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Nov 07, 2013
Tennessee Coordinator's Hard Work Pays Off
Rick Napper, President of Memorial Hospital was the Master of Ceremonies for the Seventh Annual Memorial Healthcare System NAP Awards Reception. The ceremony honored all of the artists that submitted their original works for display in this four month long exhibition. Coordinator Melissa Tinker admits that planning the event is hard work, but is so well received by associates, visitors and patients that it makes it all so worth it!
This year Melissa was tasked with working around a huge building project.
Nov 07, 2013
Avera McKennan Hospital Showcases The Healing Power of Art
The Second Annual Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center, SD NAP Exhibit was a huge success. The show entitled ‘The Healing Power of Art’ displayed 215 pieces submitted by Avera McKennan employees, volunteers, retirees and their immediate family members. Great care was taken by the coordinator to offer the artists the true art show experience. The exhibition was beautifully displayed, printed materials and signage were artfully designed and the reception was a wonderful celebration attended by over 250 guests.
Nov 07, 2013
2 Founders of Dia Sue to Stop Art Auction
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Two founders of the Dia Art Foundation have taken the unusual step of going to court to try to stop the art organization from auctioning off as much as $20 million in works from its world-class holdings next week at Sotheby’s.
The foundation has come under fire from many parts of the art world over its decision to sell the works and has defended itself by saying that it needed the money to continue to grow and to buy new artworks.
Heiner Friedrich and Fariha de Menil Friedrich, who for
Nov 06, 2013
Dallas Museum of Art gets $9 million to keep free admission, digitize collection
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The Dallas Museum of Art on Tuesday announced an anonymous $9 million gift to ensure that regular admission remains free and that the museum’s permanent collection will be fully available online.
The gift provides $4 million, structured to be matched over five years with another $2 million, to bolster the free admission policy, which was instituted in January and has been widely praised.
The other $5 million will go to complete the digitization of the museum’s collection of 22,000 o
Nov 06, 2013
The Awesome Art of Pizza Boxes
Featured on huffingtonpost.com
Food has long been an artistic subject, and a means of showing off technical chops. Gazing at still lifes by the likes of Pieter Claesz or Paul Gaugin never fail to make us hungry.
Nov 05, 2013
Police Confiscate Banksy Balloons and Say They’re Not Art
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Banksy! is still in police custody — that is, the balloons that spell the British street artist’s name, as well as an exclamation point, are.
Nov 04, 2013
Discovery of Nazi-plundered art offers glimpse 'into a dark story'
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Hundreds of works of art by Picasso, Matisse and other masters of the 20th century — seized by the Nazis, lost for decades and now worth more than $1 billion — were reportedly found among piles of rotting groceries in a German apartment.
The find would be among the largest in the worldwide effort, underway since the end of World War II, to recover masterpieces plundered by the Nazis from Jews inside Germany and from elsewhere in Europe, considered the largest art heist in history.
Nov 01, 2013
Art Therapy - Students Shed Light on Mental Illness through Art
Featured on thecrimson.com
“Harvard isn’t always the glossy ivy-covered utopia that many conceive it to be. There are moments of that place, yes. Walking past Memorial Church in the fall with reds and oranges on the ground around you, the first warm day in the spring when students on blankets adorn the Yard. Brochure Harvard does exist. The reality of the situation, however, is that this is not the Harvard that many students must wake up to and battle every single day.
Oct 31, 2013
Welcoming Art Lovers With Disabilities
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On a recent Friday night, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York held its first public exhibition of original art made in its “Seeing Through Drawing” classes.
Oct 30, 2013
Banksy Nazi painting to bring big bucks for charity
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It’s springtime for Banksy in Gramercy.
The elusive graffiti artist’s latest New York installment is a “vandalized” painting — into which the graffiti artist inserted the image of a Nazi officer sitting on a bench looking out over a pastoral scene — that’s expected to spark a wild online bidding frenzy, with a starting auction price of $76,000.
One self-described Banksy authority speculated that the artwork will fetch “a million dollars, at least.”
The oil-on-o
Oct 28, 2013
iPad Art Gains Recognition in New Hockney Exhibit
Featured on entertainment.time.com
Happily hunched over his iPad, Britain’s most celebrated living artist David Hockney is pioneering in the art world again, turning his index finger into a paintbrush that he uses to swipe across a touch screen to create vibrant landscapes, colorful forests and richly layered scenes.
“It’s a very new medium,” said Hockney. So new, in fact, he wasn’t sure what he was creating until he began printing his digital images a few years ago. “I was pretty amazed by them actually,” he said, laughing.
Oct 24, 2013
Inmates create art out of limited supplies, but it's also contraband
Featured on dailytribune.com
It’s a masterpiece in toothpaste and toilet paper: Jesus hanging from the cross, sculpted in sharp detail from his gaunt ribcage to the nails in his hands to the inscription proclaiming God’s love for the world. The display case is a plastic evidence bag.
The venue is Minnesota’s Dakota County Jail. The artist was an inmate, by now long gone.
Oct 23, 2013
Banksy's NYC street art: Trashed or very quickly treasured
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The 24th piece in Banksy's monthlong street art residency in New York City is in the Manhattan neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, on the garage door of Larry Flint's infamous strip joint: The Hustler Club.
The famously anonymous British graffiti artist stenciled a man holding a bouquet of flowers.
"Waiting in vain...
Oct 23, 2013
Worth the Wait: Nurse Enters Two Paintings in Exhibit at Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital
Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital nurse Roselle Talag has entered two acrylic paintings in this year's art exhibit, which opens Nov.
Oct 22, 2013
One man's quest to prove Legos can be art
Featured on latimes.com
Three years ago, graphic designer Mike Doyle took his kids to Legoland as part of one those parental rights of passage. But a funny thing happened when he got there.
Doyle was in a room at the amusement park in Carlsbad where people can build Lego cars to race on a wooden track. As he pieced together his own creation, he found himself suddenly swept up in the moment.
"It’s the first time I really free-form played with it on my own since I was a kid," he said.