TOPANGA, Calif. (AP) -- He is, and likely forever will be, best known as good old Wally Cleaver, the big brother who had to bail out a goofball sibling facing one dilemma after another on the classic TV series "Leave it to Beaver."... full story ![]()

The hurricane-force thrust from a jet engine pushes Tarinan von Anhalt into the air as she splatters an array of colors into the wind and onto a blank canvas to create the abstract designs she has become known for.
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Antonio (Tony) Oliveira, brother of State Representative René O. Oliveira, died overnight of an apparent heart attack. He was 53.
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The brother of a local con artist is wanted on an outstanding theft warrant after he was allegedly paid $10,000 for landscape work and never returned.
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Among the homes in the Cathedral City Cove neighborhood is a house once occupied by an abstract artist who died more than 50 years ago, but has since received international acclaim for her work.
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Artworks Gallery and Studio, 503 Lackawanna Avenue Scranton, will host the opening reception of Abstract Landscapes, recent paintings by Newton artist Brooke Wandall, shown at left and right, May 3 from 6 to 9 p.m.
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MANCHESTER - The Currier Museum of Art has acquired major works by Pop artist Robert Indiana and abstract artists Frank Stella and Sam Gilliam.
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This is a series of digital paintings by 19-year old Hungarian artist Flora Borsi imagining what the models for some famous abstract portraits might have looked like. Definitely not the kind of models you'd want posing nude. Speaking of, when I was in college I took a drawing class and we had real naked people come pose for us and one time it was this lady who looked like...
geekologie.com (5 days ago)

We came across these abstract pieces via Creative Bloq, and were rather taken with their bold horizontal lines of color. The really interesting thing, however, is that they're actually album covers -- they're part of a series called Average Albums, produced by artist Matt Booth via a technique that breaks the image into a series of horizontal strips and then averages the...
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LONDON — London's Tate Modern says it will stage the largest-ever exhibition of late works by Henri Matisse next year. "Henri Matisse: the Cut-Outs" will be devoted to the colorful paper compositions the French artist created late in his career. The 120 works on show will include the 33 foot-long (10 meter-long) "Large Composition With Masks," loaned by the National Gallery...
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