Arts
Visual Arts
Utah visual arts news and events
Deseret News - Jan 21, 2012
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, will host an artist talk with Andrea Bowers, Jan. 25, 7 pm Salt Lake City Library, 210 E. 400 South, will host an artist talk with Sunny Strasburg, Jan. 28, 4-5:30 pm Ogden Nature Center, ...
Applied Art
Tallinn 6th Applied Art Triennial 2012
The Baltic Course - Jan 23, 2012
The exhibition will take place from 23.11.2012 through 3.02.2013 at the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn, Estonia, informed the press service of the Tallinn 6th Applied Art Triennial 2012. Works for the exhibition will be selected by ...
Commercial Art
Local Illustrator Creates Affordable Art
Patch.com - Jan 27, 2012
"I ultimately want to do commercial art, so it's always affordable." She wants neither fame nor fortune, and wants to continue with the commercial notebook and card illustrations, which, as she pointed out, are easy to mass-produce.
Fine Art
Fine Art Festival Returns to Oro Valley, Feb. 4 & 5
Examiner.com - Jan 26, 2012
The Steam Pump Village Fine Art Festival returns to Oro Valley for its second time, Feb. 4 & 5, bringing with it even better quality artists and live music. Over 30 fine artists, both national and local, will display art in various mediums including ...
Decorative Arts
The Crowd: Decorative Arts Society focuses on care, well-being
Daily PilotDaily Pilot - Jan 19, 2012
On a positive note, one small but dedicated nonprofit based in Newport-Mesa and known as the Decorative Arts Society seeks grant applicants to be the recipients of their fundraising efforts in the coming year. Known as the DARTS, this group of 16 women ...
Performing Arts
Folsom's Three Stages performing arts center tops expectations in first year
Sacramento Bee - Jan 22, 2012
By Edward Ortiz Strong attendance numbers during the inaugural year of the Three Stages performing arts complex at Folsom Lake College show that it has tapped into a ready and willing market for performances. The $50 million performing arts center, ...
Graffiti Art
The graffiti art of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in photos
Gadling - Jan 19, 2012
One way to experience the creative side of the city while also getting to enjoy the beautiful weather and outdoor scenery is through the myriad works of graffiti art that adorn the various neighborhoods. Although many people may think of graffiti as ...
Street Art
Artopia Street Art Mural Sneak Peek
Houston Press - Jan 26, 2012
Street art documentarian Alex Luster was one winner of a MasterMind Award this year. And if you like street art, be sure to look out for the hidden Coolidge Boston terrier stencil — Tweet a photo of it an you'll be enetered to win a special MasterMind ...
Oil Painting
Brooklyn artist in tussle with Smithsonian
New York Daily NewsNew York Daily News - Jan 24, 2012
Bowland's oil painting, entitled "Kenyetta and Brianna," was part of a Smithsonian exhibition from March 2009 to August 2010 and was awarded a "People's Choice Award." In the final weeks of the show, the Smithsonian sent two emails to Bowland about ...
Watercolour Painting
Arts around Alberni: from visual artists taking note to books in a tote
Alberni Valley News - Jan 27, 2012
Echo Centre will be offering a new class for beginners in watercolour painting, instructing complete beginners and those in need of a refresher. Explore and learn the basic skills and techniques of watercolour painting in a relaxed environment.
Pencil Drawing
Duluth artist pays tribute to UMD men's hockey title in pencil drawing
Duluth News Tribune - Jan 18, 2012
Duluth artist Tim Cortes created a pencil drawing of UMD's national men's hockey championship in 2011. (Photo courtesy of Tim Cortes) Kenny Reiter is featured prominently in a colorful tribute to Minnesota Duluth's 2011 NCAA men's hockey championship.
Writing Poems
Downtown needs rethought
The Sudbury Star - Jan 23, 2012
Writing poems and talking journalism in the cafes, shopping for music or photography gear, busting my hump at the Y, shaking my tail feathers at the Townhouse. And at some point in there, I kicked the thought of Sudbury's terrible downtown out of my ...
Early Christian Art
Rare and rediscovered paintings lead Christie's Old Master paintings and ...
Art Daily - Jan 6, 2012
The Virgin and Christ Child are depicted against a gold background, recalling the traditional icons of early Christian art, and the small circular format and intimacy of the subject would suggest a domestic function for the work.
Byzantine Art
Byzantine and Christian Museum To Host Danish Per Kirkeby Exhibition
Greek ReporterGreek Reporter - Jan 25, 2012
The exhibition, entitled “A creative dialogue with Byzantine Art” inlcudes 29 of Kirkeby's works and will open its doors to the public on February 1, at 19:30. A painter, sculptor, filmmaker, writer and poet, Kirkeby's work and inspiration show ...
Celtic Art
War refugee Paul Jacobsthal's Oxford life highlighted
BBC NewsBBC News - Jan 18, 2012
He was a leading expert in Celtic art but his studies were considered politically dangerous by the Nazis, as the ancient pan-European art form did not fit with the regime's nationalistic doctrines. Despite leaving Germany, Mr Jacobsthal's letters ...
Romanesque Art
Gothic Art
Charting the rise and decline of the Gothic Cathedral
Cambridge NetworkCambridge Network - Jan 16, 2012
The series continues with an investigation into the origins of Gothic art and architecture in northern France in the twelfth century that features a close-up analysis of Abbot Suger's new choir at St-Denis which is widely considered the first ...
Renaissance
Renaissance Orlando Airport Hotel Announced as Premier Lodging Partner for New ...
MarketWatch (press release) - Jan 27, 2012
The distinctive Renaissance Orlando Airport Hotel proudly announces its lodging partnership with the developing Lake Nona Medical City, a cluster of health and life science organizations including hospitals, universities, research institutions and ...
Italian Renaissance
Starz Casts Tom Riley as Leonardo Da Vinci
Reuters - Jan 23, 2012
The cable network and BBC Worldwide Productions have tapped British actor Tom Riley to play the Italian Renaissance man in Starz's upcoming series "Da Vinci's Demons." Riley will play the artist and inventor "during his turbulent youth" in Florence, ...
Renaissance Classicism
Early Netherlandish Painting
Renaissance masterpiece makes its Pasadena debut, starting a three-month visit ...
Pasadena Star-News - Jan 27, 2012
Colin B. Bailey, deputy director and chief curator at the Frick, called the painting a "tour de force of early Netherlandish painting - remarkable in its truthfulness and humanity, and in an extraordinary state of conservation that allows the viewer to ...
Rococo
Mickesh, Boushon lead Eagles at UW-Whitewater Invite
Edgewood College Eagles - Jan 22, 2012
At the UW-Whitewater Rocky Rococo Invitational, Grant Mickesh and Connor Boushon accounted for 17 of the Eagles' 31 points where the Edgewood College men's track team placed eighth of 13 teams. Mickesh placed second in the 5000 meter run while Boushon ...
Neoclassicism
What's American music, again?
Washington Post (blog) - Jan 16, 2012
From the post-Romantic eclecticism of Howard Hanson and the post-Romantic expressionism of Bernard Rogers through the neoclassicized impressionism of Edward Burlingame Hill and John Alden Carpenter, the strictly Parisian neoclassicism of Walter Piston, ...