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What is art? TMZ art history

Thursday, Feb. 21,2008 12:03 a.m.

Looking back over the course of art history, many young people think that there is little to be interested in. We see the wigged out (literally) composers and painters of the past as antique images, their lives uninteresting, their lifestyles out-of-touch and ancient. More often than not, we are taught about their works and how they affected their period and today.

Black theater troupe to perform minstrel show

By Sarah Brubeck · Thursday, Feb. 21,2008 12:01 a.m.

A minstrel show is usually thought of as an all-white cast dressed in blackface performing as black characters.

Artist weaves life into her work

Thursday, Feb. 21,2008 12 a.m.

In a way, local artist Martina Celerin has been an artist all her life. She admits she has been creating things since she was a child, but after her life chose other paths, she found her way back to art and now wants to get the community involved in the world of art.

Politically artistic

By Dae Woo Son · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 11:58 p.m.

During the 12 days of the 24th annual ArtsWeek, a Bloomington winter arts festival, a motley crew of visual artists, musicians, photographers, dancers, journalists, lawyers and academics will explore this year’s theme, “Politics and the Arts,” said Sherry Knighton-Schwandt, coordinator of ArtsWeek.

Country star to perform at Bluebird

By Meredith Brown · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 1:17 a.m.

Musician Phil Vassar will take over a local club come Thursday night. Vassar will bring his first-ever acoustic tour to Bloomington at 9 p.m. Thursday at The Bluebird.

Crocodile Hunter’s 4-year-old son not fazed by 1st snake bite

Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 12:57 a.m.

The 4-year-old son of “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin wasn’t at all alarmed when he was recently bitten by a baby boa constrictor, his mother said.

Disney’s ‘Enchanted’ up for Academy Award

By Michael Cidoni · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 12:56 a.m.

The co-composer of songs from Walt Disney’s musical hit “Enchanted” has three of the five nominations in the original-song category going into Sunday’s Academy Awards.

Swiss police say 2 stolen impressionist paintings recovered in Zurich parking lot

By Ernst E. Abegg · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 12:53 a.m.

The pictures by Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet were among four paintings worth $163 million that were stolen from a private museum in a Feb. 10 armed robbery.

Center to host ‘A Call for Peace’

By Anna Radtke · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 12:51 a.m.

Part of Bloomington’s ArtsWeek 2008, “A Call for Peace” will feature performing artists including Tom Roznowski, Scott Russell Sanders and Carolyn Dutton. The event will showcase poems, music, pictures, story-telling in song, readings and visual art.

Letters from abroad: Milan: Where Versace meets Verdi

By Lindsey Landis · Monday, Feb. 18,2008 9:08 p.m.

BOLOGNA, Italy – Paris. New York. London. Milan. These four cities are known as fashion capitals of the world.

Dance performance to highlight theme of restricted movement

By Christian Hines · Monday, Feb. 18,2008 9:05 p.m.

Whether they are exploring the claustrophobic dynamics of a train car or the inventive acrobatics of concession-stand workers, members of the Windfall Dancers Company challenge audiences’ perception of space and confinement in their upcoming show, “Edgy Things in Small Spaces.”

The book will be available later this month.

IU publishes book with works from Art Museum galleries

Monday, Feb. 18,2008 9:04 p.m.

After two years of editing, writing and shooting, the IU Art Museum has compiled a “masterwork” of pieces from its galleries into a book, due for release later this month.

Awkward Silence creates 4 improvised musicals

By Allison Tyra · Monday, Feb. 18,2008 2:30 p.m.

The John Waldron Arts Center auditorium rang with laughter last Thursday, Friday and Saturday as Awkward Silence Comedy created four brand-new, on-the-spot musicals for crowds of 60 to 100 people.

IU Auditorium hosts Garrison Keillor's ‘A Prairie Home Companion’ broadcast

By Allison Tyra · Monday, Feb. 18,2008 1:32 a.m.

The sold-out crowd at the IU Auditorium alternated between laughter, silence and thunderous applause Friday night as Garrison Keillor and company showed that after 32 years, his radio variety show, “A Prairie Home Companion,” is still going strong. PODCAST: Hoosier Headlines

‘Monologues’ open hearts and minds

By Jeff corso · Monday, Feb. 18,2008 12:24 a.m.

For two nights at the Whittenberger Auditorium in the Indiana Memorial Union, a large ensemble of women opened not only their hearts, but the hearts and minds of an audience packed to capacity. Eve Ensler’s witty and powerful story, “The Vagina Monologues,” closed Friday at IU.

‘National icon’ comes to Auditorium

By Allison Tyra · Friday, Feb. 15,2008 4:25 p.m.

“Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where the women are strong, the men are good-looking and the children are above average.” Now in its 32nd year on the radio, Garrison Keillor’s matchless program, “A Prairie Home Companion,” will bring the fictitious small town of Lake Wobegon, Minn., to the IU Auditorium at 5:45 p.m.

Auction money to support kids

Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 10:10 p.m.

The IU chapter of One Here...One There will host its first annual silent art auction and art benefit today at Upland Brewery to raise money for children in sub-Saharan Africa.

Le Dernier Cri: The most diverse industry on Earth

Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 9:36 p.m.

There is no industry more diverse and more tolerant than the fashion industry. It is tolerant of all different things: skin color, age, gender, religion, country of origin, ideas and sexual orientation.

Around the Arts

Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 1:21 a.m.

Photography and DART area shows When: Noon to 4 p.m. Feb. 14 to 16 Where: School of Fine Arts, room 123 Cost: Free More Info: www.indiana.edu/~sofa/

Past, present, future expressed through the Art of Bloomington’s Black History Month

By Allison Tyra · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 1:15 a.m.

The African American Arts Institute, sponsored by Arts Week, will present “Worlds Collide: Spirit, Soul and Body” in the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Grand Hall at 6 p.m. Monday . This is just one of the upcoming events commemorating Black History Month with art at IU.

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