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In partnership with The National Arts Program® the Carilion Clinic in Virginia offers both an annual Employee Art Show and a Patient Art Show. Each year, Coordinator Marie Webb dedicates herself not once but twice to organizing a successful NAP Exhibition. Currently their Employee Art Show, which is an initiative of the Dr. Robert L.A. Keeley Healing Arts Program, is on display at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital. Art is submitted by Carilion employees, volunteers and immediate family members. The works of art, 124 in total, are displayed for several weeks in the lobby.

The 11th Annual City of Tacoma National Arts Program® Exhibit opened on May 1st and included a stunning collection of 110 artworks. The artwork in the show represented over thirty different city departments and included work from not only employees but also retirees, volunteers and their immediate family members. Each year Coordinator Naomi Strom-Avila commits to making the experience a memorable one for each and every artist.

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The gallery Marlena Vaccaro runs in Chelsea has the usual white walls and the usual nice light. What it does not have is artists under 60.

Talented 20-, 30- and 40-somethings need not apply. Ms. Vaccaro will not show them. They can send her JPEG after JPEG, the digital equivalent of slide after slide from an artist’s portfolio, but Ms. Vaccaro’s reply will remain: Wait. She will not lower the age threshold at the Carter Burden Gallery, at 548 West 28th Street, near Eleventh Avenue. And the artists on her roster could not be happier.

Text "show me an apple" and you'll see a piece from its massive collection.

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Victoria Rogers, who has spent the past year as director of arts for the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, is one of those people who juggles so many commitments — from work to nonprofit activities to social engagements — that you may feel a little lazy or unpopular by comparison.

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Ali Razi fled Iran in 1978, came to Los Angeles, and found a place where he could thrive. He traced much of his success and that of others here to one core principle: freedom.

On Tuesday — the Fourth of July — the prominent developer, now 77, was on hand to unveil a new public art installation in Los Angeles, the Freedom Sculpture, which Razi and others in the Iranian American community hope will be a beacon for the world.

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Vincent van Gogh’s art is infused with isolation: a lonely chair, a grieving doctor, a brooding sky. For one psychiatrist, the French master’s paintings — and those of other artists throughout history — contain clues about mental illness, too.

James C. Harris, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral science and director of Johns Hopkins University’s Developmental Neuropsychiatry Clinic, spent more than a decade writing monthly essays that connect the visual arts to larger issues of psychiatry and mental illness.

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The artist Andrew Wyeth would have been 100 years old July 12. To mark the occasion, the U.S. Post Office will release a postage stamp in his honor, and the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, is opening the largest exhibition of Wyeth's work, to date.

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Alex Logsdail, international director of Lisson Gallery, remembers the first time his father encountered Carmen Herrera’s work. It was 2008, and the painter Tony Bechara had brought some of her canvases to London for the Pinta art fair. None of them sold, says Logsdail, but his father, Lisson Gallery founder Nicholas Logsdail, was smitten.

As contemporary artists get more ambitious with their materials, conservators have to find creative ways to preserve the works.

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Art critics noted the stink as soon as the elevator opened. Indeed, the morning of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Biennial preview, Pope L.’s contribution smelled like rotten lunch. For good reason: Claim, on view through June 11, consists of 2,755 bologna slices nailed in grid formation on the walls of a small, freestanding room within the exhibition.

At the Stoneview Nature Center in Los Angeles, fruit trees are arranged according to the colors of the rainbow

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The University of Arizona had a long running successful employee art exhibit entitled “On Our Own Time” and seven years ago decided to partner with The National Arts Program® to make it even better! The show grew to include often 200 artworks submitted from University of Arizona employees, staff, appointed professionals and their immediate family members.  

The Union County, New Jersey National Arts Program® Exhibit has become a celebration of the entire community and a true family affair for participants during these past sixteen years. Often multiple family members enter the show together and win. Artist Ryan Frees won first place in the Amateur Category this year and his wife Helen Frees entered as a Professional and his daughter Tegan as a Youth, age 8. The Borga sisters, Brianna and Elianna, entered and won Honorable Mention in the Youth Category.

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A noted art collector and philanthropist has sold a major painting for an eye-popping $165 million to raise money for criminal justice reform.

Agnes Gund sold Roy Lichtenstein's 1962 work Masterpiece, reportedly to billionaire hedge fund manager and art collector Steve Cohen. The sale apparently took place months ago; an art industry newsletter reported on the transaction in January, but Gund would not confirm it.

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For a creative mind, everything is a medium. Even the food we eat. Even, say, an avocado. Once more, everyone's favorite green superfood is in the spotlight, thanks to its supple yet firm interior flesh, which provides an optimal canvas for culinary artists to make a miniature-sized masterpiece. But snap that pic quickly; avocado flesh will turn brown in an instant if left exposed, as frequent consumers of the nutrient-rich fruit know all too well.