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July 4th weekend offers a myriad of arts happenings
There are lots of things to do this weekend, the 4th of July. There’s music and an art fair, art exhibit openings and a play, not to mention the infamous Tofte Trek, 4th of July parades, Timber Days in Grand Marais and fireworks up and down the North Shore.
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Stitches and strokes
Area quilters and decorative artists blend their artistic mediums for a special exhibit this summer at The Journey Museum.
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Plethora of festivals sure to entertain all
You might as well stay close to home this summer. Between downtown Rapid City’s new Summer Nights on Seventh — featuring music, food, arts and family activities every Thursday night from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. — to a host of area festivals, there’s plenty to keep you, your family and your summer guests entertained. Here are a few events to put on your calendar:
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Sculptor to cast famed horse in bronze
It’s not obvious, but part of the artist’s signature on the new statue of the famed bucking horse Tipperary reads “Cowboy to Cowboy.”
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Artist unveils new Fruitlands exhibit
Part lumberjack, part forester primeval, Joseph Wheelwright has unleashed a hardwood menagerie of fantastic creatures striding, stalking, dancing across the meadows and into the woodlands of Fruitlands Museum. Watch the video
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Growing young gardeners
The Junior Journey Program recently introduced a group of children to the plant world of flowers, trees, fruits and vegetables. In the scores of gardens scattered about the museum grounds, kids viewed the native plants, grasses and flowers before donning gloves and grabbing various yard tools to try the age-old practice of gardening.
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Scholarship to be awarded at art fair
Crystal Lake – A $2,000 scholarship will be awarded at this year’s Midwest Fiber & Folk Art Fair by the Northwest Area Arts Council.
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UPDATED: Local summer festivals
Nearly two dozen major community events will keep residents and the interested occupied, all free to attend, as summer sun and cabin fever gradually call everyone out of their homes.
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For next-gen ISU artists, the canvas becomes video screen and sound
NORMAL -- The art installation “Asphyxiation” is an anxiety-producing blend of sound, visuals and drama. The viewer sits in the darkened room, about the size of a bedroom. Video streams are displayed on a screen showing the producer Mariana Malanconi posed as a traumatized person. Video: Exhibit's opening
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Body of work: Artist, photographer collaborate on exhibit
BLOOMINGTON -- In collaborating on a photo-art project, commercial artist Mikki Lower and photojournalist B Mosher created an exhibit that is neither journalism nor commercial art. Photo Gallery Video: Creating a work of body art
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Indiana Dunes State Park to host sand sculpture contest
CHESTERTON Watch the sand come alive with castles, animals and fanciful works of art on July 12.
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Call out for exhibitors at Algonquin Commons Art Festival
The call is going out to artists to be exhibitors at the beautiful and spacious Algonquin Commons Art Festival Aug. 16 and 17.
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Tips for great fireworks photography
With fireworks lighting up the sky for the upcoming Fourth of July holiday, Sharon Steinman, a Star-Telegram photographer and Mansfield Summit High School photojournalism teacher, offers these tips for capturing the moments with a digital camera: Take a tripod. Use the bulb setting on your SLR or the night/fireworks setting on your point and shoot (the slowest shutter speed setting you have). ...
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36 Hours in 36 Hours Pittsburgh
A cable car gives passengers great views of the city. PITTSBURGH has undergone a striking renaissance from a down-and-out smokestack to a gleaming cultural oasis. But old stereotypes die hard, and Pittsburgh probably doesn’t make many people’s short list for a cosmopolitan getaway.
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Museum and Gallery Listings
Selective listings from art critics of The New York Times.
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36 Hours in 36 Hours Pittsburgh
A cable car gives passengers great views of the city. PITTSBURGH has undergone a striking renaissance from a down-and-out smokestack to a gleaming cultural oasis. But old stereotypes die hard, and Pittsburgh probably doesn’t make many people’s short list for a cosmopolitan getaway.
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Diverse Sales Upriver at Stair Galleries
An auction house on the Hudson is previewing a 500-lot ?exposition auction,? which will feature a diverse range of furniture, mirrors, chandeliers and porcelain.
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Art in Review
Tetsumi Kudo at Andrea Rosen, Hilary Harnischfeger at Never Work, Cliff Evans at Luxe Gallery and more.
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3,344 People May Not Know Art but Know What They Like
The Brooklyn Museum?s ?Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition? invites its viewers to consider whether the crowd is better than the individual at picking quality photography.
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Some Shows for Escape, Some for Introspection
When the dog days arrive, many New York art galleries turn their exhibition spaces into pluralistic laboratories to test new talent and experiment with cool ideas.
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J.M.W. Turner at the Metropolitan Museum
The oil and watercolor paintings in this show swing between overblown and moving, inspired and mechanical. Roberta Smith reviews.
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Storm-Tossed Visionary of Light
The oil and watercolor paintings in Metropolitan Museum?s ?J. M. W. Turner? swing between overblown and moving, inspired and mechanical.
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Renovations bring ligh, space back to Telfair
For three decades, carpeted walls blocked out natural light in the Telfair Academy Sculpture Gallery.
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China's Museums, Art in Transition
Holland Cotter talks about the changes at art museums in China.
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Discovering Rim Country history
Lines of time keep creasing, but the Rim Country Museum cares not to apply age-defying lotion. The wrinkles hold interesting stories. Letters and magazines. Belongings and oral histories. Photographs and old fire trucks. These things reveal time past, long after the hands that created them.
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