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Canton’s Humboldt Storage finding niche with fine art buyers, sellers
When the company was asked to make a high-profile, cross-country delivery of a $135 million painting by Austrian artist Gustav Kilmt in 2006, Humboldt CEO Howard Goldman saw a prospective niche in storing, moving and managing fine art collections.
The MetroWest Daily News |
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A fiery love for dance
STUDENTS from CHIJ (Katong) Primary School perform their dance item, entitled Flames, at the opening ceremony of the Singapore Youth Festival 2008 on Friday evening.
Straits Times |
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City streets come alive with art
NORTH ADAMS -- Throngs of artists, residents and visitors filled the sidewalks of Main and Eagle streets Thursday night, as they floated from one gallery opening to another during the inaugural night of DownStreet Art.
North Adams Transcript |
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Entertainment In Brief: 06/27/2008
New exhibit at Lake Street Studios; Film explores 'Apocalypse Now;' Prospectus is available for show; Quartet plays Mackinaw City
Traverse City Record-Eagle |
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Heaven on Earth at the Ayala Museum
“Nothing is further than Earth from Heaven: Nothing is nearer than Heaven to Earth. “ —Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth
The Manila Times |
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MT. TABOR, June 11, 2008--From left, John Walz, John Krajkowski, and Jewel Burns check out the Antonio Petruccelli exhibit at the Mt. Tabor Museum Wednesday. Petruccelli was a local artist who designed magazine covers for Fortune and The New Yorker, amongst others.
Daily Record |
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French man charged in '07 theft of art
A French man is facing a U.S. indictment in Miami for involvment in the 2007 theft of four paintings from a museum in the French Riviera.
Miami Herald |
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Howell hosts hot-air balloon festival
HOWELL -- A planned mass launch of hot air balloons will be among the highlights of the 24th annual Michigan Challenge Balloonfest this weekend in Livingston County.
Detroit News |
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Art of the north
Emily St. Clair, a Northern Michigan University student, looks at paintings by Martin Rowe of Rhinelander, Wis., at the DeVos Art Museum at NMU recently. The paintings are part of the first "N45 North of the 45th Parallel" show, an upper Midwest juried exhibit featuring various media. A sculpture , "Not for Orbit," by Ryan Brayack of Escanaba, at left, is part of the show.
The Mining Journal |
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At a Woodbury Gallery, the Frame's the Thing
WOODBURY-In the (mu seum) rooms where women come and go, talking of Michelangelo, classically-proportioned sculptures whose marble aspires to immortality are typically surrounded by large-scale paintings that bespeak at least one lost art-that of the frame maker, who, by hand, designs and constructs showcases as grand an unique as the art itself.
Litchfield County Times |
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Tips lead to arrest in graffiti case
Police estimate that four to six other people are involved in the spray-painting of several downtown Canandaigua buildings.
MPNnow.com |
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New photography club begins in community
The Dyersburg-Dyer County Photography Club will hold its first regular meeting at 6:30 p.m., on Thursday, July 17, at the Professional Development Center, in downtown Dyersburg.
Dyersburg State Gazette |
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Lifestyle digest
WINONA -- Examples of American currency from the past 230 years will be on display in an exhibit titled "From the Vault: Historic Currency from the 18th to 20th Centuries."
Post-Bulletin |
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Local hot dog gorgefests: 1 down, 1 more tomorrow
Pat "from Moonachie" Philbin snarfed 22-1/2 hot dogs in 10 minutes yesterday in West Chester to qualify for the legendary Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest, held yearly on Coney Island.
Philly.com |
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Heavy falls mark end of the year
THE share market ended the final week of the 2007-08 financial year with heavy falls yesterday after dramatic US company downgrades and another record in crude oil prices rattled global investors.
The Australian |
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Namibia: Papa Exhibits at Omba Gallery
'Humble Tribute to the Ancestors', is the title of an exhibition of new creative prints by Namibian international artist Papa Ndasuunje Shikongeni that will open on July 2 at the Bank Windhoek Omba Gallery, Namibia Crafts Centre.
AllAfrica.com |
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Art museum to raise $86M for renovation
The Cincinnati Art Museum's board of trustees voted to go forward this week with raising money for an $86 million renovation. The public gets a peek at the design concept today.
The Cincinnati Enquirer |
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Museum cancels expo after Nobel writer Pamuk misses deadline
Frankfurt - The city of Frankfurt's prestigious art museum, the Schirn, cancelled Friday its plans for a literary art exhibition because Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk failed to write a book on time. Pamuk's forthcoming novel, The Museum of Innocence, is...
EARTHtimes.org |
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Wings and things at Weston
The three new solo exhibitions at downtown's Weston Art Gallery are a tour de force of installation art, printmaking, painting and sculpture.
The Cincinnati Enquirer |
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Museum to raise money for renovation
A tulip-shaped tower, an outdoor sculpture garden, renovation of the historic Art Academy of Cincinnati building, underground parking and more galleries are highlights of the latest plan for a renovation and expansion of the Cincinnati Art Museum.
The Cincinnati Enquirer |
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Art Museum raids its vaults
The storage room look of Long Time No See at the Cincinnati Art Museum is designed to show the public what it's missing given the restrictions of the museum's current gallery space.
The Cincinnati Enquirer |
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Livingston Co. launches hot-air balloon festival
HOWELL, Mich. -- A planned mass launch of hot air balloons will be among the highlights of the 24th annual Michigan Challenge Balloonfest this weekend in Livingston County.
WOOD TV 8 Grand Rapids |
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Cameroon: FIBE 2009 - Preparations Afoot
Eseka, the headquarters of the Nyong and Kelle Division in the Centre Province will host the first edition of the International Festival Bogso Eseka dubbed FIBE 2009. The festival is an international gathering of cultures and peoples of Bassa and Bantou tribes in Africa.
AllAfrica.com |
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Livingston County launches hot-air balloon festival
HOWELL, Mich.-- A planned mass launch of hot air balloons will be among the highlights of the 24th annual Michigan Challenge Balloonfest this weekend in Livingston County.
Detroit Free Press |
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Fanning the flames of the Asian art market
In an auction world dominated by major international houses, Daniel Komala's Larasati Auctioneers is trying to find a niche in Singapore.
International Herald Tribune |
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