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Faces of the Valley: New Kensington artist reflects on long career
7+ hour, 33+ min ago (730+ words) David Shipley took to drawing as a child, but over his career he also pushed his creative bounds to include painting, sculpting and acting. At 73, Shipley continues to challenge himself. The artist, who lives in New Kensington and hails from…...
How student art is helping fund change
2+ hour, 57+ min ago (939+ words) With a theme exploring identity and unity, the charity Students Rebuild is showing young people how creativity can connect classrooms to communities around the world A global arts programme has turned the creativity of young people into a million dollars…...
Atlanta artists shaping the city's identity
5+ hour, 5+ min ago (495+ words) Wednesday, June 17 Atlanta artists have long carried our community's culture across the globe. In moments like this summer, however, when the world's gaze is focused on us, the stakes of that representation shift. Sketchbook turns its attention to two people…...
A Mexican Sculptor's Survey Anchors S'o Paulo's Big Latin Art Year
5+ hour, 41+ min ago (798+ words) The show. "Dami'n Ortega: Matter and Energy" is the Mexican artist's first major survey in South America, at S'o Paulo's MASP. The dates. It runs from May 15 to September 13, then travels to the Centro Cultural La Moneda in Santiago, Chile....
Lina Ghotmeh: "Being in Al Ula, you start to understand all the beauty of the world
6+ hour, 47+ min ago (480+ words) ALULA: Al Ula'is no stranger to art. It is renowned as'an'open-air natural museum'with 7, 000 years of lived-in history.'Even so,'the upcoming'Al Ula'Contemporary Art Museum,'created as'part of Saudi Vision 2030, is sure to be the talk of the town.' The'famed Paris-based'Lebanon-born'architect,…...
Calvert City hosts third annual Kids Art in the Park
9+ hour, 3+ min ago (176+ words) Approximately 30 children participated in the third annual Kids Art in the Park program in Calvert City. Kids Art in the Park celebrates creativity, business skills for third year CALVERT CITY " Kids Art in the Park brought children and adults together…...
Who is this artist and why is his mother spitting at him?
8+ hour, 34+ min ago (1029+ words) Having created what's been called the best art of the 21st century, Iceland's Ragnar Kjartansson might also be the manosphere's greatest antidote. It's 10. 30pm in Reykjavik when I hop onto a Zoom call with Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson. "It's like meeting someone…...
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi coined 'flow' in 1975 after interviewing artists who forgot to eat " he found the state appears only when attention points fully outward at a task, never at the self
12+ hour, 52+ min ago (272+ words) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi named flow in 1975 after watching Chicago painters skip meals and lose track of time. His decades of pager studies revealed the state appears only when attention points fully outward at a task " the moment the self steps back…...
Art and Design
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (683+ words) The French sound artist C'leste Boursier-Mougenot creates an unlikely symphony by setting singing bowls bobbing at the Park Avenue Armory. "By Walker Mimms and Guarionex Rodriguez A Brit, he became a symbol of the city's culture, stylish and alienating, with…...
5 Gallery Network Artists We're Watching This Summer
19+ hour, 7+ min ago (284+ words) Mark your calendar to see these artists on view from New York to Mallorca. Artnet Gallery Network June 17, 2026 Share Share This Article While much of the art world is focused on Art Basel in Switzerland this week, there is no…...