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Day Around the Bay
The uber-divine Chloé Harris and Frankie Frankeny will throw a party at Orson for queers, fruits, and Newsom. [ Tablehopper ] Blue Bottle gets to sleep indoors at the Ferry Building. [ Eater ] Naked Peta people. [ SF Weekly ] "Aides Benefit" [ SM ] The latest in public art? Large globes at Crissy Fields. [ Curbed ] Yahoo plays musical chairs? [ Valleywag ] Oh, and in unrelated Bay ... SFist
Show schedule available
Yes, Friday August 8, 2008 is the starting day for the Olympic Games. Closing day, however, for the Photography section at our show. Grenfell Record
Pick of the lot
It's going to be a tough fight for the Malaysian Film Festival awards as some of the best names in the film industry are being pitched as winners, writes SHARIFAH ARFAH The New Straits Times
LEWISTON: Growing Art Fest back in village
Some new wrinkles will present themselves this weekend at the 42nd annual Lewiston Art Festival. But in terms of quality art and heavy crowds, organizers expect the usual. “We hope it’s going to be a really enjoyable experience for everybody, both the artists and the people who come to visit,” said Irene Rykaszewski, executive director of the Lewiston Council on the Arts, the organization ... Niagara Gazette
Oxford Gallery calls for submission from Artist
The Powerhouse, a gallery managed by the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, has launched a project to provide Mississippi artist new and recognized with opportunites to exhibit and sell work through a series of exhibits at the gallery. Jackson Free Press
SAN MARCOS: University sculpture draws mixed reaction
SAN MARCOS ---- Free-form sculptor Robert Freeman said last week that he had wished his latest work, "Focus," a 13 1/2-foot-tall wood and plaster piece at the entrance to Cal State San Marcos, would elicit mixed reactions. Freeman got what he wished North County Times
Globes promote global warming awareness
The Cool Globes exhibit will be in SF through October 13. KGO-TV Bay Area
All Events for 7 Aug 2008
Until 31 Dec 2008 Time Out First Thursdays opens up over 70 contemporary art galleries and museums across East London until late on the first Thursday of every month. Pocket-sized First Thursdays East End art maps... My Hackney
Moon and stars: Park Nights, open-air film screenings
To tie in with his show Continuation, on now at the Serpentine Gallery in London, the American artist Richard Prince has chosen some cult classics of American cinema to be screened outside on a 50ft screen, near the Serpentine lake in Kensington Gardens. The films he's chosen include Two-Lane Blacktop, a road-movie directed by Monte Hellman, starring James Taylor and the Beach Boy Dennis ... Independent
CNN - Stocks Rise After Fed Decision
Stocks Surged To One Of The Year's Biggest Gains Today, Sparked By Falling Oil Prices And The Fed's Decision To Hold Interest Rates Steady. The Rally Snapped A String Of Three Straight Losing Sessions, CNNMoney.com Reports. The Dow Jones Industrial Average Rose 2.9 Percent, Or 331 Points, According To Early Tallies. KSAT San Antonio
Sotheby's says 3Q to be stronger than last year
(AP:NEW YORK) Sotheby's said Tuesday it expects a stronger third quarter than it did last year, but the auction house didn't make a specific forecast. INO News
Unique artifact
Graham Perry with the Tennessee State Museum shows an artifact unique only to Columbia State Community College’s Bagels & Barbecue exhibit: a check for $444.43 written by Jefferson Davis to B. Lowenstein & Bros., a Jewish-owned dry-goods store in Memphis. Columbia Daily Herald
Clips for Aug. 6-8
Organizers are calling for local artists, poets, painters, dancers, singers, writers, sculptors, painters, performance artists, rock stars and Park Record
Huber Heights man?s images stretch photos into artworks
David Lorenz's artist statement is short, succinct and to the point. "I take photographs because I can't draw." Dayton Daily News
Canoe hockey
To celebrate John Galt Day in Guelph, residents dig out their paddles and take to the river. Hillside has mellow moments and ones that rock as the festival wraps up Sunday at Guelph Lake. Guelph Mercury
Sotheby's says 3Q to be stronger than last year
Sotheby's said Tuesday it expects a stronger third quarter than it did last year, but the auction house didn't make a specific forecast. AP via Yahoo! Finance
Steel, fabric in lead to adorn UK Hospital atrium
Hanging sculptures of stainless steel and fabric were chosen as the lead finalist to fill a three-story atrium at the new University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital. The hospital is under construction and will open in phases beginning in 2010. Warren Seelig, an artist from Rockland, Maine, designed the structures. They are mobile-like creations that would hang from a large ... Lexington Herald-Leader
Beautiful Losers, Aaron Rose's Celebratory Portrait of the Early-'90s L.E.S. Artists
The ongoing trouble with docs about artists is that too few are very artfully made themselves, or else they flat out fail to demonstrate any insight into their subjects' impulses/goals/creative processes. Displaying artwork on-screen and interpreting it via talking-head sound bites has become the... The Village Voice
Music Review: Art Blakey and the Giants of Jazz - Live at the 1972 Monterey Jazz Festival
Art Blakey and the Giants of Jazz exemplify the term "supergroup" in their incredible 1972 Monterey Jazz Festival performance. Music critics and fans use the term “supergroup” to label bands formed by artists already famous in their own right. The word originated to describe rock bands such as Emerson, Lake, & Palmer, Cream, Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young, the Traveling Wilburys, and the more ... Blogcritics.org
Library presents Filmstrip Fest: Take 2
TRAVERSE CITY -- With Madonna and Michael Moore ending their reign on local headlines and psyches, a more humble film festival dawns. The Filmstrip Festival runs from Aug. 12-15 at the East Bay Branch Library, offering a low-tech, family-friendly feast of analog entertainment. Grand Traverse Herald
Weekend
Richard Garrison's paintings explore the physical and spiritual nature of human beings. The Chapel Hill News
Scarborough Village festival set for weekend
For her T-shirt design, Sumayyah Siddiqa, 11, painted a shy bride drawing a ghomta head covering over her face, an image that reminds her of aunts in Bangladesh. Manar Hossain, 15, who like Sumayyah... East York Mirror
Advance Screening of "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" at SIGGRAPH
Powerhouse production company Lucasfilm will present an exclusive advance screening of their highly-anticipated animated film "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" as part of the new Production Studio Nights at the SIGGRAPH 2008 Computer Animation Festival. Hosted by John Knoll, Visual Effects Supervisor from Industrial Light & Magic, the evening will begin with a behind-the-scenes discussion about the ... Centre Daily Times
Lots to do this weekend
Toronto's Festival of Beer is on tap this week at Historic Fort York, Aug. 7 to 10. Featuring more than 200 brands of beer on site, the festival is Canada's premier celebration of the golden beverag... East York Mirror
A Guide to Entering Art Competitions
As one develops as an artist, it is important to find a network of people who share a similar passion for art. It is also useful to show your artwork to others and receive criticism, feedback, and inspiration. American Artist