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art April 14 - 23 at Artists Circle Gallery, 46 Circus Avenue; 2 pm - 7 pm:
Impressions of Mandarmoni , an exhibition of the works by 13 city artists who had been to Mandarmoni for three days. Amitabha Sengupta will inaugurate the show at 6 pm with a video presentation on the Sunderbans.
The Telegraph |
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Curator, artist resign from Scottish arts body over lion sculpture
A highly regarded curator and a leading Scottish artist have both stepped down from the Scottish government's main arts consulting body over a 20-tonne sculpture of a lion, protesting political inference in their work.
CBC |
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Review: Public art delivers heightened sense of place
"Public art creates the ability for people to have private reflection in a public space." -- Stacey Spain, public art specialist, city of Reno Parks, Recreation and Community Services.
Reno Gazette-Journal |
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Fort Wayne celebrates 2008 Cherry Blossom Festival
Fort Wayne Sister Cities International and the Japanese American Association of Indiana have joined to host the 2008 Cherry Blossom Festival downtown Sunday.
WANE-TV Fort Wayne |
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Curators Quit Over Politicians' Art Choice
Scottish politicians want to acquire a sculpture for the parliament. Curators of the public collection say the work is not up to the standard of the rest of the collection. So who's winning the standoff?
Arts Journal |
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Wood Carving Show
50 carvers show off their art.
WLNS Lansing |
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Art of all sorts tells of Tibet
FIVE brightly-coloured deer heads stare down at you when you enter Pam Farey's latest exhibition. The papier mache creations are part of her "In the Spirit of Tibet" exhibition at the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery.
The Courier |
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Youth Lines for April 13
Bryan High School students won awards at the Skills USA State Contest in Corpus Christi this month. In auto technology: Waine Newland won first ...
The Bryan-College Station Eagle |
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2 more sculptures join downtown Mesa collection
Two more pieces of art from the ninth annual Sculptures in the Streets exhibit will be added to the permanent collection in downtown Mesa.
East Valley Tribune |
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Casting in the spirit
Artist Joe Sheppard employs classical painting and sculpture styles to depict Catholic church leaders, including Pope John Paul II Artist Joe Sheppard employs classical painting and sculpture styles to depict Catholic church leaders, including Pope John Paul II.
Baltimore Sun |
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Drawing Patrons By Lisa Coalwell The Reporter-Herald
The chef stirred up a controversy. Two women jokingly offered to arm-wrestle over him. A couple delighted in finding they were second and third on the list to get him. Others were disappointed they had no chance to have him. The chef was an oil painting, just slightly smaller than an 11-by-17-inch piece of paper, titled “Kitchen Little.” The piece by Littleton artist Robert Spooner drew a ...
Loveland Reporter-Herald |
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Giddyup!
"The Horses are Coming" to the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts through June 22. "The Horses are Coming" is a collection of work by 20 artists from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, according to Jennifer Smith, acting assistant curator with the museum. Each piece, says Smith, "is an interpretation of the horse."
The Herald-Mail |
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CBS 2 At The Met: Radiance From The Rain Forest
Who knew, feathers can be an art form. Museum visitors may be surprised to know that it is a 2,000-year-old tradition in Pre-Columbian Peru. Craftsmen would completely cover textiles, woods and metals with feathers. Highly valued, these objects would be used in special ceremonies and as burial offerings.
WCBS-TV New York |
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Spacial encounters
At the entrance to Cade Roster's gallery space in The Contemporary Museum Biennial of Hawaii Artists (VIII) exhibition,
Honolulu Advertiser |
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Art is on its way to city
Lots of art is on its way to Birmingham. Public art. But before the sculptures arrive in May they are being refurbished in a New York City.
Troy Eccentric |
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Sports Museum of America opens May 7
NEW YORK — A new museum dedicated to sports history opens May 7 in Lower Manhattan.
The Buffalo News |
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Modern Medicine For Ancient Artworks
Norwich — Art patrons, students and historians will get a chance to see preservation in action at the Slater Memorial Museum starting in late May,
New London Day |
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Sept. 11 museum to open - in France
PARIS - On the shores of Normandy where thousands of Americans died in the cataclysm that was D-Day, a museum that aims to be more than a collection of rusting relics is preparing to commemorate another day that changed the world: Sept.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Church gives artists chance to display work
MOKENA -- If art is a window to the soul, then it seems fitting that church walls would make an appropriate gallery.
The Herald News |
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Art museums on the Strip: Why only one survives
Sun, Apr 13, 2008 (2 a.m.) Two galleries. Almost 40 million tourists. Extravagant resources and big names in art. When the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum and the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art opened on the Strip, both set out to feed art to the masses.
Las Vegas Sun |
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It could be yours for just $150,000
Berwyn's Spindle -- the west suburban skewer of cars made famous in the movie "Wayne's World" -- is for sale. Last summer, the company that operates the shopping plaza where the Spindle has stood since 1989 said the sculpture needed to be removed, in part to make room for a new Walgreens.
Chicago Sun-Times |
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Romance, adventure of West riding high in Autry museum
LOS ANGELES -- A bluff above I-5 and the Ventura Expressway seems an unlikely place to find one of the best shrines to the American West.
The Columbus Dispatch |
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Belgian……Affability
A sculpture of a pig and cow wearing crowns, created by the once secret daughter of Belgium’s king, has been removed from a town hall during a visit by his "official" daughter to avoid offence, the newspapers report today The work by artist Delphine Boel, natural daughter of Albert II adorns the town hall of the Belgian seaside resort of Coxyde.
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Chihuly to show in San Francisco
Tacoma native Dale Chihuly’s first major show in San Francisco will be at the de Young Museum from June 14 to Sept. 28. The show will include 11 galleries of new and past works from the popular glass artist.
Tacoma News Tribune |
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'Once Upon a Mattress' at Oviedo High
At SCC: Comic play, art, jazz, symphony The Seminole Community College Fine Arts Theatre Program is presenting a modernized adaptation of Tartuffe through next weekend.
Orlando Sentinel |
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