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Tuesday September 25, 2012

Print-Inspired Art: All The News That's Fit To Paint

Alfredo Ramos Martinez painted Head of a Nun, tempera on newspaper, in 1934. Gerard Vuilleumier/The Alfredo Ramos Martinez Research Project, Reproduced by Permission hide caption

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Print-Inspired Art: All The News That's Fit To Paint

September 25, 2012 • Newsprint is both the medium and the message in the "Shock of the News" exhibit currently on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The show examines a century's worth of interaction between artists and the journals of their day.

Print-Inspired Art: All The News That's Fit To Paint

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Saturday September 22, 2012

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A Photographer's Ode To Unsung Artists

September 22, 2012 • Here's a photographer you probably don't know, but who's worth a closer look.

Thursday September 20, 2012

Photographing Literature's Famous Food Scenes

"The kitchen table was loaded with enough food to bury the family: hunks of salt pork, tomatoes, beans, even scuppernongs." (To Kill a Mockingbird) Dinah Fried hide caption

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Dinah Fried

Photographing Literature's Famous Food Scenes

September 20, 2012 • What are scuppernongs? Scout's meal in To Kill a Mockingbird is just one of many re-created and captured by Dinah Fried.

Wednesday September 19, 2012

The Landscape Art Legacy Of Florida's Highwaymen

Alfred Hair, Harold Newton, Al Black, James Gibson and Mary Ann Carroll were all part of the original Highwaymen. Photos by Gary Monroe hide caption

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Photos by Gary Monroe

The Landscape Art Legacy Of Florida's Highwaymen

September 19, 2012 • The Highwaymen were a group of African-American artists in the '60s and '70s who sold idyllic paintings by the roadside of Florida's Route 1. Back then, they nearly saturated the market with their pictures, but today their work is sought after by the likes of Steven Spielberg and Michelle Obama.

The Landscape Art Legacy Of Florida's Highwaymen

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Monday September 10, 2012

For Museum, Long-Lost Picasso Is Too Costly To Keep

Industrial designer Raymond Loewy purchased Pablo Picasso's Seated Woman with Red Hat (or Femme assise au chapeau rouge) in 1957 and gifted it to the Evansville Museum in the '60s. AP/Courtesy Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science, Michael Wheatley hide caption

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Fine Art

For Museum, Long-Lost Picasso Is Too Costly To Keep

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September 10, 2012 • For more than 40 years, Pablo Picasso's Seated Woman with Red Hat went unnoticed in the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science's storage area. Now that it's resurfaced, the Indiana museum says it can't afford to insure the multimillion-dollar artwork.

For Museum, Long-Lost Picasso Is Too Costly To Keep

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Sunday September 9, 2012

Are All Young Artists 'Post-9/11' Artists?

Knitting Is for Pus**** is a work by crochet sculptor Olek. He has created an entire apartment blanketed in brightly colored, crocheted camouflage. Olek/Courtesy Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York, N.Y. hide caption

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Fine Art

Are All Young Artists 'Post-9/11' Artists?

September 9, 2012 • In the 40 Under 40 exhibit at the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery, young artists bring modern-day technology together with old-fashioned craft techniques. Curator Nicholas Bell says it is a worldview and artistic approach "defined by the angst, the unease, the trepidation, the difficulties of the 21st century."

Are All Young Artists 'Post-9/11' Artists?

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Wednesday September 5, 2012

The Picture Show

100 Words: Photographer Meike Nixdorf On Perspective

September 5, 2012 • By moving your perspective slightly, you might find a whole new story.

Tuesday September 4, 2012

Bridging The Gap Between Two Neighborhoods

An illustration for a park proposed for Washington's old 11th Street Bridge. If realized, the park would span the Anacostia River, linking the Capitol Hill neighborhood with lower-income Anacostia. Ed Estes/Courtesy of D.C. Office of Planning hide caption

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Cities Project

Bridging The Gap Between Two Neighborhoods

September 4, 2012 • In the nation's capital, park planners have drawn up an ambitious plan to transform an old bridge into an active recreation space. If realized, the park would offer a physical and symbolic link between two very different communities.

Bridging The Gap Between Two Neighborhoods

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Thursday August 30, 2012

Culture

Destination Art

August 30, 2012 • This summer, NPR's Destination Art series is going off the beaten path to visit small to mid-sized North American cities that have cultivated lively arts scenes.

Hannibal, Mo.: Art Abounds In Twain's Hometown

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Destination Art

Hannibal, Mo.: Art Abounds In Twain's Hometown

August 30, 2012 • Mark Twain found the inspiration for his classic works while growing up in the river town of Hannibal, Mo. Today, there's a new set of artistic characters in Twain's boyhood home; the town of 18,000 boasts a vibrant arts community.

Hannibal, Mo.: Art Abounds In Twain's Hometown

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Wednesday August 29, 2012

Entirely Real Photos: Model Or Headless Disney Mascot?

A model walks down the runway during the Maria Sofia Bahlner S/S 2013 Fashion Show from the Swedish School of Textiles during the Mercedes-Benz Stockholm Fashion Week. Andreas Rentz/Getty Images hide caption

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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Entirely Real Photos: Model Or Headless Disney Mascot?

August 29, 2012 • We stop to ponder an interesting piece of Stockholm fashion.

Pan Kodicek at his apartment, Kolin, Czech Republic, July 2012 Dennis Darling hide caption

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Dennis Darling

The Picture Show

Portraits Of Holocaust Survivors

August 29, 2012 • Not many survivors of a concentration camp near Prague remain living, and Dennis Darling hopes to photograph them.

Tuesday August 28, 2012

The Salt

Grow Your Own Locust Kit Could Someday Help Feed African Refugees

August 28, 2012 • Insects, such as locust and grasshoppers, are a cheap source of protein that requires minimum resources to farm. Taking advantage of these properties, two design students have built an emergency food kit that allows families in a Kenyan refugee camp to grow their own source of protein--locust.

Sunday August 26, 2012

'A Contest Of Wits': A Former Forger Recalls His Art

After John F. Herring by Ken Perenyi, circa 1989. Courtesy of Pegasus Books hide caption

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Author Interviews

'A Contest Of Wits': A Former Forger Recalls His Art

August 26, 2012 • Ken Perenyi made millions painting and selling more than 1,000 forgeries over 30 years. He's imitated the likes of Charles Bird King and James Buttersworth — and confesses it all in his new book, Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger.

'A Contest Of Wits': A Former Forger Recalls His Art

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Saturday August 25, 2012

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Courtesy of MPTA

Participation Nation

Art Of Mentoring In Minneapolis, Minn.

August 25, 2012 • Mentoring Peace Through Art paints local businesses with murals.