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In the palazzo's former wine cellar, the Strozzina Contemporary Culture Center offers a parallel exhibition called "American Dreamers: Reality and Imagination in Contemporary American Art, " with fascinating visions of fantasy worlds conjured up by 11 American artists working hands-on, crafting their materials paint, canvas, paper, found objects, fabric, bones in a countercurrent to conceptual pretensions.
WSJ: Americans Invigorate Florence | 'Sargent and American Impressionists' at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence
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When tech companies die, their patent caches live on, often falling into the hands of shakedown artists.
WSJ: Should Patents Be Awarded to Software?
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Now that art is moving inexorably back into the hands of the artists themselves, whole new universes of creativity are opening up.
FORBES: Sounding Off
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One district in northern China is famous for producing artists who walk on their hands, juggle tableware and twist themselves into knots in other words, acrobats.
NPR: The Acrobats of China's Wuqiao County
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The job-seeking artists are asked to demonstrate their steady hands by carefully filling it in, making it bold enough for it to be recognised by a reader application.
ENGADGET: Alt-week 2.24.13: Mapping the brain, discovering dark matter and our inevitable, grizzly end
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We admire artists and artisans who make things with their hands yet we often overlook the concept when it comes to working with our minds.
FORBES: Leadership as Craftsmanship: Three Ways to Practice It
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If he can work the technical magic a second time, fans will be able to get their hands on music collections from even the most obscure of artists who have little chance of getting distributed today all courtesy of the Internet.
ECONOMIST: Roll-your-own CDs roll on
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Physics may tell us that photography should simply be a record of what can be seen, yet these artists show that it can be so much more when in the right hands, often revealing that which cannot be seen.
BBC: Documentary photography on show
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But even if the rip-off artists are chased away, we have another, equally monumental problem on our hands.
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