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December "5x5" Show!   La Familia Gallery is turning mini!  The entire Gallery will feature a group show with over 275 pieces all sized to be exactly 5" x 5".  We are excited to invite you to a special early opening.    La Familia Gallery will be hosting an "Early Opening Reception" before December's First Thursday just for you, our ...

The workplace is not what it was five years ago. Neither is the job hunt. The most successful candidates are those who are ready and willing to adapt to a changing landscape. But it doesn’t matter how ready you are for the modern workplace if your resumé’s straight out of 1994. And sometimes, it's the most minute details that make all ...

 Many people suffer from bipolar disorder, an illness of very high and very low and depressive moods. According to Robert Feldman's Understanding Psychology, people with bipolar disorder often are able to use the energy from their soaring moods to "make unusually creative contributions." But everything depends. For an artist, everything feels like shapes. Everything feels like colors, feels like the light ...

Announcing the Degenerate Craft Fair, a sort of anti-art-fair featuring over 20 artists and designers. Just in time for holiday shopping, it will take place in the first three weekends of December at three different locations, and feature works of art generally priced under $50. Organized by artists Amy Wilson and Shannon Broder, this event was originally designed to help a ...

Until recently, few people had heard of Liu Bolin. He is one of 40 Chinese artists represented by Eil Klein Fine Art in Soho. He recently gained international notoriety for his sculpture "Burning Man Obama." Bolin is also famous for his "invisible" photographs. Find out why millions around the world recently discovered this artist. h2. "Read the article here":http://artbistro.monster.com/news/articles/10063-burning-obama-sculpture-a-hot-controversy

ArtBistro created the What's Your Turkey IQ? quiz to help you learn more about Thanksgiving's most popular dish: The Turkey. We're providing the answers so you can learn from the quiz, but... h4. Don't cheat! If you haven't taken the What's Your Turkey IQ quiz, go take it first. See answers on the next page... [page] 1) 1. Deep-frying turkeys originated ...

The winner for ArtBistro's "I Love What I Do" video contest was Lauren Hampton, a graphic designer based in Little Rock, Arkansas. The prize for winning the contest was a 16GB iPod nano. We asked her to tell us about her so we could share her story with the rest of the ArtBistro community. So give your congratulations to Lauren for ...

Liu Bolin, "Burning Man Obama", 2009, Bronze and pyrotechnics, Courtesy Eli Klein Fine Art h4. A New Art Star Is Born Until recently, few people had heard of Liu Bolin. He is one of 40 Chinese artists represented by "Eil Klein Fine Art":http://www.ekfineart.com/html/home.asp in Soho. What happened to catapult his career into the stratosphere? It was a perfect storm that ...

Rome is well known for Renaissance artists, Michelangelo, Da Vinci and the Coliseum. It is hard to go there and not be surrounded by ancient art and feel like you could go back in time. However, the next time you are there, you'll have to go to the new Museum of Contemporary Art. Italian contemporary artists are contributing to the global ...

AP Image [widget:2677] ROME - Italy is opening its first national museum for contemporary arts and architecture in a bid to shed its image as merely a keeper of a glorious artistic past. The euro150 million ($223 million) Maxxi cultural center opens Saturday, for a limited weekend run before its full-fledged opening in a few months. The museum, located in ...

ArtBistro is proud to announce November’s Design Gallery Winners! This album represents excellent level of professionalism that ArtBistro members exhibit in their art work. There is a wide variety of design specialties. Congratulations to all the winners! To leave comments on the work, click on the designer’s name and browse their portfolio. h2. See the winners here!

ArtBistro is proud to announce November's Design Gallery Winners! This album represents excellent level of professionalism that ArtBistro members exhibit in their art work. Congratulations to all the winners! To submit your work for next month's "Art Gallery show click here.":http://artbistro.monster.com/topics/12607-submit-your-work-for-the-august-art-show/posts To leave comments on the work, click on the designer's name and browse their portfolio. *Carlos Katarina Ongaigui, Graphic Designer* ...

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Studio 91 has designed packaging made from recycled Fairtrade cotton for ethical underwear group Pants to Poverty. Pants to Poverty started as part of the Make Poverty History campaign in 2005, and sells Fairtrade organic underwear. The company sells its underwear through independent shops and online retailers to 22 countries, and works with more than 4500 farmers in India. Studio 91 ...

Glasgow, UK - Outspoken artist Damien Hirst has sparked controversy by claiming "anyone can be like Rembrandt". Hirst, 44, who is famous for exhibiting dead animals preserved in formaldehyde, is reputed to be the world's richest living artist. The Bristol-born artist was responding to critics who have lambasted his latest London show as "an embarrassment" and "shockingly bad". He says he ...

Have you ever felt that artists get the short end of the stick in lieu of Galleries, Museums, Dealers, and other artworld forces? Artists most often do not see any of the money from the sale of their work at auction, because they have already sold it and it is out of their hands. One group of artists is taking matters ...

[widget:2677] Ryan McGinness, Untitled (2008). Acrylic on wood panel, 24 in. dia. Estimate: $12,000 – $14,000 New York, NY—The other night, when Christie’s sold a Peter Doig painting for a whopping $10.2 million — a full $4 million above its pre-sale estimate — Doig happened to be in the room, sitting next to the collector who was selling the work. ...

Cecilia Cassini of Encino is a fashionista with a famous designer's name, the style and attitude to go with haute couture -- and she's all of 10 years old and in the fifth grade. She also has a big mane of beautiful hair and the cuteness that could make any young girl aspire to the life of a model. Instead she ...

How to pick colors for your home: Think combinations, not colors. Picking colors is in fact about picking a combination of colors. One color is no color. Did you know the human eye can't even perceive single colors? We can only see color differences, in other words: we only perceive contrasts. Therefor it's no use fretting over a single color for ...

New York, NY — Chances are you’ve seen one of Liu Ye’s paintings reproduced somewhere — on a Web site like this one, perhaps, or in an auction catalogue. Liu’s works translate well to print — the compositions, often wide expanses of color framing lone, female figures, are pleasingly spare, the colors look bright and pure, and the figures, with their ...