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Jun 06, 2014
University of Arizona Does it Again!
“Jack”
Arlie Mixer; Youth 12 & Under, Third Place; Sculpture
Relative; Development
Jun 06, 2014
NAP Exhibit is Highly Valued at DFW Airport
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport had a number of changes for their 8th Annual NAP Exhibit. Not only did the airport hire a new CEO, but they also had to appoint a new venue coordinator after the departure of their previous coordinator. With such huge changes in leadership, there can often be a few bumps in the road when transitioning.
Jun 05, 2014
Artistic talent on display in airport employee art show
Featured on rgj.com
Looking out a giant window, low-hanging dark clouds decorate hilltops in the distance. The rain has ceased but has left a shiny, cleanliness on the black tarmac in its wake.
An airplane has begun to back out, but I'm distracted from watching it.
A colorful, abstract photograph has captured my attention. It appears to be moving, yet looks like a painting.
Jun 05, 2014
15 Famous Art Pieces Interpreted in Snapchat
Featured on complex.com
People are constantly finding new ways to be creative through technology and social media, and recently, talented users from all over the world have been expressing their creative sides through the popular photo-messaging app, Snapchat.
Using only their fingers, Snapchatters everywhere have been conjuring up impressive and sometimes kooky drawings to send to their friends. These unique works of art range from renditions of some of the world’s most recognizable cartoon characters to humorous caricatures, p
Jun 02, 2014
Nine Female Photographers Pay Homage To A True Art Heroine, Inge Morath
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Nine female photographers are embarking on an epic road trip across Europe, one that's meant to pay homage to one of the art world's most iconic heroines.
"Danube Revisited: The Inge Morath Truck Project" will be a photographic journey and traveling exhibition that turns a truck into a mobile tribute to the renowned Magnum photographer, Ingeborg "Inge" Morath.
Morath, who hails from Austria, began her career in journalism back in the late 1940s, eventually winding her way
Jun 02, 2014
Just Like Taco Trucks, Art Takes to the Road
Featured on nytimes.com
On a recent Saturday, Elise Graham and her 23-year-old son, Aaron, pulled a 12-foot van into a parking spot on West 14th Street in Greenwich Village, swung open the back doors, lowered the aluminum stairs, and welcomed visitors inside their mobile Rodi Gallery.
Around the United States, art is on the roll. Inspired by the success of food trucks, gallery owners like the Grahams, who are based in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., have been taking their show on the road.
May 30, 2014
Identical Twins Combine Art And Math In Hypnotic Exhibition
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Ryan and Trevor Oakes are identical twins who, together, explore the logic of art, the beauty of mathematics and the spaces where these two arenas of knowledge become inextricably intertwined.
May 30, 2014
The Tipping Point Between Vandalism and Art
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Not all vandalism is created equal.
Some artists operate under the firm belief that they have to bring art to the streets. They spray graffiti on walls, paint murals, create public sculptures and more. Sometimes it's a collective of people who manage to turn a public space into an art installation.
However, public art isn’t always approved.
May 29, 2014
U.S. Army sits on treasure trove of art
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Deep in the bowels of Fort Belvior, Virginia, a perfectly climate- controlled warehouse is crammed with thousands of paintings that almost no one ever sees.
Part of the U.S. Army Center of Military History, the massive collection hangs obscurely on wire grids in perfectly catalogued and maintained ranks, museum fashion.
May 29, 2014
York woman uses art to help people with brain disorders
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When the rest of the world sees a blank canvas, Faith Long sees sea creatures and smells the beach.
At an art-based therapy program at Jessica & Friends Community in York Township, she created her landscape, with a bright blue sky and two palm trees with fans of green. The organization offers programs and residential services for people with autism and intellectual disabilities.
Each Tuesday is a special day for Long, who paints with MnemeTherapist Kim Martin.
May 28, 2014
On 13th Street, an abandoned building becomes art gallery
Feature on pennlive.com
The building at the corner of 13th and Kittatinny streets is not atypical for the neighborhood.
May 28, 2014
Pharrell Williams Gets Happy About Art
Featured on online.wsj.com
Happiness is curating.
Pharrell Williams —the rapper, record producer, fashion designer and hat-toting singer of pop smash-hit "Happy"—is diving head first into the Paris art scene, curating an exhibition of modern art at one of the city's premier galleries.
Called "G I R L," like his most recent album, the show displays art produced by Mr.
May 27, 2014
Norman Rockwell’s Art, Once Sniffed At, Is Becoming Prized
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“Rockwell’s greatest sin as an artist is simple: His is an art of unending cliché.”
In that Washington Post criticism of a 2010 exhibition of Norman Rockwell paintings at the Smithsonian, Blake Gopnik joined a long line of prominent critics attacking Rockwell, the American artist and illustrator who depicted life in mid-20th-century America and died in 1978.
“Norman Rockwell was demonized by a generation of critics who not only saw him as an enemy of modern art, but of all art,”
May 27, 2014
Crowds flock to Neue Galerie in N.Y. to see art condemned as ‘degenerate’ by Nazis in 1937
Featured on washingtonpost.com
In March, shortly after the Neue Galerie in New York opened its exhibition “Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937,” lines were forming outside the ornate Fifth Avenue mansion the museum calls home. The gallery recently announced a two-month extension of the show — through Sept. 1 — in response to record-breaking attendance.
May 23, 2014
AWESOME! Rain Activated Art brings smiles in the downpour
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One of the highlights on Broadway is the art installation Dancers’ Series: Steps. Created in the early 80s, the engraved dance steps — showing instructions for dances from the Foxtrot to the Tango — are a treat for anyone walking down the sidewalk. Many pause and mimic the steps.