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Indie Songwriters Festival will showcase local talents
Photo by Jerry Sowden - Libby Williams, chairman of the Oil City Arts Council, Joann Wheeler, Oil City's arts revitalization coordinator, and Jim Ru, a volunteer and artist who recently relocated to Oil City from Tucson, Ariz., talk with other volunteers as they make plans for the Oil Region Indie Songwriters Festival later this month.
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Art: New York Schooled: Spring Art-School Exhibitions
Art school has always been about stealing from your elders, then hacking your way through those influences to something of your own. For centuries, that meant copying master works and drawing from live models to discover new ways of depicting the human body's arching slabs of meat in perspective. But that was before Cubism fractured the body, Abstract Expressionism dispersed it, and Minimalism ...
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Lee Hazelgrove at Red Door
It doesn’t have to be First Friday to hit a gallery opening. Red Door Gallery hosts an opening for Richmond artist Lee Hazelgrove this Friday. Check out a slideshow of the artist's work.
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Gallery Walk to be held in Bluffton on Friday
A Gallery Walk will be held from 3 to 8 p.m. Friday in old town Bluffton as part of the town's Art Weekend. The work of more than 200 artists can be seen at the Society of Bluffton Artists Gallery, Pluff Mudd Gallery, Maye River Gallery, Four Corners Framing, The Filling Station, Vintage Posters and Jacob Preston's. Wine and refreshments will be served by each gallery. There will be live music ...
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No Slowdown Evident at Christie’s Art Auction
At Christie’s, bidders paid top dollar for everything from an abstract canvas by Mark Rothko to a painting of a naked fat woman by Lucian Freud.
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Public Art South West Details
Collaborative practice between artists and urban designers has been promoted as a means of producing creative solutions for urban environments; enhancing the quality of urban design and creating imaginative environments that reflect local identity and meet communities' needs.
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Drawings, Photos, and Films Way off Museum Mile
By mid-July, after you've trooped up the Guggenheim's crowded ramp to see the massive retrospective for Louise Bourgeois, shouldered through the elegant Neue Galerie to peer at 20th-century German and Austrian work, and inspected the Met's porcelain with your aunt (again!), you might be ready for something far from the familiar Museum Mile. Happily, the city's quieter venues—whose eclecticism ...
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Major Artists Reach New Heights with Eight World Auction Records Established
Andy Warhol, Double Marlon (detail) silkscreen ink on unprimed linen 84 x 95 3Ž4 in. (213.4 x 243.2 cm.) Painted in 1966. Christie's Images Ltd. 2008.
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No Slowdown Evident at Christie?s Art Auction
At Christie?s, bidders paid top dollar for everything from an abstract canvas by Mark Rothko to a painting of a naked fat woman by Lucian Freud.
New York Times |
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A run for the money
In the four days since their hotly contested school district race ended in a tie, the candidates pledge to keep on campaigning until a winner is determined.
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Knife Skills: Creating Feasts for the Eyes
Once a dusty formality that lived on in the form of radish roses in out-of-the-way hotels, the art of fruit and vegetable carving is enjoying a new vogue.
New York Times |
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HD is unforgiving to actors, and makeup artists
With the advent of high-definition photography, which is rapidly becoming the industry standard, any natural imperfection can be magnified if a makeup artist isn’t careful.
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Artist who rewrote rules dies at 82
TAMPA, Fla. Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg’s mediums knew few bounds. One of his most famous works or “combines” was “Bed,” created when he woke up in the mood to paint but had no money for a canvas. His solution was to take the quilt off his bed and use paint, toothpaste and fingernail polish for his creation. He was also a sculptor and a choreographer.
The Kansas City Star |
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Freshman’s toilet paper gown bags top prize
HE is only a freshman at Equator Academy of Art and was having difficulty preparing his masterpiece for hte toilet paper wedding gown design contest.
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La Roue
French director Abel Gance's reputation in America hinges almost entirely upon his delirious historical epic Napoléon (1927). Now, thanks to Flicker Alley (and Blackhawk Films, Lobster Film Studios and Film Preservation Associates), we can see another Gance masterpiece in something close to its original form for the first time in more than 80 years.
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AS THE SPATULA TURNS: Traveling chefs will provide cooking lessons as part of the annual A la Carte and Art festival this weekend in downtown Mountain View.
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Silicon Alleys
BEGINNING this weekend at Discovery Meadow, San Jose gets its first primordial high-tech preview of what's to come during next month's second biennial ZeroOne (01SJ) Global Festival of Art on the Edge. In conjunction with Black Rock Arts Foundation, artist Peter Hudson and a squad of at least 50 dedicated pals have created Homouroboros, a 24-foot-tall, 30-foot-diameter spinning zoetrope that ...
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Clocked Out
JOHN MITCHELL shows me a photo of the San Jose Museum of Art building as it looked about 105 years ago—back when it was the local post office and still featured a clock tower on top of its present edifice.
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Summer Guide
Summer dreams are the biggest dreams of all. That's why it brings the most epic entertainment, from movies to concerts to festivals.
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Renowned artist's work frequented Palm Beach; Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008
Robert Rauschenberg, the famed pop artist who exhibited frequently in Palm Beach, died Monday of heart failure at his home in Captiva. He was 82.
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A revival is under way at Paseo Academy
Here's how three Paseo Academy students found their way in their young careers and swept the top prizes in the Sister City Association's regional art contest.
The Kansas City Star |
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From the Star Courier files at Kewanee Public Library
10 years ago Wednesday, May 14, 1998 - Country music recording artist Marty Stuart will headline this year’s Kewanee Hog Capital Festival entertainment with two performances at Kewanee High School on Sunday, Sept. 6.
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American artist Robert Rauschenberg dies
MIAMI (Reuters) - Acclaimed American artist Robert Rauschenberg died at his home on Captiva Island in Florida at the age of 82, his gallery said on Tuesday.
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Freud picture in £17m record sale
A life-size Lucian Freud painting of a naked Jobcentre supervisor sleeping broke the world auction record for a work by a living artist when it sold for more than £17m, Christie's said.
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Latest Meghan Cox Gurdon News - Examiner.com
5 days ago - Even as you read this, sweet little children across the country are carefully finishing the last, dear festive bits of the card, collage or tiny, clumsy sculpture that they have made to give to the temporary love of their young lives on Mother’s Day.
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