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3 fun things for Aug. 6

MIDTOWN Surreal Soiree at High Museum of Art To kick off its new Salvador Dali exhibit, "Dali: The Late Work," the High hosts this bash in honor of the twisted-mustachioed surrealist.

Win tickets to ‘The Surreal House‘ at Barbican Art Gallery plus a night for 2 at The Hoxton Hotel

The Surreal House' features works by first generation surrealists Dali, Magritte, Man Ray – seen afresh alongside contemporary artists including Rem Koolhaas, Sarah Lucas and Rebecca Horn amongst others.

Young and unsung art makes an impression

Art houses are giving unsung and emerging artists a platform to paint their emotions and reach out to buyers with a realistic purse. Spilling on to the canvas is urban angst, loneliness, squalor, concern for the environment and the energy of youth this season.

CAPsoc, or daring to believe in CAP reform

Should policymakers embrace the ‘art of the possible' in trying to reform the Common Agricultural Policy?

Honeyhoney Makes Sweet, Sexy Music

“Musical soulmates” Suzanne Santo and Ben Jaffe aren’t afraid to go there. Art - Music - Education - United States - US House

Color photos of Depression-era America

The Denver Post posted on its photo blog Monday 70 images by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information that were used in the 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color . The photos of of America and its citizens span from 1939-1943 and have a surreal, cinematic quality to them. It's a rare thing to see photos of this era rendered so vividly in color, as we ...

View from the end of the world

Photographers and film-makers capture their 3-D views of the corners of virtual worlds

Artist Shary Boyle gets 3-city show

Toronto's Shary Boyle, who challenges preconceptions of beauty in her sculptures, paintings and art installations, will have major exhibits of her work in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.

A Birthday Present to the World: A New Dance By Paul Taylor

Thursday marks the 80th birthday of Paul Taylor , one of America's most celebrated modern choreographers. Since beginning his career as a student at the Julliard School and then performing with the Martha Graham Dance Company, Taylor has created more than 130 works. His panache for tackling and interpreting some of life's more complicated, difficult or esoteric subjects -- religion, death ...

Grad Students Help Preserve Cultural Heritage Across U.S., Around Globe

"President James Monroe needs a bath -- and I'm the one filling the tub," writes Renee Wolcott, a University of Delaware master's student in art conservation. Wolcott is referring to the challenging task of cleaning a foxed and ink-stained 19th-century engraving of the fifth U.S. president during her summer internship at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.

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