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VATICAN CITY--Pope Benedict XVI addressed artists, actors and musicians in the splendor of the Sistine Chapel on Saturday to renew the Catholic church's friendship with the world of art and remind them they were "custodians of beauty in the world." "Through your art, you yourselves are to be heralds and witnesses of hope for humanity," he said. But he warned them ...

Celebrities. We love to hate them. We also love to watch their every move, laugh at their mistakes and scrutinize their decisions. Like them or not, their celebrity status means not only have they achieved career success, they’ve also got a hell of a lot to lose. And sometimes, whatever actions have helped catapult them to fame or rendered them ...

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 ...

ArtBistro is proud to announce November's Art 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. *Maht Paulos, New Media Artist, ...

Washington, DC - You can't see it, but there's a quiet cultural revolution under way at the White House. The Obamas are decorating their private spaces with more modern and abstract artwork than has ever hung on the White House walls. New pieces by contemporary African-American and Native American artists are on display. Bold colors, odd shapes, squiggly lines have arrived. ...

Winston-Salem, NC - Every Wednesday night after she and her parents have supper at her grandparents' house, Logan Prysiaszniuk heads downstairs to her workshop. Logan, 11, works alongside her mother, Kristina Prysiaszniuk, and her grandmother, Faye Kapp, to make colorful scarves from recycled sweaters. The basement workshop is the manufacturing center for Logi B. Designs, the company that Logan started last ...

Los Angeles, CA - At just 42 inches high and cast in bronze, the whimsical frog wears an expectant smile as he patiently awaits a kiss to turn him into a prince. But that show of affection may never come, at least from some neighbors who object to the proposed location of his new lily pad, the 1-acre Miramar Park just ...

It’s funny for me to think that there was a time several years ago when I absolutely swore I would never make artist’s books, because I really felt that the whole medium had become this ghetto that women artists for whatever reason gravitated to, only to have relatively few people/institutions collect them… and in that way it was a sort of ...

New York, NY - The best new park in the Big Apple isn't for baseball, and it won't cost you a dime to visit. The High Line floats magically over Manhattan's once-gritty Meatpacking District, an unexpected carpet of trees, grass, flowers and rusty rails three stories above the street. You won't find a more interesting or accessible path to stroll along ...

London, UK - Damien Hirst has made a fortune and become an art-world brand by peering at life's dark side. Rows of skulls stare sightless from deep blue backgrounds in the new exhibition by the man who turned pickled sharks and rotting cows' heads into multimillion-dollar works of art. "I got called morbid at school," Hirst said Tuesday ahead of the ...

Fraebel studio announced today that President Obama has commissioned thirty-four "Glass Tree" sculptures created by world renowned flamework glass artist Hans Godo Fraebel. The exquisite glass sculptures will be presented to world leaders at the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 24-25 September 2009. For more information and high resolution pictures, go to: www.frabel.com/obama-gift. "I am honored that President Obama has selected ...

AMSTERDAM - While Vincent van Gogh has become almost as famed for his troubled mind as for his paintings, a new exhibition in the Van Gogh Museum seeks to remind us there was more method than madness to his style. In honor of the publication of a new compendium of all the artist's known correspondence, the museum has put more than ...

Berkeley, CA - In 1963, the UC Berkeley Art Museum (BAM) got off the ground with a major gift from artist and teacher Hans Hofmann. The abstract expressionist donated 45 of his revered paintings to BAM, along with a $250,000 check. This year, the museum received another boon -- 56 paintings and drawings from Colombian artist Fernando Botero. The works are ...

Washington DC - Politicians, cover your eyes. The first exhibit of 56 large-scale color landscapes from Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky chronicling the impact of oil made its debut Saturday at Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art - less than a block from the White House. The show, chronicling the world's predominant energy source, can't help carrying a political zing. "Edward Burtynsky: Oil," ...

The Libeskind Villa, the first of a series of 30 prefabricated homes by Daniel Libeskind to be distributed worldwide, has opened to the public. Libeskind and his wife and practice manager Nina opened the 380sq m prototype on Tuesday, built on the premises of Rheinzink, the Berlin-based manufacturer that is developing the zinc facade for the Libeskind Villa. "This is really ...

You can’t see it, but there’s a quiet cultural revolution under way at the White House. The Obamas are decorating their private spaces with more modern and abstract artwork than has ever hung on the White House walls. New pieces by contemporary African-American and Native American artists are on display. Bold colors, odd shapes, squiggly lines have arrived. So, too, have ...

Grand Rapids, MI - Ran Ortner of Brooklyn, N.Y., has won the $250,000 first prize in the inaugural edition of ArtPrize, the contemporary art competition in Grand Rapids that dispensed with a traditional jury of experts in favor of choosing the winner by public vote. Ortner, 50, won for his monumental three-panel oil-on-canvas painting "Open Water No. 24," a 6-foot by ...

You voted and the winners have made history. Our first place winner was a clear favorite across ArtBistro. Five wonderful designs had a heated competition for the second and third places. It was very close! Congratulations to the winners and all the semi-finalists. This year, the submitted designs were extremely creative and very professional. The 2009 T-Shirt Design contest proves ArtBistro ...

PARIS - The Louvre Museum has invited Italian writer Umberto Eco to be a guest curator in coming months. Eco, whose novels include medieval murder mystery "The Name of the Rose," was given carte blanche to propose a series of readings, conferences, concerts and visits at the museum, centering on a theme of his choice. True to form, the author, philosopher ...

In this in-depth interview, noted multimedia artist and professor Nancy Macko talks to Emily Waldorf about her ongoing HIVE Universe project and current group show, “Gaia and Global Warming: Women Artists Champion Nature,” at the Center for the Arts in Jackson Hole. Ms. Macko also touches on eco-feminism, how she balances teaching and creating, working on Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party, and ...