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Untitled (1976). © Yayoi Kusama. In these turbulent times, creativity and empathy are more necessary than ever to bridge divides and find solutions. Artnet News’s Art and Empathy Project is an ongoing investigation into how the art world can help enhance emotional intelligence, drawing insights and inspiration from creatives, thought leaders, and great works of art. Yayoi Kusama is a household name, and an artist like no other. Her life story, which involves intense mental and emotional tur...

Jessica Shaefer. Photo by Miguel Arzabe. In these turbulent times, creativity and empathy are more necessary than ever to bridge divides and find solutions. Artnet News’s Art and Empathy Project is an ongoing investigation into how the art world can help enhance emotional intelligence, drawing insights and inspiration from creatives, thought leaders, and great works of art.    Facebook’s art curator Jessica Shaefer, the daughter of a New York-based artist, was once reluctant to become a p...

through March 31 What the collective says: “teamLab’s art project, ‘Digitized Nature,’ explores how nature can become art. The concept of the project is that non-material digital technology can turn nature into art without harming it. Humans cannot recognize time longer than their own lifespans. In other words, there is a boundary in our understanding of the long continuity of time. The forms and shapes of nature have been created over many years and have been molded by the interactio...

Audrey Teichmann and Denis Pernet. Photos courtesy Audemars Piguet. In these turbulent times, creativity and empathy are more necessary than ever to bridge divides and find solutions. Artnet News’s Art and Empathy Project is an ongoing investigation into how the art world can help enhance emotional intelligence, drawing insights and inspiration from creatives, thought leaders, and great works of art.    Fine watchmaking and the arts have a long parallel history. In great examples of both, c...

Because we were in L.A., where street art is so important, I wanted to have more graffiti-type pieces. And I had the idea that maybe we’d have art directly on the wall—something you couldn’t commercialize or trade for money. It had to be part of the building, in the same way it would be if it were done on the facade. So knowing that, and knowing people couldn’t travel, I contacted Jenny, the store director, and we started to look around. I got a shortlist of 25 artists, from which I pi...

Connection through chaos: Brown School students in Schenectady tackle topic of empathy | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 What is the nature of empathy?  Do we live in an empathetic society — and why, or why not? How are you feeling right now? That was the jumping-off point for the high school students at Brown School as they embarked on “The Empathy Project: Connection Through Chaos,” a virtual live production put on in collaboration with The Outer Loop non-profit theater company that...