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Jamberoo dancers stage a grand performance
We frolic in the park, we frolic at the beach, we frolic in the schoolyard and we frolic with our feet! Yes that’s right, last week was the grand performance of Jamberoo Public School’s Stage One Dancers at the Illawarra Dance Festival.
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For the past five weeks, the Creative Kids Camp at the Greenbelt Community Center has been working on Styrofoam deep sea creatures that eventually will decorate the lake in the annual floating sculpture garden.
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2008/06/25
AFTER the success of the inaugural Urbanscapes in 2002 at Grappa Soho and a full-blown outdoor festival in 2004 at KL Sentral, the city’s all-day creative arts festival is back.
The New Straits Times |
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Todd McGrain memorializes 'lost birds' with sculptures
In October 1866, billions of passenger pigeons in a single flock were observed in Ontario, blackening the sky for days in a swath about a mile wide and 300 miles long.
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N.J.'s new masters
The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts (SICA) in Long Branch is hosting its fifth annual show of work by recent fine arts grads. "Fresh Meat/Young Blood, New Jersey's New Masters" will run through July 11 at the gallery, located at 20 Third Ave. in Long Branch. The show is curated by SICA Executive Director Doug Ferrari.
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IN THE ARTS
The Gallery at the Market in Asbury Park will host a fundraiser in support of the Arts Coalition of Asbury Park on Sunday, June 29. The Art for Life event will showcase the work of artist Dawn von Suskil, muralist and co-owner of The Muralists Painting Studio in Bradley Beach.
Atlanticville |
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Monet waterlilies smash auction record
A painting of waterlilies by Claude Monet has been sold for STG40.9 million ($A84.2 million) at Christie's auction house in London, fetching a record price for the artist at auction and "illustrating the continued confidence in the art market".
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Outdoor art competition set for Monday in Vail’s Ford Park
VAIL — The Town of Vail Art in Public Places (AIPP) program is encouraging artists to help celebrate the Summer of Sculpture exhibition and Betty Ford Alpine Garden’s 20th Anniversary.
Vail Daily |
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[Herman’s Pick] Vol. 6, No. 41
This Thursday night presents a good opportunity to browse the latest Mississippi Museum of Art exhibits during the monthly Jazz, Art and Friends installment featuring Chris Alford.
Jackson Free Press |
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Monet waterlilies smash auction record
A painting of waterlilies by Claude Monet has been sold for $A84.2m at Christie's in London, fetching a record price for the artist.
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Jacob Landau's spirit comes full circle
An artistic legacy will be carried forward into the future with the addition of a major gift to Monmouth University, West Long Branch. The gift, which will benefit students, scholars and the public, includes more than 300 prints, drawings and paintings by Jacob Landau.
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Bowling pins score as art and a win for PONCHO
Lucky Strike Lanes in Bellevue is hosting an art auction Thursday to benefit PONCHO, a local foundation supporting the Seattle area arts community. The featured pieces are 44 painted bowling pins, all contributions from local artists.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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Pinup art goes mainstream: Gallery presents a slice of '50s culture
Fantagraphics exhibit showcases pinup art from the 1950s.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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Allentown Art Guild has new installation at bank
The Allentown Art Guild has a new art installation in The Bank on S Main Street in Allentown. Every three months, the guild hangs a new exhibit of members' works in the bank's lobby. The present show will be up until the first week in August.
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Eulogy for the dying winnebago
Eighty-six percent of the American people believe the price of gasoline will climb to five bucks a gallon this year, a big shift in public opinion from a year ago when most people felt that oil prices were spiking high and would soon return to normal -- which is 35 cents a gallon, same as a pack of smokes -- and we'd be able to head west in our Winnebagos for a nice summer vacation.
Pahrump Valley Times |
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Creative Consciousness, PoetHouse Art: The little upstairs gallery you should know by now
Sean Anderson looks happily stressed. He moves around the gallery at PoetHouse Art checking on the sound equipment, the event staff, the guests and, through it all, his two young daughters. PoetHouse Art – a spot you’ve probably walked below and didn’t even realize – is throwing a benefit for Rise Up, a non-profit that provides education and outreach to the poor in places like India, Nicaragua ...
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New exhibit reveals mysteries, intrigue of Dead Sea Scrolls
Fragments of biblical manuscripts dating from 2000 years ago are on display at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
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Art Port’ 08 Music Festival coming to capital city
VietNamNet Bridge – The first annual music and arts festival named Art Port will take place at Hanoi ’s Giang Vo Exhibition Centre on July 19-20. The festival will attract 15 bands and singers of different music genes (R&B, Hip Hop, Rock).
Vietnam Net |
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Souk Okaz festival planned for July
TAIF: The Makkah governorate is planning to make the annual festival at Souk Okaz, a location 40 kilometers north of Taif, a major cultural attraction. Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah is expected to inaugurate the festival, which begins next month.
Arab News |
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Severini Record at Sotheby's London
A painting by the Italian Futurist artist Gino Severini sold for $29.6 million including fees, a record for the artist, at a Sotheby's auction of Impressionist and Modern art in London on Wednesday. The sale brought in a total of more than $200 million. The brightly colored 3-foot, 3-inch-high canvas, "Danseuse" (1915) had not been seen on the auction market for more than 80 years. It had been ...
The New York Sun |
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Smithsonian Folklife Festival Opens On Mall
Hundreds of artists, scientists and visitors from three wildly different cultures _ Texas, NASA and the isolated Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan _ converged Wednesday at the opening of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall.
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All Events for 27 June 2008
Until 31 Dec 2008 This daily tour is a free, non-bookable drop-in event. The one hour tour describes the history of the V... more details Until 26 Jun 2008 A film adaptation of C. S Lewis's epic masterpiece.
My Village Kensington |
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King of the West bank
There aren't many people who would build a replica of La Rotonda, Antonio Palladio's 16th century high Renaissance architectural masterpiece, on top of a mountain overlooking the troubled and impoverished West Bank city of Nablus. There are even fewer who would choose to complete it during the second intifada, when Palestinian militants and armoured Israeli forces were trading daily fire a mere ...
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Ken Russell's former wife contests will of mother's lesbian lover
The case of the sculptress, her £2.3m estate, an elderly lesbian with Alzheimer's disease and her severely indebted actress daughter reached London's High Court yesterday.
Independent |
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Council bans dogs from beaches but commissions massive blue dog sculptures
Dogs may be banned from the beaches of Galway, but a pack of Blue Dogs will be taking up residence at the Sean Bhaile housing estate with City Hall’s permission.
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