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Julie Checkoway: The Big Reveal
Next week my documentary, Waiting for Hockney, is fortunate to premiere at the TriBeCa Film Festival. My producing team---which includes Geralyn Dreyfous of the Oscar-winning...
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Sculpture park dedicated to Isaac Witkin
On Monday at 11:30 a.m., Rider University will dedicate its Isaac Witkin Sculpture Park, in memory of the recently deceased sculptor whose work focused on "free-casting"-- that is, pouring molten metals onto sand and letting the splashed shapes cool to form the elements of a sculptural group.
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Bank of America art exhibit coming to 40 Acres Art Gallery
Sacramento's 40 Acres Art Gallery has been selected as one of 25 museums and galleries in the United States and Europe to exhibit artworks from the Bank of America Collection, one of the largest corporate art collections in the world, it was announced Wednesday.
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Botswana: Indian Teacher Holds Art Exhibition
An Indian arts teacher in Botswana says there are a lot of similarities between Botswana and Indian cultures.
AllAfrica.com |
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Iran sidebar at Hot Docs in jeopardy
The "Spotlight on Iran" sidebar at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is in jeopardy as festival organizers face difficulties in arranging travel documents for Iranian filmmakers.
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‘FOR ARTSAKE' opens the Nye Beach community to more art
“FOR ARTSAKE” - a new gallery at 258 NW Coast St. in Newport's Nye Beach area - opens its doors to the public from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, April 19 with refreshments, hors d'oeuvres, and wine.
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New sculpture gives NZ a place in Anzac memorial
His lonely vigil is almost over. A giant bronze statue of an Australian World War I digger which overlooks one of Sydney's busiest bridges is about to get some company - an equally imposing Kiwi counterpart.
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St. Louis Art Capsules
Opening Currents 102: Sarah Oppenheimer The Saint Louis Art Museum has given over to installation artist Sarah Oppenheimer one of the galleries that houses its modern collection. With an undergraduate degree in semiotics, Oppenheimer explores the notion of "mutable architecture": Rather than viewin ...
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What's up, doc?
Documentaries get their close-up in Ybor.... By Lance Goldenberg.The Ybor Festival of the Moving Image has always had a bit of a split personality. On one hand, it's arguably Tampa's most unabashedly experimental film festival, with a penchant for boundary-smashing mixed media that challenges our basic ideas of what constitutes a film. At the same time, this is a festival that's anything but ...
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New Tampa Museum of Art breaks ground
SketchbookPlus, black-and-white masters at FMoPA... By Megan Voeller.Downtown Tampa reaches a long awaited milestone this week with the official groundbreaking of the new Tampa Museum of Art building on Friday at 11:30 a.m. The ceremony (which a museum staffer says will take place promptly at the allotted time) will include appearances by Mayor Pam Iorio and architect Stanley Saitowitz, free ...
Creative Loafing Tampa |
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Art: 33rd Annual Mainsail Arts Festival
Saturday, April 19... By Leilani Polk.What began as a sidewalk arts and crafts festival has matured into a significant juried event that draws artist applicants from across the country with its promise of cash, critical acclaim and artistic credibility. The 33rd Annual Mainsail Arts Festival features more than 250 artists vying for the chance to take home some of the $50,000 in prize money and, ...
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Annual student exhibition opens at university gallery
The 53rd Annual Student Exhibition has opened in the East Central University Gallery in the Art Department to highlight students’ work in ceramics, drawings, digital images, paintings, prints, sculpture and watercolors.
Ada Evening News |
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18th Annual Carrabelle Riverfront Festival, April 26th and 27th
Tallahassee Democrat |
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Blanchett loses art, but not lot
FOR a few minutes last night it was Cate Blanchett's art collection and not her performance that caught the crowd's attention.
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Pro Hart's art collection sold
PRO Hart's $10 million personal art collection in Australia, including 100 important works, was sold off piece by piece to put his studio into the Broken Hill gallery.
Daily Telegraph |
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Huntsman faces Great Salt Lake issues
SALT LAKE CITY -- Gov. Jon Huntsman met with state officials and others to discuss issues facing the Great Salt Lake, including whether oil drilling would harm Robert Smithson's art installation "Spiral Jetty."
Provo Daily Herald |
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Art in the Park grows with Wright City
This year's expanded Art in the Park festival gives Wright City residents something they've been asking for: more.
Warrenton Journal |
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German sculpture shows bare backside to Austria
Simbach, Germany - A modern statue on Germany's south-east border has triggered controversy, with some people concerned on Wednesday that the figure is showing a bare backside to Austria. Sculpted by local man Dominik Dengl and unveiled Saturday, the...
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Voting for 'Cutest Critter' helps animals in need
LORAIN -- From roosters to horses to a South American raccoon, readers of The Morning Journal have entered their pets in the first annual Cutest Critter Pet Contest presented by The Morning Journal in partnership with Partners with Paws of WOBL/WDLW in Oberlin. Click here to see the critters and voting ballot.
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National treasures from artist Chee Kiang Siong's family
IT HAS been a painful decision involving the sacrifice of some personal memories. But the family of the late artist Chee Kiang Siong eventually donated 12 oil paintings by their father to the National Heritage Board (NHB).
Straits Times |
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In Pictures: Seven Stanes
The public is encouraged to solve the puzzle behind a series of sculptures in southern Scotland.
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Architecture and fashion (9 pictures)
Here we see Zaha Hadid proving that her aesthetic inclinations with regards to buildings are echoed in her wardrobe. In this photo, Hadid is standing next to a sculpture she made for the Serpentine Gallery in 2007. It’s a bit of a chicken-and-egg question: which came first, the dress or the artwork?
Guardian Unlimited |
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Talent on display at art festival
FRANKFORT -- Lincoln-Way East High School hosted its 13th annual Fine Arts Festival Saturday, showcasing the work of professional artists and the teachers, but especially Lincoln-Way students.
The Herald News |
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Surface Tension Texture triumphs at M.A. Doran's latest exhibit
For the month of April, MA Doran, a posh gallery located in the true heart of Brookside, presents a dual show. New work by Tulsa artist Michelle Firment Reid and encaustic works by Michigan-based artist Graceann Warn are on display, and their pieces employ a variety of textures, implied and actual.... By Nat McKnight.
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Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913–2008 Untill May 26th 2008, Sponsored by Burberry
The first exhibition to bring together rare vintage prints with contemporary classics from Vanity Fair and the legendary Condé Nast Archive.
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