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When Irmgard Neuman discovered that there was a celebrity artist living next door, she bought a book of his work, and, rather boldly, asked him to sign it.
Twenty-six teenagers. One museum. Mary Alice Copp’s portraits present the positive influence that The Newark Museum’s Science Explorer’s Program in Newark, New Jersey has had on its student participants. The program employs urban high school students for three years, prepping them for college and exposing them to ample opportunities. Copp featured 26 students from the program’s past three ...
The city’s ties to history and the arts came to the fore during Norwich’s first First Friday of 2009.
Several leaks in the ceiling of the Westhampton Beach Post Office on Main Street are slowly damaging what some consider to be an important piece of American art—painter Sol Wilson’s mural titled “Outdoor Sports.”
Farida's image of a Pakistani girl is becoming iconic. She captures a cross between ruin and ritual. It's a side of Pakistan that rarely makes it into the American press.
IRONTON — Ohio University Southern will sponsor an Education On Location art and history themed one day educational field study excursion to Columbus.
Good news while we were off on holiday: The Phillips Collection announced it has raised $23.5 million in endowment funds over the last nine months of 2008. That's an important fundraising success for new Phillips director Dorothy Kosinski.
Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost prefecture, is a large island with an abundance of mountains, volcanic plateaus and coastal plains. A popular tourist destination today, it has long been the ancestral homeland of the Ainu people—an indigenous population with roots that go back thousands of years.
Japan’s culture of calligraphy and illustration informs a unique language of graphic design. Tom Dennis traces its development Like Japanese popular culture at large, the history of Japanese graphic design and illustration is a melting pot of traditional heritage combined with selective Western influences and savvy, inimitable humour and style.
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