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“Upcycle” and just got a whole new meaning.  Chris Gilmour creates realistic life-sized sculptures of everyday objects.  His attention to detail makes his work familiar and relatable to his viewers.  His medium of choice? Cardboard and glue.  Nothing else.  No supporting structure, no metal composition.  What was once disposable is now worthy of a glass [...]

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Leave it to the 120 year-old Strand Magazine to unveil a previously-unpublished short story written decades ago by a now-deceased literary icon.  The very magazine that broke ground for legendary authors like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie still has quite a bit up its sleeve in the world of literature.  That’s right: Pull [...]

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**UPDATE: April 3, 2012. Google relaunched today with 151 collections, over 30,000 works from around the world & streetview in 46 museums. The same website address applies to the newly-designed project.** Introducing Google.com’s newest innovation: Art Project.  Launching today with 17 participating museums from around the world, Google presents over a thousand works of art [...]

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If you’ve walked along Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan this week, chances are you saw a slew of 25-foot rose sculptures (Come on, they’re pretty hard to miss!). What perfect timing it is for Will Ryman’s playful sculptural project “The Roses” as inches of snow gather on the ground around us!  As the Art Add [...]

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Want to share a cab ride with Chuck Close? Perhaps you already have, if you’re a New Yorker. Through the end of the month, many cabs in the city are displaying works of art by Close and painter Kehinde Wiley in the ad space that rests on the roofs of 500 taxis citywide. Show Media, [...]

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Well the hunt for graffiti artist Banksy’s true identity continues after an eBay auction which claimed to solve the mystery was shut down by ebay.  The name of the famous street artist has been unknown for as long as his eye-catching murals started popping up along the streets of London.  The quest of the public [...]

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art plans to launch a new component to their website tomorrow, called Connections. The concept of the interactive online video series is to introduce 4-minute weekly videos that invite individual staff members to speak about their personal perspectives on works within the museum. Joining the video will be 3 elemental structures [...]

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For The Whitney Museum in New York City, it’s out with the old and in with the new.  The building that has, until soon, housed the museum has been called an eyesore and it has been called an iconic NYC landmark; but, love it or hate it, this architectural work will soon have a new [...]

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Mmm, It’s wintertime and it smells so good. Holiday baking, including one of my favorite scents in the world: vanilla extract! About 12 dessert varieties, an unhealthy amount of raw cookie dough eaten, and 3 days later, sweets and treats were ready for Christmas Day! I can’t decide on my favorite, but I’m thinking it’s [...]

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Holy Moley, I feel like a Jetson.  Artistic expression meets technological advances. Ultimate creativity fuses with voyeurism and controversy.  All in response to the latest project of Wafaa Balil, artist and photography professor at New York University.  Balil voluntarily risked his bodily safety and the privacy of all those around him as he takes new [...]

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