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Underground Arts: Eat, drink and buy art
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Pancakes and alcohol, you say? While I usually have coffee with my pancakes, I was intrigued when I heard about the Pancakes and Booze Art Show at Underground Arts in Philadelphia on Saturday, Aug. 16. Who can say no to a feast for all your senses? Emerging artists are bringing their own unique creations to this show that will also include food, drink and live entertainment.
Extraordinary art discovery out of New Orleans warehouse coming to Lake Area
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The City of Lake Charles will host The Genius of Noel Rockmore at the 1911 Historic City Hall Arts & Cultural Center. An opening reception will be held Friday, September 5.
Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. with a gallery talk beginning at 6 p.m. The event will be open to the public and refreshments will be served. Guests will meet Noel Rockmore’s lifelong art patron, Shirley Marvin, and the founders of the Noel Rockmore Project, Tee and Rich Marvin.
App offers tours of public art around Michigan
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The Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs is offering an app featuring tours of public art around Michigan.
The “MI Amazing Art Tour” app is free to download via iTunes. Users can search categories of art, including murals, sculpture and architecture.
The app will lead them through a tour of those pieces, some within a small radius and others spanning the entire state.
Other features of the mobile app include the ability to bookmark and “like” tours on Facebook.
Aurora, CO
Aurora, Colorado’s ‘Art in Public Places’ Program enhances the quality of life in Aurora. Their program is based on a widely used formula which states that one percent of all funds used to build large scale city construction and remodeling projects be dedicated to public art. Their Program was established in 1993 and in 2006 they began partnering with the National Arts Program® to showcase the artistic talents of Aurora’s city employees and their family members. The show is still going strong and displayed 112 works of art on the 2nd floor Mezzanine of Aurora’s Municipal Center.
Deep sea art: Drawings depict what Brooklyn explorer saw below
Pioneering naturalist William Beebe plunged more than 3,000 feet into in the ocean, spotting creatures so bizarre skeptics thought he was making up. The New York Aquarium will unveil an art exhibit of the stunning sea creatures on the 80th anniversary of the historic dive.
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Banking on the Appeal of ‘Bad Art’
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Last year, Grayson Perry, Britain’s most famous transvestite artist, made a limited-edition print entitled “The Island of Bad Art.” The etching, conceived as a faux-16th-century map of an island that looks suspiciously like Venice, uses satirical place names to list the characteristics that define, according to Mr. Perry, bad art: “mainstream,” “corny retro,” “vaguely decorative” and “kitsch,” among others.
Museum Under Fire for Selling Its Art
Censured Delaware Art Museum Plans to Divest More Works
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Aspen Art Museum's exhibit featuring iPads on tortoises: Art or animal abuse?
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A petition drive is underway asking the Aspen Art Museum to stop its plans for an art exhibit featuring live tortoises with iPads on their backs.
The new Aspen Art Museum is scheduled to open Saturday.
A photo of a 4chan post sold for almost $100,000, because ‘art’
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A framed photo of a post from the forum 4chan sold for $90,900 on eBay over the weekend.
Nope, that’s not a typo. That’s two nines and three zeroes. That’s almost twice the median annual household income in 2013.
“Art used to be something to cherish / Now literally anything could be art / This post is art,” reads the 4chan post.
Artist Turns Breast Cancer Into Cause for Humorous, Boob–Themed Art Show
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Last January, Los Angeles–based artist Bettina Hubby was diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer. When she told friends and family, “they all reacted with panic and fear and sadness," she says. "I couldn’t get my head around how that would feel in my community — to have all of that coming back at me at a time when I just needed the opposite. So I thought, Okay, I need to do this differently.”
Pa. gives Art Museum $5 million for renovations
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art has received a $5 million grant from the state to help fund $150 million to $160 million in major renovations and upgrades to the main building and its nearly 500,000 square feet of interior space.
The renovations are a critical part of a long-planned transformation and expansion, which ultimately will include new gallery spaces beneath the museum terrace at the end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
The Race to Find New Art Collectors
A quarter of all auction sales were made to first-time art buyers this year. An inside look at Sotheby's and Christie's global quest to identify and recruit more.
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