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A Las Vegas Strip casino is turning some of its flashy LED billboards into giant love notes to the masses.

The Cosmopolitan casino plans to start broadcasting the animated artwork of contemporary British artist Tracey Emin on Monday every hour for 3 minutes.

About eight indoor and outdoor marquees usually reserved for advertising superstar DJs and pool parties will go black, while an invisible hand slowly writes phrases such as "I promise to love you" in glowing letters that grow in intensity.

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Creating a scale replica of an interior space is now a mere matter of setting up the right kind of camera and pressing “print” — but Joe Fig does it the old-fashioned way. Or at least the especially hard way. He creates one-inch to one-foot scale miniatures of artists and their work spaces by hand, and in exacting detail.

For Fig, each piece is a kind of personal meditation on the creative process itself, a chance to explore in depth the environments where his favorite artists make the magic happen.

The money - up to $30 million - will be used to repay bond debt and replenish depleted endowment, museum officials announced.

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In a rare move, the Delaware Art Museum will sell as many as four works of art, valued at $30 million, to repay debt from a facilities expansion and replenish its endowment, museum leaders announced Wednesday.

Museum CEO Mike Miller said the "last resort" board action was necessary to avoid closing the museum.

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Etsy genius Alicia Watkins has introduced us to an art medium we didn't know we were missing: the infinitely entertaining world of embroidered microbes.

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We've found the Evel Knievel of photography.

Armed with nothing but a camera and an abundance of bravery, Russian photographer Kirill Oreshkin takes some photographs that'll make you nauseous -- but there is nothing gross about them. 

In the short Vocativ feature below, Oreshkin explains why he climbs to the tops of some of the world's tallest buildings, risking life and limb, just for the perfect photo.

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"Graffiti is like flowers. They are beautiful, but they don't live long." An interview with Lebanese-Egyptian street-artist Bahia Shehab about the role of art during the Arab spring: "You cannot resist ideas. They can travel into any mind."

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Artist Michael Devaney has worked at a few jobs in the trades; spending time as an electrician and a carpenter. Right now, he’s a truck driver.

But that work has never spoken to him the way art does. When he paints, Devaney feels a special, spiritual connection with God. That is why his work mainly focuses on landscapes.

“It gives me a chance to focus on the natural beauty that God created in our world,” he said.

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She’s a talented artist who’s overcoming chronic pain by pursuing her childhood dream. It’s been a long, hard road for this mother of two.

Ron Matz reports her original art is amazing, and every picture tells a story.

Laura Benson is a profile in perseverance, a multi-talented artist who’s been painting all her life.

“I challenge myself because a lot of these techniques I did not know how to do,” she said.

But Benson’s story is one of extreme pain now after receiving a contaminated steroid shot two years ago.

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Middle Earth, a local nonprofit that has been working with at-risk youth for over 40 years, is always seeking new ways to help guide youth on a path to responsible adulthood. They are currently seeking the community’s help to launch a new arts initiative titled The Art House for teenagers who struggle with chronic family problems, low income, poor academic performance, low absenteeism at school, and other factors that can lead to risky behaviors.

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The 'guerrilla knitters' use yarn 'graffiti' to make statements about craft, street art and sexism, including wrapping a museum in granny squares. Plans include workshops, an exhibit and more yarn bombings.

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On the anniversary of the 1990 theft that is still the world’s most notorious art heist, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on Tuesday became the first New England museum to use Google’s Street View technology to let viewers navigate their way virtually around its galleries.

The collaboration with the Google Cultural Institute allows what the Gardner describes as a “complete first-person walk-through experience” of the museum.

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Alain Monteagle unfolded his blue chair and set up a white table at a vegetable market last weekend, covering it with brochures titled “The Looting of Art in War.” As a baker nearby peddled croissants that morning, Mr. Monteagle tried to sell his version of justice.

“We will tell our story to people in two’s and three’s, if that’s the only way we can get it back,” Mr. Monteagle, 67, a retired history teacher from outside Paris, said.

This year’s National Arts Program® Exhibit brought together 120 talented artists from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (formally the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey). While the exhibit is only in its third year with the program, it is a great example of how momentum can build when the show is held annually.  Coordinator Noreen Gomez commented that, “people really understood what the show was about this year and were thrilled to participate.”

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Twenty-one talented state employees and their family members were recognized on March 8, 2014 for their works of art as the results of the National Arts Program®: Delaware State Employee Exhibition and Contest III. More than 300 people attended the Opening Reception at Delaware State University. Secretary of State Jeffrey Bullock and Division of the Arts Director Paul Weagraff presided at the Awards Ceremony.

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