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A blind Ukrainian veteran turns pottery into a business and mentors others
14+ hour, 40+ min ago (781+ words) One is a veteran who lost his sight in combat and now teaches other blind veterans. Slowly, a piece resembling a cup takes form. The instructor, Ivan Shostak, 37, said he has made more than 1, 000 such pieces but has never seen…...
See the world in vertical: Top photos by AP photojournalists
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Pop-up art show takes over German president's residence before yearslong renovation
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (477+ words) At a press preview on Monday, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said he was pleased that the mostly emptied-out Berlin residence was being opened to art and to the public. "We need art," Steinmeier said. "A democracy without free art loses…...
This Manchester mansion has the world's largest private collection of 20th-century Vermont art
1+ week, 3+ day ago (630+ words) Lyman Orton arrived at a local auction six decades ago in hopes of furnishing his first house, only to spy a seemingly simple yet thought-provoking framed landscape. "The whole idea that artists fell in love with the state and then…...
Want to read Houston's newest newspaper? You'll have to go find a copy.
1+ week, 5+ day ago (590+ words) Edwin Smalling, an artist who owns Basket Books and Art in Montrose, felt there was an opportunity to start a different kind of publication in Houston. After conversations with other Montrose-area groups, such as the online radio station Ice House…...
When Sue Tilley met Lucian Freud, it changed her life. Now a painting of her could fetch $47 million
2+ week, 7+ hour ago (861+ words) Sleeping by the Lion Carpet," regarded as one of Freud's masterpieces, is going up for sale at Sotheby's on June 24, with a presale estimate of 25 million pounds to 35 million pounds ($33 million to $47 million). Tilley hasn't seen any of the millions…...
The trolls come indoors as a Danish recycling artist stages his first museum exhibit
2+ week, 6+ day ago (563+ words) Now the poet and former hip-hop artist is bringing a collection of fairy tale-inspired creations in from the cold for his first museum exhibit. "The Garbage Man," at the Arken Museum of Contemporary Art on the outskirts of Copenhagen, tells…...
Greg Abbott's rainbow crusade comes for UT landmark
3+ week, 1+ day ago (9+ words) Chron...