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Food Session Typically New Zealand!
Food Session Typically New Zealand! Three courses, three writers, three entertaining stories. As the first session for The Press Christchurch Writers' Festival the combination of writers and foodies will be a sure hit.
Scoop.co.nz |
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Spanish, Hispanic artists featured at museum
VALPARAISO Artwork created by Spanish and Hispanic artists will be featured in an exhibition at Valparaiso University’s Brauer Museum of Art that opens Aug. 19.
The Times of Northwest Indiana |
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Batavia festival puts art in spotlight
BATAVIA – The oversized photo of a shopping cart glistening in the moonlit night caught the eye of Elburn resident Terrylynn Strawn.
Kane County Chronicle |
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Bob Stover: The readers always write
On Wednesday I received a reader's postcard that sounded like it was written by my sister. (It wasn't.) The paper's "creative" photography. "As an amateur artist-for-therapy, they alone can sometimes make my day!" she wrote.
Florida Today |
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VISUAL ARTS
Signs for our times — The public has voted, and 50 winners of the "My Yard Our Message" contest have been chosen. Teri Kwant was the top vote-getter, earning 130 votes for the sign, "I'm for preemptive peace." The signs each carry politically charged messages including "Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote," "House and Senate for sale," "Green trumps red and blue" ...
Pioneer Press |
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Ron Perelman's Summer Loathing
In the opening scene of the Sex and the City movie, Carrie Bradshaw & Co. attend a Christie’s auction, where an aging socialite is selling off her jewelry after her mogul husband has kicked her to the curb. It appears the movie’s creators thought: You just can’t make this stuff up-because this scene was based on a real-life auction actress Ellen Barkin staged in 2006 after her ugly divorce ...
New York Post |
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PARENTS & CHILDREN CALENDAR
Learn about artists and art forms and create works of art in the Louisiana Children's Museum's Art Trek studio.
New Orleans Times-Picayune |
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Biz Monday: Pottery behind the rainbow at south Fort Myers shop
Asha Boscia started painting her own pottery about three years ago and never stopped.
The News-Press |
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To Our Readers
The Sunday Arts & Entertainment section has expanded. Our coverage of books, entertainment and the arts has been enhanced to include Craig LaBan's restaurant reviews, Rick Nichols' "Food" column, Lisa Scottoline's "Chick Wit" column, Merl Reagle's crossword puzzle, and Edith Newhall's art gallery reviews.
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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Designing women: Three generations operate interior decorators' shop and gallery
At Designer's Choice Interiors, business is a family affair.
Memphis Commercial Appeal |
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Groce hopes to bring celebrities to FestivALL
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - If event director Larry Groce has his way, home-bred celebrities like filmmaker Morgan Spurlock will play a bigger role in future FestivALLs.Spurlock, raised in Beckley, showed his documentary "Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden...
The Charleston Gazette |
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Groce hopes to bring celebrities to FestivALL
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - If event director Larry Groce has his way, home-bred celebrities like filmmaker Morgan Spurlock will play a bigger role in future FestivALLs.
The Charleston Gazette |
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Rocky Mountain Mixtape From a High-Flying Troupe
The Vail International Dance Festival?s enthusiastic, intimate atmosphere maintained the Morphoses dreamlike quality.
New York Times |
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Museums
"The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936," closing Aug. 17 at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, includes the official English-language poster advertising the 11th Summer Olympic Games.
Washington Post |
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Cavaliers finish 3rd in drum corp contest
Fans of Drum Corps International describe Saturday night's championship finals as one of the closest ever, but the evening was bittersweet for The Cavaliers drum and bugle corps, sponsored by the village of Rosemont.
Daily Herald |
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Calendar: 08.11.08
Artist Jimmy Pena of Corpus Christi will have an exhibit of his drawings and paintings beginning today at the John E. Conner Museum, Texas A&M University-Kingsville. The exhibit will be on display through Sept. 8. Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Free. Information: 361-593-2803.
Corpus Christi Caller-Times |
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Blind Denton painter will be part of Dutch awards show
By TERRY LEE GOODRICH DENTON — When John Bramblitt’s eyesight deteriorated to legal blindness a few years ago, he decided it was time to get serious about creating art. Never mind that Bramblitt, 37, of Denton, cannot see the images he makes. He paints from memory and by touch, sometimes running his hands over the faces of friends before replicating them in oil on canvas. In the past year, his ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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EXHIBITS
“My Beloved Cartoonists: Original Cartoon Art from Fred Waring's America,” 1 to 5 p.m. daily through Friday, main exhibit hall, Pattee Library, University Park, 863-4240, qg3@psu.edu. Spotted Dog Fine Arts’ Zola
Centre Daily Times |
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Robert Fenninger: An eye for art in the gallery, and the kitchen
His face might not be familiar, but his food is. Lancaster's D. Robert Fenninger, 54, owns FENZ, a bistro-style restaurant at 398 Harrisburg Ave. He also works as a consultant on special events such as the Pennsylvania Academy of Music opening gala. He's now at work with Interstate...
Lancaster Online |
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Surrounded by art
PETERSBURG - Imagine a place where artists look out onto a secluded lake and towering forest as they spin clay into pots and paint landscapes onto canvas. Erin Welsh, an art teacher at Lewistown High School, didn't believe such a setting existed until she visited the C. Barton McCann School of Art.
Altoona Mirror |
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Italy inspires young painter
Inside Room 10 of the Museo Regionale, a little museum in Messina, Italy, Blake Morgan found himself alone with his sketchbook. In front of him hung one of Caravaggio’s last paintings, “The Raising of Lazarus.” Moments earlier, security guards, on their way to lunch, had locked Morgan inside the room. Impressed by his sketches, they had asked the young artist to continue drawing. “They basically ...
The State |
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Sculptor brings work to the links
“It’s just a tremendous addition to the club and a great way to commemorate the history of the club.” — Lars Bierly, president of the Riverside Town and Country Club
Mankato Free Press |
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Hundreds gather to protest China's human rights record
A couple hundred people have marched from the Chinese Consulate at Granville and 18th down to the Art Gallery for a rally showing support for a free Tibet. Adair Harper with Students for a Free Tibet ...
News 1130 |
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Vancouver protesters denounce China's human rights record
Nearly 40 anti-Chinese government protestors took to the Vancouver Art Gallery steps Wednesday afternoon. One of the speakers there claims the Olympics are a cover up for China's human rights abuses. ...
News 1130 |
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Artist gives 'life' to remains of prehistoric animals
Keny Marshall is site manager of the Pittsburgh operations of Phil Fraley Productions, a New Jersey company that builds the fossilized skeletons of prehistoric creatures for museum exhibits throughout the country.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
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