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April 2004  

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Wellington, New Zealand

Title: Flag Display at Wellington Harborfront
Artist: Angus Watt
Image Courtesy: New Zealand International Arts Festival

New Zealand International Arts Festival
until March 21, 2004

This is the last week to enjoy the New Zealand Festival of Arts in that beautiful city. Make certain to view the Wellington Waterfront and enjoy the Flags Display by Angus Watt.

Contemporary Chinese Art is featured at the Adam Art Gallery with a focus on the significance of massive urbanization in China. The New Zealand Academy of Fine Art has a retrospective of Iskandar Jalil, Singapore's celebrated ceramic artist. View the new works by Dempsey Bob, Norman Jackson and Stan Bevan in the Contemporary Tlingit Art from North American Exhibit at Pataka. These are just a few of an incredible display of talented art and artists from the home of Middle Earth.

Title: New Zealand Festival of Arts: Dawn of the First Day
Image Courtesy: New Zealand International Arts Festival

New Zealand does it again. Clearly the country is a leader in bringing innovative and talented artists to the people first in Auckland and now in Wellington.

New Zealand Arts Festival at www.nzfestival.telecom.co.nz

Regina, Saskatchewan

Soundtracks

until May 17, 2004 at The MacKenzie Art Gallery

Explore the relationship between visual art and music through a series of events that examine the relationship between music and art. 

Come a Singing! looks at the relationship between Canadian Art and folk culture featuring artists Lawren Harris, Arthur Lismer,  A Y. Jackson and J. E. H. MacDonald. All were members of the world famous Group of Seven.

See Hear! examines the image-sound interaction in the early to mid 1960's. Included are Michael Snow, Yves Gaucher and John Cage.

Re-play looks at the relationship between individuals and their personal relations with popular music "how we create the soundtrack of our lives". Eighteen artists are featured such as Stan Douglas, Rodney Graham and Tim Lee.

Tourism Regina at www.tourismregina.com

Salem, Massachusetts

Peabody Essex Museum
Under the Imperial Gaze
Wheatland Family Gallery
Until May 2, 2004

Visitors have the opportunity to view two rare silk hand scrolls that are having their first public exhibition. They were created by the imperial painting studios and illustrate the 18th Century Qianlong Empire. Follow the emperor's journey through the scrolls that show the emperor's entourage as he travels through cities and countryside. 

Peabody Essex Museum at www.pem.org

London, England

The Leighton House Museum

Inspired by Africa
April 7-8, 2004, 2 to 4 pm

A two-day workshop for children aged 8 to 12 to experience some of the countries visited by Frederic Leighton such as Algeria, Morocco and Egypt.

Leighton House at www.rbkc.gov.uk/LeightonHouseMuseum

Oro Valley, Arizona

April 3-4, 2004

The 10th Annual Oro Festival for the Arts will include a variety of performing arts alongside 60 artists with their individual exhibitions of paintings, sculptures, function art, mixed media and photography

Greater Oro Valley Arts Council at www.govac.org

Oberlin, Ohio

Allen Memorial Art Museum
Going Modern at the Allen: American Painting and Sculpture 1950 -1980

Ellen Johnson Gallery
until June 6, 2004

Lichtenstein, Rothko, Serra, Sella, Warhol and Calder are a small list of the artists included in this retrospective of post-war art.

Walk through abstract expressionism, hard edge abstraction, color field painting, minimalism and post-modern art while enjoying these artists and their works.

Allen Memorial Art Museum at www.oberlin.edu/allenart