The News Review:

- PHT GALLERY: Blue Diamond almonds
- Hounds hang on to beat Petes (photo gallery)
- … -inch digital photo frame with MP3 player – Image 1 of 1 -…
- How to paint a portrait by Robert Hannaford
- Great Filipino artists to exhibit masterpieces
- Black and white – and anything but

PHT GALLERY: Blue Diamond almonds
Modesto Bee – Nov 17, 2007
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Hounds hang on to beat Petes (photo gallery)
SooToday.com – Nov 17, 2007
The Hounds move into a tie with the Windsor Spitfires for first place in the ntario Hockey League’s west division but remain three points behind the Kitchener Rangers for the western conference lead. The Greyhounds now hit the road with a stops in Sudbury on Tuesday Plymouth Friday afternoon and Sarnia on Saturday. (Video highlights will not be available for tonight’s game but a photo gallery by SooToday. com’s Donna Hopper follows.

… -inch digital photo frame with MP3 player – Image 1 of 1 -…
Gizmag – Nov 17, 2007
EDGE Tech Corp’s new offering is a 12-inch 800 x 600 resolution display for still and video images with an integrated MP3 player for musical accompaniment utilizing the inbuilt stereo speakers. « Back to EDGE Tech Corp’s new 12-inch digital photo frame with MP3 player.

How to paint a portrait by Robert Hannaford
NEWS.com.au – Nov 17, 2007
It could be abstract or a found object or a film or movement or sound or anything – so long as you recognise or have a "real" response to it. Confusion can arise also when somebody tries to compliment me by saying my painting "looks like a photo". This makes me cringe – for I dislike photo-realism or even "blindly" copying what you see. Yet I am complimented too for I do try to capture the real the accurate colours tones shapes and movements in my visual field. In fact this is what excites me more than anything. So what is the difference? Well to avoid the murky waters of definitions and contradictions I’ll just describe what I do when I paint a portrait. The same would apply of course to landscapes still-life or any other subject though time and intent could vary enormously… They are very important to him. He is still grieving over the loss of the 200 studies he made of dignitaries for the major painting of the Centenary of Federation in 2001 commissioned from the Commonwealth Government and echoing the great Tom Roberts Federation painting of a century before. The books of sketches went missing when they were delivered to an art gallery in Riverton and nothing has been heard of them since. Fortunately Hannaford had facsimile copies but he always hopes for their return. Nothing is a rehearsal. Everything is art in Hannaford’s eyes. "Everything I paint and draw is the real thing in itself" he says.

Great Filipino artists to exhibit masterpieces
sunstar.com.ph – Nov 17, 2007
If only history lessons were taught with visits to the museum it might not be as threatening as it sounds today. Luna known for his Spolarium masterpiece but the gallery would show some of the works of Luna that he has done here in the country. ne of his famous masterpieces that is on display is the Lady on the Racetrack. Another master of Philippine Art is Amorsolo whose claim to fame is his manner of capturing the soft bounce of sunlight making his works evoke a surreal feeling… Contrary to Amorsolo who had an inclination for the arts even in his childhood Fernando Zobel was already a young adult when he made the conscious decision to become an artist. Zobel’s paintings experimented with the abstract and played with the depth and thickness of the lines which creates movement in his pieces. Due to the fragile nature of the art works only replicas on photo canvass were brought to a nationwide tour which kicked off in Davao City last Monday. Replicas of the works of Luna Amorsolo and Zobel will be on display at the Don Antonio Floirendo gallery of the Davao Museum from November 12 to December 5. The original art pieces are at the Ayala Museum in Makati City. For Bisaya stories from Davao.

Black and white – and anything but
Globe and Mail – Nov 17, 2007
The relaunch of a museum after a renovation or rebuilding is a ripe opportunity to change the narratives of art history proposing new links between works and refreshing the collection with new ideas. Thus in the new AG a gallery full of paintings by Montreal artist Betty Goodwin will be anchored by a tiny Inuit carving of a ghost figure. And a forest painting by Emily Carr will share a wall with a photograph of an upside-down tree by the Vancouver photo-conceptualist Rodney Graham. The full text of this article has 1313 words… The relaunch of a museum after a renovation or rebuilding is a ripe opportunity to change the narratives of art history proposing new links between works and refreshing the collection with new ideas. Thus in the new AG a gallery full of paintings by Montreal artist Betty Goodwin will be anchored by a tiny Inuit carving of a ghost figure. And a forest painting by Emily Carr will share a wall with a photograph of an upside-down tree by the Vancouver photo-conceptualist Rodney Graham. The full text of this article has 1313 words.