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Art

Any visual, creative material. Examples of art include drawings, videos and computer graphics. Art may be bought and sold as an asset (indeed, famous art such as the Mona Lisa is worth many millions of dollars), but it is also used in marketing to help a product appeal to buyers.

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* Chicago Dramatists has named Carson Grace Becker its new artistic director.

ENTRANCES & EXITS

That is why Great persons of India (both independent and undivided India) as well as that of close neighbors were also motivated to deep-rooted spiritualism to attain high level artistic mentality.

Development of artistic mentality among Indians

FIRST ROW: Robert de Warren, co-artistic director, Sarasota International Dance Festival; Lisa Berger, executive director, Art Center Sarasota; Allan Kollar, producing director, Venice Theatre; lain Webb, artistic director, Sarasota Ballet; Jeffery Kin, artistic director, The Players; Richard Hopkins, artistic director, Florida Studio Theatre; Stephen Miles, director, New Music, New College.

Directors' picks

Stephanie & Daniil Gaifullin, Artistic Directors

United States

However, the idea that institutional critique opposes art to institution, or supposes that radical artistic practices can or ever did exist outside of the institution of art before being "institutionalized" by museums, is contradicted at every turn by the writings and work of Asher, Broodthaers, Buren, and Haacke.

From the critique of institutions to an institution of critique

Phelan enjoyed hosting a stream of writers, poets, artists, and actors, including Jack London, Douglas Fairbanks and Edwin Markham, and over the years the house and its extensive grounds in Saratoga became a focus for artistic, intellectual and political life.

Delight

The results indicated that students scoring higher on noctcaelador also tended to score higher on realistic, investigative, artistic, and social vocational interests.

An investigation of vocational interests and noctcaelador

A native of Angles, Spain, Remedios Varo grew up in a family that nurtured academic and artistic aspirations.

Scientific discovery and women's health

Although the diverse types of works in this genre have traditionally been studied individually by medium and provenance, their artistic origins and meaning within a larger historical context have only recently come under scrutiny.

Life and the Arts in the Baroque Palaces of Rome: Ambiente Barocco

`Sociorealism was the only artistic expression accepted by the state--a deeply ideological movement, that didn't carry any aesthetic function,' says Pankova.

Painting a brighter future: what has political freedom meant for the arts in Russia? Natalia Pankova, Chair of the Russian Arts Foundation of Nizhny Novgorod, talks to Anastasia Stepanova. (Artst & Values)

Some major Chinese cultural and artistic conventions are discussed by critiquing the works of two most prominent Chinese folktale picture book artists.