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• Hot off the Press: Postcards for Jim Lommasson at the New American Art Union

  
  CoinOp — Authority: 127
  Oaks Park Pentimento runs through December at NAAU in SE Portland. Postcard, 1/1, Environment 120# Cover Natural, Pantone soy-based inks. Pentimento: n. The reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that had been painted over. The word derives from the Italian pentirsi , meaning to repent. Jim ...
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• Modeling the Hills

  
  Woodblock Dreams — Authority: 116
  Back in the studio again today -- yay! I added some burnt umber here and there on the hills to give them some shape. Might have to do it again in some spots; well see as I deepen some of the other colors. Copyright Woodblock Dreams blog
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• Roy DeCarava, 1919–2009

  
  Eye Level — Authority: 412
  Roy DeCaravas Lingerie, New York Roy DeCarava, an American master, died October 27, 2009, a few weeks shy of his ninetieth birthday. Born in Harlem in 1919, and coming to adulthood during the Harlem Renaissance, DeCarava became a photographer of the street and the people who inhabited that day-to-day world. He ...
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• Now Showing | Sharon Core at the Gallery at Hermès

  
  The Moment — Authority: 708
  The photographer Sharon Core has accrued an almost cultlike group of followers, including yours truly and a handful of editors here at T. The Moment caught up with Core to talk about "Early American," a new exhibition of breathtaking still lifes, which opens tonight at New Yorks Gallery at Hermès.
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• Art and Celebrities to Shine at GLAAD’s 8th Annual OUTAuction NYC

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 156
  Join us at GLAAD’s 8th Annual OUTAuction, presented by Bud Light, on Sunday November 15th, 2009 from 5:00pm-9:00pm at New York City’s Metropolitan Pavilion! Since 2002, GLAAD, the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) media advocacy and anti-defamation organization, has produced this annual ...
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• Drawing Conclusions – the Rise of Drawing in the Contemporary Art Scene

  
  Art Institute — Authority: 156
  Not so long ago, drawing became the new painting. From small-scale and intimate to wall-sized, highly-worked or resolutely low-fi; whatever its format, the re-appearance of a once side-lined medium marked a dramatic shift in its fortunes and indeed, assumptions about art in general. But why the change? Was it that, in ...
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• Picture This: Playing Punball

  
  Eye Level — Authority: 412
  A museum visitor plays William T. Wileys Punball: Only One Earth. Youve seen the William T. Wiley exhibition. Now play the game! What, you havent seen the show yet? Well, nows your opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. On Thursday, November 12, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., visitors will have a rare opportunity ...
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• Native American art from Sheenasha Warner

  
  More to Explore — Authority: 125
  by Star Seastone, Visitor Services Assistant We have some beautiful new pieces in the Museum store, created by Native American artist Shéénasha Warner. Shéénasha is Laguna Pueblo/Navajo-Born for Salt Clan-Ashiihi/Cherokee and originally learned traditional crafts from her family. She is also a graduate of the ...
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• Uncover Artistic Treasures at Artcrawl Harlem

  
  Vacations Blog — Authority: 475
  A painting featured during ArtCrawl Harlem Soho and Chelsea may grab all the attention when it comes to New York’s art scene but Harlem boasts a vibrant array of galleries and museums, minus the crowds.   Artcrawl Harlem rounds up some of these art discoveries with a three and half- hour trolley tour that ...
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• Picture This: Albert Paleys Portal Gates

  
  Eye Level — Authority: 412
  Left: the museums David DeAnna, contract art handler Jorge Herrera, and Justin Chambers move the right gate into place. Right: Herrera, DeAnna, and Jerry Hovanec finish the installation. Our exhibitions team was up and at ‘em early on October 27 to unpack and reinstall sculptor Albert Paley’s Portal Gates at ...
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• Roni Horn aka Roni Horn at The Whitney Museum from November 6th

  
  FADwebsite — Authority: 437
  Roni Horn, You are the Weather (detail),1994-1995. Thirty-six gelatin silver prints and sixty-four chromogenic prints.10 ½ x 8 ½ inches each. © Roni HornNovember 6, 2009-January 24, 2010For more than thirty years, Roni Horn (b. 1955) has been developing work of concentrated visual power and intellectual rigor, ...
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• Art Review | Roni Horn: Gaining a Voice and an Identity in Minimalism

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Roni Horn a k a Roni Horn includes “Pink Tons” (2008) at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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• Excitement is building!

  
  Celebration of Fine Art — Authority: 92
  We are counting the days now until we open for our 20th Anniversary Celebration of Fine Art!  In just over three months we will open our doors and welcome our fabulous art lovers for what promises to be one of our finest collection of artists ever!  Jake and I have recently had the pleasure of gathering with some of ...
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• Dorothea Lange Biographer talk and book signing at SAAM tonight!

  
  Look Underfoot — Authority: 122
  Dorothea at Work Dorothea Lange: A Life beyond Limits  7:00 PM McEvoy Auditorium, Lower Level American Art Museum Linda Gordon , author of the first biography of photographer Dorothea Lange, shares her research and knowledge of Lange as a mother, artist, feminist, political activist, environmentalist, and ...
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• Dave Hickey and the State of the Arts

  
  Eye Level — Authority: 412
  "My ten millionth grandfather was Jonathan Edwards," critic Dave Hickey told us last week as part of the Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture Series at American Art. He added, "But Im not going to give you any of that." What he did give us, instead, was a thought-provoking hour on the nature of contemporary art in ...
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• A Man Learns How to Appreciate a Museum

  
  Quazen — Authority: 529
  By: mzacha I don’t know about you, but for me most museum doors open some sort of portal into a parallel reality where time slows to a snail’s pace, and the air and light wash over my brain like some sort of fuzzy, dull hangover. From inside looking out I see the world whizzing by, like the last scene of ...
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• Hunter Museum Launches Inaugural Concert Series

  
  Chattarati, Chattanooga news and opinion — Authority: 472
  The Hunter Museum of American Art recently launched a new chamber concert series. Founded by pianist Gloria Chen, String Theory at the Hunter is a chamber music series that brings classical music to Chattanoogans in a more intimate, personal setting. Hosting concert series in museum lobbies is an old tradition, and ...
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• Roni Horn aka Roni Horn at The Whitney Museum from November 6th

  
  FADwebsite — Authority: 437
  Roni Horn, You are the Weather (detail),1994-1995. Thirty-six gelatin silver prints and sixty-four chromogenic prints.10 ½ x 8 ½ inches each. © Roni HornNovember 6, 2009-January 24, 2010For more than thirty years, Roni Horn (b. 1955) has been developing work of concentrated visual power and intellectual rigor, ...
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• Vertical File Collection at the AA/PG Library

  
  Smithsonian Libraries — Authority: 127
  Vertical files in art museums and libraries are repositories of “ephemera” -- things that are not intended to last a long time. Among other things, the ephemera collected in the artist files may be: announcements of exhibitions, small catalogs, press releases, clippings from various print sources, and ...
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• Interview with William Eggleston

  
  one piece — Authority: 123
  This candid interview with photographer William Eggleston was conducted by film director Michael Almereyda on the occasion of the opening of Egglestons retrospective William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. A key...
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