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Plein Air Pastel
Workshop for oil or pastel, all levels, lead by Patricia Rohrbacher. July 11 and Aug. 8, 1-3:30 p.m.; $65, $55 for academy members, call to register Peninsula Art Academy (330) 657-2248 West Side Leader
Why I Came West
The title of this memoir is somewhat misleading: despite early chapters on Bass’s journey from his childhood home, in Texas, and his years as an oil geologist in Mississippi, much of the book is a lament over the relentless development of the wild spaces of Montana--specifically, the Yaak Valley . . . The New Yorker
Goldie painting stolen in Mosgiel
A Charles Goldie portrait of a Maori woman has been stolen from a home in Mosgiel. Mosgiel police said the theft was thought to have taken place between February and July this year but was only recently discovered by the owners. Otago Daily Times
Classical Music
CONCERTS IN TOWN INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD INSTITUTE AND FESTIVAL July 23 at 8:30: The final week of the pianist Jerome Rose’s annual series begins with a recital by Philippe Entremont, who won widespread renown for his recordings in the nineteen-fifties and sixties only to move on to a somewhat less . . . The New Yorker
Art
MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES METROPOLITAN MUSEUM Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)--“J. M. W. Turner.” Through Sept. 21. “Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe.” Through Sept. 21. “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy.” Through Sept. 1. “Medieval and Renaissance Treasures from the Victoria and . . . The New Yorker
Above and Beyond
MID-SUMMER POW WOW The Queens County Farm Museum, a little patch of working green in the big metropolis, presents its twenty-ninth annual Thunderbird American Indian Mid-Summer Pow Wow. More than forty Indian nations are involved in the event, which features chanting, drumming, and dance contests. (For more . . . The New Yorker
Hao Xiaoshi the artist
All these paintings are from the hand of painter and calligrapher Hao Xiaoshi. Mr. Hao, now 88, was born to an educated family in Zunhua, Hebei. He started to write when he was 6 years old, and by the time he was 8, he was already an apprentice of a local drawing master. China Daily
Local sign company purchases $60,000 worth of new equipment; offers discounted banners for festival
Chris Liebhart, owner of CJ's Signs and Lighting Company, recently purchased $60,000 worth of equipment in order to take his printing business to the next level. The Alliance Review
Florida man wins Hemingway look-alike contest
(AP) KEY WEST, Fla. - A white-bearded Florida man won an Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest, a highlight of a festival that ended Sunday honoring the late Nobel Prize-winning author. KOB-TV Albuquerque
Hanoi images delight Moscow, expat audience
VietNamNet Bridge - Visitors took great delight in viewing various aspects of life in Ha Noi at a photo exhibition that opened its door to the public in Moscow on Thursday. Vietnam Net
Exhibit celebrates Mekong River life
VietNamNet Bridge - The late painter Nguyen Chuong chose violet-pink nenuphars growing in water to symbolise the beauty of rural girls living in the provinces of his native Cuu Long (Mekong) River Delta. Vietnam Net
Art on show
THE Mandurah Art Gallery will be presenting the recent works of Michael Iwanoff from July 23. Mandurah Mail
Danville musical legend earns spot in Hall of Fame
If Janis Martin is in rockabilly heaven, you know she has a helluva band. Martin, the late Danville-area native who gained worldwide fame as the “Rockabilly Queen” and the “Female Elvis,” was posthumously inducted into Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History Hall of Fame Sunday. Sharon Hughes, the museum’s former education coordinator and exhibitor of Danville Roots Music: A Historical ... Eden Daily News
Florida man wins Hemingway look-alike contest
Sun, Jul 20, 2008 (8:21 p.m.) A white-bearded Florida man won an Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest, a highlight of a festival that ended Sunday honoring the late Nobel Prize-winning author. Las Vegas Sun
Fringe Festival coordinator Cheryl Kimmi takes us behind the scenes
Thanks in part to Cheryl Kimmi, burlesque performers will be breathing fire, clowns will be doing ballet and dancers will be doing Kung Fu combat on stage in Kansas City this week. The Kansas City Star
Museum honors baseball's rebels, radicals
PASADENA, Calif. - There is a cigar stub Babe Ruth left at a brothel and the shorn locks of an outfielder — the “Bearded Babe Ruth” — who played for a barnstorming religious sect that preached celibacy. East Valley Tribune
Snakes, skulls and sirens on show at UQ
If you visit the UQ Art Museum from this Saturday, beware of the tombstone out front. University of Queensland
Florida man wins Hemingway look-alike contest
A white-bearded Florida man won an Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest, a highlight of a festival that ended Sunday honoring the late Nobel Prize-winning author. Tom Grizzard, 69, of Leesburg bested 141 other contenders in the competition at Sloppy Joe's Bar, Hemingway's favorite watering hole when he lived in Key West throughout the 1930s. The competition's final round was held late Saturday. ... The Charlotte Observer
Isamu Noguchi's Friend and Collaborator Izumi Masatoshi Exhibits at Longhouse
Photo: Maria Terese Barbaccia/LongHouse Reserve. EAST HAMPTON.- Born into a family of stone carvers in the town of Mure on the Japanese island of Shikoku, Masatoshi Izumi was the principal collaborator of Isamu Noguchi on the artist's late stone sculpture. Art Daily
National Gallery of Australia Presents Major Retrospective Exhibition on Richard Larter
Richard Larter, born Hornchurch, Essex, Great Britain, 1929. Australia from 1962, Exercise 1967 synthetic polymer paint on composition board. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Gift of Lucy Swanton 1981. Art Daily
Contemporary Artist Sonya Clark Explores Notions of Beauty in Summer Exhibition at the Walters
Sonya Clark, Springy Pair, 2002, copper, wool, felt, pipe cleaners. Collection of the artist. BALTIMORE.- Art Daily
CCS Bard presents I've Got Something in My Eye in the Hessel Museum of Art
Paul McCarthy, Pinocchio Pipenose Householddilemma (Party Pack) 1994 Costumes (suits, shoes, socks, gloves, masks, hangers); video, 1/4. ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, NY.- Art Daily
Elena del Rivero: Home Suite at The Corcoran Gallery of Art
Elena del Rivero, [Swi:t] Home, 2000-2001. WASHINGTON, DC.- The Corcoran Gallery of Art opened Washington’s first exhibition of work by the contemporary artist Elena del Rivero. Art Daily
Masterpieces of American Folk Art on View at Colby Museum of Art
Sturtevant Hamblen, American, active 1837-1856, Adelaide Endora Smith, later Mrs. Frederick E. Boothby, 1852. Colby College Museum of Art. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. George Putnam. Art Daily