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Brentwood students artwork to be featured
Students from Northeast Elementary School in the Brentwood School District recently submitted artwork to the 2009 Come Go with Me Calendar. Axel Mejia, fourth grader student at Northeast Elementary School, will have his artwork featured in the 2009 calendar. Axel, along with art teacher Ms. Babylon Beacon
Rita MacNeil lights up CEC stage
Rita MacNeil was in Truro on Saturday, performing at the Cobequid Educational Centre. The iconic Canadian folk artist scheduled four performances across Nova Scotia as part of her Mother's Day concert series. The Truro Daily News
Features and Case Studies
Recently, HP released its largest ever range of printers aimed at the SMB and enterprise markets at its Go Print 2.0 Conference in Shanghai. ZDNet.com.au 's photo gallery gives you the complete range, along with comparisons, prices and release dates. ZDNet Australia
If the estimate is correct,
A Record Freud? Benefits Supervisor Sleeping by Lucian Freud is about to become the most expensive work by a living artist to change hands at auction. If the Freud makes or exceeds the estimate, it will be a double triumph for the previously underappreciated. Arts Journal
GHS, RHS students earn Times scholarships: GHS senior loves art, horses and mdash; and hockey
Gloucester High senior Cecely Nutting has a wide variety of interests, from art and photography to horseback riding, antique sports cars and hockey. But this fall, she says, she will be concentrating on interior design as she enters Mount Ida College in Newton and mdash; with a $1,000 Gloucester Daily Times scholarship tucked into her back pocket. Gloucester Daily Times
Numbers add up to a brilliant future for graduating Salem High senior from Kazakstan
By LARRY SHIELDS Salem News staff writer SALEM - She is set to graudate next month, has been in the United State for three-and-a-half years and just won a prestigious computer program writing contest at Gannon University. Marina Kounkel, a 16-year-old senior at Salem High School, arrived here from Kazakstan and has proven to be more than an your average whiz at Salem News
Italy Vs. The Cleveland Museum
"Italy sent conflicting signals Friday about whether it had reached an agreement with the Cleveland Museum of Art over returning ancient works of art the country believes were looted." Arts Journal
Vibrant landscape paintings on display
UNDER the Edge Arts, the community arts centre in Wotton-under-Edge, is presenting an art exhibition next weekend - the first solo exhibition by local artist Heidi Palmer-Smith. Gazette
A chance to remember: Updated mining exhibit re-opens at the Museum of Industry
STELLARTON – The Grade 5 students present at the Museum of Industry weren't even born when a methane gas explosion claimed the lives of 26 Westray miners in 1992. The News
Art Exhibit Relates To Plight of Refugees
In Marietta Sunday, local artist Thaddeus Brejwo had his artwork on display but in case you missed it you can still check out through June 12. WTAP Parkersburg
Free Museum Admission for Bank of America Cardholders
TACOMA, WA.- Tacoma Art Museum is one of seventy museums across the country participating in Bank of America’s Museums on Us™ program, which offers free admission to Bank of America credit, check and ATM cardholders during the first Saturday and Sunday of every month. Art Daily
Vija Celmins and Apichatpong Weerasethakul Win Carnegie Prize and Fine Prize
Vija Celmins, American, b. 1938, Night Sky #16, 2000-2001, oil on linen mounted on wood panel, 31 x 38 in. (78.7 x 54.6 cm), The Art Supporting Foundation to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Art Daily
Moscow Museum of Modern Art Presents Citizens! Please Mind Yourselves! Dmitry A. Prigov
D.A. Prigov - Malevich (Russian Painting Series). 1980's-2000's. 18.2×24.5 cm. MOSCOW.- The Moscow Museum of Modern Art presents Citizens! Please Mind Yourselves! Dmitry A. Prigov (1940-2007) - Works on paper, installations, books, performance, opera, and declamation, on view through June 15, 2008. Art Daily
Notes on the 19th, 20th, and 21st Centuries: Paintings by Jeffrey Kronsnoble
Jeffrey Kronsnoble, Postcard XLE, 1997. Courtesy of the artist. AUGUSTA, GA.- Notes on the 19th, 20th, and 21st Centuries: Paintings by Jeffrey Kronsnoble opens to the public on Saturday, June 7, and remains on view through Sunday, August 10, at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia. Art Daily
Grayson Perry Celebrates 'More Humane' British Society in New Works For Hayward Touring Show
Grayson Perry (b.1960), Head of a Fallen Giant 2007-08, Bronze, Copyright the artist, 2008. Courtesy the Artist and Victoria Miro Gallery, London. LONDON.- Art Daily
Run Of Impressionist Landscapes Exhibition is Extended at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
French artist Charles-François Daubigny's "The River Seine at Mantes," circa 1856, is an oil on canvas. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum) RICHMOND, VA.- The Impressionist landscapes exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has been extended for two weeks. Art Daily
Palazzo Strozzi To Open "Painting Light: The hidden techniques of the Impressionists"
Gustave Caillebotte (1848-94), Laundry Drying on the Bank of the Seine, c. 1892. Oil on canvas, 105.5 x 150.5 cm. Wallraf-Richartz Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne. Art Daily
In This Contest, if the Lantern Fits, They Wear It
At a TriBeCa warehouse, eight fashion design contestants relied on tape, scissors, staples, binder clips and large doses of creativity in the first national Style Wars competition. New York Times
Concert seeks money for charity
After graduating in 2005, one Purdue student stayed around town and began an annual charity music festival, to occur for the third time tonight. The Purdue Exponent
For Mother's Day, a favorite statue is honored
At a Northwest Side cemetery, 1920s sculpture is honored on holiday's 100th anniversary Standing in the Bohemian National Cemetery, she holds an infant curled up in her left arm and reaches with a robed right arm around a boy who stands at her side, gazing at her. Chicago Tribune
Bob Dylan to open art show
The folk legend is set to debut his first art exhibition in London. FOX 6 News San Diego
Phew, just made it!
These were the scenes last yesterday as Parkes Shire Council staff - and the sculptor of the impressive Sir Henry Parkes statue - worked tirelessly to ensure everything in The Square was ready for today’s programme of activities by NSW Governor Marie Bashir. Parkes Champion-Post
Feeling the heat at Taupo festival (+pics)
DANCE DANCE: Artists perform during The Big Bang at the Erupt Lake Taupo Festival. PLAYING WITH FIRE: Artists perform during The Big Bang at the Erupt Lake Taupo Festival. Stuff