Australia's greatest ancient Aboriginal rock art is at risk of being damaged or destroyed because it sits at the epicentre of the country's resources boom, experts say.

The Hoffman Estates Art League will host a reception from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday to unveil a new nature mural created by its members at the Schaumburg Park District's Spring Valley Nature Center.

The Travelers Rest Arts Mission will bring its message of making art accessible to everyone out in the open this weekend. The non-profit arts group will hold an outdoor art market in the heart of Travelers Rest on Saturday.

Saturday Family Artventure: Let the Sun Shine In, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Wichita Art Museum, 1400 W. Museum Blvd. Free. Information, 316-268-4921. "A Closer Look: Sculptures by William Zorach and Jose de Creeft," talk by docent Gary Barnhart, 1 p.m., Wichita Art Museum, 1400 W. Museum Blvd. Free. Information, 316-268-4921. WAM Contemporaries Event, 7-11 p.m., Wichita Art Museum, 1400 W. ...

The community will have an opportunity to view some special Bismarck gardens on Sunday when Theo Art School sponsors its 14th annual Palette of Gardens Walk.

BATAVIA – Volunteers are being recruited to work at the Art In Your Eye Festival Aug. 9-10 at the Batavia Riverwalk. More than 100 volunteers are needed.

CRYSTAL LAKE – More than 10,000 connoisseurs of fiber and folk art are expected to weave their way to the grounds of McHenry County College beginning today.

Moneyed New Yorkers head for the Hamptons when summer heat hits. You can attend a "Hamptons party" for a lot less cash Saturday at Wichita Art Museum. WAM Contemporaries, a group of youngish museum supporters, is inviting party-goers to don white attire for a bash on the museum's lawn. Cocktails, appetizers and music by the Double-Crossed Hipsters will be featured from 7 to 11 p.m. Tickets ...

NORMAL -- The art installation “The Sunshine Underground� explores the vastness of the universe, the minuteness of its parts and all connections in between. It is about everything that ever was and will be — seen through the microscope, the eye and the telescope, from all of time and from before time, if there was a time before time. It is how humankind connects to the supernova, the cosmic ...

The Mobile Art pavilion, designed by Zaha Hadid, will land temporarily in Central Park as part of an international tour.