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5 Myths About Addiction that Undermine Recovery

These myths about the addicted stigmatize them and can sabotage interventions.

Why we will no longer be a welcoming church

We’ve decided to quit being a welcoming church. No kidding. We’re giving it up. Like so many congregations, we’ve sunk an amazing amount of time and energy into becoming a welcoming church. We changed worship styles, trained greeters and ushers, wore name tags, brewed coffee, went to workshops on hospitality and put our friendliest people …

How to get your work in an art gallery

Before figuring out how to approach art galleries, attend as many art gallery openings & show as you can. All you can do is introduce yourself to the gallery owners & curators. Get familiarized with local gallery painting stories along with up & comers. They make great conversation starters. Try to be cordial, but remember

7 Ways Art Galleries Can Help You Build a Successful Career

Over the last several years, there's been a growing sense among some artists that art galleries may be waning - that the business model may not work anymore. The internet and large art shows and festivals have provided artists new opportunities to display and sell their artwork directly to collector

What's your favourite work of art? York Art Gallery wants to know...

IS there a book, work of art, film, piece of music or building that has really changed your life, or brought you up short and stopped you in your…

When A Local Women's Shelter Takes Over An Art Gallery, Beautiful Things Happen

‘Ooh look, the gift shop’: how to do an art gallery properly

When an art gallery comes alive with a light-sound performance

The Long and Short of It is a compelling, immersive, visual-sensory production

Learn how the Bauhaus Movement influenced design history. Art Gallery

Learn how the Bauhaus Movement influenced design history with its emphasis on theory and practice as taught by the masters. The timeless principles of Bauhaus design still hold up and to this day the iconic Bauhaus style inspires graphic designers all over the world.

Donate Blood, Fix Up an Art Gallery, and Other Ways You Can Help Clean Up After Sandy

Artist Leaves His Paintings For People To Find After Getting Rejected By Art Galleries

My Dog Sighs, a talented street artist from England, made his first drawing when he was 7 years old. Since then everyone knew him as a child who can draw, and this was enough to set him on a journey to become an artist. Later, he left his job at a primary school where he worked as a teacher, decided

Owning Mom on How to Pull Off a (Subtle) Sports Theme

Feeling down? Hit up an art gallery online for a rapid mood boost

For some people, wandering around a gallery or museum to ponder over a Picasso, revel in a Rembrandt, or find meaning in a Magritte can boost their mood and improve their well-being. But is the same true for viewing art online? New research says that it is.

Going to art galleries, museums and concerts this many times linked to living longer

Cultural activities help to get people moving and combats loneliness, the authors said.

Women surgeons can do it all

Since when did being beautiful, and being a woman, and being all the beautiful things about being a woman, become a bad thing?

‘Unconscious bias’ preventing women pursuing careers as surgeons

Less than 7% of consultant surgeons are women despite more than half graduates being female

4 Women With Lives Scarred by Genital Cutting: Could a Surgeon Heal Them?

Over 200 million women and girls alive today have been circumcised. Four of them shared with The Times their pain, emotional trauma and sexual struggles — and their journey to feel whole.

Women are 32% more likely to die post-op if their surgeon is a man, study finds

The new study found that women had much better outcomes with female surgeons.

Women Are 32% More Likely to Die After an Operation if Their Surgeon Is Male, Study Finds

Women are 32% more likely to die after an operation if their surgeon is male, a new study found

Strong Women: 'Surgeons didn't want to remove my breast, but I know my own mind'

Juliet made the difficult decision to have a double mastectomy - fitness has helped her rebuild her confidence.