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InterContinental Chicago O'Hare Celebrates the "Art of Meetings"
The new 556-room InterContinental Chicago O'Hare offers planners and attendees a one-of-a-kind experience to be renewed and inspired through an environment of creativity. Home to a fully-functioning art gallery and original artwork featured throughout the sophisticated, design-forward property, groups have access to a unique interactive live art performance, such as an exclusive artist who ... Centre Daily Times
Annual chain saw sculpture auction helps fair association raise money for upgrade costs
A dozen pieces of wood, turned by chain saws into birds, a large rabbit, an elderly golfer and a large University of Missouri "M" --among other things -- were up for auction Tuesday evening, Oct. 7, at Saline County Fairground. Marshall Democrat-News
Page Turners!
No offense to our brethren in the Bluff City, but the permanent return of the Southern Festival of Books to Nashville—after four years of divided custody with Memphis—has a ring of rightness, of finality: a homecoming. Twenty years after its inception, despite steadily tolling death k... Nashville Scene
Ocean Spray Announces $25,000 Ultimate Cranberry Recipe Contest Grand Prize Winners
MIDDLEBORO, Mass., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ocean Spray announced the 2008 winners of the second annual Ultimate Cranberry Recipe Contest who will each receive a $25,000 grand prize. PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Southern Illinois University to receive 50 pieces from N.Y. art collectors
Not a big Chicago art museum but one in Carbondale has been selected as the lone Illinois recipient of 50 works of contemporary art from the trove of two remarkable collectors, New Yorkers Herbert and Dorothy Vogel. Chicago Tribune
Art/Fundraiser: Graphicstudio Benefit Sale - Friday, October 10
By Leilani Polk Expand your fine art collection during the annual Graphicstudio Benefit Sale, which features discounts of 10 to 60 percent off the regular list price for fine art prints and sculpture multiples by major modern artists like Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Alex Katz, William Wegman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ed Ruscha and Chuck Close, among many others. All sales support ... Creative Loafing Tampa
Painting honors USS Oklahoma sailors
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A painting depicting the USS Oklahoma Memorial at Pearl Harbor has been dedicated at the state Capitol. The painting, by Oklahoma City artist Christopher Nick, honors the 429 sailors killed or missing after the Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941. KFSM Ft. Smith-Fayetteville
Festival: Second Annual SPIFFS Asian Pacific Rim Festival - Sunday, October 12
By Leilani Polk St. Petersburg International Folk Fair Society and its Asian Pacific Rim member groups stage the Asian Pacific Rim Festival. Among the offerings are exotic foods, arts and crafts, drumming, an Asian beer garden, demos of tai chi, gigon and exercise, Indian bangra music, and performances by a Samoan fire eater, Fijian warrior dancers, Bollywood-style and classical Indian dancers, ... Creative Loafing Tampa
Art: New Collected Works of Erik Jones - Monday, October 13
By Leilani Polk Florida illustrator and Ringling School of Art and Design graduate Erik Jones is bidding adieu to the Sunshine State to pursue an art career in NYC. A traveling farewell exhibit, New Collected Works of Erik Jones, is being presented throughout Central Florida. The Bay area show is on display for a limited time at Pale Horse Gallery. The exhibit includes a few dozen original ... Creative Loafing Tampa
Blake Shields catches fire in Hollywood on popular TV show ‘Heroes'
Actor Blake Shields relaxed on Venice Beach, Calif., last week with his mom on his day off. The funky, artsy - sometimes sleazy - beach community known for rollerbladers and weightlifters is one of his favorites, he said. Miami Herald
Art: Deconstruction at Gallery Live - Friday, October 10
By Megan Voeller Before historic Ybor City morphed into a magnet for bars and nightclubs, it was a haven for local artists. Now some say the winds of change are reversing -- and that the area's recent influx of gay-owned businesses and a nascent resurgence in art exhibitions and studio spaces confirm that trend. Gallery Live, a new addition to the scene, taps into both demographics; queer and ... Creative Loafing Tampa
Houstonist Flickr Photo of the Day - The Oracle
The Oracle by telwink There's no doubting where the oracle is located in this picture. We can only show you the door. You're the one who has to walk through it. ________________________________________________________________ If you have a passion for Houston and photography, consider joining a whole bunch of Houston's best photographers in the Houstonist Flickr Photo Group ... Houstonist
Fire Destroys Folk Artist's 'Drug' House
A suspicious fire destroyed a house the city's been trying to tear down since last year. WOAI San Antonio
Arts notes
MoragaDutch paintings at Hearst Art GalleryAn exhibition of more than 60 19th century Dutch masterpieces from the collection of Jan and Mary Ann Beekhuis will open Oct. Contra Costa Times
"Einstein"
Sure, it's easy to remember that he had a big brain and even bigger hair, but tough to recall the specifics about Albert Einstein's scientific theories - especially if you spent high school physics scribbling song lyrics instead of field equations. Fortunately, the Health Museum is offering up "Eins ... Houston Press
"Lo-Fi No-Brow Folk Show: New Works"
Glen Gips and Jon Read use simple methods to create complex compositions for the "Lo-Fi No-Brow Folk Show: New Works." "As the name suggests, we are pairing artists who have an outsider art aesthetic, without being actual folk artists themselves," says ArtStorm's Chris Cascio in an e-mail. "Both art ... Houston Press
Things of Desire and Beauty
Head on over to Woman Made Gallery on Friday, Oct. 10 for Object of Desire , a 34-artist show juried by art critic/curator Claire Wolf Krantz that explores lust (hey!) and the creative process. Featured artists work in all types of media, from clay to beads. Also opening is Divided Beauty , a solo show of works on paper by Chicago artist and educator Ginny Sykes that examines gendered ... Chicagoist
Prague Castle marking anniversary of state’s foundation with historical exhibitions and other events
A number of hugely important historical moments have been remembered in the Czech Republic this year: the communist takeover of 1948, the Soviet-led invasion of 1968, and the signing of the Munich agreement in 1938. But there is also one anniversary that Czechs can mark with pleasure – the foundation of Czechoslovakia 90 years ago, on October 28th 1918. Among the institutions marking that day is ... Radio Prague
Lincoln Museum changes name -- ‘Lincoln Heritage’ moniker to reflect mission of collection
The Lincoln College Museum has a new moniker. The museum will officially change its name to The Lincoln Heritage Museum at a reception at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 23 at the museum. The reception is sponsored by the Lincoln Logan County Chamber of Commerce. Lincoln Courier
Around the towns
KIDS WITH CAMERAS IN CSL: Côte St. Luc is presenting the exhibition “Beyond the Wall — Jerusalem” by Kids with Cameras at the Eleanor London Library until Nov. 2, 2008. “The photographs on display were taken by Jewish and Arab children from Jerusalem,” says a city announcement. The Suburban
Local art on display
VERNON — Resident Ed A. La Chall is one of 10 area artists who have work on display at The Institute for Community Research’s Jean J. Schensul Community Gallery, 146 Wyllys St., Hartford, as part of the exhibit, “Ancestors: Day of the Dead Celebration.” Journal Inquirer
Harvest festival at windmill
MORE than 40 people turned out in wind and rain for the annual harvest festival at Stone Cross Windmill. (08/10/2008 09:32:23) Eastbourne Today
Everything yarn at new city shop
Lancaster Yarn Shop opened Friday at 136 N. Prince St.The full-service yarn store, along Gallery Row next to Red Raven Art Company, stocks a variety of yarn, knitting supplies and books on knitting.Next month the shop will begin offering classes, including ones for beginners, store owner Wendy Ellis... Lancaster Online
Silver Heron exhibit is a ‘Glass Act'
Beginning Friday, autumn weather and October skies will bring a new exhibit to the Silver Heron Gallery in Depoe Bay. “A Glass Act,” featuring fused glass sculptures by award-winning artist, Robin Evans and Karen Ehart, will take center stage throughout the month. Newport News-Times
Visual Arts Center covers the walls in quilts
The Oregon Coast Council for the Arts will present two exhibits during October featuring quilts from the past and present. Newport News-Times