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Jun 30, 2014
FBI: Art Fraudster Faked Pollocks, Threatened Buyers
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A New York man has been arrested after allegedly selling nearly $2 million-worth of fake fine art to collectors and then threatening the buyers in colorful emails to keep them from having the paintings’ authenticity tested or to pressure them into lending him money.
John Re, from East Hampton, was arrested in mid-July and accused in a criminal complaint of selling dozens of fake works of art supposedly by the famous abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock to a handful of collectors, as The New York Post rep
Jun 29, 2014
'Art Everywhere U.S.' Unveils 58 Works To Be Displayed In Free, Open-Air Galleries
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Art Everywhere US, an initiative that will transform billboards, bus shelters, subway platforms, movie theaters and other public spaces into free, open-air art galleries across the country in early August, announced the artworks it will display at the recent annual meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors in Dallas.
Voting for the artworks began in April on the initiative’s Web site; the public could register its preferences among 100 works nominated by the Art Institute of Chicago, the Dallas Museum
Jun 23, 2014
Art All Night celebrates Trenton's arts and music scene for 24 hours
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From late Saturday afternoon into the wee hours of the morning and beyond, art lovers flocked to Art All Night, an annual celebration that for 24 hours, transforms the former Roebling Wire Works factory building into a thriving arts and music scene.
The free event, which continues Sunday until 3 p.m., is a pop-up art exhibit designed to showcase the visual, performing and functional arts from children’s refrigerator drawings to accomplished artists.
Now in its eight
Jun 17, 2014
SEE IT: Art experts find second painting hidden underneath Picasso masterpiece
Unexplained brush strokes had led experts to suspect there might be something under the surface of Pablo Picasso's 1901 work 'The Blue Room.' Now, advances in infrared imagery have helped them spot a painting of a bow-tied man under the painting of a woman.
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Scientists and art experts have found a hidden painting beneath one of Pablo Picasso's first masterpieces, "The Blue Room," using advances in infrared imagery to reveal a bow-tied man with his face resting on his hand.
Jun 16, 2014
Pictured: Stunning little people art from a Pope on pasta to a bloody murder mystery
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This unique Lilliputian army is the creation of Guernsey-based photographer David Gilliver.
The 34-year-old photographs the 2cm high figures - he has more than 500 in all - alongside everyday objects.
The results are witty and even quite touching.
Gilliver, a Guernsey-based finance worker, spends hours scouring the internet for the miniature figurines, before setting up the surreal scenarios.
And although the figurines are usua
Jun 16, 2014
Why Art Collectors Are Still Using Low-Tech Devices To Protect Their Million-Dollar Artwork
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In a world of technology that grows at break-neck speed, our everyday life is constantly being altered. Everything from phones and cameras to sneakers, watches, air conditioners and even dog collars are “smarter” than us. As an art appraiser, my clients are prominent art collectors – predominantly high-net worth, sophisticated and tech-savvy. As such, they are often the first to try out the latest technological marvel.
Jun 12, 2014
USO’s Art Therapy Program Aids Wounded Warriors
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The United Service Organizations’ Art as Therapy program provides comfort and a creative refuge for wounded warriors in the healing process.
Ashy Palliparambil, an Art Therapist and Hospital Services Program Specialist, has led the USO Art and Music Program here since August 2012, focusing on recreational programs which serve as a therapeutic release for wounded troops while creating a “safe space” to create art while they recover.
The unique program operates exclusively at the Naval S
Jun 12, 2014
Tests confirm painting is Rembrandt self-portrait
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Scientific tests have confirmed that a painting donated to Britain's National Trust by a wealthy supporter is a Rembrandt self-portrait worth tens of millions of pounds, the heritage body said Tuesday.
The portrait of the artist, wearing a cap with a white feather, was long thought to be the work of one of Rembrandt's pupils and was credited as in the "style of" the 17th-century Dutch master.
But last year Ernst van de Wetering, the world's leading Rembrandt expert, declared i
Jun 11, 2014
How Historians Are Using Nuclear Fallout to Find Fake Art
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Today's modern art forger is capable of producing fake works of art so perfect that even trained experts are unable to spot them. Even down to the most minute details of the pigments, binders, and canvass, these fakes are almost better than the works they're based on.
Jun 11, 2014
Stray Rescue dogs contribute to art exhibit
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If an artiste says arf a lot, he then should have an artistic name befitting his bark.
‘Sir Periwinkle the third,’ says Randy Grim. ‘I mean, come on. I don’t want them to just be considered dogs in the shelter.’
That’s because some of the pooches at Randy Grim’s Stray Rescue made some of the paintings in the new Urban Wanderers exhibit.
Area artists have also contributed canine and cat inspired photos, sculptures and more at the St.
Jun 10, 2014
Red Bull Skate Space, assembled in Hood River, to be skateable art in Seattle park
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Leave it to Seattle to come up with another unique way to embrace two strong cultures of the city: those who love fine art, and those who love to bonk hard surfaces with their skateboards.
Coming in June, Seattleites who embrace such cultures can have it both ways at Jefferson Park,4101 Beacon Ave. South, when the art of C.J.
Jun 10, 2014
Google Adds Graffiti to Its Art Portfolio
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There’s a portrait of an anonymous Chinese man chiseled into a wall in Shanghai, a colorful mural in Atlanta and black-and-white photographs of eyes that the French artist JR affixed to the houses of a hillside favela in Rio de Janeiro. These are among the images of more than 4,000 works included in a vast new online gallery of street art that Google is unveiling here on Tuesday.
Called the Street Art Project, the database was created by the company’s Paris-based Google Cultural Institute.
Jun 09, 2014
Arts & Extras: Carilion puts first employee art show up to a vote
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As part of the Robert L.A.
Jun 06, 2014
Detroit moves to shield museum's art from creditors
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The City Council on Thursday unanimously approved a transfer of city-owned art and other assets at the Detroit Institute of Arts to a charitable trust as part of a proposal to protect the art from being sold off in the city's bankruptcy case.
"Protecting the art is huge," Councilman Scott Benson said.
Jun 06, 2014
Art classes bring joy to seniors
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When Howard Hof teaches art classes at Shalom Towers, the lessons are free and so is the lively banter.
On Thursday the conversation topics included the Chicago Cubs, Billy Graham and "Russell the doughnut eater in the next room."
On this day, Hof, 77, a retired art teacher in the Mason City school system, guided Harvey Bailey, 75, and his brother, John, 73, with their pencil drawings.
"We do painting on Tuesdays, drawing on Thursdays," said Hof, si