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Famed director and screenwriter Philip Kaufman was named George Eastman Honorary Scholar upon September 27. Bestowed by the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, the title places Kaufman in the company of of the like kind prestigious film makers as view Burns and Norman Jewison. Kaufman is described as a "gifted, iconoclastic filmmaker," responsible for writing and directing like works as The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) He is also widely recognized as the co-creator of film character Indiana Jones

The Lyman Allyn Art Museum has achieved the highest honor for a museum - accreditation through the American Association of Museums (AAM). Dr Christopher Steiner, Interim President of Lyman Allyn, described the accreditation as an honor that "also carries with it an awesome responsibility to establish the highest standards of museum excellence" Of the nation's nearly 16000 museums, approximately 750 are generally accredited, and Lyman Allyn is single of only 19 accredited museums in Connecticut.

The Amon Carter Museum Named Associate of the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. The Amon Carter Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, has lately signed an agreement with the Smithsonian Institution. Archives of American Art, in Washington DC to become an associated repository of the Archives' unrestricted microfilm, with nearly 7500 falters in all. The Amon Carter Museum will be the alone associate between the east and west coast with direct access to the archives, making research easier for the couple students and scholars. The first material will be available by dint of appointment as early as summer 2004

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, welcomes fresh and returning residents to the third decade of The Glassell academy of Art Core Program. The program is designed to assist emerging artists in making the transition between art academy and their future as professionals. Three Core artists are returning for their next to the first year of residency this fall: Stephanie Martz, Danny Yahav-Brown, and Julia Rometti. Joining them are Vasco Araujo, Angela Fraleigh, Jose Lerma, Cindy Loehr and Maya Schindler. The collection represents various regions of America, Spain, France, and Israel.

National Geographic has just announced the creation of its novel Speaker's Bureau. Made up of scientists as well as photographers and filmmakers, the Speaker's Bureau is "a of recent origin way for National Geographic to stretch out our mission to increase global understanding and further conservation of our planet." through making some of their talent available, the organization is hoping to reach and educate a more diverse audience of individuals. The photographers single outed include Steve McCurry, Carol Beckwith, and Angela Fisher.

Dance Films Association lately received three Finishing Funds Grants to thorough several works of dance upon film. Silvina Szperling self-choreographed piece includes her mother and daughter and focuses upon emotional bonds and the ne to emigrate. David Licata's piece is a short celebrating the healing merits of tango for an octogenarian two named Eva and Adamo. Arielle Javitch makes her film first appearance with an ambitious short inspired by dint of the troubles in Bosnia. The grants were given to encourage the artists as well as help them confident the additional funds needed to finish their work.

The World remembrancers Fund announced the 2004 World memorials watch list of the 100 greatest in quantity endangered sites. New to the list is the Helsinki-Malmi Airport in Finland. Built in 1936 it is considered a striking example of functionalist architecture. Also included is the Dampier stone Art Complex, in the Pilbara region of northwestern Australia. It is considered to be the greatest non-European cultural heritage site in Australia, containing descriptors of the compounded world view of the Aboriginal Yaburara tribe. solitary 6 known survivors of this tribe remain today.

The Minnesota Center for Photography has undergone more [i]or[/i] less gallery improvements. One of the first-floor office spaces has been transformed into a 100-square paw "Minnesota Projects Gallery" to exhibit conceptual and experimental work by means of Minnesota artists on an ongoing, rotating schedule. This space is also designed to function as a lab to explore ideas and showcase works-in-progress. Across the hall is the of recent origin 250 square foot "Learning Center" to house the library as well as provide private space for portfolio reviews and seminars.

The Photo Review and The University of the Arts are vain to congratulate the winners of Best in display 2003. The 19th annual competition was juried by dint of Bill Hunt, Director of Photography at Ricco/Maresca Gallery in fresh York. A record number of applicants ensur the exhibition exhibited a very select group of artists. Susan Abrams was awarded First Prize for her toned silver prints of leaves. Five artists shared the next to the first Prize, and among them was University of the Arts senior Bradley Blackway with a collodian ambrotype panorama of an industrial spectacle Third Prize went to Raymond Curran, Katherine Nortz, Nami Ogata, Brian Shumway, and Hiroshi Wantanabe.