County unveils distinctive, provocative public art in downtown Salt Lake City

Composed of biophotonic glass — a type of deeply colored glass that is energized by light — the facade is the work of Gordon Huether, the same Napa Valley artist designing the major public art at the expanding Salt Lake City International Airport.and more »

How a Quirky Art Prize Tied to the DeVos Family Went Political

Her piece is one of more than 1,350 entries by artists from 47 countries in one of the art world's most peculiar and richest competitions, now in its ninth year. Over a three-week period, this city hosts ArtPrize, which displays entries in public ...and more »

Explore the World's Largest Online Database of Jewish Art, from Antiquity to Today

Two years ago, researchers with the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem surveyed the many synagogues built across Siberia. Over the course of the expedition, they found a large number of the sacred buildings, long abandoned, ...

The Importance of Nancy Holt, the Woman Who Revolutionized Land Art

(Eventually the terms “earthworks” and “land art” would come to represent different distinctions of a similar field, earthworks consisting of only natural materials while land art utilized manmade structures in or on the Earth.) The movements were a ...

Guggenheim Pulls Animal Art From Upcoming Chinese Exhibition

Late last night, the Guggenheim Museum in New York announced it was pulling three works from an upcoming show of contemporary art from China. One is a large screen-covered box with live lizards and insects inside. The other two are videos of animals.

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A rendering of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, with the addition of the Akiko Yamazaki & Jerry Yang Pavilion that would feature an 8,500-square-foot ...

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It's time to make Halloween a more budget friendly experience. Consider re-using or re-purposing old ... As you prepare to decorate, check dollar stores, consignment shops and thrift stores before purchasing new decorations. Look on line for more ideas ...

Winter Holiday Council needs 'help, help, help' to decorate Loveland

The Winter Holiday Council operates on a yearly budget of about $14,000 from the sale of a limited edition pewter ornament created by a different artist each year. The bulk of that pays for installation of the decorations around town, which runs about ...

How to Regain the Lost Art of Reflection

We believe that corporate leaders in today's complex world urgently need to recultivate the art of reflection. In reflective thought, a person examines underlying assumptions, core beliefs, and knowledge, while drawing connections between apparently ...

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Art is international, and certain countries and cities inspire the growth of different art styles throughout the ages. Students can explore the birthplace of any art form through the numerous Learning Abroad opportunities that allow them to study ...

Cassini's life passes before its eyes in NY art exhibition

Created by artist Gabriel Pulecio and produced by WOW and Covalent Artists, the exhibition features a series of abstract images meant to evoke Cassini's narrative. All of that is enhanced by Pulecio's trippy signature "infinity mirrors" and a music ...and more »

A Closer Look at Africa's First Contemporary Art Museum

CAPE TOWN — Africa has always enjoyed a rocky relationship with the interweb of commercial and cultural interests we know as the art world. Take 'tribal art,' an egregious category used for far too long to refer to the pilfered artwork from colonial ...

The art of caning by Darcy Tozier

Her professional caning work is influenced by a passion for art. Not far from bundles of cane strand, tools, and loose pegs are three bone sculptures made from needle felting wool. And opened on a table is a sketch book filled with anatomy drawings.and more »

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The dining area opens on to the kitchen, which in turn leads back to the front of the house via the living room – a more private space where the couple's own art collection is displayed. This gradual journey from public to private is echoed by the ...

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Marian Horosko, Dancer and Advocate for the Art, Dies at 92

Marian Horosko, a ballet dancer who became both an advocate for the art form and a historian of it, writing books on Martha Graham and May O'Donnell as well as practical guides, died on Sept. 11 in the Bronx. She was 92. The death, at a nursing ...

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Art collectors give the Chrysler Museum of Art the largest gift since 1971.
Art collectors Lisa and Dudley Anderson were looking for a great home for their beloved glass collection. This glass menagerie is special. The Wilson, N.C., couple has amassed rare and spectacular pieces from some of the medium's most celebrated ...

Riverviews, art collector team up to bring 'Art to the People'

Victoria Towns and Brooke Marcy hang a piece by David Eakin, from Larry Bassett's art collection, at Miriam's House on Friday Sept. 15. Bassett is loaning out pieces of his collection to hang at various human services organizations to make art more ...

Art notes: Fiber art meets feminism at Benson studio

Museum of Nebraska Art, 2401 Central Ave. Kearney, Neb. Lincoln Highway. “Collection Connection with Francisco Souto: There is no food.” The artists discusses his series of drawings about the current economic collapse and momentous political crisis ...

A Head-Spinning, Hope-Inspiring Showcase of Art

And no work falls more clearly into the art-as-evidence category than a sculpture by Camilo Ontiveros in the exhibition called “Home — So Different, So Appealing: Art from the Americas Since 1957” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Placed at the ...

Rothschild Trimaran Catapults Edgy Los Angeles Street Art To The High Seas

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Collectors bid $5M in art auction

Onstage was a framed sketch by wildlife art master Carl Rungius, one of the first offerings of the 2017 Jackson Hole Art Auction at the Center for the Arts. Collectors had gathered for a slate of moderately priced paintings, sketches and bronzes in ...

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The Ackland Art Museum has been chosen to receive 12 significant works of art by African-American artists, bringing its collection by black artists to 49.and more »

Chilly day makes cool art

After the announcer's dramatic 10-second countdown to the finish line, the artists framed their work and headed into an auction tent crowded with mittens-clad art collectors. This was Indiana-based artist Marianne Wiggers' first Fall Arts Festival ...

Three Art Projects for Kids Using the Power of the Sun

Art projects are an easy way to bond with your kid and give them a chance to show their creative side. Even cooler are art projects your kid can do that harness the power of the sun. Plus, art projects outside mean less mess for you to clean up ...

Beyoncé and Jay-Z Have Been on an Art-Buying Romp All Around New York

Avid art collectors, Jay-Z and Beyoncé are known to buy blue-chip names like Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol, Richard Prince, David Hammons, and Jean-Michel Basquiet—whom Jay-Z has both rapped about and dressed as for Halloween, alongside Beyoncé's ...

Roots Studios' 'Shutterstock for cultural art' could transform rural communities

What's required is a sort of “Shutterstock for cultural art” where artists are paid, in just the same way photographers are. Such a platform could literally change lives in traditional communities, and perhaps even prevent or at least slow down the ...and more »

Local art collectors view curated selection of ArtPrize Nine work

GRAND RAIPDS, MICH. - One of the original goals of ArtPrize was to get more people talking about art -- now, what was once something that only a select group would discuss is not a much larger conversation involving people from all over West Michigan ...

Guide: Where the art is

For this guide to public art, Crain's lists some of the lesser-known mural and sculpture projects around town, a few of which are also part of wider creative placemaking efforts. Rip Rapson, president and CEO of The Kresge Foundation, said true power ...

Cake Is His 'Art.' So Can He Deny One to a Gay Couple? - The New ...

A Colorado case that pits a gay couple against a baker who refused to serve them will mostly center on the protections of free speech.and more »

Calendar Letters: Not PC, but it's still art

Regarding “Frankly, My Dear, You're Racist” [Sept. 6]: Censoring or even destroying art that is no longer politically correct is itself a crime against humanity. England lost over half its art during the Reformation. Everything from statues to tombs ...

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GRAND RAIPDS, MICH. - One of the original goals of ArtPrize was to get more people talking about art -- now, what was once something that only a select group ...

The German Art Collector Who Introduced the “Blue Four” Artists to the US

Maven of Modernism hones in on German-born Emilie Esther Scheyer, a beloved art dealer who moved to Los Angeles in 1930. When she left Germany in 1924, first for New York and later the Bay Area, Scheyer dedicated her life to circulating the artwork of ...

Art Exhibit Powerfully Answers The Question 'What Were You Wearing?'

The art project was created in 2013 by Jen Brockman, the director of KU's Sexual Assault Prevention and Education Center, and Dr. Mary A. Wyandt-Hiebert, who oversees all programming initiatives at the University of Arkansas' rape education center.and more »

Postwar Art Gets a Nervy Makeover

But if they give art history a different spin or shape, they can also be valuable, warts and all. This is the case with “Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980” at the Met Breuer, a nervy multimedia survey of postwar art. It is the third ...and more »

New York Today: An Art Show Made of MetroCards

Artists are reimagining the MetroCard as an art medium for an exhibition this weekend in the meatpacking district, transforming thousands of the pocket-size passes into paintings, sculptures and other installations. “The only real constraint was to ...

More than 60 ArtPrize artists featured in collectors art show | MLive ...

Percentage of proceeds will be donated to ArtPrize education programing.and more »

Why Doctors And Cops Are Taking Art Observation Classes

A new study from the University of Pennsylvania's medical school suggests that taking art observation classes could sharpen medical students' visual analysis skills. This is important because the ability to correctly read and interpret images like X ...

Piedmont Arts examines Native American contributions to the modern art scene

MARTINSVILLE – Piedmont Arts will welcome a special guest on Thursday. Dr. Jeanette Nicewinter, a professor at American University in Washington, D.C. and admissions supervisor at The Phillips Collection in D.C., will present a free art lecture ...

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An Introduction to the 2017 ARTnews Top 200 Collectors

This past summer's Grand Tour—with stops at the Venice Biennale, Documenta 14, Skulptur Projekte Münster, and Art Basel—kept collectors busy. Estrellita Brodsky, for instance, acquired work by Vlassis Caniaris, a Greek artist from the 1960s whose ...

Irma-Proof Armor and Nights at the Museum: Shielding Florida's Arts

To protect the valuable collection at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, just off Biscayne Bay, an emergency crew of 14 security, operations and engineering staff members began staying overnight in the museum starting on Friday. In Sarasota, on Florida's Gulf ...and more »

Art Collectors, Pay Your Taxes

States are cracking down on art collectors who aren't paying taxes owed on their purchases. States don't release details about investigations into evasion of taxes on art purchases. But according to lawyers representing defendants in such cases, state ...

Wim Wenders on 'Submergence,' Art and Jihadism | Variety

Wim Wenders admits that "Submergence" is a departure from his previous work. The Oscar-nominated director of "Wings of Desire" and "Paris, Texas" isn't ...and more »

Buy art, watch art and drink bloody Marys: Autumn & Art returns

Back in 2010, the managers of the Wichita Riverfest decided they'd like to entertain Wichita in the fall as well. With visions Kansas City's Plaza Art Fair and Denver's Cherry Creek Arts Festival in their minds, they launched a new event called Autumn ...

Art comes full circle for Saybrook woman

SAYBROOK TOWNSHIP — A lifelong love affair with art is starting to open up for Deborah Hill after years of working got in the way of her creativity. Hill entered some of her work in the Art in the Alley show earlier this month and was excited to hear ...

When Protest Signs Become Art

Bruguera is herself a trained printmaker who now uses installation and performance art to rail against the inhumane treatment of immigrants — a subject that has become evermore urgent since the Trump administration announced its move to end DACA, ...

First timers bump cheque books with collectors at art fair | Newcastle ...

Alesendro Ljubicic put the last whorl and daub to a richly textured oil on linen, Cyclamen Cherron Rose, on Monday.and more »

Forging art and business in Dale Chihuly's workshop

Artist Dale Chihuly has become synonymous with reimagining what glass can do. Having long ago stopped blowing glass himself, at 75, he heads an art world enterprise at his Seattle studio. But using a team of artists to create his works has also raised ...and more »