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Local art dealers and Flagler art students react to gallery closings

By Holly Elliott | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photo by Mary Elizabeth Fair

PHOTO CAPTION: Like many local art galleries, Mullet Beach Gallery now offers larger discounts and is open for more hours each week in hopes of picking up business.

Summer 2009 brings the deaths of Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. The deaths of their prominently displayed art movement, that is.

During the summer of 2009, one of the leading modern art venues, The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., will permanently close its doors to the public. This means that many of the pieces will be auctioned off to private art collectors.

New restaurant on St. George Street could brighten up local scene

By Katy Bass | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photo by Mary Elizabeth Fair

PHOTO CAPTION The Bubble Room, located at 100 St. George Street, will open in mid-March. The downstairs gift shop is already open.

St. Augustine prides itself in being the oldest city in the United States, but this doesn’t mean there isn’t room for a little “new” in town.

The creative minds behind the successful Bubble Room on the west coast of Florida decided St. Augustine needed a little something different and eclectic in its restaurant scene.

By Gargoyle Staff | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Bonnie Raitt’s performance at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre on March 13 has been rescheduled for Oct. 24.

Tickets from the originally scheduled show will be honored at the Oct. 24 concert. Refunds are available. For more information, visit www.staugamphitheatre.com.

By Gargoyle Staff | gargoyle@flagler.edu

From April 3 to 5, the Annual Rhythm and Ribs Festival will be held downtown.

Come out and see why it has been voted Best Festival for the last eight years. Lots of food, entertainment and arts and crafts will be provided all weekend. Dogs and other pets are not allowed.

By Gargoyle Staff | gargoyle@flagler.edu

From their first hit in 1974 through their heyday in the 1980s, Daryl Hall and John Oates’ smooth, catchy take on Philly soul brought them enormous commercial success.

By Gargoyle Staff | gargoyle@flagler.edu

From April 18 to 19, the Annual Spring Art and Craft Festival will be held at Francis Field on Castillo Drive.

During this two-day festival, more than 125 local artists will set up exhibits to show and sell a variety of media, including oil painting, watercolor, pottery, leather, photography, sculpture, jewelry, wood, textiles and more.

The Festival runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m on Saturday and Sunday. Admission for each day is $1, a donation that goes to the St. Augustine Art Association.

For more information, visit www.staaa.org.

By Emily Hoover | gargoyle@flagler.edu

“Slumdog Millionaire” doesn’t seem like a typical Best Picture winner on the surface. It follows a young, illiterate Indian “slumdog” who luckily wins the grand prize on the world-famous game show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire.” However, the movie is so much more than that. It is a violent, heartbreaking tragedy and a hopeful, captivating love story all at the same time.