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LI ARTS
LAST CHANCE "Michal Rovner: Video, Sculpture, Installation" closes Sunday at the Heckscher Museum of Art, 2 Prime Ave., Huntington, 631-351-3250, heckscher.org. $8, $6 seniors, $5 students, younger than 10 admitted free. PLAN AHEAD Soprano Sarah...Tags: Huntington (Hungtington, New York)
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Artists at first Heckscher Draw Out in Huntington
steve.parks@newsday.comWhen I was about 5, my grandmother, noting my Roy Rogers six-shooters in twin holsters on both hips, commanded, "Draw!" "But I don't have paper and crayons," I said in my nonviolent innocence. I learned to draw my toy guns soon enough, but I never...Tags: Books and Magazines, Ray Johnson, James Rosenquist, Libraries and Museums, Huntington (Suffolk, New York)
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8 art exhibits to see
steve.parks@newsday.comPeople, Politics and Perversion: The Photographs of Hélène Gaillet (Monday-Dec. 19, Hillwood Art Museum, C.W. Post, Brookville). The celebrity of politics and the politics of celebrity are revealed in the candid portraits of artists and politicians by the...Tags: Vincent van Gogh, Libraries and Museums, Manhattan (New York City), Photography, Museum of Modern Art
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'Sand' at Parrish, Buckminster Fuller at Whitney
Special to NewsdaySand: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor (June 29-Sept. 14 at Parrish Art Museum, Southampton). We play in it, loll on it, build castles out of it, and wash it out of our hair, but what, exactly, does sand mean? Its physical and metaphysical significance is...Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, East Islip, Jane Freilicher, Libraries and Museums, Jasper Johns
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Rediscovering the Heckscher Museum of Art
robert.kahn@newsday.comThe Expressionist-era canvas that some curators unabashedly call "the most famous painting on Long Island" returned to Huntington this month after two years at the Met, where it was cleaned and brightened, and later included as part of an exhibit on...Tags: Gardens and Parks, Thomas Eakins, Libraries and Museums, Tourism and Leisure, Photography
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ART
ariella.budick@newsday.comCRITIC'S PICKS Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era (Through Sept. 16 at the Whitney Museum of Art, Manhattan). The art of psychedelia was about eye-popping colors, free-form ooze, obsessive fantasies, altered consciousness and the broadening of...Tags: Animals, Fashion Trends, Malcolm X, Libraries and Museums, Tourism and Leisure
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Fall Arts: Art calendar
Critic's Picks
Mark Markov-Grinberg. Photographer Markov-Grinberg chronicled the dark and heady rise of the Soviet Union from the 1920s through the '40s. These were the years of Stalin's purges, of forced collectivization and mass industrialization. They...Tags: Architecture, Religious Conflicts, Animals, Sarah Bernhardt, Libraries and Museums
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Newsday, charities distribute more than $1 million to not-for-profits on Long Island and in New York
Feb. 21, 2005, Long Island, NY – Charitable groups that serve communities on Long Island and in New York received a total of more than $1 million from Newsday and Newsday Charities, a fund of the McCormick Tribune Foundation, at an annual grants reception...Tags: Wages and Pensions, Family, Children, Christianity, Charity
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LI is alive with art groups, big and small
Newsday Staff WriterLong Island is alive with arts groups, large and small, all seeking audiences, funding and a place in the sun. Long overshadowed by proximity to the city, the collective voice of the Long Island Arts Alliance wants to prove that the Island's arts scene...Tags: Man Ray, Jacob Lawrence, Ansel Adams, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Dancing
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Long Island Museums
ariella.budick@newsday.comThe word museum includes a ridiculously broad range of institutions, from majestic repositories of olden paintings to rickety display cases of someone's peculiar obsessions. Some museums require several days of intense concentration, others are best...Tags: Libraries and Museums, Suffolk County (New York), Walt Whitman, Hofstra University, North Fork
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Huntington has thriving cultural scene
Native son Walt Whitman poetically described 19th century Huntington as "the place for him who wishes life in its flavor and its bloom." More than a century after his death in 1892, it still is.
The town's self-styled "Little Apple" billing is...Tags: Walt Whitman, Nathan Hale, Arts
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Young artists among LI's best
Newsday Staff WriterJust to have your artwork shown in the 10th annual Long Island's Best exhibit was glory enough for most of the 80 young artists, whose work was chosen from among 280 submissions. But having the gold seal of a winner affixed to your work viewed by 550...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Schools, Pablo Picasso, New York University
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