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Freud Becomes Priciest Living Artist
LUCIEN FREUD's portrait SUE became the world's most expensive piece by a living artist on Tuesday (13May08) when it sold at auction in New York for $33.6 million ...
ContactMusic |
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Resident attends unveiling at USS Constitution Museum
Marblehead resident and Navy Cmdr. David Cashman, USS Constitution Museum overseer recently attended the reception for the unveiling of the USS Constitution Museum’s newest and most significant acquisitions.
Marblehead Reporter |
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PROVIZER: Festivals keep music flowing
This weekend you can keep busy with two annual jazz events: Five Points Jazz on Saturday and the Estes Park Jazz Festival Saturday and Sunday.
Rocky Mountain News |
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Museum director dies in custody
Roxanna Brown was arrested on a federal charge of wire fraud, in connecttion with a Southern California criminal investigation.
Orange County Register |
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Bangkok art expert dies in US jail
The director of a Bangkok museum, a renowned Asian-antiquities expert, has died in a US jail after being arrested in Seattle by federal agents investigating illegal trafficking of pilfered Southeast Asian art.
Bangkok Post - Thailand's English news |
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Fine Arts Fiesta 2008
For Natalia Kerr, the Fine Arts Fiesta in Wilkes-Barre is a time to meet up with old friends who have been cooped up all winter. The young and old were checking out artwork at the festival. Some artwork hung on walls while others like a creative pink flamingo stood tall as people rolled by.
PAHomePage.com |
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Residents to decide school budgets fate
There are no contested races for school board positions in Cheektowaga's five main districts, but there are additional propositions for voters to decide in the Central and Cheektowaga-Sloan districts.
Cheektowaga Times |
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Preakness Painter Prepares For 2008 Race
Preakness painter Dr. Lawrence Jones is getting his brushes lined up for the much anticipated painting of the winning colors at the Preakness Stakes.
CBS 13 Baltimore |
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Expo focus on classic cameras
AN exhibition of classic cameras opened at the Ritz Carlton Bahrain Hotel and Spa last night. Forty-two Bahrainis displayed their vintage equipment along with some photographs taken by them.
Gulf Daily News |
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Oops! Gallery handlers break Renaissance painting
National Gallery reviews handling procedures after Renaissance painting breaks in two being moved from exhibition
Guardian Unlimited |
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Home tour, quilt festival Saturday
REDLANDS - More than 300 quilts will bring color to Smiley Park and four houses in Redlands during the "Garden of Dreams" Home Tour and Quilt Festival Saturday.
Redlands Daily Facts |
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Brushmen Of The Bush exhibit to open in Mackay
An exhibition showcasing some of Australia's most famous painters opens in Mackay this evening.
ABC via Yahoo!7 News |
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The Culturati Calendar
The events, openings, and exhibitions that business leaders are attending in May.
Entrpreneur.com |
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Photographer leads nude discussion
Local photographer Roger Skinner will lead a discussion about the images in ‘The Nude Interpretations’ exhibition at Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre on Friday at 6pm.
Muswellbrook Chronicle |
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Search Scoop
In honour of the annual United Nations World Environment Day (WED) celebrations on 5 June, the Natural World Museum (NWM) and Te Papa are pleased to present Moving Towards a Balanced Earth: Kick the Carbon Habit.
Scoop.co.nz |
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Promoting cultural unity with music
Editor’s note: Tamara Jones is a DJ at Radio Free Minturn. She’s profiling some of this summer’s reggae music festivals in Colorado and beyond. This is the first article in a series of three.
Vail Daily |
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Evangel professor to be artist-in-residence at Missouri State Fair
Michael Buesking, associate professor of art at Evangel University, will serve as one of two artists-in-residence at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia Aug. 13-17. Buesking is contracted for the second week of the fair and will be working on paintings and drawings in the studio area of the Fine Art Building. "I feel as though the hard work I put into my M.F.A. thesis exhibition in 2002 is still ...
The Springfield News-Leader |
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A night of the arts
Summit High School's graduating class of 2008 is presenting the annual Senior Art Show.
Summit Daily News |
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Welcome to the "Hollywood Backlot"
LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Times is set to unveil "Hollywood Backlot,”, with exclusive, on-set photography from veteran Hollywood lensman, David Strick.
NBC26 Green Bay |
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Bikers to help SBBS Blues Aid and cemetery restoration
The Daily World For seven years the Sonny Boy Blues Society has staged the Battle of the Bands at the Queen of Clubs. The winner of the musical battle gets a spot on stage at the annual Arkansas Blues & Heritage Festival, which is Helena-West Helena’s biggest event of the year.
The Helena Daily World |
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Library slates art exhibit, garden program, knitting
The Milltown Public Library, 20 W. Church St., will offer a variety of upcoming events. The art exhibit "Artist Without Borders" is running during regular library hours, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. onMondays, Tuesdays and Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays, and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays, through May 31 in theW. Jane StrimpleMeeting Room at the library.
East Brunswick Sentinel |
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Isaac Rosenberg: the making of a Great War poet, by Jean Moorcroft Wilson
In May 2005 the doors of the Whitechapel Library, the street-corner university of so many East End Jewish writers and artists, closed for the last time. Bernard Kops wrote a poem, remembering that "The door of the library was the door into me." Michael Kustow commemorated the library and the Whitechapel Art Gallery next door in a wonderful elegy in the Jewish Quarterly. Of all those who ...
Independent |
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Contemporary Indian art on display at museum
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers, 71 Hamilton St., on the College Avenue campus of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, is presenting an exhibition representing new perspectives on 21st-century art from India. "New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India" is the first U.S.
East Brunswick Sentinel |
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Tracey Emin: My Life In A Column
Today, I am writing the column in a room where the column has never been written before. It's the ground floor of my house, which I always refer to as "The Freud Museum". It's an eclectic collection of odds and sods, furniture, knick-knacks and objets d'art that weirdly, happily, hang together, spanning from the 1600s to the present day.
Independent |
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5th Annual Montessori School at St James Spring Fling
Meet friends and neighbors from the community at the fifth annual Montessori School at St James Spring Fling. Music provided by Eric Stracener and The Frustrations. Silent auction with art by Tony DiFatta and others, pottery, health club memberships and more.
Jackson Free Press |
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