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A Lesser-Known Venus Visits The U.S. In New Botticelli Exhibit
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The famous Renaissance painting of the goddess Venus, standing nude on a clam shell, has been appropriated, satirized and riffed on so many times — by everyone from Andy Warhol, to Lady Gaga, toThe Simpsons — that it's easy to lose track of its origins.
Now, a major traveling exhibition tells the story of Italian painter Sandro Botticelli, who painted the Venus 500 years ago. "Botticelli and the Search for the Divine" features a different Venus — and many other works — visiting the U.S. for the first time. The show is a partnership between the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Va., and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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At $110.5 Million, Basquiat Painting Becomes Priciest Work Ever Sold By A U.S. Artist
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Jean-Michel Basquiat's untitled painting of a skull is displayed behind an official with Sotheby's, which offered the media a preview earlier this month. On Thursday, the work sold for $110.5 million — the highest sum ever paid at auction for a work by a U.S. artist.
Jean-Michel Basquiat joined "joined the pantheon of great, great artists" Thursday night, when the late painter's 1982 work Untitled sold for a record-breaking $110.5 million at auction — the highest sum ever paid at auction for a U.S.-produced artwork.
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Home Is Where The Art Is: The Unlikely Story Of Folk Artist Maud Lewis
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Maud Lewis, who never had any formal art training, painted the scenes she saw around her home in Nova Scotia. She painted Coastal Scene with Gulls on particleboard in the 1960s.
There's no rain in her clouds, no gray in her shadows; Maud Lewis' small paintings are bright with sunshine, and filled with blue skies, crystal snow and calm waters. Now, a new movie tells the true story of a painter from Nova Scotia whose joyful works hardly hint at the difficult life she led.
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With Chemistry And Care, Conservators Keep Masterpieces Looking Their Best
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Senior conservator of paintings Ann Hoenigswald works to fill in elements of Paul Cézanne's Riverbank c. 1895 in the National Gallery of Art's Paintings Conservation Lab in Washington, D.C.
Behind the scenes at major art museums, conservators are hard at work, keeping masterpieces looking their best. Their methods are meticulous — and sometimes surprising.
The painting conservation studio at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is filled with priceless works sitting on row after row of tall wooden easels, or lying on big, white-topped worktables.
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Frida Kahlo Celebrated With An Attempt At A World Record
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Alice Cooper Finds Andy Warhol Art After 40 Years In Storage
In the 1970s, Alice Cooper received a silkscreen by his friend Andy Warhol. Then he forgot about it. He and his manager dug it out of storage, and now it may be worth millions.
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Berkshire Museum announced it would sell 40 works
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The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Mass., announced it would sell 40 works to fund its renovation and endowment, raising concerns from museum organizations that the instiution is treating its collection "as a disposable financial asset." Above, an exhibit at the museum in 2003.
A museum in Western Massachusettts has found itself as the focus of a recurrent discussion in the art world: Is it ever okay for a museum to sell some of its works for financial reasons?
For Van Shields, executive director of the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, the answer is a firm yes.
In a press release, the museum outlined a funding strategy for a "reinvention plan" in which it has "a heightened emphasis on science and history as well as the arts." The museum wants to raise $60 million to carry out its new vision: $40 million to add to its endowment, and $20 million to renovate its building.
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Met Museum Turns Over Ancient Vase Suspected Looted From Italy
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The ancient mixing bowl now in the possession of Manhattan's District Attorney.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art delivered an ancient vase by courier to Manhattan's district attorney last week. The DA had issued a warrant for the Greco-Roman vessel on July 24, citing "reasonable cause to believe" the museum was in possession of stolen property.
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The Archaeologist Who Hunts For Stolen Art
Christos Tsirogiannis, a forensic archaeologist, explains to Ailsa Chang how he persuaded U.S. authorities to seize an ancient Italian vase from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Pisa Cathedral by Italian sculptor Giovanni Pisano
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A pulpit for Pisa Cathedral by Italian sculptor Giovanni Pisano, showing a woman breastfeeding, was on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in October 2016. This weekend, a breastfeeding museum visitor says she was told to cover up, which the museum says violates its own policies.
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has apologized to a breastfeeding visitor who says she was told to cover up.
The woman, who posts on Twitter as @vaguechera, says she had "flashed a nanosecond of nipple" in the museum's courtyard when she was told to conceal her breasts. Instead of bearing that in silence, she busted out her phone and started tweeting.
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The woman in question told the BBC that she appreciated the apologies and the widespread support she received.
"That said, clearly not everyone is aware of the legal protection that women are afforded when feeding in a public space," she told the BBC. "Policies are important, but they only work if staff are supported to understand and carry them out."
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El Corrido de Boyle Heights
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El Corrido de Boyle Heights, or The Ballad of Boyle Heights, was painted in 1983 by the East Los Streetscapers, an artist collective that painted a number of murals across Los Angeles' Boyle Heights neighborhood.
In the Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights, on the corner of Soto Street and Cesar Chavez Avenue, a brightly colored mural masks the wall behind a bus stop. At the center of the image, a woman sings proudly. She's surrounded by men playing musical instruments and a couple dancing in swirls of bright colors.
The mural is called El Corrido de Boyle Heights, or The Ballad of Boyle Heights. It was painted in 1983, and it's one of thousands of similar murals that started popping up in 1960s — murals that portray Chicano culture and heritage. The images speak to the Chicano political movement, which animated many Mexican-Americans in LA, and to the broader issues of their time: the Vietnam War, environmental degradation, education, civil rights.
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The Autry Museum of the American West
Ask Luis Garza how the La Raza exhibition came to be at The Autry Museum of the American West, and he raises his palms, eyes heavenward:
"Karma," he says. "Fate. Serendipity. The gods have chosen to align us at this moment in time."
Garza, who co-curated the exhibition with Amy Scott, is being a little dramatic, but he's not wrong. The country has finally started paying attention to Latino culture. Planning for Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a huge, international group of shows focusing on Latin American culture in the Americas and in Los Angeles, was underway, spearheaded by the powerful Getty Museum. And at about the same time, Garza and others had begun to review thousands and thousands of photographs taken during the Chicano Rights movement. Photographers from La Raza (literally "the race"), an activist newspaper-turned-magazine published from 1967-1977, chronicled Chicanos in LA and Southern California; it would become nationally significant. After the magazine shut down, the archives were eventually gifted to UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Center. Years later, the Center wondered if the Autry might be interested in doing something with them.
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Citing Threats, Guggenheim Pulls Three Works Involving Animals From Exhibition
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New York's Guggenheim Museum announced Monday that it was removing three works from its upcoming exhibit of contemporary art from China. Animal rights activists said the works depicted cruelty to animals.
The Guggenheim Museum in New York has announced it is pulling three works from an upcoming exhibit of contemporary Chinese art owing to "explicit and repeated threats of violence."
An online petition demanding the museum remove the works garnered more than 600,000 signatures since it was posted five days ago, contending that three of them depict animal cruelty. The pressure mounted from there: Tweetsshow protesters gathered outside the museum on Saturday, holding signs that say "suffering animals is not art."
The works in question all involve either live animals or videos thereof.
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The 2017 MacArthur "genius" grant recipients
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The 2017 MacArthur "genius" grant recipients.
It's not often you'll find these 24 names in the same place. They are historians and musicians, computer scientists and social activists, writers and architects. But whatever it may read on their business cards (if they've even got business cards), they now all have a single title in common: 2017 MacArthur Fellow.
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced the winners of this year's fellowship — often better known as the "genius" grant — and the list includes a characteristically wide array of disciplines: There's painter Njideka Akunyili Crosby, for instance, and mathematician Emmanuel Candès and immunologist Gabriel Victora, among many others.
Njideka AkunyiliCrosby, 34, painter living in Los Angeles:
"Visualizing the complexities of globalization and transnational identity in works that layer paint, photographic imagery, prints, and collage elements."
Sunil Amrith, 38, historian living in Cambridge, Mass.:
"Illustrating the role of centuries of transnational migration in the present-day social and cultural dynamics of South and Southeast Asia."
Greg Asbed, 54, human rights strategist living in Immokalee, Fla.:
"Transforming conditions for low-wage workers with a visionary model of worker-driven social responsibility."
Annie Baker, 36, playwright living in New York City:
"Mining the minutiae of how we speak, act, and relate to one another and the absurdity and tragedy that result from the limitations of language."
Regina Barzilay, 46, computer scientist living in Cambridge, Mass.:
"Developing machine learning methods that enable computers to process and analyze vast amounts of human language data."
Dawoud Bey, 63, photographer and educator living in Chicago:
"Using an expansive approach to photography that creates new spaces of engagement within cultural institutions, making them more meaningful to and representative of the communities in which they are situated."
Emmanuel Candès, 47, mathematician and statistician living in Stanford, Calif.:
"Exploring the limits of signal recovery and matrix completion from incomplete data sets with implications for high-impact applications in multiple fields."
Jason De León, 40, anthropologist living in Ann Arbor, Mich.:
"Combining ethnographic, forensic, and archaeological evidence to bring to light the human consequences of immigration policy at the U.S.–Mexico border."
Rhiannon Giddens, 40, singer, instrumentalist and songwriter living in Greensboro, N.C.:
"Reclaiming African American contributions to folk and country music and bringing to light new connections between music from the past and the present."
Nikole Hannah-Jones, 41, journalist living in New York City:
"Chronicling the persistence of racial segregation in American society, particularly in education, and reshaping national conversations around education reform."
Cristina Jiménez Moreta, 33, social justice organizer living in Washington, D.C.:
"Changing public perceptions of immigrant youth and playing a critical role in shaping the debate around immigration policy."
Taylor Mac, 44, theater artist living in New York City:
"Engaging audiences as active participants in works that dramatize the power of theater as a space for building community."
Rami Nashashibi, 45, community leader living in Chicago:
"Confronting the challenges of poverty and disinvestment in urban communities through a Muslim-led civic engagement effort that bridges race, class, and religion."
Viet Thanh Nguyen, 46, fiction writer and cultural critic living in Los Angeles:
"Challenging popular depictions of the Vietnam War and exploring the myriad ways that war lives on for those it has displaced."
Kate Orff, 45, landscape architect living in New York City:
"Designing adaptive and resilient urban habitats and encouraging residents to be active stewards of the ecological systems underlying our built environment."
Trevor Paglen, 43, artist and geographer living in Berlin:
"Documenting the hidden operations of covert government projects and examining the ways that human rights are threatened in an era of mass surveillance."
Betsy Levy Paluck, 39, psychologist living in Princeton, N.J.:
"Unraveling how social networks and norms influence our interactions with one another and identifying interventions that can change destructive behavior."
Derek Peterson, 46, historian living in Ann Arbor, Mich.:
"Reshaping our understanding of African colonialism and nationalism in studies that foreground East African intellectual production."
Damon Rich, 42, designer and urban planner living in Newark, N.J.:
"Creating vivid and witty strategies to design and build places that are more democratic and accountable to their residents."
Stefan Savage, 48, computer scientist living in La Jolla, Calif.:
"Identifying and addressing the technological, economic, and social vulnerabilities underlying internet security challenges and cybercrime."
Yuval Sharon, 37, opera director and producer living in Los Angeles:
"Expanding how opera is performed and experienced through immersive, multisensory, and mobile productions that are infusing a new vitality into the genre."
Tyshawn Sorey, 37, composer and musician living in Middletown, Conn.:
"Assimilating and transforming ideas from a broad spectrum of musical idioms and defying distinctions between genres, composition, and improvisation in a singular expression of contemporary music."
Gabriel Victora, 40, immunologist living in New York City:
"Investigating acquired, or adaptive, immunity and the mechanisms by which organisms' antibody-based responses to infection are fine-tuned."
Jesmyn Ward, 40, fiction writer living in DeLisle, Miss.:
"Exploring the enduring bonds of community and familial love among poor African Americans of the rural South against a landscape of circumscribed possibilities and lost potential."
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Last Da Vinci Painting In Private Hands Will Be Auctioned Next Month
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Christie's unveiled Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi at Christie's New York on Tuesday in New York City.
The only known Leonardo da Vinci painting in private hands is heading to auction.
The portrait of Jesus Christ, Salvator Mundi, was only recently confirmed to be a da Vinci. This piece was thought to be a copy of a destroyed original. And it's still not clear where the painting was, exactly, for more than a century.
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Guess Who Renoir Was In Love With
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Phillips Collection curator Eliza Rathbone says Renoir was "at the height of his powers" when in he painted Luncheon of the Boating Party.
In 1880, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, age 41, wrote to a friend that he was in a riverside town near Paris painting oarsmen. He'd been "itching" to do it for a long time: "I'm not getting any younger," he wrote, "and didn't want to defer this little festivity." Now that painting, Luncheon of the Boating Party, is the star of a new exhibition at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.
The painting shows 14 young people having a wonderful time on a sunny balcony overlooking the Seine. Lunch is over — there are half-full wine bottles, golden grapes and pears on the white tablecloth — and now they're relaxing, talking and flirting.
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Renoir was "at the height of his powers" when in he painted Luncheon of the Boating Party
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In 1880, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, age 41, wrote to a friend that he was in a riverside town near Paris painting oarsmen. He'd been "itching" to do it for a long time: "I'm not getting any younger," he wrote, "and didn't want to defer this little festivity." Now that painting, Luncheon of the Boating Party, is the star of a new exhibition at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.
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The Grasshopper In The Van Gogh
Look at Vincent van Gogh's Olive Trees closely enough, and you'll find the subtle intricacies of his play with color, his brush strokes, perhaps even his precise layers of paint atop the canvas.
You'll also find a grasshopper. Well, parts of one, anyway.
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Vincent van Gogh's Olive Trees, made with oil on canvas in 1889. See the shadow cast by that small tree on the far right side? There's a grasshopper lurking in that shade.
Conservator Mary Schafer had been examining some paintings at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., placing each one under a microscope for a detailed look — when, remarkably, she stumbled on a weird substance stuck in the thick layers of paint on van Gogh's piece. There, tucked in the shade cast by the olive tree in the painting's right foreground, a curious, fragmented object stared back at her.
"She initially thought it was just leaf matter," Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, the museum's senior curator of European art, tells NPR. Given the fact van Gogh did a lot of his painting outside, "it's not unusual to find parts of leaves or dirt or sand" in some of his works.
Then she made out its head.
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This image, taken through a microscope, captures the grasshopper embedded in the paint of van Gogh's Olive Trees.
Marcereau DeGalan says this was exciting — not so much because she and Schafer were secret entomology enthusiasts, but rather because the little guy promised to offer a better sense of when, exactly, van Gogh completed Olive Trees.
You see, they've got a pretty good idea when he painted it — sometime in 1889, after the famously troubled artist had checked himself into an asylum in the south of France. Just one year from death, Van Gogh probably "realized he was struggling," Marcereau DeGalan says, "and he was doing some soul-searching, some thinking about his life, his contributions, his place within society."
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Dre Urhahn: How Can Public Art Projects Transform Rough Neighborhoods?
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Dre Urhahn and his friend and partner Jeroen Koolhaas make up the art duo Haas&Hahn. From North Philly to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, they collaborate with locals in tough neighborhoods around the world to create striking public art projects.
As part of their Favela Painting Foundation, the Dutch artists crowdsourced more than $100,000 with the hope of bringing their bright, cheerful paintings to the entire hillside of Villa Cruzeiro favela in Rio — training young painters in the process.
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80-Year-Old Mystery Cracked As Final Missing Piece Of Magritte Painting Found
An enigma that has beguiled art enthusiasts for more than eight decades has finally been solved, after Belgian researchers announced they had found the fourth and final missing piece of René Magritte's The Enchanted Pose.
Using X-ray imaging, researchers with the University of Liège and the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium spotted the upper right corner of the work underneath Magritte's 1935 to 1936 painting God is not a Saint last month. The surrealist had simply painted over it.
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A woman looks at Magritte's God is not a Saint, which hides under its layers the missing and final piece of another Magritte work, The Enchanted Pose, at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels.
"When we realized what it was, we just looked at each other in shock," David Strivay, a professor at the University of Liège, told the BBC.
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Leonardo Da Vinci Portrait Of Christ Sells For Record-Shattering $450 Million
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Salvator Mundi is one of only a score of Leonardo da Vinci's works still in existence and the only one held privately.
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Bidding representatives react after Salvator Mundi sold for $450 million at Christie's on Wednesday.
A portrait of Christ by Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci has shattered all previous records for artworks sold at auction or privately, fetching a whopping $450.3 million on Wednesday at Christie's in New York.
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Mystery Solved: Saudi Prince Is Buyer Of $450M DaVinci Painting
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The mystery over who paid a record-breaking $450 million for Leonardo da Vinci's painting Salvator Mundi at an auction last month appears to have been solved. It turns out it's Saudi Arabia's crown prince Mohammed bin Salman.
That's according to U.S. intelligence officials who keep a close eye on the kingdom's young and powerful crown prince, says the Wall Street Journal.
The winning bid in the November 15 auction at Christie's in New York was made anonymously by phone using a Christie's representative. The New York Times reported earlier that documents showed another member of the royal family, Prince Bader bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan al-Saud, placed the final bid. But intelligence officials say Bader was just a proxy for crown prince Mohammed.
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The Fulbright Triptych by Simon Dinnerstein
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The Fulbright Triptych by Simon Dinnerstein.
American museum-goers can now get a rare glimpse of a painting that's been called a masterpiece — but has spent most of its life in storage. When The Fulbright Triptych was first shown in 1975, its future looked bright, but it didn't work out that way. It's a massive work — nearly 14 feet wide — with near life-sized portraits of the artist, Simon Dinnerstein, and his family.
It's the details that get you. In the right panel sits the artist, in the left, his wife holds their infant daughter, and in the middle is his work bench covered with engraving tools. On the walls behind are carefully reproduced paintings, postcards and photographs. And in between, two windows look out on a small town, all rendered in a hyper-realistic kind of folk-art style.
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This New York Gallery Has An Unusual Age Limit: No Artists Younger Than 60
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The Carter Burden Gallery in Chelsea only shows works by artists who are at least 60 years old.
Some artists in New York may be wishing to get older faster. A gallery there caters to artists age 60 and older. No kids allowed.
Some 200 artists have exhibited at the Carter Burden Gallery since it opened nine years ago in Chelsea. Business is good, and works sell from $200 to $9,000. It's a lot like hundreds of other galleries in New York — except for one important thing: The Carter Burden has an age limit. Why?
"Older adults do not stop being who they are because they hit a particular age," said gallery director Marlena Vaccaro. "Professional artists never stop doing what we do, and in many cases we get better at it as we go along."
What does change is the art market. With rare exceptions, artists who were hot when they started out found that galleries, and certainly museums, cooled to them as years passed. They kept making art, but weren't being shown or bought. Carter Burden's mission is to give them a wall, "because walls are the thing we need," Vaccaro said.
According to Vaccaro, very few galleries represent older professional artists, unless they're really famous. "And I get that," she said. "Galleries are a business. They need to show artists that are going to bring in big bucks."
Carter Burden is different. It's a nonprofit, supported by a board, a corporate sponsor and philanthropists. "That allows us to show the work that is purely an aesthetic choice, and not be concerned if I'm going to get $25,000 for a painting that sells," Vaccaro explained. "We could not do that if we had to survive just on the sale of the work."
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Google App Goes Viral Making An Art Out Of Matching Faces To Paintings
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Google's app matching faces to famous paintings went viral prompting, a flurry of selfies over the weekend.
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Who can say why some gimmicks take off and others flop? But the Google Arts & Culture app tapped into the zeitgeist over the weekend, until it seemed like just about everyone with access to a camera phone and a social media account was seeking and sharing their famous painting doppelganger.
Forget the fact that Google launched the app and online page in 2016, allowing users to browse a trove of artwork sourced from hundreds of museums worldwide. It was the portrait feature included in last month's update that has spun the selfies into overdrive.
The metric site App Annie said Google Arts & Culture was the No. 1 free app over the weekend. And by Monday, it was still holding on to the spot.
Perhaps users can't resist the vain pleasure of seeing and showcasing their own visages reflected back in a famous work of art.
Or maybe it's just fun.
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A team of artists at NASA
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Nestled among palm trees at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens near Pasadena, Calif., there's a mysterious, metallic structure that curls like a nautilus shell. It's called the Orbit Pavilion, and it was created by a team of artists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratories, or JPL.
Step inside the 17-foot-tall structure and you'll hear otherworldly sounds triggered by the tracking signal of 19 orbiting satellites above Earth.
"All day long they move all around you," says artist Dan Goods. "It's much like listening to a bird sort of flying across the sky. And in this particular case, it's satellites that are helping us understand the Earth."
Goods describes his team as "artists, designers, makers, thinkers helping come up with ways of telling the public about what NASA does, as well as helping scientists and engineers think about the future."
He's speaking from a wood-walled JPL conference room lined with the paintings of stern-faced former directors, including the one who hired him. Goods says, "The director of JPL gave me a six-month opportunity, and that was 14 years ago. What I find is that a lot of really creative people here — we think in similar ways. You know, we're always trying to experiment; we're trying to ask big questions and see where our experiments take us. It's been an amazing place. It's like a playground for nerds here."
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Paintings Of Barack And Michelle Obama Unveiled At Portrait Gallery
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Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama stand next to their newly unveiled portraits during a ceremony Monday at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Brand new portraits of former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama — wearing matching calm, strong expressions — were revealed on Monday at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Kehinde Wiley painted Barack Obama sitting in a chair, elbows in his knees, leaning forward with an intense expression. The background, typical of a Wiley painting, is a riotous pattern of intense greens.
"Pretty sharp," Obama said with a grin.
Amy Sherald, a Baltimore-based artist, painted Michelle Obama sitting in a floor-length gown, chin on her hand, looking directly at the viewer with a calm, level gaze.
The paintings, like the presidency they honor, are a historic first. Wiley and Sherald — both already famous for their portraits of black Americans — are the first black painters to receive a presidential portrait commission from the museum.
Celebrities from Shonda Rimes to Steven Spielberg, former administration officials from Josh Earnest to Eric Holder, and members of the media filed into the Portrait Gallery's expansive, glass-covered central courtyard for the ceremony. Kim Sajet, the director of the gallery, told the audience that a portrait was not truly finished until a viewer, a member of the public, had a personal encounter with it.
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Agents found a stolen Edgar Degas painting inside a suitcase
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During a customs check of a bus along a highway outside Paris, agents found a stolen Edgar Degas painting inside a suitcase. None of the passengers would claim it.
In December 2009, a small painting by Edgar Degas was quietly stolen from the Cantini museum in Marseille, France. Museum staff discovered Les Choristes was missing when they arrived in the morning, and the prosecutor suggested it could be an inside job because the painting had been unscrewed from the wall and there was no evidence of a break-in.
An investigation was launched, but eight years went by and the 1877 painting — worth an estimated $1 million — wasn't seen again.
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Nuclear Power Plants Generate Artistic Inspiration? radioactive jewels..
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Erich Berger and Mari Keto have made radioactive jewels, part of their Inheritance Project, that are unwearable by humans — and remain locked in a concrete vault equipped with radiation measurement devices.
Vincent Ialenti is a MacArthur Nuclear Waste Solutions Fellow at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. He holds a PhD in anthropology from Cornell University and an MSc in Law, Anthropology & Society from the London School of Economics.
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These nuclear critics' and advocates' motivations may seem worlds apart. But what inspires me, as an anthropologist, is their common humanity. They have each, in their own ways, found inspiration in the most unlikely of places — challenging us to approach familiar nuclear energy technologies from fresh, outside-the-box angles.
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Jasper Johns exhibition at The Broad museum in Los Angeles
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Jasper Johns, pictured in his New York City studio in 1964, was known for transforming common objects like flags, numerals and archery targets into unsettling paintings.
A guide at the Jasper Johns exhibition at The Broad museum in Los Angeles smiles. Then she urges: "Go look at that one."
Brianna MacGillivray points at "Flags," from 1965. The painting is enigmatic, yet direct — much like the artist.
He's painted two rectangles on a gray background. The top one has black stars against an orange background; the stripes are black and green. There's a tiny white dot on one of the green stripes. Below this rectangle is another one, all gray.
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Carol Ann Waldron painting
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Carol Ann Waldron was born in Dublin in 1948. She spent her childhood and early years in the County Wexford village of Oulart and subsequently her family moved to Greystones, County Wicklow and it is here that Waldron now lives and works.
Waldron is a primarily self-taught artist. Having learned the basic techniques of painting, she is of the opinion that creativity is either present or not and while it can be nurtured and nourished, it cannot be taught.
