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Get Elevated: Bend’s underground art festival, part deux
Last October, Bend got its first taste of the local underground art scene when Oxygen Tattoo decided to put together a showcase of local alternative talents. This year, the festival is back, with a name – Elevate Art Festival – a bigger and better line-up of music, art, vendors and several partner organizations including The Rise Up, Grove Presents and B Positiv. “Last year the turnout was ... The Source Weekly
Folk Art Playhouses Help Children Put Down Roots
Now that children are home from school, there will be more time spent in the backyard. That means busy work days for Valley entrepreneur Arthur Gelb and his company, Folk Art Playhouses. It started when Gelb built a miniature cottage that was displayed at a retail outlet. The Acorn
Oak Park resident keeps on giving
Harvey Kern is 65 and retired, but his schedule as a volunteer keeps him busy like a full-time worker. Kern spends two days a week giving tours at Gardens of the World in Thousand Oaks, one day a week at the Reyes Adobe museum in Agoura Hills and one day a week at the Adamson House in Malibu. The Acorn
Today’s best bets, 07.31.08
• FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES MUSEUM COMPETITIVE ART SHOW. Paintings, graphics and sculptures; all art is for sale. Call 683-1701 for details. • OPEN STUDIO, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Muskogee Art Guild, 315 Court St. Free. Information: Beverly Keeley, 683-4265. Muskogee Phoenix
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ART Bethel Park -- South Arts Gallery, located in Schoolhouse Art Center, 2600 South Park Road, holds an opening reception from 6 to 9 p.m. ... Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Review: SPACE exhibit shows artists' depictions of sense of place
Through a variety of media and approaches, the work on display presents places, real or imagined, and includes various forms of representation from the literal to more expressive interpretations. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Sails and lichens subjects for new paintings at Atea Ring Gallery
WESTPORT -- Artist Elena Borstein braved a sometime tempestuous Lake Champlain to create her new painting series, "North Country Sails," on exhibit at the Atea Ring Gallery in Westport. Plattsburgh Press Republican
Painting the town
ELIZABETHTOWN -- Portrait painter Wayman Elbridge Adams (1833-1959) established the Old Mill Art School in Elizabethtown, and his legacy is on exhibit at the Adirondack History Center Museum. Plattsburgh Press Republican
Chattanooga: Idol scheduled at Bessie Smith Hall in August
Over the past few years, the Chattanooga African American Museum has attracted about 36,000 people a year, a decent figure, museum officials say. But they want to shake up that status quo. Chattanooga Times Free Press
Music to be featured at day-long event
REBUCK -- A diverse lineup of musical talent will grace the stage at the annual Himmel's Country Festival on Saturday. The Daily Item
Exhibit opens today
The community room of the Degenstein Library on Fifth Street in Sunbury is filled with art this week, as the Susquehanna Art Society is holding its 2008 exhibit there. The Daily Item
McCain, Obama get the comic book treatment
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It’s a year of superheroes in Hollywood, with the big-budget epics of Batman, Iron Man and the Hulk, but a big-budget production out of Washington, D.C., is carving a niche in the animation trend. Presumptive nominees John McCain and Barack Obama will star this fall in their own comic books put out by IDW Publishing, a San Diego-based publisher better known for telling the ... The State
Island art exhibit comes alive with diversity, energy
Crowds of arts appreciators, artists, wildlife enthusiastsand naturalists surged through the gallery doors at the opening of the Endangered Arts Limited Spring/Summer exhibition, now fully in place at the South Island Center location. The gallery spaces, filled primarily with art featuring images of animals in their natural environment, landscapes and seascapes, are rife with paintings, prints, ... Island Packet
Bluffton art society hosts Citron's artwork
The Society of Bluffton Artists will present "Art, Life and Change," the artwork of Susan Citron through Aug. 9. Island Packet
There’s a Van Gogh under that Van Gogh!
European scientists have discovered a hidden painting behind Vincent Van Gogh’s 1887 Patch of Grass painting. Using synchrotron radiation induced X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, a portrait of a mystery woman appeared. TG Daily
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Metropolitan Police Department Detective Sasayama solves a crime on television in a stroke of good luck and becomes a media celebrity cast in a criminal profiler reality show contest against an American profiler by the name of Michelle Partner. Anime News Network
Scientists recreate hidden Van Gogh portrait
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - 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. GMA News
You Know You're Rooting For The Toilet
"A total of 224 projects from 43 countries have been nominated [for the inaugural World Architecture Festival Awards,] including a fire station in Mexico, a public toilet in Texas, a women's health centre in Burkina Faso, a writer's retreat in Costa Rica, a sheep stable in the Netherlands, a private cemetery in Lebanon, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston." Arts Journal
Reading Festival Days has many new events
Reading residents will soon get the chance to take part in Festival Days, which will be held July 31 - Aug. 3. “Primarily it’s to promote Reading. Festival days anywhere is to promote your city but really when it’s all said and done we want to make sure that those living in or visiting Reading have something to look forward to,” Betty Blount, Reading Chamber of Commerce President said. The Hillsdale Daily News
'First Friday' on Broad
Tomorrow night will mark yet another First Friday on Broad gathering. Join the galleries and merchants of Gallery Row as they highlight their newest exhibits from 5 to 7 p.m. In addition to various street vendors, refreshments will be served in all of the galleries. Chef Brett McKee at Oak Steakhouse will be offering shots of chilled gazpacho. The Edward Dare Gallery, 31 Broad St., will feature ... The Post and Courier
Sichuan Spirit Unshaken In Art
The painting Canna In The Mountains may look cheery with its pink, green and blue hues, but it holds a message that is a lot more sombre. It is painted by Chen Shiyi, an 11-year-old who survived the earthquake that hit China's Sichuan province in May and claimed close to 70,000 lives. Sin Chew Jit Poh
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In honor of its 50th anniversary, the Junior League of Greenwich is renovating the playground at 1 Museum Drive as a gift to the community. Greenwich Post
Hidden Van Gogh revealed in color by scientists
AMSTERDAM (Reuters Life!) - Scientists have made a colored view of an early rejected painting underneath Vincent van Gogh's 'Patch of Grass' painting, using advanced X-ray techniques, a Dutch university said on Wednesday. ABS-CBNNEWS.com
Leaving Politics For The Sake Of Art
"The Brazilian musician and Minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil, says he is standing down from the government to concentrate on his music career... As culture minister, he championed sometimes neglected forms of cultural expression such as indigenous painting. Arts Journal