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City Without Walls, Newark's long-running art institution devoted to emerging artists, opened its season this week with two exhibitions devoted to new technologies in art: The first unveils a project of executive director Ben Goldman's to mainstream the purchase of digitalized art prints, and the second is the unveiling of the environment for a new video game designed by CWOW artist Heidi J. Bolsvert and six Newark high school students. The video allows you to virtually explore an American air base in Iraq. It's hard to imagine two shows that propose more radical changes in the way contemporary art products are distributed and used. Continue reading "Artfully geared for mass market" » .
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.
Who wrote 'Twas the night before Christmas...'?
TROY, N.Y. � Printed part way down page 3 of the Troy Sentinel on Dec. 23, 1823, it was easy to miss. Between beekeeping tips and a wedding announcement was a seasonal poem. Submitted anonymously, the poem charmed editors who published it anyway. It started like this: .
Go ahead, take the art home
Students, faculty and staff of the Maryland Institute College of Art take over the school's Brown Center atrium to sell prints, posters, stationery, kids' items, ceramics, jewelry, textiles and clothing. Call (410) 225-2300 or go to www.micadesign.org/artmarket. .
KOREA: Shin files lawsuit against newspaper
Degree scammer Shin Jeong-ah has filed a lawsuit against a local daily which printed her nude photos and raised questions over her improper relations with high-profile figures to help her climb the social ladder. Seoul Central District Court said Thursday she lodged a complaint against the Munhwa Ilbo and its managing editor, which published two nude photos of Shin in September, alleging that she had intercourse with some influential figures in the art field. The court said she called on the paper to pay one billion won in compensation as well as correct the reports, alleging that she had neither any nude pictures taken nor had improper relations with high-profile figures to take advantage of their influence. Shin said she was humiliated by the publication and the mental damage she received could not be cured completely no matter how much money she receives as a compensation.
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