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Arts and Humanities
Our guides bring you up-to-date information on Arts and Humanities. Art is an abstract and subjective quality. It can be studied, but can not be objectively measured, counted, weighed, or absolutely compared; it can only appeal to the viewer's or audience's personal senses.
It was with great surprise that I opened up a recent New Yorker magazine to find a special offer from MasterCard offering me a commissioned portrait by the famous New York artist and film director Julian Schnabel. This credit card incentive offer was ..
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1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die, a Book ReviewIt would be easy for one person to make a list of their top ten favorite paintings. But how can one person collaborate with dozens of others to create an exhaustive and weighty book entitled,..
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I live in an impoverished part of the world that doesn’t give much weight or credibility to the notion of arts education. While reading, writing and math are stressed and encouraged, music and art as subject matter is perceived as whimsical, recreational and unnecessary...
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Who Was Vincent Van Gogh?The artwork of Post-Impressionist Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh is today some of the most expensive and highly prized art in the world. Starry Night, Crows in a Wheatfield, Sunflowers and Irises are all some of Van Gogh’s paintings that have all become iconi..
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I work part-time at a book store in a book-reading town in the mountains of Appalachia. I often get asked about the nuts and bolts of forming a book club by ladies who would like to start their own group, so I have compiled some helpful tips below. Keep It Small..
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Wade Wharton is a 70-year-old artist living in Huntsville, Alabama who has spent the last 40 years transforming an ordinary urban home into an outsider work of environmental art. In a story worthy of a chapter in a book by Oliver Sacks, Wharton says he became an artist after a stroke in 1974 that ch..
(Read full article on Huntsville, Alabama Tells Artist To Clean Up Work)
Sports and ArtWhile sports and art seem like very different activities, they are both basic forms of human expression. As we gear up this year for the Olympics in China, here are some ramblings about the Olympics and art, as well as a few contemporary sports ..
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It’s springtime again, and I have created a springtime art project to take to my son’s 5th grade class later in April. This project is designed to introduce children ages 8-13 to the art of Georgia O’Keefe and watercolor painting using Kool-Aid o..
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By now we have all heard of the Emperors Club VIP, the high-class house of prostitution that brought down New York Governor Eliot Spitzer in March 2008. But the Emperors Club not only sells time with high-end prostitutes, the Club also sells high-end contempor..
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So you want to draw? Where do you start, and what should you buy, art material wise? First, go to your local discount department store and buy a common, everyday fishing tackle box. You can go to an art supp..
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