| Teen art mecca Santa Fe draws Fort Collins students
Eat spicy tamales or visit another art deco gallery: that was the daily dilemma for my students during our week-long visit to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Seventeen students from Polaris School traveled with me to Santa Fe to explore the whimsical side of the professional art world. As the trip leader, I returned with far more than I had hoped. While touring Santa Fe I met a nationally recognized artist, I ate more fajitas than I could count and many of my students are now planning to move south after graduating from high school. Just six hours from Fort Collins, Santa Fe is the perfect place to introduce teens to art. We traveled to Santa Fe with a double mission. I wanted students to learn how to appreciate art by visiting galleries, art museums and seeing the hundreds of sculptures sprinkled around downtown Santa Fe.
2007 Holiday Guide
Original artwork from more than 50 regional artists, and given the museum's reputation, we're expecting the most original work the city has to offer. Cheers to crazy art. Holiday Art Liquidation, 2-8 p.m. Sat. 23, 5-9 p.m. Nov. 24, Flux Studios, 1821 N. Charles St., www.thisisflux.com, free. Insure that you provide the most unique gifts this season by shopping at this local artist liquidation sale, where everything is under $100 and everything goes. Artists are invited to drop off their work noon-3 p.m. Nov. 17-18 at the gallery. (No fees or registration required, but 20 percent of sale price goes to the house.) Holiday Mart, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Nov. 24-25, Carroll Mansion, 800 E. Lombard St., (443) 514-5900, $4. An indoor holiday show--inside the historic mansion, with Christmas cookies--featuring wonderfully unique clothing, toys, holiday decorations, home d�cor, jewelry, and accessories from the Woman's Industrial Exchange.
£46.4m overhaul for ‘tired’ Royal Museum
Museum is to undergo a multi-million pound refurbishment inspired by the success of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. The £46.4 million project will begin next May and close two-thirds of the museum for three years, including the iconic Victorian entrance hall, creating new space to show thousands of hidden treasures from the museum's vaults. Once completed it will be the largest cultural museum complex outside London. The Royal Museum first opened its doors in 1886 as the Edinburgh Industrial Museum. The Category A-listed building was Scotland's first national public museum. When the National Museum of Scotland, which will remain open throughout the refurbishment, opened next door in 1998 officials said the Royal Museum began to look "tired". It is hoped the overhaul will restore its reputation.
Botswana: Museum Introduces Outdoor Gallery
FRANCISTOWN: Supa Ngwao Museum has hailed their newly introduced Outdoor gallery as a major milestone in the promotion of the arts in northern Botswana. The museum holds outdoor exhibitions every last Thursday of the month. The museum's director Stella Rundle said the response from enthusiasts has been encouraging since the first event held on October 25. She said they invite two artists (either painting, sculptures or drawing) and three handcrafts people to participate in the gallery. .
Museum and Arts Gallery boss in court
DIRECTOR for the National Museum and Art Gallery Simon Poraituk appeared in a Port Moresby court yesterday.
He was charged with alleged misappropriation of K21,000 belonging to the National Museum and Art Gallery.
Poraituk, from Tole village in Wabag, Enga province, was charged on Nov 26 by Port Moresby police after the Board of the National Museum and Art Gallery (NMAG) laid the complaint.
Police prosecutor James Wafihuamba presented the case against Poraituk to senior magistrate Danny Wakikura who read the six counts to Poraituk.
Poraituk's appearance yesterday was the first of two after he was charged with two counts of uttering under Section 463 of the Criminal Code Act, two counts of false pretences, S404 and two counts of misappropriation, S383 of the same Act, on Nov 26.
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