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October 29, 2008
Anyone up for a 'Spot' of folk art? Drew Central 54-18 Friday night.
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October Gallery in London To Open Brion Gysin- Calligraffiti of Fire in December
LONDON.- October Gallery, London, will present a solo exhibition of Brion Gysin, featuring the first UK showing of Gysin's rarely-seen painting, the 16.4-metrelong Calligraffiti of Fire. Calligraffiti of Fire is Gysin's magnum opus and final work.
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Ann Elliott to give Surrey Sculpture Society Lecture at the University of Surrey
SURREY.- Ann Elliott will give this year’s Surrey Sculpture Society Lecture at the University of Surrey on Wednesday 26 November at 7:30 p.m.
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Cheekwood Announces Recipient of 2008 Jane and Guilford Dudley Award for Excellence in Philanthropy
NASHVILLE, TN.- Ellen Harrison Martin will be presented the 2008 Jane and Guilford Dudley Philanthropic Award of Excellence at the annual Cheekwood Society Celebration on Thursday, November 13 at Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art.
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Campbell Gift of $5 Million to AGO Pioneers New Approach to Philanthropy
TORONTO.- Long-time AGO donors and art collectors Vivian and David Campbell are significantly increasing their support of Transformation AGO with a generous and trail-blazing donation that will also enhance the success of future AGO fundraising campaigns.
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Russian Art Week at Christie's in London
LONDON.- Christie’s will present their bi-annual series of exhibitions and auctions dedicated to Russian art from 24 to 27 November in London.
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Robert Adanto's The Rising Tide to be Presented at Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum
Robert Adanto explores the work of some of China's most talented emerging video artists and photographers. WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Presents Robert Adanto's The Rising Tide, a New Documentary on Chinese Contemporary Art
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The Gallery at Windsor Presents Alex Katz: Seeing, Drawing, Making
Alex Katz, Wing, 1997. Oil on board, 9 x 12 inches. VERO BEACH, FL.- The Gallery at Windsor is pleased to present Alex Katz: Seeing, Drawing, Making from December 7, 2008 – April 20, 2009 in Vero Beach, Florida.
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Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao Shows Goya's Portrait of the Marquise of Santa Cruz on Loan from Prado
Francisco de Goya (1746-1828), The Marquise of Santa Cruz. Oil on canvas, 124.7 x 207.9 cm. 1805. BILBAO.- From 1941, this remarkable portrait used to form part of the Félix Váldes Bilbao Collection.
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Cult of the Artist: Giacometti, the Egyptian at Altes Museum
Lotar I, 1965, Bronze, 25,8 x 28,3 x 14,9 cm © Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung, Zürich, Geschenk Bruno und Odette Giacometti. BERLIN.-
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Museum director's spending criticized
WASHINGTON — Travel and other spending by the Smithsonian's former American Indian Museum director was imprudent and at times "lavish," but most of it conformed with institution rules, the Smithsonian inspector general said in a report distributed to Congress on Tuesday.
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Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of Christian Bonnefoi Opened at Centre Pompidou
Christian Bonnefoi, HCI,1, 2003 Collage mural. Papier de soie, acrylique 277 x 292 cm. Collection de l’artiste. Photo : Camille Bonnefoi. PARIS.-
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Sotheby's Withdraws Picasso's Arlequin From Impressionist and Modern Art Sale
Arlequin, from 1909, was expected to bring over $30 Million. From the Collection of Enrico Donati; the Last of the Great Surrealists. Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's.
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Annual Easter Seals art show is a success
Although the second annual Easter Seals art exhibition lasted less than two hours last Wednesday, its importance to the artists will prove to be timeless.
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Iraq's blast walls become canvases
'We want to create a sense of beauty amid this violence,' says Asad Sagheer of Baghdad University's College of Fine Arts. So the gray safety barriers are taking on a colorful life of their own. They are the sullen architecture of the "surge," gray armies shrinking the horizon.
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Rauschenberg Recalled
A memorial service for the artist Robert Rauschenberg, who died on May 12, drew a packed house at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday.
New York Times |
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Beyond Them and Us: Films About Israeli Arabs
The Other Israel Film Festival, running Nov. 6 to 13 at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, focuses specifically on the experience of Israeli Arabs.
New York Times |
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Coast inspired winners art
South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula was the inspiration for Brian Stratton’s first prize painting in the Kiama Art Society’s Annual Exhibition.
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Making Secular Art Out of Religious Imagery
?NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith,? at the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens, is a quiet, meditative, spare-to-the-point-of-thin-looking exhibition.
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Short Comings Oct. 29, 2008
Today Wewoka’s Fraternal Order of Police will hold a Haunted Warehouse from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. behind the Dollar General on West Third Street In Wewoka. Admission is $2. The Shawnee Garden Council will meet at the Mabee Gerrer Museum. Museum volunteers will host the meeting in appreciation of the Garden Council’s donation to landscape the museum. Dane Pollei will be the speaker.
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Things To Do in Carroll County
The first Annual Juried Show sponsored by the Artists Cooperative of Savanna will be celebrated on Saturday evening, November 1 with an open house reception at the 321Art Gallery on Main Street in Savanna from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. This will be a catered event free to the general public.
The Prairie Advocate |
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Santa Claus parade evolves into Smithville winter festival
Santa Claus is coming to town, and this year, he's taking over the village for the day. The 2008 Smithville Santa Claus Parade promises to be as good as ever, with activities added to the slate to make Saturday, Nov. 29 a full-day of Christmas celebration.
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Puffed-Up Art World Skewered by Chronicle; Adieu Poolside Deals
Oct. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The highflying contemporary-art market now looks like a subject for historians. Sarah Thornton 's lively ``Seven Days in the Art World'' records an era in which the global elite fought for the right to pay millions for photographs of cowboys, sculptures of puppies and paintings of cartoon characters.
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Rare Michelangelo Show Comes to N.Y. With Financier's Funding
Oct. 29 (Bloomberg) -- A New York financing executive has decided to cover the tab for an important Michelangelo exhibition after he searched for corporate sponsors and came up shorthanded.
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Special events planned at Wistariahurst Museum
HOLYOKE - Wistariahurst Museum, 238 Cabot St., will be holding a number of events next month. From Nov. 1 to Dec. 29, the museum will exhibit a series of collages called "Parings and Gleanings" by Holyoke artist Peter Dellert.
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