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James Turrell shapes perceptions
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Flying a couple of thousand feet above a volcanic field in Arizona near the Painted Desert, it's fairly easy to spot the extinct volcano known as the Roden Crater. It stands alone in the field, apart from hundreds of other...
Tags: Ford, Landforms, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Air Transportation Industry, Museums
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Yale Center For British Art Named One Of World's 50 Best Art Galleries By Times Of London
The Yale Center for British Art in New Haven made the Times of London’s list of the 50 greatest art galleries in the world this week. It came in 15th. The article’s paragraph on YCBA reads: “Paul Mellon, who died in 1999, gave his...
Tags: Museum of Modern Art, United Kingdom, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Yale Center for British Art, Museums
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READER SUBMITTED: Lighthouse Festival To Shine Cheerful Light On Newtown
StatewideBen's Lighthouse (www.benslighthouse.org), an organization dedicated to supporting and uplifting the children of Newtown in the wake of the December 14 tragedy, is sponsoring a Lighthouse Festival on June 15, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free and...Tags: Religion and Belief, Christianity, Anglicanism, Arts, Festive Events
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RPT-Artist Richard Prince didn't infringe photo copyrights
Reuters(Repeats for wider subscribers) By Nate Raymond NEW YORK, April 25 (Reuters) - In a closely watched case in the art world, American artist Richard Prince won a federal appeals court order Thursday holding that he did not infringe the copyrights of a...Tags: Museum of Modern Art, Services and Shopping, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Photography, Museums
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Literature's greatest hits
Name your favorite, the one book that most sticks in your mind. Over nearly four years, photographer Catherine Wagner made that request of friends, acquaintances and outright strangers. She kept a tally on her iPhone and turned the top vote-getters into...
Tags: Arts, Arts and Culture, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Apple iPhone, Photography
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Gift valued at $1 billion transforms Met's modern art collection
Museum leaders are generally reluctant to see themselves engaged in competition, but the Museum of Modern Art in New York just lost a big one — and will lose its reputation as the city's only great destination for the Cubism of Picasso and Braque as...
Tags: The New York Times, Museum of Modern Art, Artists, Arts, Arts and Culture
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An Ice Cold Rivalry Hardening In Southern Connecticut
The Hartford CourantThere may be, as Kevin Bui claims, a number of Quinnipiac guys who know current Yale players. Yet as six of the Bobcats made their way into the media room Tuesday at TD Bank Sports Center, not one of them admitted it. Hmm, maybe this Frozen Four is...Tags: Ice Hockey, Sports, Providence Friars, Turk Wendell, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Confronting artist Kara Walker
Kara Walker will be difficult. This gets whispered to you by enough people in the art world and you start to believe it: She's humorless! Confrontational! Intimidating! David Mamet intimidating! And this week, before the Thursday opening of “...
Tags: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, University of the Pacific, Charles M. Schulz, University of Chicago, Gold Coast
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Richard Artschwager dies at 89; painter and sculptor
Richard Artschwager, an artist who turned his apprenticeship as a cabinetmaker into a distinctive approach to making sculptures and paintings that defy easy categorization, died Saturday in Albany, N.Y., following a brief illness. He was 89. A...
Tags: Heavy Engineering, Sculpture, Manhattan (New York City), Museums, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Richard Artschwager, celebrated artist, dead at 89
Richard Artschwager, the painter and sculptor who recently was honored with a career retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, died on Saturday at 89. His death was confirmed by the Gagosian Gallery. Artschwager's death comes just a week...
Tags: Artists, Arts, Fine Artists, Arts and Culture, Museums
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Culture Watch: 'Jay DeFeo, A Retrospective'
The language of excavation is familiar to fans of late Bay Area artist Jay DeFeo. She famously spent eight years from 1958 to '66 both building up and digging into the surface of a massive abstract painting-sculpture ultimately known as "The Rose."...
Tags: Arts, Arts and Culture, Museums, Bruce Conner
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Lifelike sculptures in DeLand
The Orlando International Airport is loaded with museum-quality art, some so bright and imposing that you can't possibly miss them, and others so subtle you may have been there a hundred times and never noticed. "The Traveller" by Duane Hanson falls...
Tags: Orlando International Airport, Sculpture, Lake Eola Park, Thornton Park, Museums
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