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Nasher Sculpture Center celebrating 5 years with tribute collection
Chock full of name brands such as Giacometti, Matisse, Miró, Calder and de Kooning, the Nasher Sculpture Center opened five years ago. Dallas Morning News
Breckenridge art festival is Saturday through Monday
BRECKENRIDGE - The summer of art in the High Country concludes with the 33rd annual Gathering at the Great Divide, the longest running art festival in Breckenridge over Labor Day weekend, taking place Saturday through Monday at North Main Street and... Summit Daily News
Annual event features art, performances, food
By Georgia Temple Entertainment Editor Artists booths will dot the grounds of the Museum of the Southwest this coming weekend when the 39th annual Septemberfest opens Friday. The annual event features a weekend of arts and crafts, fine art viewing, live performances, food and activities for children, teenagers and adults. Midland Reporter-Telegram
Copper Country kicks into full gear
Get the schedule for Copper Mountain's country music festival here Summit Daily News
Got Plans' Entertainment Calendar For September
monDAY, 1PIONEER FLORIDA DAYS FESTIVAL Dade City The Lakeland Ledger
Coens coast into festival spotlight
Get ready for one of the hippest dog-and-pony shows at TIFF The Globe and Mail
Freeport artist wins Minnesota duck stamp contest
Scot Storm has found out that his acrylic painting of a pair of common goldeneye drakes will appear on the migratory waterfowl stamp KARE 11 Minneapolis-St. Paul
Listen up, chow down: Music, food draw visitors to festivals
If a person could be in two places at one time, this would be the weekend to have that ability. Festival welcomed visitors to partake of a cornucopia of food, great music and neighborhood homecomings. The Tribune-Democrat
Trivia contest highlights city knowledge
Susan Gorsuch of Pardeeville spent the past week researching the history of Portage in anticipation of Thursday's Portage Trivia Contest. Unfortunately for Gorsuch, no one showed up to participate. Portage Daily Register
Music Review: Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg unapologetically tell the story of the streets. Perhaps one of the most appealing things about Dr. Dre’s masterpiece from late 1992 is that it is practically a duo album. The Chronic is Dr. Dre’s solo debut, of course, but it features an unknown Snoop Doggy Dogg just as much as the album’s apparent star. This was indicative of Dr. Dre, of course, and he’s often ... Blogcritics.org
Post-War and Contemporary Editions for Sal at Christie's South Kensington
LONDON.- Christie’s South Kensington’s upcoming Prints sale offers a wide array of prints from contemporary artists, many of whom have become as iconic as the images they create. Art Daily
Collecting East Asia: The Lee Wonsik Collection Opens at The Krannert Art Museum
CHAMPAIGN, IL.- Art Daily
"Global Suburbia: Meditations on the World of 'Burbs" Opens Today
Thomas Wrede, Settlement with a Road. JENKINTOWN, PA.- Abington Art Center presents its newest exhibition, “Global Suburbia,” opening Aug. 30, 2008. From Bangkok to New Jersey, these suburb-inspired works of art highlight the wide ranging types and locations of suburbs. Art Daily
Alice Neel - Drawing from Life Opens at Moore College of Art & Design
Alice Neel, Marilyn Symmes 1981, oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches. Courtesy The Estate of Alice Neel. PHILADELPHIA.- Art Daily
Robert Sperry, Bright Abyss, At the American Museum of Ceramic Art
Sperry, #833, 1988, 4x27. POMONA, CA.- Robert Sperry, Bright Abyss is a retrospective exhibition of over 90 works of art from Sperry’s ceramic career including chargers, platters, wall plaques, sculptures, and murals. This show presents the evolution of one of ceramic’s great innovators. Art Daily
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts To Spotlight "The County Election"
George Caleb Bingham's iconic American painting "The County Election" will be on view at VMFA as the nation prepares to vote in November. The 1851-52 oil on canvas measures 35-7/16 by 48-3/4 inches. Art Daily
The Morris Museum of Art Reinstalls Robert Rauschenberg's August Allegory (Anagrams)
Robert Rauschenberg’s August Allegory (Anagrams,) and its companion pieces, hanging in the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia. AUGUSTA, GA.— Art Daily
Out of Albion: British Art from the Allen Memorial Art Museum
OBERLIN, OH.- The Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) at Oberlin College presents Out of Albion: British Art from the Allen Memorial Art Museum. The exhibit is on view in the museum’s John N. Stern Galleries through December 23, 2008. Art Daily
Hood Presents First Comprehensive Display of European Art at Dartmouth
Paul Cézanne, French, 1839 1906, Large Bathers, 1896 98, Color lithograph, state ii/III, 161/4 x 201/2 inches. Signed on the stone lower right: P. Cézanne. Gift of Herbert E. Hirschland, Class of 1939; PR .964.91. Art Daily
Modern Art. Modern Lives. Then + Now Opens Today at The Austin Museum of Art
Vincent van Gogh, Bridge over the Seine at Asnières, (Le Pont sur la Seine à Asnieres), 1887, Oil on canvas, 20 ¾ x 29 ½ inches, Private Collection, Photographer: Peggy Tenison. Art Daily
A natural and daring choice to open festival
The flim Passchendaele, like the festival itself, is a curious blend of politics and creativity, art and commercialism, earnestness and exploitation The Globe and Mail
Freeport Artist Wins Minn. Duck Stamp Contest
A Freeport artist has won another Minnesota duck stamp contest. WCCO Minneapolis - St. Paul
PEOPLE PROFILE: June Kunzweiler, Wilson artist
Friendly competition has picked up in the Village of Wilson for folks painting cutouts of the Fleetwing schooner built in 1863.The village has celebrated its 150th birthday, but interest in the plywood replicas continues to grow. June Kunzweiler of Wood Street has painted the 48-by-48-inch model in a patriotic theme and placed it at the corner of Wood and Lake streets. Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
LACMA relaunches 1973's 'LA Flash,' a photo exhibition of street style
In a 21st century twist, museum visitors will be digitally photographed for a fashion blog. Decades before street-style blogs clogged the Internet, LACMA was capturing images of L.A.'s most fashionable folks on sidewalks all over town. The photos were featured in the museum's groundbreaking 1973 fashion exhibition, "LA Flash." Los Angeles Times