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Mayor Martin J. Walsh and the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture today announced the winners of the second annual National Arts Program Awards for City of Boston employees and their families.

“The National Arts Program is a great way to recognize City of Boston employees and their dedication to improving the City through their work, as well as their creativity,” said Mayor Walsh. “I enjoyed seeing the artwork displayed throughout City Hall, and I look forward to having it on display for the next few weeks.”

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Cemeteries aren’t just for the friends and family of the departed. In fact, in the 1800s, they were much like public parks, and places for picnics, strolls and even carriage racing. The elaborate memorials and tombstones were pieces of art carved by sculptors, meant to be admired for centuries longer than the lives they represented.

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“Where do we go from here?” In Rwanda, this question seemed unanswerable after the genocide against the Tutsi minority in 1994. The massacre of more than 1 million Rwandans, by Rwandans, shocked the world, and inflated fear and deep mistrust between friends and neighbors. After 1994, we needed to rebuild the country from ashes—a task that seemed not only arduous, but impossible.

The project popped up this week at a warehouse in the Navy Yard

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Halloween may be three weeks away, but in South Philly, it’s already here.

A new installation, called “Sea Monsters HERE,” was just installed this week at Building 611 in the Navy Yard, and it holds the (incredibly specific) title of being the world’s largest inflatable tentacle sculpture.

John Crowley is the Curator and Exhibitions Coordinator for the City of Boston. John and the office of Arts and Culture introduced the National Arts Program exhibit to the employees and their families last year and it proved to be an instant success. John, being a professional artist himself, saw the merit in hosting a program such as ours and is keeping the momentum going with their 2nd Annual NAP Exhibition. Both John’s experience as an artist and his dedication to the city make him an extraordinary coordinator for this show. 

This is the 7th Annual National Arts Program Exhibition for the University of Florida Health community. Once again Special Projects Coordinator, Tawana Brown, put on a fabulous show that celebrated the employees incredible artistic talents. Tawana brought this program to UF Health in 2011 and immediately knew that it was something special. This year 142 pieces were collected and displayed on moveable walls that grace the lobby of the Learning Resource Center Atrium on the UF Health Jacksonville campus.

In the early ’50s, Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly traveled together through Italy and Morocco, transforming more than just their own careers.

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The British street artist Banksy pulled off one of his most spectacular pranks on Friday night, when one of his trademark paintings appeared to self-destruct at Sotheby’s in London after selling for $1.4 million at auction.

A bioengineer collaborates with artists, clinicians and patients to come up with an art exhibition with heart

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When working with people in other disciplines – whether surgeons, fellow engineers, nurses or cardiologists – it can sometimes seem like everyone is speaking a different language. But collaboration between disciplines is crucial for coming up with new ideas.

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No matter the scope of their favorite subjects, most artists have dabbled in the age-old art of portraiture. Defined by portrayals of people, this genre has been practiced by art history's most influential painters, culminating in an extensive collection of world-famous portraits.

Childhood is short-lived. It’s okay if kids’ drawings are, too. An Object Lesson.

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Children make art constantly. From the earliest age, adults press crayons into their hands. Art offers kids something to do, and folk wisdom holds that it’s good for them, too. But after the activity is over, the artwork sticks around. And that’s where the problems start.

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Christie’s will auction off an artificial intelligence (AI) artwork for the first time this October, hard on the heels of a pioneering all-AI art exhibition held at New Delhi gallery Nature Morte. While the market is eager to move the work, the field raises questions about ownership, obsolescence, and the art world jobs that algorithms can’t do.

What is AI art?

From the lumpy carnage of soup let loose to the fizzy clouds of Berocca, artist Alex Frost’s video series submerges objects that reflect life on the go

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In a glass tank filled with fresh water, the Glasgow-trained, London-based artist Alex Frost slowly opens consumer products, to strangely beautiful effect. A carton of New Covent Garden soup, for example, produces a glorious and lumpy vision of carnage as the contents slowly and decorously spill out into the water.

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The Philadelphia Museum of Art is designed as a place for quiet contemplation. Works by Titian, Eakins, Picasso, Duchamp have been carefully acquired and thoughtfully displayed in ways  museum curators hope will enlighten visitors about art, history, and what it means to be human.

That’s why it’s so weird to hear disco hits from 40 years ago echoing through the hallways.

Phil Brown the CEO of Greater Orlando Aviation Authority attended the August 23^rd awards ceremony for the 13^th Annual ‘Share the Art” National Arts Program® Employee Art Exhibit. Mr. Brown commented that, “Orlando International has supported the arts for over 36 years in this community and collaborations like this with the National Arts Program® further demonstrate our commitment to the arts and to our overall community.