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Multicultural mecca
Of The Morning CallFor 24 seasons Lafayette College's Williams Center for the Arts has been the Lehigh Valley's epicenter for pushing and ripping envelopes. It has presented a five-actor ''King Lear'' and an operatic hip-hop ''Romeo and Juliet,'' multimedia banquets of...Tags: Biotechnology, Values, Photography, Allentown, Music Theater
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Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman, modern art collector, dies at age 94
Chicago Tribune criticMuriel Kallis Steinberg Newman, 94, the doyenne of Chicago modern art collectors and one of the most cosmopolitan figures on the scene, died of natural causes on Friday, Aug. 22, in Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Newman had studied painting as a...Tags: Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Museum of Modern Art, Jackson Pollock, New York
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Shifting sands
This week's opinion essay by Gabrielle Selz was inspired by the current exhibition at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton called "Sand: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor." The paintings, sculptures and installations explore how artists have thought about,...Tags: Joseph Cornell, Winslow Homer, Pablo Picasso, Milton Avery, Libraries and Museums
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Perez Celis, 69; Argentine painter, sculptor, muralist
Washington PostPerez Celis, an Argentine painter, sculptor and muralist whose highly visible works adorned museums, banks, airports and universities as well as soccer stadiums and wine bottles, died of leukemia Aug. 2 at a clinic in Buenos Aires. He was 69. Celis had...Tags: Jorge Luis Borges, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Diseases, Andy Warhol
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Frank Wysochansky shares his irreverent humor
Of The Morning CallIf angels can dance on pin heads, why can't monks arm wrestle? If monkeys can play ''See/Hear/Speak No Evil,'' why can't monks play monkeys? And while we're warming up, who says friars can't hula hoop? Welcome to the blessedly merry mind of Frank ''Wyso'...Tags: Andy Warhol, LEGO Group, Mining, Binney and Smith, Metal and Mineral
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Lecture at Pfac aims to demystify abstract art
757-247-4783Program Director and Curator Michael Preble of the Peninsula Fine Arts Center will present a special program Tuesday night titled "The Hows and Whys of Abstraction." Presented in conjunction with a recently opened series of exhibits on abstract art,...Tags: Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Helen Frankenthaler, Arts, Hans Hofmann, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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Why this actor's art shouldn't be at LACMA
Times Art CriticI'm no fan of public art museums exhibiting private collections. The negatives so far outweigh the positives that such shows hurt, rather than help, a museum's mission. The latest example is "Los Angelenos/Chicano Painters of L.A.: Selections From the...Tags: Brooklyn Museum, Christopher Knight, Cheech Marin, National or Ethnic Minorities, Libraries and Museums
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Then I saw Blue Man's bare faces, now I'm a believer
Sentinel Pop Music CriticIn character, the members of Blue Man Group don't talk. Backstage, out of that blue makeup, it's hard to get a word in edgewise. These blue guys really believe they are making the world a better place, just by catching marshmallows, pounding on tubes...Tags: Amway Arena, Society, Ceremonies, Blue Man Group, Universal CityWalk
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See contemporary abstract art now at Pfac
757-247-4783More than 70 pieces of vibrant, often strongly expressive but non-representational art will go view Saturday when the Peninsula Fine Arts Center opens a series of new exhibits exploring the world of Abstract Art. Organized by Pfac curator and programs...Tags: Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Helen Frankenthaler, Arts, Hans Hofmann, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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'Sand' at Parrish, Buckminster Fuller at Whitney
Special to NewsdaySand: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor (June 29-Sept. 14 at Parrish Art Museum, Southampton). We play in it, loll on it, build castles out of it, and wash it out of our hair, but what, exactly, does sand mean? Its physical and metaphysical significance is...Tags: Salvador Dali, Sculpture, Walker Evans, Guild Hall, Milton Avery
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Artist mixed paint, sculpture, cast-offs
Times Art CriticRobert Rauschenberg, the protean artist from small-town Texas whose imaginative commitment to hybrid forms of painting and sculpture changed the course of American and European art between 1950 and the early 1970s, died Monday night, according to New...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Jack Kerouac, Sculpture, Franz Kline, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg dead at 82
zachary.dowdy@newsday.comRobert Rauschenberg, a major American pop artist who produced some of his work at a small Long Island studio that has drawn formidable talent for decades, died Monday of heart failure, a representative said. He was 82. Rauschenberg's death was...Tags: John F. Kennedy, Robert Rauschenberg, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Texas
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