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Photos by princess to be on show
One of HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn's many talents is on display at a photo exhibition which opens tomorrow at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre. Bangkok Post - Thailand's English news
Open Studio Tour closes doors until next year
REGION -- Sunday marked the conclusion of the Wayne County Arts Alliance's annual Open Studio Tour, during which area artists opened their studio doors to the public, allowing visitors to see the artistic process in action. The tour included demonstrations and exhibits by participating artists. The Wayne Independent
River Festival shows off Occoquan
Historic Occoquan took on the look of a town directly out of a history book on Sunday. Manassas Journal Messenger
River Festival shows off Occoquan
Dressed in Edwardian garb, Lynne Garvey-Hodge of Fairfax, left, Debbie Glaser of Woodbridge and Carolyn Owen of Annapolis, Md., were on hand for the dedication of the Suffragists Memorial in Occoquan Regional Park in Lorton to kick off The Occoquan River Festival in Occoquan on Sunday. InsideNoVa.com
Collaborative artist sets art scene alight
The innagural Petone Winter Carnival will be held this Saturday 19 July. As part of the event, Awakairangi Hutt Public Trust have invited five artists to present a fire sculpture work. Starting at 9am, each artist will be provided with a kit of materials in which to create their sculpture. Scoop.co.nz
Abundance of Color California Flowers in Art at The Irvine Museum
John Gamble (1863-1957), Red Buckwheat 28x42 inches Oil on canvas Private Collection, Courtesy of The Irvine Museum. IRVINE, CA.- In keeping with their annual tradition, the exhibit shows highlights the outstanding display of wildflowers that once characterized Spring in California. Art Daily
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Opens LAB 8.1: Street Games by Doug Lewis
Doug Lewis, Cricket gambling, 2007, Yu Shao Market, Beijing. Video still. VICTORIA.- Street Games…(an exercise in lightness) is a new work that searches cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Mexico City, London and small cities in Croatia, to date) for street-based economies. Art Daily
Tradition, Technique, Technology: Contemporary Artists from Pakistan at Aicon Gallery
Ayesha Durrani, Floating on a Cloud. NEW YORK.- Aicon Gallery, 206 5th Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, presents a group show of contemporary Pakistani miniaturists; artists Ayesha Durrani, Ahsan Jamal, Amjad Ali Talpur and Sumaira Tazeen. Art Daily
Fluxus Scores and Instructions Exhibit at Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde
One of the photographs from the collection. ROSKILDE.- In 1962, George Maciunas declared Fluxus: “anti art, concept art, automatism, Bruitism, brutalism, Dada/ism, concretism, Lettrism, nihilism, indeterminacy—Theatre, happenings, prose, poetry, philosophy, plastic arts, music, cinema, dance.” Art Daily
IVAM Exhibits the Alchemy of the Spanish Blacksmiths at the Guangzhou Museum in China
Miquel Navarro, Sota la Lluna. GUANGZHOU.- This exhibition presents iron sculptures by four famous Spanish artists: Julio Gonzalez, Miguel Navarro, Andrew Alfaro and Martin Chirino. Art Daily
Museo Nacional de San Carlos Hosts European Paintings from the Museo de Arte de Ponce
Lucas Cranach I (1472-1553), Judith with the Head of Holofernes, ca. 1520-1537, oil on wood panel, 34 ¼ x 32 ½ in. MEXICO CITY.- Art Daily
Stench Of "Dead Rat" Swarms New York Neighborhood [Parochial News]
"Some think it's illegal dumping; others point fingers at the Waterfalls art project; one person insists that it's the preserved corpses on display at 'Bodies, the Exhibition' nearby." [Post] Gawker
Museum offers free Friday admission in August
The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art will grant free admission to the museum on all Fridays in August from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. East Valley Tribune
Women of Watercolor show off their best work
Women of Watercolor (W.O.W!), Summit County's premier watercolor society, is mounting its annual water-media exhibition at the Speakeasy Theatre Gallery, CMC, 103 S. Harris Street in Breckenridge beginning with a party from 6-8 p.m. on Thursday. Summit Daily News
Stowe Festival Celebrates Local Foods
Diners toasted local foods at a festival Sunday in Stowe. WCAX-TV Vermont
Snooty Martha's Vineyard People Need A Festival Too!
Festival Network (FN) is proud to announce the line-up for the second annual Martha's Vineyard Festival antiMUSIC
Oil dependency takes its toll
Today's new trade deficit figures showing a massive increase in the cost of importing petrol and other oil products dramatically illustrate why the Government must reduce New Zealand's dependence on oil, the Green Party says. Scoop.co.nz
Navigating FringeNYC: A User's Guide
As with Forrest Gump's metaphorical box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get at the New York International Fringe Festival, or FringeNYC. Witness a "hipster satire meets Hamlet" catastrophe and it could put you off the theater for a while to come. The list of productions that started out at the FringeNYC and enjoyed illustrious stage lives, however, is long. The greatest ... The New York Sun
Trash sculpture erected in Russian city
A sculpture constructed entirely of garbage found on the banks of Russia's Lake Baikal was erected in the Buryat Republic's capital, environmentalists say.Three pyramids as tall as 13 feet were placed in Ulan-Ude Saturday as part of the Green Planet, Future Depends on You campaign, ITAR-TASS reported.Volunteers filled a truck with garbage left behind by tourists near Lake Baikal, the world's ... Moldova.org
Western painting, bronze fetch $9M-plus at auction
RENO, Nev. July 27, 2008, 09:01 pm ET · Two iconic pieces by turn-of-the-century artist Charles M. Russell — a painting depicting a stagecoach holdup and a bronze sculpture of two Native Americans on a buffalo hunt — have sold at an auction for more than $9 million. NPR
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at Forecastle Festival
The prominent environmentalist was the keynote speaker for the three-day celebration of music, art and activism at the Belvedere. Louisville Courier-Journal
Western painting, bronze fetch $9M-plus at auction
Two iconic pieces by turn-of-the-century artist Charles M. Russell - a painting depicting a stagecoach holdup and a bronze sculpture of two Native Americans on a buffalo hunt - have sold at an auction for more than $9 million. Centre Daily Times
Wired.com Photo Contest: Cities
For our photo contest this week, we want to see photos from the grid. From dirty streets to pristine cityscapes, your assignment is: the city. Use the Reddit widget below to submit your best city photo and vote for your favorite among the other submissions. The 10 highest-ranked photos will appear in a gallery on the Wired.com homepage. Show us entire Dickens' novels wrapped up in a single ... Wired News
'Ground Us' digs deep in Huntington Beach
Review: The installation exhibit by three artists examines our relationships with the natural environment. Orange County Register