We believe that art has the power to change people and raise their interest in a greater cause.
Because the best abstract art has the power to cut through the rigid conventions of direct representation and externalize interior essences to show us things not as they look, but as they are.
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If art has the power to encourage the public to act, to move them emotionally, or at the very least take notice, then this surely must mean art is a vital element in creating impact regarding climate change.
The Hong Kong event, which closed on Sunday, is the first time Art Basel has appeared in the Asian city, which has emerged in recent years as a major art hub for the region.
But whatever the contradictions of a life designed to provoke and dazzle, Philip Johnson ceaselessly promoted architecture as the art that has shaped the great monuments and cities of history, and he sincerely believed that we owe the future a legacy of equal value.
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Mr. Black is one of a handful of billionaires whose lavish art spending has transformed the international art market in recent years, fueling the proliferation of art fairs and ratcheting up prices for all sorts of artworks.
Since his death in 2006, the gamut of video art has increased dramatically, as has the accessibility, courtesy of YouTube.
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The theft of treasure is nothing new--it is one of folklore's most persistent themes--but thanks to novels, films and the newspaper headlines, art theft has captured the public's imagination like few other types of crime have.
The box art has also debuted for all the various box copies.
The top end of the art market has escaped many of the problems faced by the wider global economy, with new records consistently being set for individual artists.
The enthusiasm for aboriginal art has encouraged artists to venture beyond the more primitive style and has turned some of them into well-paid stars.
But now, in a Washington that has elevated the concept of self-unawareness to an art form, the SEC has ruled in favor of a regulation that ensures opaqueness when it comes to the true value of stock prices.
The year 2010, in which China overtook Europe to become the second-largest art market after the United States, has been described as an annus mirabilis for Chinese art collecting as wealthy Chinese from all levels of the new society chose art and objects as tangible assets, suitable for investment, trading and bragging rights beyond simple display.
Golding's renown as an art historian has obscured the fact that he considered painting his primary occupation.
The art of storytelling has been around since the beginning of time, from the Lascaux Paleolithic cave paintings through Homer and Shakespeare.
Every time one of them has appeared on the art market it has been cause for a great rousing of passions.
Fine Art is simply the art of the past that has survived this sieving by history.
But the most intriguing force behind the campaign's pace lies in the way technology has changed the art and practice of both campaigning and fund-raising.
The overheated art market of the 1980s has cooled only a little since, and is still way beyond the means of many interested in owning a piece of collectible art.
William Bailey, a top-notch painter, printmaker and respected professor of art at Yale University, has been on the art scene since the late 1960s.
And while the FBI says it has identified the art thieves, it does not know where the paintings themselves are.
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Instead of crushing the ball, Radwanska has mastered the art of misdirection.
The Prada Foundation, the brand's charitable art branch, has helped restore the Venetian palazzo Ca' Corner Della Regina for use as an exhibition space.
The proposal is only in the very early talking stages (the Times reports that the Los Angeles County Museum of Art also has its eye on the piece, which is unbuilt).
Basically state of the art Android has caught up with iOS and even surpassed it in the eyes of many except the diehard Apple fans.
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The haunting effect of Ensor's sea of masked figures, who cascade toward us on a surging, endless tide, is due in part, as the art historian Patricia Berman has described, to the collapsing perspectives and multiple viewpoints the artist employed to create a sense of chaos.
The original Tate, redesignated Tate Britain, now houses the permanent collection of British art, while Tate Modern has the rest.
The gift reflects the outsized ambitions the retail-chain family has for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, a complex of eight gallery pavilions it has helped build around a pair of ponds in the company's northwestern Arkansas hometown of Bentonville (population 35, 301).
Relative newcomer Prada, on the other hand, is going public: The company's art arm, the Fondazione Prada, has enlisted architect Rem Koolhaas to design a new contemporary art museum on an industrial site south of Milan.
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