As a girl who's had a very specific tattoo designed by an actual artist only to get cold feet not once but twice at New York Adorned (sorry, Damien!), I practically wept with glee when the fine folks at Chanel sent over their new Temporary Skin Art collection, straight off their couture runway.

ARTINFO - Though artist Faith Ringgold is perhaps best known for delighting American schoolchildren with her lusciously illustrated 1991 masterwork of a children’s book "Tar Beach," her first public commission was actually designed for another audience: female prisoners eating in the cafeteria of the Rikers Island prison in New York City. Now that incarcerated work, the 1971 "For the Women’s House," is being released after a tumultuous stretch for a show at the Neuberger Museum of Art, in Purchase, New York.

It's September, folks. Time to bring on the apples -- and the apple celebrations. First up is the Art & Apples Festival, a three-day affair that typically draws about 125,000 serious art lovers and casual revelers. Music, activities for kids and food are on the menu, of course, but the event's centerpiece is the juried art show, billed as Michigan's second-largest. Nearly 300 artists from all ...

Sondheim on Sondheim, the musical revue of Sondheim's career that intersperses songs from his shows in between recorded video interviews of the composer talking about his work that was seen at Broadway's Studio 54 earlier this year, is eyeing a London bow.

Poet Frank O'Hara died during the birth of the preservation movement in New York City, and it didn't seem like he was that big a fan. About New York City, he told a friend, "You have to just keep...

Content partner Roby Brock has a new poll out today that shows a lead for Republicans running for statewide “down the ballot” constitutional offices. The results track largely with the Republican generic advantage we have seen develop throughout this current election cycle. Here are the results… Lieutenant Governor Mark Darr (R) 44% Shane Broadway (D) 27% Undecided 29% Secretary of [...]

ARTINFO - "Tonight, I’m announcing that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended," President Obama declared last week. Seven years after the United States-led invasion of the country, the war is officially over. In the U.K., however, the debate over Britain's involvement in the conflict is as fractious as ever: the government’s "Iraq Inquiry" has been severely criticized, and former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s newly published autobiography, "A Journey," has triggered angry protests.

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Except where indicated, all area codes are 419. Toledo Museum of Art: 2445 Monroe St.; 255-8000; Canaday Gallery: The Psychedelic 60s: Posters from the Rock Era; through Sun. Works on Paper Galleries: Travelers Through Ancient Lands: Fri. through Feb. 6. Community Gallery: Cancer Connection; through Sept. 26; Athena Art Society: through Oct. 3. Hours: Tue.-Thu., 10 a.m.-4; Fri., 10 a.m.-10; Sat ...

Except where indicated, all area codes are 419. Toledo Museum of Art: 2445 Monroe St.; 255-8000; Canaday Gallery: The Psychedelic 60s: Posters from the Rock Era; through Sun. Works on Paper Galleries: Travelers Through Ancient Lands: Fri. through Feb. 6. Community Gallery: Cancer Connection; through Sept. 26; Athena Art Society: through Oct. 3. Hours: Tue.-Thu., 10 a.m.-4; Fri., 10 a.m.-10; Sat ...

A YouTube video shows a lion attacking trainer at MGM Grand Resort in Las Vegas.

THE CHATHAMS – Love the footlights and greasepaint of the Great White Way? Then Chatham Recreation has just the ticket.

CHISHOLM — Minnesota Discovery Center’s new Art in the Park initiative ended on a high note last week. Held every Thursday, the free concert series featured local bands of different genres and styles.

The Berkeley Repertory Theatre, known for sending shows to Broadway, purchased an office and warehouse building in West Berkeley for additional rehearsal space.

Last year, as the down-on-their-luck fashion and retail industries hopelessly kicked a rock down Fifth Avenue in New York City, Anna Wintour had a light bulb moment. The editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine came up with an idea intended to recapture the shopping enthusiasm the recession stole. She called it Fashion's Night Out (FNO) and got more than 700 stores to participate in a night of designer ...

Intricately hand-carved carousel horses, tigers, and bears and exquisitely rendered circus posters evoking a bygone era of the fairground as a Disney -esque attraction are going on the auction block. New York City - Horse - The Walt Disney Company - Carousel - Shopping

'All About Color," an art exhibition and sale by the New York City-based American Society of Contemporary Artists (ASCA) and the Denville-based NJ Foundation for the Blind (NJFFB) is being presented from Tuesday through Oct. 27 in celebration of Blindness Awareness Month.

A new 'art on demand' online store, http://www.russellcotesartshop.co.uk, has been launched by the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, allowing people to transform their homes with quality reproduction art from its world-renowned collection.

The newlyweds were videotaping the lions and their two trainers, when all of a sudden one of the lions lunged at one of the trainers.

The Milan Art Center will host a fundraiser from 4:30 to 11 p.m. Sept. 30 at the Original Gravity Brewing Co. to compile matching funds for a grant offered by the Greater Milan Area Community Foundation.

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Area residents will have the unique opportunity to see and purchase art from a five-state region when the first Williston “Wild Bunch” Art Show is held at the Airport International Inn in Williston, N.D., this weekend.

The "Voices for Change" art exhibit featured works from a contest held for kids in either Virginia’s foster care system or who had recently been adopted from the foster care system.

Three artists at Waco’s Stanton Glass Studio show their skill in Art Center Waco’s current show, but it’s a fourth participant — light — that makes their works come to life.

City of Industry, Calif.--Hong Kong-based holding company Top Trade has announced the formation of its first watch group, the Santorinos Watch Group, which will debut next month during the Las Vegas trade shows.

The Art & Apples Festival, Paint Creek Center for the Arts’ renowned art festival and now celebrating its 45th year of hosting more than 125,000 visitors in Rochester Park, has been named one of the Top 20 fine art festivals in the U.S. by Sunshine Artist Magazine.

The C.M. Russell Museum is the new owner of the title, "C.M. Russell Art Auction," after settling a dispute with the Great Falls Advertising Federation (aka Ad Club).

The Brentwood Art Society will open its final production of the season with the upbeat, family-friendly "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat." The musical, the second British theatrical show written by the team of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, opens tonight in the Saddlespan tent

In the two years since the release of Bethesda Softworks’ critically acclaimed Fallout 3, the team has been hard at work creating their latest post-nuke romp, Fallout: New Vegas. If big guns, mutants, warring factions and gambling are your thing, check out Veronica’s visit with Senior Producer, Jason Bergman, for an in-depth preview of what’s [...]

The Palmerton Concourse Club is still accepting art and photography for its annual Palmerton Community Festival Art and Photography Exhibit on Saturday, Sept. 11 from 10 a.m.-8 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 12 from 1-4 p.m., at St. John Neumann School at Third and Lafayette Ave. in Palmerton.

Initial stars and auction items have been announced for the 24th Annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction, set for 10 AM-7 PM Sept. 26 in the theatre district's Shubert Alley and West 44th Street.

An online ‘art fair’ captures the real, interactive spirit of virtual art

A couple's honeymoon in Vegas turned into a wild safari after they witnessed a violent lion attack.

RSF artist Debra Gershen has created a work of art for the Memories in the Making® Art Auction on Monday, Oct. 4, 5:30 p.m. at Copley Plaza at the Old Globe Theatre. This first-time auction event has paired a total of 16 professional artists with artists with dementia.

Welcome to September — better known to us theatre folk as the start of the fall season. Announced so far are 17 new shows on the Broadway boards from now till December. These works are based on a myriad of sources that range from American history to comic books to true stories to true-ish stories. One of the biggest sources of inspiration for this Broadway season is TV shows and films.

Damn, this city’s got talent. Preservation Is The Art Of The City ’s 8th Annual Art Show & Sale begins on Friday and runs through Sept. 25. This is a great opportunity to get some original works by some of the city’s best artists.

ARTINFO - A Kennedy Center Honor, which the Kennedy Center’s website likens to a knighthood in Britain, is the ultimate reward for a person’s “lifetime contribution to American culture.” This year those contributions included outlaw country music, "Yesterday," uplifting car giveaways, and scintillatingly vibrant choreography.

Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres popped up on the Broadway stage Tuesday when she made a surprise guest appearance in the musical "Promises, Promises," joining stars Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth. A few hours before appearing on Broadway, Ellen stopped...

ARTINFO - As a reminder that the looting of Iraq's heritage has hardly been restricted to the militant thieves who pillaged the Iraqi National Museum after the 2003 American invasion, the United States has repatriated a group of objects, some of which were apparently taken as war booty, and others that reflect the region's history of artifact smuggling. This step, by all accounts, is only a small one in what will have to be a concerted international effort to undo the work of all kinds of opportunistic raiders.

ARTINFO - As Sotheby's and Christie's stake out their blue-chip consignment territory in advance of the fall market season, second-string boutique Phillips de Pury seems to be working a burgeoning, if unglamorous, niche: helping disgraced financiers sell off their ill-gotten art. After bringing in more than $24 million this spring by auctioning the collection of debt-ridden Internet entrepreneur Hasley Minor, Phillips is now angling for the corporate art collection of the defunct law firm of Marc Dreier, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for federal fraud after having attempted to sell $700 million bonus promissory notes to investors. According to the Wall Street Journal, a bankruptcy official has filed for court approval for a November 21 Phillips auction of the modern and contemporary works Dreier amassed before his 2008 arrest. The 81-piece collection includes works by Damien Hirst, Henri Matisse, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, and Willem de Kooning, as well as photographs of the Dreier family and of Audrey Hepburn playing that other fiscally inept individual Holly Golightly in "Breakfast at Tiffany’s."

If there is an art to not letting anything go to waste, Jamie Harper has mastered it in Used Coats and Doors, a recycled art show opening this week.

Art critic Brian Sewell "says it is time to kill off the Arts Council and replace it with Dragons Den-style funding bids, organised through the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Dramatic video shows a 400-pound lion attacking his trainer at an MGM lion exhibit while a second trainer and a lioness help force the animal off.

ARTINFO - With Fashion Week fast approaching, a grateful look to the golden age of couture, when clothing design approached the realm of art, seems to be merited. Thankfully, it is readily available at the Brisbane’s Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, which is hosting "Valentino, Retrospective: Past/Present/Future" until November 14. Developed by curator Pamela Golbin from the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the show highlights 100 ensembles, celebrating the past half-century of garb by the Italian fashion house.

The Las Vegas MGM Resort's lion exhibit roars with excitement, but a video that recently surfaced on the Internet shows a moment of terror when one of the 400-pound lions turned on its trainer. Las Vegas Nevada - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Nevada - United States - Counties

Reuters - Former British premier Tony Blair has been forced to postponed a party at the Tate Modern art gallery celebrating the launch of his autobiography because of threats from anti-war protesters, his office said on Wednesday.