Whats Happening in the World of Arts

Noyes Museum of Art presents 'Awakenings ~ Art & Healing'

OCEANVILLE, N.J. – The Noyes Museum of Art presents Awakenings: Art & Healing, an exhibition of contemporary Outsider Art through November 2, 2008. Awakenings explores the power of art as a tool for healing, hope and communication for people with mental and physical challenges. The featured artists are associated with Hospital Audiences, Inc. (HAI) in New York City, an organization that is devoted to using professional artists to reach individuals in group residences and treatment programs for chronically mentally ill adults.
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André Kostelanetz Papers Are Donated to the Library of Congress
Washington, DC - Papers of conductor and arranger André Kostelanetz are being donated to the Library of Congress by the musician’s estate, marking a significant expansion of the collection Kostelanetz provided to the Library during his lifetime. Kostelanetz, who died in 1980, was a major figure in U.S. popular music and on radio for half a century. Early in his career, he was best known for his interpretations of classical pieces, and over his lifetime he was credited with selling more than 50 million recordings that tapped a public appetite for popular arrangements of classical and Broadway music.
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Tacoma Art Museum presents " Oasis: Western Dreams of the Ottoman Empire "
TACOMA, WA - Tacoma Art Museum’s exhibition "Oasis: Western Dreams of the Ottoman Empire" from the Dahesh Museum of Art features a survey of nineteenth-century Western artists’ responses to the diverse cultures of the former Ottoman Empire. Many Europeans relied on published travelogues for information, but many also traveled to the region. Genre paintings, the prevalent form of Orientalist art in the nineteenth century, were greatly influenced by these artists' direct experience of everyday life in the region. The exhibition is on view Saturday, September 20, 2008 through Sunday, January 4, 2009.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Tacoma_Art_Museum_Oasis.html


Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art shows 'Spectacular Saturn ~ Images from Cassini-Huygens Mission'
ITHACA, NY - The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University presents Spectacular Saturn: Images from the Cassini-Huygens Mission, on view through January 4, 2009. This exhibit displays over fifty images of the planet Saturn, its rings, and its satellites. This selection, by Cornell members of the Cassini project, was made from almost two hundred thousand images that have been transmitted to Earth since the Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn in 2004.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Cassini-Huygens_Mission.html