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ON THE BLOG: YYP event this week
The York Young Professionals have an artist event 6 p.m. Thursday at the Arts Center of for the opening of the Gale Jamieson exhibit.
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
Minneapolis-based blog Eyeteeth breaks the news that Walker curator Philippe Vergne will be the next director of Dia. The NYT followed. Find recent content on the main index or look in the archives to find all content.
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Finnish and Swedish glass artists showcase works at glass factory
Helsinki - Visitors to Finland's oldest operating glass factory this summer can marvel at a joint exhibition of hand-blown glass by artists based in Finland and neighbouring Sweden. A group of Finnish-based glass artists and designers in 2007 formed ...
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California Art Club Award Winners
The California Art Club recently held its 97th Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, in Pasadena, California.
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Southeast Missourian takes home 10 APME awards
The Southeast Missourian took home 10 awards at the 2007 Missouri APME contest. Winners were announced June 13 at the annual convention in Lake Ozark, Mo.
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Here's looking at you, kid!
Monday, June 23 PITTSFIELD — The Berkshire Museum will celebrate the opening of its summer exhibition, "Look@Us: Portraits from the Berkshire Museum and Whitney Museum of American Art," with a day of activities for families and adults, Sunday from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.
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Montreal's Ritz-Carlton auctioning contents of rooms
The grande dame of Montreal hotels is updating its nearly century-old look, and its owners are auctioning off chandeliers, artworks -- and the entire contents of rooms.
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Husband sentenced for killing Mpls. art student
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A Minneapolis man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing his art student wife in their apartment. Thirty-3-year-old Matthew Gretz didn't speak during his sentencing Monday.
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Binns wins richest young art prize
Melbourne artist Fergus Binns has won Australia's richest prize for young artists. Binns' painting, Mt Kosciuszko With Receding Snow Dome, won him the $40,000 prize in the Metro 5 Art Award for artists under 35.
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Britain's Tallest Sculpture "
Aspire , a landmark for the university, will be three times taller than The Angel of the North and more than eight metres higher than Nelson's Column. At 33 metres, the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, would have paled against it."
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Class helps kids pick up pieces of Mott Haven
The colorful mosaic outside the Brook Park Community Garden in Mott Haven is more than just public art. Artist/educator Kim Iacono, who headed the project, wanted to empower neighborhood children.
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12:40 p.m. -- Isla Center invites artist to submit images for “Creative Hands” exhibit
12:40 p.m., June 24 -- The Isla Center for the Arts at the University of Guam will bring back the “Creative Hands: Pacific, Formerly Art of the Pacific Rim” exhibit. All artists throughout the Pacific region are invited to submit images for consideration in the exhibit.
Pacific Daily News |
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Four Inland art institutions receive Warhol works
Four Inland institutions are among 186 colleges and universities nationwide to receive photographs from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
The Press-Enterprise |
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Digital Photography Classes for Teens at Library
06/25/2008 - 10:00a.m. to 06/25/2008 - 11:30a.m. 30 Mechanic St.
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Garden Art Party to benefit animal rescue, Sunday
Garden Art Party - An Event To Benefit Bay Area Animal Rescue (BAAR). Sunday, June 29th from 11:00 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Alena Jean's Flower Shop and Nursery, located at: 340 Purissima Street in Half Moon Bay. Featuring local artists: Jewelry: Patty McKowen, Maggie Ford, and Kaila Clark Pottery: Greet Jaspaert Photography: Michael Jaspaert, will also perform on his guitar Mixed Media: Serah Mead ...
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New jobs flow as $60m edible oil refinery opens
Hamilton’s own oil refinery was officially christened Monday. Not the kind churning out barrels of the liquid gold we’re paying for through the nose at the pumps, but the kind that produces salad oils, margarines, shortenings and oils used in baked goods and restaurants.
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Nottingham artwork to be England's biggest
Aspire, a steel, tubular lattice planned to tower 200 feet over Nottingham, England, reportedly will be the country's tallest free-standing sculpture.The $1.6 million public art work, which will be painted in various shades of red, is expected to be finished this week depending on the weather, The Times of London said.It will be three times taller than Antony Gormley's The Angel of the North in ...
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October festival will feature Celtic cultures of the world
SYDNEY — Organizers of the Celtic Colours International Festival are already looking ahead to a time when the freshly minted leaves of summer turn their vibrant fall colours.
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Artwork raises aspirations
A crane swung an elongated basketwork of steel tubes into place yesterday to complete "Aspire", the tallest freestanding work of public art in the UK.
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ABADÁ-Capoeira at Ethnic Dance Festival
In a Mission District studio, a barefooted Brazilian woman in white pants steps to the front of a group of about 30 students. Speaking almost entirely in Portuguese, the instructor dives into 90 heart-racing minutes of capoeira, a centuries-old Afro-Brazilian...
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Deal reached on painting seized by Nazis
A valuable 17th-century painting seized by the Nazis has been returned to the family of its former owner but will remain on display at a Munich gallery.
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Gilson faces U.S. Olympic softball team
MIDLAND - Summerfield graduate Ashley Gilson got an opportunity to play softball against perhaps the best team in the world. Gilson is a member of the Midland Lady Explorers, who played the U.S. women's Olympic team in an exhibition game Saturday before a crowd of more than 5,000.
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Broadfoot Gallery shows the 'Dance of a Lifetime'
Art and architecture will mesh when a new exhibition opens Friday at Broadfoot Gallery in Jacksonville Beach.
The Florida Times-Union |
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DIA Names Philippe Vergne As Its New Director
The Dia Art Foundation has hired the deputy director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Philippe Vergne, as its director, the New York Times reported Monday. As the Dia's new director, Mr. Vergne, 42, will be responsible for helping the foundation find and develop a permanent exhibition space in New York City. In 2006, the Dia abandoned its plan to open a museum at the entrance to the High ...
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Museum Offers 200 Years Of Campaign History
If there yet be any citizens feeling politically shortchanged by this year's presidential campaign, they might find fulfillment in a New York museum exhibit that dramatically traces the 200-year history of this uniquely American ritual, from George Washington to George W.
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