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Mack Piano Recital
The Knox College music department presents a chamber music recital by Ashlee Mack, piano, with guest artists Eric Ginsberg, clarinet, and Bruce Briney, trumpet, at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, November 13 in Kresge Recital Hall, Ford Center for the Fine Arts, on the Knox campus in Galesburg, Illinois. Knox College
Timothy Standring Delivers Art History Lectures
Timothy Standring, Gates Foundation Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Denver Art Museum, was a scholar in residence from October 15th through the 17th at Knox College, where he delivered two art history lectures. Knox College
Art Museum to Serve as Dynamic Gateway for Belgian Town
In November 2007, the Université Catholique de Louvain, in Belgium, launched a design competition for a new museum to replace the current, cramped home of its Renaissance paintings, contemporary art, and African sculpture. Architectural Record
Angelina College Visual Arts Student Exhibition
Angelina College Visual Arts majors will display their considerable talents in an exhibition set to open Tuesday, Nov. 25 th at the Angelina Center for the Arts Gallery on the AC campus. KTRE Lufkin and Nacogdoches
Redbrick auction delayed again
Rantoul arts center still on foreclosure block, but businesses and studios will continue. Beverly Citizen
Houstonist Flickr Photo of the Day - Electric sand
Electric sand by "It's electrifying!" ________________________________________________________________ If you have a passion for Houston and photography, consider joining a whole bunch of Houston's best photographers in the Houstonist Flickr Photo Group . Each day, Houstonist chooses a Photo of the Day and if Houstonist uses your photo, submit it here . For more great ... Houstonist
New York gets ready for a taste of the Rock Hall; Annex a spinoff of Cleveland museum
Tracy Boulian/The Plain DealerThe Big Apple gets its rock 'n' roll propers in this area of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex in New York City. The exhibit features memorabilia from the old CBGB, the legendary punk club... The Cleveland Plain Dealer
O.H.W.O.W. Presents IT AIN'T FAIR
Aaron Bondaroff, New York City's "Downtown Don," brings his expansive community of artists, musicians, and weirdos to IT AIN'T FAIR. The second exhibition in Bondaroff and Al Moran's groundbreaking O.H.W.O.W. space in the "West of Wynwood" district, this watershed project gets celebrated curators Tim Barber, Kathy Grayson, Andreas Melas, Dan Nadel, Pablo de la Barra, Nicola Vassell and Terence ... PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Group of Seven sketch sells for $1.8 million
TORONTO — An Arctic sketch by Group of Seven artist Lawren Harris sold for $1.8 million, far beyond its pre-sale estimate of $300,000 to $500,000, at the Sotheby's Canada auction on Monday. Canoe Money
Wahpeton moves projects forward
In a special meeting Friday, the Wahpeton City Council approved three Renaissance Zone Authority recommendations moving forward two projects in the city. The Wahpeton Daily News
Pencil This In
HOLIDAY: Today marks the opening of the 7th Annual Holiday Train Show, presented by the NY Transit Museum. Head over to Grand Central to get a peek at the "first models of MTA equipment-- Metro-North M7 railroad cars and New York City Transit R27 subway cars...along with a new scale model of the Brooklyn Bridge, an elevated trestle, six new buildings, and an underground subway that is twice ... Gothamist
De Niro, Tribeca co-founders launch satellite film fest in Qatar
Robert De Niro is taking his Tribeca Film Festival success abroad, with the actor and his fellow co-founders to launch an offshoot event in the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar next year. CBC
Eye-Catching Photographic Gems
The Washington Post WASHINGTON — Jewelry and photography. Kind of go together, don't they, like peanut butter and … spark plugs? OK. Maybe not. Nevertheless, there they are, side by side in not one but two museum shows. Better yet, the National Museum of African Art's “Desert Jewels: North African Jewelry and Photography From the Xavier Guerrand-Hermes Collection” and the National Portrait ... The Charlotte Observer
Folksy stuff
Lincoln Park District director Marsha Greenslate paints eyes on one of the woodland deer that will be offered for sale Saturday during the 2008 Pride of the Prairie juried folk art and craft show. Lincoln Courier
Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
Has any artist had a better year than Robert Irwin? Late in 2007 the MCASD launched a thrilling collection-driven Irwin survey , an exhibition that moved from Irwin's David Park-meets-abex paintings to his latest incarnation as a post-Flavin light sculptor. Arts Journal
The thrill of the nude
Nudity again today - and back to the National Gallery in London - as we look at one of its Rembrandts in the company of a young painter, WK Lyhne. In a series of oil paintings called The Stream she pictures her own responses to Rembrandt's Woman Stepping in the Stream , responses that include smearing herself with oil and portraying her naked legs dripping with this dark gooey stuff. Guardian Unlimited
Foodoir Photography: Cissi's Market
tnpetty/flickr Swing by Cissi's Market on South Congress, which doubles as a wine bar, to try this incredible-looking salad featuring egg, walnuts and Bibb lettuce nestled against a piece of toasted Sourdough. Hungry to share your most provocative Austin food photos? Send them here. Make sure to include your name, where the photo was taken and a complete description of the food. ... Austinist
Rare works about Francis Bacon defy art auction gloom
MELBOURNE, (Reuters) - Two paintings of Francis Bacon, by an Australian artist believed to have been his lover, were sold for well over their pre-auction price Monday, offering good news in a market stunned by the financial crisis. Reuters via Yahoo!7 News
Canadian art rising while economy sinks
An Arctic sketch by Group of Seven artist Lawren Harris sold for $1.8 million, far beyond its pre-sale estimate of $300,000 to $500,000, at the Sotheby's Canada auction on Monday. Hamilton Spectator
Boston University physicist, photographer dies
BOSTON - Jules Aarons, an internationally known Boston University physicist and acclaimed photographer whose work is in the permanent collection in the New York's Museum... Boston Herald
Exhibit shows new sides of eccentric artist
In one series of photos, Friedensreich Hundertwasser is shown painting pink lines on a nude model. In another, he's donning a disguise so he can fly to Paris undercover with his girlfriend. AP via Yahoo! News
Boston University physicist, photographer dies
Jules Aarons, an internationally known Boston University physicist and acclaimed photographer whose work is in the permanent collection in the New York's Museum of Modern Art, has died after battling congestive heart failure. He was 87. Boston Globe
Lawren Harris sketch fetches $1.8m
Victoria Ahearn The Canadian Press An Arctic sketch by Group of Seven artist Lawren Harris sold for $1.8 million, far beyond its pre-sale estimate of $300,000 to $500,000, at the Sotheby's Canada auction on Monday. Hamilton Spectator
Sparta Library hosting photography discussion
A free session on preserving family histories through photography will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 1 at the Sparta Library, 80 N. Union. Bobbi Schirado will present a brief history of photography and ideas for preserving a family's visual history. MLive.com