'Visionary' Artists Bring Personal Struggle to Work
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Matt Sesow has taken a winding path  toward becoming an artist.
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A Detroit outsider faces an industry slump and a tough economy.
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A curator of crowdsourced art talks about new media projects and how crowds produce and present art.
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A director's experimental film shows the world through the eyes of a painter blinded by a mugger's vicious attack. By Theresa Everline.
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Charles G. Shaw belongs to a generation of abstract painters who remain for the most part stubbornly lost.
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Art imitates life, and  life imitates art, and sometimes it's hard to tell which is  which.
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Swarms of students have been led to "The Gates" to observe, to draw, to meditate Â and in many cases to pontificate Â on the meaning of art and nature.
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Psychologists are struggling to understand a rare breed of workers remarkable for the way they flourish under stress.
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There is something wonderful about being 35,000 feet in the air, looking down on the earth, that gives an artist a new perspective.
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The paradoxically beautiful, seamless 30-year survey of his work at the Guggenheim Museum catches many of our inharmonious countryâs discontents and refracts them back to us.
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Vermont community emerges as a vibrant artists' enclave after facing difficulties in the changing economy.
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At the Venice Biennale, architects stare into a windowed, dystopian future, trapped within stylistic confines of their own making.
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Ellen Gallagher's racially charged collages are hard to pin down, harder to print.
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The Seattle Symphony Orchestraâs recent history serves as a cautionary tale on how, in an artistic hothouse, a tangle of emotion and politics can veer out of control and take on a life of its own.
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Black sweater or no, some architects find they can channel their idealism into real-world projects.
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Their watercolors have focused wide attention on a vulnerable population in the booming Russian capital.
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The famous painting isn&#39;t exactly the type most people want in their home. The image is too grim and full of existential angst.