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Bowers Museum Displays Powerful Images of African Rituals
Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher, Maasai Bride, Kenya, 1995. R-prints mounted on sintra and laminated in lustermate, 5' 4'' x 4'. SANTA ANA, CA.- Art Daily
Artists in Their Studios Captures Major American Artists at Work
Andy Warhol at the Factory, East 47th Street, New York City (detail). Photo by Ugo Mulas. Miscellaneous Photograph Collection, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Art Daily
The Heckscher Museum of Art Presents Mythic Landscapes of America
Thomas Moran, American, b. England, 1837-1926, Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. 1911. Oil on canvas. 20 x 30 in. August Heckscher Collection. Frame conserved by Eli Wilner & Co. in memory of Ronald G. Pisano, 2002. Accession number: 1959.118. Art Daily
The Journey to Impressionism and Two Places at One Time at Museo de Arte de Ponce
Claude Monet, Paris 1840 1926 Giverny, Seine at Giverny (L'Ile aux Orties), 1897, oil on canvas, 28 x 35 in.(71.12 x 88.9 cm.). Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, Gift of Mary T. Chambers. CMA 1964.29. Art Daily
Marco Perego Show Portraying Amy Winehouse Opens at Half Gallery
Marco Perego, The Only Good Rock Star Is A Dead Rock Star (detail). Courtesy of Half Gallery. NEW YORK.- Art Daily
Call This One 'Crisis With a Pipe'
The financial crisis weighed on the art market's flagship fall auctions in New York City as sales fell by more than 50%. WallStreet Journal via Yahoo! Finance
Fine Line
From tomororw until December 20th, Texoma is being gifted with an art exhibit that has the chance to change lives. KAUZ Wichita Falls
Adults-only art show
Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art has been forced to defend a controversial new exhibition, which features an adults only section. Sky News Australia
Purdue reports portraits missing
Purdue University police are looking into the disappearance of two framed portrait oil paintings from the Civil Engineering Building. Journal & Courier
The AGO returns
The Art Gallery of Ontario has completed it's $276 million dollar "Transformation" ahead of schedule and fully funded. Torontonians got a chance to step inside for the first time in a year and check out the new and improved AGO when it reopened a little after 4:00 Friday afternoon. Newstalk 1010 CFRB
MAD art fetches nearly $750,000
DALLAS (AP) - The last batch of original art from MAD magazine's New York archives sold Friday for a combined total of nearly $750,000. The combined $746,516 was more than double pre-sale estimates, said Greg Rohan, president of Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries. KSLA-TV Shreveport
SFA Art Day
About 160 Texas high school students learned what life is like for SFA art students during the 2008 Art Day, an annual event that was held Friday by the SFA School of Art faculty. The Daily Sentinel
Akaka to be honored by Gregory House
Sen. Daniel Akaka will be honored by Gregory House Programs at its annual award dinner tomorrow called Kahu Malama Dinner at the Hawaii State Art Museum. Honolulu Advertiser
Heart Gallery aims to find homes for foster children
Maggie is one of the children featured in the Heart Gallery of Northwest Texas, a photography exhibit created to help foster children find loving families to adopt them. The Heart Gallery of Northwest Texas was created to show all of the children available for adoption through the Department of Family and Protective Services. Abilene Reporter-News
Duke’s El Greco art show brings bonuses
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - Duke University’s Nasher Museum of Art received an unexpected gift and gained other benefits even if the visitors to its biggest exhibition yet fell short of targets. WNCT Greenville
Sotheby's Says It Lost $10.6 Million More From Art Guarantees
Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Sotheby's said it lost an additional $10.6 million from guarantees for its contemporary art auction this week, bringing its total of guarantee-related losses in the past two months to $52.6 million. Bloomberg
Taking Charge of Your New Canon Digital Rebel--Tips, Warnings, and Reminders
Two new books from O'Reilly's Companion Series offer a complete photography class, tailored specifically for folks using Canon's new Digital Rebel cameras. Both--The Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D Companion and The Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS/1000D Companion--are by producer and videographer Ben Long. In each of his handy pocket guides, Ben not only provides a detailed one-stop camera manual ... O'Reilly Media
Photography Books of 2008: Part 2
Looking through this book, the first one on influential Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri to be published in the US, is like stepping into a fairy tale or a story by Lewis Carroll. PDNonline
Mesa fest is investment in art, new friendships
“Every Saturday—free to the public” said the Mesa Arts and Culture Festival brochure. What better way to spend a Saturday in November than strolling down Main Street, talking with artists and looking at their sidewalk exhibits. East Valley Tribune