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Duet to lead a "Cowboy" home
Skyrocketing art prices and limited purchase funds are increasingly forcing museums to find creative new ways to make acquisitions and expand their collections.
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Emerging artist Xi Zhang delves into notion of identity in masses
Talk about potential. Xi Zhang is brimming with it. His solo exhibition, which concludes its all-too-short run Saturday at the Rule Gallery, would be a notable accomplishment for a veteran artist.
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Arizona Aircraft Painting headed to Falcon Field
A Falcon Field-based pilot thinks he has found a business idea that will brighten up his bottom line, and a lot of airplanes at the Mesa airport.
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Best Bets this week
Tonight.Double feature. The Denver Art Museum's savvy film series "Take Two" offers a resonant double-bill: "Detour" and "Blood Simple," noir classics of the B and A variety.
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New Designs for Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards Project Revealed Amid Controversy
Forest City Ratner Cos., developer of the $4 billion mixed-use Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, just unveiled the most recent renderings of the development.
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Iconic photo of Che subject of new film
It's probably the most famous portrait ever taken, considered by many to be the "Mona Lisa of photography."
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Traveling Lincoln exhibit hits town
The life of Lincoln opens up to the public in Denver at no charge today, the first stop in a nationwide tour to showcase Honest Abe on his 200th birthday next year.
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Newseum buries the lead with corporate sellout
On historic Pennsylvania Avenue in the nation's capital, adjacent to landmarks celebrating art and industry, a new museum opened this month celebrating a special overlap of art and industry: the Newseum, a tribute to the Fourth Estate, the news media and America's commitment to a free press.
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Denver's most interesting museum?
Let's face it. Some curators probably shudder when they enter the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, because of the sheer plethora of objects packed into every conceivable cranny and the seeming disorder of it all.
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Museum, Anschutz lasso 3 Eakins works
The Denver Art Museum has teamed with Denver billionaire and Western art collector Phil Anschutz to purchase a work by American painter Thomas Eakins.
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Art museum, Anschutz purchase Eakins piece
Denver billionaire and Western art collector Phil Anschutz has teamed with the Denver Art Museum to purchase a work by the great American painter Thomas Eakins.
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New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau Hospitality Industry Report, 2nd Quarter 2008
With a Presidential visit, strong 2007 visitor numbers, a seven-day Jazz and Heritage Festival line-up, a record-breaking French Quarter Festival, a first-round NBA playoff win for the New Orleans Hornets and two confirmed future conferences from the American Library Association , New Orleans' tourism industry is continuing into the spring with momentum.
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Banksy @ The Cans Festival
from Rupert Cefai's blog May 6, 2008 - 10:21:00 AM CET I have always been fascinated by street art. Not that i ever did any graffiti or that i am planning to start now, but i really admire some graffiti artists especially Banksy. These last few days Banksy organised The Cans Festival - A Street Party of Stencil Art. Unfortunately I did not manage to ...
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Presidential Portraits on Display at State Capitol
There's a new reason to visit the State Capitol in Little Rock. And that's because it's hosting a presidential portrait exhibit of all 43 U. S. presidents.
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Union fights the trend that starts with teaching to the test
If a game show host asked for words associated with "disposable," contestants might answer "paper plates" or "diapers." How, then, did "the arts" get tossed into that mix?
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4th annual Lebanon Art Fest
Student: Heather Watson Grade: 10 Titles/Types of artwork: Drawing, mostly pencil, some marker How did you get involved in this form of art?: I have always have drawn, I love to draw, so I do.
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Community News
"Asian Inspiration," a youth art exhibit in Des Moines, Sponsored by the Iowa Asian Alliance, is seeking entries until May 8. Entrants must be 3 to 17 years old. One piece allowed per entrant. Pieces must be two-dimensional and 24 inches either way max. All work must be wired and ready to hang.
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Art Show: Second Annual Craftsman House Invitational Teapot Show
Saturday, May 10... By Leilani Polk.The Second Annual Craftsman House Invitational Teapot Show features more than 70 handmade teapots in ceramic, glass, wood, metal, film, gourd and fiber created by select artists from across the country. The show kicks off this Saturday with a "World's Largest Coffee/Tea Break," at which guests enjoy Fair Trade tea, coffee, chocolates and tea mints at 3 p.m., ...
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Special Events: Double Take Dalí Look-Alike Contest and Festival
Saturday, May 10... By Megan Voeller.Happy Birthday, Salvador Dalí! If the zany surrealist were still alive, he'd be celebrating his 104th this weekend -- but the Dalí Museum isn't letting a little thing like death get in the way of throwing a great party. Head to the museum Saturday night for the Double Take Dalí Look-Alike Contest and Festival, an affair sure to spawn outfits and performances ...
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H Bar M Rodeo rides into town Friday
“The Greatest Show on Dirt 2008” is coming to town this coming weekend as the rodeo will be one of the opening acts for the Tennessee Strawberry Festival for the third straight year.
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Presidents on 'exhibit' at Arkansas Capitol
LITTLE ROCK - Conservative-leaning artist Chas Fagan set out 10 years ago to portray the U.S. presidency in an apolitical light and inspire patriotism when he was commissioned for a national television series to paint each of the nation's chief executives since George Washington.
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Lee Rosenbaum's cultural commentary
After attending Sotheby's annual stockholders meeting this morning (as a journalist, NOT an investor), I prowled the Sotheby's showroom, watching auctioneer Tobias Meyer adroitly woo clients in front of Bacon 's "Triptych" (above): "I've been waiting along time for this," he told one Bacon admirer with whom he spent considerable time.
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Art news & notes
The beautiful paintings by Gail Sheasby of Hot Springs Village and Nan Merchant of Hot Springs will be featured at Artists Workshop Gallery, 810 Central Ave., through May. Sheasby resided in New Orleans all of her life. For 20 years she painted her impressions of that vibrant city, known for its architecture and colorful history.
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Archives
The evening started with my two friends, Michael and Kyna, and I finding parking on the south side of downtown Charlotte. Our goal was to find the Historic South End Gallery Crawl, or at least some of the galleries involved.
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Weekends: Fly south for Dewey Chickfest
The music festival will feature 30 female-fronted bands performing on five stages this weekend at the Rusty Rudder and Booksandcoffee. And as usual, the entire event is free.
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