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Exhibit introduces visitors to donors, collection
Despite its often cutting-edge nature, the art world is still old-fashioned in many lovely ways. Some of those include doing business on a handshake, and the acceptance of one's word that a transaction will be honored. Akron Beacon Journal
Mass. town celebrates its past of Halloween trickery
SALEM, MASS. — Stroll down Museum Place Mall in late October and you may feel you've entered another world. People wearing pointy witch hats and Dracula-like capes swirl through the pedestrian street. Shops with names such as Wicked Goodz, Broom Closet and Hex line the passage. Street vendors offer fright wigs and tarot readings. Houston Chronicle
Book reproduces painter's work
Singer exhibit in Canton Prolific Malvern-born painter Clyde Singer (1908-1999) is saluted in Clyde Singer's America, a large-format art book. The 123 works, selected by M.J. Albacete, executive director of the Canton Museum of Art, show Singer's development and diversity; he worked in watercolors and oils, and painted portraits, landscapes, streetscapes and sports. The exuberant colors of his ... Akron Beacon Journal
REVIEW: PARIS/NEW YORK: DESIGN FASHION CULTURE 1925-1940
Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave. 212-534-1672 or mcny.org. Schedule: Through Feb. 22. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Recommended admission: $9, students and senior citizens $5, families (maximum two adults) $20, children 12 and under free. The Record
Scaring up a good chance at win
This summer, the Crete Public Library asked teens to participate in a statewide poster contest, which will determine the art to be used for the Illinois Library Association’s 2010 iREAD Summer Reading Program. The Times of Northwest Indiana
Art festivals a chance to 'live'
INDIALANTIC -- At a booth called Pampered Hearts, Palm Bay resident Sharon Lamphier tried a body scrub made of sea salt and ground walnut shells on her hands. Florida Today
Oct. 7St. Nicholas Orthodo...
Oct. 7 St. Nicholas Orthodox Church — 755 S. Cleveland Ave., Suffield Township. Something Russian Festival, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Oct. 7, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Oct. 8. Baked goods, Tea Room, Russian imports, demonstrations, dance troupe and balalaika orchestra performances, arts, crafts. Lunch and dinner available. Oct. 9 Portage County Gardener's Inc. — 5154 S. Prospect St., Ravenna. Autumn ... Akron Beacon Journal
Sunday, October 05, 2008
•Quilts from the Heartland Show, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Delaware County Fairgrounds Heartland Hall; exhibit of Muncie Quilter’s Guild will include quilts made by members from challenges including wall hanging inspired by gift bag, quilt from blocks inspired by Civil War; 10 vendors also available; profits to Ball Memorial Hospital for mammograms for uninsured/underinsured women. Marion Chronicle-Tribune
South Shore Arts' 65th Salon show has something for everyone
South Shore Arts gallery manager Mary McClelland expects a piece or two at their annual salon show to have some viewers rendered speechless. The Times of Northwest Indiana
Docktor tends to nature’s surfaces
HUDSON — B Docktor, known to many people locally as a massage therapist, has a secret life she shares with streambeds, rocks, trees and flowers. That life is on display in her first photographic exhibit in several years, at Verdigris Art and Tea, 13 S. Third St. Register-Star
Debut sex expo covers up
Body painting artist Ania Kohinski says she's never had to cover up parts of her models -- until she came to London. This weekend, she met "the nipple police." London Free Press
What goes into making an exhibition?
After its planning of two years, the autumn exhibition currently on view at the New Bedford Art Museum (NBAM), titled "HOME GROWN: 10 from the SouthCoast," is now open to the public. As most exhibits are, this was a labor of love for me as its curator,... The Standard-Times
Spanish artist’s well-known wartime etchings on display in Hanoi
VietNamNet Bridge – People from around the world should say “no” to war and shoulder responsibility for protecting world peace, said Pro. Dr. Truong Quoc Binh, Director of the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum at an exhibition entitled “Art in times of War” that opened in Hanoi on October 3. Vietnam Net
This month's makeover: Jane Croy
Who: Jane Croy, 55, art gallery curator and artist. Memphis Commercial Appeal
Portland, Oregon
Hip and cosmopolitan Portland continues to emerge as a popular urban vacation destination for gay and lesbian travellers, thanks in part to its stellar restaurant scene, liberal social climate, and artsy personality. RainbowNetwork.com
SouthCoast all about art this weekend
Arts were celebrated across SouthCoast on Saturday, as New Bedford artists opened their studios to the public and Lakeville held its fourth annual Arts & Music Festival. The Standard-Times
Bruce Museum gears up for arts festival
sharedstory BY ABBY LUBY Special Correspondent The Bruce Museum in Greenwich is gearing up for its 27th annual outdoor arts festival, a weekend-long, juried event featuring works by 90 artists. Stamford Advocate
Arts and crafts and 175-mile sale make fun fare this autumn
They shimmered, their orange and blue and green and gold trapping the sun in fine dots and happy speckles. And -- surprise, surprise -- it was mostly the women who lingered to stare, angling the glass pendants high against a generous light that embraced both almost immediately. Typical? Probably. But then again, the GRADD Arts and Crafts Festival only comes once per year. And sometimes jewelry ... The Gleaner
Community calendar
Today Arlington Community Band concert , 7 p.m., First Christian Church, 910 S. Collins St. Free. 817-478-6467. Society for the History of Discoveries annual meeting , through Tuesday, UT-Arlington Library, sixth floor. Hear presentations on discoveries, explorations and cartographic history; attend exhibit openings, dinner and receptions. www.sochistdisc.org . Monday ... Fort Worth Star-Telegram
The art of recycling
Anita Wexler stops just short of the junkyard when it comes to finding the right material for her sculptures. The Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Fall is busy for the Henderson Fine Arts Center
Judging by the Henderson Fine Arts Center's fall calendar, the center celebrating an anniversary this year is going to be alive with music, theater, visual arts and dance opportunities. The Gleaner
Film to Celebrate Hispanic Festival
To celebrate the upcoming Hispanic Festival of Lakeland, the Hispanic Club of Lakeland and the Polk Museum of Art will show the Spanish movie "La Violetera" at 3 p.m. today at the museum, 800 East Palmetto Street, Lakeland.The movie is free.Call the museum at 863-688-7743 for more information. The Lakeland Ledger
Local news in brief for Oct. 5
Sandhill cranes are beginning to arrive at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge south of Socorro, and early registration has begun for the Festival of the Cranes. Santa Fe New Mexican
Photography exhibit highlights lives of breast cancer survivors
Susan Boe, a breast cancer survivor, was tired of looking at images of others with the disease that always seemed somber, serious and miserable. Santa Fe New Mexican
HAVE A HEART
LAWRENCE — The little girl happily twirling her striped scarf was like any other child Susan Currie photographed, except for one thing: She needed a family. Currie, an Andover resident, is one of many photographers who volunteer their services for the Heart Gallery, a portrait collection featuring Massachusetts foster children in need of permanent adoptive families. The gallery is on display ... The Eagle-Tribune