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Jul 20, 2015

Known As A Collector, Gustave Caillebotte Gets His Due As A Painter

Featured on npr.org
 
     
 
If you're planning to become an artist, here's one nice way to do it: be independently wealthy, easily pay your bills without needing to sell your own work, buy up the paintings of your marvelously talented friends, and then give their works to the nation.
Jul 17, 2015

Spinning vinyl into art: Recycling records for novelties

Featured on wtop.com

These vinyl records give “remaster” a new meaning. An entrepreneur transforms the lacquered discs into jewelry, clocks, wall art and other novelties, with the perk of keeping a little more trash…

        

Jul 16, 2015

German culture minister defends controversial art law

Featured on dw.com

Germany is planning to strictly regulate the international sale of art and artifacts deemed of significant cultural value. German Culture Minister Monika Grütters stands behind the draft cultural protection act, despite hefty criticism from the art world.

"No one has the right to tell me what I do with my images," painter Gerhard Richter told the "Dresdener Morgenpost" newspaper matter-of-factly on Tuesday (14.07.2015), in response to the draft legislation. But if Monika Grütters gets her way, the German state may indeed be able to do just that.

Jul 15, 2015

Getty to show exact replicas of art-filled Buddhist caves in China

Featured on latimes.com

Showing replicas of artworks instead of the real thing is usually anathema to an art museum, but the J. Paul Getty Trust on Tuesday showed why that rule has its exceptions.

The Getty Trust fleshed out details of its 2016 exhibition “Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Buddhist Art on China’s Silk Road,” which will include complete, exact, walk-in replicas of three decorated caves that artists adorned with Buddhist-themed murals over 1,000 years starting in the 4th century.

Jul 14, 2015

How Shepard Fairey's arrest provides a new look at an old question: Is it art or is it vandalism?

Featured on latimes.com

Shepard Fairey has never been one to play by the rules — and that's par for the course for someone in a street art community that exists on the cultural margins.

Or does it?

Jul 13, 2015

Pittsburgh NAP Delights the Crowd!

For sixteen years now the National Arts Program® in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has been going strong! The exhibit is traditionally held in the dramatic Pittsburgh City/County building lobby and always draws a large crowd for their awards reception. This year, there were over two hundred guests in attendance as Mayor Bill Peduto highlighted the artistic talents of the city employees and their families.
 
Coordinator Lee Frankowski always makes a point to incorporate a few crowd pleasing elements into the NAP festivities.
Jul 13, 2015

Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Celebrates their Artists

The Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport employees brought forth their artwork once again to be displayed on the walls of the rental car center.  The rental center is a huge two story building that most passengers file through at some point during their journey providing great exposure for the participating artists.  Many artists have commented that it gives them a great sense of pride to have their artwork hanging in such a public space.

Jul 13, 2015

The Show Goes on at Atlantic Health System

Atlantic Health System has once again done a seamless job of showcasing their employee’s artwork in the midst of changeover in hospital and health system leadership. The new Interim President, Trish O’Keefe, was on hand at the awards reception, as well as former President & CEO, Joe Trunfino, who has been a vocal and longtime supporter of the Healing Arts Program and especially the employee art show during his time with the hospital.
Jul 13, 2015

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

Lisa Mulvaney is the Creative Arts Program Coordinator at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. In her role as Coordinator of the Creative Arts Program, Lisa has brought together many cultural community partners and artists to help create healing spaces throughout the hospital which opened in 2012.
Jul 13, 2015

NAP at Home in the Reno-Tahoe Airport

In only their second year displaying artwork in the newly renovated depARTures Gallery in the Reno-Tahoe International Airport, the NAP exhibit is making itself right at home thanks in part to Coordinator Kim Matthews.  Kim, who has been coordinating our exhibition at the airport since its inception, always provides participants with a professional experience and the new gallery space just adds to this. 
 
However, this professional art gallery experience is not just limited to those participating in the exhibit.
Jul 09, 2015

Warrior's Canvas allows Johnson City veterans to discover love of art

Featured on johnsoncitypress.com

In the heart of downtown Johnson City, an organization is working to improve the lives of veterans through art.

The Warrior’s Canvas & Veterans Art Center is a non-profit organization offering gallery space for veteran artists and free art classes for veterans and their family members with the intention of generating a community of veteran artists.

Jul 08, 2015

Twitter Users Show Off Funky Sunburns in the Name of Art, Skin Cancer Expert Warns It's 'Stupid'

Featured on people.com

It looks like some beachgoers consider sunscreen so last year. 

A questionable beauty trend has picked up steam on the Web in recent days: People are branding themselves with artistic designs – by getting sunburned. 

In a fad dubbed #sunburnart, individuals apply sunblock to selective areas of their bodies to create patterned tan lines, and then they share their stenciled and sunned skin on social media. (Think Kim Kardashian circa 2009, though her sunglass-shaped burn was totally accidental!) 

Jul 07, 2015

Art can help in healing in the health care setting

Featured on kentucky.com

Walk into many hospitals and health care facilities and you're likely to see the bare and sterile hallways of the past now filled with artwork, most often of nature scenes. Whether you are an inpatient, outpatient or visitor, there's a good chance that you may hear or see live or recorded music and even have an opportunity to participate in other creative art therapies.

Jul 06, 2015

Art: Testing the truth of what we see

Featured on philly.com

Would it matter to you if Mona Lisa smiled more?

This sounds like a stupid question. Mona Lisa's enigmatic smile is inseparable from the painting. It's part of the reason tourists march to the Louvre every day and peer at the work through bulletproof glass. It's evidence of Leonardo's genius.

Jun 30, 2015

Humble Snapshots of 20th Century Art Giants Being Regular People

Featured on huffingtonpost.com

If you've ever wished for an art world equivalent of a celebrity tabloid that would prove 20th century giants like Picasso, Kahlo and Pollock were really just like us, look no further.