ARTTalk - New Orleans Museum of Art

--The Times-Picayune has reported that the New Orleans Museum of Art has survived the hurricane without significant damage. Several personnel remained on duty, and the temporary lack of climate control has been remedied. Of 50 works, one sculpture by Kenneth Snelson in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden was destroyed and significant damage occurred to the landscape. Security guards have been brought in to protect the museum, and National Guardsmen are on duty, as well.

CERF, the Craft Emergency Relief Fund, has a mission to strengthen and sustain the careers of craft artists across the U.S. Their emergency relief programs provide assistance to help sustain a craft artist's career when an emergency occurs. CERF is now working to connect with craft artists, galleries and others in the areas affected by Katrina. For ongoing updates, fundraising campaigns and message board postings, go to http://craftemergency.org/katrina/ or call 802.229.2306.

--"Quilter's Comfort America" received and distributed more than 7,000 quilts and 4,500 pieces of bedding in their project to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina. The 31st Annual International Quilt Market/Festival is scheduled October 27-30 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. Because Hurricane Rita has not yet reached Texas as of this writing, please call 713.781.6864 or see www.quilts.com for further updates/information.

--The de Young Museum will re-open in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, on October 15 in a landmark new building. The three-level, 298,000 sq. ft. building reduces the museum's footprint by 37% and returns nearly two acres of open space to Golden Gate Park. The de Young will inaugurate its new special exhibition galleries with an ambitious exhibition showcasing objects from Egypt's Golden Age, Daughter of Re: Hatshepsut, King of Egypt, on view from Oct. 15 to Jan. 29, 2006, with over 100 objects on view.

--The Wexner Center (Columbus, OH), the country's only fully multidisciplinary arts center rooted in a major research university (Ohio State U.), will re-open with a week of festivities from Oct. 29 Nov. 5. The events celebrate the completion of a comprehensive three-year $15.8 million renovation of the Center's unprecedented building by Peter Eisenman, which will unite the Center under one roof. Among the festivities is Part Object Part Sculpture, Oct. 30 Feb. 26, 2006, an exhibition that reinterprets the course of the visual arts over the past half century by exploring the organic, hand-made work of artists from Marcel Duchamp and Louise Bourgeois to Robert Gober and Wexner Center Residency Award artist Josiah McElheny.

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Presents

"Basic Airbrush Techniques"
with Robert Paschal
November 12, 2005
Beacon, NY

For further information on the above class, visit www.arttalk.com/workshop/workshop.htm or call 845.831.1043