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Pakistani-American Artist Challenges Stereotypes
Yaminay Chaudhri, Pakistani-American architect turned artist, creates multi-media art challenging stereotypical image of Muslim women, power & body in relation to space.
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WonderRoot Transforms the Lives of Artists
WonderRoot is a nonprofit organization committed to improving the art infrastructure of Atlanta.
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Review of CHANGE Garrick Theatre, a Variety Show
Seeing is believing! Be bedazzled by the brilliant Brachetti as he brings a hundred characters to the stage changing in the blink of an eyelid.
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Shade-shifting Shapes at ArtSpace 404
Artist-instructor Michael McGinnis has created a temporal sculpture environment of light and sound at Santa Rosa's ArtSpace 404 gallery.
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Virtual Paper Dolls and Flat Stanley
From simple cut-outs using paper to drag & drop using a computer mouse, the love of paper dolls has endured for decades.
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Sex and Death to the Age 14 by Spalding Gray
Sex and Death to the Age 14 touches on many of the themes Spalding Gray would explore with great success, in the course of a life and career marred by depression.
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Zombies Give St. Catharines A Thriller
It's become common knowledge that zombies are voracious, but they are anything but selfish. According to reports, the walk generated food and money donations for charity.
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Get to Know the Artistry of Baiyon
A lifetime of artistic exploration leads multi talented artist Baiyon to design PixelJunk™ Eden, a game by Qgames for Sony PLAYSTATION®. This is just the beginning!
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Grants for Artists
This article provides artists with information on obtaining grants for artists.
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Haruko Okano: Performance Art Modalities
Process-based, multidisciplinary artist Haruko Okano leaves light traces of her projects in the consciousness & hearts of her spectators where they matter most.
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Haruko Okano: Ephemeral Artist & Activist
Art is a powerful media for activism, but as Haruko Okano learned, community outreach is the essential 1st step which determines the form, which artists facilitate.
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Nicole Dextras, Environmental & Ephemeral Artist
Dextras' organic installations, set pieces and eco-costumes are as theatrical, aesthetic and memorable as the media which created them is ephemeral.
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Luminato Returns For Its Third Exciting Year.
The 3rd edition of the Luminato festival will soon takeover many areas of the Toronto landscape and is a true indicator of how hot The Toronto summer scene gets.
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Shells are Jewels of Creation
The wonderful natural design, flow of the many shapes and sizes of shells are an inspiration, The variety of colours and textures sets them apart as jewels of creation.
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Architect Experiments With Meditation Maze Piece
H. Weston Drumheller, an architect and artist from Anderson Valley in California constructed a meditation maze in the backyard of a Colorado residence.
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The Craft of Copper Tooling
Copper is one of the most durable media in which a craftsperson can work; decorative ideas are limited only by one's creativity. This article explains one of many ideas.
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Mermaid Sighted Off New Zealand Coast !
See how Nadia Vessey's dreams were made reality with the help of a few very clever friends from the film industry. Read all about it here.
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Circus Performers Wow Them in South Africa
They plunge from the sky, sliding down the length of scarves and ropes, their bodies entwined, until they are suspended dangerously in mid-air.
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The Complete Popeye, Volume 2
Today's Popeye the Sailor has little in common with the character created 80 years ago by Elzie Crisler Segar.
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The Midnight Spook Show & Ghost and Monster Show
1930s magic demonstrations gained popularity, and gradually turned into the early midnight spook shows. Even established stars like Bela Lugosi got in on the spooky fun.
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BOOM! Exhibition & Forum at Oxygen Centre in BC
When Nicola Harwood, Oxygen Art Centre's artist-in-residence, found that rapid urban expansion divided the community of Nelson, BC, she put together a special exhibition.
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Maya Lin: The Confluence Project
Maya Lin's Confluence Project takes seven spaces along the Columbia River Basin and transforms them into permanent installations that promote a respect for nature.
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The Marriage of Video Games and Oil Paintings
Richard Tran is a fine artist who's zeal for fantasy art and digital painting has led him to be a freelance artist for Sony's Legends of Norrath, an online card game.
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Video Game Art Appreciation 101
Richard Tran uses the fine art techniques of oil painting to inform his digital paintings which he creates for Sony Online Entertainment's Legends of Norrath game.
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The Alternative Party
The Alternative Party will gather together 1,000 computer hobbyists to enjoy art, music, workshops and retro computers. The theme of this year's party is steampunk.
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David Firth, Beyond Salad Fingers
David Firth does a lot more than animating short, eccentric cartoons. He and his friends have branched out to music and podcasting.
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Las Vegas Screenwriter Makes Good
Las Vegas resident Dan Decker creates three-minute films and stage plays for Las Vegas and New York audiences.
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Hobby & Digital Art of Pixel Dolls
An explanation of dolling, one of the lesser known digital art forms.
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A Celebration of Black History
To celebrate Black History Month an event showcases the rich legacy of African descendants with tales, gospel music, dance and poetry.
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The War of the Worlds – Live!
In 1975 a young man decided to adapt HG Wells' classic invasion novel into a concept album. He recruited Richard Burton, Justin Hayward, David Essex; the rest is history.
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Blue Man Group in Orlando, Florida
The Orlando version of the famous multi-media extravaganza will rock, roll, bang, dance, and spit its way into your heart.
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Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait
To millions of soccer fans in France and beyond Zidane is a superstar, and now he is the subject of an acclaimed piece of cinematic portraiture.
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Power Plant Gallery Review
Toronto's prestigious contemporary art venue, The Power Plant, is presenting works by Yayoi Kusama, Sophie Calle and others in "Auto Emotion," until August 2007.
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Digital Storytelling in Wales
Digital Storytelling Festival in Aberystwyth, Wales, June 20 to 22, 2006
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Thirteen
Thirteen, a collection of videos by Chinese artists (thirteen of them!), recently ended its run at PS1 in Queens.
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Reprocessing Reality
Reprocessing Reality, a Swiss-based international group show, just ended its run at PS1 in Queens.
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The Sultan's Elephant
Spectacular street show from Royal de Luxe features a forty-two ton mechanical elephant, a barrel-shaped wooden rocket, and a sixteen-foot little girl.
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Top Online Multimedia Projects
Animated folk tales; Elftrance images and other great Flash and QuickTime diversions.
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Murmur project's cell phone art.
City stories via cell phone in Toronto.
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Phone Plays at Humana Festival
Performance art based on overheard conversations at the annual Humana Festival of New American Plays in Lousisville, Kentucky.
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Wind-powered Sculpture Monsters
Theo Jansen's monstrous wind-powered machines shamble along the Dutch coast.
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Robots That Can Adapt and Evolve
Blocky little robots and "flapping ornithopters" evolve and adapt at Cornell.
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