Trailer for Donald Harington Documentary

Donald Harington is an American novelist and former Art History professor at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.



Amazon list of Donald Harington's books.

Photoshop Chimeras

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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Feb. - May 2009)

Crystal Bridges Events (Feb 12- May 3, 2009)

Hello, everyone,
Here are some exciting events provided by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Currently Crystal Bridges at the Massey). The events are varied and cross-disciplined. I know you will find something interesting! All events listed are free and open to the public. there are other family-friendly events associated with this show. Just go to the CB website to see those.

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (at the Massey)
Corner of A and Central just off the Bentonville Square (125 W. Central Avenue, Bentonville, AR)
Phone: 479-418-5700

February 12, 2009 (Thursday)
Proof Positive: Master Prints from the Collection of Fisk University Galleries. “This exhibition featuresprints and examples of printing blocks and plates by influential African-American artists like Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Martin Puryear…”. The collection is from Fisk University in Nashville, TN. Fisk is the first historically Black University in America. Subjects range from Harlem street scenes to dynamic abstractions.
“It also seems fitting to celebrate a century of contributions to American art by African-Americans at the same time that we embrace the inauguration of the first African-American President…”

5:30- 6:30pm- Bentonville Library. A Conversation. Distinguished panel discusses the Proof Positive prints.
6:30- 8pm- Crystal Bridges at the Massey. Preview show and reception.

February 14- May 3
"Proof Positive" exhibition shown at the Massey.

February 20 (Friday)
11am- noon -CB at the Massey
ArtBuzz: A Printmaker’s Point of View. Professor John Newman, University of Arkansas, will give a gallery talk. Ben Edwards will assist. Lively and participatory.

February 27 (Friday)
Noon- 1pm, CB at the Massey
Lunchtime movie. Romare Bearden: Visual Jazz and The Life and Art of William H. Johnson.

March 8, 2009 (Sunday)
Art Views with Richard J. Powell, Ph.D. (Art Historian, African American Studies from Duke University)
2:00pm- 3:00pm – Lecture at Old High Middle School Auditorium (406 NW 2nd Street, Bentonville)
3:30- 5:00pm- reception and booksigning at Crystal Bridges at the Massey.
Dr. Powell will examine modern and contemporary AfricanAmerican art and printmaking

March 12, 2009 (Thursday)
5:30- 7pm- Bentonville Public Library.
Bob Workman, Executive Director of Crystal Bridges, will present a fast-paced look at the architecture and construction plans that detail the building of Crystal Brdges Museum of American Art. All the challenges and stories surrounding this great structure.

March 13 (Friday) MUSIC
11am- noon, CB at the Massey
ArtBuzz: Piano Music of African- American Composers. Presented by Claire Detels, Univ. of Arkansas Emeritus Professor of Music (musicologist and pianist).
Contributions of African American composers and performers to the U.S. and the world.

March 19 (Thursday)
Noon- 1pm, CB at the Massey
Lunchtime Movie at the Massey: Elizabeth Catlett: Sculpting the Truth and Art:21: Time- Martin Puryear.

April 16 (Thursday)
11 am – noon, CB at the Massey
ArtBuzz: An Image is Worth Ten Thousand Words: African- American History Revealed.
Dr. Jeannie Whayne, professor of History at Univ. of Arkansas, will speak of the stories behind the images at the Proof Positive print exhibition.

April 25, 2009 (Saturday)
Multicultural Festival
Downtown Bentonville.
http://www.downtownbentonville.org/

Jesus Torres Shares Some Recent Pieces

If anyone would like their artwork featured or their web portfolio linked to our Club webpage, just send me the link or artwork (or request to become an official contributor to share your personal news or artwork regularly). My email is slewis@nwacc.edu .

Bold Rage by Jesus Torres (Self-Portrait using Photoshop)

Ocean View by Jesus Torres (painting)

New Book About the Founding of NWACC

Recent news article.

Dr. Robert Burns has written a memoir of the founding of Northwest Arkansas Community College. He was the founding President. "Burns will be available at the NWACC book store 8 a.m., Feb. 16 to sign copies of his book. He will also be presenting it to current President Becky Paneitz at 3:30 p.m. the same day during a ceremony to rededicate Burns Hall, which was named after Burns. The college's flagship building recently went under a $4.1 million renovation."

Link at Amazon, in case you can't attend the signing.

Meet an Artist:Craig Earl Nelson

Here is the footage in case you couldn't attend the event:

Fine Arts Gallery Exhibition ExploresInspiration of Rembrandt and Dürer

Link

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – “The Inspired Line: Selected Prints of Albrecht Dürer and Rembrandt Van Rijn” opens Feb. 4 and runs through March 13 at the Fine Arts Gallery at the University of Arkansas. The Inspired Line explores the respective and shared religious, technical and cultural inspiration of Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-1669) and German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528).

Although their prints bear many differences, the works of these two master printmakers also stand as examples of shared inspiration in different times. Works such as Dürer’s St. Christopher Facing to the Left and Announcement to the Virgin, and Rembrandt’s David in Prayer and The Holy Family will be on display from the Thrivent Financial Collection of Religious Art.

Jeffrey Chipps Smith from the University of Texas at Austin will offer an illustrated talk on Dürer at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, in the gallery, followed by a 5 p.m. lecture that evening on “Durer and the Art of the Print” in Room 213 of the Fine Arts Building. A reception to celebrate the opening of the exhibit will follow.

Paul Crenshaw of Washington University in St. Louis will offer a gallery talk on Rembrandt at 2:30 p.m. Monday, March 9, followed by an illustrated lecture on “Rembrandt as Printmaker” that evening at 5 p.m. in Room 213 of the Fine Arts Center.

Hours are from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. for this special exhibition, which is free and open to the public.

Despite cultural and stylistic differences, Dürer and Rembrandt share sources of significant religious and individual inspiration. Rembrandt thrust his own intimate insights into humanity into his prints, but many of his ideas can be viewed as a religious journey that originated with Dürer. While Dürer’s world was mainly Catholic, by the time of Rembrandt, emerging controversial Protestantism and Renaissance philosophies such as humanism encouraged new ideas about individual identity.

Contact:

Shannon Dillard Mitchell, director, Fine Arts Center Gallery, department of art
J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences
479-575–7987, smitche@uark.edu

Lynn Fisher, communications director
Fulbright College
479-575-7272, lfisher@uark.edu

Security Guard Slashes Painting- From Artbistro.com

Associated Press/AP Online
January 26, 2009
Pittsburgh, PA – A former guard at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh has pleaded guilty to slashing a $1.2 million painting with a key.
James Sheets, the attorney for 27-year-old Timur Serebrykov, says his client is getting mental health treatment and is hoping for probation.
The bigger question may be how much restitution he is ordered to pay. Sentencing is set for April 7.

Serebrykov slashed “Night Sky 2” by Latvian-born artist Vija Celmins last May because he didn’t like it. It was on loan from the Art Institute of Chicago. He entered the vandalism plea Thursday.
Sheets says it cost $5,000 to repair the painting. But he says prosecutors estimate it’s worth $240,000 less than before.

http://www.artbistro.com/news/articles/8176-ex-guard-pleads-guilty-to-defacing-12m-painting