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A Director Creates 'Ballast' in His Soul
Had circumstances broken another way, Lance Hammer might not have spent the past five years creating "Ballast," which opens next week at Film Forum. The film, set against the desolate yet stirring winter vistas of the Mississippi Delta, is a parable of loss and redemption that won top prizes for directing and cinematography at last year's Sundance Film Festival. It was born of an almost ...
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Daybreaker Rally shaping up to be a vintage event
The 2008 Turners Auctions Daybreaker Rally is shaping up to be a vintage event. The Daybreaker is celebrating its 25th year, and while it is not the 25th running of the rally, it is a celebration of the milestone for the club to maintain such a high profile event for this length of time.
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Guggenheim Foundation taps new director
The famous art foundation mined internationally before selecting Richard Armstrong, former director of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, as its new director.
Crain's New York Business |
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ROC Art and Auction postponed
The River of Culture's Art & Auction has been rescheduled in conjunction with Bubba Can Cook for Saturday, Oct. 4. Viewing starts at 2 p.m. The auction will begin at 3 p.m.
Navasota Examiner |
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Local filmmaker will show work at festival
Joe Valenti may not be a household name just yet, but that could soon change if he has anything to say about it. The Brick Township native and current resident of Cliffwood Beach has two films set to premiere at the Reel Jersey Film Festival to be held in Rutherford on Sept. 27, and online buzz indicates these movies could be hits.
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Arizona artist to display recycled works of art
An Arizona artist will have his sculptures made from recycled and found objects on exhibit for the first time. Matt Mays’ takes things that most people throw away and incorporates them into his work.
ABC 15 Phoenix |
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Art Detectives Going High-Tech At Beloit Museum
BELOIT, Wis. -- The treasure seekers bring to mind the likes of Indiana Jones but modern archeology is more like the TV show CSI, using high tech tools to determine what an item is, and even if it's a fake.
WISC-TV Madison |
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Shine a light
BUSLOADS of tourists are about to descend upon the Highlands with the opening of Tulip Time tomorrow. The next two weeks will be filled with art, music, food, wine and all things floral as the shire welcomes the coming of spring with our biggest annual festival.
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Holland-based artist takes pride in her eye for detail
Ng Siau Lee’s artwork is proof that Chinese ink paintings are not just about landscapes, flowers, birds and figures.
The Star |
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MOST POPULAR STORIES
Eleven original oil paintings and charcoals by famed equine artist George Ford Morris will be available at the 31st annual Harness Tracks of America equine art auction on October 4 at the Tattersalls Sales arena in Lexington.
Thoroughbred Times |
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Adrian Searle is blown away by Tate Modern's powerful Rothko show
Adrian Searle: Tate Modern's Rothko exhibition is a great show, and I say that as someone who is not much drawn to the artist
Guardian Unlimited |
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Photo-Gear Nuts, Start Your Drooling: Germany's Photokina Revs Up
: Photo: Jock Fistick/Wired.com COLOGNE, Germany -- Just 18 hours before this year's Photokina opens its doors, the biannual camera extravaganza was looking like a bit of a wreck. But just like photography, behind the scenes at giant expos is rarely pretty. To keep spirits high, new gear announcements and demos are already coming through, including a hands-on with what might be the most ...
Wired News |
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Gaga for Galas? Not This Year, Say Socialites
The Metropolitan Opera’s opening-night gala—held this year on Monday, Sept. 22—is one of the premiere fall benefits. It precedes other major society happenings like the Whitney Museum of Art gala on Oct. 20, the New York Public Library Lions Benefit on Nov. 3 and the Lincoln Center gala on Nov. 10. But while tickets to all of these have already sold out, some guests wondered how the big ...
The New York Observer |
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The Miraculous is Sublime in Director Carlos Reygadas's Stellet Licht
Subject of a week-long retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, the Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas is part stuntmeister, part visionary—a post-Warhol impresario and trained diplomat who, flirting with fraudulence and often working without a screenplay, orchestrates conditions where non...
The Village Voice |
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Lafo resigns from DeCordova Museum
The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park today announced the resignation of Director of Curatorial Affairs Rachel Rosenfield Lafo after nearly 25 years at the museum.
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New York Film Festival 2008
What's the story with the 2008 New York Film Festival? I'll cop to being co-conspirator. I helped pick the films, as did my colleague Scott Foundas. For better or worse, two of the festival's five-member selection committee work for Village Voice Media. (For the record, the other three are Richar...
The Village Voice |
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Music Review: Tori Amos - Live at Montreux 1991/1992
The beginning of the Tori Amos experience holds true 27 years later. Occasionally you run across an artist who simply takes your breath away. Sometimes it's a painting, a writer or an actor, but for me it's more often a musician. Tori Amos in the early 1990s left a rather large impression in my mind. Little Earthquakes, her first solo album, burned itself into the airwaves in 1992 and Amos' ...
Blogcritics.org |
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First exhibition in three years
The Age of Fishes Museum is holding its first Art Exhibition in three years.
Canowindra News |
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Asia:NZ Media Newsletter - September 2008
Kia ora and welcome to the September edition of the Asia New Zealand Foundation media newsletter. Find out more about the right strategies to adopt for doing business in India and learn about next month’s Diwali festivals.
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Daily Digest 09/24/08
Daily Digest for Sept. 24, 2008: Recycling contest targets schools NORMAL — Ecology Action Center has started a Traveling Globe recycling contest that awards a trophy to the school that demonstrates the greatest improvement in its recycling efforts.
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BONAPARTED
A Montreal scholar is donating over 60 Napoleon artifacts to the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, including his funeral mask, two locks of his hair, his pen case, riding boots, gloves and the hat the emperor wore during the Russian Campaign.
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Mark Rothko: Still hip to be square
Abstract painting is often compared to music. If that's so, then Mark Rothko's paintings are the big ballads of art. They cry it out and carry you away, and they way they go is like "Lady in R-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-d", or "I can't L-I-I-I-I-VE, if living is without you-u-u-u", or any of those surging numbers with their transparent designs on our emotions.
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Shelby Lynne, Royal Festival Hall, London
While her younger sister Allison Moorer has pursued a straightforward career as a country performer, Shelby Lynne has had a more patchwork approach to music, her initial decade as a country artist being followed by her 1999 reinvention as a rhythm and blues singer on I Am Shelby Lynne, and more recently by this year's album of reinterpreted songs from the Dusty Springfield catalogue, Just a ...
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Japanese artist advertises Vietnam through paintings
VietNamNet Bridge – “I like the warmness, the enthusiasm of Vietnamese people, and I decided to stay in this land,” said female Japanese painter Takeo Akiko, who recently had her first painting exhibition named “Vietnam – The Land I Love” in Hanoi from September 13-16.
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Lee Rosenbaum's cultural commentary
Both parts of the above headline are akin to "Dog Bites Man": They are so expected as to be hardly news at all. But for the record, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has just made the expected official announcement : Its board voted to appoint Richard Armstrong as its next director, effective Nov. 4. That means he'll be leaving his directorship of the Carnegie Museum of Art somewhat before ...
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