August 2006 Page 16

> DUST ART
Got this rather amazing piece of visual information from Connie Champagne, of Saginaw, who found it somewhere... it reminded me again of Marcel Duchamp's "dust raising" done for his Large Glass... only more so.

http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=23232

> MISSOURI SOUTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY - Lecture Series
MSSU in Joplin, through their INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, produces a number of noteworthy (and FREE!!!) art-related lectures:
"French Cinema: What do you know about it?" September 14th
"What's Dada/Surrealism?" September 28th
"Picasso's Problem" September 29th
"Ocular Anxiety and the Pink Tea Cup: Edgar Degas's Woman with a Bandaged Eye" November 10th
"Unmasking Manet's Morisot" November 10th

In addition, the university's SPIVA ART GALLERY on campus will present "Printmaking from the French Avant Garde" from August 28 - September 22.

I certainly plan on attending every single one of those!

http://www.mssu.edu/france