They put their art into storage and left for Italy, then France - where Heinrich was held for more than a year in an internment camp for Jews - then Spain and Portugal and ultimately New York.
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
After Decades, a 'Bittersweet' Resolution Over Lost Art
They put their art into storage and left for Italy, then France - where Heinrich was held for more than a year in an internment camp for Jews - then Spain and Portugal and ultimately New York.
Marvel's costumes create their own blockbuster at Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art
Since 2008 - over the course of 15 movies and with a packed slate of sequels and new films confirmed through until 2021 - the Marvel Cinematic Universe (that is, the films produced by Marvel Studios through Disney) has become a cultural juggernaut.
Sonoma student wins congressional art award
Rep. Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena) has announced Sonoma Valley High School senior Sarah Martinez has won the District 5 level of the 2017 Congressional Art Competition. High school students from across the district (primarily Sonoma County) submitted ...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Art You Can Wear On Your Arm? For Judith Leiber, It's In The Bag ...
In her 40 years in the business, Leiber designed 3500 handbags, some of which were carried by First Ladies and movie stars. Now 96, Leiber says she loves ...
Art camp offers opportunity for self expression
King, the school's art teacher, had taught a painting class for the school community several years ago and was approached this year about hosting a summer art camp for students. “They don't have art at St. Michael's,” King said. “They do art within ...
Swedish art gallery satire 'The Square' wins Palme d'Or at Cannes
CANNES, France "The Square", a Swedish movie about the curator of a museum filled with grotesquely pretentious conceptual art, beat stiff competition to win the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday. Critics hailed the movie by writer ...
Monday, May 29, 2017
Dozens of Artists Contribute To 55+ Art Show at the Howe
Hanover - A call for submissions for this year's 55+ Art Show at Howe Library attracted even more interest than usual. Almost three dozen artists are represented in the exhibit, which features recent work by amateur artists age 55 and older.
A Museum Where Giant Art Has Room to Breathe - The New York ...
Laurie Anderson, Jenny Holzer and James Turrell are taking up residence in a new space at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
Grayson Perry: 'I am nostalgic for a time when art galleries were empty'
This time I thought of the title (The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever!) before I had made most of the artworks. It made me laugh, and slightly nervous laughter is the reaction most art world people have to it. Why is that? What is unsettling about an ...
Sunday, May 28, 2017
A Smart, Heartbreaking Novel at the Crossroads of Performance and ...
A nakedly autobiographical meditation on art, Barbara Browning's “The Gift” both mentions and belongs to the recent crop of autofiction.
B&O hides high-end speakers in hexagonal wall art - Engadget
When buying a new piece of tech that's going to live with you for years, your primary concern is balancing price, features and future-proofing.
WNAC offering youth art camps in June
Art Camp 1 is a four-day camp geared to children ages 10 to 15, instructor Traci Wilkes will teach Summer Swag Swap. Students will create multiple pieces of art on tags, swap the art tags equally among fellow students and then construct a swag to hang ...
Saturday, May 27, 2017
Delta Regional Authority begins pilot program to bolster art and culture
Art and culture-related economic activity has surged in recent years. It's estimated this economic sector generates $729 billion, or 4% of the nation's GDP and employs about 1 million workers, Masingill said.
Cool Kids Emma Thompson, Marin Trunkey teach after-school art program
Our ABC7 Cool Kids for Thursday, May 25, are Emma Thompson and Marin Trunkey, who are teaching young kids about art. Emma, 17, and Marin, 18, go to Emma's elementary school, Highlands Elementary, once a week to teach the young kids.
Friends of the Ives to host weekend art & crafts fest
The nonprofit Friends of the Ives will present the second annual Art at Ives Juried Fine Art & Crafts Show on Memorial Day weekend, Saturday, May 27, through Monday, May 29, at Ives Concert Park on the Western Connecticut State University Westside ...
Friday, May 26, 2017
How to get tickets to Seattle Art Museum's new super-hot show
If you're a Seattle Art Museum member, you already know that tickets for the hotly anticipated “Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors,” opening June 30, are hard to get.
Art Without the Canvas
An example of ephemeral "Wild Art": University of Richmond students Liza Morrison and Robert Hicks created a mandala out of items from Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden's compost.
'My Art' and Yours
The pitch for Laurie Simmons' debut feature, My Art, was that it would finally get it right. Not get the art movie right, as in all movies are art, as in everything is art if you talk about it long enough. But get the art movie right, as in that ...
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Griffin eighth-graders take talents to Art Alley
Tallahassee recently introduced 21 new public artists to the community. Between them, they created five murals for display in Art Alley, the pedestrian thoroughfare that connects Gaines and St. Francis Streets. Though our city boasts more than 200 ...
Investing in the Canadian Art Market
A Jean-Paul Riopelle painting is attracting international buyers to a Canadian auction this week, with the international art market transcending borders and bringing in some healthy profits is art a healthy investment? Bloomberg sat down with David ...
Smith wins Art is Ageless contest
Local artist Skip Smith poses with one of his newest works, a sports art creation in stippling, and one of his older cultural art drawings, both of which won top awards in the Fort Scott Presbyterian Village Art is Ageless competition. His awards ...
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Los Angeles Art Dealer Gets Jail for Bilking Clients Out of $1 Million
FILE PHOTO: Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency and former Walt Disney Company president arrives for the the annual Allen and Co.
World's largest LEGO art display to debut in Downtown Tampa
The world's largest, most elaborate display of LEGO art will debut in Downtown Tampa on Friday, June 23. The exhibition titled 'The Art of the Brick' will feature 100 incredible artworks made out of LEGO bricks by award winning artist Nathan Sawaya.
Ethical art: how online entrepreneurs are selling Indigenous artists to the world
For many decades now Indigenous Australian art has adorned boardroom and salon walls from Double Bay to New York City and from Berlin to London.
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Art and the genocide memorial: How to make people engage with the horror, not look away
There is the Holocaust, of course. But history is unfortunately full of disgustingly successful attempts at genocide. The proactive attempt to exterminate an entire group of people is not as rare as we might like to think.
A Santa Fe International Folk Art Market artist
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Linda Dipert had intended to visit the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market for years, but it was not until 2015 that she finally made the summer trip after setting her alarm clock for midnight, the moment that tickets went on sale in May.
Linda Dipert had intended to visit the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market for years, but it was not until 2015 that she finally made the summer trip after setting her alarm clock for midnight, the moment that tickets went on sale in May.
Preakness notes: Term Of Art fails as West Coast's only representative in Preakness
“I thought [jockey] Jose [Ortiz] had him in a perfect spot and then around the three-eighth pole he said a horse came over on him a little bit and Term Of Art overreacted,” O'Neill said. “He sucked out of it and dropped out of the race and then came on ...
Monday, May 22, 2017
Queer Poet Juliana Huxtable Is Helping Art Regain Its Stride The artist is out in full force.
Notably, Riley Hooker, the graphic artist responsible for designing the book (also known as “General Rage” from the art collective The House of Ladosha) was spotted in the crowd. Huxtable comes to us as a graduate of Bard College by way of the Bible ...
Former jail continues to thrive as art museum in LaGrange
It didn't become a venue for the arts until the Callaway Foundation donated the building to the Chattahoochee Valley Art Association in 1978. Famous LaGrange native Lamar Dodd assisted in building the permanent collection by donating one of his pieces ...
LA's newest museum, the Marciano Art Foundation, will open May 25
Here's how to score tickets
Like the Broad in downtown L.A., the Marciano Art Foundation will be free, but reservations will be needed. Reservations may be made on the museum's website; a certain number of visitors will be allowed in every 15 minutes.
Like the Broad in downtown L.A., the Marciano Art Foundation will be free, but reservations will be needed. Reservations may be made on the museum's website; a certain number of visitors will be allowed in every 15 minutes.
Sunday, May 21, 2017
3rd New Orleans Cat Art and Film Festival Is Saturday
The Louisiana SPCA says its third New Orleans Cat Art and Film Festival will be held Saturday at Delgado City Park Student Life Center.
Kite Flying, Art Project Brings Students From Four Schools Together
That's the goal of an art project that saw the public, private and magnet school students flying kites together Friday, and will come to fruition completely in June.
This online art marketplace is creating VR rooms designed around ...
Design showcase Sight Unseen Offsite kicks off today in New York City, and among the featured exhibitors was Austin-based startup Twyla, an online ...
Saturday, May 20, 2017
What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week
Radiator Gallery, 10-61 Jackson Avenue, Queens; 347-677-3418, radiatorarts.com. This show of work by Native American artists organized by Erin Joyce Projects at a collaborative art space in Long Island City, Queens, has been in the works for a couple ...
Everyone's Ignoring One of the Best Deals in the Art Market
Those collectors might start with Nam June Paik (1932-2006), a Korea-born American who is widely considered the father of video art. Paik's work, which started out as performance and composition, then moved to video art, is in the permanent collection ...
Art piece unveiled during inaugural mural mixer
The Marina Arts District and the Corpus Christi Downtown Management District have supported several local art projects in the past few years, including a mural on the side of the Corpus Christi Caller-Times building and funding murals for electrical ...
Friday, May 19, 2017
Palo Alto: Art installations to disrupt, activate dead spaces downtown
The motion-activated light and sound installation, Sensory Garden, is one of seven “urban interventions” that will make use of underutilized space in the city as part of a city-sponsored festival called Code:ART. The June 1-3 event will coincide with ...
Cincinnati Art Museum receives record gift of nearly $12 million
The Cincinnati Art Museum has received the largest single monetary gift in its history. Longtime supporters Carl and Alice Bimel left a bequest of $11.75 million ...
Fox News unveils plan for state-of-the-art newsroom
The open, state-of-the-art newsroom will be housed on the second floor of Fox's Midtown headquarters on Sixth Avenue. It also will replace the basement location FNC has used since its launch in October 1996.
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Why is Baby Driver already inspiring so much fan art? - The Verge
Edgar Wright's SXSW hit Baby Driver is still over a month away from its mid-summer release date, yet the fan art cottage industry is already cranking out comics, ...
Ed Sheeran Heeds His Art Historian Father When Choosing Art
Describing his art proclivities to host Kirsty Young, the singer seemed to be taking his father's imparted wisdom to heart: “He's always said art is meant to be enjoyed. You don't buy art for investment. I bought this guy called Harland Miller, who ...
Denver Art Museum to host first major exhibition from American Indian artist Jeffrey Gibson
Jeffrey Gibson, known in the art world as one of the most exciting American Indian contemporary artists, will hold his first major exhibition at the Denver Art Museum May 13-Aug. 12, 2018. “Jeffery Gibson: Like a Hammer,” will feature about 65 objects ...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
What You Missed On NPR Morning Edition: Dad Saves Phone ...
Here's a quick roundup of some of the mini-moments you may have missed on last week's Morning Edition.
Art museum looking to move downtown
The Albany Museum of Art is looking to make a move downtown that they hope will make them more accessible to more people. The museum currently sits on Gillionville Road, and Executive Director Paula Williams said it receives about 25,000 visitors ...
RiNo Art District keeps Ratio Beerworks taproom chugging after license snafu
Ratio's Handwritten Belgian Wit. Despite a liscence snafu, the RiNo brewery will keep pouring beer thanks to help from the RiNo Arts District. (Provided by Ratio Beerworks). The beer is flowing again at a popular Denver craft brewery days after its ...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Santa Fe students create Meow Wolf inspired art-installation
SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) - A group of Santa Fe kids are taking locals to another world with their Meow Wolf inspired art-installation.
JFK home renovation castoffs are transformed into art
The art objects were created from household objects and construction materials removed during a recent renovation of John F. Kennedy's summer home.
Greenfield students earn honors in juried art show
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Monday, May 15, 2017
Top three Art In Bloom finishers are announced | Fox17
HOLLAND, Mich. -- Holland's 2017 Art In Bloom winner plus the second- and third-place finishers were announced Saturday. Throughout Tulip Time, the Art In ...
Watercolor artist exhibits family portraits at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
Tara Moorman paints an abstract piece in her home studio in Cedar Rapids on May 9, 2017. Moorman is a watercolor artist and will be exhibiting “Letters to My Ancestors,” a series of paintings of her deceased relatives, at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art ...
Local group raises concerns about 'degrading' 21c art display
Sutton heads up the African American Think Tank, a group that is taking a stand against an art display in the Proof on Main west dining room at Louisville's 21c.
Sunday, May 14, 2017
Trump and the art of the lie
As a presidential candidate last year, Donald Trump said, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters.
Start the bidding — for art's sake
The Hanceville Parent-Teacher Organization will have pieces by Moore and other nationally-known artists up for grabs at a silent auction Saturday evening, with the proceeds going toward program funding for the arts at Hanceville Elementary School.
Art That's Too Lovely to Make Its Politics Convincing
Elias Sime's work at James Cohan gallery reclaims and transforms e-waste into art. While an act of conscience, I can't help but think that the work is swamped by its own aesthetics. Seph Rodney10 ...
Saturday, May 13, 2017
China's art market is seeing signs of an 'obvious' warm up
To get a picture of how Chinese government policy influences the country's art market, meet artist Tai Xiangzhou. Tai, a veteran of Song Dynasty-style painting whose work is usually sold in the U.S.
Check Out Fantastic Concept Art of the New Ships in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol
2
If you've seen Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, you probably know what ships we mean. If you haven't, well, go see it and come back later.
If you've seen Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, you probably know what ships we mean. If you haven't, well, go see it and come back later.
LA's Marciano art museum will debut May 25
But first: A sneak peek
Artist Jim Shaw has a cold. Curator Philipp Kaiser is jetlagged, having just flown in from Venice, Italy, the night before. And artist Sterling Ruby is a bit frazzled as he rushes into the lobby of the unfinished Marciano Art Foundation on this late ...
Artist Jim Shaw has a cold. Curator Philipp Kaiser is jetlagged, having just flown in from Venice, Italy, the night before. And artist Sterling Ruby is a bit frazzled as he rushes into the lobby of the unfinished Marciano Art Foundation on this late ...
Friday, May 12, 2017
National Gallery of Canada receives major gift of contemporary art from collector Bob Rennie
The Vancouver-based real estate magnate and collector Bob Rennie has given a collection of contemporary art worth more than C$12m to the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, in honour of Canada's 150th anniversary.
La Crescent-Hokah senior Sophie Fox mixes art with war
“The Syrian People: A Charitable Art Exhibition”—a mixture of oil paints, acrylic, water color, ink drying, paint making and sewing— will be on exhibit at the University of Wisconsin- La Crosse's Morris Hall, room 203 on Friday, May 12.
This is America's first art show just for dogs
“This will be a show not of or by dogs, but for them. It offers an unprecedented opportunity for the creative community to engage with an entirely new species of art lover, and to consider its concerns, interests, and worldview,” writes organizer ...
Thursday, May 11, 2017
People Really Thought This Mysterious Discarded Prank Pineapple Was a Piece of Art
Art is in the eye of the beholder. That was certainly the case at a recent art show at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland over the weekend, when one mischievous student left a random pineapple on an empty display stand to see what would ...
The Art of Looking
You want to see art, you have to go to an art museum. We don't have to do any of that! Beauty is all around us. Birds are all around us.
Akron Art Bomb Brigade and UA students transform drab downtown wall with colorful, 2400-square-foot mural
On a chilly early April night, some University of Akron students spray-painted the beginnings of a big public art project on a drab wall in downtown Akron.
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Beyond the NEA budget: The political side of art
In the first quarter of 2017, Americans for the Arts ramped up, spending $90,000 on lobbying - more than half its outlays for all of 2016.
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