• What are the hot new toys for kids? Here are our 4 favorites - StarTribune.com

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    What could be better than being set loose in a toy store? How about getting to roam through a toy convention?

    That's we did when the trade show for the American Specialty Toy Retailing Association came to the Twin Cities this month, briefly turning a cavernous exhibit hall of the Minneap

  • WA farmworkers’ labor as seen through their art | Crosscut

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    Paintings and prints of agricultural workers show another side of their essential work.

    ‘Super Fresh’ (2020), ink, gouache, charcoal and collage on cardboard produce boxes. (Courtesy of Narsiso Martinez and Charlie James Gallery)

    Every spring, the Skagit Valley in northwest Was

  • After fleeing his home, a Syrian boy finds joy in music and art | International Rescue Committee (IRC)

    by admin on 2022-05-20 23:50:41

    “When we arrived at the camp, I noticed a change in Yasser—he wasn’t playing or interacting with other children,” recalls Jumana,* 47-year-old mother of 11 children. “He stopped laughing and singing, and I thought he was depressed.” 

    Yasser was just 7 years old when the deca

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    Beeple, EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS, 2021. Courtesy of Christie’s Images Ltd.

    Jadé Fadojutimi, Myths of Pleasure, 2017. Courtesy of Phillips.

    Aboudia, Jeux D’Enfant, 2012. Courtesy of Christie’s Images Ltd.

    Flora Yukhnovich, I’ll Have What She’s Having, 2020. Co

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    by admin on 2022-05-20 23:50:34

    Matisse was feeling uninspired until he came to the US in the 1930 and Albert Barnes commissioned him to create a mural for the Barnes gallery in Merion. That changed everything.

    In 1930, feeling a little old, a little lethargic, and a little dry, Henri Matisse, age 61, heeded the summon

  • The beauty and complexity of farm work in Washington (Drawing Resistance) — High Country News – Know the West

    by admin on 2022-05-20 23:50:32

    Every spring, the Skagit Valley in northwest Washington explodes in bright rows of colorful flowers. For three days, thousands of people flock to Mount Vernon for the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. Bucolic paintings of red barns framed by long rows of flowers, with the Cascade Mountains rising

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    Add WBUR to your morning routine

    Is now the right time for “Philip Guston Now”?

    Opening May 1 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the show is touted as the first major retrospective of the artist’s work in decades. It was originally scheduled to open July 2021, but in the wak

  • Westfall & Son: A family legacy where life imitates art

    by admin on 2022-05-20 23:50:19

    TULSA, Okla. — It’s time for Mayfest in downtown Tulsa, and among the many artists, you'll find there is Christopher Westfall.

    The popular local Artist’s story stretches all the way back to the age of 6. That’s when a teacher noticed his natural artistic ability and sought out hi

  • Best New Toys at Walmart 2021 | POPSUGAR Family

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    As POPSUGAR editors, we independently select and write about stuff we love and think you'll like too. If you buy a product we have recommended, we may receive affiliate commission, which in turn supports our work.

    The holiday shopping season is here, people! To prove it, Wal

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    Let’s start at journey’s end. Some adventures exact a terrible cost.

    It’s the last Sunday in January. More than 300 guests walk single file into the Arcata Community Center in far North California. Some wear blazers with sneakers, and some wear gingham dresses with mudd