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Chinese fashion steps into the spotlight
By STACY MEICHTRY As young designers, Karl Lagerfeld and Yves Saint Laurent dueled in a 1954 contest that helped put both on the fashion map. This year, the competition has been resurrected, and the finalists reflect the emergence of a new source of fashion talent: China. Two Chinese designers, Qiu Hao and Shao Jia, are among 10 finalists who on Thursdayunveiled runway collections in a bid for ...
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Lake County in 60 seconds
Tom Cruise car on display; Baggo tournament; art festival in Lincolnshire; drainage workshop; census takers sought
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Browsing
'READING' RECEPTION Librarian Emeritus gives talk at art museum social The Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum will celebrate its exhibit titled "People Reading: Selections from the Collection of Donald and Patricia Oresman" with a reception, open to the public, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. July 15. (The exhibit has been available for viewing since early May.)
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GALLERY LISTINGS
"Bringing Stories to Life"
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Today’s best bets
• Ataloa Lodge Museum, 1 to 5 p.m., next to Bacone College Chapel near the Oklahoma 16 entrance. Exhibits show history and culture of various tribes and collections of American Indian artifacts in the United States, including Choctaw, Navajo, Apache baskets and Maria Martinez black pottery.
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Gallery, theater to open in Cherokee Travel Plaza
ROLAND — Cherokee Nation Enterprises’ cultural tourism department will soon have a new venue to promote Cherokee art inside the Cherokee Travel Plaza in Roland.
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Exhibit aims to shatter US stereotypes of Islam
By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press Writer LITTLE ROCK, Ark. In the months following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Princess Wijdan Al Hashemi and her friend Aliki Moschis-Gauguet noticed that the only depictions they saw of Muslim women showed figures behind veils, oppressed by their cultures.
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Smithsonian gets its own pet whale
Beginning Sept. 27, the first thing visitors will see as they come through the door of the new Ocean Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History is a 45-foot-long whale. Not just any whale, but one named Phoenix, a North Atlantic right whale, a rare and endangered wonder that had been tracked by the New England Aquarium since her birth in 1987. She was the model for Terry Chase of ...
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TRIBUTE
Elvis performers flock to Legends Legends in Concert in Surfside Beach will have one of the more than 20 preliminary competitions sanctioned by Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc. for the 2008 Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest. The contest crowns the performer who best represents the legacy of Elvis. The effort is organized by Elvis Presley Enterprises, a business entity created by the Estate ...
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Museums
Meridian International Center's "Jam Session: America's Jazz Ambassadors Embrace the World," which closes July 13, includes this photograph of Dizzy Gillespie with Yugoslav musician and composer Nikica Kalogjera and their fans.
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Collage
ASHEVILLE — Cheryl Keefer likes her paintings to be about paint, as well as subject. Working with a variety of methods and approaches, she creates interesting patterns and paint surfaces on the outdoor subjects the former abstract painter likes.
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Visual arts calendar
To best facilitate publication, send items at least two weeks in advance to Paul Clark via e-mail to pclark@CITIZEN-TIMES.com. Please include the opening and closing dates of exhibits and a number that may be published to call for information. For more
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Valuable artwork can be converted into liquid assets
Mary Parker knew she had a valuable piece of artwork in her home. But she had no idea it would sell for $320,000.
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Quilter stitches together evocative works
To have the work of renowned quiltmaker Nancy Crow fill the three flawless floors that are the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University is a rare treat indeed.
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Artist knocks on wood with sculptures
Any track and field enthusiast still searching for the perfect keepsake of the past two weeks could bring home a long distance runner to stay in the front yard.
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Civil-rights images in Atlanta
ATLANTA The High Museum of Art is focusing on the civil-rights era in two new exhibits that include 200 photographs, many of which have never been publicly displayed before. "Road to Freedom" spans 12 years from Rosa Parks' stand in Montgomery in 1955 to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination 40 years ago, in 1968. The exhibit includes images from watershed moments such as the ...
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Main Street’s big draw
Andy Zalkin, owner of the Army-Navy Store on Main Street, notices something unusual about his customers on Saturdays: A lot of them are wearing stickers from the Columbia Museum of Art. “I’d say 40 to 50 percent of the customers have museum stickers on — well, maybe 35 percent,” Zalkin said. “It’s always three to four people together, too.” When the museum opened at Main and Hampton streets 10 ...
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Travel notes: Old Economy plans trip to sternwheeler festival
Old Economy plans trip to sternwheeler festivalIn honor of the traditions of the stern paddle steamboats, Old Economy Village is hosting a coach trip to Marietta, Ohio, Sept. ...
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Crime, punishment court travelers to D.C. museum
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Chalk it up to the eternal conflict between good and evil, but Americans have always been fascinated with crime. ...
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Columbia Museum of Art
History: Founded in 1951. It was located in a former mansion at Senate and Bull streets. The museum was added to several times over the years. For about a decade, it was called the Columbia Museum and had a planetarium and natural history exhibitions. New place: Opened July 18, 1998, in the former Macy’s department store building /at Main and Hampton; cost $16 million. A party celebrating ...
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Exhibit shares memories in stories and drawings
[ Consovella Foote spent many years getting up and serving others during meal times at the Athens-Clarke County Senior Center. This year, she was asked to sit down, relax and talk a little.
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Image Makers: Photographers click with past, present
Our selection of photography books this year is top heavy on the past -- Pittsburgh long ago to places in contemporary America that have seen better days. ...
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Chattanooga: Five emerging artists are exhibiting at AVA through Aug. 21
One of the goals of the Association for Visual Arts is to support young and emerging artists with an exhibition.
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Knoxville Museum of Art exhibition's sole Southern venue
Gee’s Bend, a 5-mile strip of land surrounded by the Alabama River in Southwest Alabama, is home to 750 people who are primarily descendants of slaves.
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Walk this way to the MFA
Refurbished Fenway entrance is a fitting gateway to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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