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Make Art, Not Ads
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A new app called No Ad subverts the very idea behind most mobile software, enabling the user to make a political and artistic statement instead of simply providing a service or a distraction.
No Ad functions as a real-life form of the advertisement-blocking software that has become popular online. Open the app, hold your phone’s camera up to any advertisement in the subway system in New York City, look at the screen and the ad is replaced by a piece of art.
Giving Meaning to ‘Art’
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The psychologist George E. Newman of the Yale School of Management studies how people use “quasi-magical thinking” to intuitively determine the value of certain objects. By analyzing celebrity auctions of John F. Kennedy or Marilyn Monroe’s personal effects, he has shown that the price of a piece of memorabilia is connected to how often it was thought to be used or touched by a famous person — as if there’s a kind of real-world value placed on a celebrity’s “essence.”
Homeless woman finds refuge in art
Pomeroy may not have a permanent home, but through her art she feels rooted in a way she has long missed.
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Kateri Pomeroy's hands hover over a cardboard canvas, crumbling vibrant shades of solidified water colors into tiny piles.
With her stained fingertips she spreads the bits in streaks across the flat black surface.
The texture and smell of the colors are like earth after a rain, she says. It reminds her of the red soil in the small Colorado town she called home as a child.
Art on Alcatraz: Exhibit by Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei opens at America’s most infamous prison
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A highly anticipated exhibition at America’s most famous prison by one of China’s most prolific contemporary artists will open to the public Saturday. Organizers predict that @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz could set new records for the federal-penitentiary-turned-national-park, which already sees upward of 1.5 million visitors per year.
Now That's An Artifact: See Mary Cassatt's Pastels At The National Gallery
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Imagine if you could see the pen Beethoven used to write his Symphony No. 5. Or the chisel Michelangelo used to sculpt his David. Art lovers find endless fascination in the materials of artists — a pen, a brush, even a rag can become sacred objects, humanizing a work of art.
The Healing Power of Art: Can Hospital Collections Help?
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Most of us agree that hospitals are inherently stressful and it's pretty bleak to stare at a blank wall or wait for a doctor in a cramped, dark room. Sick or not, we'd prefer a sunny view or a Monet watercolor. Yet in an era of escalating healthcare costs, it's important to justify spending on aesthetics and design.
Can an attractive drawing or photograph reduce pain or anxiety? Do patients with art in their environment heal faster?
Rock Star in All His Permutations
David Bowie Exhibition Opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art
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Cancer masks become art at fundraiser
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Debra Sheridan never dreamed the protective head masks she had to wear for radiation treatments would become works of art.
A survivor of oral cancer, she donned one every time the beams were aimed at the lump on her tonsil — a tumor so large that it had progressed to stage 4. Surgery was not an option, so she had to undergo chemoradiation eradication. That required a specially molded mask to fit her face to safeguard healthy tissue.
Tips for Dividing Art in a Divorce or Death
Fights and Taxes Can Arise When Art Collections Must Be Broken Up
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Who gets that painting?
Of all the fights that can erupt during divorce proceedings or when a family member leaves behind a large estate, some of the biggest take place over the artwork.
LAPD's art theft unit is a piece of work
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Tibetan artifacts shouldn’t be stashed among a pack of pot-bellied pigs, but that’s how Detective Don Hrycyk found them.
They’d been stolen over a decade earlier by a man who’d befriended the owner, a New York art collector and scholar.
Bill Cosby's art collection to show at Smithsonian
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After amassing a private collection of African-American Art over four decades,Bill Cosby and his wife Camille plan to showcase their holdings for the first time in an exhibition planned at the Smithsonian Institution.
The Smithsonian's National Museum of African Artannounced today that the entire Cosby collection will go on view in November in a unique exhibit juxtaposing African-American art with African art.
These Kids Reviewing Famous Paintings Are Our New Favorite Art Critics
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How important is it to introduce kids to art? According to British artist Jake Chapman, not very important at all. In an interview with The Independent last month, the contemporary provocateur claimed that it was arrogant for parents to think children could understand modern art.
"It's like saying... it's as moronic as a child? Children are not human yet," he postured, adding that taking kids to art galleries was a "total waste of time."
We wholeheartedly disagree.
Chainsaw accidentally ignites gigantic modern art bunny
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All they had to do was carefully dismantle this gigantic fluffy white rabbit — and they sent it up in flames instead!
Ignited by a spark from a chainsaw being used to take apart the mammoth modern art piece, a fire ravaged the poor hare and sadly left him with nothing but an arm, ear and torso.
