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New releases
"Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe" A Vanity Fair cover waiting to happen, Wagstaff was handsome, rich, and Mapplethorpe's lover and photographic mentor. Although James Crump's 2007 documentary is a bit smitten with him (it's much less about Mapplethorpe), it displays a rare degree of intelligence, sophistication, and frankness. (77 min., unrated) (Mark ... Boston Globe
Entertainment Calendar
Today, Saturday 05/10 •The "Oils, Ink, Clay, Paper," Anniversary Show, will be held by Bill and Linda Renc , owners of the Painted Fish, and Barbara and Ira Burhans, owners of Clay & Paper, 350 Main St., Dunedin, through June 15. The gallery anniversary show combines new works in the four artists' main media. Call 727-734-5060, or 727-736-0934 or visit w www.paintedfishgallery.com, or ... The Suncoast News Pinellas
Seasonal art shows coming back downtown
Seasonal art shows return to the downtown historic district later this month. The Suncoast News Pinellas
JVC Jazz Festival 2008 Web Site Launched
The JVC Jazz Festival 2008 has unveiled an extensive new web site including schedules, artist bios, articles and interviews, and much more. The site, at www.jazz.jvc.com , comprehensively covers the upcoming events in New York, Newport, Concord, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, North Sea and Paris. JazzTimes Magazine
Palestine film festival starts today
Doha • The first-ever Palestine Film Festival in Qatar devoted exclusively to Palestine is set to kick off today at the Mall Cinema, bringing together a variety of documentary as well as semi-fictional feature films. The Peninsula
Seattle artist captures floral spirit
Words may fail, but art does not. Or so says Seattle artist Robert Blehert, who will paint mothers' "essence" using flowers at the Art on the Docks art gallery in Tarpon Springs today and tomorrow, May 10 and May 11. This will mark Blehert's second time doing the portraits at the gallery after appearing there on Mother's Day 2007. The Suncoast News Pinellas
Rifle bears Danville images
DANVILLE -- A 24-carat gold rifle fully engraved with Montour County history, including images of a Dinkey train and a T-rail, will be a featured commemorative piece of this year's Iron Heritage Festival. The Daily Item
Boogie Heads supplies party entrepreneurs
Chris Hampton started his own photography business when he was just 23. Chattanooga Times Free Press
Chainsaw carvers create masterpieces in woods at Scandia
5/10/2008 - Deep in the woods of Scandia, magical creatures are being created, one chainsaw at a time. Carvers gathered Friday from all over the Northeast for the annual Chainsaw Carve at the Red Oak Campground. Warren Times Observer
Good Morning Lowcountry
North Charleston Arts Festival. All day. Various venues. Finale, 8 p.m. North Charleston Riverfront Park, 1001 Everglades Drive. 745-1087. www.northcharleston.org. The Post and Courier
Today, Tonight, Tomorrow
It’s a Norman Rockwell painting come to life — the 20th annual Carthage Buggy Festival. Think classic transportation, including cars and tractors, more than 100 vendors peddling their food, antiques and crafts, cloggers and live music. The Fayetteville Observer
Student show
People peruse the “With my own hands” exhibit displaying art by students from area elementary schools at the DeVos Art Museum at Northern Michigan University in Marquette Friday. Fish hanging overhead were created by third-graders from Superior Hills, Sandy Knoll, and Cherry Creek elementary schools. Artwork will be on display through May 17. The Mining Journal
Exhibition showcases photo art
Doha • Some of the works of well-known photographer Youssef Nabil are on show at Souq Waqif Art Centre in Doha. On show are the contemporary works of Nabil — mainly colourful hand-painted photographs of Egyptian actresses and actors. The Peninsula
Energy Bar: Fuel for a successful day
To-do list 1 Before you hit the bike trail, make sure your bike is good to go with a stop at Bike Safety Awareness Day from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. today at the Milwaukee Public Museum, 800 W. Wells St. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Students create 'wax museum' to recreate WWII
The Nazis killed some 250,000 people in Sobibor, a concentration camp they created in what is now Poland. The Nazis killed some 6 million Jews and millions more homosexuals, disabled persons, Slavs, Gypsies and German dissidents. The Dalton Daily Citizen
Newport art teacher hangs it up
Karen Cipriani runs art projects that capture people’s attention, whether they are portraits, making masks of fairy tale characters or producing artwork for the “Mythology at the Marble House” exhibit. Newport Daily News
Mom's Dream of Painting of Her Home Comes True
Joseph Ferchen of Lockport sent this email to Daybreak asking us to help him make his mom's dream come true. "I live in Lockport with my mother, grandmother, and aunt. While all three of those women make everyday a good day, I would like to take this time to focus on my mother. WGRZ-TV Buffalo
SFMOMA Appoints New Director of Development
Blair Winn, new director of development at SFMOMA. Photo: courtesy of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. SAN FRANCISCO.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art announced the appointment of Blair Winn as the museum’s new director of development. Art Daily
Proposed Sculpture by Turner Prize Winner Mark Wallinger Heads Angel of the South Shortlist
KENT.- A white horse, 33 times life-size, could soon be Kent's very own 'Angel of the South'. The proposed sculpture by Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger is one of 5 designs shortlisted for a new £2 million landmark next to Ebbsfleet International Station, near Gravesend. Art Daily
The Language of the Nude: Four Centuries of Drawing the Human Body
Michel Corneille the Younger, Apollo and Thetis, n.d. Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash and white opaque watercolor on tan laid paper, 24.3 x 34.4 cm. Crocker Art Museum, E. B. Crocker Collection. Art Daily
Smoke and Mirrors Presents 35 Works on Paper at The Seattle Art Museum
Tybee Forks and Starts (G), 1978, Jan Groover, American, born 1943, chromogenic photograph, 3 ¾ x 4 11/16 in., Gift of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., 82.8 Art Daily
National Gallery of Ireland will present Impressionist Interiors,
Childe Hassam (1859-1935), ‘The French Breakfast’, 1910, Collection Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza - From the exhibiton: ‘Impressionist Interiors’ 10 May – 10 August 2008, National Gallery of Ireland (Millennium Wing). Art Daily
Paine Art Center Opens The Impressionist Figure Selections from the Albright-Knox
Georges Seurat, French, 1859-1891. Study for La Grande Jatte, ca. 1884. Oil on wood panel. Framed: 12 x 15 x 1 1/4” support: 6 1/8 x 9 3/4” Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Gift of A. Conger Goodyear, 1949. Art Daily