turn photography into art
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A small device tucked away in a pocket or purse can be simply a phone. Or, it can be more — much more.
For Cindy Patrick, it has become an indispensable artist’s tool. A pioneer in the field of iPhoneography, the township resident sees the iPhone as a way to create art from photos she shoots on a Philadelphia street or at a beach on the New Jersey shore.
Most art forms in Iran are illegal.
Artists shirk the law by going underground.
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At Project HOME, healing homeless with art
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If art comes from pain, then James Webster is Michelangelo.
He's suffered from depression, alcoholism, and stroke. He's been arrested for assault, divorced by two women, and beaten with bats by gangs, and he lived homeless in North Philadelphia for a year.
Through it all, he's painted, taken photographs, and created collages, always understanding that making art was an answer to smoothing out an unruly life.
Along the D Line, Brooklyn Train Stations Are Platforms for Art
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For a picturesque ride, few railroads in New York rival Amtrak’s Empire line along the Hudson River.
The West End line on the D train, between Sunset Park and Coney Island in Brooklyn, would not seem to be among them.
Berlin Art Complex Rises From a Brewery’s Ruins
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In this city’s not-quite-yet-hip Neukölln district, the Kindl Center for Contemporary Art is taking shape in a vast abandoned brewery thanks to the vision of two art collectors — and an artist and his nose-diving airplane.
The Kindl, named after the popular beer that was brewed at the facility for 70 years before the company relocated to a larger space outside the city, is the brainchild of the Swiss art collecting couple Burkhard Varnholt, a banker, and Salome Grisard, an architect.
Bloomberg Foundation Launches Public Art Challenge
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Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, is giving at least three cities up to $1 million each to sponsor public art projects, the foundation announced Monday.
When It Comes To Picking Art, Men & Women Just Don't See Eye To Eye
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A provocative new study shows that the sexes exhibit distinct differences in how they evaluate art: men tend to place more emphasis on the artist, women on the art itself.
These 12 Childhood Art Techniques Can Help Adults Relieve Stress
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Making art doesn't necessarily sound like a stress reliever. Finding inspiration, keeping concentration, finding your artistic voice -- these things demand extreme attention, time and effort. Yet there is something about expressing your creative side that can help put your mind at ease.
With Leonard Lauder Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art Attempts to Fill a Modern-Art Gap
‘It Is High Time That We Turned Attention to Our 20th-Century Collection’
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The cosmetics executive Leonard Lauder made global headlines last year when he agreed to donate $1 billion of Cubist artwork to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Hopkins Celebrates the Creative Side of their Workforce
The walls of the cavernous Turner Concourse connector hallway of Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, MD were once again alive and filled with paintings, photographs, quilts, and crafts from over 100 employees and family members from the Hopkins workforce!
Airport Art Program Enlists Support
A community of airport employees rich with artistic talent displayed their works throughout both the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Gallery T Display Cases and the Atrium Gallery. In total 155 pieces were hung and the show looked both beautiful and professional.
Duke Artworks Each Tell Their Own Story
The Arts & Health department at Duke University Health System has been collaborating with the NAP for six years now. Their show is hung each year in a series of gallery spaces which are spread throughout their beautiful hospital and campus. Although the numbers were down slightly from the previous year, it was nevertheless a wonderful display which included works from 104 artists. As always, the Arts & Health at Duke staff did a tremendous job in making sure the artists were honored and left feeling a sense of accomplishment and pride.
The Artist Making Beautiful Snow Art With Simple Math and Footprints
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You've probably seen Simon Beck's masterpieces floating around the internet. Up close it looks like an army's marched through the snow. But when you step back — way back — the texture turns into an extravagant design. Some look like snowflakes, some like elaborate fractals. They're all made with just a compass, Beck's feet, and some simple math.
Paddle8 redefining art collecting
Paddle8 is the auction house for the 21st-century collector. They give a global community of passionate collectors unprecedented access to online auctions of high-caliber inventory. They have streamlined the collecting and selling experience, combining the excitement and expertise of an auction house with intuitive technology. In other words, Paddle8 has made collecting swift and satisfying, connecting you to the most covetable objects in an elegant format that's as enticing as the works themselves.