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Gift books: Sun-Times staff photographers review photography
Performance: Richard Avedon showcases the parade of actors, singers, dancers, artists and musicians that "performed" before Avedon's lens. In the opening essay, John Lahr declares Avedon's collaboration with his subjects was itself a performance.
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Art show breathes life into New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS -- Walking through New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward is like taking a walk in the country. Blocks once filled with houses and businesses are now vast, desolate fields of tall grass dotted by the occasional pile of debris or cement steps leading nowhere.
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Openings
Museums SAN FRANCISCO Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Galleries and Forum Opening Fri.: "transPOP." Featuring works by 16 artists from Vietnam and Korea and their respective diasporas in the United States. Reception Fri. Runs Sat. through March 22. "The Art...
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Images in exhibit capture Lincoln's mystery
In April 1865, Joshua Speed of Louisville, Abraham Lincoln's closest friend, visited the 16th president. Speed described the Kentucky native as "jaded and weary," and Lincoln confided that he was alarmed at his own health, asking Speed to feel his cold and clammy hand.
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First International Body Music Festival
What do eight dancing teenage girls out of San Francisco's African American Cultural Center have to do with a pair of Inuit women from the Arctic who throat-sing directly into each other's mouths? Answer: Both acts are performing Tuesday through next Sunday...
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Gift guide: Staff picks for the artsy types on your list
Looking for a gift for that artsy person on your Christmas list? You know, the one who chooses opera over football and the Nevada Museum of Art over drinks at the local pub. Here are five ideas that just might work.
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Indianapolis museum gets Modernist landmark
The Indianapolis Museum of Art has announced it will acquire and restore the Modernist landmark Miller House and Garden in Columbus, Ind. The house was designed by Eero Saarinen with interiors by Alexander Girard and landscape design by Daniel Urban Kiley.
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Lincoln logs: Photos document president's life
Every child in this country can name him by first grade, and so can countless millions who will never set foot in the United States. His face adorns the indivisible penny. A big part of the reason is photography. Lincoln was the first president whose entire political career transpired in the era of the camera.
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Travel Briefs
Museum waives admission The New Orleans Museum of Art -- already free to Louisiana residents -- is offering free admission to out-of-state visitors through Jan. 18.
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Passage to 'Liberty' brightened a bit
The address is not a planned joke, but it is true that when people get out of jail, they exit onto Liberty Street near Sixth Street. The lobby interior, until now, has been pretty plain, even a bit grim. Some local artists have teamed up with art students to make a difference in this space.
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Student’s name: Stephany Sovitch School: Riverside Junior/Senior High School Grade: 12 Age: 17 Art teacher: Lisa Temples and Denis A. Yanashot Medium: Watercolor and acrylic paint Favorite artists: Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali and Norman Rockwell
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Indianapolis highlights freebies at area attractions
INDIANAPOLIS — Area attractions are offering free admission and other freebies, one each day, during the 12 days leading up to Christmas. On Dec. 13, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum offers free admission to its collection of trophies and cars.
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Portion of art exhibition's proceeds to benefit Deset Hot Springs museum
A portion of sales at the upcoming “Autumn in the Hacienda” art exhibit will benefit Cabot's Pueblo Museum in Desert Hot Springs.
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Daily The magic of Dr. Seuss
THE MAGIC OF DR. SEUSS Oh Seuss! Off to Great Places at the Young at Art Children's Museum offers 20 activities that reflect scenes from books: Oh, The Places You'll Go!; Green Eggs and Ham; Horton Hatches the Egg; If I Ran the Circus; Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? The exhibit runs through May 10.
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Teen's harmonious convergence: art, philanthropy
It's not every 16-year-old who gets to display her first piece of artwork before guests and dignitaries at the United Nations. But Brittany Murphy was up for the challenge of putting it out there for all to see.
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Hari Kunzru to Philip Pullman: writers and politicians pick the best reads of 2008
Hari Kunzru Joseph O'Neill's Netherland is a melancholy and controlled novel about cricket. There aren't many of those around. JG Ballard is also a cricket fan, and his volume of autobiography, Miracles of Life , provides a key to his strange, hallucinatory fiction. I'm living in New York, and the only thing that's made me feel homesick is a photography book called No Such Thing As ...
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Vivid color, the old-school way
In 1935 Leopold Mannes and Leopold Godowsky Jr. created a color 16mm film they called Kodachrome. The following year, Eastman Kodak introduced the film to the general public in 35mm and changed the course of photography forever. For nearly 75 years, Kodachrome was -- and for many, still is -- the gold standard of color photography. Many photographers say that the range of color recorded on ...
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Slow art sales could be healthy
NEW YORK -- The sagging demand for high-end art at the fall auctions could signal a return to saner prices in the fine-art market after the frenzied buying of the last few years.
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Writer's new book focuses on local artist
Jack Shagena bought his first Dave DeRan painting in 1976.
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Exhibit shows paintings morph into tapestries
Contemporary tapestry art both builds on and transcends those famously hand-knotted Medieval unicorns surrounded by fields of flowers that adorned castles and homes. A collection of tapestries -- images produced from paintings specifically created for that purpose -- will be on display this week as a satellite of Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach.
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Rooms with a view -- of museum-quality art
When guests check into the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago, they are not just greeted by front desk staff, but two plasma screens showcasing a video collage of city scenes collected from the camera that sits perched on their roof.
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Art sites around the Sunshine State
As the annual Art Basel-Miami Beach visual feast approaches, you might wonder why any art-lover would venture north of the Broward-Palm Beach line. Between the Art Basel fair at the Miami Beach Convention Center, 20-plus satellite fairs and first-rate exhibitions at local museums, you'll get an eye-full right here at home.
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Arts community thrives in sprawling Houston
In this city sans zoning, in a residential enclave of cozy bungalows and children's play parks, sits one of the world's finest private art collections open to the public.
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Kirksey honored to have his artwork grace Rowan Helping Ministries' Christmas card [if "Kirksey honored to have his ...
By Maggie Blackwell news@salisburypost.com Having just returned from New York to his native Salisbury, Michael Kirksey is pleased to support Rowan ...
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Fool me once ... a grand scheme unveiled at Yale CBA’s Benjamin West exhibit
NEW HAVEN — The best ingredients for headline-making stories these days include situations that involve famous people, intrigue, misrepresentation and some good detective work that solves the mystery.
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