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Whitestone woman may win art competition
The Long Island Museum in Stony Brook has announced that Whitestone artist Diana DeSantis is a finalist in the museum’s juried art competition, “Summer on Long Island.” Queens Courier
Community rallies around defaced sculpture
Residents of St. Paul's east side are trying to figure out how to deal with what police are treating as a hate crime. Several weeks ago, vandals swept through a local park and defaced a popular sculpture. Minnesota Public Radio
Calendar for Aug. 7
Celebrate Milpitas!, a festival of art, wine, entertainment and culture, will be hosted by the Milpitas Chamber of Commerce on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 16 and 17, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on South Milpitas Boulevard. The Milpitas Post
Flooded U of I arts campus to be closed for a year
The University of Iowa arts campus - once home to some of the state’s best-known artwork — will be closed for at least a year to repair flood damages, officials said Wednesday. The Des Moines Register
By Harry Saltzgaver
A long-awaited audit of the Long Beach Museum of Art’s art collection — including works owned by the city — was released Monday with a recommendation that the management agreement be reworked. gazettes.com
Artists’ Alliance of Sugar Land features “Artist of Month”
Each month the Artists’ Alliance of Sugar Land, a nonprofit art school and gallery, features the works of one of its member artists in in the group’s Sugar Land studio, located at 104 Industrial Blvd. Ste. Q in Sugar Land. Fort Bend Sun
Art.com moves framing business from Oakland to Hayward
Art.com Inc., an online vendor of reprinted artwork, plans to move its framing business from Oakland to a 48,000-square-foot building in Hayward. East Bay Business Times
Mystery of the unknown artist who ‘painted with Andy Warhol’
Everyone, as Andy Warhol put it, will be famous for 15 minutes. But for one artist, fame - and the attentions of Warhol and his entourage - seems to have been so fleeting as to escape him entirely. Times Online
Gardening: Hard work leads to spot on TV show
Jan Mohr Meng and her husband, Marc, garden and create art on six acres they bought between Grove and Pryor in 1992. The work of both Jan and Marc is inspired by nature. Marc is known as the Zen Spoonmaster for the wooden spoons he carves and Jan is known for her gourd carving and painting. Muskogee Phoenix
Port Norris residents celebrate National Night Out
From making arts and crafts, to watermelon eating contests and checking out the 150-year-old mummified dingo brought to the event by Art Dickson, Port Norris residents gathered Tuesday to mark the town's first National Night Out event. Press of Atlantic City
Miami Beach to Host Innovative International Lifestyle Fair "HAUTE MIAMI" in January 2009
In the true spirit of innovation, Haute Miami, the first uber-luxe fair of its kind in the United States, will debut in glamorous Miami Beach January 8th - 11th, 2009. With an expansive roster of 160 prestigious, international exhibitors featuring contemporary and vintage fashion, jewelry, art & antiques, design, exquisite gardens, exotic yachts, airplanes, personal helicopters, new technology ... Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance
Dream Big Festival aims to help kids focus energy on arts
The second annual Dream Big Festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday at Jordan Valley Park in downtown Springfield, the Urban Neighborhoods Alliance announced in a news release. The Springfield News-Leader
Art.com moves framing business from Oakland to Hayward
Art.com Inc., an online vendor of reprinted artwork, plans to move its framing business from Oakland to a 48,000-square-foot building in Hayward. BizJournals
People - Novadown Fashioned Feathers Wearable Art Show
The 2008 Novadown Fashioned Feathers Wearable Art Show was held at the Otago Museum on Thursday. Photos are by Linda Robertson, and are available for purchase at Otago Images. Otago Daily Times
Nikon D90 to Confuse DSLR Market with Live View Video Recording?
Most people who invest in a digital SLR are pretty serious about their photography. After all, when you spend that much money on a body and a series of lenses, you want to make sure that you're getting good bang for your buck. MobileMag
Carolina Beach arts festival
Submitted by WWAY on 6 August 2008 - 5:07pm. READ MORE: During this tight economy, one beach town is offering visitors and residents the opportunity to have some fun for free. WWAY 3 Wilmington
Drawings from life
The Woodbridge Art Group is showcasing its membership's work in a "Life Invitational -- 2008" exhibition at the Skulski Gallery in the Polish Cultural Foundation in Clark through Aug. 15. The group members have been drawing models from life for several years now, and 10 members, from such towns as Woodbridge and Piscataway, are participating in this show, curated by Maxine King. The Skulski Art ... The Star-Ledger
What's up today
The Midday Optimists will meet at noon at Western Sizzlin. A Floyd County employee health fair is being held all day at The Forum. A program offering insight on the cultural symbolism found in works of art by Native Americans from the Pacific Northwest and other cultures is being offered at Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville.The program, which begins at 12:15 p.m., compliments the exhibit ... Rome News-Tribune
Art In the Afternoon
If you want to take a break from all the political stuff, the hate stuff and the attack ads and the county political stuff—and I think we could all use a break—have a look at the upper left-hand gallery at the Knoxville Museum of Art. It’s called Higher Ground, sort of an episodic history of art in the Knoxville area, and the KMA’s first permanent exhibit. Metro Pulse
art Till August 7 at Masters Collection Art Gallery, G7 Malayalay Apts, 3 Woodburn Park Road; 11 am - 7 pm:
Creativity Unlimited , an exhibition of recent creations by Anup Giri, Swapan Palley, Sachin Jaltare, Beena Pradhan, Debabrata Chakravarty, Asit Sarkar, Samir Paul, Minakshi De, Sukanata Das, Subrata Das, Dhananjoy Ghosh, Nelson Kennedy, Kajol Mondal, Sutapa Khan, Sibsaday Choudhary and others. The Telegraph
Making art out of Article 9
Perhaps there are two types of Japanese people: those who stay in Japan, and those who leave for foreign shores. Distance means the two rarely interact, and it's just as well, because the results can be fiery. Such was the case in 1986, when the then New York-based, Japanese artist Nobuyuki Oura participated in a group exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Toyama. His contribution was "Holding ... The Japan Times
Sculpture pulled from Indiana river after floods
COLUMBUS, Ind. — A crane has lifted a one-ton steel sculpture from the East Fork White River, where it was washed from a Columbus park by flooding on June 7. Evansville Courier & Press
Lasting Impressions exhibit on display at Moose Hill
Mass Audubon at the Moose Hill Wildlife Sanctuary Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of “Lasting Impressions” an exhibit featuring the photography of Fred Martins. His latest body of work focuses on reconfiguring objects found as well as discarded in nature. Medfield Press
Summer in the City: Making Texas cows proud
The Austin Ice Cream Festival will be a Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory of sorts, only with ice cream instead. There aren't many better ways to beat the heat. So scream already! News 8 Austin