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Turkey and Tradition Days
EAGLE RIVER - As the Thanksgiving weekend cools down, the holiday spirit was heating up at the Northwoods Children's Museum. WJFW Rhinelander
Annual Holiday Festival begins at Performing Arts Center
With miniature lights, holly wreaths with fat red bows and evergreen trees shout, “Happy Holidays!” now it’s time to get serious about gift shopping. The Selma Times-Journal
Plain Dealer Pictures of the Week Nov. 30, 2008
See a slide show of some of the best photos of the week from The Plain Dealer photography staff. Slide show created on The Plain Dealer night picture desk.... The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Festivities planned in Village Holiday Stroll
LAKE PLACID — A community gift is being wrapped here in storefront windows trimmed in balsam boughs. Snowmen and starlight, carolers, bonfires and Santa Claus all have a role in the Holiday Village Stroll, a three-day festival brought by a spirit of giving. Plattsburgh Press Republican
Artists' collaboration is wired for sound at Kemper at the Crossroads
The medium is a large part of the message of “Reel to Reel,” the inaugural exhibit at the new Kemper at the Crossroads — which attracted a November First Fridays opening night crowd of more than 2,700 people. The Kansas City Star
Bonnye Brown's artwork captures images from African-American culture
When Bonnye Brown (née Chamberlain) was a young girl, her older brothers and sisters chipped in to buy their mother a house in what Brown describes as a “Beaver Cleaver” neighborhood. But as Brown grew into a young woman, the neighborhood grew into something else. The Kansas City Star
Art League’s open house shows off building
The Baytown Art League started the holiday season in a festive manner as they unveiled this year’s Holiday Arts & Crafts Gift Gallery with an open house Saturday night. Baytown Sun
Briefly, November 30
The Wichita Falls Museum of Art at Midwestern State University will conduct a Children’s Holiday Workshop from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday. The cost is $25 for nonmembers. It’s free for family and associate members. Wichita Falls Times Record News
Art works can pop up unexpectedly
What has wheels, made of metal, comes in a wide variety of colors and makes the perfect artist canvas? The answer is automobiles, of course, or motorcycles, or trailers. Custom metal painting is an exciting art form that gets very little recognition as an art form. Muskogee Phoenix
'50s pinup girl image adds some bebop to senior art exhibit of artist Palin
June Cleaver may be the image of the perfect woman in 1950s baseball-and-apple pie America, the glory days of baseball-and-apple pie America. Wichita Falls Times Record News
Museum to reopen with ‘Cool Papa,’ Charles Lindbergh exhibits
Above: Joan Wilson, chairman of the Oktibbeha County Heritage Museum board of directors, sews curtains for the museum’s windows Tuesday morning. The Commercial Dispatch
Tom Loughman to Serve as Assistant Deputy Director at the Clark
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- Thomas J. Loughman has been named assistant deputy director at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute . Loughman will be working with the Clark leadership on a variety of initiatives as the Clark continues to grow as one of the country’s outstanding art museums and a global leader among centers for research. Art Daily
ICC at the Royal Ontario Museum Presents Housepaint, Phase 2: Shelter
TORONTO.- On Saturday, December 13, 2008, the Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC) at the Royal Ontario Museum presents Housepaint, Phase 2: Shelter, the first exhibition on the subject of street art in a major Canadian museum. Art Daily
Frye Chief Curator Awarded Leadership Fellowship
SEATTLE.- Robin Held, Frye Art Museum chief curator and director of exhibitions and collections, has been named one of ten outstanding curators from art museums across the United States selected as a 2009 fellow of the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL). Art Daily
Portraiture Now: Feature Photography Opens at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery
WASHINGTON, DC.- Photographers Katy Grannan, Jocelyn Lee, Ryan McGinley, Steve Pyke, Martin Schoeller and Alec Soth are featured in the National Portrait Gallery ’s fourth installation of “Portraiture Now.” This series presents some of the most creative 21st-century portrait artists. Art Daily
New Orleans Museum of Art Presents Photography and Depression
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- From now through March 1, 2009, the New Orleans Museum of Art presents Photography and Depression, an examination of depression in all its forms, including mental and financial, through 82 works from the Museum’s permanent collection. Art Daily
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Publishes Seventh Edition of its Handbook
View of the Bloch Building from Rockhill Road (east). Courtesy of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Copyright 2006. KANSAS CITY, MO.- A beautifully illustrated handbook with color images of 1,255 key works from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art collection is now available through the Museum Store in soft-cover. Art Daily
Twombly and Boetti Set Brilliant Results in Milan Contemporary Art Sale
Cy Twombly, On returning from Tonnicoda sold for € 432,750. Photo: Courtesy of Sotheby's. MILAN.- This two-day sale raised a result of 70,6 % sold with excellent prices set for good quality works with updated estimates. Art Daily
Cleveland Museum of Art Debuts International Films During December
Still from Days and Clouds directed by Silvio Soldini which will be screened on Friday, December 12 at 6:45 p.m. and Sunday, December 14, 1:30 p.m. CLEVELAND, OH.- Art Daily
The Kunsthaus Zürich Shows Films by Artist Runa Islam
Runa Islam (with Tobias Putrih), Restless Subject, 2008, Installation view, Kunsthaus Zürich, 2008, Photo Arthur Faust. ZURICH.- From 28 November 2008 to 8 February 2009, the Kunsthaus Zürich presents ‘Runa Islam. Restless Subject’, Switzerland’s first solo exhibition of the work of Runa Islam. Art Daily
Rediscovered Masterpiece by Tiepolo Goes on Public View at Christie's
Giambattista Tiepolo (1696 - 1770), Portrait of a lady as Flora, thought to be Orsetta Tiepolo 34.3/4 x 27.1/2 in. (88.3 x 69.9 cm.), oil on canvas, unlined. Estimate: £700,000 - £900,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd. 2008. Art Daily
Architectonic Views in the Collection of the IVAM on View in Alicante
Dionisio Gonzalez, Jornalista Roberto Marinho I, 2005. ALICANTE.- As a result of the collaboration agreement between the IVAM and the Diputación de Alicante, the exhibition Miradas arquitectónicas en la colección del IVAM (Architectonic Views in the Collection of the IVAM) offers an overview of the different and complex ways in which architecture has been represented as an object and sign by an ... Art Daily