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CHICAGO - In a frank and wide-ranging interview with the Tribune this week, Rocco Landesman, the newly confirmed chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, said that he plans to focus his oft-beleaguered federal agency's efforts on both the role of the arts in K-12 education and on promoting the arts as an economic engine for cities and towns. And ...

LOS ANGELES - A multimillion dollar collection of Andy Warhol portraits of Muhammad Ali and other sports superstars was stolen from a Los Angeles home, police said Friday. The 11 color screenprints were taken from businessman Richard Weisman's home sometime between Sept. 2 and 3, said Detective Mark Sommer of the Los Angeles Police Department's art theft detail. Ten of the ...

CHICAGO — In the Depression-era days of Gypsy Rose Lee, burlesque dancing was about as naughty, and as nude, as it got in public. The emphasis was on the tease more than the strip, until Playboy and harder-core pornography came along in the 1950s. Now burlesque is back with festivals and club performances, from Amsterdam to Alabama. It's seen as a ...

 BALTIMORE, MD.- In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe’s birth, The Baltimore Museum of Art presents a dramatic exhibition of prints, drawings and illustrated books inspired by the master of the macabre. Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon, on view October 4, 2009-January 17, 2010, features the works of renowned French artists Paul Gauguin, Édouard Manet, and Odilon Redon, as well ...

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Contemporary Museum's touring show features spontaneity, randomness The telephone landed its own gallery show first, way back in 1968. People on one end of the curly-corded land line carried out instructions in art-making issued by folks at the other end. Later - much later - came a retrospective devoted to the graph- ics and snapshots created by the gadget's annoying, chirpy ...

Impressive exhibitions of borrowed masterpieces will be scarce this season as art museums tighten their belts during the Great Recession. The expense of trans-Atlantic loans has led most institutions to organize thematic shows based on their own holdings. Paintings and drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art's collection form the centerpiece of "Sargent and the Sea," opening Saturday at the struggling ...

The thrill is gone at many attractions across the country as recession-mired tourists stay home, but in Indianola, Miss., a favorite son is packing 'em in at the B.B. King Museum. A year after its opening, the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center has drawn about 30,000 visitors to the Mississippi Delta town roughly 100 miles northwest of Jackson where ...

This is Eclectix Gallery's fourth annual Halloween show and it is not to be missed. Jam packed with scary, fun, demented, surreal, strangely beautiful and emotive art! The ultimate in festive viewing, hung salon style. With works by more than 45 artists in all mediums: dark gothic portraits, monsters, sexy vampires, skeletons, devils, surreal landscapes, Day of the Dead imagery and ...

Have you ever stopped to wonder why some sports players or teams just seen to be able to be more consistently successful than anyone else? If so, have you ever taken that analogy one stage further to consider whether this knowledge can be applied to both personal development and business (and, if so, how)? I would not be at all surprised ...

Students, when they are assigned term papers or other kinds of academic work would usually have some sort of trouble when writing them. This difficulty is usually attribted to these common reasons: either the task is too difficult because the topic or subject of the term paper is innately difficul, or they are having a hard time in writing the task ...

 Memory (2008), a major new site-specific sculpture installation by leading international artist Anish Kapoor, will be on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from October 21, 2009, to March 28, 2010 as part of the Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim.

CHICAGO - The artwork is matted, framed and hung on white walls, just like any other art exhibit. But instead of picturesque landscapes or bowls of fruit, the canvases depict images such as the influenza virus and bear titles like "Pancreatic Acinar Cells." The collection, called "Redefining the Medical Artist," showcases the work of medical illustrators, whose pieces are usually found ...

This Fall, The New England Quilt Museum is hosting MASTER PIECES: Haberdashery Textiles in Antique Quilts. Featuring quilts made from menswear, some of it recycled clothing, this remarkable exhibition brings together over 40 intriguing graphic works made from simple utilitarian fabrics long overlooked in the study of antique quilts. The guest curator for the exhibit is noted antiques dealer/expert and author ...

SANTA FE - The Indian Arts and Crafts Association wants tougher penalties to protect the authenticity of handmade Indian arts and crafts. The business and program specialist for the 35-year-old organization, John Chavez, says that under the state Indian Arts and Crafts Sales Act, misrepresentation of Indian arts is not a felony unless the sale is $25,000 or more. [widget:art_bistro_discussion_board] He ...

      Trompe l'oeil, a French term meaning “Fool the Eye”, is a technique in painting that makes use of realistic imagery to show the illusion that the object portrayed is real or appears in three dimensions rather than being a mere two dimensional painting.       Its inception stems from the Renaissance but it is believed that the technique was used way back during Greek ...

Alyssa Frazier, 12, of Kansas City, North, is hoping her artwork will help her get to Washington, D.C. Alyssa will attend the Junior National Young Leaders Conference Oct. 17 –22. To raise money for the trip, she is selling prints of her artwork as well as raffle tickets for a print. “I have never been to Washington, D.C., and it seems ...

What do you do with the 24 hours available to you each day? In corporate america the misappropriation of funds is illegal. I think the misappropriation of your time is even worse. Your life will not forgive you the longer you go squandering your hours. You can't get those hours back. Here are four ways to get the most from the ...

The recession has been hard on most of us. But for self-employed, freelance artists in any discipline it's become a dire situation. Jobs and sales have gotten fewer and less paid. And finding another job outside the arts often means giving up an integral part of yourself. Yet, as local actors, musicians and visual artists tell it, they are used to ...