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Lil Wayne, R.E.M., Joss Stone, Erykah Badu headline Voodoo music festival
NEW ORLEANS - Rapper Lil Wayne is the latest addition to the lineup for this year's Voodoo Experience in the rapper's native New Orleans. The musical celebration will feature dozens of acts on six stages in October.
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Lil Wayne joins Voodoo festival lineup
By The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Rapper Lil Wayne is the latest addition to the lineup for this year's Voodoo Experience in the rapper's native New Orleans.
Bay News 9 Tampa Bay |
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Manhattan splashes out with public art waterfalls
NEW YORK - FOUR giant artificial waterfalls cascaded into the water off Manhattan on Thursday in a public art project the mayor said could generate US$55 million (S$75 million) in economic activity for New York City.
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Daniel Crooks: everywhere instantly
Daniel Crooks, Imaginary Object #1, still, 2007. HD/DVD. Courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery Daniel Crooks, Pan No.2 (one step forwards, one frame backwards), still, 2007. DV/DVD Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu.
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Harbor Arts, Taste of the Albemarle this weekend
It's a doubleheader on the grounds of Museum of the Albemarle this weekend as Arts of the Albemarle once again mixes fine arts, artisans and epicurean delights.
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Rowlett celebrates Festival of Freedom
Just off Main Street, the pink and white Ferris wheel stands silent in the morning sun as workers in a golf cart make the rounds ensuring that everything is ready for Friday night.
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Going Gonzo With Ralph Steadman
This January at the Sundance Film Festival, about a month before the documentarian Alex Gibney won his first Academy Award, he sat down to discuss his most recent work, a film about the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Here was a man, Mr. Gibney said, who mocked the entrenched voices of authority and challenged people to see beyond the status quo through his freewheeling indictments of ...
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ADVISORY-Witness story on Chad rebels
Source: Reuters Finbarr O'Reilly, Reuters chief photographer for West and Central Africa, was born in Swansea, Wales in 1971 and started as an Arts correspondent. He joined Reuters in 2001, turning to photography in ...
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Entertainment
Four of Australia’s biggest companies are putting a total of $4 million into kicking off a corporate fundraising drive so that the Art Gallery of WA can bolster its collection.
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Bhutan builds temple in downtown Washington as centerpiece of festival exhibit
Hundreds of artists, scientists and visitors from three wildly different cultures — the state of Texas, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan — converged Wednesday at the opening of the Smithsonian's annual open-air Folklife Festival.
The Daily Sentinel |
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Buckminster Fuller exhibit: Back to the future
Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe. Where: The Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Ave. at 75th Street, New York. When: Through Sept. 21. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays; 1-9 p.m. Fridays; 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
The Star-Ledger |
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ARTnews Names Top 200 Collectors
There's change at the top. ARTnews magazine's annual list of the Top 200 art collectors in the world has four newcomers among the top 10: Ukrainian businessman and philanthropist Victor Pinchuk; Mexican businessman and telecommunications magnate Carlos Slim Helú; the New York pair of investor Leon Black and his wife, Debra, and Sheik Saud bin Mohammad bin Ali al-Thani of Qatar. The Top 10 and ...
The New York Sun |
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John Stanley Named Whitney Deputy Director
John Stanley has been appointed to the position of deputy director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the museum announced Thursday. Mr. Stanley has served as the chief operating officer and deputy director of programs and services at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston since 1995. He will assume his role at the Whitney in August. Mr. Stanley will be working with Adam Weinberg, the director of ...
The New York Sun |
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The Renaissance ... Recreated
Francois & Co. Introduces French Hand-Carved Limestone Masterpieces
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New York City Waterfalls Art Exhibit
Creativity literally flowed in New York City on Thursday -- about 35,000 gallons worth. Mayor Bloomberg helped unveil a public art project of four man-made waterfalls along the East River. The waterfalls will be on display through October 13.
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CAC gets to the heart of the artist community
It's small, but mighty, and throughout the summer you can visit Centerville's "Biggest Little Art Festival" to see for yourself. Now in its third year, the downtown merchant's association is collaborating with the Centerville Arts Commission to expand the Art in the Heart of Centerville festival.
Dayton Daily News |
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Library invites community to enjoy a 'model' display
EAST BRUNSWICK - More than 25 model ships have made their way into the display cases at the East Brunswick Public Library. Furnished by the Ship Model Society of New Jersey, the models have been on display all month and the exhibit will continue through Monday.
East Brunswick Sentinel |
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Art seized by Nazis goes on display
UNCLAIMED masterpieces that were looted from the homes of French Jews who fled Nazi persecution or were deported to death camps have gone on show in Paris as part of an exhib
The Scotsman |
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Oxford hosts a wine and art affair
The two-day Inaugural Oxford Wine & Art Affair will be held today, June 27, and Saturday, June 28, from 3 to 9:30 p.m. at Park Place. Events include a Wine 101 class, cooking demonstrations, live music and a display of exhibits by 16 artists. Tickets are available at the door for $15 and include a keepsake wine glass and five tastes. For more information, go to www.oxfordchamber.org.
Dayton Daily News |
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New Photography Website in Ft. Stockton
In Ft. Stockton a new website based on a car and a camera has opened it's doors to professional and amateur photographers alike. The site's mission is to create a photographic journey across the United States.
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Quilt Festival Gets Underway
The 32nd annual Vermont Quilt Festival gets underway Friday at the fairgrounds in Essex Junction.
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Degas, Edgar: Bellelli Family (1858-60)
The librarian's great distinction, between fiction and non-fiction, doesn't apply to paintings. The best stories often appear in the most factual forms. The nearest pictorial thing to the 19th-century novel is the 19th-century portrait.
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Richard Prince: Continuation, Serpentine Gallery, London
When Richard Prince was growing up on the outskirts of Boston, the posters on his bedroom wall were not of The Beach Boys or his local baseball heroes but of Franz Kline and Jackson Pollock. The images did not show the artists actually painting. Prince was not particularly interested in their art. What attracted him were the artists themselves, with their machismo cool and insouciant ...
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High-school ensembles will steal the show at the JGB Syracuse Jazz Festival
Some of the best big bands in Central New York aren’t even made up of professional musicians. But the students who play in groups such as Syracuse Department of Parks &
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www.kentonline.co.uk - your gateway to Kent
Dinosaurs stalked the streets, scarecrows came to life and a cross-dressing nun performed to passers-by. This year’s Fuse Medway Festival was certainly a fun-packed affair.
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