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Garnerville complex hosting arts festival weekend
Look for granite-carved heads lining GAGA Creekside when you visit the new and evolving sculpture garden and walkway at the Garnerville Arts and Industrial Center. The Journal News
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IF you're curious about what kind of contemporary art wealthy Las Vegas families -- the Fertittas, the Greenspuns, the Jillettes -- house in their desert mansions, look no further than Las Vegas Collects Contemporary . The exhibit, appropriately sponsored by a bank, gathers "a selection of works from some of Las Vegas' most significant privately held collections." Las Vegas CityLife
Body Worlds
The Gunther von Hagens sculpture at left is one that will be coming to The Leonardo for the Body Worlds exhibit, which begins Sept. 19 and runs through Jan. 11. The exhibit features more than 200 items and the debut of a special presentation on the heart. Above, Salt Lake Mayor Ralph Becker participates in Tuesday's announcement of the exhibit. Deseret Morning News
Report: Museum guards fell for ruse
Police in Canada suspect an experienced thief tricked guards into ignoring security alarms during an art theft at the University of British Columbia.The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Wednesday that the prime suspect in the May 23 multimillion dollar theft at the Museum of Anthropology is a Vancouver thief who specializes in knocking off jewelry stores first taking out sophisticated ... Moldova.org
Madrid bars go for tapas art
Tapas is often little more than a plate of anchovies or a slice of tired chorizo, but a recent tapas festival in Madrid showed how the humble bar snack is catching up with Spain's mould-breaking restaurant cuisine. TVNZ
'Entr'acte'
Matching the theater's extravagant decor, artwork by Patricia Di Bella is on exhibit at the Weinberg Center for the Arts throughout June -- large, theatrical oil paintings that depict the life of a performer, both onstage and off. The Frederick News-Post
'regarding: Light'
Seated on her back deck with a glass of iced tea, artist and writer Diane Santarella tried to describe how her recent series of artwork came into being. The Frederick News-Post
Report: Museum guards fell for ruse
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 5 (UPI) -- Police in Canada suspect an experienced thief tricked guards into ignoring security alarms during an art theft at the University of British Columbia. UPI
Art Basel becomes more global
Art Basel, billed as the world's premier show for contemporary and modern art, is welcoming more participation from rising art stars such as China this year. Swissinfo
Briefly
A lithographed collection of Arnold Friberg's Book of Mormon art will be on display at Apple Frame Gallery in Bountiful, beginning Friday and continuing through June 27. Deseret Morning News
Photo exhibit captures teen's Cambodian adventure
Natalie Duggan left America with a camera and returned with more than 1,000 photos of Cambodia, and a photography exhibit. She went on the trip in March with a good friend, Elizabeth, whose father travels overseas regularly as a physician, giving aid to third-world countries. The Frederick News-Post
Secret Service Detains Artist Over ?Assassination? Exhibit
New York City police detectives and Secret Service agents briefly detained and questioned an artist as he installed an exhibition with the title, ?The Assassination of Hillary Clinton/The Assassination of Barack Obama.? New York Times
SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS
Northeast wins engineering contest Students from Northeast Magnet High School took first place in a scholarship competition sponsored by the Wichita State University College of Engineering . Tan Nguyen, Nhat Nguyen, Orlando Velazquez and Justin Gird each will receive a $2,000 scholarship. The students' project was titled "Stovetop Fire Prevention System." Sexton Scholarship awarded to ... The Wichita Eagle
Passion for posters
Designers represent area in rock-show art exhibit When an underground band adds Fargo to its tour, little is assured. Advertisement: MAYVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY Get full credit for your A.A.S. degree. A.A.S. to B.A.S. Get full credit for your A.A.S. degree in Mayville State's ONLINE B.A.S. in Business Administration program. For more information on this high-quality, flexible ... Fargo Forum
Business brief
EppicMoments Photography and local model Melony Hoyt placed as runner-up in a photography contest by Southern Wedding Style Magazine. The contest asked photographers to capture a Southern image of someone reading the Southern Wedding Style Magazine. EppicMoments Photography has more than 10 years experience and has two photographers, Melissa Epps and Robert Gilliard. Pensacola News Journal
Norman gallery to feature American Indian art
NORMAN — For nearly 15 years, Tribes Gallery was a fixture in both the American Indian art scene and downtown Norman, probably best known for producing the annual Native American Art Calendar. The gallery closed its doors on Main Street early last year when owner Hannah Pate decided to retire, but Pate's daughter, Leslie Zinbi, kept the calendar alive and continued to sell art through an online ... The Oklahoman
Photo show bugs out for a while
A ''pardonnez'' from Cleveland's Museum of Contemporary Art for the temporary closing of the Jean Luc Mylayne exhibit, but the show has developed a few — how shall we say? — bugs. Akron Beacon Journal
Edmond Community Events
TODAY Endeavor Games , through Sunday, UCO Wellness Center, 100 N University Drive, 974-3151. Artwork by Maria Esperanza Saldarerga, Jaime Macis and Arthur Finch , through July 17, Owens Arts Place Museum, 1202 E Harrison, Guthrie, 260-0204. UCO Baseball Camp , 8:30 a.m., through Friday, University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N University Drive, 974-2000. T-Tapp Fitness Class, 8:30 a.m. ... The Oklahoman
Metro Communtiy Events
Today Oklahoma Pilots Association, 6:30 p.m., Clarence E. Page Building, Wiley Post Airport, 942-6308. Oklahoma Anthropological Society, Central Chapter, 7 p.m., Will Rogers Garden Exhibition Center, 3400 NW 36, 722-9621. Oklahoma Hot Rod Association, 6 p.m., Jamie's Restaurant, SW 89 and Western Avenue, 396-2647. OKC Swing Club, 2 p.m., 4361 NW 50, Suite 400, 943-1950. Downtown ... The Oklahoman
Summer entertainment for all - roanoke.com
Blacksburg and Virginia Tech's Summer Arts Festival provides free concerts, art exhibits and theater events for the whole family. BLACKSBURG -- As music floats across the grass, neighbors say hello, children chase one another and some sit quietly, taking in the sounds of another Friday night concert. The Summer Arts Festival, a joint venture of the town of Blacksburg and Virginia Tech, ... The New River Valley Current
NASA Lunar Art Contest Winners Announced
A fanciful vision of a lunar traffic jam won the first annual NASA Lunar Art Contest sponsored by NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. SpaceRef
Gas drilling imperils ancient wall carvings
WELLINGTON, Utah -- Along Utah's Nine Mile Canyon lies what some call the longest art gallery in the world -- thousands of prehistoric rock carvings and paintings of bighorn sheep and other wildlife, hunters wielding spears, and warriors engaged in hand-to-hand combat. Detroit News
Art show coming this weekend
ArtWalk 2008, a juried art and craft show sponsored by the Conejo Valley Art Museum will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sat., June 7 and Sun., June 8 at the Countrywide Bank building grounds at Hillcrest Drive and Wilbur Road, Thousand Oaks. The Acorn
Waukegan to hold annual Dandelion Wine Festival
Celebrating summer and the arts, the ninth annual Dandelion Wine Fine Arts Festival will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at 39 Jack Benny Drive. Daily Herald