Coming to a grocery store near you: The Arbitrary Art Grant
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Remember, these are arbitrary grants. The competition has nothing on you. Anyone can apply from anwhere. Deadline to enter, May 15. Winner will be announced May 30. Flakey as this sounds, the check will clear. More info here. The mapcap funding agency ...

TVNZ
Madoff agrees to give up property, art, tickets
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Bernard Madoff has agreed to give up the rights to his disgraced investment business and his company's prized artwork and entertainment tickets, as an official for an organization providing relief to investors said Tuesday that some ...
Video: Madoff Seeks to Keep Manhattan Apartment AssociatedPress
Madoff agrees to give up property, art, tickets The Associated Press
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Art review: 'Edward Biberman Revisited' at Municipal Art Gallery
Los Angeles Times, CA
These days, his art is not often seen. That makes “Edward Biberman Revisited” a welcome event. Billed as his first exhibition in more than two decades, this assemblage of 33 easel paintings, dating from 1929 to 1984, is presented at Municipal Art ...

Arts, Briefly Guidelines Are Issued for Art Stimulus Funds
New York Times, United States
By ROBIN POGREBIN; Compiled by Dave Itzkoff The National Endowment for the Arts on Tuesday announced guidelines for arts groups seeking grants from the $50 million the economic stimulus bill allocated to the agency. Some funds will be distributed to ...

NY's Grand Central to feature `car art'
Newsday, NY
Starting March 25, four BMW "art cars" will be on display at the midtown Manhattan train station. The cars were painted by artists including Andy Warhol and Frank Stella. A large-scale art project by Robin Rhode will also be on exhibit. ...

Smithsonian displays works from New Deal art program
USA Today
AP Photo/Smithsonian Institution By Brett Zongker, AP Writer WASHINGTON — As the nation grapples with its worst recession since the 1930s, the Smithsonian American Art Museum is opening an exhibition of paintings from the first US government program ...
Smithsonian opens Depression-era art vault: Paint like it's 1934 Los Angeles Times
Art as a public works program: Remember when Los Angeles Times Blogs
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CNET News
ScanCafe Perfects the Art of Black & White Negative Scanning
MSNBC
BURLINGAME, CA - ScanCafe, the premier online photo scanning and restoration service, introduced today its new black & white negative scanning process, aimed at professional photographers, photojournalists, and anyone with black & white 35mm negatives. ...
ScanCafe Teams With Pulitzer Prize Winner David Hume Kennerly MSNBC
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Anti-Semitism and Poster Art
New York Times, United States
World | Posters reveal the changed nature of anti-Semitism today, a columnist says. In the Nazi era, Jews were personified as hook-nosed, ghoulish and filthy. But “anti-Semitic propagandists of our own age typically omit the Jew’s features altogether ...

Broadway World
Kennedy Center's 2009-10 Season Blends the Familiar and the New
Washington Post, United States
As for the VSA Arts festival, it involves more than 2000 artists from around the world, from the China Disabled People's Performing Art Troupe to hearing-impaired percussionist Evelyn Glennie (performing with the National Symphony Orchestra) to Dale ...
Kennedy Center showcases artists with disabilities The Associated Press
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Outdoors/arts amendment: Millions up for grabs
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN
By Mike Kaszuba and JAKE GROVUM, Star Tribune staff writers I have a art project that will help reduce the debt. I want to build a big vault with a lock that the elected officials can't get into. The I will put the millions of dollars into it for a ...

Media
Art Research Center President: ‘DPA blended fine arts, music ...
The Epoch Times, NY
By Chang Yuliang Audience members wave good-bye to Divine Performing Arts performers at Taipei International Convention Center. (Li Yuan/The Epoch Times) TAIPEI, Taiwan—Divine Performing Arts (DPA) 2009 World Tour matinee on Sunday, March 1, ...
Director-General of Top Management Institute: “The Divine ... The Epoch Times
Former Chairman of China Steel: “The performance is very good!” The Epoch Times
Professor of Fine Arts: ‘It is a great achievement of visual and ... The Epoch Times
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Around the nation: Arts feel economic impact
USA Today
When DuPont began pulling back in the 1990s, the state's high-growth credit card bank, MBNA, stepped up as a major patron of the arts. No more. With the downsizing of DuPont and the 2006 sale of MBNA to Bank of America those secure days are over, ...

USA Today
Fine arts are in survival mode as funds dry up
USA Today
The images of acrobats and clowns, says the director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, are "uplifting and fun" at a time when the economy is in free fall. Not so great is the $8 fee Bolger was forced to charge when the exhibit opened last week in the ...

Globe and Mail
Raiders of the lost art
China Daily, China
By Lin Shujuan (China Daily) The sale of French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent's two bronze sculptures marks the start of a new fight by China over its stolen treasures rather than the end to a controversial lawsuit. The two ancient Chinese relics ...
Video: Saint Laurent Auction Rakes in $484 Million AssociatedPress
Chinese bidder "won't pay" for looted China bronzes Reuters
Historical Auction in Paris : Yves Saint Laurent's Art Collection ... The Epoch Times
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The future looks bright for Tannery Arts project
San Jose Mercury News,  USA
By GENEVIEVE BOOKWALTER Residents Dustin St. Wright and Govind Rae have already moved into their apartments at the complex on Highway That's the verdict for Phase 1 of the new Tannery Arts Center, which opened its doors this week for artists moving ...
After four years of anticipation, the first tenants move in at the ... Santa Cruz Sentinel
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Houston Press
Houston's Bayou City Art Festival is a walk in the park
Dallas Morning News, TX
By MARY ELLEN BOTTER Travel Editor The juried event, considered one of the nation's top art festivals, gathers 300 artists and craftspeople in spring and in fall for sprees for shoppers and collectors who value handmade and unusual creations. ...
"2009 No Idea Festival" With Mario de Vega, Chris Cogburn, Jawaad ... Houston Press
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Art Exhibits
Baltimore Sun, United States
Paper and more The Maryland Federation of Art will conclude a Member Showcase Exhibit II of works by 12 MFA artists today at 18 State Circle, Annapolis. The 32nd annual Art on Paper show will be held Friday through April 15, featuring two-and ...

Art: The Cezanne stimulus
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA
The Art Museum's beautiful and exciting new exhibition starts with the master and reaches out to his inspired scions. By Edward Sozanski Paul Cezanne is back in town, sort of. The Cezanne exhibition that set an attendance record at the Philadelphia ...
Cezanne and beyond The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com
Local artist included in Cezanne exhibit The Patriot-News - PennLive.com
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STILL SO MUCH TO SAY IN HIS ART
Newsday, NY
BY JIM MERRITT | Special to Newsday Mark Kuhn's latest works of art seem to vibrate with incandescent color. Decorating the walls of Kuhn's Huntington Bay house, the paintings are filled with interlocking green, blue, pink and orange figures, ...

Los Angeles Times
<b>JON ROBIN BAITZ</b>
Los Angeles Times, CA
I would encourage the high-tech industry to sponsor filmmakers and visual artists on projects, much as Maurice Tuchman did at LACMA in 1966 in the seminal exhibit "Art & Technology," which inspired me to become an artist. I would present a series of ...
$50 Million Arts Stimulus to Be Unveiled Hartford Courant
If I ran the NEA... Los Angeles Times
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