| Man held over robbery at art museum in Nara
NARA--A 65-year-old man was arrested for allegedly stealing three works of art worth a total of 348 million yen from the Shohaku Art Museum in Nara at about 1:55 a.m. Saturday. Takuji Murakami of Higashi-Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, tried to resist arrest by threatening police officers with a crowbar, with which he hit and slightly injured one of the officers. None of the artworks were damaged in the altercation. The police said Murakami climbed up a ladder to the balcony of the museum and broke into the building. A security firm alerted the police after detecting the break-in. The artworks included a folding screen painted by Shoen Uemura (1875-1949) worth about 300 million yen. The other works were a hanging scroll, also by Shoen, worth 28 million yen, and a painting by Shoen's oldest son, Shoko (1902-2001), valued at 20 million yen.
Development won’t spare bowling alley
Dueling proposals to build an art museum or a history museum at Presidio National Park have at least one thing in common: Both projects would demolish a 10-pin bowling center, halving the number of bowling lanes in San Francisco from 24 to 12. Presidio trustees have received two proposals to build a museum at Montgomery and Moraga streets in the Presidio. Gap founder Don Fisher wants to build a public museum for his contemporary art collection, and the Presidio Historical Association wants a local history museum. Either project would demolish the 12-lane Presidio Bowling Center. Nearly 1,000 people use the center for league events organized by the Golden Gate Sport and Social Club, according to general manager Michael Murphy. Opened in late 1988, the center uses pin-setting equipment previously used by the Army at its Presidio bowling alleys, owner Victor Meyerhoff said.
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One Way or Another Being Asian American isn't what it used to be, the new museum show One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now seems to be saying. Asian-American artists born in the United States after 1970 or raised here from that decade forward take ... More Sept. 19-Dec. 23 Berkeley Art Museum, 2625 Durant Ave., Berkeley, 510-642-0808, BAMPFA.berkeley.edu. -- By Kelly Vance .
Art exhibits: Dec.9, 2007
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ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM, 31 N. Fifth St., Allentown. 610-432-4333. Arts Community of Easton Members Group Juried Art Show: Through Dec. 30. Tiffany by Design: Forty objects including lamps, a stained glass window, metalwork and related materials made by Tiffany Studios and Tiffany Furnaces, under the direcion of Louis Comfort Tiffany, between 1900 and 1925. Saturday guided tours. Through Jan. 6. Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau Extraordinaire: Posters and textile designs on loan and including works from the museum collection, of female and floral forms created by the Moravia-born artist. Accompanies the ''Tiffany by Design'' exhibit (included with special exhibit admission). Saturday guided tours. Through Jan. 6. Picasso and Delaunay: The Book as Inspiration: A rare portfolio of 13 prints by Pablo Picasso, which were the result of a collaboration with Parisian fine art publisher Ambroise Vollard to produce an illustrated edition of Honore de Balzac's novel ''Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu,'' accompanied by an unusual and compelling work, a ''simultaneous book'' created by modernist designer Sonia Delaunay-Terk and poet Blaise Cendrars.
Investing in state's arts scene is smart move
Oregonians don't need deep pockets and highbrow tastes to be supporters of the arts and culture. They give to high school kids' music programs each fall when students knock at their door. They write checks to the local libraries that help them through dark winter months. They buy memberships to art museums, science museums and community theaters. Since 2002, the state has made it possible to give extra support to these and many other programs through the Oregon Cultural Trust. So far, the folks taking advantage of this state tax break tend to be big donors to the arts. But regular folks can be part of the action, too -- and they should. All they need to do is add up those $5 and $10 and $20 checks to nonprofit arts and cultural organizations for 2007; write a matching check for the total to the Oregon Cultural Trust by year's end; and take a tax credit -- better than a deduction -- off their 2007 Oregon taxes.
At AVAM, visions by the blind
Tony Deifell spent years achieving the seemingly impossible: teaching photography to blind students.
In April, he published Seeing Beyond Sight, a book of photographs his students took and the stories behind them.
Now, Deifell helps share his students' experiences with the sighted. He hosts workshops where participants are blindfolded and sent into the community with cameras and guides. Today, he comes to the American Visionary Art Museum for two such events, which he said can be enlightening and disarming.
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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.
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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