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Charter Oak Cultural Center hosts Prison Art Show

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Published April 23, 2010 at 1:15 p.m.

Hartford, CT–  The much anticipated art exhibit of the year will be held this year at the Charter Oak Cultural Center in downtown Hartford.  The 32nd annual show of artwork from Connecticut’s Prisons features 140 artists from 14 correctional facilities, and is open throughout the month of May at Charter Oak.This [ ... ] ...

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With the Rise of Art Prizes, Everyone's a Winner

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Published Jan. 9, 2010 at 1:15 p.m.
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A decade ago, just a handful of awards conferred prestige on artists: the Turner Prize (for British art), the MacArthur (for creative genius in the U.S.), and the Archibald (for portraiture in Australia). But in recent years the number of contemporary-art prizes available has multiplied faster than new film festivals; in the last quarter of 2009 alone, at least a dozen new awards were launched in the U.S. and U.K. They are bankrolled by unfamiliar names like Abraaj, Sovereign, Pictet, and

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RadioActive: Scott Turner Schofield

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Published Sept. 14, 2009 at 9:44 a.m.

Interview with Scott Turner Schofield about transgender activism and his play  “Becoming a Man in 127 EASY steps,” coming to Real Art Ways in Hartford, September 18 and 19.Click here to download the MP3 ...

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Tracing the Travails of the Green Art Movement

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Published June 20, 2009 at 9:36 a.m.
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In the 1970s, around the time of the first Earth Day celebrations, artists such as Robert Smithson set out into the great American West with bulldozers, eager to redefine mankind's relationship with the natural world. They made massive marks on the landscape—digging giant holes, piling up mounds of soil, even dumping asphalt down hillsides in the desert—an art form akin to the great earthworks of ancient civilizations. Smithson, who died in a helicopter crash at the height of his career,

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Russsian Art Gets a Boost from Women Promoters

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Published June 20, 2009 at 9:28 a.m.
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When Dasha Zhukova, the glamorous girlfriend of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, opened her Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in a converted bus depot in Moscow last autumn, art connoisseurs scoffed. What did a 27-year-old socialite, born in Russia but raised mostly in Los Angeles, know about the international contemporary-art scene? As it turns out, quite a bit; Zhukova quickly won over critics with the quality of her exhibitions. The opening show featured the rarely displayed works

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Nauman's Own--Art

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Published May 22, 2009 at 8:28 a.m.
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Some people say that Bruce Nauman is the most influential American artist since Andy Warhol, but when Nauman arrived at art school way back in 1964, he had almost no idea where he was headed. Fresh from being a math and science student back in Wisconsin, the tall, laconic young Nauman painted the most mundane of subjects: landscapes. "I thought art was just something I'd learn how to do, and then I would just do it," he says. He'd landed almost by chance at the University of California, Davis,

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