Art News
Shin Misappropriates Art Gallery Fund
[September 20, 2007]
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... ]
Slava's Art Collection Heading Home
[September 20, 2007]
Benefactor Will Return Works to Russian State [ Read More... ]
Visual arts calendar September 20
[September 20, 2007]
Unplaza Art Fair, Happy Birthday Carnegie Arts Center, Plaza Art Fair... [ Read More... ]
Art review 'Raised in Craftivity' is engaging group show
[September 20, 2007]
“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... ]
Rohit & Rahul host an art exhibition
[September 20, 2007]
Designers Rohit Gandhi and Rahul Khanna hosted an exhibition of artist Manil Gupta's works. [ Read More... ]
German Art
[September 20, 2007]
New exhibition at Taft connects with the city's cultural roots [ Read More... ]
Art review War at a distance
[September 20, 2007]
Four Minnesota artists offer meditations on current conflicts and distant battles. [ Read More... ]
Arts Council contest deadline nears
[September 20, 2007]
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... ]
Exploring the widening frontiers of contemporary printmaking
[September 20, 2007]
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 faithfully carries banner for jazz
[September 20, 2007]
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... ]
Devoted to art
[September 20, 2007]
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... ]
Russian art returned thanks to Oligarch
[September 20, 2007]
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... ]
Art Museum to auction several pieces
[September 20, 2007]
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... ]
Film Still Popular Among the Pros
[September 19, 2007]
Photojournalist Chris Usher usually relies on digital technology. When he wants something special, though, he reaches for a film camera. [ Read More... ]
Offerings at Art School expand
[September 19, 2007]
School responds to students’ need for more courses that focus on digital media [ Read More... ]
Digital age of photography arrives at UTD
[September 19, 2007]
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... ]
A Golden Age, Gobbled Up by the Gilded Age
[September 19, 2007]
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... ]
Seattle blogger barters for art and the stories behind the pieces
[September 18, 2007]
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... ]
My Name Is Alan and I Paint Pictures
[September 18, 2007]
Using Art to Exorcise His Demons [ Read More... ]
Digital Conversation and the Future of Marketing
[September 18, 2007]
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 goes under the hammer at New York sales
[September 19, 2007]
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... ]
Russian oligarch halts auction to buy complete Rostropovich art collection
[September 18, 2007]
Billionaire pays over £25m to take treasures home
Usmanov coup follows major Arsenal investment [ Read More... ]
Usmanov coup follows major Arsenal investment [ Read More... ]
German cardinal faces fury for reference to "degenerate" art
[September 18, 2007]
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... ]
Painter X
[September 18, 2007]
Real paint and brushes for real artists [ Read More... ]
ZINK Imaging to Speak on Applications of Thermal Printing for Security at the Society for Imaging Science & Technology's NIP23 Conference
[September 17, 2007]
ZINK Imaging, a privately held company, was founded to enable millions of customers to enjoy the magic of ZINK™ Zero Ink™ products. ZINK Imaging is headquartered in Massachusetts, with a state of the art manufacturing facility in North Carolina. For more information, please visit www.ZINK.com. [ Read More... ]
Of nude art and the Indian mart
[September 17, 2007]
Later this month, Delhi-based digital artist Sonia Khurana's video stills will go under the hammer at Sotheby's, New York. [ Read More... ]
Aboriginal art under threat
[September 17, 2007]
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... ]
New record prices set at Sotheby's for Southeast Asian art pieces
[September 17, 2007]
An auction of modern and contemporary Southeast Asian art held on Sunday set record prices. [ Read More... ]
Willmore pictures traditional art
[September 15, 2007]
His McIntosh show protests against art on a computer. [ Read More... ]
£7m Lightbox art centre unveiled
[September 15, 2007]
A £7m Surrey art gallery and museum has been unveiled following 10 years of development. [ Read More... ]
Monster Fun. But Is It Art?
[September 15, 2007]
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... ]
Archbishop's art criticism angers Germans
[September 15, 2007]
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... ]
Art, Lost and Found
[September 15, 2007]
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... ]
Typeface Designers Mix Art, Engineering
[September 15, 2007]
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... ]
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... ]
A new start for the young at art
[September 15, 2007]
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... ]
Art Exhibition
[September 15, 2007]
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... ]
At 86, LeRoy Neiman Isn't Slowing Down
[September 15, 2007]
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... ]
What's missing? In a word: Art. [ Read More... ]
New Fan Art Contest Opens
[September 3, 2007]
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... ]
Digital art excites students
[September 3, 2007]
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... ]
Paper dragon wins $35,000 art prize
[September 3, 2007]
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... ]
Museums given BBC art collection
[September 3, 2007]
BBC Scotland has donated its entire collection of contemporary art to Glasgow City Council's museums service. [ Read More... ]
Its party time for art lovers
[September 4, 2007]
Farul and Roshni Vadehra hosted a do for art lovers and showcased works of Bacon, Freud, Souza and Tyeb Mehta [ Read More... ]
Hospital art has positive benefits
[September 4, 2007]
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... ]
Petrie donating $5M to art museum
[September 5, 2007]
Denver investment banker Tom Petrie is making a $5 million gift to the Denver Art Museum. [ Read More... ]
When art goes to war
[September 3, 2007]
Does a painter have a place in today’s battle zones? This artist just back from Afghanistan, says that he does [ Read More... ]
Photographers share their art at state fair
[September 5, 2007]
Local talent emerges in photographers Alyssa Knox and Mark Krell [ Read More... ]
Luvvie central for the art house crowd
[September 9, 2007]
Fancy moving into a home with a history of drama? Derek Jarman's flat is up for sale [ Read More... ]
Can the art of a paedophile be celebrated?
[September 5, 2007]
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... ]
Massive art sale an original
[September 6, 2007]
Art off every palette and for every palate is on show in The Original Art Sale. [ Read More... ]
News briefs for September 6
[September 6, 2007]
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... ]
Major Jewish art show opens in Russia
[September 6, 2007]
A major exhibition of Jewish fine art opened in Moscow. [ Read More... ]
New art at the Weston
[September 6, 2007]
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... ]
Art: Communist humanist
[September 6, 2007]
Russian painter Geli Korzhev puts a face on ideology in a 60-year retrospective at the Museum of Russian Art. [ Read More... ]
Art and the city
[September 6, 2007]
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... ]
Fredonia Opens Exhibit Today
[September 7, 2007]
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... ]
Director lost no sleep over dilemma of how to pay the bill for film
[September 7, 2007]
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... ]
Free Art Show: Put your critic's cap on
[September 8, 2007]
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... ]
6 TO 10 P.M. Friday and saturday. Free. The witherby, 526 Market St., Gaslamp. (619) 544-9704; Thewitherby.com. [ Read More... ]
Fall arts: Art critic's picks
[September 8, 2007]
Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses, Island to Island. Beatific Soul, Alan Shields, Richard Prince... [ Read More... ]
Margaret Morse appointed Acting Dean of Arts Division
[September 8, 2007]
Margaret Morse has been named Acting Dean of the Arts Division for the 2007-08 academic year, effective September 15. [ Read More... ]
Hyderabad Today
[September 8, 2007]
Kalahita Art Foundation: Digital art exhibition by G. Narasimha Murthy, Lakshmi Towers, Nagarjuna Hills, noon to 7 p.m. [ Read More... ]
Amie Antoniak on art
[September 7, 2007]
At York Art Gallery, in Exhibition Square, you should look out for Marking Time in the main hall, from October 6. [ Read More... ]
Art Boom in China Has Ripples Over Here
[September 9, 2007]
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... ]
Contemporary art upsets the apple cart literally
[September 9, 2007]
Apples have become a controversial part of the ShContemporary 2007 at the Shanghai Exhibition Center. [ Read More... ]
Visual Art openings September 8th
[September 8, 2007]
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... ]
Iraq inspires surge of protest art
[September 9, 2007]
Young painters and sculptors join the Vietnam generation to produce works following in the footsteps of Goya and Picasso [ Read More... ]
Saudi art on display
[September 9, 2007]
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... ]
Two spectacular art museums grace east and west Michigan
[September 9, 2007]
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... ]
There's no 'I' in art
[September 10, 2007]
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... ]
A design-art boom at London festival
[September 10, 2007]
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... ]
Art Thrives In The Hamptons
[September 10, 2007]
The Eastern End Of Long Island Is Know For Its Parties, But It Is Also Home To Great Art [ Read More... ]
Light and magic
[September 10, 2007]
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... ]
Mill 'ghosts' inspire artist
[September 10, 2007]
An artist is using digital photography to commemorate former mill workers. [ Read More... ]
Kaifeng Jews Help Art Dealer Finish Four-Decade Trip to China
[September 11, 2007]
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... ]
BMW shifts gears, rolls its art cars into Mumbai
[September 11, 2007]
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 Claims Ultra-Tiny Art Project
[September 11, 2007]
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... ]
Art sales: Chinese dealers get in the swim
[September 11, 2007]
Colin Gleadell on the Shanghai Art Fair [ Read More... ]
CHAT Arts Festival continues to grow and while keeping community at its heart
[September 11, 2007]
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 break into art studios at Northrup King building
[September 11, 2007]
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... ]
Treasure Islands
[September 12, 2007]
The Brooklyn Museum hosts a broad exhibit of contemporary Caribbean art [ Read More... ]
Star paintings: gimmick or art?
[September 12, 2007]
Abhishek Bachchan’s is the latest Bollywood signature on a canvas. BT gets experts to evaluate this new trend [ Read More... ]
New Arrivals September 12th
[September 12, 2007]
September's exhibitions see galleries lightening up [ Read More... ]
Improve your digital photo skills at workshop
[September 12, 2007]
Are you a shudderbug?
Does the thought of taking digital photos sends chills down your spine? [ Read More... ]
Does the thought of taking digital photos sends chills down your spine? [ Read More... ]
Apple, Sprint Sponsor L.A. Digital Film Fest
[September 12, 2007]
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... ]
Turning Photos Into Comic Book Art With Intocartoon
[September 12, 2007]
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... ]
Walker Art center appoints new director
[September 12, 2007]
The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis has appointed a new director, tapping the chief of one of the Smithsonian Institution museums. [ Read More... ]
Gavel comes down for an art world pioneer
[September 13, 2007]
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... ]
Tampa Museum of Art launches rebranding campaign
[September 12, 2007]
A 24-month strategic marketing campaign to rebrand the Tampa Museum of Art will focus on building museum attendance. [ Read More... ]
Looking down: Art that suits your shoes
[September 12, 2007]
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... ]
MFA promotes art via cell phones
[September 12, 2007]
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... ]
Begalka Show your support for the Illinois Art Council budget
[September 12, 2007]
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... ]
MOsaics is a fine arts festival in St. Charles
[September 13, 2007]
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... ]
Dark digitals
[September 13, 2007]
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... ]
Varied artwork on exhibit
[September 13, 2007]
Contemporary art exhibit on display at SU [ Read More... ]
Art for Sale
[September 14, 2007]
The collection of Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife could go for $40 million at auction. [ Read More... ]
Workshop for art teachers held
[September 15, 2007]
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... ]
Art as medicine
[September 15, 2007]
Stephen Page continues his journey to reconnect with his land and culture in Bangarra's latest show, writes Gabriella Coslovich. [ Read More... ]
Snap Art
[September 14, 2007]
Photoshop plug-in makes digital art from photographs [ Read More... ]
Wacom presents state-of-the-art digital pens at GITEX 2007
[September 11, 2007]
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: Lee Boon Yang
[August 3, 2007]
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... ]
Art Deco Gem in Athens Faces Demolition
[August 2, 2007]
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... ]
The world as Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan saw it
[August 3, 2007]
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 reopens today
[August 4, 2007]
Permanent Art Gallery of the Alhamra Cultural Complex will reopen today (Saturday) after a period of 11 months. [ Read More... ]
Hobart art prizes won by interstate artists
[August 3, 2007]
The winners of the City of Hobart's Art Prizes were announced earlier this afternoon. [ Read More... ]
Russian and Australian photo art united in Moscow
[August 3, 2007]
Two collections of modern photography by progressive artists from Russia and Australia are united in the Moscow Central House of Artists. [ Read More... ]
Release your inner artist
[August 3, 2007]
Turn digital photos into paintings with Photoshop [ Read More... ]
Instant Gratification
[August 3, 2007]
The Los Angeles Center of Digital Art Makes a Technological Mark [ Read More... ]
The Art of Digital Show - Elevating the Art Form
[August 4, 2007]
The second annual Art of Digital Show announces "International Call for Entries". [ Read More... ]
Artists Flock To Bangor For The WLBZ 2 Sidewalk Art Festival
[August 4, 2007]
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... ]
To catch an art thief... get an Art Guard
[August 4, 2007]
As New Zealanders' appetite for fine art grows, so does the appetite of those who want to steal it. [ Read More... ]
Where others see tortillas, another sees art
[August 4, 2007]
Oversize tortillas, baked and flattened, have become the "canvas" for painter Joe Bravo's flights of artistic fancy. [ Read More... ]
Touching the future of computers
[August 5, 2007]
Trade show features Microsoft's Surface [ Read More... ]
Designer defines the art of publishing
[July 8, 2007]
Mark Murphy bridges the artist-author gap with installations and limited editions [ Read More... ]
Indian Art Witnesses Boom Times
[July 8, 2007]
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... ]
All aboard the art wagon
[July 8, 2007]
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... ]
Interview: The Art of E3
[July 9, 2007]
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... ]
Italian winery turns labels into art exhibits
[July 9, 2007]
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... ]
Reviving Washington, D.C.'s Art Scene
[July 9, 2007]
This Summer The Nation's Capital Is Honoring The Washington Color School [ Read More... ]
Art buyers beware
[July 9, 2007]
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... ]
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... ]
Indian art market valued at $350 million
[June 23, 2007]
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... ]
Studio discovers art, artists
[June 23, 2007]
Somos strives to bring recognition [ Read More... ]
Stratford youngsters turn drums into art
[June 23, 2007]
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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School Notes
[June 23, 2007]
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... ]
Jill Magid -With Full Consent in New York
[June 24, 2007]
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... ]
Channel 4 launches `Art-Idol` competition
[June 24, 2007]
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... ]
Haughton International Art + Design Fair in New York
[June 24, 2007]
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... ]
MoMA Features Automatic Update Media Exhibition
[June 24, 2007]
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... ]
Places: Lessons on putting the public in public art
[June 26, 2007]
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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Docent Training For MSU's New Art Museum
[June 26, 2007]
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... ]
Art sales: eclipsing the Impressionists
[June 26, 2007]
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... ]
The Arts of Islam at Art Gallery of New South Wales
[June 26, 2007]
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... ]
Hiroshima children's art restored in Washington
[June 27, 2007]
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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Where art doesn't stand a sporting chance
[June 27, 2007]
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... ]
This Art Is Your Art, This Art Is My Art
[June 28, 2007]
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... ]
Borrowing from her father's art with a collection of reflections
[June 28, 2007]
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... ]
Book Focuses on Lost Movie Poster Art
[June 29, 2007]
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... ]
At sales of contemporary art, the cosmic effect
[June 29, 2007]
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... ]
Uganda: Art Inspired By Personal Tragedy
[June 29, 2007]
He does not have enough money to put up an art exhibition but his work heralds a budding talent.
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A world-class district for Beijing art - if not its artists
[June 29, 2007]
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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Splashing the Art World With Anger and Questions
[June 30, 2007]
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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Carmel to get cutting-edge art museum
[June 30, 2007]
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... ]
Designed to Be Lit at Carnegie Museum of Art
[July 1, 2007]
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... ]
Instructors pour art and soul into Dorchester art program
[July 1, 2007]
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... ]
Our Gemma's etchings are now a work of art
[June 30, 2007]
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... ]
Yes, I Plan To Become a Digital Art Judge!
[June 27, 2007]
Piemonte Share announces the fourth edition of the Festival by calling a competition
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Weather or not
[June 28, 2007]
Sunday rain doesn’t dampen turnout for the 44th annual Lake Oswego Festival Arts [ Read More... ]
Gateway Updates Its Convertible Notebook with Leading Graphics Technologies, Making it the Ideal Platform for Digital Artists
[June 28, 2007]
Wacom Pen and Digitizer Make Digital Content Creation Natural and Intuitive
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Phil Tippett to Keynote the //ADAPT 2007 Conference in Montreal
[June 28, 2007]
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... ]
'Transformers': From toy story to serious art?
[July 1, 2007]
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... ]
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... ]
Americas Cup: Carlo Borlenghi, art in a fraction of a second
[July 1, 2007]
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 Win Awards at the Prestigious Space-Time Competition at SIGGRAPH 2007
[July 1, 2007]
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... ]
PhotoVentura 2007, a Festival of All Things Photographic, Invades Ventura, California, This October
[July 1, 2007]
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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German show embraces world art
[June 19, 2007]
One of the most important international exhibitions of contemporary art, Documenta 12, has just opened in Kassel, Germany.
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Big Ideas
[June 19, 2007]
“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... ]
On urban canvas, 2 art forms collide
[June 18, 2007]
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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Art degree packs punch in digital world
[June 19, 2007]
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... ]
Don’t panic just yet. He or she may have an easier time getting a post-graduation job than you think. [ Read More... ]
Stones guitarist Wood opens art show in Paris
[June 18, 2007]
A show of 30 works by Rolling Stones guitarist and bass player Ron Wood opened in Paris on Monday.
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Tens of thousands throng to "Mecca of art"
[June 18, 2007]
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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Art Capital
[June 18, 2007]
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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Salon of Digital Art opens in Havana
[June 20, 2007]
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... ]
LACMA Launches Transformative Expansion and Renovation
[June 20, 2007]
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... ]
Central European Photography between the Wars at NGA
[June 20, 2007]
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... ]
Art goes from boom to boom
[June 20, 2007]
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... ]
The extraordinary art of the dead
[June 20, 2007]
Human bodies on display—in a mall [ Read More... ]
Sur*face Exhibition of Graphic Art and Illustration
[June 21, 2007]
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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Salvadorian Digital Art in Cuba
[June 21, 2007]
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... ]
Documenta's Mission to Explain Modern Art
[June 21, 2007]
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 changes
[June 21, 2007]
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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School Art Programs Draw Funding
[June 21, 2007]
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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Exhibit connects dots concerning pixel art
[June 23, 2007]
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... ]
Freud portrait breaks art record
[June 22, 2007]
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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'Rape of Europa': Tracking Hitler's crimes against Europe's art
[June 21, 2007]
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... ]
Record sales at art auctions
[June 22, 2007]
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... ]
LI family finds lucrative niche licensing their art
[June 21, 2007]
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... ]
Michele Guieu's 'Undocumented' Digital Art Series About Undocumented Workers in the U.S. is Selected for the 'Cultural Fusion' Exhibition
[June 22, 2007]
Three pieces from Michele Guieu's "Undocumented" digital art series, focusing on undocumented workers in California, were selected for inclusion in the "Cultural Fusion: Exploring the Multi-Cultural Influences on the Arts of this Region" art exhibition. The exhibition starts July 28 and continues through September 30, 2007, at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido Museum, Escondido, California. [ Read More... ]
Japanese Prints Presented With Post Photos in Tacoma
[June 23, 2007]
Highlights from Tacoma Art Museum ’s growing collection of Japanese woodblock prints will share gallery space with The Quiet Landscapes of William B. Post this summer. [ Read More... ]
Stone Carvings By Roger Loos at Michener Museum
[June 23, 2007]
Abstract and semi-abstract stone sculptures by Roger Loos are on exhibit from July 14 through October 21, 2007 as part of the Outdoor Sculpture Program at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown. [ Read More... ]
Anderson Art Warehouse kick-off public art fundraiser
[June 23, 2007]
Anderson Art Warehouse unveiled a new catch of 6-foot fish Friday night for “Fish out of Water: Hooked on the Arts 2.” [ Read More... ]
Furniture & Decorative Arts at Bonhams & Butterfields
[June 23, 2007]
Bonhams & Butterfields' fall 2007 auction of 20th Century Decorative Arts, to be held in Los Angeles on September 24, 2007, features a diverse group of works spanning a century of design. [ Read More... ]
Highest Price For Living Artist At Auction: Hirst $19.2 M
[June 23, 2007]
Sotheby’s week of sales concluded today, having realised a total of £204,766,360 – the highest total for any series of sales ever staged by the company in Europe. [ Read More... ]
Andy Warhol's 30 Colored Maos Sells at Sotheby's
[June 23, 2007]
An Andy Warhol silkscreen entitled 30 Coloured Maos (Reversal Series) was sold in Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Contemporary Art last night for £1.25 million after being consigned for sale by the Art Loss Register (ALR) on behalf of insurers. [ Read More... ]
Escultura Social: A New generation of Art From Mexico City
[June 23, 2007]
Over the last ten years, Mexico City has become a thriving hub of artistic activity. A daring young generation of artists has developed a new vocabulary that embraces non-traditional materials as well as video, photography, and performance, with a love of conceptual art. [ Read More... ]
Prices soar as world's super-rich invade London art market
[June 23, 2007]
Saleroom records tumbled in a frenetic week, as the Russians led the way on the latest leg of an elite international tour [ Read More... ]
Big art buyers turn to London
[June 16, 2007]
The heady London art market is set to hit new heights as the international super-rich and bonus-laden financiers flock to the capital's auction houses for a series of major sales next week. [ Read More... ]
Venice. Art. Ubiquitous.
[June 17, 2007]
Venice is a city virtually upholstered with masterpieces, and during the 52nd Biennale, which began June 10 and includes 76 countries, hundreds of artists and too many satellite events to count or see, official-art-world fatigue could set in quickly. [ Read More... ]
Recycling With a Twist: When Trash Becomes Art
[June 15, 2007]
From afar, the giant object that appears to have cartwheeled into Latham Park looks like a bright-red starburst. On closer view, it consists of six metal filing cabinets that have been welded in an acrobatic design that almost defies gravity. [ Read More... ]
The Clark Receives Important Collection
[June 17, 2007]
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute announced today that the Manton Foundation has donated a significant collection of British paintings, oil sketches, watercolors, and other works on paper by J.M.W. Turner, John Constable, and Thomas Gainsborough, among others. As part of this gift, the foundation has contributed $50 million to endow the Clark’s acclaimed Research and Academic Program, a leading international center for discussion and scholarship in the visual arts. [ Read More... ]
State of 'Net art' way of the future?
[June 17, 2007]
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The tradition of making art gets a high-tech twist with "Wired," a new permanent exhibit at Young at Art Children's Museum in Davie.
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Dresden museum to display Holocaust victims' art
[June 15, 2007]
Paintings and drawings by Holocaust victims will be put on display in an eastern German museum in a first-of-its-kind collaboration with Israel's Yad Vashem, the director of Dresden's art collection said. [ Read More... ]
Sotheby's Former Chief Alfred Taubman Says Art Prices Must Fall
[June 15, 2007]
Alfred Taubman, Sotheby's largest individual shareholder and owner of pictures by Mark Rothko, Jasper Johns and David Smith, said the art market is heading for a decline.
``As a collector, prices seem high to me,'' Taubman said in an interview in London yesterday. ``The market has to come down to keep economic balance.'' [ Read More... ]
``As a collector, prices seem high to me,'' Taubman said in an interview in London yesterday. ``The market has to come down to keep economic balance.'' [ Read More... ]
Art & Commerce: It Starts With Digital
[June 11, 2007]
To anyone at an ad agency founded before, say, 1990, the news that Nike isn't satisfied with the digital capabilities of Wieden + Kennedy produced a nodding of heads. After all, this revelation came shortly after the news that Publicis was acquiring Digitas for the latter's digital prowess.
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New UCSC Exhibit Showcases Digital Art
[June 11, 2007]
A new wave of art hit Santa Cruz over the weekend.
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The antiquities market is booming in New York, where Sotheby's has sold a spectacular 2,000-year-old Roman bronze of Artemis and the Stag, albeit without a bow and arrow, for £14.3 million, a record for any antiquity, or indeed any sculpture, at auction.
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The future face of digital design
[June 13, 2007]
To succeed in today's digital design industry requires more than simply keeping abreast of the latest versions of computer programs required. Visual designers also need to keep a finger on the pulse of new technologies in a broader sense to optimise creativity in a world revolutionised by the pixel, says Eva Csernyanszky of Friends of Design Academy of Digital Arts. [ Read More... ]
Virtual art heist, vivid impressions
[June 12, 2007]
For Margot Knight, the cops chasing her last Friday night were no laughing matter, even though she knew they weren't real.
For three days beginning Thursday, Knight was the central figure in a fictional art heist scenario that played out partly in the real world, and partly in a virtual world.
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For three days beginning Thursday, Knight was the central figure in a fictional art heist scenario that played out partly in the real world, and partly in a virtual world.
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The United States of art history
[June 13, 2007]
Blocks of photographic imagery, oil paintings and splashes and sketches in the shape of electronic devices, women's figures, air planes and umbrellas, among others are juxtaposed inside a white space. This 10-meter-long silk-screen painting named "Barge," is a monumental art work by Robert Rauschenberg about America's art history. [ Read More... ]
Vatican brings its art across the pond
[June 12, 2007]
Italian art of angels from the Old and New Testaments is part of an exclusive exhibit on loan from the Vatican and on display through the end of the year at the Mississippi Museum of Art. [ Read More... ]
Art Under Siege
[June 13, 2007]
When several kinds of carefully built institutions and hard-won freedoms are under attack, it may be worth reflecting on what appears like a paradox. The two parts of this paradox are the careers of M F Husain and Chandramohan, both under attack from similar political forces. While Husain has been in self-imposed exile from India, he is far from exiled from the art world.
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For art's sake: New Gallery 364 debuts on 72nd Street
[June 14, 2007]
Bay Ridge artists can now toil on their masterpieces, plus have their work exhibited, in an historic space that is also the neighborhood’s first fine arts studio. [ Read More... ]
Imagekind Announces the 'Art Inspires' Nonprofit Makeover
[June 14, 2007]
Imagekind, the fastest growing online art site and community for consumers and artists to buy and sell professional, museum-quality framed digital art, today announced that it is sponsoring "Art Inspires", a nonprofit art makeover contest. The contest is being held in conjunction with Washington State's first-ever Online Art Walk, which will take place Monday June 25th through Sunday August 19th, 2007 at Imagekind.com. [ Read More... ]
Singapore's graffiti art
[June 15, 2007]
When some cars were vandalised in the Punggol area recently, local graffiti artist Zero thought: “Somewhere along the line, this stupid act of blatant vandalism will be associated with graffiti art.”
When a reader wrote to the newspapers to suggest that the recent spate of vandalism in the area had something to do with an increase in “officially-sanctioned graffiti”, Zero responded: “I was spot-on.” [ Read More... ]
When a reader wrote to the newspapers to suggest that the recent spate of vandalism in the area had something to do with an increase in “officially-sanctioned graffiti”, Zero responded: “I was spot-on.” [ Read More... ]
Auction of antiquities brings Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery 67.2 dollars (50.51 EUR)
[June 14, 2007]
Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery got $67.2 (50.51 EUR) in an auction of antiquities, and hopes to use the money to position itself among America's best-known modern and contemporary art collections.
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Paintings and drawings by Holocaust victims will be put on display in an eastern German museum in a first-of-its-kind collaboration with Israel's Yad Vashem, the director of Dresden's art collection said today.
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Clark gets biggest donation ever
[June 15, 2007]
The Clark Art Institute, long known as a home for French and American paintings, is making room for a $90 million British invasion thanks to a donation from the foundation of Sir Edwin Manton.
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'Gallerinas' Millionaires, Dead Painter Lead Art-Bubble Tale
[June 15, 2007]
Artist Jeffrey Finelli, in the midst of a party for his first gallery show in New York's Chelsea district, steps outside for a smoke. Minutes later, he's dead, hit by a speeding taxi on a rain-slicked street. [ Read More... ]
New Age art to decorate Parker Fieldhouse
[June 14, 2007]
Parker photographer Steve Friedman is a frequent fixture at local area sporting events. High School and youth sports enthusiasts will often see him on the sidelines with camera in hand. Steve is, however, anything but your ordinary photographer. He turns his photo images into digital paintings.
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The arrival of digital printing press in Nigeria
[June 13, 2007]
That Alexander Bain in 1843 invented the fax machine is not new in history. But what is interesting now is the fact he and the like of Christopher Sholes who invented the typewriter in 1867 have at one time or the other contributed in the area of office technology to drive much of the innovation in communications, working styles, and even in the value placed on certain skill sets there are today.
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DuFief fifth-graders unveil artwork project
[June 13, 2007]
On June 5, the fifth-graders at DuFief Elementary School revealed an art project that will have a permanent place in the school for years to come.
Using money raised by the PTA, the school hired Joseph Craig English to be an artist in residence at the school and to work with the students on a large art installation that now hangs in the school’s all-purpose room. [ Read More... ]
Using money raised by the PTA, the school hired Joseph Craig English to be an artist in residence at the school and to work with the students on a large art installation that now hangs in the school’s all-purpose room. [ Read More... ]
iPods to blame for total eclipse of the art, says Hockney
[June 14, 2007]
Those who prefer a well-painted landscape to a diamond-studded skull or a roasted corgi now have a culprit to blame for the contentious state of contemporary art: the iPod.
The artist David Hockney believes the ubiquitous music player is contributing to a decline in visual awareness that is damaging art and painting in particular. It even makes people dress badly. [ Read More... ]
The artist David Hockney believes the ubiquitous music player is contributing to a decline in visual awareness that is damaging art and painting in particular. It even makes people dress badly. [ Read More... ]
Whiteley art auctions for nearly $3.5-million
[June 14, 2007]
Australia lost one of its most talented artists when Brett Whiteley died from a heroin overdose in 1992, but the popularity and value of his work has only grown.
Last night in Sydney his work The Olgas for Ernest Giles was sold at auction for nearly $3.5-million, an Australian record. [ Read More... ]
Last night in Sydney his work The Olgas for Ernest Giles was sold at auction for nearly $3.5-million, an Australian record. [ Read More... ]
Generation 1.5 Opens at Queens Musuem of Art
[June 14, 2007]
Generation 1.5 is an exhibition of the work of eight artists who emigrated in their teenage years. The term “generation 1.5” is used in some communities to describe those who are neither adult immigrants nor American born -- the in-between generation of people who moved from one country to another between the ages of 12 and 18. Already undergoing physical and intellectual change during these formative years, 1.5 generation individuals also experience a change in context, in language, in culture. The premise of the exhibition is that the relationship of a 1.5 artist to their adopted country is different than that of a person who immigrated when they were much younger or older. Generation 1.5 is curated by Executive Director of the Queens Museum of Art, Tom Finkelpearl and Chief Curator, Valerie Smith. The exhibition will be on view at the Queens Museum of Art through December 2, 2007. The participating artists are: Ellen Harvey, Pablo Helguera, Emily Jacir, Lee Mingwei, Shirin Neshat, Seher Shah, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Nari Ward. [ Read More... ]
Making masterpieces street art
[June 14, 2007]
Staff and customers of a Soho sex shop had something new to look at yesterday: a life-sized reproduction of a Caravaggio painting that had been hung up outside the establishment overnight.
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Drawings from America's past at Museum of Utah Art & History
[June 12, 2007]
Correction: "Countours," an exhibit opening Friday at Art Access Gallery, features the work of 11 Utah artists. An item in Sunday's Living section misstated where the artists are from. [ Read More... ]
Art heist overshadows Whiteley record
[June 14, 2007]
Police are investigating a major art heist after a $1.3 million painting was stolen from the Art Gallery of NSW.
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Forging a new perception of art and its function
[June 13, 2007]
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Documenta selects 113 artists for 100-day art expo
[June 14, 2007]
Documenta, the show of contemporary art held every five years in Germany, released its list of 113 chosen artists Wednesday, just three days before the exhibition opens.
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Masterpiece stolen in art heist
[June 14, 2007]
A valuable self-portrait by the Dutch master Frans van Mieris has been stolen from the Art Gallery of NSW.
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Corporate culture - Tactile, not just digital
[June 14, 2007]
Microsoft’s contemporary art collection contains 4,500 pieces scattered among its Redmond offices. The intent is to spark creativity and give workers some environmental contrast. [ Read More... ]
Does digital file sharing render copyright obsolete?
[June 3, 2007]
When the 1980s pop star Robin Gibb writes a song these days, he says he doesn't think about whether it is copyrighted or licensed - he devotes himself to his art and lets his handlers see to its legal and financial well-being.
But when NoobishPineapple, an 18-year-old from Spearfish, South Dakota, uploads his 36-second rap video about fast food onto YouTube, he has no staff of assistants to make sure his creation is protected or paid for - and he probably doesn't care, anyway.
That makes people like David Ferguson, head of the British Academy of Composers and Authors, nervous about how art will be sustained in the future. And it is giving people like Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons, an opening to promote alternatives to the world's increasingly maligned copyright systems. [ Read More... ]
But when NoobishPineapple, an 18-year-old from Spearfish, South Dakota, uploads his 36-second rap video about fast food onto YouTube, he has no staff of assistants to make sure his creation is protected or paid for - and he probably doesn't care, anyway.
That makes people like David Ferguson, head of the British Academy of Composers and Authors, nervous about how art will be sustained in the future. And it is giving people like Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons, an opening to promote alternatives to the world's increasingly maligned copyright systems. [ Read More... ]
Lockhart River art exhibition enters virtual reality
[June 4, 2007]
The acclaimed Our Way: Contemporary Indigenous Art from Lockhart River exhibition can be viewed by people all over the world, thanks to an innovative 3-D computer program. [ Read More... ]
Art project mistaken for vandalism is vandalized
[June 3, 2007]
An art project that was mistaken for vandalism was the target of vandals who destroyed the exhibit last week.
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Art Museum Presents 2007 Sidewalk Art Show
[June 5, 2007]
The Art Museum will present the 2007 Sidewalk Art Show on Saturday, June 2 and Sunday, June 3, transforming downtown Roanoke into a paradise for over 10,000 art lovers who will enjoy the impressive display of artworks by regional and national artists while enjoying the charm of the Historic Market Square area. The Sidewalk Art Show will be open on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. Admission is FREE. The 2007 Sidewalk Art Show is sponsored by Bank of America. [ Read More... ]
Collaboration Between Museums Signed
[June 5, 2007]Something that has not previously been achieved by any European museum has now been brought to fruition by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Today sees the signing of a contract by the General Directors of the museums in Berlin, Dresden and Munich concerning a long-term exhibition which is to go on display at the National Museum of China, represented by its General Director, Lu Zhangshen.
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The unlikely combination of hip-hop music and aboriginal dancers greeted Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean at an inner-city art gallery Monday where she encouraged young people to fight violence through art.
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Store turns paper into art
[June 5, 2007]
Approaching its first anniversary, the Paper Studio in Tempe has developed a name for itself as one of the more popular and rare paper studios in the Valley. [ Read More... ]
Fresno County supervisors approve public art policy
[June 4, 2007]
County supervisors approved a new public arts policy that would set aside a percentage of large government construction projects for paintings, sculptures and other artwork at government buildings.
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Salvation Army Art Program
[June 4, 2007]
The Salvation Army is teaming up with a Syracuse man to teach children about art. The children, who range in age from about 9 to about 11, meet each Monday at the Syracuse Salvation Army on South Salina Street. They learn the basics of calligraphy and water coloring, as well as how to make leather necklaces and bracelets in a program called "Art for the Heart."
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Greek art world in uproar over raid on indecent art exhibit
[June 5, 2007]
Greek artists, intellectuals and media are protesting a police raid and closure of an art exhibit authorities deemed "indecent" in Athens last weekend. [ Read More... ]
Tokyo galleries learn the art of survival
[June 6, 2007]
New York has Chelsea for lovers of contemporary art and Hong Kongers take the escalator to Soho. In Beijing, they head for Dashanzi. No such luck in Tokyo. Avant-garde galleries in Japan’s capital are scattered far and wide.
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Filipino martial art enjoys revival
[June 5, 2007]
Grandmaster holds workshops at Dragon's Den in Union City
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Ex-Olympians boyfriend guilty of art theft
[June 5, 2007]
It was a trial that played out like a soap opera, revealing the distaste former Olympian Myriam Bedard's family had for her artist boyfriend Nima Mazhari.
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Finalists named for teen art contest
[June 10, 2007]
The jurors’ votes are in. Get Framed, Jr., the Star-News’ contest giving one high school artist his or her first gallery show, now has five finalists.
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//ADAPT 2007 Conference Draws Renowned Studios and Artists
[June 4, 2007]
Digital 04 Studios announced the official launch of the //ADAPT 2007 Conference website and a preview to the program outline for the event, taking place at the Hyatt Regency Montreal, on Sept. 24-28. This event will host local and world-renowned studios under one roof alongside 40 artists and hundreds of attendees from all corners of the globe. [ Read More... ]
How to print your pixels
[June 5, 2007]
The art of the fine photographic print, once practiced mainly by the custom lab or the darkroom professional, has migrated to the home inkjet, now that digital photography has eclipsed the film kind. [ Read More... ]
Cops release suspects' portraits
[June 5, 2007]
Pair sought in theft of Rembrandt work
Police sketches of suspects who stole a pricey etching from a Michigan Avenue gallery aren't exactly Rembrandts, but authorities are hoping they may help lead them to one. [ Read More... ]
Police sketches of suspects who stole a pricey etching from a Michigan Avenue gallery aren't exactly Rembrandts, but authorities are hoping they may help lead them to one. [ Read More... ]
Digital art defined
[June 5, 2007]
The Wikipedia definition of digital art is artwork created on a computer in digital form.
Digital art can be purely computer-generated, or taken from another source, such as a scanned photograph, or an image drawn using graphics software using a mouse or graphics tablet. [ Read More... ]
Digital art can be purely computer-generated, or taken from another source, such as a scanned photograph, or an image drawn using graphics software using a mouse or graphics tablet. [ Read More... ]
R/GA Opens New State-of-the-Art Digital Studio
[June 5, 2007]
R/GA, the agency for the digital age, announced today the opening of a new facility to accommodate the growing in- house digital studio. R/GA has already produced hundreds of video shoots across all major accounts, including Avaya, L'Oreal Paris, Nike, and Verizon. Now there is an opportunity to leverage R/GA's legacy in award-winning production to provide TV-quality broadband advertising that's cost effective and optimized for digital channels. [ Read More... ]
CAEAA Opens Submissions for the 2007 Elans
[June 6, 2007]
The 2nd Annual Canadian Awards for the Electronic and Animated Arts (CAEAA) has announced their call for submissions from video game companies for the 2007 Elans held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on November 2, 2007 at The Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts.
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Looted Art Found in Nazi Dealer's Safe
[June 6, 2007]
Masterpiece paintings worth millions have been discovered in the Zurich bank safe of an art dealer who died in March
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Naked Tony Blair at Art Exhibition
[June 6, 2007]
An artist's triptych of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, naked, stony-faced and surrounded by haunting images of the war in Iraq, is one of the arresting sights at a major London art exhibition.
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Emin is surprise choice for art Olympics
[June 6, 2007]
Tracey Emin, who is representing Britain at this year's Venice Biennale, was not the British advisory committee's choice for the major international arts event, it emerged yesterday.
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Tour art studios
[June 7, 2007]
The sixth annual Topanga Canyon Artists' Studio Tour will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sat., June 9 and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sun., June 10. The self-guided tour will begin at Topanga Canyon Gallery, 120 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd., No. 109, Topanga. [ Read More... ]
'Graffiti art' mural on centre stage
[June 7, 2007]
A huge mural fusing graffiti and Islamic scriptures will go on show in Coventry this weekend.
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Memphis Art Openings
[June 7, 2007]
2284 Evelyn, Fountain Art Gallery, Java Cabana, Material, Montyshane Gallery, Stax Museum of American Soul Music... [ Read More... ]
Five years ago, the Stark Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston began a partnership. Their goal was to highlight one of the finest collections of Western American art in the United States and to share resources between the two institutions. Now it’s time to celebrate the successes of the collaboration. [ Read More... ]
Sharon Stone runs for president ... at Venice art fair
[June 7, 2007]
Move over Hillary.
Sharon Stone is the only woman running in the 2008 U.S. presidential elections, at least as far as the Venice Biennale art festival is concerned.
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Sharon Stone is the only woman running in the 2008 U.S. presidential elections, at least as far as the Venice Biennale art festival is concerned.
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A Venetian Customs House for Contemporary Art
[June 7, 2007]
François Pinault, the luxury-goods magnate and art collector who owns Christie’s, arrived here this week not simply to peruse the hundreds of art installations that make up this year’s Venice Biennale, but also for the formal signing of an agreement on Friday between the City of Venice and his Palazzo Grassi to create a contemporary-art center in an unused customs house called Punta della Dogana, at the entrance to the Grand Canal.
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The brainless socialite of the art world, Damien Hirst, is at it again. The show-off seems determined to prove that ‘art’ buyers are at least stupid as voters; there seems to be no limit to what either group will go along with.
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R. Craig Miller Appointed Curator of Design Arts at IMA
[June 8, 2007]
The Indianapolis Museum of Art announced today that it has appointed R. Craig Miller to the newly-created position of Curator of Design Arts. Miller, formerly Curator of the Department of Architecture, Design & Graphics at the Denver Art Museum , will take the lead in the development of a new IMA department dedicated to the collection, preservation, and interpretation of 20th and 21st-century European and American design in October 2007.
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Art: exhibits and events
[June 8, 2007]Openings and events
Un “Pear”alleled Art, art works with pears as the subject by present and former students of Georgiana Cray Bart. Opens Saturday and continues through July 21 with a reception June 16, 1 to 3 p.m. The Gallery at Pierce Plaza, 517 Pierce St., Kingston. Hours: Monday through Saturday, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.; until 7 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday. 283-3354.
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[June 8, 2007]
When longtime friends Linda Merica and Lynn Miller met for an alfresco breakfast at a downtown restaurant, it didn't take them long to notice the banners gently swaying from lampposts along Main Street. “I think it looks great,” said Merica. “It makes downtown look really colorful and festive.”
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On the wings of fine art
[June 8, 2007]
Pinz Gallery on Hudson Avenue has featured some interesting art and this month is no different.
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Exhibition focuses on digital art
[June 9, 2007]
Global warming, war and wildlife are the focus of a digital art exhibition being held at Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery from tomorrow until July 15.
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Reproduction art wowing visitors as much as originals
[June 9, 2007]
Advances in printing techniques for reproductions of paintings and other cultural assets mean that replicas now look so good they can be exhibited in museums. [ Read More... ]
Feminists pour their art out
[June 9, 2007]
Many artists in Pune are using the tool of self-expression to condemn the parochial stereotypes of womanhood. PT reports. [ Read More... ]
Whose art is it anyway?
[June 7, 2007]
The 52nd Venice Biennale is enough to make any British art-lover proud. While Tracey Emin may be the official representative at this Olympics of the contemporary art world, a waterbus ride through the city canals reveals dozens more.
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Keyes Group names art show winners
[June 7, 2007]
The Keyes Art Group’s annual art show was held Saturday at the Amato Family Center for the Performing Arts in Milford. More than 40 works by area artists were on display. [ Read More... ]
Music Superstar George Michael and his partner Kenny Goss are accepting invitations to the most prestigious art events in Europe in an effort to add more to their culturally provocative collection, currently valued at $200 million. While George is preparing for his current European Stadium tour, Kenny is attending private viewings with some of Britain's most cutting-edge artists.
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Microsoft's contemporary art collection grows up
[June 8, 2007]
Leah Erickson let out an exasperated growl when she spotted a banner advertising "Microsoft System centre Essentials 2007" crookedly thumbtacked above a row of photographs framed and lit with museumlike care.
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Museum auction nets $76.5 million total
[June 8, 2007]
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery's sale of more than 200 pieces raised $76.5 million, far more than the $15 million the museum's board had anticipated.
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Sotheby's Evening Sale of Contemporary Art - London
[June 8, 2007]
Sotheby’s forthcoming Evening Sale of Contemporary Art, to be held in London on Thursday, June 21, 2007 will showcase one of the finest and most important group of works by Post-War and Contemporary artists ever to come to the market in Europe, with British artists once again dominating the list of highlights. With a pre-sale estimate of £40.6 - 57.1 million, it will be the largest sale in the category at Sotheby’s London to date.
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Camp brings summer art classes to budding artists
[June 8, 2007]
Some of Carlsbad's youngest budding artists congregated at the Carlsbad Museum this week. The children, all in elementary school, participated in a week-long summer art camp. [ Read More... ]
Practice proper art etiquette: Mind your manners while making the rounds at the art fair booths
[June 8, 2007]
Mind your manners while making the rounds at the art fair booths.
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In a digital world, photo festival worth thousands of words
[June 9, 2007]
Earlier this week, Rick Shaw, director of Pictures of the Year International at the University of Missouri, packed 36 photographic prints - judged to be among the world's top photographs taken last year - into a pair of wooden crates, shoved them into the back of a truck along with 36 easels, and headed southeast for [ Read More... ]
Making Art Out Of Recycled Items
[June 9, 2007]
Some Michiana residents are putting old coffee cans, Styrofoam packing, and other old items to good use. Several young people showed off their artistic talent at the 2007 EnviroFest Art Fair contest. [ Read More... ]
Big season for art shows in Europe
[June 9, 2007]
The world‘s oldest and most prestigious contemporary art fair opens Sunday in Venice, kicking off what promises to be the European art season of the decade as four premier events align in an unusual convergence that is generating extraordinary buzz. [ Read More... ]
Ontario pumps $2 million into digital media education
[May 30, 2007]
The Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) recently launched the Digital Futures Initiative, a new cross-disciplinary program funded by a $2 million annual investment by the Government of Ontario, with additional support from industry and education entities.
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Alex Fischer: Making relations
[May 30, 2007]
For Alex Fischer, art is process. As a mixed-media artist, Fischer is interested in the relation between his pieces, ideas and audience. Because of this, he defines his art as all of these elements. He is a painter, photographer and an installation and digital artist. He also considers himself a social scientist.
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A London exhibition of outsider art
[May 30, 2007]
A solo exhibition of works by Justine Cal, an artist supported by Thames Reach’s Vision Impossible? project, is now showing at the Novas Contemporary Urban Centre in central London. [ Read More... ]
St:art - An exhibition by AUD students
[May 30, 2007]
Nineteen students of the Visual Arts Department at The American University in Dubai displayed some of their most creative work at St:Art (Student Art) exhibition. The exhibition, which was launched on May 28, 2007 and runs until June 10, 2007, is taking place at Meem Gallery. It was arranged to highlight the Fine Arts aspect of the Visual Communications (VC) program. The VC department has concentrations in Graphic Design, Photography, and Advertising and uses Fine Arts courses to supplement these areas.
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Christie's bullish on Asian art
[May 30, 2007]
Christie's, the world's largest auction house, expects no let-up in demand for Chinese art this year, with Asian sales set to rise up to 20 per cent, amid relatively flat global revenues, its chief executive says.
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Art Openings
[May 31, 2007]Around Midnight. Group show. Papillion Gallery, 462 N Robertson, West Hollywood,(310) 289-1887. Papillongallery.com. Opening reception Sat 4-8. Closes June 16.
Art & Design Walk. Open house features over 200 fashion boutiques, interior furniture showrooms, fine/art antique galleries, and a live Children’s Chorus performance. Melrose Av, Robertson Bl, Beverly Bl, West Hollywood, (310) 289-2534. Avenuesartdesign.com. Sat only, 4-8.
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[May 30, 2007]
Today is a melancholy day for many people because it marks the end of the Piccadilly Gallery’s lease at 43 Dover Street, and, with it, the retirement of Godfrey and Eve Pilkington, doyen and doyenne of gallery owners, and the closing of an art world institution that opened in Coronation year, January 23, 1953. Penny Pilkington, the second of their four children, has a gallery, PPOW (Penny Pilkington Wendy Olsoff), but it is in New York and she deals in contemporary, avant garde works.
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Bruce Nauman Exhibition at Musée D'Art Contemporain
[May 30, 2007]
Bruce Nauman’s whole body of work raises incisive existential questions related to life and death, love and hate, pleasure and pain—the very words he uses in the title of his neon work Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain. In a Québec and Canadian first, the Musée d’art contemporain presents the exhibition Bruce Nauman through September 3, 2007.
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Haughton Presents Art and Antiques Dubai
[May 30, 2007]
The Haughton Family are delighted to announce the launch of ART AND ANTIQUES DUBAI , an international fair devoted to the fine and decorative arts of all periods, at the Madinat Arena, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai , from Thursday, February 21st through Sunday, February 24th, 2008. The Fair will be launched with the support and co-operation of the Government of Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM), which oversees tourist development in the emirate and promotes it worldwide as a tourism and commerce hub.
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Gaston College art show starts June 9
[May 31, 2007]
The Gaston County Museum of Art & History will hold the Gaston College Visual Art Club Juried Art Show from June 9 through Sept. 8, marking the first time the museum and club have collaborated to bring regionally recognized jurors to Dallas.
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Ancient China's treasures go digital
[May 31, 2007]
The largest and most valuable collection of ancient Chinese art and artifacts in the world is being entered into the digital universe in Taiwan by museum curators and IT managers intent on freeing it from its physical boundaries.
The goal is to make the massive collection available on the Internet. Researchers will be able to find rare documents in an easy-to-use database, teachers will be able to download information and images they can use in course work, and visitors will enjoy vivid exhibitions, films, music, access to favorite works of art and virtual tours. [ Read More... ]
The goal is to make the massive collection available on the Internet. Researchers will be able to find rare documents in an easy-to-use database, teachers will be able to download information and images they can use in course work, and visitors will enjoy vivid exhibitions, films, music, access to favorite works of art and virtual tours. [ Read More... ]
Hidden River Art Festival Announces Accepted Artists
[May 31, 2007]
The State's Largest Art Festival Featuring Only Wisconsin Artists Celebrates 80 of Wisconsin's Finest, September 21-23, 2007
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Digital artwork goal aims to help students, scholars
[June 1, 2007]
The recent discovery of artwork from a permanent collection will hopefully help students in the art department for Purdue University.
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Premiere art event boasts 95 exhibitors
[May 31, 2007]
Wallowa County's premier art event will celebrate a quarter of a century of showcasing fine art this weekend at the Joseph Community Center with more artists and artwork than ever. [ Read More... ]
Eli Broad Gives $26 Million for Art Museum at Michigan State
[June 1, 2007]
Philanthropist Eli Broad and his wife, Edythe, have given $26 million to Michigan State University to create a new art museum on the campus.
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For the love of art and money
[June 1, 2007]
Damien Hirst's £50 m skull, unveiled yesterday, throws a hand grenade into the decadent world of art collecting, writes Richard Dorment
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DANM exhibition slated for Digital Media Factory in June
[June 4, 2007]
Seven graduate students in UCSC’s Digital Arts and New Media M.F.A. program will come together during the second and third weekends of June to display their original works in an exhibition titled Emergence 2007, at the Digital Media Factory in Santa Cruz (2809 Mission Street).
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LVHS students prepare for art show
[June 2, 2007]
The community is invited to an Art Show and Reception hosted by Lahontan Valley High School students who will be displaying and selling their artwork.
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StarCraft II Art Panel Report
[May 20, 2007]
Senior members of the StarCraft II art team talk about how they create the "Blizzard look." [ Read More... ]
Art Book by Clark Hulings Wins Independent Publisher Award
[May 21, 2007]
The newly published 20th anniversary edition of A Gallery of Paintings by Clark Hulings has won a bronze medal in the 2007 Independent Publisher Book Award Competition.
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Dying to get in touch with your inner da Vinci? Feel more like a Michelangelo? Artists of all ages will have the opportunity to try out techniques that these and other Renaissance artists used at the Hadley Spring Arts Festival on Saturday June 2. [ Read More... ]
Juried art show features local artists
[May 22, 2007]
The Gaston County Museum has announced the Gaston College Visual Art Club Juried Show as its next art exhibit.
The show will run June 9 through Sept. 8 at the museum at 131 West Main St. in Dallas. [ Read More... ]
The show will run June 9 through Sept. 8 at the museum at 131 West Main St. in Dallas. [ Read More... ]
Paintings From Germany, With a Wink and a Sneer
[May 22, 2007]
Painting may go in and out of fashion, but its many lifesaving graces always keep it afloat. One is its capacity for what might be called beautiful sarcasm, a sly self-parody while still looking good that is cultivated by many young painters today. [ Read More... ]
Sanjaya: Human Art Project
[May 22, 2007]
Is Sanjaya Malakar really who he says he is ... or is he really an art school student pretending to be an "Idol" wannabe?
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Partners in crime pull off art heist
[May 22, 2007]
Gallery's curator believes 'Midwestern type' couple stole Rembrandt etching
He was all square body and zipped-up golf jacket, gray hair and a baseball cap in hands. She was the silent one, wearing a billowy tan trench coat, who avoided eye contact with gallery employees.
They were, in the art curator's eyes, "the Midwestern type."
But just before 3 p.m. Sunday, the average-looking couple walked into the Hilligoss Galleries on the Magnificent Mile. Employees believe they walked out less than five minutes later with a $60,000 Rembrandt etching. [ Read More... ]
He was all square body and zipped-up golf jacket, gray hair and a baseball cap in hands. She was the silent one, wearing a billowy tan trench coat, who avoided eye contact with gallery employees.
They were, in the art curator's eyes, "the Midwestern type."
But just before 3 p.m. Sunday, the average-looking couple walked into the Hilligoss Galleries on the Magnificent Mile. Employees believe they walked out less than five minutes later with a $60,000 Rembrandt etching. [ Read More... ]
College To Receive $100M Art Collection
[May 21, 2007]
A Maine couple will donate some 500 paintings, a $100 million collection that includes many canvases by American artists, to Colby College.
And the college's Museum of Art, needing space to exhibit the gift from Peter and Paula Crane Lunder, will build a new wing scheduled to open in 2013, The Boston Globe reported. [ Read More... ]
And the college's Museum of Art, needing space to exhibit the gift from Peter and Paula Crane Lunder, will build a new wing scheduled to open in 2013, The Boston Globe reported. [ Read More... ]
Camera phone photography as art
[May 24, 2007]
Patrice Elmi hasn't touched her bulky 35 mm camera since last fall. The emerging visual artist from Los Angeles has discovered that all she needs is the diminutive gizmo she clips to her jeans and flips open to chat with friends. [ Read More... ]
Show on Vietnamese modern art
[May 25, 2007]
A new exhibition will give visitors an overview of contemporary Vietnamese art through paintings and sculptures by 15 painters and three sculptors from Hanoi. [ Read More... ]
College Considers a Plan to Sell Its Art Collection
[May 25, 2007]
Short on funds and fearful of losing its accreditation, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Va., is exploring the possibility of saving itself by sharing its most valuable asset: a world-class collection of American art. Worth more than $100 million, it includes paintings by George Bellows, Edward Hopper, William Merritt Chase and Georgia O’Keeffe. [ Read More... ]
The Borf Brigade Takes It Inside
[May 25, 2007]
Graffitist and Crew Hold an Art Show to Fund 'Extortion' by D.C. Court
It's tough being dissidents seeking publicity. You despise The Man but you want The Man to pay attention. You want the press to cover you, but you don't necessarily want to give your name. You want to raise money, but you don't want to be seen as selling out. [ Read More... ]
It's tough being dissidents seeking publicity. You despise The Man but you want The Man to pay attention. You want the press to cover you, but you don't necessarily want to give your name. You want to raise money, but you don't want to be seen as selling out. [ Read More... ]
Fine arts students display their work at Museum of Art
[May 25, 2007]
Master of fine arts student Yvonne Stubbs, the first in her family to earn a bachelor's degree, presented "Bloodline" at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on Wednesday night, a performance piece conceived from family history. The piece tells the story of her "black indian" ancestors in Oklahoma - descendants of African slaves and their Native American slaveholders. [ Read More... ]
Jessica Burns, a junior at Central Columbia High School, won the 1st prize and $250 for the 1st Annual Clarion University of Pennsylvania Nanotechnology Digital Art Contest with her entry, “Up, Up, and Away with Nanotechnology.”
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Third art gallery opens on Main
[May 25, 2007]
On May 26, when Integrity: An International Art Gallery opens its doors, Payson's Main Street will boast its third art gallery in barely 10 months.
"This is a gift from the Universe through Mike and Debbie Robinson, owners of the Oxbow, and their manager Joni," said Jay LeBow of the art venture he and his wife Kasandra are opening inside the historic Oxbow Saloon. [ Read More... ]
"This is a gift from the Universe through Mike and Debbie Robinson, owners of the Oxbow, and their manager Joni," said Jay LeBow of the art venture he and his wife Kasandra are opening inside the historic Oxbow Saloon. [ Read More... ]
The gym at Robinson Elementary was transformed into an art gallery Thursday evening.
The walls were covered in black or yellow paper and donned matted paintings and drawings all done by students grades kindergarten through fifth. [ Read More... ]
The walls were covered in black or yellow paper and donned matted paintings and drawings all done by students grades kindergarten through fifth. [ Read More... ]
In search of American art
[May 26, 2007]
Art show begins filming in Florida
Miami Beach - Victor Leong races against time to build his sandcastle. He has been working for more than four hours and must finish before the sun sets so his creation can be filmed without shadows. [ Read More... ]
Miami Beach - Victor Leong races against time to build his sandcastle. He has been working for more than four hours and must finish before the sun sets so his creation can be filmed without shadows. [ Read More... ]
Black Light/White Noise: Sound and Light
[May 28, 2007]
This spring, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston will present Black Light/White Noise: Sound and Light in Contemporary Art, the first comprehensive review of contemporary black artists working with sound and light, building on a longstanding tradition of artistic experimentation through the work of 16 diverse artists. Organized by Contemporary Arts Museum curator Valerie Cassel Oliver, Black Light/White Noise will be on view in Houston from May 26 to August 5, 2007. [ Read More... ]
Dr. Timothy Potts to Resign from Kimbell Art Museum
[May 28, 2007]
The Kimbell Art Foundation announced today the resignation of Dr. Timothy Potts as director of the Kimbell Art Museum, effective September 1st, 2007, by which time he will have been director for almost nine years. Dr. Potts announced his decision at the Kimbell Art Foundation Board meeting on May 22nd, offering to stay until September 1 to allow time for his successor to be identified and to ensure a smooth transition. After this date, he will continue to support the museum as a consultant on selected projects, including the Kimbell-organized exhibition Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art, which opens in November. [ Read More... ]
The Art of Buying Art, With the Help of an Adviser
[May 27, 2007]
You're ready to start collecting “real art.” Unfortunately, you don’t know a Klee from a Kiefer and think that Chuck Close drew the Bugs Bunny cartoons. Or maybe you have bought some pieces from up-and-coming (a k a unknown) artists and want to move to more established ones. Perhaps you’re a more experienced collector who has fallen in love with a painting but wondered whether it was worth its hefty price. You are not alone. [ Read More... ]
Appreciating modern art
[May 26, 2007]
We must train ourselves to look beneath the surface of life and see the deeper truth in it.
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Visual Art Club show opens June 9
[May 27, 2007]
The Gaston College Visual Art Club juried art show, in collaboration with the Gaston County Museum, will be on exhibit from June 9 through Sept. 8 at the museum.
This year's exhibit will feature sculptures, ceramics, photographs, illustrations, prints, videos and digital art. This is the first year the two organizations have teamed up to bring a juried show to the area. [ Read More... ]
This year's exhibit will feature sculptures, ceramics, photographs, illustrations, prints, videos and digital art. This is the first year the two organizations have teamed up to bring a juried show to the area. [ Read More... ]
Art: Opening this week
[May 27, 2007]
BRUSH CREEK CULTURAL CORRIDOR WALK: Campus tours, free lapel buttons, chalk for children and families to use in making chalk drawings on the sidewalks around the perimeter of the college. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. June 2; Kansas City Art Institute, 4415 Warwick. Student volunteers lead tours of Brush Creek-KCAI Community Rain Garden located at Theis Park, Volker Blvd. and Oak. Free. www.kcai.edu (816-802-3426)
SDA (SURFACE DESIGN ASSOCIATION) INTERNATIONAL FASHION PERFORMANCE: Transgression and Transformation; with music and performance by Mark Southerland’s Couture Marching Band. 8 p.m. June 2; Folly Theater, 300 W. 12th. $28. (816-474-4444) [ Read More... ]
SDA (SURFACE DESIGN ASSOCIATION) INTERNATIONAL FASHION PERFORMANCE: Transgression and Transformation; with music and performance by Mark Southerland’s Couture Marching Band. 8 p.m. June 2; Folly Theater, 300 W. 12th. $28. (816-474-4444) [ Read More... ]
Primary schools to get art teachers
[May 28, 2007]
The state government will appoint drawing,music, craft teachers in primary schools having seven teachers. Announcing here on Sunday, primary and secondary education minister Basavaraj Horatti said drawing teachers would be appointed for each of the 2,684 clusters of primary schools in the state. [ Read More... ]
Love of art comes full circle at MHS
[May 28, 2007]
When Katherine Stewart learned she would have to give up her art class in order to take the advanced courses she needed for college, she did what anyone would do: Found away to take both. [ Read More... ]
Art in Review
[May 18, 2007]
The list of Cindy Sherman’s heirs keeps growing. Artists like Nikki S. Lee, Tomoko Sawada and Tamy Ben-Tor have followed Ms. Sherman’s lead by photographing (or in Ms. Ben-Tor’s case, videotaping) themselves in a variety of identity-exploring guises. But Kelli Connell departs from this formula. [ Read More... ]
Art-A-Fair seeks to create sense of community
[May 18, 2007]
The members of the Prizm Creative Community are hoping area patrons will swing by the Downtown Main Library to check out their latest artistic offerings, featured in the first Art-A-Fair exhibit.
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Art auction sets records
[May 17, 2007]
The record price for postwar art was broken twice at a Sotheby's auction yesterday, first with a Francis Bacon work and later with a Mark Rothko painting, which went for almost $73 million, the auction house said. [ Read More... ]
Art market continues unstoppable run
[May 17, 2007]
The contemporary art market continued its seemingly unstoppable bull run at Christie’s in New York last night when a new auction record $71.7 million (£36 million) was paid for a painting by Andy Warhol. [ Read More... ]
Art industry abuzz with more record talk
[May 16, 2007]
Just over a week after John Brack's The Old Time broke the record for the highest price paid for a local art work at auction, there's talk it will happen all over again. [ Read More... ]
One Dozen Who Care, Inc. (ODWC) will feature the watercolor Art of Darlene Heaton on Friday, May 25 at the ODWC office, 65 Wilson Street, Suite 7, Andrews, from 4-7 p.m. The mission of ODWC is to strengthen leadership among women and youth and to build strong community bonds through common cultural situations. [ Read More... ]
List of semi-finalists announced for $50,000 Sobey Art Award
[May 16, 2007]
Montreal artist David Altmejd, chosen to represent Canada this year at the Venice Biennale contemporary art exhibition, is one of 25 young artists in the running for the 2007 Sobey Art Award. [ Read More... ]
Street art trash or treasure?
[May 16, 2007]
A Small piece of street art down a nondescript Melbourne city alley could be a modern art treasure. [ Read More... ]
A monumental, hot-hued painting by Mark Rothko became the most expensive work of postwar art sold at auction when it fetched $72.8 million tonight at Sotheby's in New York. [ Read More... ]
Art Extravaganza
[May 15, 2007]
Call it lucky number 13. By any name, ARTSWorcester’s 13th Biennial Exhibition is a strong and varied show in which 275 submissions were winnowed down to the 95 works that fill both floors of the group’s spacious Aurora Gallery at 660 Main St. in Worcester. The style-and-media-spanning show represents 74 established and emerging artists, with an emphasis on the emerging aspect. The biennial is one of the largest juried exhibitions in Central Massachusetts. [ Read More... ]
Perot Systems and Hillwood Development Deploy BelAir Networks Wireless Mesh in Dallas
[May 15, 2007]
Hillwood Development (“Hillwood”) and Perot Systems Corporation, (NYSE: PER) teaming up with BelAir Networks and Red One Network Solutions (“Red One”), today announced the deployment of a next generation wireless broadband mesh network throughout the Victory Park Development, one of the country's most significant and innovative master-planned urban developments. The broadband wireless network provides high speed wireless access over the 75 acre urban development in the heart of downtown Dallas. The mesh network also allows nearby buildings, such as the W Dallas Victory Hotel & Residences, to integrate internet access while maintaining separate authentication systems. [ Read More... ]
Guerilla art cuts to the chase
[May 15, 2007]
A wander through the still ramshackle, but fast regenerating East End proves the mother country's anarchic spirit is alive and well - evidenced by the sliced, diced and re-ordered guerilla art of the Cut-Up Collective. [ Read More... ]
Digital mapping captures Glasgow
[May 14, 2007]
A 3D virtual online map of Glasgow has been launched modelling parts of the city down to incredible detail. [ Read More... ]
The Male Gaze: Pornography or Art?
[May 14, 2007]
"The Male Gaze", the new group show of gay male art up at powerHouse Arena in the DUMBO area of Brooklyn, was recently given feature treatment in the New York Times as they lauded the entrance of a renewed gay aesthetic in the art world.
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Art assault: Artists show solidarity
[May 14, 2007]
In Vadodara, art student Chandramohan, who was arrested five days ago for allegedly obscene paintings, was finally given bail on Monday. [ Read More... ]
Art vs publicity: The cultural debate
[May 14, 2007]
There has been national solidarity for the artists of Baroda amid concerns on whether the attacks on art are linked to the growing popularity of the visual arts. [ Read More... ]
Scores of Warhols to be sold off in giant private art deal
[May 13, 2007]
Works by Andy Warhol, the American pop artist, are the subject of what could be one of the art market’s biggest private deals. [ Read More... ]
Face to face with tribal art
[May 13, 2007]
A couple of art enthusiasts are trying to raise awareness of and appreciation for tribal art. [ Read More... ]
Turning advertising into an art
[May 13, 2007]
According to Al Ries, brands are built because people tell other people about products or services. Word of mouth. The power of word of mouth is the power that no amount of advertising money can buy- - the credibility of independent opinion. Everyone knows (although the ad industry doesn’t admit to it) that an ad is nothing but an attempt to sell, and therefore will not be very truthful about the negative, but very generous in describing the positive of the product or serviced, and therefore everyone takes ads in with a pinch of salt. [ Read More... ]
Getting art-savvy
[May 13, 2007]
Besides artwork, buying fine arts such as miniatures, thangkas, ancient medieval sculptures and antiquities are good forms of investment [ Read More... ]
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Singalowsky College Design School in Tel-Aviv is the fifth school to exchange digital art with Manatee Community College in an annual event that uses the Internet to transmit works of art. [ Read More... ]
Art Market Watch
[May 10, 2007]
Christie’s New York sale of Impressionist and modern art on May 9, 2007, could not have started more differently than did Sotheby’s the night before. Auctioneer Christopher Burge, with a long evening in front of him, opened the sale at a run. Bids flew around the room as he batted them back and forth from buyer to buyer in ambidextrous volley. Bids climbed effortlessly past the high estimates, doubled, and sold. At least it wasn’t going to be death by a thousand slow bids. [ Read More... ]
Art in the digital age
[January 13, 2007]
Technology-driven art that changes with the speed of an electric charge presents special challenges and opportunities for museums that draw fans with timeless works such as those by El Greco, Titian or Dali. [ Read More... ]
Art fund reveals taste for the exotic
[May 11, 2007]
An art hedge fund has raised £10m and hopes to secure £25m by the time it launches this summer, demonstrating the soaring interest in exotic investments. [ Read More... ]
Art activist works toward helping spirits flourish
[May 12, 2007]
Several years ago, I was privileged to hear the Nubian musician Hamza El Din play at Enkaku-ji temple in Kita Kamakura. The space in which he played was open to the elements, and the sound of rain falling provided an accompaniment to the notes of his instrument, the oud, in a way that still resonates.
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Family Drops Claims to Disputed Art
[May 11, 2007]
A family that claimed two paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin rightfully belonged to them since they were sold during the Nazi era have dropped their legal fight. [ Read More... ]
As new waves of buyers surge on the art market and push prices to previously unimaginable levels, the hierarchical scale of artistic values that long prevailed in the market ceases to be relevant. The trend became jarringly obvious on Tuesday and Wednesday as Sotheby's and Christie's conducted their prestigious evening sales of Impressionist and Modern art. [ Read More... ]
EARS XXI Studio, NMSU-Grants, and the Cibola Arts Council are proud to announce the Digital Amnesty contest, part of PAH-FEST 2007, a four day media extravaganza taking place in Grants, New Mexico. [ Read More... ]
Telling the story
[May 9, 2007]
An artist's legacy lives on in the program he founded to teach art to young people in Southern California. [ Read More... ]
An artist who reconstructed an encampment of anti-war banners and placards at Parliament Square has beennominated for the Turner Prize on a shortlist of artists who make trenchant political statements. [ Read More... ]
Not just art for art's sake
[May 9, 2007]
A group of enterprising investors clubbed together to pick some profitable paintings. [ Read More... ]
Digital artist colors his works with feelings
[May 8, 2007]
Bruce Haley's artwork goes beyond a visual presentation.
"I create feelings, emotions and memories through fine art photography," said Haley, whose specialty is PhotoDigital painting. He uses a digital camera to take a picture and then uses a computer to turn it into a painting. [ Read More... ]
"I create feelings, emotions and memories through fine art photography," said Haley, whose specialty is PhotoDigital painting. He uses a digital camera to take a picture and then uses a computer to turn it into a painting. [ Read More... ]
Decades of Stamford art displayed
[May 8, 2007]
The artwork on display in the Rosberg Gallery is as diverse as the artists who created it. [ Read More... ]
Which Digital Camera Is Best?
[May 8, 2007]
Folks are always asking me, "Which is better, the Nikon or the Canon?" Sometimes it's "should I buy the new Sony or the Olympus?" Occasionally, someone will go all out and ask, "What's the best camera on the market?" or "What's the best camera for action photography?"
Wow, how do you answer a question like that? Actually, it's pretty easy: I generally don't answer that question at all. At least, not directly.
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Wow, how do you answer a question like that? Actually, it's pretty easy: I generally don't answer that question at all. At least, not directly.
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Met Raises $1.8 Million at 'Art for Opera' Auction
[May 7, 2007]
The Metropolitan Opera has raised $1.8 million to support new productions with the "Art for Opera" auction held yesterday evening on the stage of the opera house, according to the Associated Press. [ Read More... ]
Wilmerding leaves a legacy of Pop art to Princeton
[May 7, 2007]
Renowned curator, collector, art historian and professor of American art John Wilmerding revealed May 4 at a reception and dinner in honor of his retirement that he is the previously anonymous donor of a major gift of Pop art to the Princeton University Art Museum. [ Read More... ]
The James A. Michener Art Museum today announced a $1.5 million challenge grant initiated by Penn Color, Inc. in support of the James A. Michener Centennial Campaign—a $10 million capital campaign to raise funds for major expansion and renovation of the Museum’s Doylestown, Pennsylvania facility. The Penn Color Challenge Grant brings the campaign total raised to date to over $7 million. This announcement comes just two weeks after Bruce Katsiff , Director and CEO of the Michener Art Museum , publicly shared details of the Museum’s campaign and architectural plans during a press briefing on April 19. [ Read More... ]
Show stresses Munch's role as pathfinder of modern art
[May 6, 2007]
Angst and anguish mark the life and work of Edvard Munch, who — 10 years before his death — said he was "born dying." [ Read More... ]
Art Jury Still Out
[May 6, 2007]
The public is invited to check out the 90 pieces of art entered in the annual show. [ Read More... ]
Art treasures found
[May 7, 2007]
A shepherd in a remote region of Nepal bordering Tibet has been instrumental in the discovery of an extraordinary art treasure that lay hidden for centuries: a collection of 55 exquisite cave paintings depicting the life of the Buddha. [ Read More... ]
Modern art picks up shade from spiritual canvas
[May 7, 2007]
Spiritualism in art is one facet that has drawn artists and art buffs for long. Starting from mythological paintings and early works, this theme has been unflinchingly revisited by Bengal School masters and quite a few of the modern art greats. [ Read More... ]
Time to consider a career in digital arts
[May 6, 2007]
Local surveys say that 80 percent of Filipinos are artistically inclined. But in spite of the growing global demand for computer-based graphic artists, this natural advantage has not been fully leveraged. [ Read More... ]
Big draw: aerosol art and a wall
[May 5, 2007]
John Carlone says there are essentially two types of people who create graffiti.
There are the "bombers," who write their distinctive tags, illegally, on public and private property. And there are graffiti artists, who work with property owners and cities to find outlets for their creativity.
Carlone, a 32-year-old salesman who lives in the Bronx, N.Y., has been both. [ Read More... ]
There are the "bombers," who write their distinctive tags, illegally, on public and private property. And there are graffiti artists, who work with property owners and cities to find outlets for their creativity.
Carlone, a 32-year-old salesman who lives in the Bronx, N.Y., has been both. [ Read More... ]
Gay Art: A Movement, or at Least a Moment
[May 6, 2007]
Maybe it doesn’t signal the arrival of a major arts movement and maybe it is just a symptom of another consumer-driven microtrend, but it would seem that something is afoot in the contemporary art world and it concerns what you could call, for lack of more comprehensive terminology, a burgeoning of gay male art. [ Read More... ]
The War of Art
[May 3, 2007]
Ask nine out of ten people what the purpose of art is, and they will say, "to express yourself." In fact, art has many purposes, and self-expression is one of the least important. No one could mistake "The Star-Spangled Banner" or "Ave Maria" for expressions of self. One of the most important purposes of art is the expression of national character, with The Iliad and The Odyssey the best examples. [ Read More... ]
Newer works move to forefront of NY art market boom
[May 3, 2007]
Post-war art takes center stage in the upcoming spring art auctions in New York and with the market booming, new records are expected to be set for several painters including Mark Rothko and Andy Warhol. [ Read More... ]
New Seattle Art Museum demands repeat visits
[May 4, 2007]
The newly reopened and enlarged museum is packed with too many new and upgraded exhibits to see in a single visit. [ Read More... ]
Online B.C. art auction breaks Canadian record
[May 1, 2007]
The Heffel online fine-art auction broke a Canadian record on the weekend thanks to a soaring Asian art market. The online auction grossed $2.5 million, making it Canada's largest-ever sale of fine art on the Internet. [ Read More... ]
Art gets pride of place in homes, workplaces
[May 3, 2007]
Art is created both for private and public spaces. In fact, historically, India is fam ous for its sculptural art forms in public places like temples. Some of the oldest and best form of art is harboured in these temples. Internationally, too, the cream of art is visible in public spaces. Art for private spaces emerged with collectors entering the art market and the two forms of art are characteristically different. [ Read More... ]
The foundation for Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum and a Connecticut woman have sued each other over ownership of a 500-year-old pair of art masterpieces that were seized by Soviet authorities and later by Nazis. [ Read More... ]
Salon de Mayo at Museum of the Americas
[May 5, 2007]
25 artists from Cuba, Spain, United Kingdom, Brazil, Germany, United States, Croatia, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Korea, Colombia and Chile will participate at the "5o. Salon de Mayo" (5th. May International Show) organized by the Museum of the Americas in the City of Doral, Florida. [ Read More... ]
Visual beginnings of photo art form
[May 5, 2007]
Photography was invented in the early years of the 19th century, and from the beginning, it has been used for many purposes. Anyone who was anyone had his portrait made as a Daguerreotype. Mathew Brady and his staff made the pictures that show us what the Civil War looked like. Scientists used photography to document their studies. And from the beginning, some used the new invention to create art. [ Read More... ]
Digital da Vinci is virtually spot on with the reds boss
[May 3, 2007]
A digital artist has put top football manager Sir Alex Ferguson in the frame.
United fan, Christopher Dent, known as the Laptop da Vinci, is the first in Europe to use a virtual paintbrush to create a digital portrait in oils. [ Read More... ]
United fan, Christopher Dent, known as the Laptop da Vinci, is the first in Europe to use a virtual paintbrush to create a digital portrait in oils. [ Read More... ]
This art show's got glass
[May 3, 2007]
The creative side of Palomar College students will be on display this week at a glass art sale and an exhibit at the Boehm Gallery on campus.
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Great art on display - yet again - in Melrose
[May 3, 2007]
I will grant that with two fine galleries Melrose has an edge on most small towns, and both of them have new exhibits. Bellamy Road has opened a show titled Disobedient Women that focuses on the works of Linda Pollini, Theresa Hodges and Hannah Price. There are 45 pieces that cover a wide range, from Hodges pastel self-portrait to Pollini's FTAA Miami large-scale oil. This last was one of my favorite pieces; there is nothing subtle about the message. Pollini captures a group of Miami's finest in full riot gear, masks and all. The fact that the police have to go to this level for a trade meeting is disturbing. One glance and I immediately found myself looking for Darth Vader. [ Read More... ]
Gaming industry legend Tom Frisina, talent development exec at Electronic Arts (EA), will join the team at the Masters of Digital Media (MDM) Program as a part-time faculty member. Frisina will work with the graduate program's students to teach them the Business of Digital Media at the Great Northern Way Campus (GNWC) Digital Media Centre. [ Read More... ]
Barbara Bradley Named Distinguished Educator in the Arts 2007 by Society of Illustrators
[May 3, 2007]
No, she can't remember her first "paid" job but artist/teacher Barbara Bradley does remember her most amusing assignment: to draw legs and the skirt of a can-can dancer used for a neon sign on a New York night club named Streets of Paris. "One leg kicked on the sign. I think I earned $25 for that one. That leg kicked on for many a year, giving me many a chuckle," said Bradley. "I loved drawing legs, still do, and drawing good legs is still a prime lesson for my students." [ Read More... ]
SoCal museum sues to keep art looted by Nazis
[May 2, 2007]
The Norton Simon Museum of Art and a Connecticut woman are suing each other for ownership of a 500-year-old pair of art masterpieces that were seized by Russian revolutionaries and the Nazis before making their way to the museum. [ Read More... ]
Warhol's pop art featured at Coke museum
[May 2, 2007]
In a mingling of pop art, advertising and the real thing, about 30 Andy Warhol renderings of Coca-Cola’s curvy trademark bottle will go on display at a new museum near headquarters for the world’s largest beverage maker. [ Read More... ]
Oral sex art sparks gallery outrage
[May 3, 2007]
An artwork depicting oral sex has brought controversy back into art, with the police sent to investigate concerns that the Art Gallery of NSW made it too available to schoolchildren yesterday.
The mixed media image, titled The Pornography of Hope, caused a sensation in the hugely popular Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes. [ Read More... ]
The mixed media image, titled The Pornography of Hope, caused a sensation in the hugely popular Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes. [ Read More... ]
New digital commercial art
[April 16, 2007]
An unique technique developed by Andrew Warn, a leading industrial and architectural Sydney photographer gives a new insight as to the potential of commercial digital art.
These images are being presented under the pseudonym of ALDINI. This technique allows (in certain cases only) certain subjects to be presented in a stunning and unusual way.
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[April 23, 2007]
The Digital Art show, part of the ongoing 'Emirati Dimensions' exhibition featuring local talent in the art scene opened to the public April 21. [ Read More... ]
CUP hosts digital art contest
[May 1, 2007]
In order to assist high school students to think about the future with nanotechnology the Clarion University of Pennsylvania nanotechnology program and the art department are sponsoring a digital art contest, “Nanotechnology and the Environment for High School Students.” [ Read More... ]
A research and development arm of the University of Maine New Media Department, has received a $300,000 research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study the preservation of digital art in a world of changing technologies. [ Read More... ]
Turning 'The Sims' into art
[May 2, 2007]
Electronic Arts, the publisher behind the popular video game franchise, partnered with three design schools — Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, Academy of Art University in San Francisco and Parsons The New School for Design in New York — to underwrite student exhibitions inspired by ''The Sims.'' [ Read More... ]
Call for Entries from L.A. Center for Digital Art
[April 30, 2007]
LACDA announces our juried competition for digital art and photography. Entrants submit three JPEG files of original work. All styles of 2D artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind were integral to the creation of the images are acceptable. [ Read More... ]
