New York is an Inspiration

Since it is September 11, I decided to look for an article on art that was about the city to show that how bad things can be, there is always something beautiful as well. This article is about a woman named Tara Benet who lives in New York. She has a degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and I really enjoyed reading this article. She lives in a small studio in the Upper West Side, and creates artwork that is displayed in many homes of the city. She creates murals as big as thirty feet long. She says that without New York, she feels lost. I really enjoyed this article, because she really is inspired by the city. In this article, it says that Tara paints according to her mood. I really enjoyed hearing about how passionate some people become with their art, and it touched me.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HMU/is_7_35/ai_n28007209?tag=content;col1

Toilet Seat Art

This article was a very interesting one. The article talked about others not using toilet seats to just go to the bathroom, but as art work. It all started as a fundraiser to construct a new bathroom in downtown Flying Pig, becasue there arent any for tourists to use. The only bathroom is the ball park bathroom which is only open when the parks open. In result of this, all different kinds of decorated toilet seats were put on auction to go towards the new $90,000 bathroom being constructed.
I really enjoyed this article. It made me realize that anything, no matter what it is, can be turned into art. I also think that it was a great idea to sell these towards money for a new bathroom because it's so appropriate; decoarated toilet seats' profit goes to construction of a new bathroom! Honestly, I don't think that I would buy one of these toilet seats just because I don't find them that nice. However, I think that it's a reall great idea, and a very interesting article to read.