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Top 10 Art Schools Compared: Tuition, Visiting Artists and Notable Art School Alumni

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Financial Value of Fine Art: Comparing a Movie and a Painting That Both Cost $135 million

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Sex to Sexty - The Most Vulgar Mag: Underground Dirty Comic Book Given a Retrospective Volume

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Spielberg Film Con Artist Redeemed: Frank Abagnale's Story in the 2002 Movie "Catch Me If You Can"

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Two Documentary Films About Art: Henry Geldzahler, Great Curator, and Marla Olmstead, Good Artist

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First Amendment Rights and Art: Artist Daniel A. Moore's Legal Battle with University of Alabama

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Sweet Serial Killer Dexter: Selective Murdering Makes Novel Comedy by Jeff Lindsay

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Irish Fiddler Kevin Burke: Across the Black River, A Concert and CD Review

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Top 10 Younger Women Who Rock: The Donnas and Pink Top this List of Younger Rocking Ladies

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Books About Art History For Kids: Introducing Children to Art Through Novels and Illustrated Books

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Dogs in Art History: How Artists Portray Dogs and Canines in Paintings and Photographs

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Tibetan Prayer Flags For Kids: A Fun Art Project Teaching Spirituality and Color Symbolism

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Travellers Repose on the Turnpike: An American Civil War Landmark in Greenbrier Valley of West Virginia

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Grace Potter and the Nocturnals: New Indie Rock from Vermont

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Van Gogh Paintings Lost and Found: Australia Loses an Authentic Masterpiece Boston Gains an Artwork

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Suicide and Artists: Two Successful Artists Kill Themselves

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All Good Music Festival 2007: Jam Bands Rock and Roll in the Mountains of West Virginia

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Paris Hilton and alli Death Wish: You Can Never Be Too Thin or Too Rich Says New Diet Drug

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Rubik's Cheat Codes and the War: Do We Cheat Ourselves by Looking For Easy Answers in Computer Games

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Color Names Nail Polish and Cars: Cosmetic and Automobile Companies Color Names Reflect Culture

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Barnes Museum Moves Downtown: Philadelphia City Council Approves Lease to Famous Art Collection

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Identifying Art and Bad Taste: Artists Who Use Food to Gross Us Out Usually Have No Substance.

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Game Design Art Project for Kids: This Fun Activity Teaches Children How to Make a Game

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The All Good Music Festival: An Excellent Eclectic Campout in the Hills of West Virginia

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Andy Warhol American Pop Artist: The Artwork of Warhol Includes Portraits and Pop Culture

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Leroy Neiman, Playboy Artist: This American Artist Paints Celebrities, Sports

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M.C.Escher Artist and Illusionist: The Optical Illusions of Dutch Artist and Illustrator MC Escher

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Dead Naked Paris Hilton Artwork: Daniel Edwards is an artist who uses shock and celebrity as themes

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Jules Pascin French Painter: This French Expressionist Painted Prostitutes and Naked Women

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Salvador Dali Surreal Artist: The Spanish Painter Popular Among High School and College Students

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PhotoShop CD Design Project: Teach Graphic Consistency and Visual Fun on the Computer

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Art Project: Phases of the Moon: Use Texture and Color to Create Waxing and Waning Moons

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Two French Artists Paint Dancers: Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec Created Artworks of Ballet and the Cancan

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Art Creates Community: Artists In Our Midst, an artists co-op in Vancouver, Canada

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Art for the Blind in New York City: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Offers Special Programs

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Chocolate Obama Jesus: My Sweet Lord and Obama Jesus Sculptures Create Controversy in US

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JSG Boggs, Counterfeit Art: A mastercraftsman and forger who challenges our perceptions of money

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Erotic Fine Art and Artists: Sexy artists and erotic artwork. Who were the best?

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Last King of Scotland: A Review: Forest Whitaker creates a cuddly dictator

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Night at the Museum for Real: The American Museum of Natural History is hosting slumber parties

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How to Identify Art: Three easy questions that can help determine whether a work is Art

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Adbusters and the Art of Satire: A magazine meant to parody advertising based in Vancouver, Canada

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The Art of Brainstorming: How to teach creativity and problem solving through brainstorming

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The Louvre Sells Its Name: The Louvre Abu Dhabi bought by the United Arab Emirates

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Flipbooks Teach Animation: Draw a quick action in sequence, for students ages 8-17

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Art: Manners, Culture, Etiquette: An antique book of manners gives advice on how to deal with artists.

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Art and Chess: The Connection: Both are creative acts that teach problem solving.

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The Illusionist and The Prestige: Two movies from 2006 feature magic, magicians, and their secrets.

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PhotoShop and the Visual Pun: Teaching digital art that includes the use of visual metaphor

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Crystal Bridges: The World is Flat: Wal-Mart heir Alice Walton buys American masterpiece paintings.

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PhotoShop: Mandala Symmetry: Using mandalas to teach symmetry and PhotoShop

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Elements of Design: Artist Example: Use examples of great art from art history to reinforce lessons.

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Eragon: A Review: This fun dragon movie features John Malkovich and Jeremy Irons.

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PhotoShop Teaches Art: Using PhotoShop to teach the elements of design

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The Art of Fragrance: Christopher Brosius is a Perfumer and Artist

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Rocky Balboa is a Hit: The latest Syvester Stallone movie is well worth a visit and revisit.

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Art Project: Cartooning: Teaching cartooning to cross the curriculum

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Google Zeitgeist: Page Hit Heroin: Google has released its' top searches in 2006. Let us all take notes...

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The Artifact Thief Steals History: Robert John Kea was a discerning kleptomaniac

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Night at the Museum: A Review: Knowledge is power! is the theme of this fun, friendly film.

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Gross Clinic: The Final Tally: The Gross Clinic by Thomas Eakins will stay in Philadelphia!

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F For Fake: Life as an Art Forger: The sad and possibly true tale of Elmyr de Hory

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The Thomas Crown Affair: A Review: Any movie about art theft is good...right?

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Gross Clinic: Philly Update: The Philadelphia Museum of Art Tries to Keep a Masterpiece

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Geeky Games Imbedded in OSX: Many computers, including Macs, have secret games. Who knew?

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Racism: Let the dialogue continue: Racism is alive and well and needs to be discussed

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How To Look at Art: It's hard for many people to understand nonrepresentational artwork. But it can be done!

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Dance, Penguin, Dance: Happy Feet will get your toes tapping, but don't look for a deep plot

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Borat: Reality-Based Film: Some may view Borat as a mockumentary.

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Flushed Away: Fun for the Family: This is a fun quirky movie with some great singing slugs!

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Crystal Bridges: Wal-Mart Museum: The heir of Sam Walton feathers her nest in Bentonville, Arkansas

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Luscher Color Test Questioned: The Luscher color test is fun to take and fun to read its horoscope

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Firefly: TV Can Be Art: The short-lived TV series was truly a work of art

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Is Matthew Barney Naked? Barney's Cremaster films can be difficult to see. So is it worth it?

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Art Can Teach Critical Thinking: Learning to use the language of art

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Color: The History of Pink: How did pink become a girl or feminine color?

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Munch Paintings Recovered! Two years ago, thieves broke into the Munch Museum in Oslo Norway an

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Cobalt Green: Art Meets Science: An old pigment called Cobalt Green is magnetically special

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Baltimore Museums Go Free: Forward Thinking Baltimore Museum of Art and Walters Art Gallery

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Vandalism: A Real Art Threat: How the vandalism of art is a threat

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Art Can Kill – Especially Outdoors: Two people are killed at a London art exhibition

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Buy Art for Aesthetics: Not because you think it's a good way to make money fast

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Did the Met Make a Bad Buy? Authentic or forgery, It's gotta get talked about

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Spec Work Hurts Graphic Designers: Clients want free work and ideas. Just say no.

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Trophy Art: Super expensive art attained as status symbols for people with too m

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The FBI Investigates...Itself? The USA allows the looting of art and artifacts in a Baghdad Museum

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A Serial (art) Killer: Can attacking a piece of art be considered art?

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A Heavy Heist: A bronze sculpture by English artist Henry Moore is stolen

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Art Thefts, Big Rewards Pt.1: Art theft is a niche market with a potential for large returns

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What is Outsider Art? People living in isolation, self-taught, prisoners, recluses: there

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