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But Ms. Gilberto—who is an artist-in-residence at City Winery this summer, with four more performances slated for August—has emerged from her family's shadow in the past 25 years by re-interpreting bossa nova's traditional motifs and layering its subtle guitar-based melodies with contemporary electronic sounds, strong percussion, even hip-hop.

Gilberto Updates the Family Recipe

Getty Images Bebel Gilberto, pictured in 2008, is an artist-in-residence this month at City Winery.

Gilberto Updates the Family Recipe

Since it opened its doors to the public in November 2007, the Lux Art Institute is redefining the museum experience with its unique artist-in-residence program and dedication to bringing the benefits of the arts to schools in the region.

John M. Eger: Art and Physics at the Lux

One local outfit, the Signature Theater Company, offers health insurance through its artist-in-residence programs.

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San Francisco has an innovative recycling program complete with its own “artist-in-residence” that uses his work to inspire residents to conserve and recycle.

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Since it opened its doors to the public in November 2007, the Lux Art Institute is redefining the museum experience with its unique artist-in-residence program and dedication to bringing the benefits of the arts to schools in the region.

John M. Eger: Art and Physics at the Lux

The season's lone dyed-in-the-wool ballet was the moving and felicitously classical "Seven Sonatas" from 2009, with music by Domenico Scarlatti by the ballet-bred choreographer Alexei Ratmansky, ABT's artist-in-residence.

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The Phillips Collection is featuring the paintings of abstract expressionist Philip Guston, centered on his tenure as artist-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome during the early 1970s.

Visit the new Arts Post blog at washingtonpost.com/style. Music of defiance

Artistic director Alan Pierson said it will be performed in June in a free outdoor concert on Fulton Street, along with a new work by Mos Def, the philharmonic's artist-in-residence.

Have Brooklyn Orchestra, Will Travel

The owners of Pied à Terre www.pied-a-terre.co.uk , a two-star Michelin restaurant in London's Fitzrovia district, have taken the food and art concept a step further by appointing an artist-in-residence.

Food for Art