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Balloon Festival attended by thousands
Santa Paula might just garner a new nickname, the Hot Air Balloon Capital of the World, after the inaugural Citrus Classic Balloon Festival brought thousands of people to the Santa Paula Airport Friday night and early Saturday morning. Santa Paula Times
Newport News artist wins best in show
HAMPTON — Fourteen artists received a total of nearly $7,000 in prize money Saturday when the 2008 Virginia Artists Juried Exhibition opened at the Charles H. Taylor Arts Center. Daily Press
Crocker expansion closes P Street
P Street between 3rd Street and Interstate 5 will be closed Saturday and Sunday as work continues on the Crocker Art Museum expansion. Sacramento Business Journal
Mural creates sense of community for Norfolk high school students
NORFOLK – A group of high schools students is creating art on the side of a cab company’s building. Norview High School art teacher Jennifer McDuffie applied for and got at $300.00 grant from the Virginia Arts Commission to create the mural at Black and White Cab Company. 13 News, WVEC Hampton Roads
Teche museum return totals strong
The totals for the Bayou Teche Museum fundraiser are in, and they’re even higher than expected. Friday’s fundraiser, held at the Gouguenheim, brought in more than $80,000. State Rep. Taylor Barras, D-New Iberia, also presented a check from the state for $75,000 at the event. The Daily Iberian
Juan Chavez Y Arco Kemao Salsa Octet at Comcast San Jose Jazz Festival
Berklee College of Music salsa octet Juan Chavez y Arco Kemao will perform twice on Saturday, August 9th as part of the Comcast San Jose Jazz Festival. All About Jazz
Thomas’ saddles featured at Phippen
Wickenburg resident and artist Carson Thomas is displaying his miniature saddles at the Phippen Museum in Prescott through Nov. 2. Wickenburg Sun
Scientists use new method to recreate color image of portrait hidden beneath Van Gogh painting
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) _ A team of European scientists unveiled on Wednesday a new method for extracting images hidden under old masters' paintings, recreating a color portrait of a woman's face unseen since Vincent van Gogh painted over it in 1887. AM New York
Art Showing This Month
ADA Gallery Opening Friday, August 1. Stephanie Serpick , Chicago artists, decorative paintings & drawings. Sharon Shapiro, figurative painter from West Virginia living in Charlottesville. Kirsten Kindler, Richmond artists working in cut paper from magazines. Brick
'Squaw' name draws little opposition
The use of the name Squaw Rock in Cleveland's Metropark is culturally offensive to American Indians, some argue.But its usage on signs referring to a sculpture at South Chagrin Reservation continues with apparently little local opposition, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported Wednesday. A local artist in 1885 carved a series of images, including one of an American Indian woman, into a sandstone ... Moldova.org
Dreary Day at the Festival • City Hall Calling • The Cost of History • Those Damn Deadlines
By Tara Morgan. Boise Weekly
Check out Upstate Visual Arts on the gallery crawl
Stepping out with its latest exhibition, the Upstate Visual Arts Gallery at 701 Pendleton St. will be part of Greenville's First Friday Gallery Crawl, in downtown Greenville. The Greenville News
It's Happening - City Centre
Saturday, Aug. 2 OUTDOOR TURKISH FESTIVAL, Yonge-Dundas Square, today and tomorrow, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Food, music, attractions, including displays of handcrafted linens, clothing, jewelry, carpets,... East York Mirror
It's Happening - City Centre
OUTDOOR TURKISH FESTIVAL, Yonge-Dundas Square, today and tomorrow, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Food, music, attractions, including displays of handcrafted linens, clothing, jewelry, carpets, decorative accessories, hand-painted ceramic plates and tiles, copper crafts, pottery, silk scarves and pillowcases along with books on Turkish life, culture, cooking and travel. Etobicoke Guardian
The Business of Art
The grim consensus among downtown Boise gallery owners is that business is slow these days.... By Rachael Daigle. Boise Weekly
YOU DECIDE: Did Jesus Show Up In A Bag Of Cheetos?
A Missouri woman says she has found Jesus, in a bag of Cheetos. When Kelly Ramey opened a snack-sized bag of Cheetos, she felt something unusual, and checked it out. Most of her family and friends believe it looks like a mini orange sculpture of Jesus, on the Cross. WJBF-TV Augusta
Student art on display at Harlin Museum, West Plains
An exhibit titled "Reflecting Figures," featuring drawings and paintings by the Lifeline Drawing Group, will be on display from noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5, through Saturday, Aug. 9, at the Harlin Museum, 405 Worcester, in West Plains. The Springfield News-Leader
Art show supports hospital
Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital Auxiliary and Old Geezer Productions are pleased to present HEARTFLAME 5 Artisans Showcase featuring fine handcrafts, art, gourmet food and craft demonstrations on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5p.m. each day. Newport News-Times
The B-52's will headline "Rockin' at the Knox"
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - It's a big announcement for a major party planned at the Albright Knox Art Gallery. WIVB Buffalo
Hockaday Begins Search for New Director
After seven years at the helm of Kalispell’s Hockaday Museum of Art, Director Linda Engh-Grady is stepping down. Her successor, she says, will need to be a do-it-all type of person. “I’ll hang off ladders, mop floors and ask someone for a million dollars all in the same day,” she said, while helping artists set up for last weekend’s annual Art in the Park festival. “You have to have a lot of ... Flathead Beacon
Lee Rosenbaum's cultural commentary
In this post about the vulnerability of the National Gallery and other Washington institutions to flooding if the endangered Potomac Park levee fails, I observed that these facilities "had better have a plan for keeping their treasures high and dry." Arts Journal
Scallop Festival This Weekend
Attendees at this year's Scallop Festival can expect to stay a little cooler this year, thanks to a venue change by the Gulf County Chamber of Commerce. The Star
When Museums Break Art
"Incidents of damage involving gallery visitors are few and far between; works of art stand a far greater chance of being destroyed at the hands of curators, picture handlers or cleaners. Most of the major galleries have had to issue shame-faced apologies for breakages at one time or another." Arts Journal
The Pollock Among A Collection Saved
"Some 13,000 works of art -- including priceless examples of African and Native American art, and paintings by modern masters like Max Beckmann and Philip Guston -- were saved last month when the Iowa River flooded this lovely campus, overcoming much of the UI museum." Arts Journal
Australian Art Auction Empire Threatened
"The practices are alleged to include selling and rebuying the same paintings at auction, publishing questionable provenance notes for paintings in catalogues and obscuring ownership details. Arts Journal