Painting News

Tualatin Valley Academy student Melinda Swanson paints a yellow-headed parrot , using acrylic gel that creates a three-dimensional effect and adds texture.

Caltrans says it has some short, medium, and long-term solutions to help drivers slow down when approaching the S-Curve section of the Bay Bridge following Monday morning's fatal crash in which a big rig went over the side and fell onto Yerba Buena Island.

Subjecting your creative efforts to the critical appraisal of peers can be a hard thing to do.

The 18th century porcelain Yves Saint Laurent ate from, a Cartier watch he used to wear, the leopard-print couches and gilded chairs he lounged on: It's all to hit the auction blocks as the late French couturier's longtime partner liquidates their art-and-knicknack-filled residences.

The three-day "Fine Art Beijing" exhibition, which features a range of oil painting, ink and wash painting, printmaking and watercolor, closes on Monday, November 9. The Fine Art Beijing exposition, a spin-off of the established Art Beijing exhibition, ends its three-day run in the Beijing Agricultural Exhibition Centre on Monday.

Art & Culture Report An exhibition of 50 selected paintings on silk by the students of London Thomas Buxton Junior School will begin today at the Drik Gallery in Dhanmondi in the city.

Posted in Art in NYC on November 6th, 2009 By Marshall - leave a comment! I'm really liking the guys at Artlog.com who come up with openings that no one else seems to have - and overall, if there's one site I'd consider supporting, based on what I've seen, it's ArtLog.A A Having said that, due to Artlog.com listing of an opening tonight of Just ...

The Denver Zoo is celebrating Denver Arts Week with painting an animal art auction filled with paintings made by zoo animals.

The Royal College of Art will open their new Battersea-based painting building with a mammoth free exhibition next week.

SPACESURPLUS Tribeca / Downtown 325 Church Street, 2nd Floor, 212-925-1367 November 6 - December 9, 2009 Opening: Friday, November 6, 5 - 8 PM Web Site In every house by the sea therea s always a picture of the sea.

Members of the Harvest City Church participated in the FOCUS Youth Conference on Saturday by painting garbage bins.

With four young children, a farm to run, and limited financial resources, Rachel Wilson needed some art supplies that were close to home and cheap.

A suggestion. Stop whatever you are doing and go to Leeds and see this show. However familiar you may be with Titian's "Portrait of a Lady" in the National Gallery, seeing it here perfectly positioned on modern walls and in unexpected company will result in a fresher, newer you.

Stefan Stux Gallery Chelsea 530 West 25th Street, 212-352-1600 November 19, 2009 - January 9, 2010 Opening: Thursday, November 19, 6 - 8 PM Web Site Stux Gallery is pleased to present the second solo exhibition of installations, paintings and drawings by Icelandic artist, Anna Joelsdottir .

John Connelly Presents Chelsea 625 West 27th Street, 212-337-9563 October 30 - December 5, 2009 Opening: Friday, October 30, 11 - 1 AM Web Site For his latest project Marco Boggio Sella has conceived of two new exhibitions, "Virtual America" and "New Painting from L'Atelier Rouge", to be presenting simultaneously as the artist's third and fourth ...

DAMIEN HIRST has already portrayed cows being crucified. Now he is to take a more conventional approach to religious art, emulating the old masters by painting two 20ft-high religious works for display in St Paul's Cathedral.

The search for Britain's favourite painting has produced a short-list of ten works.

In a one-off exchange this fall, two of Sweden's largest and most famous baroque paintings have been taken to Munich to star in a major exhibition of works by Peter Paul Rubens, the 17th-century Flemish master.

Come see the unveiling of the first Hugo Movie Painting, Napoleon and Josephine, at a special exhibit Oct 17 - Nov 15, 2009.

In Baltimore, the 300 block of East 23 1/2 Street is getting patched up in time for winter.