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Fillmore Jazz Festival
Twenty-four years, 100,000 jazz lovers
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Celebrating the sun
PORTAGE Members of the Portage Boys & Girls Club put their creativity to the test recently during the club's sidewalk chalk art contest.
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The Natchez Democrat
The Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson offers art and activities for the whole family.
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Hoover Society exhibit features four local artists
The paintings of four Marshall artists were featured at the Hoover Watercolor Society Traveling Exhibit Tuesday evening — a historically atypical feat, according to Michelson Museum of Art Director Susan Spears.
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Ramen renaissance: Instant noodles surging in popularity
Nearly four decades after the first instant ramen noodle factory opened in the U.S., Japan’s beloved comfort food finally is making inroads — even achieving cult status — in a nation where burgers and pizza still rule. Once considered just a bargain meal for cash-starved college students, ramen noodles suddenly are commanding as much as $15 or more a bowl in sleek New York noodle shops.
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Rothbury hopes to make a case for rock immortality
Organizers expect more than 30,000 fans from all over the United States to converge on this weekend's inaugural Rothbury Festival -- at the 2,000-acre Double JJ Ranch in the quaint western Michigan town of Rothbury, population 443 in 2006 -- for a four-day music and camping festival featuring performances by more than 75 acts, including the Dave Matthews Band, Snoop Dogg and John Mayer.
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Largest coconut shell painting auctioned for charity
VietNamNet Bridge – A coconut shell painting made by Vietnamese artist Vo Quy Quoc, which is claimed to be the largest one of its kind, will be displayed and auctioned for charity in a commercial - charitable fair titled "Kind Hearts" taking place from July 26 to August 2 at Phu Tho Stadium (219 Ly Thuong Kiet Street, District 11, HCMC).
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Twakkie’ s most amazing workload
MEET the hardest working artist at the National Arts Festival: comedian Rob van Vuuren, better known as Twakkie.
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Related Coverage
For more than 20 years, Snyder has worked as an audio description artist, writing and recording explanations of visual actions in movies, television shows, plays, museum tours and a host of other media so that members of the audience who are blind or have low vision have a way of understanding what they cannot see.
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Museum wants your Bradenton memories
Amara Cocilovo wants to bring the history of downtown Bradenton to life.
Bradenton Herald |
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Construction Zone: Beware of Audacious Art
The exhibition of work by more than 20 artists, most of them graffitists in good standing, has taken shape on the scaffolding-shaded plywood walls around a rising condo.
New York Times |
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A Filmmaker Adds a Cinematic Scope to a Storied Painting
For one fleeting evening in Milan, Leonardo?s venerable ?Last Supper? was a multimedia star.
New York Times |
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Bacon Is Again a Top Draw at Auction
A 1967 portrait by Francis Bacon fetched $27.4 million at Sotheby?s in London on Tuesday, becoming the 10th work by this artist to bring more than $25 million at auction in the last year and a half.
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Art gallery sets July programs
The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, western branch in Yarmouth has a couple programs coming up this month. On Sunday, July 13, at 2 p.m...
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Sculpture to Honor Tillie Fowler
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- The city has commissioned an artist to create an outdoor sculpture to honor the late Tillie Fowler.
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MB woman advances on TV
Don't ask what Jessica King does in her free time from competing on "So You Think You Can Dance." The Myrtle Beach resident, one of 14 remaining contestants from the original 20 finalists on the Fox TV show, laughed Tuesday morning in answer to that question. "There isn't anything outside of practice," King said by phone from Los Angeles. "That's all it is. We have 12 hours of dancing a day for ...
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Wistariahurst museum luncheon elicits raves
HOLYOKE - Seated beneath a white tent on the manicured lawn on the grounds of the Wistariahurst Museum, Ruth A. Christienson said she would gladly come back to have lunch at the historic home on Cabot Street.
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BILL MCGRAW: Fountain's water to flow again
No water gushes from Belle Isle's Scott Fountain, the 83-year-old Beaux-Arts treasure that is one of the city's favorite works of public art. The problem: Thieves stole the copper plumbing system and the electrical works. The good news: Repairs are about to begin.
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The Tate takes on gallery sprinters
LONDON (Reuters) - A runner will sprint through a gallery every 30 seconds for the next four months in the latest art installation by artist Martin Creed.
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The Price of Fame: Exquisite cave paintings inadvertently threatened by tourists, preservationists
The black bull painted by a Stone Age artist on a cave wall in southwestern France 17,000 years ago has survived millennia of war and pestilence just a few yards above its subterranean gallery.
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Israel Museum Restitutes Three Ancient Roman Gold-Glass Medallions
JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum announced today the restitution of three gold-glass medallions dating from the fourth century CE, two from the catacombs in Rome and one discovered in Cologne, to the heirs of the Dzialynska Collection at Goluchow Castle in Poland.
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Large-Scale Color Photographs by Acclaimed Artist Phyllis Galembo at Eastman House
Phyllis Galembo, Ekpokang Masquerade, Calabar South, Nigeria, 2005. Process: Ilfochrome. Image courtesy of the artist and Steven Kasher Gallery, New York.
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Photographs of Georgia O'Keeffe On View at the Portland Museum of Art
Laura Gilpin (United States, 1891–1979), “Georgia O’Keeffe,” 1953, gelatin silver print, 9 3/8 x 7 7/16 inches, Amon Carter Museum , Forth Worth, Texas . Bequest of the artist. P1979.130.6.
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Centre Pompidou Presents the First Ever French Exhibition Devoted to Czech Artist Miroslav Tichy
Camera constructed and used by Miroslav Tichy. Courtesy Foundation Tichy Ocean, Zurich (Switzerland). PARIS.- The Centre Pompidou presents the first ever French exhibition devoted to the photographic work of the Czech artist Miroslav Tichy, a singular figure now more than 80 years old.
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Acclaimed Sculptor Andy Scott Works on The Kelpies to be Placed at Forth & Clyde Canal
Andy Scott poses with the maquettes of the Kelpies sculptures in his workshop. GLASGOW.- Acclaimed sculptor Andy Scott is currently working on two large sculptures titled The Kelpies which will be placed at the entrance of the Forth & Clyde Canal.
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