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Paws for a cause
Rebecca Brown and Minta Elsman, from left, were two of the many people attending Thursday night’s Paws for a Cause Masquerade Ball and Art Auction Fund-raiser for the Maude Schiffley Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, put on by Dr. and Mrs. Jason Gregory in the Garden Room at the Orangeburg Mall. The event raised money to improve the animal shelter. The Times and Democrat
Hispanic, Latino artists work at VU
Artists from Spain, Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico are among those represented in "Encounters/Encuentros: Tradition and Innovation in the Art of Spain and Latin America," an exhibit at Valparaiso University's Brauer Museum of Art. The exhibit is part of the ongoing celebration on campus of Hispanic Heritage Month. The Times of Northwest Indiana
Friday, September 26, 2008
Grant County Art Association annual fall open art show, through Sunday, Marion Public Library, 600 S. Washington St., sponsored in part by the Indiana Arts Commission and Arts Place of Indiana. Public hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday. Marion Chronicle-Tribune
Kathy Fuld, Wife of Lehman CEO, to Sell $20 Million of Artworks
Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Kathy Fuld, the art-collecting wife of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Officer Richard Fuld , is selling a $20 million set of rare Abstract Expressionist drawings at a November auction, according to two art dealers. Bloomberg
Dean festival kicks off
Barry Pollock polishes his ’65 Ford Mustang after just arriving from Versailles Thursday evening during the fifth annual James Dean Kick-off. emoore@chronicle-tribune.com Marion Chronicle-Tribune
Ten things to do this week
Express-Times File PhotoGet ready for Halloween with the Great Pocono 2008 Pumpkin Festival.1. Great pumpkins -- The Great Pocono 2008 Pumpkin Festival, Saturday to Oct. 26, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturdays, 11 a.m.... The Express-Times
Hopkinton teen is taking his shots
When resident Connor Zanini attended the town's Polyarts Festival in past years, he and his grandmother sold handbags crafted from cigar boxes and handmade stationary to help fight a disease he got at age 6. The MetroWest Daily News
Eastwood, 'Che' are highlights for film fest
NEW YORK — The New York Film Festival defines itself as an annual chance to take account of the state of film as art. Last year's story line was obvious enough: American filmmakers, from Julian Schnabel to Wes Anderson, were making — and finding ways to distribute — some excellent movies. What a difference a year makes. This year's festival — which opens Friday with the U.S. premiere of the ... The Oklahoman
The art’s in the mail (we promise)
ASHEVILLE – There were some strange looks at the post office when the organizers of a mail art show came to pick up the latest entries. Asheville Citizen-Times
'Vatican Splendors' artifacts represent 2,000 years of art, history, culture and religion
The new exhibit at the Minnesota History Center is grand, worthy of a king, or in this case, a pope. "Vatican Splendors" features about 200 artifacts representing 2,000 years of art, history, culture and religion including Michelangelo's compass and tools used in the building of the Sistine Chapel, bone fragments of St. Peter, the pastoral staff of Pope John Paul II and works by Bernini, Giotto ... Pioneer Press
Andy Warhol exhibit comes to Wexner Center for the Arts
"If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it." This Warhol quote and many others line the walls of the Wexner Center for the Arts. Just as his words say, an outsider can learn about Warhol's life just by scratching the surface and browsing the exhibit. The Lantern
Arlington Historical Society presents the Front Street Festival
Front Street Festival Enjoy the weather this weekend: Spend Saturday at the Arlington Historical Society’s Front Street Festival. It’s the fifth year for this street fest, which celebrates the history of Arlington’s earliest days. There’s plenty of history to explore, including 19th-century log cabins and an old one-room schoolhouse. At Knapp Heritage Park, you’ll see demonstrations of ... Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Today's agenda: Weekend movies and an art lecture
Friday film update New movies this weekend include The Duchess , Eagle Eye , above, Nights in Rodanthe and Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna . More about them and other films in Go! Collection stories Richard R. Brettell lectures on "Frederic Clay Bartlett: A Chicago Artist-Collector Gives the First Picasso and First Matisse to Enter an American Museum," 6 p.m. at the Kimbell Art ... Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Kane County plans folk art festival at convention center
Pump up your interior design quotient with a visit to the 26th annual Autumn Country Folk Art Festival on Friday, Sept. 26 to Sunday, Sept. 28 at the new Kane County Fairgrounds Convention Center. Daily Herald
From bars to an art gallery, development is hopping in downtown Waco
By J.B. Smith Waco Tribune-Herald
Modern Drawings Head for Auction
Christie?s Nov. 12 evening auction includes postwar master drawings from the collection of Richard S. Fuld Jr., the longtime chief executive of Lehman Brothers. New York Times
Lions Gather With Lambs at Christie?s and Sotheby?s
Sothebys?s sale of works from the collection of Edward Peerman Moore, which includes a painting by Edward Hicks, is expected to total $7 million. New York Times
A Closer Look at Birth of the Cool
“Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury,” the new exhibition at the Kemper Museum of Art, deserves more than just a broad overview. If you read the article that was run this past Monday, you now understand what the inspiration was for the exhibition. Student Life
Lives in a Danger Zone, Captured and Revisited
A sad, disturbing and fascinatingly problematic show at the International Center of Photography celebrates the photographer Susan Meiselas as a tireless champion of the dispossessed. New York Times
Hatch fest leads by example
The fifth annual HATCHFest, an international nonprofit film, music, design and technology festival founded on ideas of creativity, education and mentoring young artists, kicks off Wednesday with an art walk in downtown Bozeman. Bozeman Daily Chronicle
?Second Lives? at the Museum of Arts and Design
?Second Lives? confirms how thoroughly blurred the lines dividing art, craft and design have become over the past few decades. Roberta Smith reviews. New York Times
Using Old Materials to Put a New Face on a Museum
The opening shows at the new Museum of Arts and Design resemble an art seminar-cum-food-fight an amazing cacophony that is by turns dismaying, enervating, infuriating and invigorating. New York Times
Quasi-Reality Bites Back
The 46th New York Film Festival includes a striking number of features that might be called semi- or quasi- or crypto-documentaries. New York Times
'Moving Line' works grace Artists' Guild Gallery
Published: Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 10:13 a.m. "The Moving Line," an exhibit of works by Beth Bullman Regula, opens Aug. 1 at the Artists' Guild Gallery in Spartanburg's Chapman Cultural Center. Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
The most popular movies among NYTimes.com readers. Known for his cutthroat, win-at-all-costs political maneuverings, the late iconoclast Lee Atwater, the man behind successful Republican campaigns for Nixon and the Bush Dynasty, was the pioneer of the modern art of hardball campaigning. New York Times