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  • Every year, tens of thousands of people attend the international art show in Miami Beach called Art Basel. It's also transforming Miami's up-and-coming neighborhood, Wynwood.
  • After surviving a violent relationship, Carolyn "Mima" Texidor's pain unearthed a hidden talent: painting. In this week's Sabiduría, Mima's healing art as a venue for new and undiscovered artists.
  • The president told a crowd at an auto plant that young people could make a lot more money in skilled manufacturing than with an art history degree. Ann Collins Johns was offended and emailed Obama.
  • Not impressed by some of the art in San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art, a teen had an idea: set eye glasses on the wooden floor and walk away. Sure enough, people surrounded the "new exhibit."
  • Southwestern New Mexico is littered with rock art and artifacts from long-gone ancient cultures. Doug Fine goes on a trek through the desert back country with a local man who sleuths out hidden "rock art" sites.
  • A small for-profit company with offices in New York, Art Loss Register has compiled an enormous database to help track lost or stolen art. Over the years the company has had some notable success locating missing works -- including masterpieces by Cezanne and Manet. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.
  • Perry Ayers, who co-founded the festival 28 years ago, talks about what's on tap for this weekend, including jazz, gospel and more.
  • The mayor of North Providence called a building a health hazard. The owner responded by having a mural painted on the building. It shows the mayor wearing a crown, sitting on his throne: a toilet.
  • Dada was an absurd, outrageous, puzzling international art movement inspired by World War I. It used art to comment on the modern world its hypocrisies that wiped out a generation.
  • A new study finds that the government had a rare moment of generosity toward the arts during the pandemic. Out of over $4 trillion, $53 billion went to arts and entertainment across the U.S.
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