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A hotel built to display art
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With New York City-style loft rooms, large factory casement windows and an outdoor patio lined with decades-old steel railway canopies, the 21c Museum Hotel set to open downtown this summer is not just unique for Oklahoma, but also is the only hotel opening in a former Ford Model T assembly plant.
During a tour this week, Steve Wilson, founder of Louisville, Ken.-based 21c Museum Hotels, met with staff, reviewed renovation progress and was happy with what he saw.
Two International Pop Art Exhibits Reveal The Creative Side Of Globalization
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Visiting Tokyo in the early 1960s, Robert Rauschenberg was flattered to receive a gift from the Japanese artist Ushio Shinohara, an imitation of a Rauschenberg sculpture that Shinohara had seen in a magazine. But Rauschenberg’s delight soon gave way to gloom. The copy Shinohara gave him was one of ten. What seemed at first to be an act of appropriation – a standard move in the Pop Art playbook – instead threatened the market value of Rauschenberg’s own output.
National Portrait Gallery tour uses art and music to stimulate the senses of dementia patients
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A newly developed interactive tour at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is giving people with dementia something to smile about.
The tailor-made tours see small groups of people with early stages of dementia view works featuring famous Australian musicians, composers, actors, sportspeople and poets.
University of Maryland Medical Center Celebrates Third Year
The UMMC C2X Healing Arts Team does it again! The National Arts Program® staff were so honored to attend the Third Annual University of Maryland Medical Center’s NAP Reception and Awards Ceremony. There were 180 artworks on display throughout the Weinberg Atrium and they added both beauty and interest to this busy space.
State of Colorado Federal Government Joins NAP
After learning that the US General Service Administration (GSA) already hosted small annual employee art shows, it was only logical for the NAP to reach out to discuss the opportunity of partnering with them. The GSA “After Hours” show, only in its third year, already offered the ground work for an employee exhibit providing the opportunity for them to display their artwork publicly and receive awards, seven in total including a ‘Best of Show’.
Art installations soothe delays at SFO
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Just in from Sydney and headed to Costa Rica, Mariana Baltodano and her 2-year-old son, Lucas, were on a 28-hour journey that had just been extended to 32. She desperately needed to be soothed and there it was right in front of her — a 110-foot mural that would take her four hours to figure out, the estimated length of her delay.
U.S. Delivers Art to Iran That Had Been Impounded Since 1979
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Fourteen pieces of American art purchased by Iran nearly four decades ago, but blocked for export from the United States because of the 1979 Iranian revolution and rupture in relations, have finally been delivered, both nations said Friday.
Art Maze transforms vacant downtown building
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For the last month, a downtown office building has been getting a renovation that is anything but conventional.
Zachary DeBoer, owner and director of Exposure Gallery and Studios, had the idea for Art Maze when he heard the DM&E building at the corner of Eighth Street and Phillips Avenue was going to be gutted by its new owners.
Who’d Steal Lincoln’s Hand? Art Theft Baffles Illinois Museum
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Someone stole Abraham Lincoln’s hand.
The crime had no witnesses. There are no suspects. The police are not even certain when the hand disappeared.
About all anyone knows is that a plaster sculpture of the 16th president’s hand, proudly displayed for years at the Kankakee County Museum, has been missing from its shelf since at least Dec. 11.
Art Isn't Just Good For The Mind, It's Good For The Body Too
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My dad was the one who had just had brain surgery, but I also needed to heal.
While he recovered in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center I found myself roaming the halls which, luckily for me, were adorned with a museum-quality art collection, including the work of Paul Klee, Marc Chagall, Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Rauschenberg.
Sophisticated art thieves network operating at Rome airport uncovered
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A sophisticated network of art thieves made up of cleaning staff and ground crew at Rome's Fiumicino airport colluded to heist valuable paintings from passengers in transit.
The stolen works include two canvases by Italian contemporary artistsUgo Attardi and Renato Guttuso worth a total of €50,000 (£37,000).
Police said the gang devised a plan to steal the works of art by pretending to bring them to oversized baggage collection points.
21 Hacks To Help You Organize Your Art Studio In 2016
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There's never a better time to organize your studio than the week after New Year's Day.
Apple Hosting In-Store Art and Photography Workshops Beginning Next Month
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Unique teaching technique helps visually impaired children enjoy art
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A new Fund for the Arts program called Arts for Kosair Kids is giving local children opportunities they wouldn't normally have.
WLKY’s Jennifer Baileys learned more about this unique teaching technique that allows visually impaired children to enjoy the arts.
Though it may appear to be any other class of young children working on an art project, the students at the Visually Impaired Preschool Services are enjoying a new way of looking at art, using senses other than sight.