03/22/13 COMPREHENSIVE REAL-TIME NEWS FEED FOR FINE ARTS.

• Sunday: Free Teen Creataive Writing Program _{2013-03-24, 06:37 am}
  ... venues including the Museum of Science, the New England Aquarium, the Boston Children's Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts. Activities also fill their calendars. Programs offered include children's story times, book clubs for all ages, film ...
• Southern Hospitality: Deborah Hayes Moore:How wow Bazaar! Montgomery... _{2013-03-24, 03:00 am}
  The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts opened its doors last Thursday evening to welcome more than 225 guests for a night of international ambiance at Bazaar d'Art. With the flair of a Turkish bazaar, the cocktail party and silent auction was an exciting event, showcasing a collection of art and other items previously displayed in some of Montgomery's ... (more)
• Museums join in Sargent exhibit _{2013-03-24, 03:00 am}
  The Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston are presenting an exhibition of John Singer Sargent's watercolors.
• Museum of Fine Arts MFA exhibit tours Japan, will not be seen in Boston _{2013-03-24, 02:41 am}
  It is news to make a Bostonian proud: the city's great Museum of Fine Arts sends its incomparable collection of Japanese masterpieces on a 15-month tour of Japan.
• Party to launch Artbook Tampa Bay app, an eyeful for iPad _{2013-03-24, 01:32 am}
  ... and places in between. On Thursday, more than 60 artists and some 500 art aficionados will gather at the Museum of Fine Arts from 6 to 9 p.m. for the official launch party for Artbook Tampa Bay 2013, which is sure to be a visual spectacle. The ...
• Works by Soviet-trained Chinese artists make public debut _{2013-03-24, 12:33 am}
  ... in the Soviet Union. Most students entered the prestigious Ilya Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Fine Arts, Sculpture and Architecture, informally known as the Repin Institute of Arts. They majored in oil painting, sculpture, stage ...
• Dave Heun Historical markers abound in Tri-Cities area _{2013-03-23, 07:08 pm}
  ... a chance to enjoy. Get the details here to see if anything piques your interest. With the various arts councils, fine arts shows, exhibits, galleries, plays, concerts and films taking place on a regular basis around here, one would be hard pressed ...
• Trout Museum moves forward with new leader _{2013-03-23, 03:00 am}
  ... has been extremely generous in their sponsorship of what has become known as one of the region's top competitive fine arts exhibitions," Williams-Lime said. "Moving the exhibition to The Trout Museum of Art in downtown Appleton offers numerous ...
• Arts City: MFAH's associate director retiring after 25 years _{2013-03-22, 03:00 am}
  Gwendolyn H. Goffe , longtime associate director of the Museum of Fine Arts , Houston, will retire at the end of June.
• 12th Boston Turkish Film Festival kicks off with Inside _{2013-03-23, 12:31 pm}
  ... to meet Turkish filmmakers. Boston Globe covered the festival with a headline, "Turkish films take over Museum of Fine Arts", and The Phoenix published a festival review, "Underground Cinema: The 12th Boston Turkish Film Festival". The festival ...
• 3 Logan County groups receive Looking for Lincoln Heritage Coalition grants _{2013-03-23, 09:18 am}
  ... and performance of living history dramas, vignettes and monologues. Students from the history, English and fine arts departments at the college will work with the Lincoln Heritage Museum staff to research individuals, read written historical ...
• California Art Club to Unveil 'Then and Now: One Hundred Years... _{2011-06-28, 03:00 am}
  ... oldest, largest and most active professional art organizations in the world. Its mission is to promote traditional fine arts in the fields of painting, drawing and sculpture; produce and promote art exhibitions that foster greater understanding of ...
• Wayne Reynolds arranges party to bolster his plans for the Corcoran _{2013-03-22, 08:40 pm}
  ... is trying to come in and take over," said Harry Philbrick, museum director at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, which, like the Corcoran, pairs a museum with an art school. "Certainly there are [attempted] changes of leadership in the art ...
• Rethink! American Indian Art _{2012-10-04, 12:00 am}
  ... casts of Greek and Roman sculptures, as well as, arts and crafts reflecting the British Empire. The objects and fine arts were intended to inspire the art and design of the industrial age. Consider Pittsfield, a century ago, as the epicenter of ...
• South Jersey students artists display artwork at Gloucester County College _{2013-03-22, 07:28 pm}
  ... She's on track to graduate from Pitman High School, and has already been accepted to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia with a $2,000 a year scholarship. She's still waiting to hear back from a Scotland art school before she makes ...
• Get a Sneak Peak of San Francisco's New Exploratorium _{2013-03-22, 06:58 pm}
  ... on the Embarcadero. We got to follow along as employees packed up exhibits in the old location at the Palace of Fine Arts near the Golden Gate Bridge, and began to settle into their new spot at Pier 15. It's scheduled to reopen April 17. The Bay ...
• Artist of the 'Afro-Cuban disaspora' presents personal work at MOCRA _{2013-03-22, 02:19 pm}
  ... Cuba and educated in Havana, Campos-Pons first came to the United States in the 1980s to earn her Master of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art. Her African ancestry, Cuban origins, new American environment and family roots in China's ...
• The Art of Business _{2013-03-22, 01:43 am}
  ... "we were looking for something fresh": The university wants the living museum, which will house the university's fine arts collection and also include classrooms and studios, to be appealing to students, and not to be "perceived as a monument." The ...
• Gardner heist: Journalist Ulrich Boser discusses the history behind the famous theft _{2013-03-22, 12:48 pm}
  ... that it affected them . If you were to imagine a theft at a more impersonal museum, like the Boston Museum of Fine Arts , I don't think people would speak about it in that way. Q: Has the theft been romanticized? A: People have this Hollywood view ...
• Le Funny Business at MFAH, Kristen Stewart on the road and Gangham Style in Bollywood _{2013-03-22, 11:58 am}
  They're collectively billed as Five Funny French Films , raising expectations for a lot of "Ha! Ha! Ha!" along with the "Ooh La La!" As they unspool this weekend at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, you can enjoy a wide variety of funny business with a lineup that includes: All That Glitters Two sisters, tired of their dull lives in a suburb 10 ..