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Museums get smart about having fun
Summertime doesn't mean kids have to close the book on their education.
The Plainfield Sun |
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Art's just part of Fourth of July festival
The 18th annual Cherry Creek Arts Festival again is balancing "art" and "festival," with food, entertainment and fireworks in addition to works by 238 artists Friday through Sunday.
Rocky Mountain News |
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CHANDLER: Art of creative coupling
"Silent Films and Bedroom Paintings" is a two-part exhibition at the Lab at Belmar, one an immersive education in early filmmaking, the other a selection of paintings chosen because they play on the pleasure principle.
Rocky Mountain News |
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IN THE GALLERIES: Patsy Krebs: Selected Paintings 1980-2000
In a rare solo show at Sandy Carson Gallery, the geometric watercolor works of Calilfornia and Colorado-based artist Patsy Krebs are on display
Rocky Mountain News |
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‘Europa' a course in (sm)art history
In 1907 and 1908, Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts denied admission to a watercolorist. The Austrian teenager fell into poverty, selling a few paintings; six years later, he enlisted in Germany's army, emerging from World War I as a corporal with a political future. One of the fascinating speculations and observations in “The Rape of Europa” is what might have happened had Adolf Hitler received ...
The Charlotte Observer |
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New era for Armidale’s premier gallery
TUESDAY marked ‘day one’ of the new governing body of the New England Regional Art Museum (NERAM).
Armidale Express |
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News Updates:
UC Berkeley has picked four companies to bid on the new Berkeley Art Museum, the structure that is likely to become the architecturally most striking and controversial feature of the city center.
Berkeley Daily Planet |
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New Zealand International Science Festival tickets now on sale
Tickets are on sale now for the sixth New Zealand International Science Festival. They can be purchased online at www.scifest.org.nz , or by phoning 0800 SCIFEST or from 5 July by visiting the ODT Festival Headquarters at 20 Princes Street.
Otago Daily Times |
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Some of the very first pictures taken inside town minutes after the tornado tore through Chapman were taken by ...
"I grabbed my camera and got into town as fast as possible," Anders said. Anders, a Pittsburg State photography student, turned his hundreds of snapshots into a slideshow a few days after the storm hit.
KAKE |
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Diana's letters, cards among collection of royal servant to be auctioned
LONDON (AP) — There is a letter from Diana as a new bride, saying thank you for flowers in her room the day before her wedding.
Cape Breton Post |
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Home Décor and More show set for July 11-13
Country Folk Art will present Home Décor and More: The Ultimate Craft Show from 3-9 p.m. July 11, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 12, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 13 at the New Jersey Convention and Expo Center, Edison.
East Brunswick Sentinel |
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The Lawrence Jordan Album
In Lawrence Jordan's wondrous short film Duo Concertantes (1961–64), a bandaged man extracted from the pages of an old anatomy text hovers in front of a piece of 19th-century scientific equipment while glass flasks magically proliferate across the screen; a glowing, pulsing sphere (a planet, a seed, a ball of pure energy) sprouts moth wings and floats away, bounces through the exhibits at a ...
MetroActive |
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Artwork explores the baroque, death, la Virgen
Museo Alameda exhibit, ‘Myth, Mortals and Immortality,' looks at the soul of Mexico through elite artists.
San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5 |
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Mantegna, Andrea: Judith with the Head of Holofernes (1495)
Some poems are remembered by a single line. Paintings don't come to bits so easily, and there are no dictionaries of famous pictorial quotations. But the same thing can be true. With certain pictures, a single detail is their gift to the world. The rest of it is no more than its setting.
Independent |
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Festival Ballet, Royal Festival Hall, London
If only there was more to celebrate on stage: English National Ballet's return to the Royal Festival Hall has a sense of homecoming. Like the venue, this company was originally named for the Festival of Britain. This return to the South Bank comes with a sense of ambition, of expanding repertoire – which is where this programme falls down. Wayne Eagling's derivative new ballet is flanked by ...
Independent |
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Calendar
Cactus Bra Space Blue Star Arts Complex. 1400 S. Alamo St., No. 106C, (210) 226-6688. “Art by Osmosis,” Contemporary Art Month exhibit with works in mixed media. 6-8 p.m. opening reception. Through July 27.
San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5 |
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Sculpture in Motion
The Dance , the monumental bronze sculpture on the South Bank by Nasser Azam, has inspired a newly devised piece of contemporary dance to be performed on the County Hall terrace behind the sculpture.
London SE1 |
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John Malcolm: Actor and founder of the Traverse
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the annual gallimaufry of drama, music and stand-up, today operates with awesome commercial proficiency. More than a few, however, rather wish that the Fringe's spirit still had some of its early, unpredictable air of misrule, together with the genuinely trail-blazing fused by such maverick personalities as Richard Demarco, Jim Haynes or John Malcolm.
Independent |
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First Friday set to celebrate 7th year downtown
It’s the Fourth of July, our loudest holiday, but this will be a quieter First Friday in some ways. Nevertheless, First Friday will go on. The downtown streets will be closed to traffic, as usual, for this monthly “wandering arts festival.”
Johnson City Press |
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Couple escapes house fire on west side, but 2 dogs feared dead
UPDATED 3:20 p.m. BLOOMINGTON -- A couple fears that two of their dogs were killed in a fire that heavily damaged their single-story home on Monroe Street around noon Thursday. Video Photo gallery
The Pantagraph |
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Bumper auctions fetch half-billion dollars at Sotheby's
A bumper set of auctions of impressionist, modern and contemporary art by Sotheby's fetched upwards of 250 million pounds (315 million euros, 495 million dollars), the auction house said Thursday.
AFP via Yahoo! News |
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Cheeky buyer grabs controversial art
A week ago Jo Ecimovic was at the centre of a Maitland art world furore. Her latest work, A Bit of Cheek, was called smutty and obscene, and it was taken down from sale in a Morpeth gallery.
The Maitland Mercury |
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Princess Di's royal paraphernalia among things to be auctioned
LONDON - THERE is a letter from Diana as a new bride, saying thank you for flowers in her room the day before her wedding. There is a photograph of Princes Charles and William at an alfresco lunch under a shady tree.
Straits Times |
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Former royal butler's collection of letters, notes, to be auctioned
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The Globe and Mail |
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Used Oil Becomes Hot Commodity
Restaurants use it to fry up the food people buy, but when they frying is finished, one local retaurant has found they can make money off it.
NBC 10 Philadelphia |
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