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    Visual Artists Show Resilience During The Pandemic

    Dec 11, 2020

    Many areas of life have been compromised by the pandemic, and the visual arts are certainly one of them. 

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    Tai Shani, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock and Oscar Murillo pose for photographs after their names were announced as joint winners of the 2019 Turner Prize.
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    All For One And One For Four: Turner Prize Finalists Decide To Split Honor

    Dec 04, 2019
    The award is typically given to just one visual artist born or based in the U.K. But this year, its four politically committed finalists asked to make a "collective statement" — and got their wish.
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    2019 Culture Guide: Visual Arts

    Sep 01, 2019

    You will find something to appeal to your asthetic tastes with these art exhibits.

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    2018 Fall Culture Guide: Visual Arts

    Aug 30, 2018

    As the sun sets on summer, the fall cultural season is just getting started. Plan your outings with our handpicked collection of great art, music,  literature, theater, and festival events! 

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    Shots - Health News
    A visitor reaches down to feel the museum floor as a docent describes the corridor in which they are standing.
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    Blind Art Lovers Make The Most Of Museum Visits With 'InSight' Tours

    Jan 05, 2017
    "Sight isn't the only pathway to understand art," says Carol Wilson of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. There, specially trained docents lead tours using sound, description — and even touch.
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    Weaving Art At Emergency Arts

    Jun 20, 2016

    Monday night from 6 p.m. until 1:30 a.m., the Small Space Fest takes over the Emergency Arts building on Fremont Street, down

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    Bas Korsten, executive creative director of the J. Walter Thompson Amsterdam agency, stands with the painting at its unveiling Tuesday in Amsterdam.
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    A 'New' Rembrandt: From The Frontiers Of AI And Not The Artist's Atelier

    Apr 06, 2016
    A newly unveiled portrait bearing all the hallmarks of the Dutch master is actually the result of 18 months of analysis of 346 of his paintings, plus 150 gigabytes of digitally rendered graphics.
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    <em>Magic Circle</em> borrows from the forms of bacteria, microbes, diatoms and coral. Brown needed a laser to cut some of the more intricately designed shapes.
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    Is This Snowy Wonderland Or The World Inside A Petri Dish?

    Dec 25, 2015
    Artist Rogan Brown peers into the invisible worlds of microbes, then uses their forms as the inspiration for large paper sculptures that seem at once familiar and profoundly alien.
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    2015 Fall Culture Guide

    Aug 28, 2015

    A big-deal poet comes to town. Offbeat musicians unite for an evening. Artists show their work, actors emote onstage: fall will be chockablock — that’s right, chockablock! — with culture. Our smartly curated guide will help you make the most of this autumn bounty.

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    A New York study found that getting medical students together with dementia patients and their families at museums to view, discuss and create art for 90 minutes made the students better communicators.
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    Sharing Art Helps Medical Students Connect With Dementia Patients

    Aug 05, 2015
    It's easy to spot what Alzheimer's patients have lost — memory, communication skills and more. But a study that sent medical students and dementia patients to art classes opened new vistas for all.
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    Giselle by Nevada Ballet Theatre
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    Big-hearted ballet and half-forgotten art

    May 12, 2015

    A powerfully forgiving Giselle and hallways of fine local art in a place we'd forgotten had fine local art

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    Shots - Health News
    Rodgers uses abstract shapes of home and movement to evoke her father's journey to living in a hospital in<em> Liminal Space. </em>
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    A Woman Uses Art To Come To Terms With Her Father's Death

    May 04, 2015
    Artist Jennifer Rodgers' father was hospitalized for seven months with sepsis before he died. She used the creative process to try to comprehend his suffering and her loss.
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    This icon of a drone delivering pizza is part of a topic called "There's a drone for that."
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    How Iconic: A Word Is Worth Thousands Of Pictures

    Apr 11, 2015
    Inspired by the origins of the Oxford English Dictionary, the Noun Project uses crowdsourcing to gather an army of people to define words. But instead of using other words to do it, they use icons.
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    The birth of vaccines: Photographer Alexia Sinclair portrays Dr. Edward Jenner giving John Phipps the world's first vaccine, for smallpox, in 1796.
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    Why Bill Gates Is Commissioning Fine Art

    Jan 08, 2015
    From stylized photography that looks like a fashion shoot to a comic book journey about lockjaw, artwork from around the world illustrates the value of vaccines.
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