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Powerful exhibition
LOWER North Coast school education director Dennis Ang stepped in for ALP national president Warren Mundine AO on Wednesday night to officially open the powerful Courage to Care exhibition at Manning Regional Art Gallery. Manning River Times
Tracey Emin: 'I've yet again become my hardest critic'
I'm up in Edinburgh. I'm installing my show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. It's a big show – a very big show. The title is Tracey Emin: 20 Years. I had a show at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam six years ago, titled 10 Years, so really my Edinburgh show could have been called 16 years. Independent
Highlands Fest set for night of nostalgia with Chubby Checker
ABINGDON, Va. — The Virginia Highlands Festival is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a Free Street Party featuring Chubby Checker & The Wildcats Saturday on Main Street. Johnson City Press
Photography department celebrates 30th year
İstanbul's Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University's photography department celebrates its 30th anniversary at the Pera Museum with an exhibition featuring a selection of 67 photographs by its alumni. Zaman Online
Exhibition turns former prison into art center
The former Bayrampaşa Prison in İstanbul, which was recently closed and handed over to the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality, has been turned into an art gallery, at least partially, with a photography exhibition that went on display this week at its sports complex. Zaman Online
Galway, Ireland
Editor of Arts Ireland, Oonagh Montague keeps us up to date with ' What's on in the arts this month ? ' F estivals - Galway Arts Festival, - Cork Cycling Festival, - Dublin Circus Festival. Irish Emigrant
Plot your path to 73 beers at Oregon Brewers Festival
The Oregon Brewers Festival is the largest outdoor beer festival on the continent -- a sprawling, family-friendly behemoth that draws brewers and beer tourists from around the world, pumps millions into Portland's economy and is the crowning event of Oregon Craft Beer Month. The Oregonian
Community Day
Community Day organised by the Friends of St John's Sculpture Garden. Free refreshments, performances by Sing SE1, street dance, jazz and more. Stalls, raffle, arts workshops. London SE1
Diversions calendar
FESTIVALS LUMBERJACK DAYS: Music featuring national acts, the Stihl Timbersports Championships of professional lumberjacks, arts and crafts, 19th-century-style baseball and family activities. Fee for some music concerts. 10 a.m. today-Sun. Free. Lowell Park, Stillwater. Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
Weekend options: Buckaroo Bonanza
Riders in the Sky will be at wild west frontier fest. Slide on your cowboy boots and corral the family for a weekend of western-themed action. The Wild West Frontier Fest is a new festival including three days of entertainment. Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
Building Blueprints to the Future
MASON CITY, IA - A group of kids are getting an insider's glimpse into the life of an architect. This week the MacNider Art Museum is holding "Awesome Architecture Camp." KIMT Mason City
Things to do 7.25.08
FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES MUSEUM COMPETITIVE ART SHOW, today to Thursday. Paintings, graphics, and sculptures; all art is for sale. Call 683-1701 for details. Muskogee Phoenix
One Tank Trip - Big Cypress Gallery
Southwest Florida is home to one of the most famous photographers in the world. Clyde Butcher's photographs made Everglades conservation a priority. For this week's one tank trip, NBC2's Chad Oliver headed south on Tamiami Trail. NBC 2 Fort Myers
The joys and sorrows of womankind
Is Shakila the Grandma Moses of contemporary Indian art? Of course, unlike Shakila, who had been trying her hand at collage from a young age, the American folk artist took up painting seriously only after she was in her mid-70s. But they have a lot in common, nonetheless. The Telegraph
Dfest keeps getting bigger
TULSA — Dfest has announced that The All-American Rejects will be participating in an artist discussion panel at the Dfest Conference on Saturday. Dfest also says that the evening before, the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame will present their “Rising Star” award on stage at the music festival. Muskogee Phoenix
Venetian Festival this weekend will last one day longer
This year’s Saugatuck Venetian Festival will be one day longer than it has been, and will feature several new events, starting Friday, July 25. “As we expand the festival, we added a Sunday event schedule,” said festival organizer Don Karaus. Some of those events include an awards brunch at 11 a.m. at Coral Gables, 220 Water St., and a Classic Old Boat Show from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the ... The Holland Sentinel
Artist & Artifacts Art Show dedicated to local jewelry artist
This year's Artist & Artifacts Art Show, the third annual, will be held in memory of Broken China Jewelry's Linda Carrigan on July 25-26, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Carrigan passed away this year after a long battle with breast cancer. Bandera Bulletin
Museum collecting phones for soldiers
The Albany Museum of Art is collecting cell phones to donate to the thousands of troops overseas. They start the collection on Thursday, July 24th. They're encouraging people to bring in old, discarded phones and the museum will send them to a company that puts an hour worth of minutes on the phone. WALB Albany
What's On: Exhibitions. - July 2008
Joni Mitchell as an artist; The Russell Gallery is hosting a new exhibition for the month of July ‘Lashing rain’, paintings by Frank Sandford; The Town Hall Arts centre presents a mixed media Art Exhibition, by Transition year students, St Josephs Secondary School, Charlestown.; Irish Emigrant
Ga lway Arts Festival
The Philip Glass Ensemble, Druid, Bill Viola, Joni Mitchell, Omara Portuondo, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Tinariwen, Walker Evans, Blondie, Larry Gelbart, Craig Wright and John Mahoney are just some of the iconic and world renowned artists featured at Galway Arts Festival 2008 taking place from July 14-27. Irish Emigrant
James Coleman: Background, 1991-94 - The Art Newspaper
Native artist James Coleman uses photography, film stills, transparencies, slide shows, sound tracks and film to explore communication. Art Newspaper
MoMA Fabricates a Memorable Exhibition
One of New York’s most exciting cultural venues this summer is a vacant lot in Midtown Manhattan. There, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), which adjoins the site, is staging part of a new exhibition, Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling . Organized by Barry Bergdoll, the museum’s chief curator of architecture and design, and curatorial assistant Peter Christensen, the show explores the ... Architectural Record
On Exhibit At MoMA: Not Your Mother's Prefab
Prefabricated houses don't have to be ticky-tacky. Hartford Courant
NY NY Channel 13 Gives its Take on the "Reel New York"
New Yorkers are lucky to have one of the strongest public television stations in the country. Where the rest of the nation calls it PBS , we know it as Channel 13, and for more than a dozen years, it has hosted some of the most cutting edge filmmaking for, by and about New Yorkers, during the annual Reel New York Film Festival , currently a month into its 13th season at the difficult hour of ... indieWIRE
Favorite Nooks: Yeng Constantino
MANILA, Philippines—I love looking out the window of my condo unit. It’s my favorite spot. I’m into photography; the things I see from this spot inspire me. I especially love that time of day when the sun is about to set. It lights up the outline of the buildings in the most breathtaking way. Philippine Daily Inquirer