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Artist Wyland Begins 'Green' Wall of China Project

WHAT: Renowned environmental artist Wyland, who began his mission to create 100 giant murals of marine life around the world more than 27 years ago, will complete the landmark project in the lead up to the Olympic Games in Beijing. With the help of thousands of children from around the globe, the artist will create a "Great Green Wall of China" spanning more than a mile with life-size canvas segments representing endangered or threatened marine wildlife from 205 nations. Joining Wyland in the effort will be renowned Chinese environmental artist Xikun Yuan. The project is a featured event of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Cultural Festival to promote the Green Olympics.

"Music And Spirit" Blog Now Has "Awesome Artist Of The Month"

The "Music and Spirit" blog now has a new feature, called "Awesome Artist of the Month", which consists of an interview with an (awesome) artist (duh!) combined with a song by that artist on the profile page of the blog.

Tassie artist needs more cigarette butts

Tasmanian artist Adrian Avenell needs 438,000 cigarette butts for his anti-smoking project.Tasmanian artist Adrian Avenell needs 438,000 cigarette butts for his anti-smoking project.

Young artist killed after Facebook reunion

Talented young Brisbane artist Sarah Elston was looking forward to catching up with her former flame after he contacted her on the popular social networking website. But in a crime that has bewildered her family and friends, the 22-year-old artist was found dead in her unit on Tuesday night with multiple injuries.

An artist in his own right, and a model for the Wyeths

Jimmy Lynch, 63, formerly of Chadds Ford, "an appealing vagabond," artist and artist's model who was the subject of several important paintings by Andrew Wyeth and his son, Jamie, died of hypertension and heart arrhythmia June 4 at his home in Lewisburg, W.Va.

Microsoft announces Canadian artist series for Zune Originals

Zune Originals artist series to include seven designs by six Canadian artists - Free laser engraved artwork and personal text available for a limited time starting June 13, 2008 Zune information and high-resolution images are available at www.zunenews.ca >> TORONTO (CNW) - Microsoft Corp. today announced that seven designs by six Canadian artists will be added to the Zune Originals artist series. Available online at www.zuneoriginals.ca, Canadians can choose to customize their Zune with laser-engraved artwork from inspiring Canadian artists. All Zune Originals artwork and engraving will be offered free for three months starting June 13, 2008.

Sand artist Sudarsan wins prize in Moscow

Bhubaneswar, May 31 (IANS) A sand sculpture of Lord Ganesh expressing his concern over global warming, created by Orissa artist Sudarsan Patnaik, has won the people's choice prize at an international sand sculpture championship in Moscow, the artist said Saturday.

LA Artist Peggy Nichols: Solo Exhibition

The Park Place Gallery and Fine Art in Leawood Kansas is featuring a solo exhibition by LA Artist Peggy Nichols entitled The Korai in Modern Landscape from June 6 through June 27, 2008. Nichols states about this series of work, I have worked on the Korai in the Modern Urbanscape series for 4 years. Where I began with this image and my purpose for doing it is evolving. It has become an image that stimulates and inspires me. The illuminated figure in the shop window represents what I believe to be a replicant of our icons, the Goddess and feminine idealism Peggy Nichols has been a Premiere Portfolio Artist at absolutearts.com since 2007.

Internationally Celebrated Artist Yoko Ono Invites the Public to Make a Wish at a Site-Specific Temporary Installation in Pasadena

PASADENA, Calif., June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Internationally celebrated artist Yoko Ono will present a major installation of her participatory work, Wish Trees, in the large central courtyard at One Colorado from August 2 through November 9, 2008. The installation will consist of a number of living trees selected by the artist, and which are identified with the environment or history of Southern California. Visitors are invited to write their wishes on pieces of paper and hang them on the tree branches. Public access to Ono's art installation and the One Colorado Courtyard is free.

Internationally Celebrated Artist Yoko Ono Invites the Public to Make a Wish at a Site-Specific Temporary Installation in Pasadena

PASADENA, Calif., June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Internationally celebrated artist Yoko Ono will present a major installation of her participatory work, Wish Trees, in the large central courtyard at One Colorado from August 2 through November 9, 2008. The installation will consist of a number of living trees selected by the artist, and which are identified with the environment or history of Southern California. Visitors are invited to write their wishes on pieces of paper and hang them on the tree branches. Public access to Ono's art installation and the One Colorado Courtyard is free.

Palm Springs Artist Richard Curtner Creates Art With a Wordy Twist

A picture may be worth a thousand words, unless your Palm Springs artist Richard Curtner, then you can make a picture with a thousand words. Curtner is a self taught artist who works in many mediums but specializes in textual collages. I first saw his work at the Henderson Arts Fair in Nevada where a crowd of people had squeezed into the tiny booth to see his work. What struck me most was the degree of complexity in each piece and the ability of the art to tell a story on so many different levels.

Lucian Freud Painting could set auction record for living artist at auction

A painting by British artist Lucian Freud could set a record for a living artist when it goes on sale in Manhattan for an estimated $25 million to $35 million.

Natural Born Make-Up Artist

I always tell people that a make up artist is born," says Desiree Neto a specialist make-up artist who has worked with people like poet Lebo Mashile, Morning Live anchor Leanne Manas, and the prestigious Miss SA, Miss World and Face of Africa pageants.

Exhibit for late artist

An exhibition titled "Barýþýn Gelini: Pippa Bacca" (Peace Bride: Pippa Bacca), in honor of an Italian artist killed while taking a trip from Europe to the Middle East promoting peace, will open Saturday in the Taksim Art Gallery. Italian artist Giuseppina Pasqualino Di Marineo, more commonly known as "Pippa Bacca," was killed in Kocaeli during a trip for peace. She began her journey in Italy and was planning to end it in the Middle East. She was trying to send a message of peace and of the unity of different peoples and nations. Thousands took to the streets and protested her death, which occurred this April.The exhibition will commemorate her life and ensure that her efforts to promote the message of peace continue. The exhibition, featuring paintings and sculptures, will continue through May 27.

HP Pavilion dv2840TX Artist Edition

Following HP's now classic chassis design, with the wave-like speaker grill rolling into the strong monitor hinge and the silky smooth touchpad, the Pavilion dv2840TX Artist Edition differs in a few not so subtle ways. The most glaringly obvious is the heavily Japanese-influenced illustration laid against a mustard-coloured lid, and the continuation of that illustration through to the wrist rest. While our first reaction was "eesh, that's loud", over time we've grown used to it, and taken a little pride in the stares it attracts as you pull it out of your bag. The fact that it was designed as part of an international competition by a Portuguese artist Joao Oliveira makes it that little bit cooler, although it makes us wonder if HP's next step is true self-customisation, and the mess that would entail.

Flower Power: Work by the Japanese artist-entrepreneur Takashi Murakami.

In this issue of the magazine, Peter Schjeldahl writes about the Japanese artist-entrepreneur Takashi Murakami. A retrospective of Murakami’s work opened at the Brooklyn Museum on April 5th. Here is a selection of artwork by Murakami, and portraits of the artist.

Grenfell - PSA: An illustrated talk by Canadian artist Edith Dako...

The Visiting Artists Program of Sir Wilfred Grenfell College is pleased to present an illustrated talk by Canadian artist Edith Dakovic. Dakovic is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and the Universitat der Kunste, Berlin. She has been living and working as an artist in Berlin for the last fifteen years.

Britain's No 1 chat up artist

It never used to be a career, picking up women. But here he is, Richard La Ruina, a man whose job is to be “Britain's No 1 superstar chat-up artist�. In the loose-knit online subculture known as the Seduction Community, his nickname is The Gambler, which seems somehow incongruous, given that he was 21 before he even kissed a girl. Still, his uneventful past comes in useful now that he has flowered into a professional pick-up artist - a PUA, as it is referred to in the business.

Big Bang: Work by the Chinese installation and pyrotechnic artist Cai Guo-Qiang.

In this issue of the magazine, Peter Schjeldahl writes about the Chinese installation and pyrotechnic artist Cai Guo-Qiang. A retrospective of Cai’s work opens at the Guggenheim on February 22nd. Here is a selection of artwork by Cai and portraits of the artist with his installations.

MOLI Announces the Winners of Its Online 'Starving Artist' Competition

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- MOLI, a social media community where members have greater control over their privacy, announced today the winners of its first "Starving Artist" Art Contest. Out of more than 75 entries from a variety of disciplines -- fine arts, digital art, music, writing and photography -- two winners were chosen: a stop motion animated film created with clay and puppets, by R.S. Cole, who was awarded the Judges Choice award; and a geometric tiger design created as digital body painting by Hanni B, which received the People's Choice award. The two "Starving Artist" winners will receive up to $2,000 to cover one month's rent. They will receive additional exposure by having their artwork featured on MOLI's home page, be the subjects of a written profile in the "MOLI View," the MOLI site's professional-content

I'm very much looking forward to reading this work. I loved the Fate of the Artist an...

Growing up in Scotland, Eddie Campbell had two ambitions: to be a cowboy and to work in the circus. After neither of those panned out, he shifted his sights to comics, gaining renown for his down-to-earth depictions of the Jack the Ripper slayings in Alan Moore's From Hell. More recently, Campbell has partnered with publisher First Second on the more experimental books The Fate of the Artist and The Black Diamond Detective Agency. This summer marks the third partnership between Campbell and First Second, as the publisher releases The Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard in August (it's coauthored by Dan Best). From his home in Australia, Campbell spoke with PW Comics Week by e-mail about Leotard, which is set in the 19th century and follows the bizarre life of a man who stumbles into becoming a trapeze artist for a traveling circus.

Renowned artist holds show in tiny Lothian gallery A WORLD-FAMOUS artist is holding a rare exhibition in a tiny seaside art gallery in East Lothian.

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Top Scots artist has a brush with city heroine Elsie Inglis He is a world-renowned artist who hit the headlines for paintings of the hospital staff who helped him recover from a liver transplant. Now John Bellany has turned his brush to capturing a d

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Colin Self: Art in the Nuclear Age

Pallant House Gallery presents the summer exhibition Colin Self: Art in the Nuclear Age, the most comprehensive display to date of works by leading British Pop artist Colin Self (b.1941). This challenging exhibition considers the artist’s engagement with modern culture in the era of the Cold War, and is the first show of its kind to bring together the most important pieces from each period of the artist’s life, from the 1960s to the present day. This important exhibition, which comprises around one hundred paintings, drawings and sculptures by Self, includes iconic works such as Leopardskin Nuclear Bomber (1962-3); pieces never shown before such as Strike: Waiting Women on the Shore (1963/2008); important contemporary works including New York Disaster (1998); and the controversial Trilogy: The Iconoclasts (2007).

Art Unlimited Competition

The Art Unlimited event will be held in Dunedoo on 24, 25 and 26 October. An eminent panel of judges has been assembled and a first place prize of $2,000 will be awarded in each of the three categories. There will also be a People's Choice Award. There are no limits to the interpretation of the theme "My Landscape". It is entirely up to artists, photographers or ceramicists to express themselves in the medium they choose. The artist's landscape is not restricted to an urban, rural, indoor or outdoor landscape. It may be interpreted, in the widest sense, as the artist's view of contemporary Australian life or the environment in which the artist exists.

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