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28 April, 2022

A painter, draughtsman, architect, archaeologist, and poet, Raphael captured in his art the human and the divine, love and friendship, learning and power. In his brief career, spanning just two decade ...

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The Texas Academy of Figurative Art is one of the only full-time fine art academies in Texas that is focused exclusively on classical realist drawing and painting. TAFA offers an atelier experience fo ...

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The Miano Academy of Art now has a new location - 5320 Lena Rd Unit 105, Bradenton, FL 34211. Miano Academy of Art is proud to present their Atelier Apprenticeship program under the direction of ARC A ...

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Renowned for his powerful paintings of American life and scenery, Winslow Homer remains a consequential figure whose art continues to appeal to broad audiences. This exhibition reconsiders Homer’s wor ...

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In this workshop, ARC Living Master Chad Fisher will teach students how to create a finished clay portrait from life using traditional fine art techniques. Emphasis will be placed on large shapes, ana ...

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Brooklyn-based sculptor Justin Ryan Kendall is making affordable plaster drawing casts available to students, teachers, and lovers of art and art history. With a collection of 120 pieces and growing - ...

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18 April, 2022

Visit Delacroix’s last apartment and studio for a discovery of the artist's ties to nature. Within the intimate setting of the museum and garden, the exhibition features rare landscapes painted by Del ...

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The American Society of Marine Artists will select three outstanding marine themed works, (one “Best Marine Themed Work” which is a $3,000 award and two Honorable Mentions where each recipient wi ...

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Join ARC Living Master Juliette Aristides for a three-day immersion in figure painting, whether you are a beginner looking to try something new, or an experienced painter interested in Classical train ...

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ARC Approved Atelier Studio Program of Fine Arts is holding a scholarship competition for new full-time students. The scholarship is for one year's tuition ($9,000 value) at The Atelier Studio Program ...

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Congratulations to ARC Living Master Louis Alvarez Roure for being a finalist in the 24th annual International Portrait Competition. Only 21 finalists were chosen out 2274 entries. Awards will be pres ...

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12 April, 2022

Congratulations to ARC Associate Living Master Arina Gordienko for winning an honorable mention in Modportrait 2021, an international portrait competition run by Artelibre Gallery in collaboration wit ...

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The Grandmasters of Fine Art is a virtual exhibition of Contemporary Realist artworks from around the world. This year, ARC Associate Living Masters Arian Gordienko and Gezien van de Riet will be amon ...

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ARC Associate Living Master Gezien Van der Riet will have nearly 500 drawing, paintings, and watercolors she created as a sociologist in Bolivia added to the collection of the Fundación Cultural of th ...

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This exhibition reunites a group of exceptionally important wall paintings (last seen together in 1833) which can be considered the great unknown work in Annibale Carracci’s oeuvre; the surviving fres ...

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6 April, 2022

This exhibition explores the artistic networks of women artists exhibiting, studying, and teaching at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from its founding in 1805 to the end of World War II. PA ...

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6 April, 2022

Congratulations to ARC Living Master Vicki Sullivan for winning third place in the International Artist Magazine Challenge for her painting "My Sister, My Friend". "Children are one of my favorite sub ...

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The Florence Academy of Art is delighted to partner with Mandy Theis and School of Atelier Arts to offer this degree program. ​With its emphasis on classical methods, the course provides training in d ...

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A stunning array of over 40 paintings created between 1818 and 1886, The Poetry of Nature illustrates America’s scenic splendor as seen through the eyes of over 25 leading Hudson River School artists, ...

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A former president of the Guild of Boston Artists, Robert Hale Ives Gammell (1893-1981) is often credited with preserving the "Classical Realist" and Boston School traditions of painting in America. P ...

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The Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Musei del Bargello will be hosting "Donatello, The Renaissance". This historic, once-in-a-lifetime exhibition sets out to reconstruct the outstanding career of o ...

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ARC is pleased to welcome James Miller as a new Associate Living Master! James Miller was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As a young student, Miller saw an exhibition with ...

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The Great Lakes Academy of Fine Art, located in the unique harbor setting of Duluth, MN, is a small, private studio offering classical training programs. Descended directly through the Boston Impressi ...

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ARC is pleased to welcome Rick Delanty as an Associate Living Master! Rick Delanty is a Californian by birth and in spirit, finding in his home state a love for nature and wonder of creation which he ...

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ARC Living Master Ann James Massey is participating in the 2022 Spring Exhibition of the San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild.  The exhibition is online and features a variety of artwork that is ...

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ARC is pleased to welcome Zhi Li as an ARC Living Artist! Becoming a professional artist has been Zhi Li’s dream since childhood. She was fortunate to have grown up in an artistic environment wh ...

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Writing for the Visual Arts September 26 - December 9 Taught remotely from the Florence campus November 28 - December 9 In-person option in Florence If you would like to write with mastery about figur ...

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The Florence Academy of Art is delighted to partner with Mandy Theis and School of Atelier Arts to offer this degree program. ​With its emphasis on classical methods, the course provides training in d ...

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Miano Academy of Art is proud to present their Atelier Apprenticeship program under the direction of ARC Associate Living Master Charles Miano, designed as a 4-level program with a completely unique 2 ...

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17 March, 2022

Enjoy the works of students and faculty of the Texas Academy of Figurative Art. The Spring Salon is an exhibition of Contemporary Realist works that range from classical Old Master copies an ...

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ARC is pleased to welcome Maegan Oberhardt as a new ARC Living Artist! Maegan spent her early years surrounded by nature and native wildlife. This environment taught her appreciation of nature and ins ...

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Lots start closing tomorrow, March 16 at noon. Bids are now being accepted for important works at Sotheby’s NY by Hiroshi Furuyoshi (lot 166), Christopher Remmers (lot 143), Randalf Dilla ( ...

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Following the 500th anniversary of the death of Raphael (1483–1520) in 2020, experience the Italian Renaissance master's exquisite drawings and trace his influence through the work of his pupils ...

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The Madrid Academy of Art, and ARC Approved Atelier, is offering a scholarship. The Jaizki Arteagabeitia Fund is open to any student who will be pursuing any year, semester or term of their "Doub ...

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ARC is pleased to welcome Anne-Marie Zanetti as an Associate Living Master! Australian born artist Anne-Marie Zanetti has a contemporary, expressive style combining simple, flowing elements with rich ...

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ARC Associate Living Master Urban Larsson is holding a selling exhibition of recent oil paintings at his studio in Prinseneiland, Amsterdam, showing several still-lives, portraits and landscapes. Open ...

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Bids are now being accepted for important works at Sotheby’s NY by Hiroshi Furuyoshi (lot 166), Christopher Remmers (lot 143), Evgeniy Monahov (lot 149), Randalf Dilla (lot 225), Vincent Figliol ...

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ARC Living Artist Nathan Bertling is holding a solo exhibition titled "Quick to Listen". "Under the noise and chaos of our current culture, this body of work began in 2019. Born from an impulse to fin ...

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The Art Renewal Center is now accepting entries to the 16th International ARC Salon Competition. When talking about competitions dedicated to 21st Century Realism, The International ARC Salon is ...

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The American Artists Professional League, an ARC Allied Organization, is holding an on-line showing of Realist and Representational paintings and drawings in oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, graphite ...

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Joanna Hiffernan’s relationship with Whistler ran deeper than artist and muse. In this rich exhibition we explore her life and role as a friend, model, lover and collaborator. Many of James McNe ...

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The Master of Arts in Studio Art is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). The MA program consists of 30 credits of full-time study, entirely studio-based and com ...

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23 February, 2022

ARA Boston's deadline for it's scholarship competition is fast approaching. The scholarship awards a student their first full year of training tuition free. The Academy of Realist Art, Boston is an AR ...

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21 February, 2022

ARC is pleased to welcome the Madrid Academy of Art as a new ARC Approved Atelier! The Madrid Academy of Art's objective is to explore and develop the talent of students through the knowledge and appl ...

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Emilio Longo, Founder and Director of Skill-Based Art: A Learning Resource for Art Students & Artist-Teachers (SBA) has recently published a video which documents the 25th Anniversary Reunion of A ...

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ARC Associate Living Master Jane Jones works within the context of the seventeenth century Dutch school of painting, inspired by artists such as Maria van Oosterwyck (1630 – 1693), Maria Sibylla ...

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In this five-day workshop with Paris-based artist and Grand Central Atelier alumnus Patrick Byrnes, participants will create a self-portrait drawing from direct observation using one or two mirrors an ...

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14 February, 2022

The Southern Atelier will now be known as Miano Academy of Art. Since founding his workshop, Charles Miano has been a tireless advocate for Realist art founded in classical traditions of natural beaut ...

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11 February, 2022

Streams in the Wasteland is a dynamic body of work completed by ARC Associate Living Master, Josh Tiessen, over the course of six years. In the style of Narrative Hyper-Surrealism these exqu ...

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Hans Holbein the Younger was among the most skilled, versatile, and inventive artists of the early 1500s. He created captivating portraits of courtiers, merchants, scholars, and statesmen in Basel, Sw ...

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Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman will be the first exhibition devoted to works on paper by the celebrated French artist who navigated vast artistic and political divides throughout his life&mdas ...

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9 February, 2022

This exhibition is the largest monographic exhibition ever held on Paris Bordone, 16th century Venetian artist and pupil of Titian. The variety and richness of his work is shown through his sensual p ...

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ARC is pleased to announce another major event at Sotheby’s New York. Following the success of the auction “Contemporary Realism: Important 21st Century Works” associated to the ...

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This retrospective of the work of award-winning sculptor and patron Anna Hyatt Huntington will present sculpture spanning the scope of her prolific career from the late 19th century to a few years bef ...

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Explore the many benefits of Studio Incamminati via Virtual Open House! Learn about their unique Advanced Fine Art Program and survey the curriculum with its Atelier style intensity, balanced over 20 ...

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This is the first major UK exhibition of German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer in nearly 20 years. Through paintings, drawings, prints, and letters, this exhibition follows Dürer’s travels acros ...

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1 February, 2022

The exhibition explores Turner’s lifelong interest in the inventions, events, politics, society, culture and science of his time, which resulted in many of his most original works and transformed hi ...

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Sotheby’s recently presented the collection of Nelson Shanks, ARC Master, head of Studio Incamminati and portraitist to international leaders and celebrities. In addition to his own work, Shanks was ...

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Miano Academy of Art is proud to present their apprenticeship program under the direction of ARC Associate Living Master Charles Miano, designed as a 4-level program with a completely unique 2- ...

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The Master of Arts in Studio Art is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). The MA program consists of 30 credits of full-time study, entirely studio-based and c ...

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In his first major anthological museum show, ARC Living Master Shane Wolf unveils more than 190 works that showcase his new monumental pieces as well as his thorough working process: from initial ab ...

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20 January, 2022

ARC Associate Living Master Gezien van de Riet will be taking part in "Allegorie", an exhibition featuring a variety of artists and styles. The exhibition is open from January 15 - Februa ...

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The Salmagundi Club is pleased to announce its 2022 open New York Figurative exhibition. This will be an exhibition of figurative work and the human form in all of its permutations: portraiture, clo ...

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Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano brings to life the Venetian glass revival of the late nineteenth century and the artistic experimentation the city ins ...

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Czech-born Alphonse Mucha was one of the most celebrated artists in Paris at the turn of the 20th century. As an influential force behind the Art Nouveau movement, he created sumptuous posters and a ...

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The ARC Allied Organization, American Artists Professional League, is holding a call for entries for their members only competition. AAPL Associate Artist members are invited to enter one to three ...

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Upon its completion in 1878, Jules Tavernier’s "Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake, California" was hailed in a San Francisco newspaper as “by far the most remarkable picture ...

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The exhibition "Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment", features approximately 80 works of art plus photographs and natural history specimens from the artists ...

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The 16th-century German artist Hans Holbein the Younger created portraits for a wide range of patrons, including scholars, statesmen, and courtiers, in Switzerland and England. Holbein’s drawings an ...

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Due to the popularity and high attendance of the 15th ARC Salon Exhibition in Barcelona, the European Museum of Modern Art, (MEAM), has decided to expedite their normal packing process to allow the ...

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The Southern Atelier is proud to present their apprenticeship program under the direction of ARC Associate Living Master Charles Miano, designed as a 4-level program with a completely unique 2-fold ...

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The Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens was inspired by the art and literature of classical antiquity. Presented amidst the antiquities collection at the Getty Villa, this exhibition juxtaposes the ar ...

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The Master of Arts in Studio Art is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). The MA program consists of 30 credits of full-time study, entirely studio-based and c ...

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Three hundred years ago, on 23 July 1721, Anna Dorothea Therbusch was born in Berlin, who would go on to become one of the most important women artists of the 18th century. To mark the tercentenary ...

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For over 200 years, artists have been inspired to capture the beauty, violence, poetry, and transformative power of the sea in American life. Oceans play a key role in American society, and still to ...

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The Alte Nationalgalerie is dedicating a long-overdue exhibition to the painter Johann Erdmann Hummel, an artist who, despite his historical significance, has long been neglected. Inventive reflecti ...

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Winter Enrollment Intensive Program - January 31, 2022 Summer Intake Intensive - April 12, 2022 - September 30, 2022 (with a 2 week break in August) This course is a long and intensive program o ...

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3 December, 2021

Bozzetti are artist’s sketches. In oil or in drawing media, these small works often embody the grand idea of a composition – the generative moment. Bozzetti are an imaginative and beautiful part of ...

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ARC Associate Living Master Svetlana Cameron is exhibiting at the National Pastel Society of Russia juried show. The exhibition is open from December 2 - 5, 2021 at the "Exposed" Art Cente ...

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Lucy and Catherine Madox Brown are usually referred to as the daughters of the British painter Ford Madox Brown, but both were talented, professional artists in their own right. This exhibition expl ...

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December 4th, 2021 from 12:00 to 3:00 PM Are you curious about how ARC Approved Academy Realist Art Boston's online atelier works? Take a “tour” through a typical online atelier class format. You w ...

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The Southern Atelier is proud to present their apprenticeship program under the direction of ARC Associate Living Master Charles Miano, designed as a 4-level program with a completely unique 2-fold ...

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24 November, 2021

ARC Associate Living Master Narelle Zeller and her sister Colleen Stapleton shine their mirrors back at us with an exhibition showcasing their extraordinary talent with the brush in their own differ ...

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19 November, 2021

Depicting a rich cross section of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish life and culture, this exhibition brings together 27 paintings acquired through the generosity of the Lee and Juliet Folger Fund over ...

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The Academy of Fine Art Germany has recently received accreditation from the Ministry of Science and Art in Hessen. They are now the first German institution offering a state-recognized education ...

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Learn more about Studio Incamminati's Advanced Fine Art (Diploma), BFA (withRowan University), Master Classes and Workshops, Continuing Education, and Art Education programs. It's never too la ...

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Realism Today has recently published "How to View the ARC Salon Exhibition in Spain, or at Home". "The 15th International ARC Salon Exhibition has now closed at Sotheby’s NY, but if ...

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In the first ever show to focus solely on Hals’s portraits of men posing on their own, The Laughing Cavalier will be showcased alongside other great male portraits by Hals in order to ...

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9 November, 2021

"Watershed", a solo exhibition of more than 50 original plein air and studio oil paintings by Mary Pettis, will showcase the beauty, relevance, and character of the St. Croix National Scen ...

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In the second half of the eighteenth century, the blossoming of a new printmaking technique—aquatint—vastly expanded possibilities for creating and disseminating images across Europe. Aquatints offe ...

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4 November, 2021

Brooklyn-based sculptor Justin Ryan Kendall has a large collection of plaster casts for drawing. His goal is to make casts available to students, teachers, and lovers of art and art history - all at ...

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Animalia is Beautiful Bizarre Magazine’s twelfth international curated exhibition, and third at Haven Gallery in Long Island, New York. It brings together over 80 of the world’s best two and three d ...

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3 November, 2021

European society and culture changed dramatically in the mid-18th century. This was an age of opportunity and change, enlightenment and innovation, but also materialism, exploitation and injustice. ...

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Now in it's sixth year, VRFA Gallery's Americans in Paris presents Art Nouveau, with 75 new dazzling works created for VRFA gallery boasting brilliant gold, petina green, textures, figures and scene ...

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The American Artists Professional League is holding their 93rd Grand National Exhibition and virtual show honoring the finest in representational and traditional realism art. The Awards Judge will ...

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28 October, 2021

ARC Living Master Anna Wypych has recently been interviewed by John Dalton on his podcast "gently does it". To listen to the podcast, please click here. ...

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ARC is pleased to welcome Kazuya Ushioda as an ARC Associate Living Master! "I decided to become a painter when I was in high school. The high school I went to was in Mashiko-cho, famous for c ...

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ARC is pleased to welcome Rosemarie Armstrong as an ARC Living Artist. "Rosemarie is a painter of landscapes and seascapes; her paintings convey the constant transformation of the natural worl ...

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The Guild of Boston Artists is proud to present Sisters of the Brush and Palette: Woman Artists of the Guild. In this moment rich with discourse concerning diversity and gender equity in every indus ...

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The Southern Atelier is proud to present their apprenticeship program under the direction of ARC Associate Living Master Charles Miano, designed as a 4-level program with a completely unique 2-fold ...

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