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The Art Museums (SF Weekly)

A collaboration between Whysp's Josh Alper and Skygreen Leopards' Glenn Donaldson, the Art Museums have cited early Style Council as a primary influence. And yet the San Francisco band alights on various shades of classic indie rock and twee on its debut mini-album, Rough Frame . Thr...

Kiki Smith Squatting the Palace: An Installation by Kiki Smith in Venice (DVD Talk)

Highly Recommended Kiki Smith: Squatting the Palace: I've gotten a lot of weird ideas about art, working, and art appreciation from this 45-minute look into artist Kiki Smith's process, and I'm sure Smith would like that. Here Microcinema continues its serious yet eminently approachable series of examinations of renowned contemporary artists. As an artist myself, I think I can safely say that ...

'Tuscan Sun' author on Italy's pleasures (CNN)

Many authors can move readers with their words, but Frances Mayes has the power to actually make readers move.

Modern Hollywood has forgotten that masterpieces can also be popular (The Age)

The Oscars battle was between an art film and million-dollar bubblegum.

Heart Of Country Antiques Show In Nashville (Antiques and the Arts)

:Opryland USA was again the home for 67 antiques dealers dealing primarily in early American furniture, home furnishings and folk art, February 18–20. The show's founders, Libby Kramer and her husband, Richard, began the show in 1981 at the Tennessee Fairgrounds and moved to Opryland after two years.

Away with the fairies (Otago Daily Times)

Dunedin artist Ivan Hill has painted a world a little less grim. He talks to Nigel Benson.

Safeguarding African culture vital (The Herald)

Expo Times Africa Editor Kofi Akosah-Sarpong, who was named Fellow of the Institute of African Renaissance, University of Botswana, writes in this soul-searching essay how the African culture was wrongly branded "primitive" and "backward", and how it can rather be used in the socio-political, economic and agricultural development of the continent in light of the bubbling African renaissance ...

Rainbows and monsters (City Pulse)

Talking about autism is like walking into a hall of mirrors. You can easily get turned around and bump into yourself. At a Sunday reception at Lansing’s Absolute Gallery, I met Scott Fergus, a recent graduate of Okemos High School.

Planned bullfighting ban sparks heated debate in Spain - Feature (EARTHtimes.org)

Madrid - Are bullfights art or animal torture? The long- debated question is making waves in Spain after one of the country's regions started preparations to ban the centuries-old national fie...

Tobi Tobias on Dance et al. (Arts Journal)

Can dance history exist without dancing? How can we make the choreography we treasure survive? Much of the history of the art exists in words written about dancing. Even at its most evocative or detailed, such evidence preserves dance at several removes.

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