Readers were pumped up and fully engaged in casting ballots for their favorite arts places in AmericanStyle’s 2011 Top 25 Arts Destinations competition. It’s the 14th annual edition of our wildly popular readers’ poll.
Read MoreTop 25 Big Cities for Art
Arts enthusiasts travel to New York City with one goal in mind. They want to be part of the action. And what action there is! AmericanStyle reader, January Holmes of Atlanta, Ga., explains, “New York is very art friendly and well versed in the diversity of contemporary art in terms of styles, mediums and overall background of the artists. It presents a wonderful selection of thought-provoking and visually stimulating works.”
Read MoreTop 25 Small Cities for Art
Hundreds of cities compete for the honor- Asheville tops the list of small arts towns this year followed by Santa Fe, Gloucester, Saugatuck, Sarasota, and Sedona.
Read MoreShaken and Stirred
A new decade brought new surprises to our 13th annual Top 25 Arts Destinations readers’ poll. Old favorites were ousted, frontrunners became runners-up, and cities that hadn’t ranked in the past finally made their marks. Each year, it’s impossible to predict how the cities will stack up in each of our three categories, but we wouldn’t want it any other way.
Read MoreEditor’s Note: Where’s Rocco? Out on the Road for the Arts
I think I’m in love with Rocco Landesman. The new National Endowment for the Arts chairman launched an Art Works Tour last October to see for himself how the arts contribute to local economies, and so far, he’s doing (and saying) everything right.
In Philadelphia, he took in neighborhood murals; in Michigan, he checked out the arts in urban Detroit and tiny Chelsea; in San Diego, he made the rounds of old buildings adapted for arts reuse. And everywhere he went, his message was the same: “Arts,” he affirmed, “change the ethos of a community. They enliven it; they activate the public life.”
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Top 25 Big Cities
New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington DC, San Francisco, Boston, Albuquerque, Seattle, Atlanta, Baltimore, Portland, Los Angeles, Columbus, Austin, Denver, San Diego, Tucson, Nashville, Phoenix, Charlotte, San Antonio, Milwaukee, Las Vegas, Dallas, Jacksonville
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