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Spanish museum says prized piece not a work by Goya
MADRID, Spain - For years, Spain's famed Prado museum had its suspicions about one of its most prized Goyas. Now the museum says it is certain the painting is not by the 18th-century master.
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The Fourth fans love for country, family
It's barbecue. It's family. It's fun. It's photography. The meaning of July Fourth was a many splendored thing Friday at Riverview Park.
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Bulletin Board: A list of events in Palm Beach County
Today Acrylic painting classes , 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Professional Artists' League, 19119 Winslow Terrace, Boca Raton . $25. Call 561-883-5033.
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Fourth of July festivals entertain young and old across Palm Beach County
Hometown pleasures mark Independence Day Stanley Hyman has something in common with Michelangelo. Like the Renaissance man, he believes his sculpture already exists; he just needs to carve it out. But Hyman's art won't last 400 years; he uses sand.
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Tijuana Brings Opera & Fine Foods to the Streets During 5th Annual Street Opera Festival
Tijuana's Mayor Jorge Ramos and the Opera de Tijuana launch this 5th Annual public celebration of fine music to the sounds of "Carmen", with the cuisine of some of Tijuana's best restaurants, as part of the festivities for Tijuana's 119th Anniversary. 150 artists and thousands of participants from both sides of the Tijuana-San Diego border expected to enjoy music, art, and food from Baja ...
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Artists display works in Rockland
SPRING VALLEY - Ilrick Isaac of Stony Point walked from station to station, viewing with approval the wood, iron or stone sculptures, various forms of painting, hand-crafted jewelry and other pieces of art that were on display under large tents in the parking lot of the International Food Mart on Route 59.
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Group says gallery, museum a good idea for downtown New Rochelle
NEW ROCHELLE - Some business owners say a museum or art gallery is just what the downtown needs and they're looking for some help from area schools.
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VOELZ CHANDLER: Mastering the art of navigating crowds
The Cherry Creek Arts Festival has become as married to the Fourth of July in Denver as brats and beer.
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People in the News
ARGANDA DEL REY, Spain - Soul diva Amy Winehouse sipped from a glass of red wine and looked a bit unsteady on her feet as she appeared in front of a large audience at the Rock in Rio music festival southeast of Madrid yesterday.
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Metal artists overcome fire to keep creating
This time last year, Emily and Casey Lewis felt lucky to have any artwork to sell at Festival for the Eno, where the couple will be again this weekend. The work space of their business, Beechwood Metalworks, which was in a barn behind their Burlington home, had burned to the ground a week earlier.
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More green than red, white, blue
Festival for the Eno mixes environmentalism with family fun.
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2008 Melbourne International Jazz Festival
The 2008 edition of the annual Melbourne International Jazz Festival got off to a rocky start before the festival even commenced, with numerous headlining acts canceling for various reasons, up to just a few weeks before the festival's first notes: guitarist Charlie Hunter (tendinitis), vocalist Nancy Wilson (collapsed lung), Aussie vocalist Deni Hines, and Italian NYC-based vocalist Roberta ...
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Mayweather's party a big hit
GRAND RAPIDS -- Not in the mood to shell out big bucks for a pricey holiday road trip? No problem. Downtown's Floyd Mayweather Stars on the Grand family festival provided an affordable and easy choice to West Michigan families looking to celebrate Independence Day inexpensively.
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Winners of an Eagle contest will seek answers about their antiques when the PBS show rolls into town
T he Wichita area abounds in hidden treasures. When we asked readers to enter a contest to try to win tickets to the Wichita visit of the PBS TV show "Antiques Roadshow," we got about 100 responses from owners of antique furniture, war booty, Nazi propaganda, jewelry, items from Germany and Japan and Jerusalem, toys and dolls, and signatures of the Beatles and baseball players. We don't ...
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History on exhibit: Arlee Historical Society presents ‘Montana 1894-1928' in air-conditioned comfort
Tim Morin views the work of Evelyn Cameron at the Arlee Historical Society Museum on Thursday afternoon. “Photographing Montana 1894-1928: The World of Evelyn Cameron” opens Saturday at 2 p.m.
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1st Annual Boulder Festival of the Arts -- 07/05/08 at Boulder
1st Annual Boulder Festival of the Arts -- 07/05/08 at Boulder
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Pa. festival honors tunes born in America
MATAMORAS, Pa. — The sky was overcast on Friday afternoon and only a few dozen people had filtered into the Americana Roots Music Festival being held in Airport Park this July Fourth weekend.
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Jazz Videos
Get featured! Submit your video Description Scott Hamilton Quartet (Olaf Polziehn piano, Giorgos Antoniou on bass, and Steve Brown on drums) with special guests Warren Vach & John Allred. Playing at the New Orleans & Classics Festival in Ascon on June 30, 2008.
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Arts emphasized in this year's Lakeside Music and Arts Festival
DECATUR - Organizers of the Lakeside Music and Arts Festival called in reinforcements to expand the arts portion of this year's festival. The results of that call include a juried arts show and arts education where festival-goers can see how various forms of art are created.
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Mandela moves to block sale of prison drawings
Nelson Mandela has instructed his lawyers to take legal action against a London gallery which is selling lithographs it says are signed by, and the work of, the former South African president.
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Proles vs. Pros: An Experiment In Curating
Abunch of self-described know-nothings, aficionados and anonymous experts curated a new photography exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. The museum's goal was not to debate the merits of Walker Evans vs. Edward Weston or haggle over such details as lighting and wall placement. It was to decide if a...
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A Site for Thinking Outside the Box
What would happen if you created a big international art show according to the following rules?
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Winehouse sings in Spain, glass of wine in hand
Soul diva Amy Winehouse sipped from a glass of red wine and looked a bit unsteady on her feet as she appeared in front of a large audience at the Rock in Rio music festival southeast of Madrid on Friday.
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Prado Denies Goya Made Masterpiece
MADRID, Spain, July 4 -- For years Spain's famed Prado museum had its suspicions about one of its most prized Goyas. Now the museum says it is certain the painting is not by the 18th-century master.
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