Kids who arrive at this Chicago hospital to get treated for hand injuries don’t expect to leave with a piece of art that’s designed just for them—but thanks to one artistic doctor, that’s exactly what happens. Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Felicity Fishman at Shriners Children’s Hospital is the go-to doctor for children…
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Having lost his father to war in Cambodia, goldsmith Thoeun Chantha turns brass casings of AK-47 and M-16 bullets into wearable pieces of art with an anti-war message.>read more at © abc news…
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If you don’t know who Ai Weiwei is, he’s an artist who likes big, statement-setting installations, but in a new exhibition he is throwing it back to the Impressionists, with a massive interpretation of Water Lillies by Monet, made from 650,000 Lego bricks. Titled Water Lillies #1, it’s the largest Lego…
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Two exhibitions in Melbourne — “Radical Utopia” and “Melbourne Now” — trace the city’s art and design from the 1980s to the present.>read more at © The New York Times…
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In York, a seemingly normal apartment was hiding a historic secret for centuries until a kitchen remodeling exposed it to the light of day. 29-year-old Luke Budworth received a call from the men putting a new kitchen into his apartment. It read “did you know there was a painting behind here?”…
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Cambodian leader Hun Sen unveils a collection of stolen Angkor crown jewellery which was recently returned to the kingdom after decades in Britain, pleading for other long-lost treasures to be handed back.>read more at © abc news…
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Viktor Mikhalev takes discarded guns and ammunition and turns them into “flowers of war”, making the art as a keepsake and a souvenir of the war in Ukraine.>read more at © abc news…
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