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

• Local man tells Burmese plight in film | Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
• Greenville photographer's images to be displayed at Smithsonian | Jackson Clarion Ledger
• Photographer threatens Diegodiego | KING5.com
• Former Phoenix Suns star Dick Van Arsdale a work of art | AZ Central.com
• VMFA to host art from Beijing's Palace Museum, governor announces | Richmond Times Dispatch
• Bill Brackett: Chafee tax would put arts out of reach| Providence Journal
• Pottstown School Board votes to keep arts and music | The Mercur
• Artist Bovey Lee's new career makes something old into something new | Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• Junior was a multifaceted artist | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• Biography of Joan Mitchell reveals warm side of artist tortured by alcoholism | Kansas City Star
• Rehab Agency Allows Polk Artist to Keep Making Beautiful Work | The Ledger
• Central New York full of opportunities for artists, musicians, filmmakers and storytellers | Syracuse.com (blog)
• CNN Exclusive: Photographer Unveils Never-Before-Seen Photos of Michael Jackson | CNN (blog)
• Entry deadline extended for photography show “Embrace the Unknown,” | Canton Repository
• A Visual Narrative of Old England, Rude, Lewd and Colorful | New York Times
• Christie's Major Two-Week Spring Sales Series Yields $557 Million and New World Records | artdaily.org
• China's flourishing Nanjing is fueled by youth and art | The Seattle Times
• 106 Association of Art Museum Directors Member Museums to Celebrate Art Museum Day | Art Daily
• The secret art of Beryl Bainbridge | The Guardian
• President al-Assad: Art to help solve Problems | Day Press News
• Cannes film festival: Can Harvey Weinstein take a silent movie to the Oscars? | Entertainment Weekly
• Accidental Artist Finds Her Niche in Recycled Art | Patch.com | http://bit.ly/iVH9ZY