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“She enjoyed our time together, bonding. We began what started as a major trick-training program, which is what we're known for now”

Artists often don't like people looking over their shoulders while they work. Princess Rhia doesn't mind. via Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter

“The Malvern Water says Is famous for containing just nothing at all.”

This year is the 300th Anniversary of the birth of Dr John Wall. As well as being the first person to bottle Malvern water, he was also a founder of Worcester Porcelain, helped found Worcester Infirmary and was ... via Malvern Gazette

“We are working with several universities and private individuals”

The wrecking ball is not a subtle art critic, but its opinion counts. And when it razes M.D. Anderson Cancer Center's 18-story administration tower next year, it will give a big thumbs down to Peter Hurd's ... via Houston Chronicle

The Kunstmuseum Basel opened the exhibit Chaim Soutine and Modernism through July 6. In comparison to the much more renowned work of friends and contemporaries, such as Amedeo Modigliani or Marc Chagall, Cham ... via Art Knowledge News

“If you ask elderly people, they want to be in their homes”

The four women - Mary Wallace, Elizabeth Spaulding, Elizabeth Flather and Linna Belle Flagg - were at their weekly painting lesson when they came up with the idea of forming an organization they called the Good ... via UnionLeader.com

“If I lived somewhere else, I'd probably be painting something different.”

Artist unveils mystical umbrella collection Goodland artists scores a hit By SHARON YANISH 8:32 p.m., Monday, April 7, 2008 Tara O'Neill promised creativity at her 5th annual one-woman art exhibition - ' and ... via Naples Daily News

“I've had him for 19 years. And this is Petri, a blue Pacific parrotlet.”

It's somehow fitting that before ushering me into his studio, wildlife artist Andrew Denman makes a quick detour to introduce me to his birds. via Contra Costa Times

“This prize goes to all of us - all of us who are The Boston Globe.”

Honored for range of critical essays Mark Feeney addressed colleagues in a packed Globe newsroom. via The Boston Globe

“It is a farce about payback for a practical joke one friend played on another before the story even begins.”

Alessandro's Ristorante & Galleria will open an exhibit of Leah Devora's mixed- media art of Hollywood legends on Friday with a wine reception. via Statesman Journal

“Top Arts provides students with exceptional experience of the arts industry”

Hills Picassos Cassie Meadows, above, and Alex Maisey, left, A CONSERVATIONIST and a budding nurse have been put in the spotlight with their artwork going on display at the National Gallery of Victoria. via Ranges Trader Mail

The blue carpet of spring is unfolding along the hills and highways of Texas, though flower forecasters say this will not be a resplendent year for bluebonnets, just average.

Obviously, they haven't seen the bluebonnet bouquet at the Dallas Museum of Art. There, in a single gallery, are acres and acres of bluebonnets: bluebonnets in the sun, in the shade, at twilight and in early-morning fog.

These are the early 20th-century bluebonnet paintings by Julian Onderdonk. They created a collecting frenzy and were the impetus for an entire landscape genre known as bluebonnet painting. Read more

“Organisers expect that figure to more than double by Sunday night 9pm when the show closes.”

Fifteen thousand visitors were attracted to a health, sexuality and lifestyle expo, "Sexpo", open in Durban since Thursday, Marcus Brewster Publicity said on Saturday. via Pretoria News

“My picture is adaptable. You can split it in two and show one or both halves, or even a quarter of it. Or show the painting with two fullscale reproductions that would almost make a cloister.”

David Hockney has donated his largest ever work to the Tate. The 70-year-old artist - regarded as the founder of the British Pop Art movement - today presented Bigger Tress Near Warter to Tate Britain. via This is London

“This has nothing to do with censorship; rather [it] corresponds with the understood 'reverence for the sacred'”

They knew it would be risky to exhibit a homoerotic version of Christ's Last Supper, but curators at the museum of Vienna's Roman Catholic cathedral weren't ready for a barrage of angry messages and calls to be ... via Mail & Guardian

The National Portrait Gallery is preparing for its second national competition to promote the creation of modern-day portraits.

The Smithsonian Institution museum says entries will be accepted online June 2 through July 31. Portraits created in 2007 or later from any visual art medium are eligible. The finalists will be presented in an exhibit in October 2009.

This is the second Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, which will be held every three years.

The first competition attracted more than 4,000 entries, including at least one from every state. Painted and sculpted portraits of 51 semifinalists were put on display in 2006. Wisconsin artist David Lenz won the grand prize for a painting of his son entitled 'Sam and the Perfect World.' Read more

“Trying to get oriented and understand, now that you're here, how should you visit the field _ it's always been a big puzzle for people”

Without an itinerary, it's easy to become overwhelmed by the vastness of Gettysburg's battlefield _ a 6,000-acre expanse dotted with nearly 1,400 memorials and monuments to North America's bloodiest battle.

Park officials are hoping that a $103 million museum and visitor center scheduled to open April 14 will give visitors a better starting point for exploring the site where Union armies beat back Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's assault on northern territory, and where Abraham Lincoln delivered his most famous speech. Read more

“We're trying to create a context where work goes beyond a paycheck”

Convicted killer James Ghant entered prison as a teenager and left a man of almost 40 with virtually no work history other than a series of prison jobs: housekeeper, construction, clothing manufacturer. via Boston.com

The surface of the old pine panel shows a beautifully executed biblical scene. It is a Spanish work, 500 years old, and one of dozens that formed an elaborate altarpiece. Attributed to Fernando Gallego, it is one section of a 26-panel altarpiece made for the Cathedral of Ciudad Rodrigo in Castile, Spain, between 1480 and 1500.

That much was known, but scholars yearned for more. They suspected that another artist was also involved; there were two apparent styles at work. What if the panels, owned by the University of Arizona, were carefully examined? What if they were subjected to infrared cameras, microscopic exams and reflectography? What could be learned? It was a huge project, one that would take a great deal of time and money. Read more

Eighteen major women artists from the Coast will be featured in an exhibit of two-dimensional works at the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art. The show opens with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday and runs through May 31.

'The Second Dimension: Painters (and Friends) Look at Pottery' is the second part of a themed series of spring exhibits at Ohr-O'Keefe. The first, 'Photographers on Painting,' is on display at the museum's transitional location at the Swetman House.

The artists, working primarily in painting and printmaking, who are featured in the Second Dimension invitational are Susie Ranager, Norma Seward, Joey Rice, Sandra Halat, Patt Odom, Judy MacInnis, Mary Hardy, Kat Fitzpatrick, Brenda Randolph, Lyn Brown, Terry Blake Edwards, Vicki Niolet, Paulette Dove, Joyce King, Mary Pat Forest, Elizabeth Veglia, Liz Schaffer and Susan Carranza. All of these artists live on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, have shown widely and have worked for years as professional artists; many were in the popular woman's art group ArtWave. Read more

“Nothing they do surprises me anymore”

Since Karl Leitzel's brothers joined him in pursuing art on a more serious level, the tone of their Friday family dinners changed. There's a lot less criticism these days, he said.

The three brothers recently decided to have a joint art show, a first for the trio. They hung their pieces in Millheim's Elk Creek CafA© and Aleworks, where they will be displayed until May 4. A 'Meet the Artists' event will take place Sunday.

None of the brothers received formal art training, but artistic expression was part of life growing up in Aaronsburg. Both of the boys' parents were talented at drawing and painting, and Tina, the wife of middle brother, Warren, remembers him as 'the artistic one' in high school. Read more