Spotlight on Excellence: The National Veterans Creative Arts Festival
Each year, the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival (NVCAF) shines a light on the veteran community, offering a powerful platform where healing, competition, and artistry converge. Hosted by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in partnership with the American Legion Auxiliary, this festival showcases the work of veterans from across the nation in a stunning array of visual and performing arts. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Veteran Artists: Celebrating Creativity, Resilience, and Service
Across the country, veteran artists are transforming their stories into powerful works of art that speak to their lives, service, and sacrifice. Their art is not just a visual representation […]
Grand Rapids program takes veterans’ art from workshop to ArtPrize
Healing in Arts has run Art of Resilience for six years. This fall its exhibit was at Veterans Memorial Park, and the next workshop is for women veterans and their […]
The National Veterans Creative Arts Festival came to Columbia for the first time. What happened next?
The June festival put more than 100 veterans on a national stage. Four months later, the more interesting story is what they did with it. COLUMBIA, S.C. In June, Columbia […]
Blind Air Force Veteran paints pictures you can touch
Annie Young lost her sight to a hereditary retinal disease. Now her paintings hang in a Minnesota fire station, and visitors are meant to feel them. BURNSVILLE, Minn. The paintings […]
Venice Biennale closing celebration to feature aria from artist Tammy Nguyen’s first opera
Commissioned and produced by Wesleyan University in Connecticut, the work explores nationhood and freedom
Comment | Arts and culture belong in disaster recovery
The US must stop treating the things that help make communities as afterthoughts
In Pictures: the best of Frieze Sculpture 2026
Curator Fatoş Üstek guides us through 11 monumental works on show this year in Regent’s Park
Thessaloniki’s 15th-century Hamza Bey Mosque reopens as arts centre after nearly 20-year conservation effort
The historic site will operate as a permanent exhibition space as well as a cultural centre, managed by the Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki (MOMus)
‘Sometimes the works you do not acquire stay with you just as strongly as the ones you do’: collector Irene Y. Panagopoulos on what she has bought and why
The Greek collector who heads her family’s shipping firm is showing works from her collection at the Hellenic Centre during Frieze London that reflect on perceptions of Greece past and […]
Rudy Reyes: From Marine Reconnaissance to a New Mission — Coming in November
Former Marine reconnaissance veteran, television personality and conservationist Rudy Reyes shares his remarkable journey of resilience, service and renewed purpose in the November issue of U.S. Veterans Magazine. From the […]
Dutch museum returns ancient vase to Sicily after research uncovers ‘problematic’ provenance
Rogier Kalkers from Amsterdam’s Allard Pierson museum says he hopes the restitution will be a “stepping stone towards further collaboration” with Sicilian authorities