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First Annual Ars Nova Theatre Festival to Feature Strole, Zayas, Harper, Thomas and More
Girls I've LIKE Liked, Ithaca, The Story of America and Step are among the works that will be featured in the Ars Nova Theatre Festival, which kicks off Oct. 16. Playbill
Makeover coming for Elliott Museum, Stuart's house of fringe
Forty-seven years of age isn't old. But it can be for a building. The Palm Beach Post
Sculptor still waiting to make corrections to Davis statue
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Nearly two weeks after the unveiling of a statue of former Syracuse University running back Ernie Davis that mistakenly depicts him wearing Nike shoes, sculptor Bruno Lucchesi is still waiting to make the corrections. The Uniontown Herald Standard
Toronto VFD fundraiser set
TORONTO - The city's volunteer fire department is hoping to raise money for training and equipment through a novel fundraiser that includes city residents having portraits taken by a local photography studio. The Steubenville Herald-Star
Fundraiser to help area arts programs
The 28th annual Evening of the Arts fundraiser for arts education programs in southern Beaufort County schools will take place today at the Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn. Island Packet
Exhibit At Progress Energy Gallery To Feature Masks
The human body, as well as the human face are viewed as pieces of artworks and have been the subject of artwork throughout the centuries. The Suncoast News Pasco
Night of inspiration
Like an angel waiting for wings it seems as though the sculpture of the woman simply can't wait any longer to rise up and fly away. "I'll Fly Away," is just one of several inspirational sculpture pieces artist Cindy Burden has created in her "Women of the Way" collection. The Lufkin Daily News
LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES
Looking for a relaxing way to while away a weekend? Try this: Take Blue Man Group, Cirque du Soleil, Orlando Opera Company, Orlando Ballet and Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, plus a dozen more of the best-known performing arts organizations in town. Orlando Weekly
Unadilla art show is Sunday
On Sunday, Sept. 28, the Unadilla Historical Association will sponsor its Fourth Annual Art Show. The show will be held at the Unadilla Historical Association Community Center (Masonic Lodge) on Main Street in Unadilla. The show will open at 10 a.m. and close at 5 p.m. The Daily Star
Entertainment
Italian police have recovered a stolen oil painting of a naked woman by French master Pierre-Auguste Renoir, stolen from a private collection 33 years ago, and arrested three suspects. The West Australian
Artist pays homage to a basic necessity
Artist Matt Moyer has constructed a slightly abstract rendering of Galesburg’s water system out of stainless steel, pipe, assorted valves, a hydrant, a spigot and rusted cylinders. The Galesburg Register-Mail
Don Ultang, Pioneer in Aerial Photography, Dies at 91
Mr. Ultang won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for photography for documenting a possibly racially motivated assault on the field during a college football game. New York Times
The 46th New York Film Festival Has Begun!
The 46th New York Film Festival is taking place in New York staring this weekend and running through October 12. As always, it creates a great opportunity for anyone in the New York area that hasn't been able to get to any of the other recent international film festivals a chance to see a lot of the big films in the Fall awards season before anyone else. Although ComingSoon.net has not been able ... Coming Soon
Marshall photographer joins local gallery
Art Impressions Gallery recently announced the addition of Marilyn Milovich, a Marshall photographer. Sedalia Democrat
Palmer Museum of Art Presents Selling the Susquehanna
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.- The Palmer Museum of Art presents Selling the Susquehanna, on view through December 21, 2008. The longest river on the eastern seaboard, the Susquehanna River figures prominently in the Museum's Pennsylvania Print Collection. Art Daily
Cheekwood Museum of Art Presents Its Second Scarecrows Exhibition
NASHVILLE, TN.- Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art presents the second annual exhibition, Scarecrows, on display September 27 through November 9. Dozens of fabulous, weird, funny, and traditional scarecrows will lurk along Cheekwood’s paths. Art Daily
New Public Art Finds Inspiration in the Anaphoric Clock
KANSAS CITY.- It is likely the largest, and most accurate, modern recreation of an anaphoric clock in the world. The Star Disk (2008), a new public art sculpture located in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, was created by Kansas City artist, Laura DeAngelis with Davison Architecture + Urban Design. Art Daily
The Harwood Museum of Art Announces New Development Director
TAOS, NM.- The Harwood Museum of Art announced the hire of new Development Director, Juniper Manley. Art Daily
Paris Portraits: Artists, Friends, and Lovers Opens at Bruce Museum
GREENWICH.- Art Daily
The Other Mainstream II: Selections From the Collection of Mikke and Stanley Weithorn Opens
Carter Kustera (b. 1962), Killed by Art, 2006, watercolor, gouache, oil stick, waterbase enamel on paper, 44.5" x 63" framed. Courtesy of Carter Kustera and Lyons Weir /Ortt. Art Daily
Jean-Pierre Gauthier: Machines at Play Opens at Akron Art Museum
Jean-Pierre Gauthier, Rut (Rut) (detail), 2004, sound installation, 15 x 36 x 23 ft. Collection of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Photo: Richard-Max Tremblay. Art Daily
Erwin Olaf - Rain, Hope, Grief & Fall Opens at Hague Museum of Photography
Erwin Olaf, Hope – The Kitchen, 2005, lambda print. Courtesy Flatland Gallery. THE HAGUE.- With their averted eyes half open, staring into nothingness, the models in the photographs in Erwin Olaf’s latest series, Fall, evoke a strange kind of aloofness. Art Daily
Lawrence Weiner - As Far as the Eye Can See Opens at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
Lawrence Weiner in his exhibition in K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. DUSSELDORF.- Art Daily
Fenimore Art Museum to Present a Major Retrospective on the Work of Earl Cunningham
Earl Cunningham, Hilton Head, 1938, oil on fiberboard, 19 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. (39.6 x 59.7 cm). Private Collection, Los Angeles. COOPERSTOWN, NY.- Art Daily