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Fine art show opens this Saturday (The Wickenburg Sun)
The Wickenburg Art Club and the Arizona Art Alliance team up to present the 6th Annual Wickenburg Art Club Fine Art Festival and Sale, a leading juried fine art show involving dozens of artists, starting this weekend.
Fine Arts 2010 Student Art Show entries being sought (Osseo-Maple Grove Press)
The Maple Grove Arts Council is hosting the Fine Arts 2010 Student Art Show featuring art and creative writing from students residing in District 279.
Space Exploration as Fine Art: "Things that Float" (GOOD)
NASA Images is making 50 years worth of media in its archive available to the public and launching a "Guest Showcase" series of online exhibitions curated by experts in the fields of science, education, art, entertainment, business, and academia. The first participant is Stephen Nowlin, Vice President and Director of the Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery at Art Center College of Design in ...
ART: UOG fine arts faculty show (Pacific Daily News)
The University of Guam’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and Isla Center for the Arts will celebrate its fine arts faculty biennial Feb. 4 to 26 at the center, 15 Dean’s Circle, UOG.
Record Attendance and Strong Sales Mark Opening of 14th American International Fine Art Fair (Art Daily)
Jean Beraud, La Dame Utile, oil on panel, 12 x 15 in. Courtesy Trinity House, Worcestershire. PALM BEACH, FL.- International Fine Art Expositions (IFAE) founders and AIFAF organizers David and Lee Ann Lester reported that a record 5,100 collectors attended the opening Vernissage honoring the Norton Museum of Art Tuesday evening at the Palm Beach County Convention Center.
Interview: Red Sun Rider & Fine Artist Emma Silversides (Daily Peloton)
Interview: Red Sun Rider & Fine Artist Emma Silversides The Daily Peloton chats with British cyclist Emma Silversides about her careers in the worlds of pro cycling and Art.
Elders Fine Art & Antiques Auctions Auction Dates:Tuesday, January 26th through Tuesday, February 9th Location: 901 S ... (Antiques and the Arts)
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Other fine art, painting and sculpture news
Louisiana Museum Presents Exhibition from the Werner & Gabrielle Merzbacher Collection (Art Daily)
Frank Stella, Bam, 1966. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. © Copydan, BilledKunst 2010. HUMBLEBAEK.- This spring’s major exhibition at Louisiana centres on colour: colour in art, in the world and in the eye.
Exhibition of Contemporary Art from Pakistan to Open at Pacific Asia Museum (Art Daily)
Hamra Abbas, Battle Scenes, 2006. Courtesy of the artist and ASAL Collection. PASADENA, CA.- Exploring the transformation of historical miniature painting from the Mughal courts of South Asia into a stunning contemporary art form by current Pakistani artists, Pacific Asia Museum will present a new exhibition, Beyond the Page: The Miniature as Attitude in Contemporary Art from Pakistan, focusing ...
Shaped by War: Photographs by Don McCullin at The Imperial War Museum North (Art Daily)
Cuban Missile Crisis protester with sign facing police line, London, 1962. Photo: ©Don McCullin. MANCHESTER.- Imperial War Museum North in Manchester presents the largest ever UK exhibition about the life and work of Don McCullin, one of the world’s most acclaimed photographers, to mark his 75th year.
Flint Museum Celebrates 100 Years Of Scouting (WNEM TV 5 Mid-Michigan)
The Boy Scouts of America showcased a special exhibition at the Sloan Museum in Flint.
Iran to cut ties with British Museum over loan (AP via Yahoo! News)
Iran said it will cut ties with the British Museum on Monday because of the museum's failure to lend Tehran an ancient Babylonian artifact described as the world's earliest bill of rights.
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland is nearly ready to build a dramatic new home in University Circle (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)
After renting less-than-visible space for 20 years in the Cleveland Play House complex in Midtown, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland is nearly ready to build a dramatic black-glass-and-steel building in University Circle.
Iran to Cut Ties With Museum Over Artifact (CBS News)
Tehran Claims British Museum Reneged on Agreement to Loan Ancient Babylonian Document on Human Rights for Exhibit
Iran Cuts Ties With British Museum, Warns Others Over Cylinder (Bloomberg)
Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The British Museum said it is surprised that Iran has decided to sever ties over an ancient artifact known as the Cyrus Cylinder.
Falling Down The Guggenheim Museum Hall (Gizmodo Australia)
JDS Architects thought that this trampoline net spiral – which would allow people to bounce from the top floor to the bottom of the Guggenheim Museum rotunda – could be the funniest thing ever. I completely agree. And so do ambulance-chasing lawyers. (more…)
Paris museum to exhibit Islamic treasure at MIA (The Peninsula)
DOHA: The head of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, which is part of Les Arts Décoratifs in France and houses a prestigious collection of Islamic art and architecture, plans to hold an exhibit here at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) in the second quarter of the year.
