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Barrasso speaks at river festival last week
One of Wyoming’s two senators in Washington, D.C., stopped by Green River last week to help unveil U-Haul company’s new Super Graphic artwork promoting Green River and Wyoming.
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After shuttering her darkroom, Gwen Laine had a change of art
A creative block is not unusual for an artist or a writer. But when it leads someone to close her studio, get rid of her equipment and not produce work for 18 months, that's more like making a clean break. That's what it took, however, for Gwen Laine to find her way back to photography.
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Weird for Weird's Sake: MoMA's 'Wunderkammer'
By reshuffling the extensive deck of its permanent collection, the Museum of Modern Art has come up with "Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities." The title of this show invokes those princely cabinets whose collections of corals, pearls, and two-headed calves were the original seedlings of the museum as we know it today. Curated by Sarah Suzuki, an assistant curator in the Department of Prints ...
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Aug. 27: Calendar
— 38th annual Auburn Fall Auction — Kruse Auction Park, Auburn. Auctions held 1 p.m. Thursday; 9 a.m. Friday through Sunday; and 10 a.m. Monday and Tuesday. For more information, call (800) 968-4444 or visit the Web site at www.kruse.com.
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Metro watch
HOMEOWNERS stand a chance to win big at the HOMEDEC Home Decoration Exhibition from Aug 29 to 31 at Persada Johor. There will be more than 200 booths put up by 90 companies. There will be daily giveaways and a grand prize of a living room makeover up for grabs.
The Star |
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UI Art Students get New Home
IOWA CITY - University of Iowa art students and staff are settling into an unusual new home. In June, flood water swallowed the epicenter for creativity and expression on campus. But construction crews worked 20-hour days for nearly one month to get the artists into a new building.
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Whitney Reveals Piano's Design for Downtown Branch
Since 1985, the Whitney Museum of American Art has presented three separate expansion plans for its 42-year-old home in Upper Manhattan—all of which have fizzled.
Architectural Record |
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Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
Foster + Partners has been commissioned to design an ambitious, $177 million masterplan for the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, the largest museum of European art in Moscow.
Architectural Record |
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Wellesley museum loses prized 1921 cubist painting
WELLESLEY, Mass. (AP) - Officials say Wellesley College in Massachusetts has lost a 1921 painting by French cubist Fernand Leger that was likely worth millions of dollars.
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The Mystery of the Hidden Artwork: Why Nancy Drew gave me unrealistic sleuth expectations
I’ve been pacing back and forth in the reference section of the Bend Public Library for a good twenty minutes now, every once in a while stopping to pounce on the unsuspecting atlas or dictionary and rifle through the pages before sighing and shoving the book back into its spot on the shelf. Local artist Mark Bernahl told me that one of his random acts of art had been spotted amongst the stacks ...
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Will Paint for Money: The inaugural Old Mill artfest
When the fine editor of TSW asked me to cover the inaugural Art in the High Desert Festival, I immediately poured a rum and coke and considered leaving town. Just what Central Oregon needs is another art fair with crafts by hobbyists who should do us and their families a favor and get real jobs. I guess Starbucks isn’t hiring and Wal-Mart can use only so many greeters. While scanning a handy ...
The Source Weekly |
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Mass. museum loses prized painting
WELLESLEY, Mass. -- Wellesley College has lost a 1921 painting by French cubist Fernand Leger that could be worth millions of dollars.
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The £100m heirloom: Ancestor's eye for an art bargain pays off for Duke
Some 220 years ago, a shambolic English aristocrat with a fondness for smoking a labourer's clay pipe staged one of the great art-buying coups by acquiring 305 masterpieces, including two coveted works by Titian, from the collection of a close relative of the recently beheaded French king Louis XVI. The price? The trifling sum of £43,000.
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Threat to Scotland's greatest art treasures
THE centrepiece collection of the National Galleries of Scotland could be broken up unless it can raise £100 million to buy two Old Master paintings.
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Xico opens gallery, teaching center in Chandler
Xico Inc., a non-profit that develops and promotes Latino and Native American artists, is opening an art gallery and teaching center in downtown Chandler.
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Artist Bolton honored by Council for ‘Discover SP’ VC Fair entry
Howard Bolton, the graphic artist who created Santa Paula’s entry in a unique Ventura County Fair-based contest, was recognized for his contribution of time and talent by the City Council at the July 28 meeting.
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Blue porch ceilings northward bound
When Rebecca Parlakian and Larry Giammo renovated their suburban 1940s farmhouse five years ago, they added a porch. To make the addition look and feel old, as if it had always been there, they installed beadboard on the ceiling. The final touch: painting the beadboard a pale sky blue.
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SPSA’s Heritage Valley Flora & Fauna: 40th Anniversary exhibit a beauty
Flora and fauna and a few wild animals here and there are a fitting artistic tribute to the Santa Paula Society of the Arts, which is celebrating their 40th anniversary with two unique exhibits.
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Painting once borrowed by Oklahoma City Museum of Art now missing in Mass.
WELLESLEY, Mass. (AP) - Officials say Wellesley College in Massachusetts has lost a 1921 painting by French cubist Fernand Leger that was likely worth millions of dollars. "Woman and Child" had been in the collection of the college's Davis Museum and Cultural Center since 1954. The Boston Globe reports that it vanished last year after it was one of 32 works borrowed for an exhibit at the ...
The Oklahoman |
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SOS group to hold online auction
SOS Community Services will run an Empty Bowls online auction to benefit the Emergency Food Program. The auction, which will run from Sep. 8 to Sep. 18, will feature work generously donated by local artists.
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Galleries unite to save priceless Titians for Britain
LONDON (Reuters) - Two of Britain's leading art institutions are to join forces to take advantage of a cut price offer to save for the nation two works by Italian Renaissance master Titian.
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Aug. 27: Local Lifestyle Briefs
Charity’s Angels, a faith-based sorority in Anderson, is raffling a chainsaw carving valued at $500 on Oct. 1. This sculpture is being donated by Dan Pierce of Spirit Woodcarving, Middletown. The woodcarving is 4 feet tall, either a bear or an eagle, winner’s choice.
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A model who's worth her weight in gold (50kg, to be precise)
She has been the golden girl of the catwalk for years, but now Kate Moss has been given a £1.5m golden makeover. A solid gold sculpture of the model, thought to be the world's largest gold statue built since the time of ancient Egypt, was given its first showing yesterday.
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Wellesley museum loses prized 1921 cubist painting
Associated Press - August 27, 2008 7:15 PM ET WELLESLEY, Mass. (AP) - Officials say Wellesley College in Massachusetts has lost a 1921 painting by French cubist Fernand Leger that was likely...
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Woman wearing veil told to leave Italian museum
ROME: The head of one of Venice’s most prestigious museums apologized yesterday to a Muslim woman asked to leave the building by a guard because she was wearing a veil over her face.
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