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Highmark Mann Center and Mural Arts Philadelphia unveil community-inspired mural series
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The Highmark Mann Center for the Performing Arts and Mural Arts Philadelphia will dedicate a 12-piece mural installation in West Fairmount Park on July 31. The project turns the venue’s entrance into a public story about music, memory, labor and…
Technotainment buys Brendan O’Connell’s Taylor Swift painting to launch new art entertainment strand
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Technotainment Streaming Media Inc. has acquired Brendan O’Connell’s Taylor Swift painting, a pop-art work previously featured in Cosmopolitan, and plans to use it as a launch piece for Galleration on STRMIT.tv. The move ties together fine art,…
Harlem Fine Arts Show heads to the Hamptons for July festival
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The Harlem Fine Arts Show is bringing its Summer Festival to Duck Walk Vineyards in Water Mill, New York, from July 17-19, with art, live music, chef experiences and community programming.
Children turn shattered Kyiv hotel windows into public art
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Children in Kyiv have transformed wooden panels covering windows damaged in a Russian missile strike into paintings of Ukrainian ornaments and flowers at Hotel Ukraina.
IndoUSrare and GORD name 2026 Bridging RARE award honorees
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IndoUSrare and GORD have named three leaders for the 2026 Abbey Meyers Khushi Bridging RARE Awards ahead of the Bridging RARE Gala on Nov. 1 in Manassas, Virginia.
First Coast Cultural Center renews autism certification
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First Coast Cultural Center in St. Augustine renewed its Certified Autism Center designation through IBCCES, extending its effort to serve autistic and sensory-sensitive visitors.
David Sugar unveils hand-engraved Patriot Spirit Vodka art collection
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Patriot Spirit Vodka has unveiled the American Milestones Collection, seven hand-engraved glass works by artist David Sugar that honor defining moments in U.S. history.
Roger Spitz’s 2019 “Metaruptions” term reaches the art world in London interview
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The Disruptive Futures Institute released a recorded London TV interview bringing together futurist Roger Spitz and artist Dylan Gill around “Metaruptions,” a term Spitz coined in 2019. The conversation shows how the idea has moved from a…
Downtown Houston launches walkable public art project
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Downtown Houston+ has installed 13 artworks across storefronts and blank street-level surfaces downtown, turning them into a walkable public art route.
Diaspora Arts Connection marks 10 years of Let Her Sing with San Diego debut
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Diaspora Arts Connection will celebrate the 10th anniversary of Let Her Sing® in October 2026 with performances in San Francisco and, for the first time, San Diego.
Anita Selzer spotlights three Australian women artists in Female Gaze book 3
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Anita Selzer will release the third book in her Female Gaze series in October 2026, focusing on Australian artists Jane Sutherland, Emma Minnie Boyd and Josephine Muntz Adams.
Western Art Show returns to America's Mountain Festival in Woodland Park
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America’s Mountain Festival will feature the Western Art Show in Woodland Park, Colorado, on July 11, with 17 artists, 51 original works and public voting for top honors.
California Arts Council taps Scansion for strategic planning
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The California Arts Council has hired Scansion to help develop a new strategic plan that will steer the state arts agency’s priorities, partnerships and grantmaking for the next five to seven years.
Peter Tuchman to speak at Christie’s Art+Tech Summit 2026
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Peter Tuchman will appear at Christie’s Art+Tech Summit 2026 on July 16 in New York City for a featured conversation on markets, technology and art. The session adds a veteran Wall Street voice to a program that also includes leaders from…
Harlem Fine Arts Show partners with Creole Food Festival for Hamptons summer event
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The Harlem Fine Arts Show Summer Festival is teaming with the Creole Food Festival for a July 17-19 takeover of Duck Walk Vineyards in Water Mill, N.Y., featuring more than 15 chefs, Black art, live music and community programming.
International Folk Art Market opens in Santa Fe with 148 artists from 53 countries
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The 22nd International Folk Art Market opens July 9–12, 2026, in Santa Fe’s Railyard Park with 148 artists from 53 countries and more than 20,000 expected visitors.
Proposal calls for Uzbekistan lifestyle stores to showcase trade, tourism and culture
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A new proposal outlines a global retail and cultural network built around Uzbekistan’s products, heritage, tourism and investment story.
Studio Mao wraps USA 250 cultural event in Atlanta
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Studio Mao says it completed a USA 250 cultural program at The Millennium Gate Museum in Atlanta, featuring violinist Mikhail Simonyan and a guest list that spanned arts, diplomacy and public life.
Student launches Yādgār digital archive of Iranian cultural heritage
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A Bakersfield high school student has launched Yādgār, a free online archive documenting the destruction, looting and suppression of Iranian and Middle Eastern cultural heritage.
Prime 1 Studio opens pre-orders for Eve UNREAL cover art statue
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Prime 1 Studio will open pre-orders July 3, 2026, for a 1/5-scale statue of Eve from rurudo’s art book UNREAL. The $799 collectible ships in February 2028 and targets fans of the illustrator’s first original character with a limited run of 500…
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