| Richie snaps up Nolan work
SINGER Lionel Richie, who is touring Australia, has revealed an appreciation for Australian art by snapping up a work by Sidney Nolan at a Sydney auction. Richie paid about $10,000 for the untitled work by one of Australia's best-known artists. The 1989 Nolan, painted three years before the artist's death, will hang in the hallway of Richie's new Beverly Hills home, in Los Angeles, auction sources said. The artwork is one of Nolan's spray-painted works, a psychedelic abstract in crimson, yellows and green. Share this article What is this? .
New MAM could be astounding
The new Miami Art Museum has the potential to be a breathtaking, beautiful building, one that could simultaneously express new ideas about architecture and its place in the environment and pay homage to the rhythms, climate and patterns of Miami. The design proposal unveiled Friday is pretty enthralling. It is both daring and familiar: an airy, elegant, ethereal pavilion that captures the sunlight and embraces the bay breezes. The architects for the new MAM, the Basel-based Herzog & de Meuron, are known for their ability to take a fragment of nature -- the composition of a leaf, the structure of a root -- and reinterpret it, abstractly, as architecture. And indeed that is the case in the proposed design for this $220 million museum to be located in the northeastern corner of what will be called Museum Park (the current Bicentennial Park).
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An exhibition featuring the work of art students at the University of Wisconsin Marathon County opens today in college�s Ahrnsbrak Room Gallery, 518 S. Seventh Ave., Wausau. Artwork ranging from traditional still life drawings to abstract surreal paintings will be on display through Dec. 17. Exhibit hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday. It�s free and open to the public. Tuesday
The River Valley Harmonizers will sing holiday songs barbershop style when they present their annual Christmas Concert at 7 p.m. at Holy Name Catholic Church, 1104 S. Ninth Ave., Wausau. The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call 675-3019.
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Art for DART: Frankford Road goes gaudy
Charlotte Lindsey gushed about the plans for the Frankford Road DART station as if she were quickly ticking off the accomplishments of her own kin.Bright colors.Abstract designs.Funky elements.Curvy lines."Am I going too fast?" she said.The artist, whose physical health and mood have been grief-stricken by an almost-fatal car accident four years ago, was a ball of energy.Lindsey and her partner, Larry Enge, have taken on the task of designing the art for both the Trinity Mills and the Frankford Road DART stations. The northernmost station will be a departure from its earthy, faintly historic counterpart at Trinity Mills.Frankford Road station will be, in a word, wild."It made us giggle and turn our eyes," said Doug Hrbacek, a Carrollton resident and member of the art committee. "There's some wild colors there."The artists want the station at Frankford Road to symbolize the beginning and the end of the DART line.
Lionel Richie buys Aussie art
US singer Lionel Richie, who is touring Australia, has revealed an appreciation for Australian art by snapping up a work by Sidney Nolan at a Sydney auction. Richie paid US$10,000 ($13,000) for the untitled work by one of Australia's best-known artists. The 1989 Nolan will hang in the hallway of Richie's new Beverly Hills home, auction sources said. The artwork is one of Nolan's spray-painted works, a psychedelic abstract in crimson, yellows and green. .
Her life in the art world
An eclectic look hit Plano this year when Stephanie Ward brought her Deep Ellum Gallery to historic downtown in February.Ward, a Plano resident since 1986, set up shop on 18th Street in a 100-year-old Victorian-style home. She said the downtown Dallas scene started changing and she realized it was time to call it quits.While enjoying her single life, a call came through which within a matter of months led to Ward becoming an adoptive single mother of brother and sister toddlers Casey and Crissah.Although Ward said her freedom meant everything and traveling was a hobby, these children needed a mother and God chose her for the job.The 18th Street spot Ward set up shop is conveniently between her children's daycare and her home.Jim Wear, Plano's creative arts manager, said her gallery is worth a visit.
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