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Exhibition: Flower Power
MONDAY, JULY 28... By Anita overcash It's perfectly clear that artist Robert Kushner is inspired by flowers. His textured paintings of the blossoms, among diverse colored backgrounds, capture their detail from curve to curve. Kushner, who has been painting since his start on American art scene in the early 1970s, has created works that can be found in galleries across the U.S. and abroad in the ...
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Art Preserve Summer Abstract Show
By Charity Frederick Exhibit: Art Preserve Summer Abstract Show Dates: Showing now through August 2 Location: The Art Preserve, 3200 North Davidson St. Info: 704-358-8882 What is abstract art? Some people think it's just a bunch of colors splashed around a canvas, showcasing little talent while making little sense. (How many times have we heard someone say, "My 5-year-old could have done that"?) ...
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Bicentennial Park renovations to cost about $60 million, within norms for 'world-class' park, consultant says
By Yudislaidy Fernandez Bicentennial Park's makeover is to cost about $60 million — or about $2.5 million an acre based on the 24 acres of park space that will be left after erection of a pair of museums.
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RICK McGOWAN COLUMN: World's largest athlete equipped with quick wit
MIDDLETOWN — A couple of guys from Jersey not in off-the-rack jerseys were in town recently for the Black Ships Festival. Manny Yarbrough and Alex Vega staged what they called “meet and greets” last Friday through Sunday at Brick Market Place and Touro Park.
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Stretching the canvas
It was in the mid-1800s that French history painter Paul Delaroche first declared painting to be dead, due to the advent of the new medium of photography, which, it was feared, might supersede painting. Ever since, painting’s demise has been declared – and questioned – countless times, with its debate never subsiding.
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It's Happening - Parkdale-Liberty Village
SOUTH ASIAN CULTURAL Festival, Masala! Mehndi! Masti!, features traditional and contemporary music, dance, film, theatre, literature and poetry, cuisine, arts and crafts. Exhibition Place, Better Living Centre, 200 Princes Blvd., free admission. Visit www.masalamehndimasti.com for more information.
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Works by Mills, Reichel, Friedman and Kellogg Presented at Village Festival of New Musicals
The Yellow Wood, The Alchemists and The Gypsy King have been selected for the Village Theatre's eighth annual Festival of New Musicals.
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MADRID, Spain - Picasso's masterpiece "Guernica" depicts intense suffering, but its own health is not in danger. That's the diagnosis after the first X-ray of Pablo Picasso's 20th century anti-war painting carried out by the Reina Sofia art museum.
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How the South West was won
Colin Slater, Computing , Wednesday 23 July 2008 at 16:01:00 The South West offers everything that technology professionals could wish for from wireless communications to supercomputing, reports Colin Slater The South West of England has long been a well-known destination for holidaymakers and festival goers. But the region is also a great place in which to live and work.... ...
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Hilarious Heads
Local sculptor Jo Lomas gives some pointers to Brittany Tenhage on crafting the starting egg-shape that will become a “hilarious head” clay sculpture – one of 16 young people taking part in a two-day art session last week at the Aboyne library.
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Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell' in 37th novel 'My Sister, My Love'
Some of Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest. Oates sets out to solve a fictionalized version of the JonBenet Ramsey murder, with skating prodigy "Bliss" Rampike replacing the real-life child beauty pageant contestant.
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Stratford's 2 Musicals Offer A Study In Contrast
There's a nice theatrical contrast _ all-American wholesomeness vs. determined Teutonic debauchery _ on display at the 2008 Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
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X-ray shows Picasso's 'Guernica' painting has suffered a lot but is not in danger
MADRID, Spain - Picasso's masterpiece "Guernica" depicts intense suffering, but its own health is not in danger.
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Ceramic art museum founder Helen Gardiner dies
Toronto philanthropist Helen Gardiner, best known for co-founding the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art with her financier husband George, has died at age 70.
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Portrait painting runs in family
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 10:15 a.m. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS (AP) -- Watching her grandfather draw the faces from the cover of Time magazine stuck with Ceci Luepnitz. Five decades later, the College Station artist is an award-winning portrait painter.
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Marianne Weil: Sculpting A Legacy
"The seed is in the ground. Now may we rest in hope."
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Castrillo sculpture to be part of Marian Shrine in Batangas
MANILA, Philippines - National Artist Ed Castrillo is hard at work for his biggest masterpiece so far – the statue of the Virgin Mary that will be part of the Marian shrine being erected in Batangas province, according to a report in GMA’s 24 Oras .
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Blacksmithing for sculpture
Fire and Hammers is a five-day class at Red Deer College’s Series ’08 that introduces students to the art of blacksmithing.
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Learning to Be Young: Of Parody and Picasso
“It took me four years to paint like Raphael but a lifetime to paint like child.” What a roar at the gates of the Princeton University Art Museum last Wednesday afternoon.
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First West Hollywood International Film Festival Debuts at Regency Theaters and House of Blues
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Youngster illustrates story and wins award
Six-year-old Ben Walworth shows the artwork that illustrated his winning story. Submitted photo Ben Walworth, at the age of 6, accomplished a goal that would warm the hearts of adult writers.
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Midtown restaurant offers tour of Japanese, Korean cuisine
by Lynn Williams maindish@baltimoreguide.com The good news: my daughter is in Hawaii, singing with the Children’s Chorus of Maryland in the Pacific Rim Children’s Chorus Festival. The bad news: I didn’t get to go with her. But I did get to go to lunch at Aloha Tokyo, a new restaurant named for the Hawaiian word for hello, goodbye, and [...]
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Upcoming ethnic festivals
Ready for some cultural diversity? Nothing says summer like the ethnic festivals of Baltimore. And just in time, the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts has released a list of upcoming ethnic celebrations. Note: To add a festival to the Baltimore Guide’s calendar, send to The Baltimore Guide at 526 S. Conkling Street, Baltimore, [...]
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Library unveils shipping exhibit
PARRY SOUND – On Saturday the Parry Sound Public Library unveiled a new permanent exhibit, the Shipping in Georgian Bay - Ray Smith Memorial Photographic Collection.
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Cultural Arts Council exhibit ‘Legends & Lore II’ worth celebrating
The Cultural Arts Council (CAC) of Estes Park invites the public to attend a lemonade and cookie social on Sunday, July 27 from 1 to 3 p.m. in the new arts council facility, located at 423 W. Elkhorn Avenue.
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