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Chicago Sun-Times - Since Chicago's Terra Museum of American Art closed three years ago, its parent, the Terra Foundation, has been busy around the world -- partnering with the Louvre in Paris and funding a Guggenheim show seen in Beijing, Moscow and Shanghai before ...

Guardian Unlimited - She was an unfinished Virgin by Michelangelo, one breast bared, the Christ child pawing at her knee. She gazed down from the wall of my school when I was growing up in Lancashire, and I often heard her referred to as "the Manchester Madonna". Quite ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia public-school art teachers, music teachers, nurses, counselors and librarians no longer will find themselves on the cut list when the cash-strapped school district tries to balance its budget. Yesterday, they became a priority. In ...

NPR News - The cafe is, in a way, an easy-access public-relations arm — a place where an aimlessly wandering mind, influenced by a flyer or poster, might alight on the topic of contemporary Flemish art. Perhaps the service, slow even by European standards, is ...

MSNBC - ... has opened in Hong Kong this week, featuring environmentally friendly paper coffins and multimedia artwork, including a casket "simulator" giving users a three-minute taste of death . There was no champagne or glitz at the "Experience Death Through Art ...

Seattle Post Intelligencer - Matthew Offenbacher paints as if he's weaving, which gives his work a folk art quality. He also paints in pure streams, simulating the abstractions of early 20th-century innovators such as Sonia Delaunay. His paintings are about painting, and each is ...

Slate - Obama, where art thou?: The big story on liberal blogs today has been Sen. Chris Dodd's decision to put a "hold" on the new surveillance bill, since it would grant immunity to telecom companies that helped the government spy on people without ...

Minneapolis Star Tribune - What: More than 50 woodcuts, lithographs, linocuts and other handmade prints by 12 contemporary Mexican artists. When: Ends Nov. 28. Where: Highpoint Center for Printmaking, 2638 Lyndale Av. S., Mpls. Review: Bold, lively and thematically wide ...

Forbes - Aricent, the full-service, full-spectrum communications software company, today announced its new IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Convergence Lab. The state-of-the-art Convergence Lab provides an unmatched, end-to-end IMS testing environment spanning ...

Washington Post - That inspired Kohler _ for more than 30 years _ to help preserve and collect nearly 10,000 pieces across the nation from 22 people who transformed their homes, yards and other spaces into works of art. The 16,000-square-foot exhibit called "Sublime ...