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Fine Art Exhibition returns to Oakbrook Center
Oakbrook Center exhibits a dual personality this weekend: Part upscale shopping center, part open-air art museum.
News Briefs: Hamburg Fine Art Fair accepting applications
The Hamburg Township Library is accepting applications for the Hamburg Community Fine Art Fair, a juried fine arts and crafts show scheduled for Oct. 16, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The show will be held in the library at 10411 Merrill Road, in Hamburg Township.
Transferring Ink II, an exhibition of fine art prints
FALLBROOK Transferring Ink II is part of a two-part exhibition at the Fallbrook Art Center that focuses on fine art prints. Mary Perhacs, executive director of the center, is frequently asked questions about the various art mediums. With the advent of giclee prints, Im often asked What is a fine art print? says Perhacs. The short answer is an original print is the result of a process that ...
San Diego Fine Art Society announces Art Award winners
UCSD grad Susy Bielak takes best new artist category.
Morton Fine Art, an Innovative Curator Studio, Challenges the Traditional Art Gallery Model
WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwire - 08/31/10) - Founded as an innovative solution to the changing contemporary art market, Morton Fine Art (MFA) is a curatorial group that collaborates with art collectors and visual artists to inspire fresh ways of acquiring contemporary art. Firmly committed to the belief that anyone can become an art collector, MFA's mission is to provide accessibility to museum ...
Lipgoss: The art of the celebrity mugshot by Anna Hart
Paris Hilton has perfected the fine art of the celebrity mugshot even if she did get cocaine muddled up with chewing gum
Apple 'n Cheese Fine Art and Photography Show scheduled
Get your cameras, brushes, paints and pencils ready; it is nearly time for the Pennsylvania Apple 'n Cheese Fine Art and Photography Show, according to a news release.The news release continues:The festival and show will be held the first full weeken
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‘Dalí: The Late Work’ at High Museum of Art in Atlanta
An exhibition at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta counters the art world notion that late work by Dalí is bad, and that most Dalí is late work.
Exhibition of Dali's graphic works
BELGRADE -- Spanish Ambassador Inigo de Palacio Espana opened on Thursday at the Museum of Yugoslav History an exhibition of Salvador Dali's graphic works.
Natural History Museum's Origins of Western Culture hall will close for a 3-year renovation
The mummies at the National Museum of Natural History are going into storage. Their antiquated hall, the Origins of Western Culture, will close Sept. 26 for an extensive three-year renovation, although a few specimens will be viewable next spring. Natural History Museum - Museum - Natural History - United States - California
Museum and gallery events
Art Museums & Institutions African American Heritage Museum 661 Jackson Rd., Newtonville, NJ; 609-704-5495. www.aahmsnj.org. Tue.-Fri. 10 am-3 pm.
Wedding dress history exhibition
A world premiere exhibition of wedding dresses from London's Victoria and Albert Museum is set to open in the regional Victorian city of Bendigo in 2011.
Georgia Museum of Art acquires two new paintings
The Georgia Museum of Art, located on the University of Georgia campus, recently acquired two significant American paintings from the West Foundation Collection of Atlanta. The foundation gave Benjamin West’s Portrait of Captain Christopher Codrington Bethell (1769) and John Linton Chapman’s Via Appia (1867) to the museum in honor of GMOA director, William U. Eiland, [...]
Parrish Museum’s ‘Underground Pop’ Shows Allure of Homespun
“Underground Pop,” at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, N.Y., highlights the tension between college-trained sophistication and fictions of naïveté.
Phippen Museum Hosts World Premiere Exhibition, The Kenneth M. Freeman (1935 – 2008) Legacy Collection Comes Home to ...
“Portraits of the West: The Kenneth M.
Photos: 'Fashioning Fashion' exhibition at LACMA
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, home to a notable collection of historical fashions, is giving the clothing a chance to do what it was made to do: circulate in public.
Jewish Museum Emphasizes Link With John Paul II
BALTIMORE, Maryland, SEPT. 3, 2010 ( Zenit.org ).- An exhibit that opened this week at the Jewish Museum of Maryland explores the development of Pope John Paul II's personal, spiritual and pastoral link with the Jewish people, from his earliest boyhood experiences in Wadowice, Poland, until his final days as Pope.
