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NEW HAVEN — Dean of an iconic drama school, a pioneering artist and gallery visionary, a professional who feels the Elm City's architecture is worthy of preservation.
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Sculpture My Sinchew
Santa Claus sculpture by artist Paul McCarthy is being moved to its designated display location in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
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Maritime comeback
Annapolis museum marks $1.2 million restoration The Annapolis Maritime Museum in Eastport has learned a few lessons from the tropical storm that demolished its headquarters five years ago.
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Rowan hosts AIDS awareness event
GLASSBORO The Rowan University Art Gallery in Westby Hall will observe a "Day With(out) Art" on Monday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Day With(out) Art began on Dec. 1, 1989 as the art world's national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis.
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Artwork, unique gifts can be found at local art galleries and vendors
The accessory addict can store her favorite gems in this little jewelry box. From Enesco's "Our Name is Mud" collection, $22.50 at www.enesco.com.
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Holiday Calendar
Festival of Trees, Paramount Theatre Centre, 1124 Meridian Plaza, Anderson. View the display of holiday trees, wreaths and decorations. Cost: $5 and $1 for children age five and younger. Information: 642-1234.
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NAMES AND FACES: Kim Cattral's posing, producing
You don't have to wait any longer to get a good look at Kim Cattrall, fabulous cosmo-sipping marketing master Samantha Jones from "Sex and the City." The 52-year-old bares her marvelous features for famed photographer Tom Hunter in a campaign designed to help raise money to rescue historic works of art. Hunter shot Cattrall to re-create the Titian masterpiece "Diana and Actaeon."
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Baltimore to mark Poe's bicentennial
The city where Edgar Allan Poe died will celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth with a year's worth of exhibits and events, including a funeral re-enactment befitting the morose writer.
Detroit Free Press |
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Feeling moody or anxious? Maybe it's the color of the paint in your room
Would you consider painting your kitchen cabinets bright purple with lime-green accents, your media room sunflower yellow or your bathroom cherry-blossom red?
Detroit Free Press |
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South Florida International Blues festival keeps cost low, spirits high
Even with high gas prices, Peter Schwiend felt South Florida was the best place to come sing the blues. He recently drove over an hour each way to catch more than 30 acts at the South Florida International Blues Festival.
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Savvy buyers await Broward College pottery sale
Collectors mark their winter calendars in anticipation. Artists, from beginners to veterans, create work all year. And everyone looks forward to the Holiday Pottery Exhibition and Sale at Broward College on the Davie campus.
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For starry-eyed art collectors, a passion to have and to hold
She stands just off the dining room of Alicia Hancock Apfel's Upper East Side house. The Little Red Girl by A-list sculptor William King is a kindred soul and a testament to Apfel's longtime affinity for art collecting.
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Yes, Virginia City, there is yuletide fun
Vance Fox Photography "Noel Nights" at Northstar-At-Tahoe on Tuesday and Dec. 9 and 16 will include free ice skating, music and a visit by Santa. Now that Thanksgiving is behind us, let's look forward to Christmas. This year, the celebratory emphasis is likely to be upon simple pleasures – small theater productions instead of major ones, perhaps, or a simple drive to a traditional ...
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New installation at Rymer Gallery explores humanity's place in nature
They Call Me Theirs, a new multi-media installation by Chicago artist, filmmaker, curator and educator Catherine Forster, will be featured as part of the Inside Out show that opens at Rymer Gallery on Saturday.
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Art, caffeine cohabitate in Westmont coffee spot
Nestled among the storefronts on Haddon Avenue in the Westmont section of Haddon Township is a coffee shop that both caffeinates and provides an artsy space and cultured atmosphere.
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Sculptor's work evinces craft, humor and insight
Born, raised and educated in Mississippi, sculptor Greely Myatt has made a name for himself throughout the Southeast with his public art pieces, narrative installations and whimsical treatment of quotidian themes. In Sometimes I Settle for a Chuckle, his new exhibition at University Art Gallery (68 Georgia Ave.) on the campus of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., Myatt combines ...
The Tennessean |
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Antiestablishment artists well established
''No one tells you no: If I wanted to take the roof off, they'd let me.'' That operating philosophy is why experimental filmmaker Clifton Childree adores Wynwood's Locust Projects. It's why he believes his recent Dream-Cum-Tru exhibit there -- a singularly scatological take on Buster Keaton's theatrics amid an array of hand-built vintage carnival attractions -- was received so well. And it's ...
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Home grown: An exhibition illustrates how American art came of age
Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s at Fort Lauderdale's Museum of Art, offers a rare opportunity to pinpoint the trends and movements that brought American artists to the forefront of modern art.
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New Frost museum makes FIU a serious player
With the opening of the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum on Florida International University's Tamiami campus, the FIU art department is poised to become an even more visible player on the South Florida art scene. The school's more notable made-in-Miami alums include the collaborative teams GisMo and the TM Sisters, as well as Teresita Fernandez, who won a MacArthur Foundation ''genius'' ...
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THE POWER OF ART
Seven years ago, a Swiss art fair came to Miami Beach, and with it came the international art world. Connoisseurs, collectors, spectators and glitterati filled the Convention Center to gaze at and (in the case of some, at least) buy the art that Art Basel Miami Beach brought with it. The excitement spilled over into the streets of the Design District, to the shipping containers-turned-exhibition ...
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Killington Arts Guild finds a home
KILLINGTON -- In a town more famous for its winter sports than its fine arts, one Killington merchant and an art nonprofit are hopeful a recently formed partnership will create a stronger tie between the two communities. ... - By STEPHANIE M. PETERS Staff Writer
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View 'Duck-A-Rama' and more in December
The new art shows for December -- and some recently opened exhibits -- offer a mix of just about everything, from fine arts photography to group shows to ducks. Read comments
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In Toronto, grand vision for Art Gallery of Ontario is now reality
Internationally acclaimed architect Frank Gehry's inspiration has come to fruition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, reopening after a year of renovations to kudos from both the public and critics.
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Art sleuth: The director of FIU's new Frost Museum also helps nab the bad guys
The padded envelopes arrived monthly in Miami from Peru, addressed to an art dealer in Texas. When U.S. Customs agents became suspicious and started tracking and opening the packages, they found fanciful, feathered textiles. When dogs began to sniff and signal that something else was afoot, the packages revealed more quizzical evidence: Clinging to some of the artifacts was human hair.
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Staying focused: Furniture photography studio reinvents itself to stay competitive
HIGH POINT - It takes more than a fresh coat of paint to sell an old house in today's brutal market. A seller needs an edge - like a digital entertainment system that shouts this house can change the buyer's life. Likewise, the owners of traditional furniture photography studios won't make it on photos alone anymore. So they are using digital photo technology to extend the utility of their ...
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