Most Houston art lovers know how John and Dominique de Menil had the means to build the shockingly good collection now housed in the museum that bears their name. She was an heiress to the Schlumberger fortune, and he was an executive at the oil-field services company. Money isn’t everything, b ...
Posted Thursday, September 24th 2009 at 8:16PM
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Opening reception with artists on Friday, October 2nd; 7pm to 10pm
The Pitch Gallery is pleased to announce the sixth annual Eccentrik Festival art exhibit, a group art show of video, paintings, photographs, and illustrations. This exhibition will also be in celebration of the third annivers ...
Posted Thursday, September 24th 2009 at 8:07PM
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Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (PRWEB) September 23, 2009 -- Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale / Nova Southeastern University is calling artists from around the world to participate in the National Art Festival, one of South Florida's most prestigious art shows. The event will be held Saturday, Jan. 30-Su ...
Posted Thursday, September 24th 2009 at 7:49PM
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The Lincoln Arts Council will host the 2009 Lincoln Arts Festival this weekend at the SouthPointe Pavilions Shopping Center. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday and will feature 99 artists, running the gamut in geography, medium and price.
"We've got a ...
Posted Thursday, September 24th 2009 at 7:43PM
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Chattanooga’s own Shadow May beat out artists from across the Southeast to win the Best in Clay category at the Atlanta Arts Festival. The festival featured over 200 artists from around the country in different visual art categories.
This isn’t the first award for Mr. May this year, he rece ...
Posted Thursday, September 24th 2009 at 7:32PM
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Even with most weather-reports predicting torrential rains throughout the weekend, the Emanuel Artist’s Guild and Emanuel Arts Council held out faith that this weekend’s 5th Annual Emanuel Arts Festival would be spared. By 10 a.m., when the Festival began this past Saturday, the clouds had part ...
Posted Wednesday, September 23rd 2009 at 3:45PM
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Mark Staples, Star Prairie, won a white ribbon in woodworking from Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum’s “National Exhibition of Folk Art in the Norwegian Tradition.”
Also, David Fowler, New Richmond, won an honorable mention award in woodworking in the contest.
The exhibition was held Jul ...
Posted Wednesday, September 23rd 2009 at 3:35PM
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Kehinde Wiley @ Deitch Project 76 Grand Street NYC Thru 9/26
The graciously contrarian artist unveils a show of photographs, which were inspired by his own research photos on which he bases the paintings he’s best known for: of young African-American men posing in hip-hop garb amid jarring, hi ...
Posted Monday, September 21st 2009 at 6:09PM
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North American artist and current director of the Fashion Design Faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago addresses social and political issues in his work by utilizing clothing-based forms as a response to being a black male in America. In the fashion of ethnographic costumes foun ...
Posted Monday, September 21st 2009 at 6:04PM
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This fall marks the 150th anniversaries of John Brown’s anti-slavery raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, a pivotal event in igniting the Civil War, and his Dec. 2, 1859 execution. To commemorate Akron’s most famous historic resident, the Akron Art Museum presents selections from Jacob Lawrence’s p ...
Posted Monday, September 21st 2009 at 5:58PM
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An exhibit of African art, including about 20 pieces from Southern University at New Orleans that were restored after festering in Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters, will open Friday at 6 p.m. at the New Orleans African-American Museum of Art, Culture and History at 1418 Gov. Nicholls St.
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Posted Monday, September 21st 2009 at 5:44PM
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The Hidden Glen Arts Festival celebrates its 21st anniversary this year on Saturday and Sunday.
The arts event, which takes place on the grounds surrounding Shadow Lake in the Cedar Creek community, is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
The festival is free and ...
Posted Wednesday, September 16th 2009 at 3:43PM
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LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y. - Ro Gallery will present more than 360 lots of paintings, prints, sculptures and photographs at a Modern and Contemporary Art Auction on Sept. 17 beginning at 1 p.m. Artists will include Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Juan Miro, Romare Bearden, Dimitrie Berea and Ru ...
Posted Wednesday, September 16th 2009 at 2:33PM
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I always feel like an idiot when I trip over something new that I has been hiding in plain sight. So here I am again pointing to the obvious.
Randall Whitfield has been at work on Oxford Avenue (4945) across from Frankford High School for a few months now and I have whizzed by a hundred tim ...
Posted Wednesday, September 16th 2009 at 2:23PM
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This is another in a series of posts about the great folk art pieces included in the Fenimore Art Museum’s traveling exhibition Through the Eyes of Others: African Americans and Identity in American Art, which is on view at the New York State Museum in Albany through January 6, 2010. This exhib ...
Posted Monday, September 14th 2009 at 3:15PM
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WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian Associates Art Collectors Program announces the 2009 commission of Sam Gilliam to create a limited-edition screen print. “Museum Moment” is on display at the Graphic Eloquence exhibition in the Smithsonian’s Ripley Center. This signed and numbered print is avail ...
Posted Friday, July 10th 2009 at 3:16PM
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Editor’s Perspective: Building a Legacy of Pride
For some months now, Voicing Art has been featuring emerging, mid-career, and established artists. Wanting to share a collector’s perspective, this issue is dedicated to Walter O. Evans, a retired surgeon, and a significant African American ar ...
Posted Friday, July 10th 2009 at 3:12PM
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A capacity crowd was on hand at Sissiboo Landing Friday night to take part in the opening night gala to begin the Harold Cromwell Arts Festival.
Cromwell’s brother Everett, daughter Natasha, son Bruce unveiled one of the artist’s largest pieces, a painting entitled ‘Back in the Old Days’. ...
Posted Monday, July 6th 2009 at 1:38PM
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ISLAMABAD (APP) - A month-long summer art show by 4 artists with a collection of 26 works was put on display by Nomad Art Gallery here Saturday.
The show will continue till July 27th featuring diverse ideas of artistic talents including Ufaq Ehsan, Samina Jamshed, Mughees Riaz and Anjum Ayub.M ...
Posted Monday, July 6th 2009 at 1:27PM
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Don't be surprised if you bump into a painter, sculptor or even a comic book artist using a city sidewalk or stretch of grass as their studio sometime this week.
The first Visual Arts Festival, which kicked off Saturday with the opening of an exhibition at Government House, will see more than ...
Posted Tuesday, June 30th 2009 at 5:50PM
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Houston's nationally-ranked Bayou City Art Festival Downtown primes the heart of the city for a weekend of art in the city. The juried fine art festival, framed by Houston's world-class skyline, is a one-of-a-kind outdoor gallery with its highly acclaimed mix of visual, performing, culinary and ...
Posted Tuesday, June 30th 2009 at 5:43PM
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MIAMI BEACH — If it’s the lure of controversy that gets your heart racing, check out “Freedom Fighters: American Legends Re-Imagined,’’ an exhibit on display at the ArtCenter/South Florida in South Beach through July 19.
Based on the ‘70s Blaxploitation film genre, the exhibit features sur ...
Posted Monday, June 29th 2009 at 5:03PM
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YOUNGSTOWN — Creating art out of recycled materials has been occurring for years, but the emphasis on “greening” the arts is taking center stage with the first Eco-Art Contest, presented by the Summer Festival of the Arts on July 11 and 12 at Youngstown State University.
The Eco-Art Contest ...
Posted Monday, June 29th 2009 at 4:57PM
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Every summer, when the Heartland Art Guild presents its annual exhibit of miniature art works, it proves again the old adage that good things come in small packages.
The fifth annual Miniatures Art Show will run from Monday to Aug. 1 at the Swan River Museum, 12 E. Peoria St. in Paola. Museu ...
Posted Monday, June 29th 2009 at 4:47PM
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Art and culture have held an active and significant part in Carroll County's history. In the mid-1950s Delphi Community School Corporation art teacher Jack Sanders teamed with the Delphi Tri Kappa to create an environment to showcase student, local and state art. The location and the concept of ...
Posted Monday, June 29th 2009 at 4:42PM
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