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New KODAK Wireless Digital Frames Take Photo Display and Sharing to New Heights
Eastman Kodak Company today announced a feature-packed wireless digital frame series boasting innovative capabilities and accessibility to online content. Available in 10-inch and 8-inch versions, these frames will wirelessly connect consumers to photo-sharing sites including KODAK Gallery and Flickr, and Internet content manager FrameChannel, a service of Frame Media, Inc. PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Philippine national hero stands tall in Singapore
MANILA, Philippines - Filipinos now have another reason to walk tall when they visit bustling Singapore. Just recently, The Lion City installed a prominent bust relief of Dr. Jose Rizal at the Asian Civilization Museum Green in honor of the Philippine national hero. GMA News
Denver Art Museum chief backs deal with Anschutz
The Denver Art Museum's director said Wednesday that questions by a national museum group about April transactions the museum made with a private collector would not stop him from doing it again. Rocky Mountain News
Stockholm Art Fair to celebrate 35th year
The 35th annual Stockholm Art Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 19 in Stockholm Village Park in Stockholm, Wis. More than 100 juried regional artists will be displaying and selling their work, which includes pottery, wood, wearable and two-dimensional fiber, metal sculpture, paintings, drawings, clay sculpture, a wide variety of jewelry, glass, leather and photography. Winona Daily News
The future of Singapore music
SINGAPORE: Every time a Singaporean band releases an album that’s palatable, we, the media, like to jump up and down, heralding them as the new renaissance of local music. Channel NewsAsia
Greg Cartmell shares his style in August
Renowned artist Greg Cartmell is planning a series of free "Painting Informances" for each Sunday in August. Cartmell will open his studio at 3283 Buntin Gunn Road in Bailey for demonstrations in oils, watercolor, portraits, landscaping, and still life. The Meridian Star
HACCP Wireless Temperature Monitoring Systems For College And University Food Services
Green Edge Systems, Inc., a trusted leader of HACCP temperature monitoring and control solutions, performance monitoring and energy savings for food services presents it DataNet state-of-the-art affordable hardware products, software and communication platforms in the National Association of College & University Food Services (NACUFS) 2008 National Conference and Exhibition, Marriot Wardman Park ... FoodserviceCentral.com
Bob Steiner wins two national photo awards
The Derrick and The News-Herald outdoor columnist Bob Steiner has won a first- and a third-place awards in the Outdoor Writers Association of America's Excellence in Craft contests. The Derrick
Senate Panel Close to Deal on Donations of Artwork
The Finance Committee has agreed to ease restrictions on ?partial gifts,? in which collectors claim tax deductions for donating artwork in increments to museums. New York Times
IN THE ARTS
"Spring Into Summer," an artistic celebration of the Jersey Shore through still life and landscape oil paintings done in the style of the old masters, will be on exhibit at the West Long Branch Public Library through July 31. Hours at the library, which is located at 95 Poplar Ave., are 9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, and 9 a. The Hub
Palmer offers gallery variety
As the temperature gets hotter, students and community members can find relief by ducking into the Palmer Museum of Art on campus. With three exhibitions and some surprising activities planned, the Palmer Museum of Art has a lot going on this summer. Penn State Collegian
First Fridays Slap and Tickle Art Auction is part of second round of art openings
With the July 4 holiday falling on a First Friday, many galleries moved their openings to this Friday. This means gallerygoers can enjoy an unusual “Second Friday” round of openings this week, including an emergency auction at the Slap and Tickle. The Kansas City Star
The Flawed Beauty of Folk Photos
Until my loved ones convinced me I was insane, I used to troll eBay for families' collections of 35-millimeter slides. Cleaning out attics or basements, people would auction off hundreds or thousands of slides from family vacations or other important events. I was especially interested in family travel slides from the 1950s and 1960s. Unsurprisingly, I seldom got into an intense bidding war, and ... The New York Sun
Bubbles, Booms, and Busts: The Art Market in 2008
How can a dead, stuffed shark be worth $12 million? Yes, that's how much Damien Hirst's famous shark — showcased in his artwork "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" — sold for in 2005. The buyer was a wealthy financier named Steve Cohen. If you are wondering, price competition has not vanished from the marketplace: Eddie Saunders, a British electrician, caught a ... The New York Sun
Local artist researches, paints Native American trail marker trees
ANTIOCH - Antioch artist Dennis Downes' paintings of trail marker trees is astonishing viewers at the Northbrook Historical Society. Lake County Journals
Iowa 80 Trucking Museum to say 10-4 to visitors Thursday
WALCOTT, Iowa — The sleeper cab on a typical semi is about 18 feet long these days. Quad-City Times
Jess: An Act of Surrender, a Leap of Faith
What exactly Burgess Collins, known to the world simply as Jess, thought he was up to in his "Translations" series — those faithful appropriations of black-and-white images, mostly from the 19th century, that he transformed into thickly impastoed, full-color paintings — is difficult to say. The result, in any case, is a form of beauty as weird and memorable as any American artist has achieved in ... The New York Sun
Exhibit at Bellwether Gallery Remembers Journalist Killed in Oaxaca
Vanessa Albury, Funeral (Projection), 2006-2007. 35mm slide, slide projector, wall, seating, black cloth. NEW YORK.- Art Daily
Nick Zammuto: Laser Show Six Perspectives on a Chaotic Resonator
Nick Zammuto (American. b. 1975) Laser Show, 2008, laser light. Images courtesy of the Artist. WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) presents a new gallery installation by regional artist Nick Zammuto. Art Daily
Knoxville Museum of Art Presents Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee's Bend Quilts and Beyond
Mary Lee Bendolph, Blocks and Strips, 2005, Corduroy, 84 x 81 inches, Collection of Tinwood Alliance. KNOXVILLE.- The Knoxville Museum of Art presents Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee’s Bend Quilts and Beyond July 10 – September 21, 2008. Art Daily
The Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun Opened the Exhibit Flowers of Our Lives
Flowers of Our Lives exhibition view with works by Robert Kuśmirowski and Andrzej Urbanowicz at CoCA in Torun. Photo: Wojtek Olech. Courtesy of CoCA in Torun. Art Daily
Findings of Pioneering AXA Art Conservation Research Project on View
Cross-sections taken from the nine squares of Reinhardt’s Black Painting, 1960-66, viewed under visible light, at 280x printed magnification. Photographs by James Martin, Orion Analytical, LLC Art Daily
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FIRST Friday comes and goes each and every month with assured regularity -- and, sadly, so does a gallery or two. Sometimes a gallery pops up and goes under faster than an art critic can blink. Las Vegas CityLife