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Halloween is a whole lot of fun, and mostly because anyone can dress up as anything they like! Costumes range from fun to cute to spectacular to scary. Some tiny kids costumes have lately become pretty scary. Here are some examples of gory costumes for kids. What do you think? Have these costumes crossed the line? h4. "See the costumes here ...

ArtBistro and the Sego Art Center joined together to make a gallery show for ArtBistro users a reality. The opening last night and was a major success. In short, the work selected for this international juried show was meaningful, probing and professional. Over 600 visitors flocked to the gallery throughout the night. It was the the place to be and many ...

Eight Native Oklahoman artists are gathering for a public panel discussion about survival strategies and identity issues during a special event at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art Friday, Sept. 11. At 10 a.m., the artists will begin a session titled "Art as Identity: The Operative Principles of Affirmation, Accommodation and Appropriation in the Native American Artistic Pursuit of Self." ...

Hamburg, Germany—This past August, a group of 200 artists led by Daniel Richter took over a dozen disused buildings slated for sale and demolition in Hamburg's historic Gängeviertel district, moved in, and set up studios and galleries, declaring that with so much empty space available in the harbor city, the government should provide affordable space to artists living there — and ...

PLATTSBURGH, NY -- The Helen Wilcox Ianelli Gallery is a clean, well-lit space that has been well received its two short months of existence on the second floor of Plattsburgh Public Library. Named for artist Helen Ianelli, it opened in June with an invitational show that will run through Sept. 12, "Helen was instrumental in the Friends of the Library for ...

New York, NY - So, you admire the fashions of popular TV characters. Do you want to dress just like them? This fall, you can if you favor the slim suits worn by one smartly dressed 1960s ad man, the sexy looks of those real-life housewives or necklaces dripping with "blood" - make that rubies - inspired by modern vampires. The ...

FRESNO, CA - Anniversaries are by their very definition about looking back. And because our culture is so enamored of them -- there's likely something primal at work having to do with the relentless changing of the seasons and an awareness of our own mortality -- we end up spending an inordinate amount of time commemorating the past. But not the ...

 Lile from Art.net has written about an artist/photographer friend that went to court over a copyright infringement and was told it was a case of "Fair Use". Here's the story..

On 7 November 2008, and in collaboration with Artbistro.com, the Sego Art Center will open Virtual Identities, Real Space, a juried exhibition of artwork by an international group of artists associated with the artistic social networking site Artbistro. Jeff Lambson, Curator of Contemporary Art at the BYU Museum of Art, formerly associated with the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, will designate ...

My good friend from Paris, Maude Michali of Michali Fine Art, is presenting an exciting exhibition of large-scale color photographs from the mid-career artist Kimiko Yoshida as a permanent event at this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach, which will remain installed at the gallery through December 28, 2008. Kimiko Yoshida, a Japanese photographer with impressive auction records, created a series of ...

The destruction of Peggy Cooper Cafritz’s home in Washington, DC is a tragedy to the world art community. ArtBistro offers our condolences to Ms. Cafritz for the loss of her unparalleled art collection. A great many people jointly suffer in this loss: the artists whose work who was destroyed, the museum that may have someday been bequeathed Cafritz’s collection, and ...

BALTIMORE, MD - "The Universe and the Side of My Body," a huge study in red oil on wood by Kim Manfredi, is not just an eye-catcher in the new show at C. Grimaldis Gallery. It's deeply provocative. A couple of sagging globs of paint on the upper portion of the four, 96-inch-square panels seem to be on the verge of ...

Here's an article over at Linkism.com discussing a couple reasons why and how to put your art online.."Having an online portfolio of art is now almost essential for artists worldwide. It was once the territory of the brave and adventurous to have your art displayed online, but now it is only the foolish that do NOT have their work online. Many ...

Picture above is actually a street mural that I spotted last week, just outside the Pasar Seni LRT station. I think it’s really a nice masterpiece, so I took the picture and post it up here. The graffiti is pretty long, and I have to take a total of 3 shots and connect them in Photoshop. Below is the smaller version ...

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ArtBistro is proud to announce July's Art Gallery Winners! This album represents excellent level of professionalism that ArtBistro members exhibit in their art work. Congratulations to all the winners! To submit your work for next month's "Art Gallery show click here.":http://artbistro.monster.com/topics/12607-submit-your-work-for-the-august-art-show/posts To leave comments on the work, click on the designer's name and browse their portfolio. *Daniel Baltzer, fine artist, Broadcast ...

LONG BEACH, CA -- Whether it's strolling around in a smoking jacket while watching a silent movie or sitting in on lectures on art deco architecture or the golden age of travel and fashions of the art deco period, the fifth annual Queen Mary Art Deco Festival will have plenty to fill the art deco lover's heart. About 500 aficionados from ...

 LONDON.- The Young Masters Art Prize, sponsored by AXA Insurance, will be awarded to one of sixteen international artists who have been chosen to exhibit work at the Young Masters exhibition, which opened at The Old Truman Brewery on 14 October 2009. The winner of the Young Masters Art Prize will be announced at 7:30pm at The Old Truman Brewery on Tuesday ...

There are dozens of sites on the web that offer PSD to HTML slicing services, and it becomes very frustrating to find the right one that will suit you 100%. Designers don’t like to code, but a professional XHTML / CSS is essential for each website. That is why it is sometimes very important to have a reliable coding service you ...

Dear Friends, On Saturday, December 13th, I invite you to LOOK UP! If you find yourself near Broadway and Canal Street, look up and see the water tower at 395 Broadway (at Walker St.) transformed from a normal part of the New York City skyline into a giant crocheted pencil. It is all part of the promotion for a prestigious design ...