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The Kimball Art Center Begins the Design Process for a New Home in Summit County
A small Utah art centre has hired the architects behind the Tate Modern. Here is how a building brief, thirty options and two years of fundraising fit together.
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How to Draw Dogs Begins With Breed Shapes and Fur Textures
Build a dog from circles, tilt the proportions towards the breed, then lay fur in bunches that follow the coat – a shape-first method gathered from working artists’ tutorials.
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A First Visit to an Art Fair Reveals Booths, Previews and Price Lists
Art fairs gather dozens of galleries under one roof for a few days. From Frieze's Regent's Park beginnings in 2003 to the Affordable Art Fair's Battersea start in 1999, here is what booths, previews and price lists look like to a first-time visitor.
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Light Upstrokes, Heavy Downstrokes: A Brush Pen Calligraphy Tutorial
One flexible pen, one rule — thin on the upstrokes, thick on the downstrokes — and a page of drills: how brush pen calligraphy grows from first lines to graceful letters.
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How Today’s Working Artists Outrun the Starving Artist Myth
Median practice earnings of £12,500, resale royalties and portfolio careers: what the figures say about working artists, and why the starving artist myth reads like opera, not fact.
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Free Entry, Free Hot Chocolate: Hartford's Fourth Annual Day of the Dead Celebration Opens Its Doors to Everyone
Evy Ruiz trades paid pours for free Mexican hot chocolate at the Wadsworth, as a grassroots celebration grows its fourth year around art, crafts and remembrance.
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Design Fails Teach Us More About Good Design Than Any Textbook
Every confusing door, tangled form and unreadable sign is a lesson in what design is actually for.
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How Galleries Work: How Galleries Decide Which Artists to Represent
Submissions, scouting and the quiet economics behind the artists a gallery takes on.
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Newspaper Crafts for Adults Turn Weekend Recycling Into Elegant Decor
Layered with paste and finished well, yesterday’s newspaper becomes trays, bowls and vases with a Victorian pedigree — elegant home decor that costs nothing but drying time.
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How to Draw Faces: Proportions and Features, Step by Step
Most beginner faces fail for the same handful of reasons. Fix the proportions first, then build features on top.