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Shape of things to come
Ah, Cincinnati Fringe Festival, where absolutely everything is new; productions, venues, even some of the performers. This "new" is a 10-year-old company facing an unknown audience.
The Cincinnati Enquirer |
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Sarasota's sculptures start to come down
The crane work starts this morning on the city's bayfront, as crews disassemble the sculpture titled "Dance" that consists of a ring of upended cars.
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune |
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Gala Auction Feels a Chill From Wall Street’s Slump
At the 2008 Robin Hood Foundation benefit, hedge fund managers donated $56.5 million to charity. But many of the market wizards are making less these days — and they are giving away less, too.
The Tuscaloosa News |
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Wildlife photography competition captures spring joys
MARTIN Mere, Burscough, is offering the chance to win a camera or set of binoculars for readers who take pictures illustrating the springtime.
Ormskirk Maghull and Skelmersdale Advertiser |
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Va. college gets $7M for Latin American painting
LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) - The first of four paintings auctioned by Virginia's Randolph College to raise money has sold for more than $7.2 million. Rufino Tamayo's "Troubadour" was bought Wednesday night by an anonymous telephone bidder at Christie's Latin American art auction.
WTOP Radio Network |
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Large Music Festival Coming to Indian Head
Lisa Kay Morton believes Indian Head is "the perfect place" to host 17 straight nights of opera, jazz, classical and musical theater performances.
Washington Post |
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THE ARTS
Tanya Weinberger, animator and artist, will discuss her career at Disney and Artforum magazine at the meeting of the Friends of the Ringling Museum Art Library from 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday in the Art Library in the Education Building at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 5401 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota.
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune |
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Warmup Acts
We've still got a month before festival season kicks into high gear, and fans of jazz, country, folk and fringe theatre start crowding the streets outside our favourite venues. Until then, enjoy the relative calm before the storm.
winnipegsun.com |
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Packing up the show
Exhibits from the fourth Season of Sculpture leave Sarasota's bayfront.
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune |
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Encore for 'Surrender'?
SARASOTA — You may not have seen the last of " Unconditional Surrender ," the traffic-stopping sculpture by artist Seward Johnson that recreates a famous photograph of a World War II sailor kissing a nurse.
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune |
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New festival exhibits Dallas County artists
Fans of local art soon will have one more festival to add to their must-shop lists: Dallas Center’s first Art in the Park celebration, which will spotlight the work of Dallas County artists on Saturday.
The Des Moines Register |
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Hue, the most popular destination in June
VietNamNet Bridge – The Festival Hue 2008 in the ancient city of Hue will start next Tuesday.
Vietnam Net |
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Sculptor gives stately home's paddling pool the water works
A new water sculpture is fascinating visitors to Newby Hall, near Ripon. (29/05/2008 09:54:59)
Yorkshire Post Today |
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Gas drilling might imperil ancient art
WELLINGTON, Utah -- Along Utah's Nine Mile Canyon lies what some call the longest art gallery in the world -- thousands of prehistoric rock carvings and paintings of bighorn sheep and wildlife, hunters wielding spears, and warriors engaged in hand-to-hand combat.
The Beacon News |
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How to make a Rogue River Quilt
With their little hands speckled in paint and their imaginations running wild, Rogue River Elementary School students have come together to fashion a masterpiece — 12 of them, to be exact.
The Mail Tribune |
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Students plan benefit auction, talent show
Many eighth-graders spend the end of the school year daydreaming about graduation, summer vacation and high school starting in the fall. However, students at Clarendon Hills Middle School are remaining active.
The Doings Clarendon Hills |
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Experts: Drilling ruins ancient carvings
WELLINGTON, Utah -- Along Utah's Nine Mile Canyon lies what some call the longest art gallery in the world -- thousands of prehistoric rock carvings and paintings of bighorn sheep and other wildlife, hunters wielding spears, and warriors engaged in hand-to-hand combat.
The Courier News |
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Entertainment calendar
SOUTH BAY "Dalai Lama Renaissance." Narrated by Harrison Ford. 7 p.m. May 31, 1 p.m. June 1. Divine Science Community Center, 1540 Hicks Ave.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Minot Granger takes first in dress revue
AUGUSTA - The annual Dress Revue was held May 3 at the Maine State Grange. The revue is the results of the Grange sewing contest, which runs from September 2007 to April 30, 2008. Members and non-members may enter.
The Lewiston Sun Journal |
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Art for the masses
LARAMIE -- A 65-foot-long representation in steel of a Wyoming horizon appeared on Prexy's Pasture at the University of Wyoming Wednesday afternoon, the first piece in what is probably the largest sculpture exhibition ever undertaken in the state.
Casper Star-Tribune |
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Running festival coming to Augusta
AUGUSTA - The third annual Spring Running Festival, a celebration of life in, on and along the Kennebec River, will take place Friday and Saturday, June 13 and 14, at Mill Park and Old Fort Western on the riverfront.
The Lewiston Sun Journal |
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Lewiston artist's painting brings record $6.3 million
LEWISTON - Marsden Hartley's getting hot. A painting by the Lewiston-born artist and poet has sold for $6.31 million, setting an auction record at Christie's in New York for an American modernist work.
The Lewiston Sun Journal |
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Summer festival season is upon us
Summer's here and the time is right, for dancing in the streets. And eating. And shopping. And riding.
The Lisle Sun |
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Antidote to the urban environment
South Bay residents don't have to travel far to get a glimpse of the future. Under normal circumstances, many Silicon Valley denizens are busy pushing technology forward, but next week the 01SJ Festival of Art on the Edge investigates some of the results and implications of their labor,
San Jose Mercury News |
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Australian police scour art galleries for 'child porn'
SYDNEY - Police said they had visited the prestigious National Gallery of Australia in Canberra as part of a search for the works of an art photographer accused of producing child pornography.
Straits Times |
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