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Alternate Reality Utility Box
In partnership between the Redwood City Civic Cultural Commission, ARTSRWC, and the Redwood City Parks and Arts Foundation, we are transforming common utility boxes into distinctive and beautiful works of art. The Utility Box Mural Program celebrates artwork and encourages artists to share their creativity with everyone in Redwood City. Vibrant public art creates inviting spaces, and beautifies streets, neighborhoods and the entire cityscape.
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Artist takes 2 year old's doodle and turn it into a painting
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7,000 LEDs to Cast Sistine Chapel Ceiling in Bright New Light
For 500 years, visitors were able to see Michelangelo’s famous 6,000-square-foot painting bathed in natural light, but for the last 3 decades they have gotten a dismal view, the room shuttered and lit by weak halogens – but all of that is about to change. For the first time since outside light was blocked by the Vatican (or, in some regards, since the painting was first created) its 5,000,000 annual viewers will have a clearer-than-day look at this amazing ceiling-spanning classic.
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Awful Person Defaces National Parks With Terrible Paintings
This morning, our friend Rebecca at Calipidder alerted us via a Facebook post to a woman named Casey Nocket who had traveled to the West Coast from New York for a few weeks. Ms. Nocket had been enjoying her time in the outdoors so much that she decided to document her trip on Instagram. And apparently Nocket was so moved by all the natural beauty she saw that she just had to paint all over it...
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The big-eyed children: the extraordinary story of an epic art fraud
In the 1960s, Walter Keane was feted for his sentimental portraits that sold by the million. But in fact, his wife Margaret was the artist, working in virtual slavery to maintain his success. She tells her story, now the subject of a Tim Burton biopic
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SPAZUK fire painter
Video portrait of the very original and talented Steve Spazuk in his creative space.
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The Leonardo Hidden From Hitler in Case It Gave Him Magic Powers
One of the world's most famous self-portraits is going on rare public display in the northern Italian city of Turin. Very little is known about the 500-year-old, fragile, fading red chalk drawing of Leonardo da Vinci but some believe it has mystical powers.
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Sam’ Sinister Rays of Light
I spoke with Connecticut-born artist Sam McKinniss about everything from iPhones in bed, to Sade, to existential rave moments, to dish soap.
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Rebecca Farr’s Sweet Broken Now
Rebecca Farr’s recent solo show at Klowden-Mann was a strong force to be reckoned with--both in terms of the physical presence of her paintings and in the contending contemplation her subject demanded.
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Kara Walker’s Thought-Provoking Art
On the heels of her wildly successful installation at the Domino Sugar Factory in New York, the artist Kara Walker prepares for a new exhibition and opens up about what drives her fearless exploration of race and sexuality.
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8 Best Big-City Oktoberfests in the U.S. [Infographic]
Cincinnati, OH, and Las Vegas, NV, are among the U.S. cities where Oktoberfest rivals the old-school festivities in Munich, Germany.
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This 21-year-old is painting the most insane sci-fi vehicles on the planet
One quick glance at Saleem's website shows just how deep that fascination is: the page is covered in insane, futuristic vehicles that wouldn't look out of place in some new blockbuster video game. His pieces often take modern vehicles and splice them with space age tech and vivid, colorful paint jobs. Sometimes he even skips the modern part and goes straight to making crazy spaceships. "I'm not sure if I'm fully sold on the whole flying cars thing yet, however," he says.
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Portraits by MTO Are Real Street Art - kooliolife
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The Greatest Painting in the World: 10 Luminaries Cast Their Ballots
The greatest picture in the world…you smile,” wrote Aldous Huxley in 1925. Although the claim sounded ludicrous to him, he went on to make a passionate and cogent argument for his choice: Piero della Francesca’s Resurrection. ARTnews wondered which paintings would be chosen by artists, museum directors, curators, and art historians today as the “greatest.”
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The History of Non-Art: Part 1
The most groundbreaking art of the 20th century is called avant-garde. But perhaps these pioneering artists were not so pioneering after all. The artistic avant-garde did not break with established genres and traditions so much as it systematically established genres and tradition. Much of what is considered “radical,” “innovative” and “original” about Duchamp and the artistic avant-garde was brought into existence by people who were not visual artists.
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Art Criticism and Metamodernism
Unsurprisingly, given these social and aesthetic shifts, scholars and critics alike have started to speak of an end to postmodernism. The current paradigm has been variously called altermodernism (curator Nicolas Bourriaud), cosmodernism (literary theorist Christian Moraru), hypermodernism (philosopher Alan Kirby) and automodernism (cultural theorist Robert Samuels). We ourselves, linking the social and aesthetic changes to changes in capitalism, have argued for the use of the term metamodernism
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NSFW Living Ink by Jan-Omega on DeviantArt
MEDIUM: Acrylic on CanvasSIZE: 36" X 24"MODEL: Nikki LoweryPRICE: $800 "Nikki Lowery finds it to be an honor to be a living canvas. She releases her bod...
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Man jailed for punching a HOLE through £8million Monet painting
A man who punched a hole through an £8million Claude Monet painting has been jailed for six years and banned from all galleries - despite claiming he collapsed onto it due to a heart condition. Andrew Shannon strolled calmly into the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin before attacking the 1874 work Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sail Boat, which was left needing two years of repairs. The 49-year-old, who later underwent a quadruple heart bypass...
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These Are Not Photos! Artist Creates Incredibly Realistic Finger Drawings To Raise Climate Change Awareness
At first glance, these images look like like photos of glaciers and icebergs afloat on tranquil and frigid seas. The truth is somewhat more interesting, however – they're enormous finger pastel drawings by U.S. artist Zaria Forman.
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Toy Story
How Norman Rockwell conceived the ultimate image of holiday burnout.
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