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If you buy art that you love without concern for how it will fit in your home's décor, you'll truly have a personalized collection with one-of-a-kind elements.

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Starting or building an art collection while shopping local is easier than ever—with rising artists, revamped spaces and galleries offering art to fit any décor and taste imaginable.

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British mathematician Alan Turing is perhaps best known for the Turing test, which determines if a computer can be considered intelligent based on whether it can pass for a human in conversation. But in 1952, he also proposed an explanation for how naturally occurring patterns — things like the spots and stripes on animal fur — could arise from a random slate of cells. At the time, scientists were struggling to understand how large-scale organization and patterns emerged during development.

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Artist Motoi Yamamoto spends several hours a day painstakingly arranging salt to make intricate designs.

"I think he has a connection, a very special connection with salt," said Jaimi Butler, a biologist with the Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster College.

Biologists are not the type of group that you'd expect hire an artist, but Butler explained the idea was to give students a different way of looking at the mineral they work with everyday.

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The quote tattooed on Amanda Russel's right wrist is in Spanish but translate it to English and the words from Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" read: "Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt."

When she got the body art seven years ago, at 19, the message rang true.

Four years later, beauty and painlessness vanished in one day.

Russel's joints ached. Her back cramped. A rash mottled her face. She was so thirsty she drank a gallon of water, yet couldn't urinate.

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A man whose elderly father fell and was wrongly diagnosed with an ear infection. Parents of an infant with acid reflux. A nurse who takes the time to listen to the dying sort through their relationships.

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Can the likes of Jasper Johns, Edward Hopper and Cindy Sherman help jump-start the struggling billboard business?

This summer, images by dozens of famous American artists will be plastered on 50,000 displays from electronic billboards to bus shelters, an initiative by leading museums and the billboard industry to create one of the largest outdoor art exhibitions seen in the country.

The State of Delaware’s Third Annual National Arts Program® Exhibit opened on February 24th and included works from 263 employees and their family members.  This amazing collection of works was displayed in the Delaware State University Arts Center/Gallery from February 24th through March 17th.

With people all across the country looking forward to the end of winter, the City of Portland got their first sign of spring with the opening of their Eighth Annual NAP exhibit on March 7th.

“This has been a loooong, tough winter,” commented Coordinator Karen Seymour. “More folks than ever took the time to say how much they enjoy this event as it truly is a harbinger of spring!”

At the conclusion of the NAP awards reception, visitors were encouraged to continue their artistic experience by visiting local galleries during the city’s First Friday Art Walk.

Hartford Coordinator Nancy Shapiro explained that an Ekphrasis poem is one that is written about and inspired by a visual theme; usually a painting, a drawing, a photograph, or a sculpture. This year’s NAP show once again included readings of Ekphrasis poems written by the Free Poets Collective about each of the first place winners and the Best of Show. The poems made for a wonderful blend of visual and verbal imagery at the Hartford NAP this year.

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By giving a face to the victims of drone strikes abroad, a powerful new art project is forcing U.S. drone pilots and policy makers to ponder the deadly consequences of one of America's key counterterrorism programs.

Two weeks ago, artists gathered in a rural community of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to unveil a gigantic portrait of a local child whose parents and siblings were allegedly killed by missiles fired from a U.S. drone.

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CFA student offers Marathon bombing survivors, responders healing through art

In the sad, surreal days following last April’s deadly Boston Marathon bombings, hundreds of citizens offered their skills to help the injured and the first responders and to boost the morale of a city in shock. Taylor Mortell wanted to do her part—but as an artist, what could she offer?

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At just 17 year old, Miss Bricktown's Outstanding Teen Paula Smith has decided to draw on life experience to spread support for the arts in school during her reign. The junior at the Classen School for Advanced Studies has experienced tragedy and used art to bounce back.

"I try and block it all out," said Paula Smith, as dozens of students speed by her between classes.

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Katy Perry‘s filling the John Mayer-shaped void in her life with art.

“I’m going to slowly become an art collector,” Perry, 29, told E! News at MOCA’s 35th Anniversary Gala in Los Angeles Saturday. “Today, we had an all-day art crawl. We got to see some private collections from some people’s homes and then we went to a couple of galleries.”

The singer spent the weekend admiring works by Pablo Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein and Jeff Koons.

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The art collection of Reading hosiery magnate George D. Horst, squirreled away for decades in a building on the family's Berks County compound, was sold by Freeman's auction house Sunday for $4.3 million.

The top three works from the Horst sale were sold to private collectors across the United States, according to Freeman's. Auction records were achieved for 18 artists. The names of purchasers were not disclosed.