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Local Artist Earns N.Y. Acclaim
"Visually stimulating," "intellectually satisfying" and "compelling." That's how Jill Smith described David Kastner's artwork in NY Arts magazine.
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What's Cooking With Guida House?
The idea of a museum, cultural arts center and community center to hold weddings, receptions, and arts and education classes was thrown around.
South Tampa News & Tribune |
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The Spin
The case of the missing BeDazzler We got to The Basement at 9:45 p.m. Friday night for SausageFest , a seemingly appropriate arrival time for a "festival," only to find that most of the performers had yet to arrive. It was just us, 20 or so other patrons and about...
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A menacing month at the Arts Council
From staff reports A collection of illustrations by Marcus Hamilton, who draws the daily “Dennis the Menace” comic strip, will be on exhibition at the Arts Council Galleries July 28-Aug. 28. “Illustrating: A Career and Drawing Dennis” includes a Saturday Evening Post cover of Bob Hope, a Children’s Digest illustration of Reggie Jackson and a Junior Scholastic depiction of Ronald Reagan as well ...
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Museum holding children's camp
Parents and children gathered at the Huntington Museum of Art Tuesday for the Pitter Patter Art Camp taking place July 21 through July 25. The camp is for children from 6 to 36 months old.
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Wave Hill To Get Grant for Hudson Anniversary
In an early gift to history enthusiasts, the Institute of Museum and Library Services announced that it will fund next fall's celebration of Henry Hudson's historic exploration of the Hudson River. The institute is giving $124,375 to Wave Hill — a public garden in the Bronx that overlooks the Hudson — to pay for educational programming centered around the 400-year anniversary of Hudson's ...
The New York Sun |
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Good Question: Is Public Art Worth The Money?
When the city of Minneapolis commissioned 10 drinking fountains by local artists at a cost of $50,000 each some people responded by calling it "ridiculous." Is public art worth the money?
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Dispute over developer Patrick T. Conley's waterfront site threatens Puerto Rican Cultural Festival
PROVIDENCE — The waterfront flare-up between developer Patrick T. Conley and businesses on Allens Avenue is starting to burn out of control and has now drawn the businesses and the strip clubs on the avenue into a fight that threatens to cancel the Puerto Rican Cultural Festival planned for this weekend.
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It's blueberry time
ELY — The 28th annual Ely Blueberry Art Festival will be bigger than ever — with 60 new exhibitors at this year’s event. “I’m excited to see what a lot of the new arts and crafts venders bring,” said Rita Grose, festival chairwoman.
Mesabi Daily News |
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Communication is key
By Don Crosby Sun Times correspondent Organizers of this year’s Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film in Durham are honouring one of their own. Geoffrey Shea has created five installations that emphasize the written and the spoken word — a theme that he says runs through his [...]
Owen Sound Sun Times |
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American cockroach takes over Boise Art Museum (with video)
Is the cockroach the new poster bug for the save the planet campaign? Artist
The Idaho Statesman |
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Dispute over developer Patrick T. Conley’s waterfront site threatens Puerto Rican Cultural Festival
The three-day festival is scheduled to start Friday at developer Patrick T. Conley’s Providence waterfront site, but the property has yet to receive the required variances from the city’s Zoning Board.
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Bruce A. Lilly Leaving Minnesota Museum of American Art
ST. PAUL, MN.- The Minnesota Museum of American Art (MMAA) today announced that Bruce A. Lilly is leaving the museum after 11 years as executive director.
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The National Portrait Gallery Announces One Life: The Mask of Lincoln in Celebration of Abraham Lincoln's 200th Annivers
WASHINGTON, DC.- Abraham Lincoln (Feb. 12, 1809–April 15, 1865) is one of America’s most revered presidents. His leadership during America’s most divisive crisis, the Civil War, was essential to the abolition of slavery and the preservation of the union.
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Blanton Hosts First Exhibition of Japanese Art in Twenty Years
Itö Shinsui (1898 – 1972), Eyebrow Pencil. Japan, Shöwa period, 1928. Color woodblock print 28 x 40 cm. Gift of James A. Michener, 1984. AUSTIN, TX.-
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Seattle Art Museum Curator of Asian Art to Join Tokyo's Nezu Institute of Fine Arts
Dr. Yukiko Shirahara accepted the prestigious position of Chief Curator at the Nezu Institute of Fine Arts in Tokyo, Japan. SEATTLE.-
Art Daily |
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Smithsonian American Art Museum Presents Special Installation of Washington Modernists
Gene Davis, Black Grey Beat, 1964, acrylic. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Gift from the Vincent Melzac Collection. WASHINGTON.-
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Dr. Thomas Bruhn Becomes Interim Director of The William Benton Museum Of Art
Photo of Dr. Thomas Bruhn / Credit: Dan Chen. STORRS, CT.- Dr. Thomas Bruhn has been named Interim Director of the William Benton Museum of Art, the state's art museum located on the University of Connecticut campus at Storrs.
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Aspen Art Museum Selects Architect Shigeru Ban to Design New Architecturally Significant Building
(l to r) Aspen Art Museum Board of Trustees President Nancy Magoon and Museum Director and Chief Curator Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson with the AAM’s selected architect Shigeru Ban in Aspen. Ban’s new Aspen Art Museum will be his first museum design in the U.S. Photo: Karl Wolfgang. Aspen Art Museum.
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JG Ballard: An Autopsy of the New Millennium at Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona
Abandoned and rusty car wreck in desert Tunisia, Chott el Jerid by Sami Sarkis. BARCELONA.- The CCCB presents the exhibition “JG Ballard.
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The 183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Matthew Northridge, Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea, 2007. Mixed media, 10 x 10 x 15 in. Courtesy of the artist. NEW YORK.-
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Landscape Artist Richard Kidd Died While on Holiday in the Philippines
Painting made by Richard Kidd. Sarah Stoten from The Stour Gallery in Warwickshire said We shall all miss him – his family, his friends and admirers of his work.
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Aspenite's Tibetan travels inspire exhibit
ASPEN - While Aspen prepares to be inspired by this week's appearance by the Dalai Lama, at least one local resident has long found inspiration in the exiled leader's homeland.
The Aspen Times |
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Dazzling Designs Add Sparkle to Exhibition Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry
This sensual and exotic orchid brooch, part of "Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry" on view in the Torf Gallery Jul 23-Nov 9, 2008, relies heavily on plique a jour (backless) enameling and a large iridescent baroque pearl for its realism and delicacy.
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Magdalena Abakanowicz Presents Twelve Installations at Institute of Modern Art in Valencia
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Embryology (600), 1978-1981. Arpillera, gasa de algodón, cuerda de cáñamo,nailon y sisal. 600 pieces measuring 4 a 250 cm. VALENCIA.-
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