What We Learned About Mark Zuckerberg This Week Mar 6, 2010
His taste in art: In the company's early days, Mr. Zuckerberg had an artist paint a mural evoking children taking over the world with laptops. He ended meetings by pumping his fist in the air and leading employees in a chant of 'domination. (Slate)
painted over Mar 6, 2010
Work Crew Destroys Prominent Mural ... Until the crews began painting over it, however, it had been unclear whether the Department of Labor's intent was merely to fix the structure or paint over the mural ... "That's the threshold question: What was their intent?" said Amy Neiman, a former board member of the Santa Monica-based California Lawyers for the Arts, who has worked on mural-restoration lawsuits. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
OSU exhibit weighs in on iconic scales Mar 6, 2010
Collector Christopher Steele , an artist and founder of the public arts group behind the Mona Lisa mural in the city s Short North, has been acquiring the scales since 1971, his first buy coming from Columbus Union Depot. Pieces of the collection have been loaned to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Taft Museum, and the Toledo and Columbus museums of art. (Columbus Business First, OH)
Robert McCall; created hundreds of paintings on space Mar 6, 2010
NEW YORK - Robert T. McCall, an artist whose fervor for space exploration found expression in his six-story-tall mural at the National Air and Space Museum and two postage stamps canceled on the Moon, died Feb. 26 in Scottsdale, Ariz ... His most famous image may be the gargantuan mural, showing events from the creation of the universe to men walking on the moon, on the south lobby wall of the National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall in Washington ... Then there are the mission patches... (Boston Globe)
* EXHIBITIONS Mar 3, 2010
2 million, seeks proposals for mural arts. The second project, titled Image and Light Art, seeks proposals to create an integrated and artistic experience for the riverside adjacent to Gongguan (]) and the two entrances to Treasure Hill (_). (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Famed Muralist to Create New Works in Downtown Mar 2, 2010
Kent Twitchell Gets Commission for Three Murals in Bob Hope Patriotic Hall ... Published: Monday, March 1, 2010 5:38 PM PST DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - Muralist Kent Twitchell will once again put his stamp on Downtown, with a trio of murals at the Bob Hope Patriotic Hall ... According to the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Twitchells murals will be painted inside the 1926 Patriotic Hall, at 1816 S. Figueroa St., which is undergoing renovations. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Whats new in Great Britain and Ireland in 2010 Mar 2, 2010
The city of Derry has added a political mural honoring its Nobel Prize-winning local hero, John Hume along with Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Mother Teresa. Another sign of better times: The walls of a former British army base in Derry now border a parking lot. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Showcasing abilities, not disabilities Mar 1, 2010
Ken Koons/Staff Photo Carla Gray shares a laugh with Tori Eshelman while Eshelman paints her part of an under-the-sea themed mural created by The Arc of Carroll County clients at Studio On The Hill in Manchester Friday. The mural will be part of a gallery exhibit at the Carroll Arts Center in Westminster in March ... Grier s latest painting will be part of an under-the-sea themed mural presented by The Arc of Carroll County at the Carroll Arts Center in Westminster March 18-30. (Carroll County Times, MD)
A lawyers fairy tale Feb 28, 2010
Whether theyre fairies to brighten up a childs bedroom, a Lotus F1 racing car for the teenager or a themed home cinema mural piece, no job is out of this world for her ... What followed seems an awe-inspiring task designing a mural revolving around the little girls favourite fairy tale. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Paragould Personalities: Mary Esther Herget Feb 28, 2010
She said she made frequent visits in sweltering heat to visit artist Connie Watkins as she painted the mural downtown, which is falling down. I saw it yesterday. (Paragould Daily Press, AR)
Continue reading Feb 25, 2010
Mural planned for downtown Selma ... Selma is one step closer to getting its first mural as the Selma City Council gave its blessing to the coordinator and artist at the Feb. 1 council meeting ... The mural is set to be installed on the Robertson-Guerra building in downtown Selma. (Selma Enterprise, CA)
Non-IIM grads too opt for offbeat jobs Feb 24, 2010
Students from tier-1 and tier-2 management institutes are also increasingly joining the entrepreneurial tribe and their businesses range from making solar streetlights, robots, solar mobile chargers, painting murals and walls, mushroom cultivation, making eco-bricks out of cow dung to offering homemade tiffins ... He started a wall and mural painting business, taking up an average of four projects a month, which helped him earn Rs 8,000 per project. (India Times)
* UN troops rescue Haitian art from the rubble Feb 24, 2010
Nader said he believed much of the Caribbeans countrys artistic patrimony, including the famed 1950s mural paintings of the Sainte Trinite Cathedral, had been lost. But amazingly, many of the citys oldest houses, which are built of wood in the elaborate gingerbread Caribbean style, withstood the magnitude 7 quake, while hundreds of more modern concrete, steel and mortar structures crumbled. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
UN troops, workers rescue Haiti's artwork from ruins Feb 23, 2010
Famous murals, historic buildings among the losses. By Pascal Fletcher. (AlertNet)
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Mural in St. Joseph home recreates beauty and charm of Italian region ... Instead she had an elaborate mural of a Tuscan village painted on a 141 2- by 8- foot wall in the lower level of her house on the St. Joseph River ... Incorporating all the elements that Laney wanted, Maclaren created a drawing which he calls a work-out of what the mural would look like. (The Herald-Palladium)
Coos Bay to museum: Look for grants Feb 19, 2010
One idea called for a large mural of a waterfront, combined with trees and glass-filled concrete creating a water effect ... The third was dubbed the Heritage Art Park, and included smaller historical murals, including images of Steve Prefontaine and the McCullough Bridge ... Most of the councilors wanted to incorporate the wind elements, while Mayor Jeff McKeown liked the Heritage Park mural concept. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Goshen low-income housing project near start Feb 19, 2010
LATON: Students from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles will descend on Laton today and Saturday to paint a mural on the side of Laton Elementary School ... Last year, she and some art students used a Ford Foundation grant to spruce up her old hometown with paint and art projects, and they saved enough paint to do a mural this year ... Art students designed the mural using ideas proposed by Conejo Middle School students. (Fresno Bee)
Blair just wants a ticket Feb 17, 2010
Blair signed a huge chalk mural honoring American's Winter Olympians by artist Tracy Lee Stum. Neither of her children aspire at this point to follow in Blair's footsteps. (News & Observer -- Sports)
Mall shoppers seeing the big picture Feb 15, 2010
Murals at Cross County Mall are completed and drawing second looks, praise and puzzlement. Whoever painted them did a good job, said Kelsa House of Mattoon Friday as she looked over two murals, one including deer by a cluster of wild flowers and another with a surfer by a rolling field of soybeans and corn on walls near the center of the mall ... The murals have stopped people walking in the mall. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
First Australia, now Baz does India Feb 14, 2010
During the 10-day visit, the award-winning film director painted a mural on the side of a hotel in Mumbai and journeyed through Rajasthan on a motorbike, painting artworks with local children ... The Mumbai mural painted by the pair included images of Elvis Presley and dancer Gene Kelly as well as Bollywood iconography. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Spirit of Keokuk Awards presented to 4 individuals Feb 13, 2010
She also helped with plans to improve the space now known as Gateway Park and led the campaign for Keokuks heritage mural project. As president of the Art Center, she was a voice for the Community Partnership, which led to the Keokuk Public Library, Art Center and Lee County Historical Society being housed in one facility. (Keokuk Daily Gate City, IO)
John Madill / H-P staff The new location of the St. Joseph Today Welcome Center is 421 State Street in downtown St. Joseph. Feb. 10, 2010 Feb 13, 2010
The photos will be replaced by a mural created by area artist Holly Hanes-Barefield. The reason for the move came down to funding. (The Herald-Palladium)
Art.view: Breaking a sweat Feb 13, 2010
A. Quincy Jones built them a modernist masterpiece in Holmby Hills, above the city, with a courtyard decorated with a ceramic-tile mural made specially by Matisse. The sale would include 20-30 additional works and have its own catalogue. (The Economist)
Art in ruins Feb 12, 2010
In the teeming capital - even in the midst of the chaos and suffering wrought by last month's earthquake - you are never far from a painting, a mural or a sculpture ... In the primary school next door, a brightly coloured mural of children playing is cracked and a whole section has come away, showing the breeze blocks behind. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Art that survived - or was born from the quake Feb 12, 2010
At the neighbouring elementary school, part of the cathedral complex, a damaged mural stands in the main hall ... The mural is not regarded as one of Haiti's important art works, so may not be saved. (BBC News -- Americas)
New mural salutes Exeter's WWII flyboys Feb 8, 2010
A new mural in Exeter honors the wartime heroism of 19 men from Exeter who crewed B-17 Flying Fortress bombers in World War II. ... Mural committee vice president Mickey Hirni got them together last week ... Former WWII B-17 crew members, from left, Leonard Whitney, Charles Kirkman, Jim Morris and David Turner in front of a mural in downtown Exeter. (Fresno Bee)
Postal preservation (352) Feb 8, 2010
Johannes brings his guests to the post office at Fifth Avenue and Willamette Street so they can see an architecturally significant and historic structure Eugene s only art deco public building, adorned with intricate detail and two Depression-era murals ... Two Works Progress Administration murals painted by Portland artist Carl Morris were installed in the lobby in 1943 ... One mural depicts farmers bringing in the harvest; the other shows men sawing logs and carrying lumber. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Shaker Square getting promised makeover (3) Feb 7, 2010
"We are even having an artist paint a mural on one wall that depicts the history of Shaker Square, the second oldest shopping area in the nation," she says proudly. East Coast Custard father-and-son owners Barry and Adam Lieberman could not be happier with their location choice. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Diana Tillion dies at 81 Feb 5, 2010
She was paid $100 -- a stupendous sum given the time and place -- to paint a mural of Homer in the old Yah Sure Club saloon. No road reached the lower Kenai Peninsula at that time. (Anchorage Daily News)
True grits: Bluebird Cafe caters to Southern tastes Feb 5, 2010
Currently local artists are working nightly on a large, eye-catching mural that is sure to draw some attention. "We're opening up our walls for local artists to paint murals to show off their work," said Hoeksema. (Big Sky Lone Peak Lookout, MT)
Exploring art in many different ways Feb 5, 2010
The course is offered only once a year and the group of 16 upperclassmen work as a group to choose the location, design a mural and the color scheme that will be used ... The 2009-2010 environmental art class completed the mural January 22 ... Mural artists were: Front, Kaylee Paulson, Danielle Vitali, 2nd row: Lauren Weiler, Annie Frohwein and David Angus, 3rd row: Cameron Bouwens and David Rieck, rear Mitch Lindau, Morgan Magnuson, Carly Savino, Danielle Bigott, Sam, Alli Alldritt and Ashley... (Lindstrom Chisago County Press, MN)
TV Land Celebrates Black History Month with Salute to Visual Arts Group, AfriCOBRA Feb 5, 2010
In the 1960s, a group of talented African American artists called OBAC (Organization for Black American Culture) created the "Wall of Respect" mural in Chicago, IL. The mural depicted African American heroes and leaders of that era ... As a member of the Organization for Black American Culture (OBAC) in 1967 Donaldson organized the visual art workshop that created Chicago's seminal "Wall of Respect" mural, which depicted black heroes and became an iconic symbol of the black pride movement ...... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Russell Simmons' Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation and Procter & Gamble Celebrate the Completion of Nationwide Arts Project Feb 5, 2010
P&G executives took the opportunity to join Artworks Cincinnati, a group that provides meaningful employment and training in the arts for Greater Cincinnati youth, and artist Amanda Williams in completing one last mural showcasing Bounty's mission to provide children with hands-on activities that help to nurture their imagination and curiosity. "Working with America's youth is my passion," said Rush Philanthropic Teaching Artist Amanda Williams, who designed the Building Bounty-ful Bridges mural... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Fargo museum getting $1.2 million mural Feb 5, 2010
2 million mural (Wahpeton, ND and Breckenridge, Minn ... 2 million mural by James Rosenquist, a renowned pop artist who visited Fargo in 2005 ... Museum Director Colleen Sheehy says the mural will boost the museum's profile in the art world. (Wahpeton Daily News, ND)
Valentine's Day getaway for under $500 Jan 29, 2010
The city commissioned the mural. powered by TripAdvisor. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Baker's artistry draws students to school of sugar art in Norcross Jan 28, 2010
The city commissioned the mural. Find Atlanta homes for sale. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
Artist brings salmon to the Imaginarium Jan 28, 2010
Ray Troll Salmon Imaginarium Mural ... Ketchikan artist Ray Troll and volunteer helpers work on a 12 foot by 30 foot mural in the new Imaginarium space in the Anchorage Museum of History and Art ... The mural in the sea life room will feature all 5 species of Pacific salmon. (Anchorage Daily News)
World's uneven economic recovery tops Davos debate Jan 27, 2010
5:20 a.m. Wednesday, January 27, 2010. By BRADLEY S. KLAPPER. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Business)
King of Pop goes truly off the wall Jan 27, 2010
The company has erected a 10 metre by 10 metre glazed brick mural of Michael Jackson at its Horsley Park complex alongside the M7 motorway. It is possibly the world's biggest brick memorial to the pop star. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Public Meetings Jan 26, 2010
Lodi Art Advisory BoardKey items: Receive update on Japantown mural, the Rite of Spring sculpture and Art in Public Places photos. Discuss the Art in Public Places policy. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Paying homage to padi Jan 24, 2010
No, its a balcony overlooking part of the museums stunning mural ... A photo simply cannot do justice to the mural in the Kedah Padi Museum; this one small part depicts a spectacular sunset in a typical padi village ... And while the detailing of the embossed padi stalk motif on the buildings circumference is exquisite, its the wall-to-wall mural in the main building that is the gem of this museum. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Board seeks creative ideas for skate park Jan 17, 2010
The board has discussed soliciting local artists to paint images that could be added to or removed as a progressive mural ... The board discussed soliciting local artists to paint images that could be added to or removed as a progressive mural. (Juneau Empire)
St. Mary's splendor Jan 16, 2010
Aspects of the church have changed, with new floors, new pews and the mural of Mary behind the altar, but the church has not changed its Gothic characteristics or its overall mission. We want this to be a place for the community, Lioi said. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Soldier shows his true colors, to a camp’s delight Jan 15, 2010
Friday January 15, 2010. Soldier shows his true colors, to a camp s delight , Editor-in-Chief01/14/2010. (Queens Chronicle, NY)
Restoring Vancouver's Landmark Nature Mural Jan 15, 2010
WHAT: Renowned muralist and environmental advocate Wyland will be restoring one of his most distinctive Whaling Wall murals in the heart of the City of Vancouver in time for the 2010 Winter Olympics. The 7,200-square foot mural, originally painted in 1994, is among one of the most recognizable landmarks along a major artery into the city ... It is estimated that two-thirds of all traffic heading into the city for the Olympic Games will pass the mural at the north end of the Granville Bridge in... (Primezone Releases)
The last decade: Gains and losses (728) Jan 14, 2010
Murals: Throughout the past decade, numerous walls and public areas around town have undergone a beautification process. As a result, murals have sprouted up around Lodi since 2000 ... The city commissioned Artistic Effects to design the mural and 24 local high school students participated in the painting it. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Silent messages scream through street art Jan 12, 2010
The mural at 18th and Euclid streets is painted in black and white ... The mural hints at a harmony between humans and nature ... On one side of the mural, Jackson is depicted leaning against the wall, hands in his pockets. (University News, MO)
Snapshots of Kingsburg Jan 10, 2010
The book has pictures of the Swedish Festival, local businesses, city workers and store owners, mural, parades, and the Kingsburg depot, among other things. "I love speculating about where we might be, and where we've been. The images bring so much more to your view of the world when you can see these things," he said. (Kingsburg Recorder, CA)
A Year in the Life of Mt. Lake, Butterfield and Odin Jan 10, 2010
MT. LAKE ARTIST Steve Klassen, works on a frangipani flower, the National Flower of Laos, while mural project coordinator Judy Harder, and Byron Franz, of the Trail Blazers 4-H Club, fill in the colors. In the mural are Laotian homes, a temple, animals and farm fields ... The mural was completed last June on the west outside wall of King Egg Roll. (Mt. Lake Observer/Advocate, MN)
Painters bring pool to life Jan 10, 2010
World Photo by Alex Powers Mural designer LeeAnne Hollow-Bennett holds a mock-up of the scene painted on the wall behind her at Reedsport's Highland Pool ... World Photo by Lori Newman LeeAnne Hollow-Bennett has designed many of the murals at the Reedsport pool ... World Photo by Lori Newman LeeAnne Hollow-Bennett, lifeguards and others have created murals, such as these orcas, on just about every wall at Highland Pool. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
CHS Earth Club stays active Jan 10, 2010
Members of the CHS Earth Club, and club adviser Jim Pesout, gather in front of a mural at the school depicting some effects of global warming ... The club has also planted 15 trees on campus, recycled two tons of paper last year, and provides the materials for the design and creation of environmental murals on campus ... They are currently working on more murals to decorate the school and, in the long run, want to create a moving sculpture that runs on solar energy to demonstrate the... (San Andreas Calaveras Enterprise, CA)
Year in Review Jan 10, 2010
The mural "The Cultivation of Raspberries," which graced the old Hopkins Post Office walls before the post office was demolished, returned to Hopkins. A photographic reproduction of a portion of the mural was installed at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, as well as the Hopkins City Hall and the Hopkins Historical Society. (Minnetonka Lakeshore Weekly News, MN)
Writer objects to Islamic mosaic tile Jan 10, 2010
oooph wrote on Jan 9, 2010 9:03 AM:" The seeming endless amount of small mined people who find the time to write editorials to LNS in mind boggling David, it's one of several symbols in a public art project. Stepping on a sidewalk mural depicting the symbol for any religion isn't going to make anyone a terrorist or a saint, or suddenly cause some kind of conversion in religious beliefs. You live in America. The kind of view you espouse is exactly the kind of view you find in most of the... (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Apollo - Internationally Renown Environmental Artist Named Director of Environmental Art Jan 10, 2010
They set up memorial scholarships for foster children, teaching them: music, dance, theater, drawing, cartooning, mural painting creative writing storytelling and book club membership and so much more. Apollo has been a Premiere Portfolio Member at absolutearts. (AbsoluteArts.com)
