April 22, 2011 - News & Story Links

Stories in the news and on the web featuring various arts & photography. Hopefully some of these stories can inspire you or your community on how to do more with art, fulfill a dream or just improve life.

• Overcast skies make for great wildflower photography | Sacramento Bee
• Photomarathon photography contest returns to Cardiff this summer | WalesOnline
• Silt nude climber sculpture decapitated | Glenwood Springs Post Independent
• Christie's Dubai auction shows growing interest in regional art | Zawya
• Randolph Arts Guild Announces Juried Art Show| Southern Pines Pilot
• Broad art museum structure vandalized | MSU State News
• School District Celebrates Earth Day in Recycled Art | Patch.com
• Ryan seeks to dodge art collection auction | Albany Times Union
• Entries sought for Pico Rivera art exhibition | Whittier Daily News
• In Dallas Museum Setting, Native American Art Retains Spiritual Residue | D Magazine
• Combat Photographers' True Story Makes Big Impact In Tribeca | NY1
• Bill Cunningham documentary offers a touching look at the fashion of New York City | NewsOK.com

April 20 & 21, 2011 - News & Story Links

Stories in the news and on the web featuring various arts & photography. Hopefully some of these stories can inspire you or your community on how to do more with art, fulfill a dream or just improve life.

• Restrepo' Co-Director Tim Hetherington Killed in Libya | THR
• Call for Entries Biennial Maryland Regional Juried Art Exhibit
• Call for applications: the Chicago Artists Coalition's Bolt Residency
• Call for Submissions Movement Research Spring Festival 2011 New York, New York
• Call for Artists: | Art on City Plaza, 2011 - Raleigh, NC
• Art & Music Event is now accepting artists' submissions in all media for its annual show June 10, 2011.
• Call For Artists, Writers and Poets - PraxisQuarterly - LITERARY REVIEW ONLINE MAGAZINE
• Call for Artists - 40th Annual Bayou City Art Festival Downtown
• Art In Your Eye Festival Call for Artists for City Hall Exhibit
• Call for Artists: VIDEO COMPETITION ON GLOBAL WARMING
• MPArtFest Call for Artists
• Call For Artists - Juried Art Exhibit - Arts Harvest Southampton 2011

April 14, 2011 - News and Story Links

Stories in the news and on the web featuring various arts & photography. Hopefully some of these stories can inspire you or your community on how to do more with art, fulfill a dream or just improve life.

• Rise of the Planet of the Apes WETA Concept Art | MovieWeb
• Sari Dienes Retrospective revives an avant-garde found-art master | The Journal News
• Picasso's Erotic Code | Vanity Fair
• Handcuffed naked woman portrait shortlisted for art prize | Metro
• Call For Artists for 1st Fridays Art Stroll of Ivanhoe Village
• Plein Air Competition - Call for Artists to Participate | San Diego Art Department and The California Art Club
• Call for Artists and Performers | Across the River Arts/Fremont Abbey Arts Center
• Stolen Syd Barrett painting returned to London art gallery | NME.com
• UK Art Fund Increases Aid for Museums' Purchases by 50% to $11.3 Million | Bloomberg
• Local Veterans' Art Exhibit | WGRZ-TV
• Volunteer Chris Buckley heading Mandarin Art Festival's Children's Art Show | Florida Times-Union
• Artist's visit helps to inspire children | NW Evening Mail

April 13, 2011 - News & Story Links

Stories in the news and on the web featuring various arts & photography. Hopefully some of these stories can inspire you or your community on how to do more with art, fulfill a dream or just improve life.

• New Oshawa City Hall sculpture rises to the occasion | Newsdurhamregion.com
• Female Photojournalist Award calling for entries| British Journal of Photography
• Aerial Historical Photos Available Online | Westchester.com
• Russia refuses to censor phallus art prize | NEWS.com.au
• Art supports community, and vice versa | Visalia Times-Delta
• Photographer Films Amazing Northern Lights Show | Space.com
• Ai Weiwei 'was offered advisory role before his detention' | The Guardian
• Queens Museum of Art starts expansion plan to double space by 2013 | New York Daily News
• Airports cater to art lovers with intriguing installations | USA Today
• Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett's Painting Stolen From Art Gallery, Then Returned | Gigwise
• Sock Gallery opens doors with photography exhibition | LoughboroughEcho.net
• City tattoo artist makes a mark | Times of India

April 11, 2011 - News & Story Links

Stories in the news and on the web featuring various arts & photography. Hopefully some of these stories can inspire you or your community on how to do more with art, fulfill a dream or just improve life.

• How Civil War Photography Changed War | Discovery News
• Basil Hyman's bygone Britain | Telegraph.co.uk
• Sand sculpting for Sandworld competition in Dorset gets underway | Metro
• CALL FOR ARTISTS & PERFORMERS| New Works at the Fremont Abbey Arts Center
• "CALL FOR ARTISTS : Proposals for Exhibitions in New Building" Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts Grand Rapids, MI
• Photographer develops subjects' life goals | StarPhoenix
• Happiness is a choice for this bipolar photographer-restaurateur| ABS CBN News
• Cheadle Hulme's Ian Cartwright Wins Commercial Photographer Of The Year | AboutMyArea
• Margate and its new Turner Contemporary art centre | Telegraph.co.uk
• New Art to Hit Downtown Brighton | Patch.com
• Stephen Svoboda takes on directorship of Red House Arts Center in Syracuse | Syracuse.com (blog)
• New exhibit opens window into artist Edward Hopper | Reuters

April 07, 2011 - News & Story Links

Stories in the news and on the web featuring various arts & photography. Hopefully some of these stories can inspire you or your community on how to do more with art, fulfill a dream or just improve life.

• Winter scene wins TBI Solicitors' first photography competition | nebusiness.co.uk
• Project gives daily snapshot in photog's life | The Coloradoan
• Getty Images to offer $100000 in editorial grants | British Journal of Photography
• Emin and Holland to open £17m Turner Contemporary | BBC News |
• CSU exhibition takes viewers into minds of historical artists | The Coloradoan
• Donors help to save Ottawa sculpture | LaSalle News Tribune
• Death threats over Swede's King of Pop sculpture | The Local.se
• CALL FOR ARTISTS! Join the CACY Outdoor Arts Market @ Caledon Day!
• Man Ray nude stars in £3m photography sell-off | Amateur Photographer
• Fashion Fusion hits runway Friday | Monroe News Star
• Skip the leftovers and take home a painting instead | Indianapolis Star
• Attack on lensman condemned | Independent Online

April 06, 2011 - News & Story Links

Stories in the news and on the web featuring various arts & photography. Hopefully some of these stories can inspire you or your community on how to do more with art, fulfill a dream or just improve life.

• Get snapping for Olympics 2012-themed photography competition | Maidenhead Advertiser
• 360 video iPad app will let you witness war up close | Pocket-lint.com
• Museum display mixes art and history | Kelowna Capital News
• Appalachian art on display at East Tenn State Univ | The State
• Couple makes art gallery friendly place | Norridge Harwood Heights News
• Pony art entries sought for contest | Delmarva Now
• Phoenix art museum features couture clothing collection of fashion icon | Downtown Devil
• Brevard Art Museum director to leave post | Florida Today
• Harvard Lecturer's Persian Manuscript May Sell for $5 Million | Bloomberg
• Art Assists Advocates | The Cross Timbers Gazette
• Anonymous artist leaves behind a riot | BBC News
• UA photo center gets $3.5M gift | Arizona Daily Star

April 05, 2011 - News & Story Links

Stories in the news and on the web featuring various arts & photography. Hopefully some of these stories can inspire you or your community on how to do more with art, fulfill a dream or just improve life.

• Paul McCartney Compiles Linda McCartney Photography Book | Gigwise
• WEST LOOP GALLERY CALL FOR ARTISTS--CONTEMPORARY STORYTELLING Chicago artists resource
• Call for Artists: Austin Art Boards
• Wyoming Arts: Call for artists: Medicine Hat public art project
• Huma Bhabha's Post-Apocalyptic Sculpture At Beautiful Decay | Huffington Post
• New College student's sculpture of friends part of recycle show at Swindon's ...| This is Wiltshire.co.uk
• Work on the ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture in the 2012 Olympic Park - which ... | BBC News
• Sculptures help the environment | Joburg
• Photographer's dawn raid on nature's rush hour captures magical moments | Metro
• Fundraiser Being Staged for Injured Photographer | Allmediascotland
• "2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial" | Absolutearts.com
• Dan Gross: Legend's back at art museum | Philadelphia Daily News

April 04, 2011 - News & Story Links

Stories in the news and on the web featuring various arts & photography. Hopefully some of these stories can inspire you or your community on how to do more with art, fulfill a dream or just improve life.

• Il Divo Named Classical Artist Of The Decade | Contactmusic.com
• Prominent Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Detained and Missing | ABC News
• Fans vote for The Band Perry as ACM Awards Top New Artist of the Year| Examiner.com
• Monet's 'Water Lilies' at Kansas City museum | Atlanta Journal Constitution
• Art X Detroit Launches April 6 | MyFox Detroit
• Russian artists anger authorities with daring works | AFP
• Artist Says NY Gallery Owes Her $468000 | Courthouse News Service
• Bear On The Square Festival's Artist Marketplace Focuses On Regional Crafts | The Chattanoogan
• Death and the artist: Angela Strassheim and funerary statues at the MIA | MinnPost.com
• Exploring the nude through artistic photography| Coast Weekend
• HOW TO: Master Smartphone Photography [PICS] | Mashable
• SculptureTrails.com is calling all Artists to participate in the 2nd Annual ... | dBusinessNews Indianapolis (pr)

April 01, 2011 - News & Story Links

Stories in the news and on the web featuring various arts & photography. Hopefully some of these stories can inspire you or your community on how to do more with art, fulfill a dream or just improve life.

• 'Giant hand' sculpture on Clackmannanshire roundabout | BBC News
• Sculpture RISEs On Belfast Skyline | 4ni.co.uk
• New sculpture unveiling in Croxley Green Business Park | Watford Observer
• Photographer Bob Carlos Clarke movie plans revealed | Amateur Photographer
• Nikon DSLR photographer turns passion into tattoo | Amateur Photographer
• Nokia N8 continues to open up new HD Horizons | NokNok.tv
• A photographic exhibit by Dorothea Lange | Deseret News
• Joanne Salley: Harrow defends teacher who posed topless in art room | Daily Mail
• New art faces | Fort Wayne Journal Gazette | http://bit.ly/eUXGiq
• Art center comes to Middletown | Cincinnati.com
• Art lovers get transit bargain | Edmonton Journal
• City seeks new arts commissioner | Signal