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Osceola County coordinator Marilyn Cortes-Lovato was excited to learn about the new NAP awards structure announced at the end of 2016.  In fact, she was so enthusiastic that she immediately reached out after receiving the news in hopes of being the first venue in 2017 to offer participants the increased cash awards.  Marilyn knew that after twelve years with the program, this increase in prize money could be a great incentive for people to participant in this year’s program especially for those that may have taken some time off.

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New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that it will be making all public domain works in its collection available online for anyone to use however they so choose.

Under the license designation Creative Commons Zero (CCo), the Met updated its Open Access Policy, so that a range of digital images could be created, organized and disseminated under two categories: images believed to be public domain and images under copyright.

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Ever since its completion last year, the Shanghai Tower has been the second tallest building on earth -- just behind the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.

Soon it will have another accolade to its name.

The 2,073 feet (632 meter) tall tower is opening the highest art space in the world. Located on the 126th floor of this 128-story building, it will feature an immersive auditory experience designed to serenade visitors to Shanghai.

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President Trump’s executive order banning travel and rescinding visas for citizens of seven majority-Muslim nations does not lack for opponents in New York — from Kennedy Airport, where striking taxi drivers joined thousands of demonstrators, to the United Nations, whose new secretary general, António Guterres, said the measures “violate our basic principles.”

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Tim Steiner has an elaborate tattoo on his back that was designed by a famous artist and sold to a German art collector. When Steiner dies his skin will be framed - until then he spends his life sitting in galleries with his shirt off.

"The work of art is on my back, I'm just the guy carrying it around," says the 40-year-old former tattoo parlour manager from Zurich.

A decade ago, his then girlfriend met a Belgian artist called Wim Delvoye, who'd become well known for his controversial work tattooing pigs.

The powerful excitement of the decade has been languishing in a blind spot of art history. An exhibit at the Whitney comes to the rescue.

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The singer announced she’d be having twins with an image that broke social-media records—and fit into a long visual lineage.

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There’s something quite beautiful about waking up in New York, the city notorious for never sleeping. There’s also something beautiful about waking up with an art museum, before its doors open to the public, as sunlight streams onto the statues.

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue recently introduced its Museum Workout—a 45-minute guided dance-cardio routine that that covers two miles of the building’s most iconic exhibits before opening hours.

The Holocaust helped give rise to the concept of art therapy.

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With one dramatic no, a major artist has just escalated the culture world’s war against Donald J. Trump.

For more than 20 years, the artist Christo has worked tirelessly and spent $15 million of his own money to create a vast public artwork in Colorado that would draw thousands of tourists and rival the ambition of “The Gates,” the saffron transformation of Central Park that made him and Jeanne-Claude, his collaborator and wife, two of the most talked-about artists of their generation.

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On his first day on the job, President Trump made some changes to the Oval Office; he installed gold drapes and moved some statues. First Families have some leeway to make changes to the White House, and that includes changes to its art collection.

It can take many hands — or eyes — for one work of art to make it into the White House. Take, for example, the large painting the Obamas hung in what's called the Treaty Room.

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Eight years after the red-white-and-blue "HOPE" poster of Barack Obama, that promise of change that united millions of voters might feel like a distant memory — especially after such a bitterly divisive presidential campaign led by billionaire Donald Trump.

Progressives have a new poster child, or series of poster children, for hope. It's not President-elect Trump or his cabinet picks, but a diverse cast of Americans featured in the "We the People" art campaign.

An ongoing list of museum closures, admissions policy changes, and more.

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