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St. Louis Art Capsules
Ongoing Alex Couwenberg: Working Space Painter Alex Couwenberg brings his Southern Californian aesthetic to St. Louis in "Alex Couwenberg: Working Space," an exhibition at Bruno David Gallery. Raised in Los Angeles and Orange County, Couwenberg is deeply influenced by the cultural touchstones of th ...
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Boléro: 'Beautiful symptom of a terrible disease'
A painting that mirrors Ravel's Boléro by a woman who shared a brain disease with the composer, provides a window into the creative mind
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The art of exploration
May is packed with different art events ranging from student exhibits to fundraisers featuring work from people with disabilities. Add a little color to your weekend with this list of art shows, dates and locations.
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May events
The Academy of Our Lady of Guam will hold its Fine Arts Week from 5 to 8 p.m. today and tomorrow in the school's auditorium. May 1: Magic Carpet Ride; May 2: Livication Night and African-inspired art show.
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“Listen Up!”
The Iris Project wants you to push its buttons. For its public art project “Listen Up!,” the local artist collective stuck 500 red sound buttons on buildings, signs, bus stops and more in the Museum District and the Montrose area. All for your pushing pleasure. When pushed, each button mak ...
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“Art Born of the Horror”
Israeli artist Avraham Sapir, who was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust, makes work dealing with genocide and torture. Artist/poet Saul Balagura is not a survivor, but many of his paintings and poems also deal with the events and effects of the Holocaust. Work by both Sapir and ...
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“Houston Architectural Trilogy: Photography of Valentin Gertsman”
It is very difficult to see urban construction as anything less than an enormous pain in the ass, especially when you’re stuck for 45 minutes on a six-lane highway that construction has winnowed into one chute. Either photographer Valentin Gertsman didn’t drive for 22 years or he truly bel ...
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“J. Antonio Farfan, A Solo Exhibit: On the Nature of Time”
In 2002, the artist J. Antonio Farfan, who had spent much of his young life in our fair city (he was educated at the University of Houston), decamped for New York. Fortunately for us, he decided to return in 2004, and his work has since appeared at multiple galleries and public exhibitions. “J. ...
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Buffalo Commons set May 30-31
The 2008 Buffalo Commons Storytelling Festival will take place on May 30 and 31 at various locations throughout the City of McCook. The festival is made possible, in part, by Nebraska Humanities Council grant funds.
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Cinco de Mayo Festival
It’s a hometown lineup at the Cinco de Mayo Festival, the annual celebration of the Mexican victory at the 1862 Battle of Puebla. Girl group Las Fenix (four teenaged sisters who turn Norteño music on its ear) and Fito Olivarez (writer of the cumbia classic “Juana La Cubana” ...
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Capsule Art Reviews: "Apertura-Colombia," "Craft in America — Expanding Traditions," "Dario Robleto: Oh, Those Mirrors ...
"Apertura-Colombia" This survey of Colombian photography and video at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art far outshined the official FotoFest exhibitions of contemporary Chinese photography. The Station is at its best when it deals with art and politics, and this show is no exception. Angel Rojas ...
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Southern Comfort
One can only imagine what the first visitors to the $1 million Hotel Hermitage thought when the doors opened Sept. 17, 1910. Commissioned by 250 Nashvillians in 1908, the Beaux Arts structure featured extravagant detailing and embellishments greatly influenced by French Renaissance style. Only the finest materials were used for the exterior and interior: Italian sienna marble in the entrance, ...
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Chief Pocatello sculpture nearly ready
POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) - Pocatello is closer to getting a statue of it's namesake. Local sculptor J.D. Adcox is working on a statue of Chief Pocatello for the Valley Pride's Bring Home the Chief campaign.
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Chief Pocatello sculpture nearly ready
Associated Press - April 30, 2008 12:54 PM ET POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) - Pocatello is closer to getting a statue of it's namesake. Local sculptor J.D.
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Photography showing in May
A photography showing to include work by Photographer Deanna Beavers is to take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday through Sunday, May 2, 3, and 4. The event is sponsored by www.beaversphotos.com and will be held at 1901 Seaview St., Waldport.
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Cattelan artwork commissioned for Cologne venue
Cologne, Germany - Italian sculptor Maurizio Cattelan, 47, has been commissioned to do an installation at the Stommeln Old Synagogue, the town of Pulheim in suburban Cologne said Wednesday. Padua-born Cattelan is widely known for the weird humour of ...
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ANGELIC IDIOCY
“It became a morality tale by accident,” Bill Plympton says of his latest animated feature film, Idiots and Angels, which has two more screenings at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 30 and May 3. Regardless of Plympton’s intent, the thematic consequence is right there in the title: Idiots and Angels follows a sadistic gun salesman ignorant to the struggles of those around him—until a pair of ...
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
For the French, the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 was a disaster of the most total sort. The Prussian army strolled through France and laid siege to Paris.
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Not quite lights out
The first Hoosic River Light Project, alias "light festival," proved a mixed success in North Adams, with many folks apparently expecting bigger and brighter things and other folks walking away thinking the whole darned thing was pretty cool.
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UMass officials trying to locate missing Hiroshi Anzai painting
AMHERST - Police at the University of Massachusetts are asking for help locating an oil painting by Hiroshi Anzai titled "The Japanese Railroad Crossing" that appears to be missing and is believed to be stolen.
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Madrid party to mark bicentenary of bloody uprising
Madrid will mark the bicentenary of a bloody uprising against Napoleonic troops that inspired Goya's most famous paintings, with solemn ceremonies on Friday, cultural events and traditionally lively street parties.
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Toffs' phone maker goes loco over Rococo
A monetary masterpiece? Vertu has used an 18th Century French art movement as the inspiration for its latest range of exclusive, overpriced handsets.…
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Coast Guard Cutter Fir scheduled to visit
The U. S. Coast Guard Cutter "Fir," a 225-foot seagoing buoy tender homeported in Astoria, is scheduled to attend the Newport Loyalty Day and Sea Fair Festival May 1-4.
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MacEwen speaker at guild luncheon
Artist Tracy MacEwen is the program speaker at Coastal Arts Guild's luncheon meeting, starting at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, May 1, at the Visual Arts Center. "Playful abstraction" is how MacEwen describes his recent work, vividly-hued encaustic paintings called the "Home Away From Home" series.
Newport News-Times |
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Binsted Scholarship Awarded for First Time
A scholarship was created in memory of Tyler Binsted, an accomplished undergraduate sculpture student at VCU, who died in March.
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