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By Chisel and Brush
Wesley Fordyce sculpts in wood and stone, unleashing heroic female forms; Jenna Bauer works in oil paint, limning fields of color and light. Fordyce's sculptures imply a sense of permanence, his materials seemingly strong enough to last a lifetime. Bauer's work is one moment suspended on the canvas, ...
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Closer to Vine
Ms. Day always has a good time at the Art Fair at Laumeier Sculpture Park (12580 Rott Road, Sunset Hills; 314-821-1209 or www.laumeier.org) — and how could she not? With all the booths of beautiful artistry (that's Tony Cray's work pictured) at the foot of some enormous sculptures, it's diffic ...
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Nik Software Ships Viveza Plug-in for Aperture
Nik Software today released the Viveza plug-in for Aperture 2.1, Apple's groundbreaking photo editing and management software. The Viveza plug-in allows Aperture users to selectively control light and color in photographic images without ever having to leave Aperture.
Centre Daily Times |
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St. Louis Art Capsules
Opening Hello Masterpiece Like some garden gnome swiped from Ladue and taken on a whirlwind European tour, Hello Kitty seems to be everywhere in this exhibit of postcard-size paintings by Leslie Holt. But unlike a gnome-napper whose abductees turn up in snapshots beside the Eiffel Tower or Buckingha ...
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Flying high at Flyway Gallery
The second annual “Welcome to Our World” art show is currently on exhibit at the Flyway Gallery located at the Richard W. DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst. The New Jersey Meadowlands Commission in concert with the “Putting the Pieces Together Support Group” sponsors the show.
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SPORTS HEADLINES
FREMONT — The NCCA Arts Festival will be held Saturday at the Market Place Pavilion in downtown Fremont, directly behind the NCCA Artsplace. Booths will be open from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.
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‘Art in the Garden' planned in Alsea
The 16th annual Mother's Day festival “Art in the Garden” will take place May 10 and 11 at The Thyme Garden in Alsea.
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Lee Rosenbaum's cultural commentary
As you know from my late night post , the auction made a hammer-price total of $246 million, compared to a presale estimate of $287-405 million. By no measure did it exceed the auction house's professed expectations, other than for only eight of 58 lots that did exceed presale estimates.
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Pen Tablets Will Enhance and Speed Your Artwork Output
The author urges decorators who do digital artwork to add a stylus to their desktop toolkit. April 1, 2008 Our human ancestors, from the very start, expressed themselves visually via cave paintings and drawings.
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Angel of the North rivals unveiled
Designs for a new sculpture twice as high as the Angel of the North have been unveiled.
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History on its ear
History ain’t what it used to be … Thirty years ago, in 1978, the Institute of Contemporary Art in London presented a major exhibition to mark the 15th anniversary of the rock band The Who. This was a big deal. No one had based a museum-quality art show on a rock band before.
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Italy: Ancient Indian tradition to debut at culture festival
Italy: Ancient Indian tradition to debut at culture festival (AKI) - An ancient tradition from the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand is about to make its Italian debut at a small cultural festival.Three artists from the city of Hazaribagh are to recreate an ancient wall decoration in the small town of Udine, in the northeast region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia next week.Called Johar, ...
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Sharing his world with a camera lens (Thursday, May 08, 2008)
G. Vincent Stuart loves to explore photography. “What does photography do,” said Stuart, “is document. It also enlightens and brings to people a sense of the world around them.” “Photography is a m
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On May 10, from 5 to 7 p.m., SOMA Gallery will celebrate its group show "Natural Surroundings," which has its final showing this weekend. There will be a wine and cheese party featuring a chance to meet the artists.
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The fine art of dancing
Budding talent combined with seasoned choreography offers a chance to see the Greenville County School System's Fine Arts Center dancers in a 7:30 p.m. performance at FAC's Black Box Theatre on Friday.
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George Motz brings Hamburger America to Madison
George Motz frequently punctuates his enthusiasm for hamburgers with a bubbling laugh. Motz is a director of photography and documentary filmmaker whose 'lt;i'gt;Hamburger America'lt;/i'gt; was shown on the Sundance Channel in 2005. He's now spun his cross-nation ramblings into a guidebook, also called 'lt;i'gt;Hamburger America'lt;/i'gt;, and subtitled 'lt;i'gt;A State-by-State Guide to 100 ...
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RNLI memorial to volunteer supporters chosen
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has selected a design for a sculpture to pay tribute to the hundreds of volunteer crew members who have lost their lives while saving others at sea over the last 184 years, together with the many RNLI lifesavers and fundraisers who have served the charity.
Yachting and Boating World |
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KMAC Oaks Brunch
The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft held its 22nd annual Oaks Brunch May 2 at The Brown Hotel. This album is empty.
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
Christopher Knight reviews the Carnegie International. Worth noting: Knight did the CI and passed on the WhiBi. Accidental? Uh, I don't think so. Tells you all you need to know about the state of the WhiBi, too.
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Victory for Harry Potter author JK Rowling in fight to protect son's privacy
JK Rowling has won a High Court appeal in her fight to protect the privacy of her son from long-lens photography.
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I saw the sign
Plus, preaching to the choir... Lead me to the Life [image-1] Percussionist Robert Beasley jams with DJ Smitty (in background) at Pop Life last Wed., April 30, at Loft 1523. Check out Pop Life every Wednesday at Loft. The art of spray [image-2] Caryn Little (left) and Brandis Ridenhour admire some graffiti at the Off the Wall: Graffiti Art exhibit opening at the Charlotte Art League Gallery on ...
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Capsule reviews of films currently playing in Charlotte
Plus, the Charlotte Film Society... By Matt Brunson.Charlotte Film Society ALL ABOUT EVE The Charlotte Film Society graciously wraps up its winter/spring program with screenings of my all-time favorite motion picture. All About Eve (1950) is writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's masterpiece set in the world of theater, with ingenue Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) attempting to professionally and ...
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Charlotte Fine Arts Show
By Charity Frederick.Exhibit: Charlotte Fine Arts Show Date: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat., May 10, & 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun., May 11 Location: Freedom Hall, Merchandise Mart, 2500 E. Independence Blvd. Admission: $5 Info: 248-685-3748 (event hotline) or www.HotWorks.org The Charlotte Fine Arts Show will showcase 125 artists from 30 states as well as Canada, exhibiting works in the mediums of glass, clay, ...
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Art: Finer side of art
Saturday, May 10... By Anita overcash.Check out artists from across the nation as they display their art and expose techniques at the first Charlotte Fine Art Show. The show will include an array of glass, clay, wood, fiber, jewelry, sculpture, painting, photography and metal pieces of art. Artists will also have the opportunity to win awards from $100-$1,500, and folks attending the show can ...
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Art: Bring your black book
Tuesday, May 13... By Anita overcash.Graffiti is awesome. Colorful artwork, bubbly-to-sharp lettering and a parade of shapes and styles: It has a life of its own with no end in sight. Spray cans unite to learn about the history of graffiti, techniques of the art form and tools of the trade at The Art of Graffiti. There will also be a demonstration by New York graffiti artist, Desism. In addition ...
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