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Great. Danny’s Here
“There were naked people everywhere,” says Lee Williams, drummer for the Burning of Rome . The band played San Francisco’s Exotic Erotic Ball and Expo on October 24. Advertised as “A Celebration of Flesh, Fetish, and Fantasy,” the two-day event included art exhibits, live burlesque performances, body painting and modification, porn-star wine-tasting, a “human petting zoo,” and Danny Bonaduce.
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See It Magnifique!
1212 Gallery Opening Nov. 16. “Work: The Collective” The gallery’s first major collaborative show features an intriguing collection from artists Matt Lively, Hunter Boxley, Andy Trinko, and Hillary Knause. Reception Sunday afternoon, November 16, from 2-5 pm. 12 E 12th St. 233.9957.
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NYC MUSEUM UNVEILS MICHELLE OBAMA PORTRAIT
An oil painting of Michelle Obama and her daughter Sasha was unveiled on Wednesday as part of an exhibition by acclaimed artist Elizabeth Peyton, best known for her images of diverse historical figures and celebrities like Napoleon and Kurt Cobain...
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Chinese art lives at the Taft
The Taft Museum of Art can't exactly bring art to your living room, but it can present a living room full of art via a new exhibit of Chinese works.
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BC BREAKING NEWS:
Artist Illarion Gallant (R) is assisted by Josh Leslie as they carry a section of his new sculpture Commerce Canoe that they were assembling in Bastion Square.
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Local artists bring 'SerenDipity' exhibit to Tamaqua Art Gallery
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NYC museum unveils Michelle Obama portrait
NEW YORK - An oil painting of Michelle Obama and her daughter Sasha was unveiled on Wednesday as part of an exhibition by acclaimed artist Elizabeth Peyton, best known for her images of diverse historical figures and celebrities like Napoleon and Kurt...
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Express Yourself
Somebody recently asked me, for whatever reason, if I’d been living under a rock. After my trip to Henry (the shoe and clothing gallery at 212 W. Broad), I’ve discovered that the answer is yes, definitely.
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Albuquerque museum receives accreditation
The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History has achieved accreditation from the American Association of Museums, the highest possible recognition for a museum.
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Montclair Art Museum names new executive director
Lora Urbanelli, executive director of the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, will succeed Patterson Sims as director of the Montclair Art Museum, effective Jan. 12. Courtesy of the Montclair Art MuseumLori Urbanelli Urbanelli, 52, a Morristown native, has directed...
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Russian masterpiece fails to sell at NYC auction
On Day 2 of the fall auction season, a Russian masterpiece expected to sell for up to $3 million at auction did not find a buyer Wednesday, further underscoring the impact of the global financial crisis on the art market.
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1:55 p.m. Annual auction to end at Spiva
The 2008 12x12 auction that has been taking place the past several months at Spiva Center for the Arts will end Friday. The exhibit features 78 original works of art displayed in grids that fill two lobby walls. Each piece has its roots in the 12x12 format.
The Joplin Globe |
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by Alan Hayakawa
The outcome of three state House contests in the Philadelphia suburbs remains too close to call, but Democrats are claiming today that they are on their way to padding their majority status.
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Top artworks on sale for £40 at Secret exhibition
LONDON: Yoko Ono, Tracey Emin and photographer David Bailey have created new works to help future artists. All three have contributed an original piece of art on a postcard for sale in the Royal College of Art’s (RCA) annual Secret exhibition, which raises money for bursaries to the college.
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Pencil This In: Wednesday
CAR CULTURE Come check out a real slice of L.A. culture as the Auto Club of Southern California presents the best of vintage hot rods, customs, classics and muscle cars. You can also get into the NHRA museum for free to boot. Every Wednesday evening, through December 3rd. 4 - 8 pm // NHRA Museum // 1101 W. McKinley Ave., Pomona // Free MUSEUM The Museum of Tolerance offers ...
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Autumn Offerings
Renee Ledesma Hoover's new show at RNG Gallery begins from the outside. A softly glowing ofrenda , the centerpiece of a traditional Day of the Dead celebration, fills the front window of the gallery.
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Smart Art
It’s brag time for the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s art and art history department and its impressive exhibition of works by more than 50 studio art alumni with UNO and Beyond.
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Projecting documentaries from the frontier between culture and politics
"I strongly believe that cinema is not an art in Iran." Sitting amid the chaos of film festival paraphernalia, Iranian filmmaker Massoud Bakhshi calmly sips a cup of tea. "It's a means of expression, mainly self-expression." Bakhshi is the international director of Cinema Verite, the Iran International Documentary Film Festival.
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Russian masterpiece fails to sell at NYC auction
On Day 2 of the fall auction season, a Russian masterpiece expected to sell for up to $3 million at auction did not find a buyer Wednesday, further underscoring the impact of the global financial crisis on the art market.
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Russian masterpiece fails to sell at NYC auction
On Day 2 of the fall auction season, a Russian masterpiece expected to sell for up to $3 million at auction did not find a buyer Wednesday, further underscoring the impact of the global financial crisis on the art market.
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Russian masterpiece fails to sell at NYC auction
On Day 2 of the fall auction season, a Russian masterpiece expected to sell for up to $3 million at auction did not find a buyer Wednesday, further underscoring the impact of the global financial crisis on the art market.
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Area Happenings
ADA — Ada M.S. Support Group and Multiple Sclerosis Foundation hosts Brighter Tomorrow Art Group showing and sale of its oil paintings from 3-7 p.m. at Ada Arts and Heritage Center, 14th and Rennie.
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A Literacy of Images: Nancy Newhall and the Art of Photography
Best known for writing text to accompany the photographs of Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, Nancy Newhall was also a widely published writer on photography, conservation, and American culture.
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Historic Edenton, North Carolina Family Estate to Be Sold at Public Auction
It was announced today that the Estate of the late John Washington Graham & Dorothy Cummings Graham of the Wessington House in Edenton, NC will be sold on November 22, 2008. This Estate Auction of exciting Fine & Decorative Arts features objects from the Graham, Cameron, Collins, and Shepard families.
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A place for women
Seian Shima's "Untitled" (1918), in "Women Artists in Osaka" at the Osaka City Museum of Modern Art till Dec. 7, is a remarkable work. A self-portrait — uncommon in Japanese painting generally — it conforms to no ideal form of beauty, unlike images done in the bijinga (beautiful woman pictures) genre. Then there is the mystery of the imaginary blue nevus around the right eye. Such birthmarks ...
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