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Kumu hula turns sights on jewelry
Kumu hula Sonny Ching is best known for his creativity in the art of hula, culminating in multiple wins at the Merrie Monarch Festival. Now he has adopted a new art form — jewelry design.
Honolulu Advertiser |
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Napoleonic era
Weider's 50 years of study and acquisition was donated to the oldest museum in Canada.
Montreal Gazette |
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Happy b-day, Children's Museum
The Duke Energy Children's Museum is celebrating its 10th birthday at Union Terminal, and everyone's invited.
The Cincinnati Enquirer |
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Writing is on the wall for Banksy's West End mural
A Banksy mural worth tens of thousands of pounds is to be removed. Earlier this year the graffiti artist painted a small boy, watched by a security guard, painting the slogan "One nation under CCTV" on the wall of a building in Newman Street, off Oxford Street.
Evening Standard |
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Letter To The Editor: UConn's arts are not exclusive to fine arts students
Thank you for the opportunity to respond to Ron Quiroga's Commentary dated Oct. 16, 2008, regarding Arts programs being more accommodating. Quiroga addresses a wide range of concerns and issues in his commentary and it is my hope to clarify some of these. Students who attend have a myriad of opportunities to immerse themselves in Arts experiences on campus.
University of Connecticut Daily Campus |
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Metal melts the CMJ stage
This week, The Daily Campus Focus Editor Stephen Ortiz will be reporting from New York City on the College Music Journal Marathon Festival. Each night he will select one venue to highlight. NEW YORK - Of all the genres represented at this year's CMJ Music Marathon Festival, the one with the weakest showing has to be metal.
University of Connecticut Daily Campus |
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Exhibition to honour art-loving diplomats
VietNamNet Bridge – In response to the Government’s policy to promote cultural diplomacy in addition to the economic relations, an exhibition gathering many works of art made by diplomats, who are working in Vietnam, opened in Hanoi on October 23.
Vietnam Net |
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His workspace also showplace
Jim Williams didn't set out to be a gallery owner. Photo by The Journal Gazette
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette |
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Life of buffalo hunter subject of museum program
The tale of a buffalo hunter will be the subject of a presentation this weekend at the White Deer Land Museum in Pampa. Delbert Trew and Mike Oldham will make the presentation, the third in a series of Sunday afternoon programs in celebration of the new museum annex.
The Pampa News |
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Artistic collaboration
Salem artist Kristin Kuhns pounded nails into it, and Portland artist Christopher Bibby textured it with thick oil paint. And somewhere in their and 10 other artists' work is a famous image from the hand of American painter Edward Hopper, "Cape Cod Morning," a somewhat ambiguous study of a pale-faced woman contemplating the morning sun from her bay window. This is the fourth annual "Face the ...
Salem Statesman Journal |
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Lifetime of iconic images forms a portrait of the artist Leibovitz
These words cannot possibly do justice to the photographs of Annie Leibovitz, which are eloquence personified. As principal photographer for Rolling Stone magazine from its raw beginnings, Leibovitz – who as a young girl aspired to be an art teacher – documented an art form (rock 'n' roll) and a generation (hippiedom and, later, post-hippiedom) like no one with a camera before or since.
San Diego Union-Tribune |
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Lift ticket art returns to Aspen
The Aspen Skiing Co. and the Aspen Art Museum will partner for the fourth consecutive year on the artwork on all Aspen/Snowmass lift tickets for the 2008-2009 season. The tickets will feature the text-based artwork “Give More Than You Take” of American conceptual artist Jim Hodges.
Aspen Daily News |
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Vandalism charges for graffiti suspect
PORTSMOUTH and#8212; Jay Anthony was spray-painting graffiti on a downtown wall Tuesday afternoon when officer Chris Kiberd pulled up in a cruiser behind him, leading to Anthony's arrest, said police.
Portsmouth Herald |
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Arts update
FUNDRAISERS: •The Huntington County Historical Museum, 315 Court St., Huntington, will present “A Night of Indiana Jazz” with the Indiana Jazz Preserve from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday. Proceeds of freewill donations will go toward the building fund.
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette |
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Art exhibits
All weekend – “REGIONAL EXHIBITION” – Ends Dec. 3; Artlink Contemporary Art Gallery, 437 E. Berry St.; gallery hours, 424-7195 or www.artlinkfw.com.
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette |
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Heaven on Earth to open New York fest
With the works of veteran film makers such as Shyam Benegal (Bose, the Forgotten Hero) and Deepa Mehta (Heaven on Earth), as well as first-timers such as Sooni Taraporevala (Little Zizou), the 2008 edition of the Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival in New York has a menu of beguiling features and documentaries to suit all tastes.
rediff.com |
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Weekend Best Bets: North Edition
Handcrafted pottery, jewelry and gift items are displayed at the annual Harvest Festival Original Art & Craft Show from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and tomorrow and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. $4 to $9, ages 12 and younger admitted free. Parking $9. (415) 447-3205.
San Diego Union-Tribune |
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Making the gallery scene accessible
“Making the gallery scene more accessible is the key to cultivating new collectors. I see the Stark Guide as a tool for casual browsers and committed collectors alike.”
The San Francisco Examiner |
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London News and Reviews
To enthusiasts for the Epsteinian vulgarity and texture of Lucian Freud ’s recent painting, a small exhibition of the work with which his career began some 70 years ago may be a disconcerting surprise.
Evening Standard |
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Artwork by cancer survivors on display in Exeter, reception tonight
EXETER and#8212; Through the month of October artwork created by cancer survivors will be on display at The Divine Café at 50 Lincoln St., Exeter. This show represents a body of work created over the past year by survivors who participated in The Healing...
Hampton Union |
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My Pharmiweb.com
Talley announce addition to the Venturi™ range of negative pressure wound therapy systems. Talley Group are pleased to announce they will be showing their next generation Negative Pressure Wound Therapy System at forthcoming exhibitions.
PharmiWeb |
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At BAM, Tip Toland's stoneware figures celebrate the inner spirit
Tip Toland, Etsuko Ichikawa and Randy Shull headline three solo exhibits at the Bellevue Arts Museum.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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Neuqua art teacher wins award
The Illinois Art Education Association has named Kathryn Parenti of Neuqua Valley High School's Gold Campus its 2008 Art Educator of the Year.
The Naperville Sun |
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Greenville students create peace cards to be sent to Japan
GREENVILLE A group of Greenville students will star in a Japanese art gallery later this year.
The Appleton Post-Crescent |
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Plainfield South to host second annual poetry festival
Plainfield South High School will host a poetry festival and celebrate the art of poetry next week.
The Plainfield Sun |
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