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Jewish Museum Milwaukee opened Monday
Associated Press - April 28, 2008 2:45 PM ET MILWAUKEE (AP) - The Jewish Museum Milwaukee opened today. It features a display of Golda Meir, who grew up in Milwaukee and went on to... WBAY Green Bay
Youth Focus--Robin Ganske
School and community programs: Salem Lutheran Church, National Honor Society, Family Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA), student mentor, Salem 4-H, Washington County Fair poultry exhibitor, Art Club, Spanish Club, Anchor Club, Younglife, Interact, TAFE, Maifest, mascot, soccer, volleyball and bowling. Brenham Banner-Press
Pink pig puppet stolen from art exhibit
PORTSMOUTH — A Rye storyteller and puppeteer is hoping someone will return her little pink pig, so the story of “The Little Red Hen” can be complete once again. Portsmouth Herald
Another Miley Mea Culpa
Miley Cyrus isn't the only one who's sorry about her bedsheet-donning pseudo-scandalous photo flap. Annie Leibovitz, the photographic auteur who conceived and ultimately snapped... E! Online
Winning Hand
Baltimore?The designs of Baltimore-based RTKL was chosen from more than 100 submissions vying for the contract to design the 500,000-sq.-ft. expansion of the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. Contract Magazine
Annual Spring Arts Festival a Big Hit in Minden
This year’s annual Spring Arts Festival, held Saturday at The Farm, reached a milestone for Chairman Chris Broussard. "We really turned a corner with this year's festival," said Broussard. Minden Press-Herald
Loveland children among art contest winners The Reporter-Herald
Artwork created by the kindergarten classes at New Vision Charter School in Loveland was named one of four grand prize winners in the sixth annual Reusable Art Contest. Loveland Reporter-Herald
The briefs
Young Eagles rally set for this Sunday; Monart, Prairie Center host exhibit Daily Herald
The briefs
Victory Centre of Bartlett honored; Monart, Prairie Center host exhibit; celebrate with our new section May 11 Daily Herald
Sir Ed as aerosol art sells online
Graffiti artist Graham Hoete's aerosol painting of Sir Edmund Hillary sold on the auction website Trade Me for $4330 to a retired Hawkes Bay man with a growing collection of Kiwi art. The New Zealand Herald
Watching butterfly and moth take wing
Butterflies have always been popular with artists, who've deployed them to symbolize regeneration, hope, human souls fluttering to heaven, and the transience of life, among other things. At one point or another in their careers, Albrecht Dürer, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, William Blake, James McNeill Whistler, Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol all made good use of the prettiest member ... The Philadelphia Inquirer
South River High School photographers win state contest
TOP: This photo, 'Apples No More,' by Chelsea Kelly, a South River High School student, took the grand prize in the state Department of the Environment annual environmental photo contest for high school students. The Capital
Lanza Group, LLC Announces Weeklong Schedule of Events Leading up to Fiesta Atlanta '08
Lanza Group, LLC, one of Atlanta's leading Hispanic market advertising and PR firms, today announced a weeklong schedule of events leading up to Fiesta Atlanta '08, an outdoor Cinco de Mayo festival celebrating Latino culture, music and food. PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Bentonville says fence will shield view of shed near museum
BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Bentonville officials have ordered the construction of an 8-foot-high fence along a boulevard leading to a major museum being built in the city to shield passersby from the view of park maintenance buildings and to protect equipment from theft. Pine Bluff Commercial
Ableauctions Commences Construction of Gruv Development
OJAI, Calif.----Ableauctions.com Inc. is pleased to announce that it has commenced construction on its 111 unit condominium project located in Surrey, British Columbia. The project is expected to complete in approximately 18 months and is expected to generate revenue in excess of $25 million CAD. Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
Kamal Nath unveils Mahatma Gandhi sculpture in Bankgkok
Bangkok, Apr 28: Commerce Minister Kamal Nath today unveiled a sculpture of Mahatma Gandhi at the United Nations Conference Centre here. New Kerala
Artist catches the Idaho wind in his bronze cast sculpture
ALBION — Nestled not far from the morning shadows of Cottrell Mountain, sculptor Robert Murphy, spends his days chasing the movement of the wind in his art. South Idaho Press
Remember the blues greats
Steve Salter, left, commissioned this painting of blues greats by Whitehall artist, and his neighbor, Melissa Morrow, right. Prints of the original acrylic painting will be sold to raise money for Salter's project to buy headstones for the graves of some The White Lake Beacon
Jewish Museum Milwaukee opens Monday
Paul Strnad and his wife Hedvika desperately wanted to leave Czechoslovakia in 1939, the year Adolf Hitler threatened Jews in his speech to the Nazi Reichstag. AP via Yahoo! News
Isthmus Green Day Exhibitor Directory
A listing of businesses exhibiting at the first annual Isthmus Green Day Expo, Saturday, April 26 at the Monona Terrace Convention Center. Isthmus
Iran, Japan to hold calligraphy exhibition
Iran - Japan - Calligraphy Iran and Japan will hold a joint calligraphy exhibition in the Imam Ali (AS) Religious Art Museum in Tehran on May 1-11. Islamic Republic News Agency
Art show kicks off this week
WINDSOR — The performance of No Comment, a high school strings and vocal trio, will kick off the two-week Windsor High School 2008 Senior Art Show featuring works by advanced-placement students in the high school’s art program. Journal Inquirer
AXA Art and Art Basel Continue and Expand Their Relationship
AXA Art, the world's leading fine art insurance specialist, announced today that it has renewed and extended its partnership relationship with the international art shows, Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach. PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Caddo Parish Teacher Killed In Accident In Red River Parish
A Caddo Parish teacher was killed in an accident Monday morning near Hall Summit, Louisiana. Louisiana State Police Troop G says Patsy Jackson, an art teacher at Midway Elementary in Shreveport, was killed when her vehicle struck a truck on Highway 71 in Red River Parish. KSLA-TV Shreveport
Antique dealers flock to Hawkes Bay for treasures
Antique dealers from throughout Australia and New Zealand are flooding into Hawkes Bay for a rare event. Starting tomorrow and running for two days, Christopher McKearney will be auctioning more than 800 antiques from his father's estate. The New Zealand Herald