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"Street art" draws attention of the public, potential investors, and law enforcement

Blek le Rat, the man who gave birth to Banksy http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article4066727.ece Banksy [Macromedia Flash Player] http://www.banksy.co.uk/ Tate Modern: Street Art http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/streetart/default.shtm TIME: Art of the Street Photo...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/2008/0613
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150 Years 150 Works: Canadian Art as Historical Act

From the Galerie de l'UQAM at the University of Quebec at Montreal comes 150 Years 150 Works (150 Ans 150 Oeuvres), a virtual exhibition of "works that have in some way shaped or changed...[Canada's] history over the past century and a half." This virtual exhibition, which is available in French and in English, features one artwork created in every year between 1867 (Jean Paul Lemieux ...

https://150ans150oeuvres.uqam.ca/en/
1850s & 1860s Hotel and Restaurant Menus

The University of Houston has increased its digital offerings in recent years to allow visitors to make their way through everything from home retail pamphlets from the 1920s to copper plate engravings from Theodor de Bry's "Grandes Voyages." This particular collection offers users access to 80 different menus from the 1850s and 1860s. The menus are taken from establishments that were located all...

https://digitalcollections.lib.uh.edu/collections/g158bj49n?...
2010 Whitney Biennial

Your portal for all things related to the Whitney Museum's signature exhibition, 2020 Whitney Biennial features video, images, an events calendar, how to purchase the catalog, and links to download audio tour guides, playable on whatever device visits the show with you. Begun as an annual exhibition in 1932, the 2010 Biennial is the 75th anniversary edition of the show. Although most prior...

https://whitney.org/exhibitions/2010-biennial
30,000 pumpkins appear in the middle of Boston and a world record is broken

A love in Common for pumpkins http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/10/22/a_love_in_common_for_pumpkins/ Morton, Illinois: The Pumpkin Capital of the World http://www.pumpkincapital.com/ Big Pumpkins.com http://www.bigpumpkins.com/ Pumpkin Recipes http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/find/results?search=pumpkin Pumpkin Carving 101 http://www.pumpkincarving101.com/ Its...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/2006/1027
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50 Watts

50 Watts is a website dedicated to book design and illustration. Curated by Will Schofield, who works in publishing and loves to collect books, the site features colorful art and design from around the world and across centuries. Visitors can search this impressive collection (over 800 works total) by Location or by a number of Groupings, including Children's Books, Comics, Ephemera, and Science...

https://50watts.com/
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82nd & Fifth

We're about halfway through the Metropolitan Museum's online and ever-changing exhibit, 82nd & Fifth, so it’s a good time to take a look. Taking its name from the Museum's address, 82nd & Fifth is a collaboration between 100 curators from different departments across the Museum and 11 photographers, to produce 2 minute videos presenting "100 works of art that changed the way they see the world."...

https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/now-at-the-met/from-the-dire...
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A Democracy of Images

In 1983, the Smithsonian American Art Museum began collecting photographs. Today they have over 7000 images and this website offers a wonderful exploration of but a few of their holdings. The title of this collection refers to Walt Whitman's belief that photography was a quintessentially American activity, rooted in everyday people and ordinary things. The visual delights here are divided into...

https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/democracy-images
A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books

In the century after Johannes Gutenberg invented movable type, books and other printed materials began to flourish, and in doing so, many artisans began to decorate such items with marvelous woodcuts. Three centuries after their publication, Lessing J. Rosenwald (the retired chairman of Sears, Roebuck, and Company) acquired many of these masterworks at a sale sponsored by their then owner, C.W....

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/heavenlycraft/
A Picture of Britain: an exhibition celebrating the British landscape

Take a tour of the British countryside, "from the Scottish Highlands to the South Downs," via this web exhibition from the Tate Online. A Picture of Britain looks at the ways in which the British landscape has inspired artists like John Constable, JMW Turner, LS Lowry, Paul Nash and Richard Long. The Web exhibition features an interactive map, a quiz for you to test your knowledge of various...

https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/picture-britai...
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