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8.8 Reason to Love the Sing for Hope Pianos

Monica Yunus | Posted 05.10.2013 | Arts
Monica Yunus

As the Co-Founding Director of Sing for Hope, I am thrilled and excited that we are bringing The Sing for Hope Pianos back to New York this summer! From June 1st through June 16th, 88 pianos will be outdoors for all to play and enjoy.

LOOK: There's Reason To Attend Movement.. Besides The Techno

Posted 04.20.2013 | Detroit

Come Memorial Day weekend, Detroit's Hart Plaza won't just be full of thumping bass and daytime revelers dancing along. Techno fans at the Movement El...

Put Your Portrait In Times Square

Posted 04.19.2013 | Arts

The French street artist known as JR wants to display your face in Times Square next week. For his project "Inside Out New York City," he plans to ins...

Capitalism Works for Me... ?

Phil Campbell | Posted 04.10.2013 | Arts
Phil Campbell

capitalism works for meThe "art" of "Capitalism Works for Me!" isn't necessarily in the LED sign and voting machine, it's in how people are confronted with a question that is both very public and very personal.

Re:REBAR

Sarah Barness | Posted 04.01.2013 | San Francisco
Sarah Barness

Art is not limited to a canvas and a paintbrush, but what about the age old question, "Where do you draw the line?"

PHOTOS: 'Green' Art Installation Debuting This Spring

Posted 03.28.2013 | Chicago

Chicago's new look for spring? Green. Beginning soon, a new interactive public art installation is slated to premiere that aims to inspire the city...

Will The Bay Lights Inspire Other Cities to Merge Art With Technology? (VIDEO)

Greg Archer | Posted 05.19.2013 | Arts
Greg Archer

The Bay Lights is a living, moving example of how art can help transform a city -- on many fronts -- and it certainly illuminates the importance of public art, in general.

The First Crocheted Billboard

The Huffington Post | Katherine Brooks | Posted 03.14.2013 | Arts

Olek has struck again, this time bringing her crocheted magic to the sky-level billboards of Oakland, California. First crocheted billboard ever! ...

Street Pianos Installed In 34 Cities Worldwide

The Huffington Post | Katherine Brooks | Posted 03.14.2013 | Arts

If you find yourself walking the streets of Monterey, California, and pass by a piano curiously stationed in your path, there's no need to scratch you...

Renowned Artist Puts Bay Bridge In Lights

Kimberley Lovato | Posted 05.04.2013 | San Francisco
Kimberley Lovato

San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge may have celebrated its 75th anniversary with glorious fanfare last year, but it's the city's 'other' bridge, the Bay Bridge, that transformed into the largest LED light sculpture in the world on March 5.

Street Art on Abbot Kinney

Carmen Zella | Posted 04.22.2013 | Arts
Carmen Zella

Your favorite local neighborhood is receiving a new mural on one of the most recognized establishments along Abbot Kinney. Puerto Rican public muralist and artist Alexis Diaz (aka La Pandilla) has painted a mural on the 35-year-old institution, the Roosterfish bar.

Andy Warhol Foundation Stands Up For The Little Guy

Posted 02.05.2013 | Arts

In 2008, the Sanctuary for Independent Art, a small media arts organization based in the lower-income town of Troy, New York, made news when it was ab...

Community in Communion

Tracy Shaffer | Posted 04.06.2013 | Denver
Tracy Shaffer

Last summer, Sonny Lawson Park gained some renewed energy with the installation of "Before I Die," a world-wide, interactive art piece by Candy Chang. Visitors are encouraged to pick up a piece of chalk, reflect on their lives, and share their personal aspirations in a public space.

You Are Beautiful

Leslie Goldman | Posted 04.03.2013 | Good News
Leslie Goldman

I spotted my first You Are Beautiful sticker on the blue inside lip of a U.S. Mailbox. I opened it to send a bill and was greeted by a small, silver pick-me-up. "You Are Beautiful," the mailbox told me. And I smiled inside.

PHOTOS: Amazing Airport Art

Necee Regis | Posted 03.13.2013 | Travel
Necee Regis

In the 21st century, airport art is often an integrated experience between the art, the facility and the public.

Fiber Arts Shine As Public Art

Hilary Harkness | Posted 02.16.2013 | TED Weekends
Hilary Harkness

Making things out of yarn used to be the realm of grannies, but fiber arts have evolved in the past few decades into a cutting-edge discipline.

Art Inspires! Broadening Art Appeal

Sylvie Leotin | Posted 02.13.2013 | TED Weekends
Sylvie Leotin

The number of people who live their lives thinking they don't like art bewilders me. In fact the question consumes me so much that I've taken to asking it to everyone I meet. Occasionally I discover another art lover, but more often than not the reaction is befuddlement.

Why Art Is Important To The Economy

John M. Eger | Posted 02.13.2013 | TED Weekends
John M. Eger

People need to live and work and play in a community that itself is creative, that nurtures creativity, and gets us to think differently.

Imagination Becomes Reality

Janet Echelman | Posted 02.13.2013 | TED Weekends
Janet Echelman

2012-12-13-echelmanpullThere's just one thing I'd like to clarify. It sounds like I'm railing against the establishment, and their mistake of rejecting me. But here's the thing -- I don't think they were wrong.

Dance+the Holidays: Three Things to Do This Weekend

Jennifer Edwards | Posted 12.13.2012 | Arts
Jennifer Edwards

This weekend is the perfect time to take a break, grab a friend, and get relaxed, inspired, and refreshed by some good art. Here are three ideas pared with off-the-beaten-path opportunities to see something new.

One Way To Save The Santa Monica Nativity Scenes

Edward Goldman | Posted 01.26.2013 | Arts
Edward Goldman

It's not that often that my beloved Santa Monica finds itself in the news -- both locally and nationally. But here it is. Today's LA Times headline reads "Santa Monica can bar Nativity Scenes." This morning's New York Times weighed in as well, with "A City Ban Changes the Christmas Scene."

Community Art In Mid-America

Artwrit | Posted 01.16.2013 | Arts
Artwrit

Great Wall of Respect, Chicago. By Kyle McKenzie. Read the article as it appeared in the October '12 issue of Artwrit. Dave Loewenstein, an artist...

The Democracy of Air: Billboards in LA

Deborah Stambler | Posted 01.09.2013 | Arts
Deborah Stambler

Imagine driving along the 10 Freeway, you're stuck in traffic and you look up to see a billboard sprouting, growing and you're checking out its daily progress.

PHOTOS: Poetry Mag Marks 100th Birthday With Loop Installment

Posted 10.19.2012 | Chicago

As far as milestones go, there's nothing quite like a 100th birthday celebration. This month, Poetry magazine, with help from the Chicago Loop Allianc...

Pranksters Tag London's Central Line

Posted 10.11.2012 | Arts

The signs in subway stations and metro cars have long been the targets of some pretty hilarious public art and graffiti projects. But this particular ...