Fine Arts News

Three men considered among the finest painters to hail from Sacramento - from left, Gregory Kondos, Wayne Thiebaud and Fred Dalkey - gathered in town on a rare occasion to reminisce about their painting careers, their friendship and each man's role in the acclaimed Sacramento City College art program through the years.

THE stage is set for the Wasawasa: Festival of Oceans as the national fine arts exhibition and awards starts today at the Fiji Museum.

Ancient terracotta warriors from China are coming to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts for an exhibition planned in 2011, the museum says.

The HSBC Vincenzo Bonello art library is now open at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Valletta.

As construction continues on the new McGlothlin Wing, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is reinstalling galleries and bringing artworks out of storage.

YOUNGSTOWN a ' Student Art Association is sponsoring the Annual Holiday Fine Arts & Crafts Sale at McDonough Museum of Art on the campus of Youngstown State University.

The new DVD gift set of Zack Snyder's Watchmen features five discs worth of excitement, sure to keep fans of the graphic novel entertained for hours.

Pan Shixun stands beside his painting We Walk on the Broad Road, displayed at the National Art Museum of China.

Originally published November 17, 2009 at 6:34 a.m., updated November 17, 2009 at 7:42 a.m. HOUSTON a ' A jury affirmed the charity-benefiting will of Houston oilman Alfred Glassell Jr.

Part drag show, part punk rock musical, all cabaret: Hedwig and the Angry Inch is, above all, a meditation on the fondest hope love offers: finding one's other half.

A selection of highlights from the Rose's top-drawer collection of modern and contemporary art from Europe and America.

Si Lewen begins his paintings as he sleeps. Images crowd his dreams until one rises above the rest to wake him and beg to be put on canvas.

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Visit Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens for the annual holiday fair on November 6 and 7, 2009.

With the Exploratorium gearing up for its move to the Embarcadero , it's been suggested before that the shell it leaves behind at the Palace of Fine Arts go to the once-proposed contemporary art museum that was instead planned for the Presidio.

No sooner will the Lone Star International Film Festival have wrapped its annual expo - on Nov.

Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry, originally scheduled to open Oct. 24 at Cincinnati Art Museum, then postponed to Oct.

A Russian movie dubbed in English, Perestroika is a weird concoction of personal and cultural discovery on what the meaning of the Universe is.

There's a new exhibit at the Cape Fear Museum that showcases the art and science of object conservation.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a 66-year lease for the Exploratorium at its planned new site on the waterfront.