May 15, 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.

• Hughes works bought for a few hundred in 1955 could fetch millions at auction | The Canadian Press
• Welderup throws junk together to create 'rolling works of art' | Las Vegas Review - Journal
• Antioch weighs funding options for civic arts program | San Jose Mercury News
• Photographer from Superior captured era for future historians | Duluth News Tribune
• Unseen works by Marc Chagall reveal artist's enduring love affair | Telegraph.co.uk
• Haitian artist eyes help for trek to internationally renowned Florence Biennale exhibition | NYDailyNews
• Fans and collectors anticipate return of artist P.Buckley Moss | Bluefield Daily Telegraph
• Despite recession, art thriving | Times Daily
• Art & Ecology: On Seeing: An Online Exhibition Series (PHOTOS) | Huffington Post (blog)
• New York: The British are coming | MiamiHerald.com
• Photographer critical after rally accident | SuperSport.com
• Kansas: state of skywatchers | Kansas.com

May 14, 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.

• An Ego of One's Own | Tapped (blog) | http://bit.ly/kCUpsw
• Three artists 'paint' with materials | DesMoinesRegister.com
• The National Gallery of Canada reveals the 12 finalists in its So You Want To Be an Artist?
• Kernel FESTIVAL /011 is looking for young talents to project temporary architectural installations W
• The Neo-Futurists Announce Call for Artists
• Call for Artists: BERLINERPOOL OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS. | DEADLINE 26TH JUNE 2011
• Iconic War Photography From The Crimean War To The Situation Room (PHOTOS) | Huffington Post
• Teen uses leg to create works of art ahead of amputation | Detroit Free Press
• Bofa donates $1 million to Miami Art Museum | MiamiHerald.com
• Artists host auction for storm aid | News Courier
• Hazlet drummer Gary Dates turned photographer taps a different vein | Dailyrecord.com
• Alamy Sponsors Young Photographer's Alliance Scholarship Programme | PR.com (press release)

May 12, 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.

• Seattle photographer captures the entire night sky in 37440 exposures| Washington Post
• Wildlife welcome: Photographer shoots models underwater... and even the jellyfish are invited | Daily Mail
• Twitpic photo fears 'a fuss about nothing' | Amateur Photographer
• MEN snapper Chris Gleave wins photographer of the year award at press 'Oscars' | Manchester Evening News
• Talented photographer captures Docklands in new light | Docklands24
• Travel Photographer of the Year launches London exhibition and 2011 competition | Creative Boom
• Pupils' photos promote hope | Arizona Daily Star
• In Pictures: Coventry's high-rise photography | BBC News
• Photography tips: cloud control | Australian Geographic
• Amateur photography competition launched by garden centre Notcutts | Kent News
• Birds of spray: Hummingbird family drink from sprinkler in photographer's back garden | Daily Mail
• Bahrain arrests freelance photographer | Press TV

May 9, 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.

• JOB OPPORTUNITY: Digital Preservation Officer/Librarian University of Alberta Library
• Annie Leibovitz Denies Copying Von Teese For Katy Perry Shoot | Contactmusic.com
• Bill Blackbeard, scholar of newspaper comics, dies at 84 | Los Angeles Times
• Art auctions making a comeback in Asia | Channel News Asia
• In Transit: In Madrid, Disparate Art Collections Collide | New York Times (blog)
• The Art of the Matter| St. John's Telegram
• From Blur to Balingup: a life in photography | ABC Online
• Glee producer to launch own record label | The Guardian
• Dave Newhouse: The art of teaching art | San Jose Mercury News
• SketchBook Pro 2.0: Art on the iPad, Done Even Better | Technologizer | http://bit.ly/jJat7D
• Chance to enter council's photography competition | Get Bracknell
• Libyans protest in memory of Mersey photojournalist Tim Hetherington | Liverpool Echo

May 8, 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.

• Around the World with Cruise Ship Photographer Max Manion | Patch.com
• Oklahoma City Museum of Art director finds OKC stereotypes untrue | NewsOK.com
• Fire hits KC Art Institute building | Kansas City Star
• Russell Industrial Center becomes haven for artists | The Detroit News
• Science and art blend in former UT professor's nature photos | Knoxville News Sentinel
• Seve gave us art, wild and untamed| Charlotte Observer
• Smithsonian Announces 'Art of Video Games' Exhibit Winners | Game Rant
• Politics spills into artist's ocean paintings | Boston Herald
• Irish works take artist out of the Ashcan | Charlotte Observer
• World Press Photo winners awarded in Amsterdam | Xinhua
• Female photographer turns passion into profession | Saudi Gazette
• 'Young Saudi Lenses' captures photography boom | Saudi Gazette

May 7, 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.

• Biennale in Vancouver | Vancouver Sun
• Visual artists tackle EDSA: Street art on a grand scale | GMANews.TV
• Restoration of vandalized rock art getting under way | Las Vegas Sun
• Iconic Art Work, Chicago Stock Exchange Sculpture "Global Vision" Up for Auction on eBay | PR Web (press release)
• Photos a study in black & white | Poughkeepsie Journal
• Chinese Artist Huang Guofu Paints Using Only His Mouth & Feet (VIDEO) | Huffington Post
• Whiting Mills inspiring for local artists | Torrington Register Citizen
• Photographer showed 'inner fire' | Montreal Gazette
• Sculptor proposes design for city's OK | Kansas.com
• New wave of graffiti artists says their work brightens decay, sends message | The Detroit News
• "Calvin and Hobbes" artist joins Team Cul de Sac | Charlotte Observer
• Sixth-graders' art helps change the world | Kansas City Star

May 6, 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.

• The Turner prize: artists kiss goodbye to London | The Guardian (blog)
• Hands-on artist | Salina.com
• Vandals in the Gallery | National Review Online
• A German Artist Reinterprets Two Dutch Masters | New York Times (blog)
• Painting an intimate process for local artist | Las Vegas Review-Journal
• Get snappy and enter our fantastic photography competition | Hinckley Times
• Special shots of life under the waves scoops underwater photography prize | Cornish Guardian
• Photographer in Burmese python bust-up | Amateur Photographer
• Topaz Labs Releases New Lens Effects Software | TMC Net
• Sculpture Wanganui 2011 - Winners Announced | Voxy
• Ajax acquires art for public spaces | Newsdurhamregion.com
• Artist creates visual diary of her travels | Monterey County Herald

May 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.

• Don't watch the birdie! Crocodile attacks hippo… and the photographer was ... | Daily Mail
• 2011 International Garden Photographer of the year - in pictures | The Guardian
• Photographers Focus On Italy's Unhappy Campania | NPR (blog)
• Schiele Cityscape May Fetch Record $50 Million as Looted Art Case Settled | Bloomberg
• Archives to launch database of looted Nazi art | San Jose Mercury News
• Turner Prize shortlist includes art made from lipstick and soil | Metro
• Bye Bye Kitty: The Dark Side of Art in Japan | TIME
• Students, inmates see more than black and white with art installation at ASU ... | Daily Journal
• Fort Worth Art Museums Join in Global Celebration of Art Museum Day on May 18| Dallas Art News
• Bruce Davidson displays the dignity of real lives | Evening Standard
• Record sale for Gauguin sculpture| BBC News
• Baltic braced for Turner Prize as shortlist announced | Journal Live

May 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.

• New York pays homage to Swiss destructive artist | swissinfo.ch | http://bit.ly/lB6Obp
• Salem artist leaves no leaf unturned for inspiration | Statesman Journal | http://bit.ly/m0hxvv
• Oscar de la Renta: from artist to fashion icon | Lucire | http://bit.ly/lalUdp
• Checking in on Milwaukee's WikiProject for Public Art | ThirdCoast Digest | http://bit.ly/jlUnO6
• Call for entries issued for BJP's International Photography Awards | British Journal of Photography | http://bit.ly/iGfRyP
• Royal beasts brought to life at Tower of London | Docklands24 | http://bit.ly/kN2pES
• Banksy produces petrol bomb 'art' to help anti-Tesco campaigners | Bristol Evening Post | http://bit.ly/knLsue
• Art makes a statement without saying a word | Edmonton Journal | http://bit.ly/ksLYkz
• After Fourteen Years as Director of Laguna Art Museum, Bolton Colburn Steps Down | Art Daily | http://bit.ly/l1Tyw0
• Unify, Simplify, Amplify: How Leica Maintains Its Brilliant Photography Brand | Co.Design | http://bit.ly/mhbsDN
• In Pictures: Sony World Photography Awards 2011 | CIT Magazine | http://bit.ly/iVtDQj
• Famed artist Clifford Frith admits child sex charges | Adelaide Now | http://bit.ly/lqbBMc

May 3, 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.

• 'Book of Mormon,' 'Anything Goes,' 'Merchant' Garner Most Tony Nominations | Bloomberg
• Snappers slam Canary Wharf photography laws| Docklands24
• Destroyed: Moby's first photography book [video interview] | British Journal of Photography
• S/ART/Q : Call for Artists
• Call for Artists: Michigan First Art Fest
• Walking Sea Point. Marieke Prinsloo's Public art. | Times LIVE (blog)
• What To Expect If You're Injured on Assignment | Photo District News
• Mesa photography studio, lab and camera shop closing after 65 years | The Republic
• Photographer's dream at Susquehannock State Park | Examiner.com
• Berlin Wall artists sue city in copyright controversy| The Guardian
• Ai Weiwei's Berlin exhibition attracts support for his release | Deutsche Welle
• Photographer Finds 'Artist in You' | Patch.com

May 2, 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.

• Leigh Anne Lester Wins 2011 Hunting Art Prize | PR Newswire (press release)
• Painter Joan Mitchell Finally Gets Her Due | ABC News
• Public art created for Edith Pettus Park | Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
• Art Institute of Chicago to name Zoe Ryan as chair of architecture and design ... | Chicago Tribune (blog)
• 'Art on the Porch' at HCC seeking artists | Sulphur Southwest Daily News
• Berlin Gallery Spotlights Ai Weiwei, Detained Chinese Artist | New York Times (blog)
• Downtown Madison becomes art gallery for May | Asbury Park Press
• April 2011 Competition Winners | PhotographyBLOG (blog)
• Ex-Post photographer's Royal Wedding experience | This is Nottingham
• Murals in brick: Washington state artist's designs on bank branch walls say Derby | Louisville Courier-Journal
• Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County - Call For Artists - 40under40 Awards Event [pdf file]
• Call For Artists Prospectus - ArtFutura - Exhibition 2011: Life - June 2-9 Chicago [pdf file ]