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A former hedge fund manager turns complex financial issues into art

by Mark Garrison
Jun 6, 2016
Nelson Saiers wants to say something original about the world he once worked in.
"Uppberbound," a piece by Nelson Saiers.
Nelson Saiers
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Can art triumph over developers in this coastal city?

by Lisa Napoli
Jun 2, 2016
Los Angeles hopes to solve its traffic jams with a new rail, but what about Santa Monica's art?
A view of a light-rail station in Santa Monica, California.
Lisa Napoli
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Google's Magenta wants to teach machines to be creative

by Ben Johnson and Levi Sharpe
Jun 1, 2016
Giving a new meaning to electronic music.
A photo that's been run through Google's DeepDream neural network.
Lorenzo Tlacaelel/Wikimedia Commons
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Tracking down Warhol's stolen 'Campbell's Soup' prints

by Marketplace Contributor
May 18, 2016
Authorities know one thing: There was no mastermind behind the Missouri art museum theft.
 A spectator walks past Andy Warhol's "Campbells Soup Cans" at the 2002 Warhol retrospective exhibition  at the Tate Modern Gallery in London. 
Photo by Sion Touhig/Getty Images
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SF MOMA woos a digital city with art, design and tech

by Molly Wood
May 13, 2016
The expansion has plenty of interactive screens and a serene interior to reduce distraction — by your interactive screens.
People watch an art piece entitled "Shadow Sites II" by Jananne Al-Ani, inside the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, California on April 28, 2016. The newly redesigned museum integrates a 10-story expansion in a new building and will open to the public on May 14, 2016. 
JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images
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George Lucas' Chicago museum may not happen

by Nova Safo
May 5, 2016
The heart of the argument is over ownership and use of lakefront land.
A bird's eye view of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art and surrounding park setting.
Image via Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
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Where to store your millions in art, tax-free

by Jed Kim
Apr 8, 2016
Freeports help speed international trade. They also help art owners.
A gallery assistant at Christie's auction house adjusts a painting by Vincent Van Gogh. Many art lovers are using freeports (warehouses that hold international goods) to store purchases.
Oli Scarff/Getty Images
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Taking pictures of the pictures

by Molly Wood
Mar 16, 2016
The Met’s Sree Sreenivasan on bringing an older institution into a digital age.
The artwork "Carafe and Candlestick" from Pablo Picasso, which will be in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible" exhibition.
© 2015 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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The art world: money, intrigue, and bad TV

by Hayley Hershman
Dec 18, 2015
The art world has a reality TV problem.
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What 'Hamilton' can teach us about central banking

by David Brancaccio
Dec 8, 2015
Producer Jeffrey Seller explains why bureaucracy is a hit on Broadway.
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