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The article focuses on the Environmental Protection Agency's proposal to restrict the use of N-Methylpyrrolidone (NMP), a solvent found in various consumer and industrial products, due to its association with serious health issues, including miscarriages and organ damage.

The article focuses on Happy Medium's Cafe, where patrons order art supplies instead of food, encouraging creative expression without pressure to perform or sell artwork.

The article evaluates several floor to ceiling artwork products including handprinted papers made with water-based inks by Kyra and Robertson Hartnett, "Kabloom," a hand-printed design from Flavor Paper and a birdcage from Timouous Beasties, a design company in Glasgow.

The article discusses the pop-up group show "I Was Only Dreaming" organized by Club Rhubarb at 1 Ludlow on Dimes Square. Curated by artist Tony Cox, the exhibition features nearly 100 works by over 60 artists, emphasizing a DIY character and showcasing various mediums across different themed floors, providing a grassroots and artist-centric alternative to conventional galleries.

The article highlights five inspiring media and art pieces that infuse creativity into everyday life, exploring how they alleviate mundanity at the intersection of pop culture and real estate.

The article focuses on Emily Weinstein, the editor-in-chief of New York Times Cooking and Food, compiling 100 straightforward dinner recipes suitable for busy fall schedules, with many recipes requiring only 30 minutes of preparation time.

The British explorer Robert Falcon Scott finally reached his destination a century ago, Jan. 17, 1912, more than a month too late to claim victory in the race to be first to the South Pole. But the triumphant Norwegian Roald Amundsen could not deny him at least one distinction: Scott was the founder of The South Polar Times, the first magazine to be produced on the Antarctic continent. Just about anything done in Antarctica on Scott's first expedition, beginning in 1902, had a good chance of being a first. When his ship Discovery entered McMurdo Sound, among the gear in its hold was a typewriter, lots of typing paper and art supplies. Scott had decided, in the tradition of other Royal Navy long voyages, that there should be a monthly periodical to entertain and help the explorers keep their chins up. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The title ''Ripped: The Allure of Collage'' hinges on a bit of clever wordplay, suggesting gym-toned bodies and six-pack abs. Of course, collage originally involved torn paper rather than taut muscles. But the hint of sexiness is appropriate, since collage is one of modern art's most seductive mediums, in which cast-off and non-art materials are assembled into avant-garde objects. The exhibition at the Heckscher Museum in Huntington gets part of this narrative right, showcasing early collage works that resonate with the excitement of the new and slightly forbidden. The show is far weaker, however, when looking at contemporary art. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

HIGH FALLS, N.Y. OVER the centuries painters have used drawing to prepare for committing their ideas to posterity on canvas. Paper has been a material for sketching, planning and trying out a composition in advance of the main event. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article revies an art exhibition "Never Alone: Video Games and Other lnteractive Design" at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, New York through July 16, 2023.

The article focuses on the vandalism of Michelangelo Pistoletto's artwork, "Venus of the Rags," in Naples, Italy, which was recently installed and burned down by a vandal. Topics include the significance of the artwork and its destruction, the reactions from city officials and residents, and the broader context of public art and its relationship with the community.

The article reviews Theodora Skipitares's exhibition "View From the Miniature City" and its argument for the power of puppetry displayed at 15 Orient gallery in Brooklyn, New York through June 18, 2023.

Features New York City artist Jim Hodges in light of a solo show of his work at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Illinois, through April 1999. Other United States museums and private collectors who own his work; Materials used, including paper napkins, artificial flowers and broken mirrors; Themes; Background and biographical details; Sources of inspiration; Hodges' comments about his work and the satisfaction he finds in it.

The article reviews the exhibition "Fall Reveal" featuring artists like Gerhard Richter, Frank Stella, and Anni Albers at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York as of November 2020.

Describes the process sculptor Nancy Rubins goes through to create works in the Mojave Desert using parts of airplanes as raw materials. Shopping for raw materials with her truck; Loading and transporting materials; Cost of a two-load shopping trip.

A personal narrative is presented which discusses the author's experience of working with woodworker Max Schulz on self-contained mobile studio which contains custom art supply cabinet and battery strong to run.

The article offers the author's insights on the Apple Art Supplies store in Brooklyn, New York which offers art products to students.

The article discusses post-it notes, the trademarked product invented and made by the 3M Company. They were invented when Spenser Silver created a glue that did not adhere well. Later, Art Fry was at church and noticed that bookmarks slipped out of the hymnals and thought the glue would make a great bookmark. People use post-its for reminding themselves about things to do, to communicate in families on the go, and some folks even create art with post-its.

The article features painter Tom Levine along with the photographs of the things inside his workplace including art supplies, farm table, and art pieces.

The article reports on several significant events which happened in Paris, France and London, England in December 17 in various years. It notes the fire incident at a building at 51 boulevard Saint-Jacques on December 17, 1912 which destroyed nearly one hundred fine canvases and sustained heavy financial losses. It also cites the organized boycott of Japanese merchandise in 1937 the fashionable West End shopping district in London and the bid of Great Britain to join the European Common Market.

TO say that David Scott is box-obsessed might be an understatement. Mr. Scott, an interior designer whose first book, ''Outside the Box,'' was just published by Pointed Leaf Press, owns more than 100 boxes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WHO The model and artist Sasha Pivovarova, who most recently collaborated on a collection for Gap. WHAT SHE'S GIVING GapBody lingerie. ''I'd give a set to my sister who was staying with me when I was working on these designs for Gap,'' Ms. Pivovarova said. ''I can't wait for her to see the result.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Nikon just released the specifications on eight new cameras, many with upgrades from existing models, but two with notable advances. The Coolpix P300 is a new Nikon point-and-shoot that is particularly good for low light. The camera gathers enough light that it can shoot at f1.8 - compare that to the f2.8 to f3.5 common to point-and-shoots. Nikon said it achieved this using a high-quality glass in the lens. Canon got a similarly low f2.0 in its S95 point-and-shoot camera. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ONE thing about art objects: they never shut up. If they survive, they continue to broadcast; they transmit information and spawn experiences that we savor, puzzle over, interpret and judge. With time, real people and actual events fade, but works of art of all disciplines often live to see another day, make a different impression and appear in a new light. Hippocrates had it right: ars longa. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

J. M. W. Turner's final painting of Rome, ''Modern Rome -- Campo Vaccino'' (1839), above, was bought by the J. Paul Getty Museum at a Sotheby's auction in London on Wednesday evening for $44.9 million. The price, which includes Sotheby's fees, is a record for Turner at auction, outstripping an 1841 view of Venice, ''Giudecca, La Donna della Salute and San Giorgio,'' which sold in April 2006 at Christie's in New York for $35.9 million. ''This painting transcends even Turner,'' Scott J. Schaefer, the Getty's curator of paintings, said in a telephone interview from London after the sale. ''It's his best. It's Turner at the top of his game. Turner often suffers from condition problems, but this painting has been behind glass for about 150 years. It's never been touched.'' The painting, which is in its original frame and had been on loan to the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh since 1978, depicts the Italian capital bathed in a cloudy light. It has been on the market only once before, in 1878, when it was bought in London by the fifth Earl of Rosebery, who briefly served as prime minister after Gladstone. It has remained in the family since. (One of the earl's descendants, Harry Dalmeny, is deputy chairman of Sotheby's in Britain.) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The artists associated with Impressionism in France left a legacy so great that we are still unraveling all its effects and influences. In addition to inventing many new modes of artistic expression, they headed out into the countryside, recording the pristine beauty as European cities were rapidly industrializing. In part, they sought to capture and preserve remnants of a vanishing world. Not too much later in America, artists pursued a similar ambition on the North Fork and South Fork of Long Island, where with oil paints, easels and brushes hauled from city studios, they painted the sea, marshes and dunes. By the end of the 19th century, a few artists had set up colonies in the Hamptons. Several bought properties there and increasingly began to call the area home. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MAYBE Maxwell Tielman cannot abide a white wall because the house he grew up in, in Buffalo, had a rose-colored living room. Or maybe it has to do with the fact that red, a notoriously passionate choice, is his favorite color. Whatever the reason, when the 20-year-old freshman at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology moved into a white-walled railroad flat in Brooklyn, he painted the walls in the living room a rich rose. Many of the large living room pieces, like the blue sofa and a green armchair, were student hand-me-downs. An old-fashioned brocade chair was purchased by one of Mr. Tielman's three roommates at Junk, in Williamsburg; his roommate Sophia Readling, a jewelry major at Pratt, did the paintings in the found antique frame. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A painting by Caravaggio was stolen in Ukraine last week, Reuters reported. The Baroque painting, which is alternately known as ''The Kiss of Judas'' and ''The Taking of Christ,'' was stolen from the Museum of Western and Eastern Art in Odessa sometime between Tuesday and Thursday. The discovery was made when museum workers arrived on Thursday to find the painting cut from its frame; the museum is closed on Wednesday. The police said that the thieves could have entered the museum through the windows, bypassing an outdated alarm system. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article offers news briefs related to art in the U.S. Perceval, a life-size bronze sculpture owned by artist Damien Hirst, will be displayed at the Doris C. Freedman Plaza in New York City in November 2007. The Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation has donated artist Barnett Newman's studio materials to the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art. Lowery Stokes Sims has been appointed the curator of the Museum of Arts & Design.

The article presents the author's Christmas shopping experience at the retail store Beads of Paradise. The author informs that the store sells a variety of beads including Tiger's Eye beads, Venetian millefiori beads, and glass beads. The most part of the store houses scarves, sculpture, and rugs. She informs how she stopped short of buying a commemorative medal showing the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie due to its high cost. She was also fascinated by a display of enamel amulets from India.

Focuses on the mystery behind the southern-vernacular picture frame on a swiveling base, created by artist Ed Ruscha.

Examines the price of the "Gates" exhibition by Christo and Jeanne-Claude held in Central Park. Price tag of $21 million and the question of how some nylon fabric, steel and vinyl tubing could have cost that much; Payment of the money by the artists without the use of any public or corporate funds; Estimated that the exhibition brought $254 million into the city's economy; Refusal of the artists to say how they came up with the sum which has stirred debate; The art installation agreement with the city which promised about $5 million in fees; Approximate prices on the physical supplies; How the artists are recouping their investment in the exhibit.

Features the art work of Swiss artist Urs Fischer at the Gavin Brown gallery in New York City. Concept behind the art work; Materials used for the art work; Size of the art work.

Looks at an experiment with young children to determine their painting and creative skills. Reason for the experiment which came from a story of a 6 year-old with her own gallery representative; Preschoolers who were given oils and canvas; Sending of the best work to Andrew S. Ackerman of the Children's Museum for his interpretation; Finding that children have no censors and tremendous creativity even if they are lacking in technique.

Focuses on the organization, Materials for the Arts (M.F.A.), in New York City. How the M.F.A. collects industrial discard from corporations and gives it away to schools and artists; Variety of items collected at the M.F.A. warehouse, including buttons, paint, and fabric; Increased interest of schools in the merchandise since budgets have been cut.

Focuses on the entrepreneur, Carl Plansky and his Williamsburg Art Supplies store on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, New York. Information on the art supplies offered at the store; Comments from Plansky; Reference to Plansky's success in business.

Presents news briefs on the latest in designer electronic wares, trends in architecture, fashion and furniture. Archistrat computers from Panda Project Inc.; Guidebooks on architecture by the Oxford University Press; Designer home furniture.