Arts

Conversations Take Place Throughout October, National Arts and Humanities Month

HARTFORD, Conn. (September 28, 2007) – The Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism (CCT) has partnered with Americans for the Arts, the nation’s leading non-profit organization for arts advocacy, to host a series of Emerging Leader Creative Conversations. These conversations take place throughout Connecticut between October 2 and 16.

Creative Conversations bring together local emerging arts leaders to discuss leadership challenges and issues regarding the arts in their communities.    » read more »

- More than $100,000 awarded nationally to students and schools in 2007
- November 1, 2007 deadline for 2008 Poetry Out Loud participation

September 25, 2007, DES MOINES, Iowa –The Iowa Arts Council has awarded $8,625 in Mini Grants to organizations and individuals in Des Moines, Greenfield, Pella and Iowa City. IAC received 18 eligible applications with requests totaling more than $25,000.

The Iowa Arts Council works to enrich the quality of life and learning in Iowa communities by encouraging excellence in the arts through leadership, grants and technical assistance.

Mini Grants are awarded each month, and applicants may request up to $1,500 in funding, which they must match.    » read more »

Plácido Domingo conducts two stellar casts in John Pascoe's fascinating new take on the legendary womanizer Don Juan

Oct. 5, 2007 -- A selection of sketchbooks from artists Walter Shirlaw, Isabel Bishop, Leon Kroll, Frank Stella, Lowell Nesbitt and others is presented in the new exhibition "Sketchbooks from the Archives of American Art" Oct. 5 to Jan. 6, 2008, in the Archives of American Art's Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery.    » read more »

NEA design initiative receives $250,000 gift from Edward W. Rose III Family Fund

Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center is dazzling background for announcement

New York, NY, October 3, 2007 -- The New York City Opera, where Beverly Sills first achieved international celebrity, and with which she was affiliated as prima donna, General Director, and board member for well over three decades, will officially launch its celebrations of her life and legacy on Saturday, October 27, at the opening matinee of its new production of Massenet's Cendrillon. The performance, dedicated to Ms. Sills’s memory, will be followed by a brief musical tribute on stage after which the audience will be invited to a toast on the promenade of the New York State Theater.    » read more »

October 2, 2007 -- Spanish literature in the United States can be traced back to the early days of Spanish settlements in the Southwest. To celebrate the rich history and contemporary creativity of Spanish-language literature, the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress presents four Hispanic writers who will read from their work on Thursday, Oct. 18, at 6 p.m. in the Mary Pickford Theater, third floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave., S.E, Washington, D.C.    » read more »

07 October 2007 -- Vandals have broken into a Paris art museum during a street festival and severely damaged a classic by French impressionist Claude Monet.

Officials with the Orsay Museum said Sunday the vandals entered a back door and punched a fist through the 19th century masterpiece The Bridge at Argenteuil, leaving a 10 centimeter gash in the canvas. The intruders fled when they set off an alarm.

Museum officials call the damage heartbreaking, but say the painting can be repaired.    » read more »

October 03, 2007, Los Angeles, CA – Sundance Institute and Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) announce today the Time Warner Storytelling Advancement Fund. The Fund provides substantial support over four years to help fund Sundance Institute's development and celebration of independent artists across the Sundance Institute's core programs.

Sundance Institute is an internationally recognized resource for thousands of independent artists dedicated to the artistic development of filmmakers, screenwriters, composers, writers, playwrights and theatre artists.    » read more »

VH1 Rock Doc 'DMC: My Adoption Journey' Takes Home a News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Arts & Culture Programming at New York City Gala Held Last Night

NEW YORK, Sept. 25 -- The critically acclaimed VH1 Rock Docs franchise picked up its first Emmy win last night as "DMC: My Adoption Journey" was awarded a News & Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Arts & Culture Programming. The other nominees in VH1's category were "I'm Mike Wallace: A 60 Minutes Tribute" (CBS); "Favela Rising" (Cinemax) and "Lomax The Songhunter" (PBS).    » read more »

State Proposes $12 Million for the Project

September 24, 2007 -- New York Governor Eliot Spitzer and Lieutenant Governor David A. Paterson today joined Congressman Charles Rangel and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer to break ground at the site of a new permanent facility for the Museum for African Art. The Governor announced today that he is proposing $12 million in funding for the building of the new museum facility over the next three years. The Governor will propose funding for the project in next year's budget.    » read more »

September 21, 2007 -- On Saturday, September 29, Angela Arnett of Waynesburg, will design, carve and paint gourds from 10:30 am – 3:30 pm at the Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea.

A Kentucky native, Angela Arnett has been working with gourds for years and is a member of the Kentucky Gourd Society and a juried member of the Kentucky Craft Marketing Program.    » read more »

17 September 2007, Washington (By Mary Morningstar) -- The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has announced its 2007 Honorees. They are pianist Leon Fleisher, singer Diana Ross, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson, director Martin Scorsese and actor Steve Martin.

Kennedy Center Chairman Stephen A. Schwarzman released a statement that said, "With their extraordinary talent, creativity, and perseverance, the five 2007 Honorees have transformed the way we, as Americans, see, hear, and feel the performing arts. We will forever be thankful for the great gift they have shared with us."    » read more »