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Frick exhibit offers panorama of city
"A Panorama of Pittsburgh: Nineteenth-Century Printed Views" offers early views of the city, and an overview of 19th-century printmaking Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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Four years ago, Canastota Canal Town Museum director Joe DiGiorgio was digging around in the basement. While sorting through long-forgotten items, DiGiorgio dusted off four paintings and realized he had made an important find. The Post-Standard
Salvador Dalí's Super-Reality
Salvador Dalí (1904-89) considered himself a prophet and a genius, and much of the world agrees, judging from the popularity of his prints and the several museums devoted to his work. Critics have tended to be less enthusiastic about the flamboyant Catalonian, whose promotional stunts and forays into fashion and advertising helped make him a household name. In recent years, a spate of ... The New York Sun
Art Market kicks off juried show
NEW BERN - Original art spanning every medium except sculpture will be available for preview and sale during the Craven Arts Council's Art Market from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday at the Bank of the Arts, 317 Middle St. in downtown New Bern. Kinston Free Press
My Visit to Khanti-Mansiisk, Part I
In late June 2008, EU and Russian representatives converged in Khanti-Mansiisk — the Siberian city that is the epicenter of Russia's oil industry — to discuss the prospects of partnership and cooperation. The Globalist
Art camp at Latcham Gallery
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11:34 p.m.: Elwood proposes park improvements
ELWOOD - A cast bronze sculpture, a historic rail walk and a radial arbor are among the features proposed in the city’s plan to rejuvenate Elwood’s landscape with two park improvements. The Herald Bulletin
Fourth Virgin Labfest ongoing at the CCP
The Virgin Labfest-an annual festival of unstaged, untried, untested works by playwrights, directors and actors-launches its fourth season this Wednesday, June 25. Eighteen new works shall be showcased in staged readings, a book launch, and audience talk back sessions. PEP
Tender eye make-up colours look better on young skin
Hamburg - Observe the girls standing around any school yard and you get the feeling you are a spectator at a beauty contest. Done-up girls walk around looking like they will soon be celebrating their 18th birthday, when in fact they are only in the s... EARTHtimes.org
Lighton artists to talk
Ten artists who have participated in the Lighton International Artists Exchange Program will speak about their experiences abroad in a two-day symposium, from 2 to 5 p.m. Friday and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd. The exchange program is a project of the Kansas City Artists Coalition. The Kansas City Star
Landmark Catalogue of American Paintings Collection at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Receives Award
KANSAS CITY.- The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: American Paintings to 1945 has been named the winner of the Midwest Art History Society Award for Outstanding Exhibition or Collection Catalogue for 2007. Art Daily
Minneapolis Institute of Arts appoints new Assistant Director for Exhibitions and Programs/Curator of Contemporary Art
MINNEAPOLIS.- Art Daily
A Rare Collaboration Between Three of China's Most Prominent Museums at The Asian Art Museum
Covered box with flowers, reign of the Yongle emperor (1403-1425). Red lacquer with carved designs (tihong). The Avery Brundage Collection, Asian Art Museum, B60M309. Photograph by Kaz Tsuruta. Art Daily
Babylon. Myth and Truth Opens at Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Prozessionsstraße, Detail: schreitender Löwe, Babylon, 6. Jh. v. Chr. Tonziegel, gebrannt und farbig glasiert. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Foto: Maximilian Meisse. Art Daily
Open Call Photography Exhibition To Be Curated by the Public and Installed at Brooklyn Museum
Claudia Sohrens, Schauplatz # 18 (Greenpoint Warehouse), 2006. All rights reserved. BROOKLYN, NY.- Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition is a photography installation that invites Brooklyn Museum’s visitors, the online community, and the general public to participate in the exhibition process. Art Daily
NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled” (Go-Go Dancing Platform), 1991. Wood, lightbulbs, acrylic paint, and Go-Go dancer in silver-lamé bathing suit, sneakers, and Walkman, Overall dimensions variable Platform: 21 ½ x 72 x 72 inches (54.6 x 182.9 x 182.9 cm) Installation view, “Lifestyle – From Subculture to High Fashion,” Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, 2006. Courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, and ... Art Daily
The Royal Acadeny of Arts Opens Vilhelm Hammershoi: The Poetry of Silence
Vilhelm Hammershoi, Double Portrait, 1898. Oil on canvas. 72 x 86 cm. ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark. Photo: Ole Hein Pedersen. LONDON.- Art Daily
On the Road Again with Jack Kerouac and Robert Frank Opens at The Indianapolis Museum of Art
Detail of original typescript, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 1951.Photo: courtesy of Christie's, New York. INDIANAPOLIS.- Art Daily
Sotheby's to Offer Portrait of John McEnroe and Tatum O'Neal by Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol, Portrait of John McEnroe and Tatum O'Neal, 1986. Estimate: £250,000 – 350,000. Photo: Courtesy of Sotheby's. LONDON.- Art Daily
Luisa Rabbia: Travels with Isabella, Travel Scrapbooks 1883/2008
“Luisa Rabbia: Travels with Isabella,Travel Scrapbooks 1883/2008” (detail) Courtesy, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. BOSTON.- Art Daily
Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s at The Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Patrick Henry Bruce, Peinture/Nature morte, ca. 1924. Oil and graphite on canvas 28 3/4 x 36 1/4 in. Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy , Andover , Massachusetts ; gift of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Lane (1958.38) Courtesy American Federation of Arts. Art Daily
Extraterrestrial Concert
Brazilian composer Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta will perform SETI, a new concert at the celebrated Bjorn Ressle Contemporary Art Gallery in New York City. antiMUSIC
Columbia Art District Festival seeks to expand alcohol sales
This fall, festivalgoers strolling along Columbia Avenue could be sipping beer or wine. The Columbia Art District Festival had a beer tent on private land during its first event last year. The Holland City Council had to approve the tent then. This year, organizers want to expand that to include all of the festival grounds, which would require changing a city law. “To do that you’re ... The Holland Sentinel