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Senior citizen exhibit starts Friday
The Kane County Forest Preserve District presents "Timeless IX", a senior citizen exhibit, in the Campbell House Art Gallery beginning July 25 and running through Sept. 28. Participating artists must be at least 60 years of age.
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Museum picks its favorite slices of the past
People tend to forget that history contains the word story," said New Hampshire resident and filmmaker extraordinaire Ken Burns.
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Too cool for grownups
The brand-new Children's Museum of New Hampshire threw open its doors yesterday, revealing a 20,000-square foot space jammed with colorful, one-of-a-kind exhibits. Inside the spacious structure, kids can create a flying machine and try it out, dig for dinosaur bones, pilot a submarine, create art and music, learn about nature and much more.
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Donors help discover history behind portraits
VALPARAISO While much is known about the Picassos and Van Goghs of the art world, many more artists have toiled in relative anonymity and left behind artwork of which little is known. Philipp Brockington and Howard H. Reeve Jr. of Valparaiso, long-time docents at Valparaiso University’s Brauer Museum of Art, have spent the last four years doing detective work on such artists whose work is part ...
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Fourth Annual Afrofunk Festival returns to the Independent
When Kenyan-born Victor Sila first came to America 15 years ago, he wanted to be a Michael Jackson or Babyface-style R&B singer. However, he was rejected by every label he approached.
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Sacramento Art Complex: a community within a community
Before longtime art gallery owner Barry Smith opened the new Sacramento Art Complex between K and 21st streets in Sacramento, he looked up the noun " complex " in a dictionary.
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Events
Take Steps for Crohn’s & Colitis Music City Walk and Festival will be held today from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Shelby Farms Park & Conservancy. ....
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Guitarists evoke many moods
By CHRIS SHULL FORT WORTH — Mitch Weverka is a busy man. He’s running the Fort Worth Guitar Guild Music Festival, and this week he’s hosting guitar concerts at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. And on Wednesday evening, he played there. Weverka’s program of music by Mexican composers concluded the concert devoted to contemporary guitar music. Visiting guitarist Andrew Zohn played his own ...
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A Mercurial Narrator, Tackling a Web of Issues
Laurie Anderson tried on a basketful of murky perspectives like so many pairs of sunglasses in the first of her five Lincoln Center Festival performances.
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Family's old painting worth a fortune
DENNIS — A painting owned for generations by a Cape Cod family who had no idea what the piece was worth could fetch up to $500,000 at auction.
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Artists demonstrate talents for audience
NORMAN — Artist Matthew Bearden prefers to work in isolation. So, having 50 or so people looking over his shoulder while he tried to complete a painting in just two hours was a little unnerving. "I'm very solitary when I work, so it's kind of like being back in school,” he said as his spread black ink on white canvas. "I haven't been too distracted, though,” he said. "I don't paint in a ...
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It may be off-season in the theater, but there’s no shortage of stage activity in Gotham — a Beckett festival at the Lincoln Center, for instance, or the New York International Fringe Festival prepping for its August showcase of events from around the country (including several entries from Los Angeles).
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Arlington briefs: Fair offers pet photography
Fair offers pet photography ARLINGTON — A pet fair benefiting the Arlington Animal Shelter will be this weekend. Residents can get a portrait of their pet and visit with pet-care professionals at the Dog Days of Summer Pet Fair from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at Studio Works Photography, 900 W. Abram St. Portrait sessions are by appointment. Admission is free with a donation of dry dog or ...
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Museums
Salvador Dal' Museum : 1000 Third St. S.
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Attractions
Discover an open-air and under-glass museum of more than 20,000 tropical plants, including a living collection of more than 6,000 orchids, in this 8.5-acre botanical garden on Sarasota Bay. Botanical art and photography exhibits in the Mansion. Garden and museum hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. Admission: $12 adults, $6 children ages 6-11, free for children younger than age 5 and for Garden members. ...
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Looking for Equity in Arts Financing
A coalition of arts organizations has asked the city for $15 million that would go to so-called culturally specific organizations, serving blacks, Hispanics, Asian-Americans and American Indians.
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Local Golf Notebook
Bluffton's Coley Davis shot a 73 and tied for seventh during qualifying Monday at the Country Club of Orangeburg to grab one of 24 berths up for grabs in the Carolinas Junior Amateur, which will be contested July 29-31 at Chechessee Creek Golf Club in Okatie.
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Artists take off the gloves for exhibit
When the United States went to war in Iraq in March 2003, Georgia artist Cecelia Kane began documenting the conflict by painting news headlines on stuffed white gloves. By 2006, Kane was ready to quit the paint-a-glove ritual, but artists around the world rallied to maintain the effort until the war ended.
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Arts notes
Fabrications"Of the cloth," the new show at the Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, includes the work of artists who work with clothing or woven cloth. It's not "fiber arts," exactly, but work about clothes and how people use and wear them.
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Obituary: Philip D. Joyce / Longtime high school art teacher
Toward the end of his artist life, Philip D. Joyce loved calligraphy, the clearly defined lines of it, above drawing and painting and all the other arts he had spent a lifetime enjoying and teaching in schools around Pittsburgh.
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Hi-tech number plate scanner helps cops
A NEW hi-tech police photography system which screens number plates has been helping to nab banned drivers and unsafe cars in Frankston.
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Hands-on Science Unplugged opens Saturday
The Science Museum of Virginia is getting back to basics with a new exhibit, Science Unplugged, which opens Saturday. Science Unplugged focuses on the basic principles of engineering and physics through experiments such as constructing hurricane-proof buildings with foam blocks and designing the most aerodynamic paper plane. The exhibit encourages visitors to experience "hands-on science in the ...
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Wood Street Galleries' exhibit takes viewers 'Out of This World'
The exhibition was inspired by Montreal-based multimedia artist and programmer Jean-Pierre Aube's "Titan and Beyond the Infinite," a two-and-a-half-minute split-screen film based on data gathered by the European Space Agency.
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Local news in brief
Sweet Pea still seeking festival volunteers Organizers of Bozeman’s annual Sweet Pea Festival are still in need of help to make this year’s event a success.
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