Art News

The prosecution has confirmed former art professor Shin Jeong-ah, accused of fabricating her academic credentials, embezzled corporate sponsorships given to an art gallery where she was employed. [ Read More... ]

Benefactor Will Return Works to Russian State [ Read More... ]

Unplaza Art Fair, Happy Birthday Carnegie Arts Center, Plaza Art Fair... [ Read More... ]

“Raised in Craftivity” at Rockhurst University’s Greenlease Gallery is an engaging group exhibition, with sewing, embroidery, knitting, beading, textiles and woodwork, but don’t expect the kitschy relics of your grandmother’s craft show. [ Read More... ]

Designers Rohit Gandhi and Rahul Khanna hosted an exhibition of artist Manil Gupta's works. [ Read More... ]

New exhibition at Taft connects with the city's cultural roots [ Read More... ]

Four Minnesota artists offer meditations on current conflicts and distant battles. [ Read More... ]

The deadline nears for entering the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana’s fourth annual digitized juried art exhibition and the first show in the Arts Council’s new art gallery. [ Read More... ]

Always a frontrunner in the celebration of the visual arts, the George Segal Gallery at Montclair State University has long been known for presenting innovative and informative art exhibitions. And in pursuing that goal, the gal-lery is focusing on the effect that a rapidly evolving technology has on the art of contemporary printmaking. [ Read More... ]

Wynton Marsalis plays the real stuff: the kind of jazz that's often too tough for mainstream musicians and too complicated for many music lovers. [ Read More... ]

Nepal has always been a paradise for mountaineers, trekkers, wildlife lovers and patrons of ethnic art and culture. Sadly, for quite a long time tourism had taken a back seat due to the nation's politically unrest situation. But can tourists’ fascination for the magnificent Himalayan kingdom ever cease? Not for this tourist! [ Read More... ]

A billionaire Russian oligarch has paid just under 30 million euros to stop an art collection being sold abroad. Alisher Usmanov, the co-owner of Britain's Arsenal football club, has stepped in to buy a collection that belonged to the late Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. Usmanov, who is a metals magnate, has now donated the collection to the Russian state. [ Read More... ]

The Saint Louis Art Museum is angling for about $11 million in proceeds from the sale, or deaccessioning, of several paintings in its collection. [ Read More... ]

Photojournalist Chris Usher usually relies on digital technology. When he wants something special, though, he reaches for a film camera. [ Read More... ]

School responds to students’ need for more courses that focus on digital media [ Read More... ]

The "digital age" of color photography at UTD began a few years earlier than planned when the color film processor that resided in the Visual Arts Building (VAB) failed at the end of the spring 2007 semester. [ Read More... ]

With his opulent paint, acute ambition, stumblebum’s mug and pilgrim’s soul, Rembrandt van Rijn was a god of 17th-century European art. Some 20 paintings by him — the largest number outside Amsterdam — pulse through “The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” a show with an elusive heart. [ Read More... ]

Over the course of a year, a Canadian blogger swapped his way from one red paper clip to a two-story farmhouse in Saskatchewan. [ Read More... ]

Using Art to Exorcise His Demons [ Read More... ]

Michael Gellar, account executive for AOL, was the kick-off speaker for the Advertising Federation of East Central Indiana’s first luncheon program September 14 at the Horizon Convention Center, Muncie. Geller’s topic, Practicing the Art of Digital Conversation, provided insights into the many innovative ways to communicate through online communication. [ Read More... ]

Asian art is under the spotlight at almost a dozen auctions in New York this week, with lots ranging from 19th century erotic scrolls to contemporary Chinese artworks due to go under the hammer. [ Read More... ]

Billionaire pays over £25m to take treasures home
Usmanov coup follows major Arsenal investment [ Read More... ]

A German cardinal faces a barrage of media criticism for using the term "degenerate" in reference to come contemporary art. His critics charge that Cardinal Joachim Meisner is awakening the ideas of the Nazi regime, which used the same term to condemn artists. [ Read More... ]

Real paint and brushes for real artists [ Read More... ]

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Later this month, Delhi-based digital artist Sonia Khurana's video stills will go under the hammer at Sotheby's, New York. [ Read More... ]

The Federal Government's intervention in remote indigenous communities in the Northern Territory could devastate a lucrative industry and leave artists open to exploitation by carpet-baggers, leading indigenous art academics and artists' representatives say. [ Read More... ]

An auction of modern and contemporary Southeast Asian art held on Sunday set record prices. [ Read More... ]

His McIntosh show protests against art on a computer. [ Read More... ]

A £7m Surrey art gallery and museum has been unveiled following 10 years of development. [ Read More... ]

On a recent Saturday morning, I headed over to the house of Pulitzer Prize-winning Post book columnist Michael Dirda with an Xbox 360 under my arm. I plugged the device into his TV, showed him how to turn on the console and vanished. My assignment for Dirda was to try a new game called BioShock. [ Read More... ]

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Joachim Meisner, has sparked a row in Germany by calling some modern art "degenerate", a word that evokes the Nazis' attitude to art. [ Read More... ]

The issues raised by “The Rape of Europa,” a documentary about the Nazi pillaging of art and the Allied effort to return it, can’t be conveniently consigned to the dustbin of history. [ Read More... ]

There were two versions of B with extended backbones that shot up like Trojan helmet plumes. A decorative U and V appeared to waltz with each other. The L had a long, curved base that looked as if it might reach out and lick the M.

The collection was a sort of back-of-the-envelope doodle by a young artist named Andy Clymer who works for Hoefler & Frere-Jones, a foundry that churns out typefaces from an airy office six floors up, just off the SoHo district of Manhattan.

The firm had just taken on a commission for The Nature Conservancy: A decorative typeface it could use for various purposes _ letterhead, fax cover sheets, its quarterly magazine for donors.

It was the beginning of a three-month development process, although years sometimes pass between inspiration for a font and the completed work. [ Read More... ]

He's walked the tightrope at a circus, boiled cocoons at a silk unit from 3am to midnight waiting for that odd powercut to provide a break, been part-time ragpicker and a fulltime beggar on the streets of Bangalore. [ Read More... ]

Professional Malaysia and Goethe Institute Kuala Lumpur are holding an art exhibition at the Elle Six Art Gallery at 71 Jalan Setiabakti, Bukit Damansara on Sept 19 to display the artworks of the winners of the “Salon Meets Art” competition. [ Read More... ]

Something strange is missing from LeRoy Neiman's art studio. There's an easel, of course, and a long table piled with pots of paints and brushes. Years of work have left a thick coat of multicolored droplets splattered across the floor.

What's missing? In a word: Art. [ Read More... ]

This new competition asks fan artists from all levels to give us their depiction of a scene from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows along with a brief description, of 100 words or less, referencing the scene and chapter title. [ Read More... ]

It is a medium that leaves many cold, but for the students of Fairfield High School, video art is far more interesting than any microscopic masterpiece reproduced in a textbook. [ Read More... ]

Dunedin artist James Robinson is off to New York for a six-month residency and with $35,000 in the bank after winning the Paramount prize in the Annual Wallace Art Awards at the Aotea Centre last night. [ Read More... ]

BBC Scotland has donated its entire collection of contemporary art to Glasgow City Council's museums service. [ Read More... ]

Farul and Roshni Vadehra hosted a do for art lovers and showcased works of Bacon, Freud, Souza and Tyeb Mehta [ Read More... ]

Having been out of Northern Ireland for the past fortnight, I have just become aware of the debate initiated by Mr Graham of NIPSA on the 'Per cent for art' scheme. [ Read More... ]

Denver investment banker Tom Petrie is making a $5 million gift to the Denver Art Museum. [ Read More... ]

Does a painter have a place in today’s battle zones? This artist just back from Afghanistan, says that he does [ Read More... ]

Local talent emerges in photographers Alyssa Knox and Mark Krell [ Read More... ]

Fancy moving into a home with a history of drama? Derek Jarman's flat is up for sale [ Read More... ]

A victim of a paedophile teacher has asked for his music textbooks for children to be banned. Does the work, or the art, of someone who has committed such a crime have to be condemned? [ Read More... ]

Art off every palette and for every palate is on show in The Original Art Sale. [ Read More... ]

ADA/CASCADE, ALLEGAN/PLAINWELL, ALLENDALE, ALPINE/COMSTOCK PARK, BYRON, CALEDONIA/GAINES, CEDAR SPRINGS, COOPERSVILLE/MARNE, EAST GRAND RAPIDS/GR TWP, GRAND HAVEN/SPRING LAKE, GRAND RAPIDS, GRANDVILLE, GREENVILLE/BELDING, HAMILTON/FENNVILLE, HASTINGS/MIDDLEVILLE, HOLLAND, HUDSONVILLE/JAMESTOWN, IONIA, JENISON/GEORGETOWN, KENTWOOD, LOWELL, NEWAYGO/FREMONT, PLAINFIELD/NORTHVIEW, ROCKFORD/CANNON, SAUGATUCK/DOUGLAS, SPARTA/KENT CITY, WALKER/KENOWA, WAYLAND/DORR, WEST OTTAWA/HOLLAND TWP, WYOMING, ZEELAND [ Read More... ]

A major exhibition of Jewish fine art opened in Moscow. [ Read More... ]

The 2007-2008 exhibition season at the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Galley will include a film surveying Chinese rock bands, colorful art quilts, and the installation of a dance floor that evokes both the civil rights struggles of the '60s and the soul and funk music crazes of the '70s. [ Read More... ]

Russian painter Geli Korzhev puts a face on ideology in a 60-year retrospective at the Museum of Russian Art. [ Read More... ]

When New York agonises over its place in the world, it is usually because it fears losing its position as the world's financial capital. That has certainly been the case in recent months. Yet Elizabeth Currid thinks that policymakers should be fretting less about credit markets and more about culture. The contribution made by art, music and fashion to the city's economy has, she argues, long been overlooked. And unless something is done about it, another crown could slip. [ Read More... ]

The role of photography in contemporary art will be explored in an exhibit set to open at the main gallery of Rockefeller Arts Center at the State University of New York at Fredonia. [ Read More... ]

In a fine example of guerrilla film-making on the cheap, Tim Barrow found a novel way to raise cash for his film, The Inheritance: volunteering for a medical trial of sleeping pills. [ Read More... ]

Art on Market
6 TO 10 P.M. Friday and saturday. Free. The witherby, 526 Market St., Gaslamp. (619) 544-9704; Thewitherby.com. [ Read More... ]

Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses, Island to Island. Beatific Soul, Alan Shields, Richard Prince... [ Read More... ]

Margaret Morse has been named Acting Dean of the Arts Division for the 2007-08 academic year, effective September 15. [ Read More... ]

Kalahita Art Foundation: Digital art exhibition by G. Narasimha Murthy, Lakshmi Towers, Nagarjuna Hills, noon to 7 p.m. [ Read More... ]

At York Art Gallery, in Exhibition Square, you should look out for Marking Time in the main hall, from October 6. [ Read More... ]

With its tainted exports and crackdowns on the press, China has lately been exposing the dark side of the Asian boom. Yet the Chinese contemporary-art industry continues to thrive, as museums and art districts sprout overnight, and Western dealers join the gold rush by adding Chinese artists to their rosters and opening spaces in Beijing. [ Read More... ]

Apples have become a controversial part of the ShContemporary 2007 at the Shanghai Exhibition Center. [ Read More... ]

ART SLIDESHOW: AMY DUKE, SCOTT HEFFLEY AND JASON MYERS, PAINTING: WATERCOLOR INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED INTENSIVE, CHAD ASKEW: EMBODIED-CONNECTIONS — EXPERIENCE, METAPHOR, RELATIONSHIP: MIXED MEDIA ARTWORK... [ Read More... ]

Young painters and sculptors join the Vietnam generation to produce works following in the footsteps of Goya and Picasso  [ Read More... ]

Saudi art, music and literature were showcased at the launch of Saudi Cultural Days, which opened at the Cultural Hall next to the Bahrain National Museum last night. [ Read More... ]

Art lovers, mark the dates. On Friday, Oct. 5, the Grand Rapids Art Museum will open its spectacular, new downtown facility. Then on Friday, Nov. 23, the Detroit Institute of Arts will welcome visitors its no less spectacularly expanded and reconfigured Woodward Avenue home. [ Read More... ]

Once upon a time, Linda Gibbs lived the corporate life with the lot: long hours, big money, with stress and office politics on the side. "I was in IT, it was called market support," she recalls. "It was a really good thing to do." [ Read More... ]

He spotted it on Hampstead Heath. A beech tree had fallen down, and tree surgeons had started breaking it up. Peter Marigold was struck by the extraordinary shape of the bark and branches. "I was suckered," he said. "It was such a monster. Giant green twisted elephant skin with glowing discs at each point the chain saw had cut in. Incredibly graphic." [ Read More... ]

The Eastern End Of Long Island Is Know For Its Parties, But It Is Also Home To Great Art [ Read More... ]

Digital art has revolutionized the field of fantasy and sci-fi imaging. We spoke to some of the leading exponents of fantasy art about how to push the boundaries of imagination. [ Read More... ]

An artist is using digital photography to commemorate former mill workers. [ Read More... ]

Gallery owner Norman Tolman's debut collection in Shanghai brings to mind one of those travel quizzes that tease with an unidentified photo and ask, "Where are we?" [ Read More... ]

It isn’t only canvasses that are worth millions. Who better to prove this than luxury car maker, BMW, currently showcasing its two most expensive art pieces featuring the works of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. [ Read More... ]

IBM Corp. researchers are touting one of the tiniest pieces of art ever made — an image of the sun made from 20,000 microscopic particles of gold. The precision required is a breakthrough that heralds ultra-miniature sensors, lenses and wires inside nanoscale circuits of the future. [ Read More... ]

Colin Gleadell on the Shanghai Art Fair [ Read More... ]

Center for Hmong Arts and Talent (C.H.A.T.), celebrated its 6th Hmong Arts Festival August 25 at Western Sculpture Park on Marion Street in St. Paul. The event added new highlights that thousands of destination seekers and happened-to-walk-by patrons enjoyed in perfect weather. [ Read More... ]

Burglars didn't take much, but over the weekend they did cause considerable amount of damage to doors and locks inside a northeast Minneapolis building that houses studios and shops featuring the work of several Twin Cities artists. [ Read More... ]

The Brooklyn Museum hosts a broad exhibit of contemporary Caribbean art [ Read More... ]

Abhishek Bachchan’s is the latest Bollywood signature on a canvas. BT gets experts to evaluate this new trend [ Read More... ]

September's exhibitions see galleries lightening up [ Read More... ]

Are you a shudderbug?

Does the thought of taking digital photos sends chills down your spine? [ Read More... ]

The Project Accessible Hollywood (PAH) digital film festival is taking place next month in Los Angeles, and Apple and Sprint will both be on-hand to tie in with the digital theme. [ Read More... ]

Intocartoon is an application that works much like filters built into programs like photoshop -- the ones that can turn an ordinary photo into what appears to be a watercolor painting, for example, or a charcoal sketch. Intocartoon, which comes in a basic and a pro edition, specializes in turing photos into sketches that look like they came straight out of the pages of a comic book. [ Read More... ]

The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis has appointed a new director, tapping the chief of one of the Smithsonian Institution museums. [ Read More... ]

Paul Dwyer, who almost single-handedly started the Australian art boom that has now lasted, with a few bumps along the way, for almost 30 years, has died in a nursing home after a long illness. He was 80. [ Read More... ]

A 24-month strategic marketing campaign to rebrand the Tampa Museum of Art will focus on building museum attendance. [ Read More... ]

Art has been expanding into every crevice of life for decades, so perhaps it's inevitable that some artists would look to the black corduroy loafer as a "canvas." Well, if not inevitable then at least novel. [ Read More... ]

The Museum of Fine Arts Boston has launched MFA Mobile, a program developed by ad agency Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos Inc. which allows users to wirelessly download Museum masterpieces to cell phones and other mobile devices, the museum said on Wednesday. [ Read More... ]

Among the $463 million in budget cuts proposed by Gov. Rod Blagojevich are millions for the arts, including $100,000 in grants from public TV and radio stations, $3 million for museums, park districts and zoos, and about $5 million less for the Illinois Arts Council. [ Read More... ]

More than 90,000 fine arts fans are expected to descend this weekend on North Main Street in Historic St. Charles for the annual MOsaics Missouri Festival for the Arts. [ Read More... ]

An exhibition of digital art and photography by young artist Hasan Zaman started at The Second Floor' (T2F) on Wednesday and will continue till the end of this month. [ Read More... ]

Contemporary art exhibit on display at SU [ Read More... ]

The collection of Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife could go for $40 million at auction. [ Read More... ]

Numerous art teachers from various schools of the capital attended a workshop titled ‘Beauty and Difference, as I see it’ organised by Unilever Pakistan Limited at a local hotel on Friday. [ Read More... ]

Stephen Page continues his journey to reconnect with his land and culture in Bangarra's latest show, writes Gabriella Coslovich. [ Read More... ]

Photoshop plug-in makes digital art from photographs [ Read More... ]

Wacom, the leading manufacturer of pen tablets and interactive pen displays, is showcasing some of its state-of-the art products at Gitex Dubai over September 8-12. [ Read More... ]

Controversy and art go hand-in-hand, said Information, Communications and the Arts Minister Lee Boon Yang, who spoke to reporters at the opening of the Singapore Art Show on Thursday evening. [ Read More... ]

A reflection of the Parthenon shimmers from the windows of Greece's new Acropolis Museum in a convergence of antiquity and modern architecture. [ Read More... ]

Friends sift through the clues left behind by a glittering 'It' couple who had wrapped themselves in a cocoon of paranoia. [ Read More... ]

Permanent Art Gallery of the Alhamra Cultural Complex will reopen today (Saturday) after a period of 11 months. [ Read More... ]

The winners of the City of Hobart's Art Prizes were announced earlier this afternoon. [ Read More... ]

Two collections of modern photography by progressive artists from Russia and Australia are united in the Moscow Central House of Artists. [ Read More... ]

Turn digital photos into paintings with Photoshop [ Read More... ]

The Los Angeles Center of Digital Art Makes a Technological Mark [ Read More... ]

The second annual Art of Digital Show announces "International Call for Entries". [ Read More... ]

Nearly a hundred artists from across the state have descended upon downtown Bangor for the WLBZ 2 Sidewalk Art Festival. This is the art festival's 18th year. [ Read More... ]

As New Zealanders' appetite for fine art grows, so does the appetite of those who want to steal it. [ Read More... ]

Oversize tortillas, baked and flattened, have become the "canvas" for painter Joe Bravo's flights of artistic fancy. [ Read More... ]

Trade show features Microsoft's Surface [ Read More... ]

Mark Murphy bridges the artist-author gap with installations and limited editions [ Read More... ]

Indian modern art is witnessing boom times as wealthy Indians increase investments in paintings. Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi on the emerging Indian art market. [ Read More... ]

Glamorous, stylish and cool, artists are using their kudos to morph into polished brands.The market for trinkets and spin-offs is booming, but what about the art? [ Read More... ]

Artists plant the seeds for the high-end GPU-fueled graphics of games like Team Fortress 2 and Viva Piñata. We speak with AIAS head Joseph Olin about the Into the Pixel videogame art exhibit, which is making rounds at this week's E3. [ Read More... ]

Many people say making wine is an art and an Italian winery once owned by Michelangelo has extended that notion right down to its labels. [ Read More... ]

This Summer The Nation's Capital Is Honoring The Washington Color School [ Read More... ]

Perhaps it helps to know a little bit about art, or do your research, before you go buying the stuff on eBay...

Apparently, a painting by renowned Australian artist William Dobell which actually hangs in the University of NSW was 'sold' on eBay for a tiny $3,055. [ Read More... ]

So much has happened in Indian art in the last four years. Values have changed completely; Indian art has been noticed globally. It is said that there is a USD 350 million-art market now in India, but that of course is dwarfed by the market size in China, which is higher than USD 1.5 billion. But we are getting there and as far as the total auction market size goes, it has changed from USD 5 million in 2003 - just four years back - to nearly USD 150 million this year; that has been the scope and the extent of the rise in the Indian art market. [ Read More... ]

Somos strives to bring recognition [ Read More... ]

A group of area youngsters showed they have talent by the gallon when they transformed oil drums into public artwork this spring.
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Montgomery County Community College has named Arlene Finston of Lafayette Hill winner of the STARS Student Art Contest, which is open to all credit and non-credit students enrolled in the past academic year. [ Read More... ]

The Gagosian Gallery presents Jill Magid -With Full Consent, on view June 27 - July 20, 2007. "I seek intimate relationships with impersonal structures. The systems I choose to work with, such as police, secret services, CCTV and forensic identification, function at a distance, with a wide-angle perspective, equalizing everyone and erasing the individual. I seek the potential softness and intimacy of their technologies, the fallacy of their omniscient point of view, the ways in which they hold memory (yet often cease to remember), their engrained position in society (the cause of their invisibility), their authority, their apparent intangibility and, with all of this, their potential reversibility." --Jill Magid [ Read More... ]

London`s Channel 4 and artist Charles Saatchi have teamed up with some of the biggest names in British contemporary art to launch an 'Art-Idol' competition. [ Read More... ]

Fifty-four of the world’s leading dealers in 20th and 21st century art and design come together once again this autumn for the annual Haughton International Art + Design Fair in New York. [ Read More... ]

Automatic Update, an exhibition of five media installations made since 2000, features works of art drawn from the technology of the last decade. Employing computers, LCD screens, DVD players, digital video, and user-activated components, works in the exhibition show contemporary artists trying their hands at a range of newly invented art forms. [ Read More... ]

At Penn State, where he is a professor of architecture, James Wines keeps a collection of photographs of public art, a "checklist of boring cliches," he calls it.
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For over 25 years, Kresge Art Museum docents have provided school children, MSU students, visitors and senior center with docent-led tours. In September of 2007, KAM will offer a new training class for those who would like to become docents at KAM, and subsequently at the new Eli and Edythe Broad Museum of Art. [ Read More... ]

The London auctions of Impressionist and contemporary art last week amassed a record total of £465 million. The comparable figure a year ago was £294 million. While New York still maintains its lead, with totals of approximately £700 million for equivalent sales, the gap is closing. [ Read More... ]

Art Gallery of New South Wales presents The Arts of Islam – Treasures From the Nasser D Khalili Collection, on view through September 23, 2007. Iranian-born Professor Nasser David Khalili is custodian of the world’s largest private collection of Islamic art, a passion which began as a young boy and continued into adulthood. The quest to assemble such a collection has played a central role in his life. [ Read More... ]

Drawings and calligraphy by children who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima have been restored and are to be be exhibited, possibly next month.
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Wimbledon is upon us and hot on its heels is the Tour de France, which starts in London on July 7. I enjoy watching these great sporting spectacles for the emotional drama and stupendous displays of skill and power – my empathetic neurones fire off and my response to the great sporting moments is electric. [ Read More... ]

Welcome to the Smithsonian — America’s museum!” Lawrence M. Small, the Smithsonian’s recently ousted top executive, wrote in a peppy preface to the latest edition of the institution’s official guidebook. “Our goal,” he declared, “is nothing less” than to “set the standard of museumgoing excellence for the world.” [ Read More... ]

There are pack rats, and then there was the noted New York art dealer and gallery owner Allan Stone . Technically, he wasn't a pack rat, since the stuff cluttering his home tended to be amazing -- totems, tribal fetishes, great works of Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. But as Olympia Stone , the youngest of his six children, attests, the junk sculpture, masks, and taxidermied human heads freaked out her and her siblings. [ Read More... ]

During the early years of motion pictures, theaters across the country shunned studio-produced promotional displays and instead hired their own artists to paint movie posters that would better entice ticket buyers. [ Read More... ]

Contemporary art was up for sale last week at Christie's and Sotheby's, and you could tell from the punters' quiet smiles that they felt relaxed. What is nice about the contemporary art that auction houses market these days is that it requires no effort. The artists themselves limit their own exertions to a minimum. [ Read More... ]

He does not have enough money to put up an art exhibition but his work heralds a budding talent.
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A gritty, moribund industrial zone of Beijing has come alive as China's premier center of contemporary art and culture, its galleries and restaurants drawing comparisons to bohemian districts in Paris, London and New York.
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Until the pranks turned ugly, it was heartening to follow the dust-up between a bunch of street artists and their nemesis or nemeses, identity unknown. As The New York Times reported this week, for some time works of stenciled graffiti art and wheat-pasted posters slapped onto walls in Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan have been splashed with paint and scrawled with messages of protest.
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Founders of the Midwest Museum of Contemporary Art seek national audience
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Gloria Helfgott, an innovative artist and curator who transformed her studio into a classroom for students of the genre known as book art and whose exquisite work has helped define that genre for audiences throughout the nation, died June 23 of scleroderma at her home in Pacific Palisades. She was 79. [ Read More... ]

Though technology and design change, objects that house and direct light have been around for thousands of years. Designed to Be Lit, on view in Carnegie Museum of Art’s Treasure Room, June 30, 2007–February 10, 2008, displays candlesticks, candelabra, and oil and electric lamps from the museum’s collection and examines both the functional and decorative aspects of lighting devices. [ Read More... ]

The Dorchester Community Center for the Visual Arts was about to cancel its seven-week summer program, which provides kids and teens with a rare opportunity to paint and be creative. [ Read More... ]

A young Ulster artist will follow in some famous footsteps when she graduates from one of the country's most prestigious art colleges.
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From Puppets to Pixels is an interactive exhibition that transforms the age-old tradition of shadow puppetry into the digital world - to cyberspace and beyond. The exhibition runs throughout the July school holidays. [ Read More... ]

Fine art photographer Charlie Morey has signed a licensing contract with The Flavia Company, a fine-art publishing/licensing company in Santa Barbara, California for several of his portfolios. [ Read More... ]

Piemonte Share announces the fourth edition of the Festival by calling a competition
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Sunday rain doesn’t dampen turnout for the 44th annual Lake Oswego Festival Arts [ Read More... ]

Wacom Pen and Digitizer Make Digital Content Creation Natural and Intuitive
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Opening the //ADAPT 2007 Conference line up at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Montreal (Sept. 24-28) will be award-winning visual effects supervisor and animation pioneer, Phil Tippett as the Keynote speaker. The conference will also feature sequence supervisor Todd Vaziri from Industrial Light & Magic, who will present segments from TRANSFORMERS, and supervising td Michael Fong from Pixar Animation Studios, who will present segments from RATATOUILLE. [ Read More... ]

Alas, poor Optimus Prime. The children of the '80s knew you — a robot of infinite strength, and a most excellent big rig, too.

Maybe it's a stretch, but just as Hamlet once contemplated the skull of Yorick, the jester who entertained him as a boy, the twenty- and thirtysomethings of today are getting the pop culture equivalent with Transformers. The action-adventure film, opening nationwide Tuesday, revisits the shape-shifting robots that take the forms of trucks, sports cars, jets and helicopters. [ Read More... ]

A fraction of a second. It is the difference between a magnificent and a mediocre sailing photograph according to Carlo Borlenghi, the official “eye” of the 32nd America’s Cup. [ Read More... ]

Academy of Art University students from the digital arts school took home awards from the Space-Time Student Competition & Exhibition at SIGGRAPH 2007. [ Read More... ]

Expose yourself to photography as art, when the seaside town of Ventura, California, hosts dozens of photography-themed events in October 2007.
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One of the most important international exhibitions of contemporary art, Documenta 12, has just opened in Kassel, Germany.
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“Tranquila,” a Spanish observer was heard to judge, with a warmth just short of enthusiasm, on the opening day of the keenly anticipated fifty-second edition of the Venice Biennale—the most venerable of international art shows—directed by the American curator, critic, and teacher Robert Storr. [ Read More... ]

In a gentrifying area of New York, graffiti writers do battle with street artists. It's a fight for legacy in a city where little seems permanent.
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So your kid wants to go to an art school.

Don’t panic just yet. He or she may have an easier time getting a post-graduation job than you think. [ Read More... ]

A show of 30 works by Rolling Stones guitarist and bass player Ron Wood opened in Paris on Monday.
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Around 60,000 visitors and 2,300 journalists made the pilgrimage this year to Art Basel ? billed as the world's leading fair for contemporary art.
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A specter is haunting the art world, the specter of the art-market boom. Critics and curators, collectors and artists, even art dealers fear the unruly power of this boom. And its manifesto is openly acknowledged, in the face the whole world, at Art 38 Basel, June 13-17, 2006.
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The Ninth Salon and Colloquium on Digital Art opened today with representatives of Cuba and Central America in what author and filmmaker Victor Casaus termed as a bet for imagination and beauty. [ Read More... ]

In February 2008, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) launches the first phase of Transformation, its comprehensive expansion and renovation project, designed by the internationally acclaimed Renzo Piano Building Workshop. [ Read More... ]

The story of photography’s extraordinary success and popularity in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, and Poland during a time of tremendous social and political upheaval, is presented in Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918–1945, the first survey exhibition devoted exclusively to this phenomenon. [ Read More... ]

In the week that saw Monet fetch massive sums, Colin Gleadell reveals why London's auction houses are in the middle of record-breaking sales
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Possibly the youngest fashion Fashion designer in the country, 7 year old Haley Schmidt has designed and created her own line of T-shirts titled, HaleyBopTees. [ Read More... ]

Human bodies on display—in a mall [ Read More... ]

The show investigates recent developments in contemporary illustration especially the return to analogue and manual techniques that run counter to the acceleration of our digital age.
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The Ninth Digital Salon and Colloquium opened here with an exhibition of pieces awarded in El Salvador digital art festivals, created by Alexia Miranda, German Hernandez and Guillermo Araujo. [ Read More... ]

Can the masses appreciate modern art? The Documenta art extravaganza in Kassel is betting they can. For the first time ever, organizers are doing everything they can to help locals to understand the art -- and art-lovers to understand the locals.
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Art in the Park is an annual art festival, held at Standish Park in Galesburg, that usually occurs in the summer. This year, however, it has been moved from its usual spot in July to the second weekend in September.
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Trustees approved spending more than $600,000 on arts education, including about $300,000 for a beefed up elementary school music programs.
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Computer art usually isn't found on gallery walls, but it's in children's books and advertising illustrations, often mistaken for watercolor or acrylic. [ Read More... ]

A portrait by Lucian Freud has broken the record for a living European artist after selling for £7.8m at auction.
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Despite its slightly histrionic title - taken from the Lynn H. Nicholas' book of the same name - "The Rape of Europa" is an absorbing documentary that demonstrates Adolf Hitler's megalomania was not confined merely to conquering Europe. [ Read More... ]

A series of London auctions featuring paintings by Lucian Freud, Claude Monet and Joan Miro netted the biggest-ever sum for a week of art sales in Europe, auctioneers Christie's said today. [ Read More... ]

Greg and Bob Giordano knew that pursuing art careers didn't have to mirror the stereotypical artist's life of financial struggle. They had their father as a role model. [ Read More... ]

Three pieces from Michele Guieu'