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Nov 02, 2015

The New 'Art Therapy App' Turned My iPhone Into A Coloring Book

And now all my selfies look like works of art!

Featured on huffingtonpost.com

When looking to de-stress and unleash whatever creative urges are bottled up inside, I don't usually turn to my iPhone for help. How naive I've been.

Oct 27, 2015

Janitors Mistakenly Throw Out Champagne Bottle Art Installation

Featured on artnet.com

     

A team of hardworking Italian cleaners thought they were tidying up after a particularly wild opening party on Friday night at Museion, Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art in Bolanzo, Italy. The 300 empty champagne bottles, confetti, and cigarette butts, however, were actually part of an installation by Milanese artists Goldschmied & Chiari.

Oct 26, 2015

For Obamas, a More Abstract Choice of Art

Featured on nytimes.com

In a visit with his daughters this past summer, President Obama spent nearly an hour at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the nation’s largest repository of paintings and sketches by Edward Hopper.

He also could have seen a few Hoppers at home.

Two of Hopper’s classic depictions of the American landscape — “Cobb’s Barns, South Truro” and “Burly Cobb’s House, South Truro” — now hang on the southeast side of the Oval Office, to the right of the French doors that lead to the Rose Garden.

Oct 23, 2015

5 incredible pictures of car art from around the world

Featured on ksl.com

Car manufacturers usually go to great lengths in making a new car model. It's costly, time-consuming and risky. It's safe to say that many people's hard work essentially contributes to what amounts to a piece of drivable art.

But what happens when that art becomes the medium for new art?

Artists have been doing this for some time now. They're called Car Art Installations. Today, we highlight a few of these impressive and off-the-wall creations from around the globe.

Oct 19, 2015

Giant Bouquet of 10,000 Flowers Is Blooming in the Middle of the Ocean

Featured on yahoo.com

Seeing seaweed in the middle of the ocean? Yawn. How about a 13-foot botanical sculpture of 10,000-some flowers sailing by? Now we’re talking. While we’re at it, what magical dream world is this where flower towers are set adrift in the sea?!

Oct 16, 2015

Giant ‘Easter Island’-Like Power Lines: So Cool You’ll Want to Take a Selfie With ’Em

Featured on yahoo.com

Power lines and electricity pylons — the looming metal braces that hold aloft industrial cords — are necessary things for our wired society, but they’re utilitarian, not beautiful. They’re certainly not art. We tend to ignore them when gazing out on a serene landscape or frown when we can’t angle our cameras around them to shoot a picturesque scene.

Oct 15, 2015

Art Grown in a Petri Dish

Featured on hyperallergic.com

Oct 08, 2015

Avera Health System Celebrates Fourth Year

Dr. David Kapaska, Avera Regional President and CEO was honored to attend Avera’s Fourth Annual NAP Reception. He presented awards, shook hands and took pictures with all of the award winners at the July 27th ceremony, which took place at the Avera Prairie Center with an estimated 200 in attendance.  

Oct 07, 2015

Healing power of Taos art

Featured on taosnews.com

Original art is found throughout Taos, defining the creative character of our community. And even in our moments of routine health care or urgent medical need, we d the healing power of Taos art.

Oct 06, 2015

Art exhibit celebrates Banned Books Week

Featured on gwhatchet.com

A library might not be your first thought when you picture a contemporary art gallery.

But until Oct. 22, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library on G and Ninth streets will be home to the UNCENSORED: Information Antics exhibition.

Oct 05, 2015

Artists 'can-struct' canned good art

Featured on fox35orlando.com
Architects, engineers, and designers put their skills to the test for a great cause.
 
For the 22nd year,  teams gathered to create works of art out of canned goods.
 
This happened at the Fashion Square Mall in Orlando Sunday.
 
Oct 02, 2015

Wilmington Participant Becomes Adams County Coordinator

Rich Neumann, Communications Manager for Adams County, Colorado has had the opportunity to experience the National Arts Program® as both a participant and now a coordinator.  We feel this unique perspective has given him a greater understanding of the program and its purpose.  We recently reached out to Rich and asked him to elaborate on his NAP experiences....

Oct 02, 2015

Austin’s Triumphant Return

The gallery of the Dougherty Arts Center professionally displaying 189 pieces in this year's NAP show.

Oct 02, 2015

Honolulu Artist Shares Inspiration Behind Winning Piece

NAP exhibitions bring forward a magnitude of hidden talents from people within the communities where they are held and this year’s Honolulu, HI exhibit was no different. The exhibition featured a wonderful display of artwork from all medium categories across every skill level.  One such piece was “Untitled” by Kristin Laitila, who received the Second Place award in the Intermediate category.

Oct 02, 2015

4 things you need to consider before investing in art

Featured on cnbc.com

With major art fairs taking place across the globe from Chicago to Istanbul to Shanghai, art enthusiasts, collectors and sophisticated investors alike are questioning whether to acquire works of fine art as investments. And as significant appreciation emerges in some corners of the art market, we see growing interest from clients about incorporating art into their investment portfolios.