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Jul 15, 2014

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital Debuts their Employee Artwork

Employees continuously stopped and chatted about the 160 pieces of artwork from participants in the first employee show at the Ann and Robert Lurie Children’s Hospital. Coordinator Lisa Mulvaney said she now has a hard time imagining what their space looked like here before the show!

Jul 15, 2014

A Demographic Breakdown of the World’s 200 Top Art Collectors

Featured on hyperallergic.com

Last week, ARTnews Magazine published its annual list of the 200 “top” (read ‘most active’) art collectors around the world, recording the types of art the buyers collect, where they reside, and the industries in which they work.

Jul 15, 2014

Bill Murray Art Gallery Showcases the Life Artistic

Featured on mashable.com

Don't hassle me, I'm art.

From Steve Zissou to Phil Connors and every character in between, Bill Murray's body of work has become perhaps the most quoted and talked about on the Internet. This, of course, has led to a large amount of Bill Murray fan art. And now that art is coming to a San Francisco gallery.

Jul 14, 2014

Outgunned in the Search for Stolen Art

Featured on newsweek.com

June 2014, and a three-day conference is taking place in the basement room of New York University’s School of Law. The 200 or so attendees that have hurried their way across sunny Washington Square include FBI agents, lawyers, auction house heads, art dealers and collectors who buy and sell multi-million-dollar items.

Jul 14, 2014

A Warhol With Your Moose Head? Sotheby’s Teams With EBay

Featured on nytime.com

Convinced that consumers are finally ready to shop online for Picassos and choice Persian rugs in addition to car parts and Pez dispensers, Sotheby’s, the blue-chip auction house, and eBay, the Internet shopping giant, plan to announce Monday that they have formed a partnership to stream Sotheby’s sales worldwide.

Jul 14, 2014

Putting art to music, with wondrous results

Featured on latimes.com
 
Did you hear the one about the composer who walks into an art gallery?
 
If you are expecting a punch line — sorry. It's not a joke. When a composer walks into an art gallery or catches sight of an artwork somewhere else, there might be something worth hearing down the line.
Jul 11, 2014

Milwaukee Art Museum Features Kandinsky Exhibit

Featured on abcnews.go.com

More than 100 paintings, drawings and other works are being featured in a retrospective exhibition on artist Wassily Kandinsky at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

The museum says the show represents every period of the Russian-born painter's four-decade career, from his early figurative works to his modern pieces. Considered a pioneer of abstract art, he was also a wood engraver, lithographer and teacher.

The exhibit also features a mural Kandinsky designed during his Bauhaus years, the first time it can be seen in the United States.

Jul 10, 2014

Carilion Clinic Joins the Program

“The same impulse that makes people create is the same impulse that makes people heal from illness,” states Psychiatrist Dr. William Rea.   Anyone passing through the entrance of Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital only has to take one look at their First National Arts Program® Exhibit to know that this statement is true, especially in the case of the employees and family members of Carilion Clinic.
 
The lobby of the hospital was transformed with removable walls covered from top to bottom with 271 pieces of artwork from 165 artists, including one from Dr.
Jul 10, 2014

Is This the MySpace of Fine Art?

Featured on newsweek.com
 
A pert blonde in a little black dress walks up to a 6-foot-tall mirrored box. She presses a flat, white switch. A light flashes within the rectangular prism and the one-way glass turns transparent upon illumination, revealing a man with a grey suit and slight scowl. He quickly swats at a flat, white switch inside his enclosure. The light goes out, and the man is obscured by the reflective panel once more.
Jul 10, 2014

George Lucas's Art Museum: His Best Idea Since Star Wars

Featured on theatlantic.com
 
An art museum is supposed to spark discussion about the artists whose works are collected inside—not about the person whose name is on the building.
 
But the recently announced Lucas Museum for Narrative Art, director George Lucas’s testament to the power of visual narrative, will likely do both when it opens in Chicago in 2018.
Jul 08, 2014

Study Says Making Art Is Good For Your Brain, And We Say You Should Listen

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“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life," so Pablo Picasso once famously proclaimed. Though we expect the pompous Cubist was being his usual haughty self when he uttered the well known quote, his belief in art's transcendentqualities might not be too far from the scientific mark.
 
New cognitive research out of Germany suggests that "the production of visual art improves effective interaction” between parts of the brain.
Jul 02, 2014

How One Oil Tycoon Turned an Art Obsession into a Museum

Featured on la-confidential-magazine.com
 
 
Sixty years ago, America's richest museum was a gleam in the eye of an art-obessed oil tycoon.
Jul 01, 2014

$4.5 Million of Art Found in Brazilian Shipping Container

Featured on news.artnet.com
 
 
Brazilian customs authorities were in for a surprise on Monday.
Jul 01, 2014

Art car: How a Delaware artist's memorial to her father found its way to Gales Creek

Featured on oregonlive.com
 
Eight and a half miles outside of Forest Grove, in a yard past a long line of trees along the sides of Gales Creek Road, a tall, burly man in battered overalls sits inside a 1995 Ford Taurus station wagon, surrounded by junk. 
 
Robert Block, Jr., 63, lives in a two-story house on a sparse 12.5-acre parcel of grass and sunflowers. He has dark blue eyes and a grey beard.
Jun 30, 2014

Earth Wise: Art, science unite to study urban ecosystem

Featured on poughkeepsiejournal.com
 
Science and art are rarely thought of as going hand-in-hand. In fact, we typically think of scientists and artists as having entirely different type of brains — one logical and analytical, the other creative and subjective.
 
Yet in reality, they share some key similarities — both scientists and artists must closely observe their environment and surroundings.