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Ellen Noel Art Museum Open Three New Exhibitions 11/5/08
Odessa, Texas - Exhibitions opening at the Ellen Noël Art Museum Nov. 8 are Splash! Works on Paper by Laurence Barker, Teapots: Object to Subject and Girls and Their Dolls, Boys and Their Toys - Antique Children’s Toys and Clothing.
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Lapeer writer to read Saturday from new book at gallery
LAPEER -- To help celebrate the reorganization of his gallery, Sleeping Dragon Gallery in downtown Lapeer, Don Morey is hosting a special book reading by poet and short story writer, Melodie Bolt, at 7 p.m. Saturday.
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Holiday Glow opens Tuesday at Gallery 194; local art for sale, display
LAPEER -- A plethora of unique locally made fine art will fill Gallery 194 when the Lapeer Art Association presents Holiday Glow from Nov. 11 through Dec. 27.
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Fine Art Still Selling At Record Prices
Some historic artwork went up for sale early this week as part of Sotheby's annual art auction, and records were set despite the sluggish economy. A 1916 painting by Kazimir Malevich went for more than $60 million in the Manhattan auction house.
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Music Lead: Girltalk - Gregg Gillis Brings His Futuristic Electronic Dance Party To Town
Experiments in the art of pop must be a Pittsburgh pastime. The iconic Andy Warhol might have started it with his silk-screened cereal boxes and soup cans, but new artists like Gregg Gillis (a.k.a. Girl Talk) are pushing pop into new forms - aesthetically and legally. While Warhol teased us with the ironic elements of our popular mass culture, Pittsburgh's Girl Talk actually embraces pop's ...
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“Gelam Nguzu Kazi—Dugong My Son”
You can’t get much farther from Houston than Australia, and you can’t get much farther from the usual local art fare than with “Gelam Nguzu Kazi — Dugong My Son,” an exhibition at the Museum of Printing History. Presented in conjunction with the local Australian consulate, t ...
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“First Americans”
“First Americans” refers to the arrows, not the Indians. The exhibit showcases artifacts such as weapons (like arrowheads), tools, pottery and more. These objects could support the theory that the first visitors to our continent didn’t come across the Bering Land Bridge from Asia but ...
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“Perspectives 163: Every Sound You Can Imagine” Gallery Talk
Hear what Suzanne Bloom, an exhibiting artist and professor at the University of Houston, has to say at today’s “Perspectives 163: Every Sound You Can Imagine” talk. Exploring experimental music scores from the 1950s to 1990s as art, “Perspectives 163” takes the scores and t ...
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Michael A. Salter: “too much”
Artist Michael Salter uses thousands of pieces of Styrofoam to make Styrobots, his huge, machinery-laden robot creatures that look straight out of Star Wars. "too much" Salter's solo installation at Rice Gallery, features the latest in a series of Styrobots. Each creation is unique, using mixed-and- ...
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Film: Folk Legend - One Bad Cat Delivers A Compelling Portrait Of The Rev. Albert Wagner
By Charles Cassady Jr. Many years ago, when eminent documentarian Les Blank visited Cleveland with one of his short features about an "outsider artist," an eccentric self-taught painter-sculptor-costumer-composer-architect (The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists, highly recommended; catch it if you can), I tried to interest the famed filmmaker in East Cleveland's own Rev. Albert Wagner as a ...
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“Vision Eclipsed”
The British-born Lucinda Cobley is a painter, but instead of using traditional stretched canvas, she brushes her paint, oil and pigments onto etched or sand-blasted glass. The result? Ultratranslucent colors that are responsive to light, making each stroke and layer especially multifaceted. “Vi ...
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“Viewfinder: New Images from Texas Artists”
Take a break from the current political frenzy and check out “Viewfinder: New Images from Texas Artists,” a photography exhibition at FotoFest that displays the creative diversity of this big state. Part of the Talent in Texas exhibition series, the program brings together photo-related wo ...
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Freestyle Calendar: Get Out! With Superman And Comedians - The Cleveland Comedy Festival Leads This Week's Events Picks
Wednesday 11.5 MARC TYLER NOBLEMAN Marc Tyler Nobleman used to think he'd grow up to be a superhero. After all, his last name sounded like one. Instead, the Connecticut-based cartoonist wrote Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman, a book about the two Clevelanders who invented the world's greatest superhero. "It's hard to believe that there's never been a stand-alone biography about [Jerry ...
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The Right Footage in "Remixed & Reloaded"
If you want to see all the work in "Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970" at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, you'd better pack a lunch. With almost 50 video works in the show, projected in separate rooms or presented on monitors, there are almost enough hours ...
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Capsule Art Reviews: "A Coarse Portal," "Damaged Romanticism," "The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs" "Incident at ...
"A Coarse Portal" "A Coarse Portal" is Philip Durbin's largest showing to date, and it's a fine rogue's gallery of the characters that inhabit Durbin's dreamy kingdom. The artist is obviously influenced by pop art and Warhol in particular — as seen in silk screens like Pop Skulls and OJ — ...
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After Effects CS4
When you consider all the new features and enhancements Adobe piled into the CS4 release of After Effects, its flagship visual...
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Russian masterpiece fails to sell at NYC auction
NEW YORK (AP) - A Russian masterpiece expected to sell for up to $3 million at a New York auction didn't find a buyer - in yet another sign that the art market, like the economy, is troubled.
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Tiny library gets huge display of American art
BY LAUREN SAUSSER The brick one-story Allenstown Public Library may bear little resemblance to any major art museum, but when it comes to showcasing world-class art, this small New Hampshire library is competing with the best of them. With the help of head librarian Cathy Vincevic, the Allenstown Public Library was awarded a National Endowment of the Humanities initiative that brings 40 ...
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Gershon Benjamin exhibit opens Nov. 8 at Cape Ann Museum
The Cape Ann Museum presents “Gershon Benjamin (1899–1985) and His Contemporaries” on exhibit Nov. 8 through Jan. 31. An opening reception will be held Saturday, Nov. 8 from 3-5 p.m. at the museum, located at 27 Pleasant St., Gloucester.
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More than music at Fun Fun Fun Fest
Music won't make all the fun at Fun Fun Fun Fest this weekend. In addition to new green initiatives, this year's festival will offer food, art and more from local vendors, as well as comedy and other attractions.
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Bhimsen rewarded for thirst for music
NEW DELHI/PUNE: Renowned Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, who is credited with leading the renaissance of Indian classical music with the passion and power of a one-man chorus, is only the sixth person from the art and ...
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Russian masterpiece fails to sell at NYC auction
Associated Press - November 5, 2008 2:23 PM ET NEW YORK (AP) - A Russian masterpiece expected to sell for up to $3 million at a New York auction didn't find a buyer - in yet another sign that...
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Penton Media Announces Remix Hotel Los Angeles 2008
Remix Hotel is heading to Los Angeles for its annual, action-packed weekend of music-production technology, industry panels, and artist appearances. Welcoming Avid as Presenting Partner, Remix Hotel Los Angeles 2008 adds a new programming component--video production--to its successful format of audio-related demos, exhibits, and performances.
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Caricatures a highlight of YArts
The teacher was the one being judged as Franklin Elementary School art teacher Mona Peterson drew a caricature of student Faith Bell at the YArts Week event Monday night at the Holdrege YMCA of the Prairie. Peterson and Washington Elementary School art teacher Brandy Edgren drew free caricatures as part of the weeklong celebration of art. Today’s schedule features acoustic songs beginning at ...
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Pius XII Display Includes Rabbi Thank You
ROME, NOV. 5, 2008 ( Zenit.org ).- A Pius XII display at the Vatican exhibits a letter from a French rabbi thanking Pius XII and Catholic priests for their aid to Jews during the Holocaust.
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