Guests who walked in at The Armory were bathed in a bright yellow light through a huge sun, an installation inspired by the artist Olafur Eliasson.

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In conjunction with the art organization Juanelear, Max's Supper Club operates twice a month, serving a five-course meal that has been inspired by an artist.

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Moore's work in textiles was inspired by his aims as an artist after the second world war, particularly his belief, as a Socialist, that art could be a cohesive force in society, bringing together communities through creative public projects.

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At the Queens Museum, where the significance of water is one of the themes, several competent, if mundane, marine paintings compete with Winslow Homer's superb 1888 etching, "Perils of the Sea, " whose presence here is puzzling, since it was inspired by the artist's stay at an English fishing village.

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They could be an artist, author, athlete or musician, who has inspired or moved you in some way.

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In the Gavinda Gallery in Washington, DC, an exhibition of photo collages, romantic images of ethereal, beautiful faces inspired, says the artist, by the works of the Greek poet Sappho and by the artist's father.

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