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Children's Healing Art Project opens gallery in Pearl District
PORTLAND, Ore. -- A great Christmas gift that will truly “make a difference” is available in Portland’s Pearl District. A holiday fundraiser for the Children’s Healing Art Project has just been unveiled inside a new condominium at NW 9th Avenue and Glisan.
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Marilyn Manson, painter, rocks at Art Basel
Marilyn Manson's shock tactics worked again. With art, this time. Manson, real name Brian Hugh Warner, showed up at the media preview of Trismegistus at 101 Exhibit in Miami's Design District Thursday night. Most, if not all, the works in the collection were of grisly figures and ghostly, often bloody apparitions. But who would expect anything else?
Miami Herald |
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Festival of Trees opening at Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens
Children's book characters will take up residence on 25 decorated trees during this year's installment of the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens' Festival of Trees.
Palm Beach Daily News |
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Invitation To Exhibit Photos At Ellerslie Show
All New Zealanders are being invited to exhibit at next year's Ellerslie International Flower Show.
Scoop.co.nz |
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Updated 12/4: La Grange history lovers to welcome Santa Dec. 14
An old fashioned Christmas and a chat with Santa surrounded by vintage toys awaits visitors to the La Grange Area Historical Society Museum on Dec. 14.
The Doings La Grange |
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Art Students Spread Holiday Cheer
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Inside Line Sweeps Motor Press Guild's Audio/Visual and Photography Awards
POMONA, California — The Los Angeles-based Motor Press Guild (MPG) offered its Best of the Year Awards for excellence in automotive journalism earlier this week, resulting in two accolades for Inside Line . Presented at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum, Video Producer Glenn McClanan and Senior Photographer Scott Jacobs won MPG's audio/visual and photography awards for work that appeared ...
Edmunds.com |
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Christmas tree auction to raise funds for literacy programs
Times correspondent PEKIN - The YWCA and Pekin Public Library are joining forces to fight literacy this Christmas. And the public can help.
The Pekin Daily Times |
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Terner House Gallery to hold exhibit Dec. 14-Jan. 15
OCEAN TOWNSHIP — The Cultural Committee's January art exhibit will be featuring the work of Phyllis Unger, of West Allenhurst. The exhibit "Fabric on the Wall, Quilts and Silks, Painted and Stitched," will be featured at the Terner House Gallery located adjacent to the Ocean Township Library on Dec. 14. The exhibit will run until Jan. 15.
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Sculptor Mark di Suvero's weighty work on display in Florida garden
CORAL GABLES, Fla. - Nestled among fields of flowering trees and the lush palms of Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, lies a red painted 6,800-kilogram steel sculpture. Despite its large size, it moves with the wind. It can spin and even go up and down like a seesaw.
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The Diary: Marcus Harvey; Uberto Pasolini; The Institute of Contemporary Arts; Nicholas Serota
Bad-boy artist Marcus Harvey who brought a storm of protest to the doors of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1997 with his portrait of Moors murderer Myra Hindley made from children's handprints, is working on a new series of "irreverent" portraits of famous Britons, including Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher, to be exhibited at London's White Cube gallery in February.
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Observations: But who's going to conduct?
What do Everton football club, Gloucester Cathedral and Newlyn art gallery in Cornwall all have in common? Well, from 11 December until February next year, they're becoming part of a huge new musical structure, the award-winning Fragmented Orchestra, which will involve 24 networked sites across the UK, each producing a constantly changing instrumental sound, which in turn changes the ...
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Toilet Museum Needs You!
The AMTMoA (that's the Art Museum Toilet Museum of Art, for you philistines) is holding their first-ever call for submissions! Before you go trying to steal the royal throne at the Louvre, read on. The museum (which is online-only) holds "the world’s largest collection of images of art museum toilets taken at various art museums around the world," and they're currently seeking to build up ...
Gothamist |
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Observations: Savile Row does it with style, but Hermès is just horrible
Mayfair has gained two new pieces of public art. One is of the highest quality; the other is glorified window-dressing. First, the quality. Savile Row, London's buttoned-up bastion of tailored existence, has been given a faintly surreal vibe by Verge, a gangling two-ton bronze sculpture created by the American artist, Joel Shapiro. The piece floats a few feet in front of the façade of No 23, a ...
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Riverside Art Museum looks at the '80s
At the Riverside Art Museum, it's time to revisit the 1980s. No Rubik's Cubes are required.
The Press-Enterprise |
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GREAT 8 WATERCOLOR EXHIBITION
Most of us can recall opening that first box of watercolor paints with eight oval palettes of color alongside a great big brush. We added water, sloshed paint around on a piece of paper and watched in awe as the colors ran together. Little did we know to what extent this simple medium could be used to render art of the highest quality. Through Jan. 4, the Wichita Center for the Arts will host ...
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LHS Festival of Trees spreads Christmas Warmth
La Grande High School students reached out to 17 local families in need Wednesday by reaching for tinsel, light strings, mittens, video games and more.
La Grande Observer |
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Holiday art
Local artists spread holiday cheer Tuesday to the downtown area by painting Christmas pictures on the glass doors of local businesses. Pictured is Rudy Macareno using a brush to paint elves and Santa. Macareno free hands a Santa with rosy cheeks on a window of a local downtown business.
The Freer Press |
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Deputy dean had a passion for photography
SHAH ALAM: Just 45 minutes before the car crash in New Zealand that took his life, Shafiee Ahmad sent a cheerful text message to his wife. "He sent a text message to my mum at 2.15pm (Malaysian time).
The New Straits Times |
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KU's Spencer Museum of Art gets $1.2 million award from Mellon Foundation
Kansas University’s Spencer Museum of Art received a $1.2 million award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Lawrence Journal-World |
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Museum marks 30th anniversary with lecture, reception
JJulie Schimmel, the first curator at the Stark Museum of Art, will present a slide show and lecture about the museum's earliest days at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Lutcher Theater in downtown Orange.
Orange County News |
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Monumental Artwork Conceals Re-Imagined Sunset Strip Landmark: The First North American Andaz from Hyatt Hotels & ...
The Sunset Strip, famous for the spectacular billboards and “tall walls” lining the fabled boulevard, got a new eye-catching addition on December 3, 2008, when the soon to open Andaz West Hollywood unveiled a monumental piece of artwork created by designer Brian Cairns. Measuring an impressive 86 by 190 feet, the piece, which depicts words and images evocative of the Andaz brand, is one of ...
Centre Daily Times |
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Deputy dean had a passion for photography
SHAH ALAM: Just 45 minutes before the car crash in New Zealand that took his life, Shafiee Ahmad sent a cheerful text message to his wife.
The New Straits Times |
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A Basel whimsy: Artists at play in the yard
CasaLin is a private house in Wynwood, but during Art Basel its yard becomes an outdoor art gallery. (The place is owned by Miami collector Lin Lougheed, who rents it to an amenable family.) During the Basel hullabaloo, the yard offers a welcome respite.
Miami Herald |
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‘Risque’ lady comes out of a loft to fetch $6 million
An Old Master painting of a semi-naked woman, consigned to a loft for 200 years because it was considered too risque to be put on show, has sold for more than £2.8 million ($6.4 million) at auction.
The West Australian |
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