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Florida bids goodbye to Diddley
Portions of north central Florida honored late rock 'n' roller Bo Diddley Saturday with a funeral and festival celebration, the Gainesville (Fla.) Sun said.The newspaper said Pastor Willie King also held funeral services for Diddley, whose real name was Ellas McDaniel, in Gainesville, Fla., while the Yulee Diddley Day festival took place in Archer, Fla.The Living Legend artist lived in Archer ... Moldova.org
Alleyfest Holds First Full Day
It was the first full day of a traditional beginning of the summer festival, that brings thousands of visitors to Longview. KLTV 7 Tyler
There's A New Mural In Toppenish
Painting up a storm in Toppenish. It's a tall task on Mural In A Day. KEPR Pasco
Truck with $1.96m worth of goods stolen
A truck carrying almost $2 million worth of state-of-the-art computer and mobile phone equipment has been stolen, en route to an exhibition in Melbourne. The West Australian
There?s Beauty in Numbers
The Heckscher Museum of Art is offering a thoughtful overview contemporary and modern art inspired by mathematics, geometry, computer codes and the like. New York Times
Seeking Truth, Not Always Beauty
The exhibition ?Sprawl? at the Jersey City Museum does not set out to prove that parts of the New Jersey landscape are ugly. But it is hard to escape that conclusion after seeing the show. New York Times
A Museum That Lets Its Visitors Become Part of the Art
Taking its inspiration from today?s online world, an exhibit at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum solicits contributions from viewers in a democratic approach to art interpretation. New York Times
Art classes are educational and fun
Kids are natural artists. Give them a few Popsicle sticks, glitter and some paints and you'll have masterpieces fit to adorn the most magnificent of refrigerators and desktops. The Press-Enterprise
News in Brief: Crane investigation, public art, road work
Southwest Florida News in Brief for Saturday, June 7, 2008 Naples Daily News
Go ahead, touch it
In an effort to make art exhibitions come ‘alive’, visitors to ‘Other Stories’ are free to give immediate feedback on the works they see. The Star
I could've been a contender...
Arts & entertainment: Every year the Royal Academy is inundated with public submissions to its Summer Exhibition. So how did Phil Hogan fare with his Italian landscapes? Guardian Unlimited
10 a.m. - Agat Mango Festival continues today
10 a.m., June 8 — The second annual Agat Mango Festival will continue today from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Nimitz Beach Park in Agat. The event includes canoe races, cookoff contests, local art, concessions and entertainment. Pacific Daily News
Google Earth Beaten By Autorendering From Photos
Flu writes "Sweden's major engineer newspaper NyTeknik writes about a new technology which is used to automatically convert 60.000 aerial photographs of Stockholm, Sweden, into a 3d-world, similar to Google Earth's rendering of major buildings in some US cities. But unlike Google's laser-measured rendering, this technique took less than 8 days (including the photography) to automatically ... Slashdot
Girls of the Gulf
The Texas Surf Museum is honoring woman surfers in a new exhibit titled, "Texas women, Texas waves." KIII Corpus Christi
An Artist?s Vision: Building With Toys, but on a Grand Scale
Child?s play? Hardly. Chris Burden?s new sculpture is a 65-foot Erector Set skyscraper weighing 16,000 pounds. New York Times
Isabella de'Medici, By Caroline P Murphy
The spirited Renaissance beauty Isabella de' Medici (1542-1576) was the daughter of Cosimo, who established the Medicis as the pre-eminent political family in 16th-century Florence. She became the city's "First Lady" on her mother's death in 1562. Exuberant, profligate and hedonistic, she had an inordinate passion for hunting, music and poetry. In the womb she was so lively that her mother was ... Independent
Parties: Playtime in the garden
What's at the bottom of Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst's garden? Half the art world, 18 contemporary sculptures, and a lot of Perrier Jouet champagne was the answer last Saturday, when she launched her third exhibition of contemporary art in the grounds of her stately home, Sudeley Castle. For one enchanted evening, film stars (Rosamund Pike, elegant in Chanel) tiptoed through the knot garden, major ... Independent
Martha Wainwright: Why do I get all the nerds?
Will you look at the legs on Martha Wainwright? On stage at the Royal Festival Hall, London, where she is beginning a short tour that will take in a couple of summer festivals, she is wearing cranberry-coloured shiny leather boots, a black froufrou mini-skirt and no tights. Strong and braced beneath her, those legs have a life of their own. While her vocals soar, effortlessly powerful – one ... Independent
Massive Attack's curation of the Southbank Meltdown season is a tantalising prospect
As portfolios go, it is a rather slim one. Since their first, independently produced single "Any Love" in 1988, Massive Attack – whose Southbank Meltdown season begins on Saturday, when they play the first of two performances at the Royal Festival Hall – have released only four albums of original material. A fifth is promised later this year, but, given the glacial pace at which the band work, ... Independent
SLIDESHOW: 6th Annual Richmond Tattoo Arts Festival
Dozens of tattoo artists, vendors and patrons filled a conference room at the Holiday Inn Select Koger Center on Midlothian Turnpike for the Richmond Tattoo Arts Festival this afternoon. Richmond Times-Dispatch
Olympus Auckland Photo Day – one city – one day.
Media Release 3 June 2008 Olympus Auckland Photo Day – one city – one day. OLYMPUS Auckland Photo Day runs for 24 hours on Saturday 7 June 2008 - midnight to midnight and is an open access public photography competition. Scoop.co.nz
Museo de la Moda: Mummy's dearest
Like any loving son Jorge Yarur Bascuñán was eager to keep his parents' memory alive after they had died. The difference lies in how he did it - turning their home into a world-class fashion museum celebrating his mother's style. By Kate Salter. Daily Telegraph
Keeping a fading practice alive through art
DENVER - Through words, songs and stitches, six women from Alabama are telling their stories at the Denver Art Museum. 9 News Denver
Photography fan focuses on close win
SHAH ALAM: It was a photo- finish win for Agilan Gabriel Muthusamy in the Selangor RHB-New Straits Times Junior Spell-it-Right Challenge yesterday. The New Straits Times
Psycho Buildings: Artists Take on Architecture, Hayward Gallery, London
In May 2000, the Austrian art collective Gelitin lifted the window out of the wall of their studio, pushed a wooden balcony through the resultant hole and stood on it, waving, to be photographed. So far, so conceptually unchallenging, except for the studio's location: the 91st floor of the World Trade Center's north tower. (Photos of the incident, if it really happened – Gelitin are great ... Independent