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Calendar -- Ankeny
Call for Entries: "Small Canvas, Big Art" - Artist Trading Cards exhibit will be on display from June 17 through Aug. 30 and includes mixed-media works that measure 2inches. Ankeny Art Center, 1520 S.W. Ordnance Road, Ankeny. The Altoona Herald-Mitchellville Index
Calendar -- Urbandale, Johnston
Recycled Art Show - April 21-25. Grimes Public Library, 200 N. James St., Grimes. 986-3551; www.grimes.lib.ia.us . The Altoona Herald-Mitchellville Index
Food notes: Beaux Arts Wine Festival wraps up with, well, wine
The seven-day Beaux Arts Wine Festival is drawing to a close, but there's still time to eat, drink and be merry while helping raise money for the Boise Art Museum. The Idaho Statesman
Calendar -- West Des Moines, Clive, Waukee
Alter-Egos - Thursdays through Saturdays April 3-26. Eight artists have joined creative forces. Avenue Gallery, West Glen, 5525 Mills Civic Parkway, Suite 110, West Des Moines. 564-7508; www.westglentowncenter.com . The Altoona Herald-Mitchellville Index
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First Street Art Gallery: "Signs of Spring." Paintings, drawings and photography by Ken Echternacht, Jean Marani and Gloria Vasquez. Through May 18. Free. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun. 204 First St. N.W., Havana. (850) 539-5220 or (850) 385-4703. Tallahassee Democrat
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The Tallahassee Museum, 3945 Museum Drive, hosts Red Wolf Day during regular museum hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday . Activities include making plaster castings of paw prints and learning to decipher wolf communications such as body language and howling. Tallahassee Democrat
North Texas Events, April 25
FESTIVAL OF STUDENT-DIRECTED ONE-ACTS 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday, as well as May 2-3, Fain Fine Arts Center, MSU. Several one-act plays, directed by MSU students, will be presented. $3. (940) 397-4399 or (940) 397-4393. Wichita Falls Times Record News
Exhibits
The Maslow Collection, an exhibit of significant pieces from the collection including works by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Sherrie Levine, Chuck Close, Sandy Skoglund and many others. Opens today with a community reception Sunday, 2 to 4 p.m. Continues through June 27 at the Mahady Gallery, Marywood University, 2300 Adams Ave., Scranton. Hours: Monday ... Times Leader
Art for the funny bone
LAS CRUCES —Stephen Hansen's chubby businessmen, and unique personality-packed critters hang out in surprising places: at United States embassies around the world, and at one-man exhibitions at museums and galleries and corporate and private collections in New York, Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, Paris, London, Toronto, Japan, Italy, Venezuela and Sri Lanka. Las Cruces Sun-News
Concerts
Some Kind of Jam 3, an outdoor festival with 23 bands on two stages. Included: Juggling Suns, Natural Breakdown, Indobox, Codename, Bohemian Sunrise, The Big Dirty, Karmic Juggernaut, the Happy Dog, Give Us the Money Lebowski, Dakini, Agent Moosehead, South Mountain Pass, herbie, the Man, Red Rooster, Nate Myers & the Aces, Trouble City All-Stars, Cabinet, Boro Boogie Pickers, the New ... Times Leader
Exhibit of Greensburg photos opens
Prominent Kansas photographer Larry Schwarm will unveil "Greensburg After the Storm" today and Saturday at the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University. The exhibit will be on display through Aug. 10. A reception from 7-9 p.m. Saturday will feature comments from Schwarm, as well as an appearance by Greensburg Mayor John Janssen, music by the Greensburg High School vocal ensemble, wine ... The Wichita Eagle
FESTIVALS
FIRST BAPTIST OF NORTH MYRTLE BEACH CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER, 200 U.S. 17 S., will have its annual Spring Festival/Barbecue, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Saturday. Inflatables and Trackless Train all day for $10, and other activities such as face painting, Zoozort, WARM petting zoo and live music with the youth from Living Water Baptist. Free admission. 249-0399. SOUTH ISLAND STEAK HOUSE, 9674 Ocean ... The Myrtle Beach Sun News
Festival celebrates cultures
A new addition to the Treasures of the Tidelands Festival, the Gullah/Geechee Rice Celebration, will kick off festivities today. The festival, now in its third year and organized by the Georgetown Cultural Council, is designed to showcase the area's abundant art and cultural resources. Randy Gerber, executive director of the Georgetown Cultural Council, said, "This is a festival that focuses on ... The Myrtle Beach Sun News
Sights, sounds and sips promise super weekend (8 a.m.)
LAS CRUCES — Get ready for a Day of Dance Saturday at the Branigan Cultural Center. Enjoy wine, blues and jazz in La Union, see a British car show on the Mesilla Plaza, or a visit a commuter train at Railroad Days at the Las Cruces Railroad Museum. Las Cruces Sun-News
ART GALLERIES, MUSEUMS
Today Larry Schwarm , artist's talk, noon, Beren Gallery, Ulrich Museum of Art, WSU. "Larry Schwarm: Greensburg After the Storm," photographs, exhibits through Aug. 10. Free. Information, 316-978-3664. Final Friday, gallery crawl, 3-5 p.m. at Vagabond , 614 W. Douglas (Nicollette Engels reception); 5-7 p.m., at Steckline Art Gallery, De Mattias Fine Arts Center, Newman University ... The Wichita Eagle
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The Digital Photography and Imaging Show is an event for professional photographers taking place at London Islington’s Business Design Centre between 26 and 27 June 2008. Macworld UK
Green Machines
Heritage Museums & Gardens in Sandwich will join forces Saturday with dozens of businesses and leaders in the “green” community to host a daylong celebration for Earth Day. Cape Cod Times
Untitled #14 (What's Your Beef?) -- 04/25/08 at Denver Art Museum
Untitled #14 (What's Your Beef?) -- 04/25/08 at Denver Art Museum Rocky Mountain News
Billionaire Sues Wine Auction House
A billionaire businessman is suing a leading wine auction house, Acker Merrall & Condit, alleging that the company sold him counterfeit bottles of vintage wine. The lawsuit, filed by William Koch, an art and wine collector involved in several lawsuits against alleged purveyors of counterfeit wine, comes on the eve of an Acker auction in the West Village on Friday night that the company is ... The New York Sun
Stedelijk Museum to Divide Malevich Collection
The Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam agreed yesterday to give five paintings by the Russian Suprematist Kashmir Malevich to the artist's heirs, resolving a long-standing dispute over ownership of works in the museum's possession. When, in 2003-04, the Stedelijk exhibited 14 Malevich works abroad in America, the heirs of the artist sued, claiming that the city of Amsterdam, which operates the ... The New York Sun
Teens draw Oregon Trail history
The Olympian's art page showcases artwork from students in the districts the newspaper covers. Look for the weekly feature each Friday on the Education page. The Olympian
Christie's Announces Postwar Lineup
Lucian Freud's "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping" (1995), a large grotesque-realist nude, and Francis Bacon's "Study for a Self Portrait" (1976), a small triptych, are among the most notable works slated for auction at Christie's New York Spring Post-War and Contemporary Art Sale, scheduled for May 13. Both pieces are expected to sell for between $25 million and $35 million; unperturbed by the ... The New York Sun
Salute Your Shorts
When viewed in bulk, the plots, themes, and incidents making up short films take on a sameness that at best celebrates the universality and durability of storytelling, and at worst evokes the generic titles of "Friends" episodes ("The one about the grandmother's last wish," "The one about the nerd's crush," "The one about the bag of money," etc.). Luckily, the Tribeca Film Festival's short-film ... The New York Sun
THE SPYGLASS: Stage is set for artwork at city’s new fire station
For the first time in Colorado Springs, artwork will grace the grounds of a fire station. A fire station? Why not, city officials say. Some kind of piece - sculpture, mural or other medium - will be erected at Fire Station 8, near the southwest corner of Academy Boulevard and Airport Road. Colorado Springs Gazette