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Exhibition of calligraphy works by clerics opens at Tehran museum
Posted by fogglethorpe on Friday, May 24, 2013 (14:20:43)
An exhibition of calligraphy works by Iranian clerics was inaugurated at the Imam Ali (AS) Religious Arts Museum in Tehran on Tuesday.
On display at the exhibit is a collection of 140 calligraphy works inscribed by 20 clerics with the central theme of Quranic verses and religious poetry from Persian literature, the museum website reported on Wednesday..
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MI- ArtPrize 2013 jurors awarding $100,000 in prizes
Posted by fogglethorpe on Thursday, May 16, 2013 (14:27:01)
ArtPrize 2013 jurors include three curators, an architect and a poet.
John Yau, Hesse McGraw, Rashida Bumbray, Franch I Gilabert, and Alice Gray each will award one $20,000 prize in the fifth annual contest..
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Yuma artist explores new expressions
Posted by fogglethorpe on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 (02:08:36)
Artist Shaun Sosinski buys his paint in the hardware department and uses a paintbrush he has to shake between each use.
For this Sosinski, inspiration lands on the canvas with a colorful hiss..
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PA- Plein Air Events Include Paintout for Kids, Poetry Reading
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 (14:16:01)
Poetry News: ... At 1 p.m. Listen to poets who are inspired by this year's paintings on June 15 at 3 p.m. at the Ekphrastic Plein Air Poetry Reading with Overbrook Poets and Mad Poets.
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Art Rx
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 (14:11:40)
When: Tuesday, May 14, 6–8 pm
Where: Swann Art Galleries (104 East 25th Street, 5th floor, Gramercy, Manhattan)
The art fairs are done. You have a hangover. The best cure, of course, is more of the same, which in this case means more contemporary art and more drinking. Swann Auction Galleries has you covered: the auction house is throwing a party on Tuesday night that features both..
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Pop culture poetry display from youth at Main Library
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 13, 2013 (14:20:38)
The public art pieces at San Francisco’s Main Library featuring murals of Latino American authors and gay and lesbian history have been joined by the Kardashian’s, Spongebob Squarepants and goats on YouTube..
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GA- Rain Cancels Sculpture Unveiling, But The Show Goes On
Posted by fogglethorpe on Wednesday, May 08, 2013 (15:24:34)
Saturday’s torrential rains washed out plans for an outdoor unveiling of the Trenton Art Council’s latest ArtScape installation, Brandon Sharp’s, “Running Man” sculpture.
But the rest of TAC’s May 4 “Appalachian Renaissance” art show and music event proceeded as planned inside the Trenton Civic Center..
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Henry Francis du Pont, Winterthur Garden & Library, Museum, Wilmington, Del.
Posted by fogglethorpe on Wednesday, May 08, 2013 (15:00:00)
Du Pont was an art collector, and among his works was the simpler styles of American arts and crafts. He acquired more than 60,000 items of furniure, quilts, metal ware and glassware that dated back to the early settling of the United States..
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Canada- Two solo shows at the Contemporary Art Gallery
Posted by fogglethorpe on Wednesday, May 08, 2013 (12:54:24)
The prevailing atmosphere at the Contemporary Art Gallery is hushed, almost meditative. Two small solo shows, one by veteran American artist Nancy Holt and the other by emerging Canadian artist Erin Shirreff, complement each other in interesting and poetic ways..
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Poet's visual expression
Posted by Tony on Sunday, May 05, 2013 (12:20:26)
Poetry News: ... through suffering and tears. Varma was deeply disturbed by the dismal conditions in which women lived and through her poetry expressed how they could empower themselves. This was the theme of a seminar that Roy Halder, who teaches Hindi at Loreto ...
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Interview with pianist Gwendolyn Mok
Posted by mamta on Saturday, April 27, 2013 (03:27:17)
Mok is currently a professor of keyboard studies at San Jose State. This Saturday, she performs "Brahms and Poetry" with poet Robert Haas at the Hillside Club in Berkeley, CA ( information ). Below is a transcript of our April 19, 2013 ...
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NY- First Look at 'San Simeon' by Derek Nicoletto to Launch Art Movement
Posted by fogglethorpe on Thursday, April 25, 2013 (17:40:00)
The week after Derek Nicoletto's long EP, Just Panic and Get It Over With was released, accompanied by a music video preimere in OUT, Derek Nicoletto is looking forward to a kickstarting summer with 3 performances at the Montauk Music Festival May 17, 18, and 19th..
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Chicago Museum Presents Fire in My Heart: The Story of Hannah Senesh, 5/14
Posted by fogglethorpe on Thursday, April 25, 2013 (15:00:00)
This first-ever major exhibition tells how this Budapest-born poet, diarist, and author of the hymn Eli, Eli discovered her love for the Land of Israel, courageously volunteered for a mission to rescue downed Allied fliers and Jews from Nazi-occupied Hungary, and ultimately became a lasting symbol of courage and determination..
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Jamaica- Zen and the colours of life in monochrome
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, April 22, 2013 (15:00:00)
Du Juemin's paintings are a confluence of visual and written thought process - a symphony of poetry with delicate brush strokes. He says that his paintings carry a message and strive to provoke a thought process among the patrons..
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Anger over Amanda Palmer's poem for Boston bombing suspect
Posted by Tony on Monday, April 22, 2013 (12:12:01)
Poetry News: ... and feelings into his mouth when he can't anymore." Greg Gutfeld posted on Twitter: "A poem for @amandapalmer : Your poetry. Does nothing. For the family. Of a dead child. But your need for attention? Sated." Palmer responded to the criticism with a ...
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The Nation Puts a Poem in Its Pocket
Posted by Tony on Sunday, April 21, 2013 (21:51:42)
Poetry News: Thursday was National Poem In Your Pocket Day , perhaps the most popular of the many events that highlight National Poetry Month.
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Ukraine- 3D poetry, monetary prose
Posted by fogglethorpe on Friday, April 19, 2013 (15:00:00)
“100 Masterpieces” is a brief tour to the modern history of arts. Almost all the sculptors presented at the exhibition were innovators, pioneers, starting from Auguste Rodin, who freed the art of sculpture from the dictates of the pedestal and also gave it plastic freedom not known before..
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Syracuse Poster Project to honor this year's winners Thursday
Posted by fogglethorpe on Thursday, April 18, 2013 (15:11:44)
The Syracuse Poster Project will unveil its 12th annual poster series 6 to 8 p.m. today at City Hall Commons, 201 E. Washington St., Syracuse.
The Syracuse Poster Project brings together community poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry illustrations for the city’s poster panels..
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Brunswick photographer wins prestigious Guggenheim fellowship for river project
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 (15:20:00)
BRUNSWICK, Maine — Winners of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation’s Fellowship shouldn’t have to answer their own phones.
Particularly, Guggenheim Fellowship winners who receive the prestigious honor for their photography work shouldn’t have to answer the phone while processing film in a darkroom..
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Classical Venice featured in exhibit by Staten Island artist Mimi Aloia
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 (15:00:00)
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The buzz is that visual artist Mimi Aloia will present "Eye on Venice, the Sacred and the Profane," with her writings to accompany each piece, during a reception on Saturday, April 20, at 2 p.m., at the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum in Rosebank..
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Australia- Castlemaine exhibition asks who ate Frank?
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, April 15, 2013 (15:30:00)
BENDIGO artist Alicia Huddy is encouraging the public to take part in a murder mystery as part of her latest exhibition.
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Who Ate Frank is a collection of works which Ms Huddy says visually represent the implied act of the soul being eaten by relationship forces that stain and erode the essence of an individual until they are left emotionless..
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CT- Painting by Childe Hassam offered at Shannon's Fine Art auction
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, April 15, 2013 (13:09:16)
An exceptional painting by the renowned American Impressionist Childe Hassam (1859-1935) is just one in a last-minute flurry of important consignments slated for auction on Thursday, April 25th, by Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, located at 354 Woodmont Road in Milford. Internet bidding will be facilitated by Artfact.com..
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In the Crosshairs: Art in Dialogue with Hunting
Posted by fogglethorpe on Thursday, April 11, 2013 (15:00:00)
PARIS — When I stepped into the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, I knew I would be seeing a lot of taxidermy trophies and guns in this museum of the hunt and nature, but I wasn’t expecting contemporary art..
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Russia- Art Awards Honor Memory of Local Artist
Posted by fogglethorpe on Thursday, April 11, 2013 (14:00:00)
The Sergei Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Awards were presented on April 5 at an extravagant awards ceremony..
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