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What Price Beauty? One Artist's Take

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 11.10.2009 | Style

Read More: Women's Rights, Rachel Hovnanian, Sculpture, Pageantry, Power and Burden of Beauty, Jason McCoy Gallery, Beauty, Beauty Pageants, Style News
Kimberly Brooks

Artist Rachel Havnonian challenges viewers to think critically about the price we pay for beauty--both literally and figuratively.

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The Material of Public Art

Mark Mennin | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Artists, Artworld, New York City, Plastics, Plastic Art, Green Architecture, Green Art, Sculpture, Architecture, Biodegradable, Organic Art Materials, Corten Steel, Green News
Mark Mennin

The production of plastics, a synthetic, may be greener than the overall impact from fashioning art out of wood, what would seem to be the most organic material.

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Canstruction Builds Art For Food Banks

Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 10.13.2009 | Impact

Read More: Canned Food, Global, Contest, Art, Hunger, Donation, Volunteering, Sculpture, Impact News

Architects, engineers, and students in 130 cities are competing this fall to design and build giant sculptures made entirely from cans of food. Canstr...

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Nine Sculptures by Carole Eisner on Broadway This Fall

Susan Eley | Posted 10.03.2009 | New York

Read More: Contemporary Art, Susan Eley Fine Art, Carole Eisner, Public Sculpture, Carole Eisner Sculpture, Carole Eisner on Broadway, The Broadway Mall Association, Sculpture, Carole Eisner Art, Sculptures in NYC, New York News
Susan Eley

This fall, pedestrians along Broadway can enjoy the major exhibition of nine monumental sculptures by Carole Eisner, situated in the malls along the avenue from 64th through 166th.

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Will Ryman: A New Beginning in Full Bloom

Ashley Van Buren | Posted 09.25.2009 | New York

Read More: Urban Garden, Art, Sculptor, Sculpture, Roses, Artist, New York, Will Ryman, A New Beginning, Marlborough Gallery, New York News
Ashley Van Buren

Seeing Ryman's art is a bit like walking up and down the grid streets of Manhattan, surrounded by buildings in various states of completion -- an architect's work, like an artist's, on display for all to see.

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Artist As Citizen: Judge Our Climate Contest

Richard Reiss | Posted 09.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Art, Education, Filmmaking, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Sculpture, Design, Artists, Climate Change, Photo Essay, Global Warming, Artist as Citizen, The Future, Risk, Communication, Mit, Green News
Richard Reiss

Over the summer, we set a couple of dozen creative students the task of describing the risk from climate change, as framed in the most recent IPCC and MIT reports.

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Women in Hip-Hop: The B-girl Be Festival

Lauri Lyons | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Afrika Bambaataa, Tommy Boy Records, Rapper's Delight, Spray Paint, Urban Culture, South Bronx, Salt -N- Pepa, Female Rappers, Music, Mc's, 1970's, Spinderella, Angie Stone, Planet Rock, Aerosol Paint, Africa, Graffiti, Soul Music, Martial Arts, African-American, Women, Sugar Hill Gang, Rap, Brazil, Sugar Hill Records, Hip-Hop, Mc Lyte, Jazzy Joyce, Dancing, 1981, Microphone, Breakdancing, Soul Sonic Force, Capoiera, Dj, The Sequence, 1979, Monica Lynch, Sylvia Robinson, Turntables, Costumes, Black Women, Clothing, Harris Publications, Whitney Museum of Art, Business, Vh1, Stylist, Hip Hop Records, The Oscars, Photographers, Spotlight, Image Makers, Editors, DJ Beverly Bond, Publicist, Behind the Scenes, Magazines, Music Careers, Queen Latifah, Bet, Hip-Hop Films, Fox Network, Denise Dee Barnes, Wendy Williams, Female Graffiti Artists, Fetish, Art, Mtv, Choreographers, Subways, Living Single, Pump It Up!, Hot 97, Multi-Tasking, The Source Magazine, The Wendy Williams Show, Photography, Guidence, Murals, Mentoring, 1990's, Cover Girl, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Flip Mode Squad, Images, Apparel, Wild Style, Lady Pink, Sarah A. Friedman, Eve, New York City, Music Videos, Dancers, Black Girls Rock Inc!, XXL Magazine, Costume Design, Entrepreneurers, Vibe Magazine, Art Museums, Viacom, June Ambrose, Leadership, Alumni, Jennifer Lopez, Elements, Michelle Spaise, Minneapolis, TV Shows, Curator, J-Lo, Exhibitions, Rosie Perez, Making the Band, Future, Past, B-Girl Be, Living Color, Festivals, B-Girl, Painting, Tv, Fly Girls, Unleash, Theresa Sweetland, Politics, Video, Political Activism, Female Artists, Art Festival, Laurie Ann Gibson, Education, Tv Sitcoms, Spike Lee, Midwest, Deanna Cummings, Minnesota, Expression, Mama, Television, Activism, Mama Said Knock U Out, Brewing, Do the Right Thing, Concerts, Lauri Lyons, Social Activism, Visual Art, Women in Hip-Hop, Mother, Communication, Intermedia Arts, Sculpture, Commissions, faith47, Sound, Cinema, Music Downloads, Arts Education, Installations, Mixed Media, Art Commistions, Roxanne Shante, Martha Cooper, Marketplace, Fashion, Museums, Art World, Block Parties, Albums, Textiles, October, Youth, Film, Streets, Records, September, Girls, Youth Programs, Cd's, Recording Technology, History, Technology, College, Balls, Music History, Belle, Music School, Universities, Money, Comeback, Scholarship, Undergraduate, School, Diploma, Language, Hip-Hop Studies, Fellowship, Mcnally Smith School of Music, Recording, Music Business, Author, Fab Five Freddie, Flag International, Video Music Box, Yo! Mtv Raps, Flag an American Story, The Bridge, Ralph Mcdaniels, Vinyl Records, Prince, Juxtaposition Arts, Stefskills, Sarah White, Jennifer Rasinski, Corinne Santiago, C-Rocka, Keegan Xavi, Jessica Kitzman, Janelle Olson, Toofly, Tiffany Smith, Niz, Lichiban, Katrina Knutson, Jamel Shabbaz, Tamiko Mitchel, Erotica 67, Motel 7, Ladykfever, Monica Kelly, Amanda Lopez, Abeni Garrett, Desdamona, Catiesha Pierson, B-Fresh, Wendy Williams Show, Alice Mizrachi, Niz Graphics, Kanye West, Chanel Kennebrew, Shannon Joyce, Manifesto Festival, VH-1 Hip-Hop Honors, MTV VMA, Michaela Angela Davis, Essence Magazine, Dream Hampton, Amsterdam, London, South Africa, Charlie Ahearn, Henry Chalfant, Japan, Jamaica, Walker Art Center, Toronto, France, Cuba, In the Frame, Harvard, Rhode Island School of Design, Zimbabwe, Barcelona, Argentina, San Francisco, Represent Inc., International Center of Photography, Berlin, Germany, Belgium, Spraycan Art, James Prigoff, Puerto Rico, Powerhouse, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Mexico, Sao Paulo, Norway, Paris, Star Tribune, Kulture Klub, Tokyo, Mexico City, Bronx, Zulu Nation, Hip-Hop Degree, Kimora Lee Simmon, Baby Phat, U.K., Russell Simmons, Phat Farm, Getty Images, Icp, Somalia, Somalis, Bling a Planet Rock, Raquel Cepeda, Entertainment News
Lauri Lyons

When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.

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How to Green Your Art Collection

Avital Binshtock | Posted 09.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Artisans, Sculpture, Green, Earth, Conservation, Artists, Painting, Paper, Soy, Recycling, Art, Diy, Environment, Sustainability, Endangered Species, Climate Change, Global Warming, National Parks, Ink, Green News
Avital Binshtock

If you're an art collector, aficionado, or appreciator, these four tips should help you shift your collection (or simply the way you see art) into a more earth-minded endeavor.

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Can Mothers Be Artists?

Heather Cabot | Posted 05.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Painters, Who-Does-She-Think-She-Is, Motherhood, Artists, Art, Sculpture, The Well Mom, Heather Cabot, Living News
Heather Cabot

As we watched our preschoolers take turns in the sand with shovels and pails this morning, I realized that for the first time in a while, we weren't venting about our creative frustration.

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Interview: Steve Miller

Hillary Newman | Posted 04.02.2009 | Green

Read More: East Hampton, Art, Hamptons, Sculpture, Environment, Science, Gallery, X-Ray-Screening, Technology, Green News
Hillary Newman

There is nothing more exciting than to look at the promise of the day making art.

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B.A. Szerlip: Books As Sculpture

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 03.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Kimberly Brooks, Art, B.A. Szerlip, Books, Sculpture, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

We've come a long way since books were hand copied treasures mostly locked behind the libraries of the monastaries by the clergy before Gutenberg set ...

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Out of the Ordinary

Suzanne Deal Booth | Posted 02.13.2009 | Style

Read More: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art, Lacma, Museums, Sculpture, Contemporary Art, Painting, Los Angeles, Style News
Suzanne Deal Booth

it's not surprising that LACMA has come so far. Its director, Michael Govan has transformed the institution he once called a "sleeping giant." The evolution started where it should, with the art.

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Recycled Light Has Never Been So Beautiful...

Hillary Newman | Posted 01.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Green Living, Sculpture, Art, Environmental, Recycled Art, Green, Ecosystems, Environment, Eco-Friendly, Environmentalism, Light Fixtures, Plastic Bottles, Green News
Hillary Newman

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Why Art Matters

Mary Boone | Posted 01.16.2009 | Style

Read More: Art, Artwork, Paintings, Works of Art, Public Art, Museums, Sculpture, Painting, Arts Education, Style News
Mary Boone

Art matters because looking at a beautiful painting or sculpture gives us an experience that nothing else can.

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Electric Kool-Aid Art Test: Mike Quinn

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 10.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Drug Addiction, Tom Wolfe, Painting, Fine Art, Sculpture, Addiction, Kimberly Brooks, Drugs, Mike Quinn, Disney, Lsd, Fantasia, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

This week is the 40th Anniversary of Tom Wolfe's famous "Electric Kook-Aid Acid Test" and I thought it would be high time we take a small moment to re...

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Gone, But Not Forgotten

Victoria Lautman | Posted 09.29.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Painting, Muriel Newman, Metropolitan Museum, Jackson Pollock, Abstract Expressionists, Art Collectors, Sculpture, Art, Art Institute, Muriel Kallis Steinberg, Chicago News
Victoria Lautman

It seems like the end of an era: Chicago's own art-collector and bon vivant Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman died last week at age 94.

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Forget Jeff Koons: Try a Pomegranate...

Victoria Lautman | Posted 09.21.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Jeff Koons, Fine Art, Sculpture, Pomegranates, Art, Art Installation, Grenades, Fine Arts Building, Grenade Art, August in Chicago, Chicago Art, War on Terror Art, Anti-Koons, Finestra Gallery, Muse, Barbara Koenen, Barbara Koenen Jeff Koons, Pomegranate Grenade, Chicago Musuems, Chicago Galleries, Chicago News
Victoria Lautman

Here is an installation that bravely and wildly exposes the creative process, throws it in front of your face, in all its messy, hand-made, stream-of-consciousness glory. It's literally like peering into the mind of an artist, and in this case an extremely talented, witty, thoughtful one.

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Being a Mother is the Ultimate Artist: Alexis Weidig

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.18.2008 | Living

Read More: Alexis Weidig, Mother's Day, Nancy Spero, Annette Messanger, Eva Hesse, Ann Hamilton, Sculpture, Louise Bourgeois, Artist, Painting, Fine Art, Kiki Smith, Kimberly Brooks, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

As a mother and artist, there's no doubt that my greatest works of art, the magical moving 3D beings whose personalities evolve and grow each day, are...

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