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New Orleans Artists Rebuild Livelihoods with eBay Charity Auction on May 23
Global market research firm Synovate commissioned 40 artists in New Orleans to create original pieces based on the theme 'My New Orleans.' The pieces will be auctioned off on eBay beginning May 23 with all proceeds going to the artists and the Arts Council of New Orleans to help rebuild the livelihoods of the artist community in New Orleans.
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John Tepper Marlin: Nazi Photo Exhibit in Paris
In Paris last month my wife Alice and I chanced to walk past the Paris Historical Library and discovered housed in its basement through July...
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Lee Rosenbaum's cultural commentary
Why is this artist smiling? No, the above photo was not taken at the Brooklyn Museum. It's Takashi Murakami , posing in front of his $15.16-million "My Lonesome Cowboy," immediately after last night's Sotheby's Contemporary sale, which set auction records for him and 17 other artists.
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Ozzfest won't rock Inland area this year
Longtime touring heavy metal festival Ozzfest has put on the brakes, reducing its annual summer run to a lone date in Dallas.
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Artist uses canal muck for paintings
NEW YORK, May 15 (UPI) -- A New York artist says he is playing on "man-vs.-nature" theories with paintings he makes from the muck and grime of an industrial canal.
UPI |
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Funding concerns for downtown plan raised at meeting
But where's the money? Where's the money for all the downtown goodies, like the streetcar, the “festival waterfront,” the open space?
Missoulian |
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Summer Guide 2008 - Art Listings
Shows are listed by opening date.For gallery locations and contact info, see the index at the end of this listing. Ongoing 3rd Street Gallery. Waterworks 2008 (Watercolor Society member show), through May 31. Also: Art as Sustenance, through May 31. The Andy Warhol Museum. Ceramic Explosion: Th...
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Summer Guide 2008 - Fairs, Festivals and Special Events
Through November Farmers' markets, conveniently located in East Liberty, South Side, Mount Washington, Bloomfield, West End, Carrick, City-County Building and North Side. Oakland market opens June 20. 412-422-6523 or www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us/parks. Eat well; eat local. Through May 18 Pit...
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In Defense of Painting
Unbelievably, painting is yet again under assault. Despite strength of activity evident in commercial galleries, art school degree shows, and studios, the medium is held in suspicion thanks to its virtual exclusion from the Whitney Biennial and the inaugural exhibitions of the new New Museum. Once more, oil on canvas is made to feel like a guilty pleasure. There is no better way to savor that ...
The New York Sun |
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Spanning the Geometric Spectrum
Painters Marjorie Welish and Ann Pibal both make geometric abstract work, but they are opposite in nearly all aspects of intention, approach, and affect. Ms. Welish is a New York-based poet, critic, and painter whose current show, "Painting as Diagram," at Björn Ressle features easel-size, sharp-edge, pristine Modernist paintings. Since the late 1970s and early '80s, Ms. Welish has done ...
The New York Sun |
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The Chelsea of Brooklyn
Photograph, the bimonthly guide to gallery and museum exhibitions of photography, has 112 listings for New York City in its May/June issue. The Manhattan listings are grouped geographically — Downtown (17), Chelsea (50), Midtown & Uptown (32) — and the outer boroughs are grouped together. The latter section has 13 listings for this period, more than 10% of the whole, with 11 in Brooklyn and one ...
The New York Sun |
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Summer Guide 2008 - Kidstuff
Ongoing The Andy Warhol Museum, North Side. 412-237-8300 or www.warhol.org. Ongoing activities for kids include hands-on creative activity in the "Weekend Factory" and more. Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, various locations. Branches of the library offer story-telling hours and othe...
Pittsburgh City Paper |
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Grand Dames chapter to have silent auction for cancer research
The Grand Dames, a chapter of the Red Hat Society, met recently to close out the first half of its 2008 schedule. Julia Fife, Diane Slywczuk, Jeanette Barkley, Carol Gillet and Virginia Jackson served as hostess for the first half of the scheduled meetings.
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Oak Park student's photo earns top award at art guild's show
Oak Park High School senior Maria McGinley, 18, won the top honor at last month's annual Westlake Village Art Guild's High School Senior Art Show. Her entry, "Autumn's Child," a closeup photograph of her 10year-old brother Timmy with his face partially obscured by leaves, was chosen as Best in Show out of 132 entries in all categories.
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Chaparral to hold auction
The Chaparral Elementary School Parent Faculty Club in Calabasas is holding its ninth annual auction online. The auction site at chaparralauction.cmarket.com opened for bidding on May 8 and will close at 11 p.m. on May 16.
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Pana Days kicks off today
PANA - A downtown block party featuring music, food, and a beautiful baby contest with added spice will kick off the Pana Days Celebration this evening.
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YHS Students Cited In Spring Writing Contest
PIERRE - Several Yankton students were cited in the 2008 Annual Spring Writing Contest, co-sponsored by the South Dakota High School Activities Association and the South Dakota High School Press Association.
Yankton Press & Dakotan |
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Treasure Trove
"Reclaimed" is a historic exhibition that celebrates the partial recovery of artworks confiscated by the Nazis from Jacques Goudstikker, the pre-eminent Amsterdam art dealer in the 1920s and '30s. The show, which is now at the Bruce Museum and will travel to the Jewish Museum in 2009, also provides a frame for understanding both the intricacies of locating scattered items and the legal battles ...
The New York Sun |
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Food Art -- Step-by-step instructions on garnish carving for your party platters.
Time to start planning those graduation parties. It's hard enough to get the cake ordered and grocery shopping done — not to mention getting the house shipshape — so it's no wonder any sort of presentation or pretty plate adornments gets lost along the way.
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Neilsen s views of Wairarapa on show
Cataloguing the dramatic splendour of Wairarapa's land and seascapes has been an odyssey spanning decades for renowned and prolific watercolour and oil painter Don Neilsen.
Wairarapa Times-Age |
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Buddy Up program holds art show
On Tuesday, May 6th, first and fourth grade students from Fulda Elementary School held a "Buddy Up" Art Show.
Fulda Free Press |
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Painting — and living
Of all the pieces in this year's HarMar Art Show, two are remarkable not just for what they show but for being created at all.
Pioneer Press |
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Diversions from May 15, 2008
Ticketmaster events are sold at Macy’s and Giant Eagle, both Hermitage; ticketmaster.com; and at 330-747-1212. • “Under the Influence of Diverse Cultures,” four new perspectives on “ethnic investigation” in contemporary art show May 20 through June 27 at Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, New Castle.
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Arts festival set Saturday
Audubon State Park's annual Creative Arts Festival takes place in the park museum area from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Saturday, and has something for every member of the family.
The Gleaner |
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Political icon weighs in on current issues
Walking through the door of former Alabama Governor John Patterson's home one is immediately struck by the beautiful artwork hanging on the wall but with a few more steps one is immersed in a sea of politics, whether it be the composite photo of the Alabama Bar Association from many years ago or the giant portrait of John F. Kennedy which stares down the hallway.
The Alexander City Outlook |
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