|
WHAT'S NEW: Specchio, Espetus open
Specchio. This 100-seat Italian restaurant from Gina Assaf (Ristorante Gondola) opened last week in the former Blue Room Gallery. The Northern Italian menu includes pastas, classic pizzas and an Italy-heavy wine list. 2331 Mission St. (near 20th Street), San...
San Francisco Chronicle |
|
Montreal Has Sympathy For The Devil
It all started with a banana. The unforgettable piece of fruit painted by Andy Warhol that adorns the cover of The Velvet Underground & Nico's landmark 1967 self-titled album unofficially started a more than 40 year love affair between contemporary art and rock 'n' roll.
ChartAttack.com |
|
Spend 15 Minutes at the W's Warhol Exhibit
Andy Warhol had peeps like John Lennon, Elizabeth Taylor and Mick Jagger, so we're pretty sure he had to make a mean martini in order to party with that crowd.
NBC 5 Chicago |
|
21st annual Festival of the Cranes offers array of activities
SOCORRO — The first Sandhill Cranes have arrived in New Mexico's Middle Rio Grande Valley. Each November, thousands of people flock to Socorro from around the world to celebrate this annual miracle of nature, and to renew their spirits at the Bosque del Apache Festival of the Cranes.
The Deming Headlight |
|
Birds of a - found - feather
Artists' studios are notoriously messy places, mucked about with paint or plaster, lined with half-drawn images or partly-framed masterpieces.
Narromine News |
|
The Gallery Matador
Javier Peres slept on the flight from Berlin last Wednesday night and hit the tarmac running. He dropped by the Tribeca Grand hotel to check in, splashed some water on his bearded face, then grabbed a cab to Terence Koh’s art opening at a private residence uptown. Sometime around sunrise, he crashed. He woke up the following evening around 8 p.m. and went to the Phillips de Pury auction, where ...
The New York Observer |
|
O’Keeffe program receives national award
A leadership program for youth developed by the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum has won the Coming up Taller Award from the White House.
New Mexico Business Weekly |
|
Foreign Aid Money Spent on $23 Million Mural at U.N.
The U.N. Human Rights Council, frequently accused of coddling some of the world's most repressive governments, is throwing itself a party in Geneva Tuesday featuring the unveiling of a $23 million sculpture paid for in part with foreign aid funds.
Fox News |
|
UN artwork by Miquel Barcelo is a costy sum
Geneva A $23 million ceiling painting featuring hundreds of dangling icicle shapes that has been criticized for its hefty price tag was unveiled Tuesday at the United Nations.
Times Online |
|
Avant-Garde Heirs Go on Show
19 November 2008 By Marina Darmaros / Special to The Moscow Times The Jack of Diamonds was a group of artists that became the main exponent of the Russian avant-garde before the Revolution, a time when nobody imagined how short the first breath of art for art's sake in Russian painting would last.
The Moscow Times |
|
‘CHROMA’ Art Exhibit Now on Display at Odessa College 11/18/08
Odessa, Texas - Odessa College drawing students’ present “CHROMA,” an exhibition of brilliant color oil-pastel works. This exhibition is open now through Thursday, Dec. 11 in the north foyer of Sedate Hall at Odessa College.
CBS 7 West Texas |
|
Summary Box: Momentum builds for oil buying spree
WHAT'S HAPPENING: The oil sector appears ripe for some consolidation in 2009, particularly deals involving the cash-rich oil giants and struggling smaller producers. WHY NOW: The oil majors are sitting on enormous piles of cash after posting record profits in...
San Francisco Chronicle |
|
A Beautiful Day
In an interaction between high-tech and low-fi, A Beautiful Day presents a series of deconstructed micro-stories of daily perception and experience in an environmental context. The exhibition narrative is an audiovisual sculpture that exposes the parts of electronic devices; it fragments the vision, picks apart sensations and undermines the nature of events. Interno3 analyses sounds' and images' ...
The Dundee Messenger |
|
Kimbell Art Museum reveals $70 million Renzo Piano expansion designs
After a year and half of discussion and planning, Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Museum on Nov. 18 unveiled preliminary plans for a new $70 million neighboring building designed by Italian architectural giant Renzo Piano and funded by the Kimbell Art Foundation.
Fort Worth Business Press |
|
Acclaimed artist weaves gesture on canvas
Lorraine Rastorfer, Programme Director for Visual Arts at Wellington Institute of Technology and acclaimed New Zealand artist saw her two passions combine this November, in galleries across Wellington, when she organised both her students exhibitions and her own exhibition Himmel on display in the Mark Hutchins Gallery.
Scoop.co.nz |
|
Nina Vivian Huryn displays found art at River Gallery
CHRIS STEPHENS / THE PLAIN DEALER Artist Nina Vivian Huryn stands before her assemblage "Hive," made from 32 found catalytic converter covers and heat shields that fell off cars. The piece took eight years to collect and compose. ON VIEW...
The Cleveland Plain Dealer |
|
Silver Towers Amongst Lucky 7 Landmarked Today
Photo by Jake Dobkin. Earlier this year you voted that the I.M. Pei-designed NYU Silver Towers were, well, an ugly eyesore. The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation has held strong, however, and for five years has been fighting for their rights. Well, their day has come. The buildings, and the "Portrait of Sylvette" Picasso sculpture accompanying them, have been ...
Gothamist |
|
Football Fever Hits Wellington Again
Fresh from the excitement of helping stage the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup Wellington is to host New Zealand's first ever national ethnic football festival next weekend. [Saturday 29th - Sunday 30th November].
Scoop.co.nz |
|
ExploreLI: Beer Festival
This Saturday at the Coliseum thousands will be sipping beers, lagers, stouts and ales from more than 50 breweries from around the world.
Newsday |
|
Jazz News: A Photo Album to Crystallize 30 Years of Passion - The Festival Under the Stars
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 — For 30 years, the Festival International de Jazz de Montral has created an incredible array of magical moments, as captured in The Festival Under the Stars, a magnificent album specially created to celebrate three decades of passion.
All About Jazz |
|
art Till November 20 at Academy of Fine Arts, South Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm:
An exhibition of musical drawings and surreal paintings in stitch by Biswajit Mukhopadhyay. Till November 20 at Gallery Upstairs, 16 Loudon Street, #98319 08133; 3 pm - 7 pm: Paintings by Rabin Mandal, Veena Bhargava, Prokash Karmakar, Jogen Chowdhury, Niranjan Pradhan, Shipra Bhattacharya, Dwijen Gupta, Wasim Kapoor, Sukti Subhra Pradhan, B.R. Panesar, Shakila and others.
The Telegraph |
|
All Dates for this Event:
Taube Museum of Art, 2 N. Main St.: Nov. 21 through Dec. 23 , the Festival of the Season Art Sale; open house Nov. 21 from 3 to 8 p.m.
Minot Daily News |
|
Photographer tries to capture Earth's artistry
An environmental activist who's also a crack photographer hopes to jar people into protecting the planet with a free exhibit of 150 aerial photos from around the globe.
MSNBC |
|
Piano’s Design for Kimbell Museum Revealed
Twenty years ago, Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Museum announced a major expansion, and promptly got stuffed by critics, architects, and the public. “Hands off Louis Kahn’s masterpiece” was the outraged response, and the Kimbell quickly abandoned the idea.
Architectural Record |
|
Boise Art Museum names executive director
The Boise Art Museum board appointed Melanie Fales as the museum's executive director. Fales is currently the curator of education and has been serving as interim executive director since the departure of Wesley Jessup in September, board president Amy McDevitt said.
The Idaho Statesman |
|
|