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William Penn is due for a physical.

Not to mention a waxing and a buffing.

The City of Philadelphia plans to restore Penn's bronze statue atop City Hall in late August. The work will take three to four weeks, during which time the observation deck will be closed.

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For decades, the Super 8 motel chain decorated thousands of rooms across the United States with nondescript watercolor paintings and prints. But while the motel is embracing a decorative redesign that is replacing its old works with more modern photographs, its outgoing artwork got one last shining moment: a one-night gallery show.

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Artists, put down your brushes. It's time to step into the world of virtual reality.

Google has unveiled Tilt Brush, its new app set to revolutionize the definition of painting and push the boundaries of what it can represent.

With the swipe of a digital brush users wearing a connected HTC Vive headset can paint life-sized, three dimensional strokes of just about anything -- even drawing with impossible materials such as fire, snow and stars.

The Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders presented awards at their Fifteenth Anniversary National Arts Program® reception on Wednesday, May 4th. The event was held at the Elizabethtown Gas Company, in the beautiful atrium of the Liberty Hall Center. The art exhibit which included over 150 works was judged by three prominent art professionals including; Marguerite Brennan, Lawrence Cappiello and Frank Falotico.

The Turner Concourse at Johns Hopkins Hospital East Baltimore Campus is not just a pass through on the Hopkins campus; it is home to a large number of events throughout the year including the annual NAP exhibition.  So what happens when unforeseen construction forces all these planned events to be rescheduled? Well if you’re Amanda Myers, our Hopkins venue coordinator, you handled the unexpected situation with true professionalism. 

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The Brooklyn Navy Yard ushered in a new public artwork, "Fly by Night," over the weekend. Artist Duke Riley turned one of New York's most loathed creatures into a work of art by attaching LED lights to a flock of trained pigeons' ankles. He and a crew communicated to the birds with whistles and bag-waving from atop the flight deck of a decommissioned Navy ship, conducting the performance to bleachers full of onlookers.

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is a shining example of how art can transform a space. Their installations and rotating exhibits make visiting the airport a memorable experience and the addition of their National Arts Program® exhibit has changed the way that employees are engaging with both passengers and their greater airport community.

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Recently on an episode of Antiques Roadshow, an art appraisal went very wrong. An Oregon man who presented a clay jug to one of the program’s apparent expert appraisers received word that it dated to the late 19th century, had emerged somewhere in the “Middle Atlantic states headed southward,” and had a value of up to $50,000. However, it turned out to be the creation of fellow Oregonian Betsy Soule, sculpted in her high school ceramics class in the 1970s.

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The mystery buyer who bid an eye-popping $17.2 million this past weekend for a sculpture of a kneeling Adolf Hitler might well be François-Henri Pinault, art world insiders are guessing.

Pinault, the CEO of Kering and husband to Salma Hayek, is a major art collector who owns Christie’s auction house, which sold the controversial Maurizio Cattelan piece. Pinault is opening a museum in Paris to exhibit his collection.

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The Philadelphia Museum of Art spent three months developing its new interactive iPad app and it’s nothing short of magical.

At first glance you might think it’s just another ploy to get people in the door. But once you actually get your hands on it, you will quite literally see a whole new artistic point of view.

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Nearly five years ago when her husband, horseman Rance O’Brien, passed away, Francena Chalfant prevailed upon her old family friend, George A. “Frolic” Weymouth, to allow her use of the outdoor chapel he had built on his Chadds Ford farm for a memorial service. Just three years earlier, he had permitted her to use it when her mother, Joan, had died.

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John Beltran found his muse in a graffiti-covered New York City that was broke, dirty and dangerous. He used to tag along as his father, a numbers runner and loan shark, made his rounds in El Barrio and the South Bronx in the 1970s. The streets were a revelation to him, a child who spent his days drawing pictures from the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Suddenly, what he saw in books couldn’t compete with what he found on walls.

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In Los Angeles, Picasso and Warhol pieces don't hang just in museums — they grace the walls in extravagant open houses.

At real estate's most rarefied level, when homes are selling for $10 million or more, "you're not going to be putting up Z Gallerie pieces anymore," said Billy Rose, president of the Agency in Los Angeles.

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A collection of works by elusive street artist Banksy goes on the block in Los Angeles this weekend, and pre-auction bids put a six-figure starting point on select pieces.

Julien’s Auctions, a Beverly Hills–based auction house, is holding its biannual Street & Contemporary Art Show, and the formally unidentified U.K.-based graffiti artist — or artists? — known for social commentary is among the headliners.