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Nat Finkelstein, whose photographs of Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick and the Velvet Underground are among the most famous images of Warhol’s Factory and its revolving cast of characters, died on Oct. 2 at his home in Shandaken, N.Y. He was 76.

Do you live in a state that values the arts? If you do, chances are that you may have more artistic and design career opportunities. How can you know? With the data we have collected, you will be able to compare and contrast your state’s spending on the arts. While how much money a state spends on the arts is ...

EIKONOSTASIS EXHIBITION: Illustrations by Stephanie M.T. Krehbiel A Swiss/English illustrator, photographer and (web/graphic) designer, graduated Magna Cum Laude in May 2009 from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond with a Bachelor of Fine Art in Communication Arts (BFA). Krëhbiëls’ work has been featured in The Anderson Gallery on West Franklin Street in Richmond in a two-year period and three shows in a ...

 LEGEND HAS IT that a young L. Ron Hubbard once bragged to his friends that he was going to start a religion and make a million dollars. We all know how that went. Less known is a far smaller rogue offshoot of Scientology that exerted disproportionate influence on late-1960s and early-’70s bohemian culture in London, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and other epicenters ...

Ralph Lauren model Filippa Hamilton has been at the center of a disastrous Photoshop controversy where ad designers appear to have deleted half her midsection. Now, the clothing company has fired her as a result of "her inability to meet the obligations under her contract." In an interview on the Today show, Hamilton, 23, claimed she was fired for being too ...

London, UK —This year, Frieze’s organizers decided to spruce up the fair with a new section, Frame, featuring solo shows by 29 young galleries. On preview day, the section took a while to start buzzing, but once they made it past Zwirner and Gagosian and the other heavy hitters in the main section, many collectors made it over to the youth ...

LONDON—Shortly after the 11 a.m. opening bell for VIP visitors to Frieze, a collector was seen gasping after stumbling over a pair of black athletic socks lying on the floor of Hauser & Wirth’s booth. "Is it art?" he muttered, alarmed. Well, yes, it is. Swiss prankster Christoph Büchel, who back at Art Basel in June made found artworks out of ...

Paris, FRA - Pierre Soulages went back to black before it was the fashion. For a major retrospective of the 89-year-old French painter's work, the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris is dressed up with his giant, abstract, all-black canvases. For aficionados of the color, there is shiny black, matte black, black with gashes in it, black with ripples, black with a ...

London, UK - The British capital's cutting-edge art sale kicks off Thursday, but cautious collectors may be cutting back. Although London's annual Frieze Art Fair has all the usual weirdness - works include a ghostly white tree, molten red computer mice and garlands with breast-shaped balloons - exhibitors say the fair has lost much of its former frenzy. "It's a different ...

Pittsburgh, PA - The next big thing in green building design might be to turn an existing idea on its side. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. recently installed a green wall the size of two tennis courts on one side of its headquarters in downtown Pittsburgh. Green walls are like green roofs. They're covered in vegetation and provide the benefits of ...

An excellent understanding of color is a must for artists and designers. A strong knowledge of color relationships will take you far in your career. See if you can guess which relationships are stronger than others. Lauren Krause is an experienced design blogger for CreativeCurio.com. Read her informative analysis of successful color combinations and color theory. h2. "Find the secrets here.":http://artbistro.monster.com/news/articles/9889-color-secrets-revealed ...

This undated photo provided Wednesday Oct. 14, 2009 by Lumiere Technology in Paris shows a fingerprint on a painting that art experts believe to be a new Leonardo da Vinci. Peter Paul Biro, a Montreal-based forensic art expert, said Tuesday that a fingerprint on what was presumed a 19th-century German painting of a young woman has convinced art experts that it's ...

Your company’s website is the number one communications platform for promoting and expressing your brand and in turn for positioning and selling your products and services. How does this affect your marketing strategy? How will people remember your name or find your website? The survival of a communications tool from the “old media” of print will be based on how ...

WASHINGTON - The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is starting a new program that could reinvent arts education for schools struggling with budget cuts and fewer art teachers, organizers said Friday. The pilot "Any Given Child" project announced Friday for schools in Sacramento, Calif., could be expanded to as many as three cities each year, the center said. ...

WASHINGTON - The National Gallery of Art, which is acquiring the extensive personal collection of artist Jasper Johns, will open an exhibit Sunday showing his working proofs as independent pieces of art for the first time. "Editions with Additions: Working Proofs by Jasper Johns" includes 42 works on paper that show how Johns refined his technique and style over time. The ...

Drawing on a consumer desire to relax, retreat and create a calm, soothing environment at home, The Valspar Corporation -- a leader in the paint and coatings industry -- today reveals its 2010 color trend palettes. Each of the four palettes -- Watercolor Impression, Retro Retreat, Vintage Romance and Peaceful Ambiance -- is comprised of eight colors, providing an assortment of ...

Dallas, TX - After years of planning, Monday was finally curtain time for Dallas' $354 million performing arts center. About 200 people attended an early-morning dedication ceremony outside the striking new Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House and the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, both part of the new AT&T Performing Arts Center.The red opera house, with its large canopy, and ...

New York, NY - Galleries don’t need many visitors to survive. They just need a few of the right visitors — people willing to spend money. As Barbara Gladstone once told New York magazine, “You don’t sell four times as many pieces if four times as many people come in.” That is the ethos of the hundreds of galleries that inhabit ...

I just wanted to let everyone know that the Art Institute of Colorado is redecorating their stairwells; the one on the southside of the building is being painted by alumni, while the one on the northside has been given over to the students. The theme is the tree of learning, and we hope to have it finished by Christmas 2009.