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Newport Beach has trouble keeping track of its art pieces

City says some works might not be lost. "It's more likely a problem with bad record-keeping than irresponsible art management," City Manager Dave Kiff said. Newport Beach will probably change the way it tracks its art pieces after discovering some pieces unaccounted for.

Baltimore mayor officiates at lobbyist wedding in Vegas

Guests included heavy hitters in Maryland politics One thing that happened in Vegas last week certainly won't stay in Vegas: The lobbyists Lisa Harris Jones and Sean Malone were married there before about 100 well-wishers, who included some of Maryland's top government officials — including the wedding officiant, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.

Signs at Las Vegas' Neon Museum shine again

Visitors will now be able to behold Vegas' iconic signs in their luminescent glory as museum extends its hours for nighttime tours

Retired signs at Las Vegas' Neon Museum shimmer again

Visitors will now be able to behold Vegas' iconic signs in their luminescent glory as museum extends its hours for nighttime tours

Retired signs at Las Vegas' Neon Museum shine again

Visitors will now be able to behold Vegas' iconic signs in their luminescent glory as museum extends its hours for nighttime tours

Artists seek global audience at Hong Kong’s Art Basel

The first Art Basel fair to be hosted by Hong Kong, boasts a prestigious array of international art, highlighting the city’s new role as a global arts hub amid an explosion of personal wealth in mainland China.

Photos: Vegas' Neon Museum starts night tours of signs

The Neon Museum, where Sin City's most iconic signs go to retire, has begun aiming more than 100 multicolored spotlights on its outdoor collection of 150 signs.

Neon museum shows off Vegas as it was by night

A tourist takes a photo at the Neon Museum in Las Vegas on Friday, May 24, 2013. For the past six months, visitors have had to squint up at the hulking metal forms through the desert sun.

Surrarer students in Strongsville show off art (PHOTOS)

The fate of the art show was in doubt, as were many projects, because of the teachers strike, but earlier this month Surrarer's 300 students showed more than 450 art pieces.

Peterson center’s art show opens Thursday

KEARNEY — Peterson Painting Pals Art Show at the Peterson Senior Activity Center will open Thursday.

Museum starts night tours of signs from Vegas past

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The junked signs that attracted throngs to old Las Vegas have for years gathered dust in a neon boneyard just a few miles from the sleek mega-casinos on the Strip.

Museum starts night tours of signs from Vegas past

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The junked signs that attracted throngs to old Las Vegas have for years gathered dust in a neon boneyard just a few miles from the sleek mega-casinos on the Strip.

York Minster art auction to raise funds for restoration

York Minster is holding an art auction to raise money for restoration work on the building.

EarlyVegas.com Reveals the Top 4 New Las Vegas Shows of 2013 to See This Summer

Summer Las Vegas shows and concerts! EarlyVegas picks the most entertaining Las Vegas hotels and venues this summer. (PRWeb May 25, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/new-shows-Las-Vegas/summer-2013/prweb10770450.htm

Equity At 100: More Than Just A Broadway Baby

The union of actors and stage managers, who banded together to improve working conditions in the early 1900s, marks its centennial this year. As Jeff Lunden reports, it's operating in an ever-shifting theatrical landscape.

Heart show

CONTRIBUTED PHOTOs WORK OF ART: Starpoint Middle School students in Amanda Alvarez and Kelly Tomasello's classes created a display of hearts for the upcoming student art show, Healing Hearts: From Hurt to Hope, to be held in September.

Book Of Mormon Tickets New York: SuperbTicketsOnline.com Reports Reduced Pricing for Performances Running Throughout ...

Book of Mormon tickets have been reduced in price for Broadway shows currently running at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York City. Performances will continue throughout the remainder of this year and into 2014. (PRWeb May 25, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/thebookofmormon/bookofmormontickets/prweb10756853.htm

Art students Astound with degree show

STUDENTS are celebrating the re-launch of one of Staffordshire's most historic art schools by staging a major show of their degree artwork.The exhibition, called Astound, is due to open to the public today and features pieces by 22 up-and-coming artists and designers.They have all been studying for a foundation degree in contemporary art practice at Buxton and Leek College and have organised the ...

Las Vegas air traffic down .2 percent in April

Officials in Las Vegas say McCarran International Airport handled slightly fewer passengers in April than a year earlier. Data released Friday shows slightly more than 3.5 million people flew in and out ...

Keys ‘art stewards’ Mimi and Bud Floback keep art pipeline running to Perez Art Museum Miami

Keys ‘art stewards’ keep pipeline of artworks flowing to new Miami museum — if their parrot doesn’t get to them first

Art Basel debuts in Hong Kong

Art Basel’s new Hong Kong art fair debuted with a more Zen attitude than the Miami Beach crush, but with plenty of attention from collectors including Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich and Indonesian-Chinese tycoon Budi Tek.

Artist Kapoor draws on Berlin's dark history in new show

By Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) - Blood-red bricks of wax are shifted by conveyor belts up metal chutes towards the centre of an atrium before thudding down and splattering like entrails, in a monumental new installation created by artist Anish Kapoor for his new show in Berlin. A giant, dark sun-like red disk hovers above the ever-growing heaps of wax splodges in "Symphony for a Beloved Sun", which opens Kapoor's first major exhibit in Berlin, running until November 24 in the Martin Gropius Bau exhibition hall. ...

Art show highlights issues faced by immigrants

Inspired by the recent turmoil over immigration reform, Charlotte-area Latino artists are banding together to "raise awareness about immigrants and the undocumented community." This Saturday, OBRA Collective hosts a one-night-only art show and poetry reading focused on immigration reform.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

IHT Rendezvous: The Art Hong Kong Really Loves: ‘Rubber Duck’

Collectors may be flocking to Art Basel Hong Kong, but the biggest crowd-pleaser is an enormous rubber duck.

Art galleries, exhibits

EVENTSWhidbey Island Surface Design: presents its fiber art show and sale 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. May 25 and 11 a.

Art galleries, exhibits

EVENTSWhidbey Island Surface Design: presents its fiber art show and sale 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. May 25 and 11 a.

Colorado Art Show Openings, 5/24/2013

"Metrosphere," works published in the annual literary and visual art magazine of the same name published by Student Media, Thursday-June 22. Reception: 6-8 p.m. Thursday. Literary artists will read excerpts from their published works at the reception.

Colorado Art Show Openings, 5/24/2013

"Metrosphere," works published in the annual literary and visual art magazine of the same name published by Student Media, Thursday-June 22. Reception: 6-8 p.m. Thursday. Literary artists will read excerpts from their published works at the reception.

Broadway Live releases lineup, including 'Memphis,' 'Chicago' and 'Bring It On'

The Lexington Opera House's next Broadway Live season will open with one of the series' greatest successes and will close with a show that is up for the Tony Award for best musical.

Broadway’s Shrinking Audience Overshadows Tom Hanks

Broadway enters the final weekend of the 2012-2013 season with its worst attendance record in eight years, despite sold-out audiences for Tom Hanks, Bette Midler and a handful of hit musicals.

Britain's Tate museum sets $34 million record for Constable painting

LONDON (Reuters) - The Tate Britain museum bought 19th century English painter John Constable's masterpiece "Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows" for 23.1 million pounds ($34.75 million), making it one of the most expensive British paintings ever sold. The painting, dated 1831, of the towering cathedral in the middle distance under an overcast sky shot through with a rainbow had been at risk of being sold abroad and its sale sets a record for Constable, the Tate said on Thursday. Its price is still dwarfed by Constable's contemporary rival J.M.W. ...

National Art Show and Auction returns to Ellensburg this weekend

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:14:34 GMT By MICHAEL GALLAGHER Ellensburg Daily Record When an art show is entering its 41st year, there’s rarely something not tried before, but the 41st annual National Art Show and Auction will have some new features at the Kittitas County Fairgrounds this weekend. This year’s show will feature a book sign...

Butler High School Art Show

Butler High School’s library was turned into an art exhibit on May 16, as BHS held its annual Art Show in the library Thursday night.

Sotheby's American Art Auction totals $28.1 million in New York

John Singer Sargent, Marionettes. Painted in 1903. Estimate $5/7 million. Photo: Sotheby's. NEW YORK, NY .- For a third consecutive season, Sotheby’s American Art auction has surpassed its pre-sale expectations – today’s auction totaled $28,087,750, above a high estimate of $24.4 million*, and sold a strong 83.9% by lot.

Art Basel Hong Kong Opens on Thursday

Art Basel Hong Kong, the newest outpost in its art-fair empire, opens on Thursday, leaving the local arts community both excited about their turn in the international spotlight and worried about losing a local flavor.

Photos: Students celebrated at City of Salem Art Show reception

The Salem Student Art Show was held at the Salem Public Library on Sunday, May 19th, and displayed all different kinds of work from elementary students from each of Salem’s four schools. More than 100 different pieces of art were showcased for students, parents, and anyone for matter to come check out. Salem City School’s [...]

Art Basel highlights Hong Kong's new status as arts hub

(AFP) - The first Art Basel fair to be hosted by Hong Kong boasts a prestigious array of international art, highlighting the city's new role as a global arts hub amid an explosion of personal wealth in mainland China.

Art Basel highlights Hong Kong's new arts hub status

HONG KONG (AFP) - The first Art Basel fair to be hosted by Hong Kong boasts a prestigious array of international art, highlighting the city's new role as a global arts hub amid an explosion of personal wealth in mainland China.

NY art dealer tied to alleged forgeries charged with tax fraud

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged a New York art dealer with tax fraud in connection with the sale of paintings she claimed to be the works of celebrated abstract expressionists, but some of which the government said were fakes. Glafira Rosales, 56, faces three counts of filing false tax returns and five counts of concealing a Spanish bank account from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. "Rosales gave new meaning to the phrase 'artful dodger' by avoiding taxes on millions of dollars in income from dealing in fake art works for fake clients," U.S. ...

Man pleads guilty in Picasso vandalism case

HOUSTON (AP) — A man accused of vandalizing a 1929 Pablo Picasso painting in a Houston museum — an act that was caught on cellphone video — agreed Tuesday to a two-year prison term as part of a plea deal with prosecutors.

Muppets creator's items head to NYC museum

NEW YORK (AP) — The Muppets are getting a new home in a Queens museum with a permanent exhibit the city hopes will persuade more tourists to venture beyond Manhattan.

Muppets creator Henson's items head to NYC museum

NEW YORK (AP) — The Muppets may have taken Manhattan, but they're getting a spiffy new home in Queens.

Schumer announces new tax benefits for Broadway shows

Today, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer announced his plan to extend tax treatment afforded to film producers and music publishers to investors in live theatre. Schumer will introduce the STAGE Act of 2013, which aims to amend the Federal Tax Code and to promote financing in the often prohibitively risky enterprise of commercial stage production. Schumer noted that there are dozens of theatres ...

More big shows could be coming to The Morris

More Broadway shows could be on their way to Michiana. The recent success of Wicked has turned a lot of heads. Here are some of the highlights: - the show had 16 performances, other shows have 3. -

NYC artist's secret photos raise privacy issues

NEW YORK (AP) — In one photo, a woman is on all fours, presumably picking something up, her posterior pressed against a glass window. Another photo shows a couple in bathrobes, their feet touching beneath a table. And there is one of a man, in jeans and a T-shirt, lying on his side as he takes a nap.

Christie’s art auction sets ‘staggering’ $495m record

A blockbuster auction of Contemporary art in New York — including a record $58.4m (€45.1m) for a Jackson Pollock drip painting — fetched nearly half a billion dollars — the biggest haul ever at an art auction.

Boston Symphony Orchestra names new music director

BOSTON (AP) — Andris (AHN'-driss) Nelsons has been named music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Art auction record shattered

A contemporary art sale at Christie's in New York makes $495 million (£325m), the highest total in auction history.

Christie's art auction makes nearly half a billion dollars

A blockbuster auction of Contemporary art in New York, including a record $58.4 million for a Jackson Pollock drip painting, fetched nearly half a billion dollars -- the biggest haul ever at an art auction.

Attendance At Broadway Touring Shows Down Again

"Attendance at touring Broadway shows nationwide dropped for the second straight season, according to a newly released report from the Broadway League. ... The attendance for touring shows is the lowest since the 2003-04 season. In the last 10 years, attendance peaked at 15.9 million in 2009-10."