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On January 6^th another successful National Arts Program® Exhibit closed in Ventura County, California. This was their 13^th year with the program and 133 pieces were beautifully displayed in the Atrium Gallery of the Ventura County Government Center.

The Fifth Anniversary NAP Exhibit in Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport is currently on display in their Thomson Reuters C Concourse Art Gallery. The show which runs through April 16^th includes 125 works from the employees and their family members.

Mackenzie Owens is the new coordinator for the MSP show and she did a wonderful job of keeping the positive momentum going. Although participation was down slightly from the previous year, the attendants gave rave reviews and commented that this show looks even better than the last.

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Leonardo da Vinci made no distinction between art and science—and the two fields are converging again.

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A rider hopping onto a CATS bus probably wouldn't expect their driver to be an award-winning artist. But if the means of transportation is being operated by George Rivera, then you can assume his creative wheels are turning when placed behind a canvas. Last year, he picked up the bragging rights of "Best in Show" for his submission to Charlotte’s National Arts Program.

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The Philadelphia Museum of Art has acquired five major French paintings - a late Cézanne view of Mont Sainte-Victoire, a Manet still life of fruit, a landscape and a cityscape by Pissarro, and a portrait of a young girl by Berthe Morisot - all as a bequest from longtime museum supporter Helen Tyson Madeira, who died last year.

In addition, the museum has received two early portraits by Marcel Duchamp, of the parents of his lifelong friend, Gustave Candel, donated by Candel's daughter, Yolande Candel.

500-Year-Old Sketch Links Master to Art Works

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Michelangelo is primarily known as a sculptor by his works in marble. But two statues that have existed under the noses of art historians for years are possibly the only examples of his work in bronze to survive the centuries, art experts said today.

The statues of nude men riding panthers have been known to art historians for a century or more and once were attributed to the great master.

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 Apple is turning its retail stores into art galleries featuring the work of professional photographers and other artists who use iPads, iPhones and Mac computers to create.

Travel photographer Austin Mann used an iPhone 6 to take otherworldly panoramic photos of an Icelandic glacier. Mann, who recalls mowing lawns for a summer as a seventh-grader to save up for his first, bright green iMac in 1998, says his use of an iPhone and high-end cameras is “split pretty even” when it comes to professional work.

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Standing before a picturesque field, with mountains and a setting sun in the background, Tyler Stevenson saw three young Afghan girls playing.

It was an idyllic scene, and he pulled a camera out to capture the moment. Each time he touched his camera, though, the girls ran out of sight. Realizing the cultural aversion to photographs, Stevenson began a game of “Simon Says” instead, making funny faces at the little girls as they erupted in giggles.

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Behind the walls of the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art, the museum’s chief digital officer takes a rare moment of rest at her desk, which is covered with a flurry of Post-it notes and to-do lists.

Courtney O’Callaghan sits near a small table with a couple of coffee mugs, a miniature Buddha sculpture and a bottle of champagne from New Year’s Day, when the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art celebrated the accomplishment of a 15-year-old goal: to make their digitized collections available online for the first time.

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The Clark Art Institute and the Seattle Art Museum have decided to make the Super Bowl hoopla more highbrow.

In honor of Sunday’s tilt between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks, the Williamstown museum has entered into a friendly wager with its Pacific Northwest counterpart. Should the Patriots win, the SAM will send the Clark a painting for three months; if the Seahawks pull out the victory, the Clark will ship art westward. (Shipping expenses will be paid by the losing city’s museum.)

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Zoo Miami is opening a special art exhibit Saturday featuring a collection of work made by different zoo animals.

The zoo is working in collaboration with the South Florida Chapter of the American Association of Zookeepers to put together “Savage: Art Made by Animals for Animals.” The exhibit will be from 7-10 p.m. Saturday at the Bakehouse Art Complex, 561 Northwest 32nd St., Miami.

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Anyone who walked into Room 501 at the New York Academy of Art in TriBeCa the other day would have seen a roomful of sculpture students molding clay into faces that looked nearly alive.

But the people represented by the sculptures had all met ugly deaths and were found as skeletons in desolate places across New York City — train tracks, wooded areas, in a basement.

Los Angeles Goes for Klimt’s ‘The Kiss’; Chicago, New York Love van Gogh

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Kids can go through a large amount of art supplies. It's wonderful to see them expressing their creativity, but keeping up with the demand can mean spending lots of money and sending too much disposable packaging into the trash.

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Sioux Falls' ongoing discussion about how best to block its dumpsters from public view is missing an opportunity to think outside the box -- or in this case, outside the garbage receptacle -- two Mitchell men say.

Sioux Falls planning and zoning officials are suggesting a revision to city ordinances that would require any public or private dumpster that can be seen from the street to be enclosed by a fence or opaque screen.