|
RRTA, museum get funds for expansion plans
With a promise of federal money, two Lancaster organizations are due to announce expansion plans on Friday. The Red Rose Transit
Lancaster Online |
|
'Turning Point' Exhibit at Museum of Art
The BYU Museum of Art is opening a new exhibit today called 'Turning Point: The Demise of Modernism and the Rebirth of Meaning in American Art.'
Brigham Young NewsNet |
|
People’s Center art show displayed local American Indian arts and crafts
PABLO — Art is in the eye of the beholder. And despite the small artistic turn out for the People’s Center art sale Friday and Saturday there was plenty of art and crafts on hand for any eye to behold and to purchase.
Char-Koosta News |
|
Art Association announces winners
The Norwood Art Association recently celebrated its 30th anniversary with an art exhibit and sale on the Town Common. Professional artist Dian Hampe judged the show. The winners are:
Norwood Bulletin |
|
Fake Art Exhibit
The exhibit will be real -- but the art is fake. The Brooklyn Museum is planning an exhibit of 30 Coptic sculptures next year including 10 confirmed fakes. Questions have been raised for years about the pieces' authenticity and scientific testing finally exposed the forgeries.
KTHV Little Rock |
|
Annual German Festival of Indian Films Opens in Stuttgart
An entertaining documentary about a village and its problems with a wild bull opened Germany's only annual festival of Indian cinema Wednesday, July 16, in the southeastern city of Stuttgart.
Deutsche Welle |
|
Modern Drummer 2008 Festival Weekend Line up and Ticket Information Announced
Modern Drummer Magazine Announces All-Star Line-Up and New Location for 2008 Modern Drummer Festival Weekend.
All About Jazz |
|
Calder and the Curator
Roxbury resident Ann Y. Smith thinks the New York City-based Calder Foundation, which was founded by artist Alexander Calder's grandson Alexander Rower, wanted someone "on the ground" when it chose her to moderate the symposium on the sculptor that will take place at the Washington Art Association tomorrow.
Litchfield County Times |
|
The Immediate Benefit Of Offshore Drilling
If half a million barrels a day is all that?s needed to get the price of oil down, why, National Review asks, are we at the mercy of the Saudis?
CBS News |
|
Bring the kids to the gallery on Saturdays
From the people who brought you the Festival of Banners, ARTFEST, and the Artist in the Schools program, comes a weekly art extravaganza for children and families.
Nanaimo Daily News |
|
Support Haven Society at event
The Haven Society presents Imagine . . . A Safe World for Children on July 19. The free event, which will take place at Deverill Square Park from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., will feature food, facepainting, crafts, games and music.
Nanaimo Daily News |
|
New art show connects people to their environment
The modern world has a way of separating humans from their natural environment. Field Notes, an exhibition of works by three Nanaimo artists will attempt to bridge that gap.
Nanaimo Daily News |
|
Reserve-Area Artist Produces Colorful Paintings
The studio of José Andrés Girón beckons drivers about five miles out of Reserve on Highway 435. The building is brightly colored in yellow, green, blue and red, just waiting for visitors. ...
Small Town Papers News Service |
|
Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
Having some PC/internet issues at MAN HQ, so I'll do my last post on Cottage Industry on Monday. In the meantime... Find recent content on the main index or look in the archives to find all content.
Arts Journal |
|
Images Of Blue & Gray
This photo is part of the David L. Hack collection, which goes on display at the Huntington Museum of Art beginning July 27. HUNTINGTON, W.Va . — It’s the war that made Margaret Mitchell famous. Let alone Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh.
The Ironton Tribune |
|
Roxbury Embraces Pickin'--Even Fiddlin'
ROXBURY-It was a beautiful evening for bluegrass. Last Saturday the air was warm, the music was hearty and the 34th Annual Pickin' 'n' Fiddlin' contest went off as harmoniously as a three-piece jug-and-bass band.
Litchfield County Times |
|
Art goes green
Art teacher Lisa Madigan assists her students Wednesday in a recycled materials art class she teaches for Lincoln Area YMCA. Students, from left, are Francesca Adubato, Carson Madigan and Paige Langley.
Lincoln Courier |
|
Singer uses dramatic past, soulful voice to connect
"Listen, I'm the one you're gonna want in the foxhole with you," advises Janiva Magness, one of the headliners for this weekend's Seventh Annual Nothin' But the Blues Festival.
The Pantagraph |
|
Austinist Show Giveaway: Tilly and the Wall @ Emo's
Image from Tilly and the Wall’s MySpace, courtesy of SPIN.com SXSW Portrait Gallery by Blossom Berkofsky Tilly and the Wall, Belaire, & Ringo Deathstarr Thursday, July 17 Emos ( 603 Red River St ) 10 p.m. $10 Outside [ info ] [ tickets ] When Park Ave. (featuring a certain Conor Oberst) broke up in 2001, Jamie Williams and Neely Jenkinks formed Tilly and the Wall , ...
Austinist |
|
Fundraiser for a free festival
Organizers of the fourth annual Gloucester New Arts Festival held a recently held a fundraiser as they try to raise $4,000 before the August event. The money is needed so the festival, scheduled for Aug. 23 and 24, can once again be presented free of charge to the public.
Gloucester Daily Times |
|
Artwork set for £300,000 revamp
A piece of public art in County Durham is to undergo a £336,000 revamp.
BBC News |
|
NOT JUST HORSEPLAY
THERE are moments during Sam Shepard's new play when the title feels all too apt. A slight one-act, virtually a monologue, about a New York art dealer stuck in the middle of the desert when his ride keels over, "Kicking a Dead Horse" feels like a...
New York Post |
|
Endangered Species
The Wildling Art Museum presents a lecture by author and filmmaker Michael Tobias called The Art of Saving Endangered Species , in which he will address current world strategies for protecting endangered habitat and species around the globe.
Santa Barbara Independent |
|
Snapper for the thinking man
The first thing that would catch a hobbyist or an amateur photographer’s attention is the Leica lens. You don’t need a degree in photography to know that Leica cameras and lenses are among the pioneers, if not the only ones, expertly made by hand in the Leica factory in Germany.
Yehey! |
|
Cannes Film Festival - Cannes Winner To Open New York Film Festival
Entre les Murs ( The Class ), the surprise winner of the Palme d'Or at his year's Cannes Film Festival, has been selected to open the 46th New York Film Festival on Sept. 26, ...
ContactMusic |
|
|