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The Miniature Worlds of Bruce Metcalf Announced at Palo Alto Art Center
Learning to Build, 1989 / Sterling silver, wood, copper, 4” x 3” x 1” / Collection of the Chiwoo Craft Museum, Seoul, Korea / Photo credit: John Wilson White, Phocasso, San Francisco. Art Daily
Sotheby's to Sell Painting Made by Edward Arthur Walton
Edward Arthur Walton, R.S.A., P.R.S.W. (1860-1922), Alice, 86 by 72.5 cm. Oil on canvas. Estimate: 100,000—150,000 GBP. Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's. PERTHSHIRE.- Art Daily
Finnish Artist Shows Installation in the Zuiderzee Museum
Anu Tuominen, Against the light. ENKHUIZEN.- As part of the sixtieth anniversary, the contemporary Finnish artist Anu Tuominen designed an installation of everyday objects for the Zuiderzee Museum. Against The Light is on display in 11 Zoutkamp, one of the premises in the Museum Park. Art Daily
Film Forum in New York Screens Documentary Titled Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet
Richard Serra’s sculpture “The Matter of Time, 2005,” as seen in Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet, directed by Maria Anna Tappeiner. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, 2005. Photo credit: ZDF / Maria Anna Tappeiner. Art Daily
Emotion on canvas
GORE — The shading and colors in paintings are as different as the artists themselves. The passion that goes into each piece is personal. Freda Portwood, one of the newest artists in the Jerrie’s Scissortail Arts Club, said she pours everything she has into each piece she paints. Muskogee Phoenix
Local Sports Briefs
The Douglas Little League will elect new board members for the upcoming 2009 season at a special board meeting set for 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 28 at Backdrop Photography, 1009 G. Ave. The Daily Dispatch
'Beautiful Losers who really made their mark
They were renegades first, but then mainstream success followed. YOU MAY not know their names, but you likely recognize their work. Emerging from the Alleged Gallery in New York, the artists featured in the new documentary "Beautiful Losers" created imagery that has gone from being off-the-map to mainstream and a vital part of contemporary visual culture -- Andre the Giant posters by Shepard ... Los Angeles Times
Public Art, Eyesore to Eye Candy
Over the past 15 years public sculpture has become one of contemporary art?s more exciting areas of endeavor and certainly its most dramatically improved one. New York Times
Mesa museum hosts Dia de los Muertos show
Most kids growing up in this country are taught that death is scary, sad and otherwise unpleasant; associated with scary movies, morose funerals and weepy backyard burials of beloved pets. East Valley Tribune
District calls upon shutterbugs to capture open space in phot contest
The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District is sponsoring its first digital photography contest and urging photographers of all levels to lace up those hiking boots and let inspiration run wild through more than 50,000 available acres of well-preserved beauty. San Mateo County Times
Howard Mandel's freelance Urban Improvisation
Free jazz fests across the U.S. mark summer's glorious end. Manhattan's Charlie Parker festival (held Saturday Aug. 23 and Sunday 24 in Marcus Garvey park uptown and Tompkins Square Park downtown), the Chicago Jazz Festival (which formally starts Thursday Aug 28 with Sonny Rollins at downtown Grant Park's Petrillo bandshell) and the Detroit International Jazz Festival (celebrating ... Arts Journal
Grant Facilitates Museum Upgrades
A federal grant will allow the Maine Maritime Museum to make its watercraft collection more accessible to the public. WMTW Auburn
Artists Take to the Street in the Elmwood Village
Buffalo's always colorful and lively Elmwood Village is even more vibrant this weekend as the annual Elmwood Avenue Festival of the Arts takes over the street. The event features music, dancing and lots of art for sale. WKBW-TV Buffalo
Carmel artist Villalobos to exhibit at Steinbeck Center
"Auspicious Spirits," an exhibit by Carmel artist Kay Villalobos will be on display at the National Steinbeck Center Oct. 18 through Jan. 11. Admission to the gallery is included with entry to the National Steinbeck Center — $10.95 for adults, with discounts for seniors and children. The Monterey County Herald
WCSH Hosts Auto Show
PORTLAND (NEWS CENTER) -- For the last 7 years, the WCSH Art Festival has coincided with the WCSH Auto Show. Both new cars and vintage cars were on display Saturday. From classic Mustangs to fabulous foreign cars, the auto show is a candy store for car lovers. WCSH 6 Portland
The exile comes home to Prague
Culture: Photography: Josef Koudelka captured the most startling images of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague, then went on to become one of the greatest photojournalists of our time Guardian Unlimited
Close-Up: Simon Taffe & Sofia Hagberg
Planning the perfect festival is a classic Sunday-afternoon pub conversation, but for most music lovers it stays just that. Less than a year after Simon Taffe sat down in a field with his mobile phone to estimate the cost of organising his dream event, however, the 28-year-old found himself in the middle of his fantasy made real. Independent
So I Have Thought of You: The letters of Penelope Fitzgerald, ed Terence Dooley
Penelope Fitzgerald has a strong claim to be the least known great British novelist of the last quarter of the 20th century. This collection of letters casts little light on the creative processes that produced the distinctive fiction of her later years, such as her final masterpiece, The Blue Flower. She was, after all, notably reticent about her writing, remarking after one, slightly awkward, ... Independent
This Weekends Events
Until 07 Sep 2008 Be it donkey rides or department stores, antiseptic or anaesthetic, railway trains, light bulbs or the rules of football: those ingenious Victorians gave us them all. This special exhibition is a... My Village Peckham
Album: Avison, Concerti Grossi Opus 9 and 10 – Avison Ensemble/Beznosiuk (Divine Art)
Forgotten for two centuries, the music of Newcastle's premier composer, concert organiser and essayist Charles Avison (1709-1770) has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance since cellist Gordon Dixon found a bundle of his scores hidden in a cupboard and formed the Avison Ensemble. The fifth recording in the group's series of discs devoted to music from the North-east, Avison's Opus 9 and Opus 10 ... Independent
Dorian Gray, King's Theatre, Edinburgh Mortal Engine, Playhouse, Edinburgh Steve Reich Evening, Festival Theatre, ...
Beauty, said Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray, ends where intellectual expression begins. In which case Matthew Bourne's version of the story can be relished to the end. Certainly there can hardly be a better potential Dorian than Richard Winsor, with his easy feline grace and poutingly cruel, pugilistic-angel features. Watching him, it is easy to understand what Wilde meant when he ... Independent
This Weekends Events
Until 27 Sep 2008 An exhibition exploring artists' books and book making, book as subject, object and theme.... more details My Village Notting Hill
Thinking big
Mark and Diane Weisbeck of Honeoye, who just put a 32-foot public sculpture up in Rochester, were two of eight American finalists in the Beijing Olympics landscape sculpture design competition. MPNnow.com
Music Review: Neil Diamond - Home Before Dark
Familiar and comfortable, just like home. "Longevity" is certainly a word that aptly describes Neil Diamond since he's been delivering hit albums since the 1950s. The list is too long to include, even in part, here but as of 2005 he had sold well over 120 million albums earning him the title of third most popular adult contemporary artist behind Elton John and Barbara... Blogcritics.org