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For their 20th Anniversary, the Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy in Philadelphia created a video of past participants to provide insights on what the program means to them and to help get people excited about the upcoming contest and exhibit. The video was part of their strong social media campaign they did for this year’s show. Their marketing certainly paid off as this was their largest show to date and included 235 pieces of art that were displayed throughout four different floors of city hall.

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Nearly every time Seattle has built or renovated something in past 40 years, the city has used 1% of the project’s cost to buy art — and usually that art is displayed on site.

There’s the skyscraping installation next to the new Denny Substation that looks like a transmission tower mashed up with a tree, and there’s the tangle of orange rebar outside North Seattle’s new dump that’s supposed to conjure the topography of Wallingford. There are about 400 works like that.

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Banksy is well known for creating murals in the dead of night, frequently addressing social ills like homelessness or poverty. Tourists and fans gather around each of his new creations, often spurred to the site by a post on the anonymous artist's Instagram account. So the idea of removing one of these works from public view and selling it is bound to stir up strong emotions.

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There are no words to express the result" was the beaming reaction of Belgium's Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, after a 15th-century masterpiece -- painted over shortly after completion -- was restored to its former glory.

And they were right -- commentators have been left speechless by one particular aspect of the newly revealed painting.

Over 100 artists are included in the 12th Annual Front Range National Arts Program Exhibit this year. The Front Range show invites residents from within a 60-mile radius of Castle Rock, Colorado to participate. The Philip S. Miller Library supported this exhibit by once again donating display space for this stunning showcase. All ages and levels of ability were represented, and Jeanne Trueax did a fantastic job coordinating the exhibition.

UChicago Medicine awards reception held on December 11th was a standing room only event! One of the major reasons for this packed house was that their 14th Annual NAP Exhibit was the largest show on record for this venue. The exhibit features a total of 229 pieces created by 145 participants – that’s an increase of 56 pieces from just last year! Co-coordinator Janet Seitzer commented that it was nice to see such a faithful group of long-term participants as well as a healthy group of new ones taking part in this year’s show.

Huntsville Hospital Health System is the first hospital in the state of Alabama to offer a facility dog program called “Canines for Coping”.  The program launched in the summer of 2019 at the Women and Children’s Center at Huntsville Hospital and features a lovable golden retriever names Asteroid who is a professionally trained therapy dog.  Asteroid is trained to help patients cope with stressful situations including procedures and bereavements.

The paintings are returning to a Baroque palace having been smuggled into West Germany in the 1980s.

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When the mayor of a small German city was shown a photograph last year of a painting hanging on a living room wall, he recognized the work immediately. It was one of five Old Master paintings stolen from the Friedenstein Palace in Gotha nearly 40 years ago in an audacious theft that East Germany’s feared police failed to solve.

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Bay Area artist Sofie Ramos specializes in large-scale installations comprised of found objects: chairs, textured cushions, stairs and giant bouncy balls, to name a few. But until recently, she didn’t plan for the chairs to be sat on, or the steps to be stepped on.

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A lot of my free time is spent doodling. I'm a journalist on NPR's science desk by day. But all the time in between, I am an artist — specifically, a cartoonist.

I draw in between tasks. I sketch at the coffee shop before work. And I like challenging myself to complete a zine — a little magazine — on my 20-minute bus commute.

President Trump’s repeated threats to destroy Iran’s treasures of art and architecture make the United States seem as debased as ISIS‌ or the Taliban.

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The wars and insurgencies that battered the Middle East over the last decade delivered not only a horrible toll of death and displacement, but also a wasteland of cultural destruction, reducing to rubble the Assyrian gates of Nineveh, the Great Mosque of Aleppo and countless other treasures, ancient and modern.

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Visitors to the Denver Art Museum can currently see 120 different paintings by Claude Monet from all over the world. But how did they get there — like, literally get there?

These scammers of the art world concocted elaborate ruses that read like fiction, but all are true.

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“It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in,” wrote Raymond Chandler in the classic detective novel The Big Sleep. Chandler wasn’t talking about the art world specifically, but the sentiment captures some of its well-heeled, occasionally unscrupulous dealings.

This was a year of highs that included political protest in the art world, a historic Whitney Biennial, inspiring monuments and a revamped MoMA.

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Unexpected Delights

From retrospectives to debut shows, and, yes, even the MoMA reopening, art held our attention with innovation and variety.

1. MoMA’s Reopening

Art schools have been slow to adapt to the digital revolution. Now, they're finally catching up.

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Are you a sculptor? A painter? An illustrator? For decades, art students starting out have asked themselves these questions. But these categories could look very different in the near future, as art schools belatedly attempt to incorporate new technology into their curricula.