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Prices fall as demand for oil drops
Motorists are finally getting a break at the pumps. The average price of regular gas in Massachusetts fell below the $4 mark yesterday for the first time since early...
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Adobe Releases Photoshop Lightroom 2
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 2 software, the photographer's essential toolbox for managing, adjusting and presenting large volumes of digital ...
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Adobe Releases Photoshop Lightroom 2
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) Lightroom(R) 2 software, the photographer's essential toolbox for managing, adjusting and presenting large volumes of digital photographs. With new enhancements such as dual-monitor support, radical advances in non-destructive localized image correction, and streamlined search ...
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Art gallery tries in-home approach
Art can be a tough sale in a shaky economy. Allison Wolf Hertzler of Green Rice Gallery in NoDa is trying to convince consumers otherwise. Two weeks ago, Hertzler launched free in-home art consultations for would-be clients. She and her staff bring original artwork to people's homes, where they discuss how the art is made and what would look good in the space. She also started sponsoring parties ...
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The work of Murdayne Zehm will be featured at the Beaufort Art Association Gallery
Not too many artists can boast of living on a street named after them. Murdayne Zehm and her husband John live on Zehm Lane, a small, gravel-covered street off Laurel Bay Road. When Beaufort County decided the road needed a street sign, the couple thought, 'Why not use our last name?'
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Chattanooga: Business turns prints into original paintings
Cher and Tiger Woods are customers, but they’re just two of the people who have used the services of an Internet oil-portrait business based in Chattanooga.
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Entertainment
The 10th annual Perth Fashion Festival was launched today at the WA Art Museum, with cupcakes, champagne and a preview of some of the State’s hottest fashion designers.
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Hirschman, Dornan win trivia contest trivia
Congratulations to Josh Hirschman and Dale Dornan. They each answered all seven Redskin trivia questions correctly in Sunday's paper to win the John Riggins figure, courtesy of McFarlane Toys. Twelve people overall correctly answered all seven questions.
The Canton Repository |
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Adobe Releases Photoshop Lightroom 2
SAN JOSE, Calif.----Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 2 software, the photographer's essential toolbox for managing, adjusting and presenting large volumes of digital photographs.
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44th annual ArtFest is picture perfect
As one of the exhibiting artists put it, he could not have painted a more perfect day for the 44th annual ArtFest held Sunday at the Mount Union College lakes. There were more than 30 artists displaying and selling their work in various categories, as well as competing for awards.
The Alliance Review |
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Archbishop blesses shrine sculpture
LA CROSSE, Wis. — The story of Our Lady of Guadalupe goes back to 1531, when an Aztec peasant named Juan Diego is said to have had visions of the Virgin Mary.
Winona Daily News |
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Home Base: Anne Marie Hunter's daily log helps in picturing success
Company: Anne Marie Hunter, Shawnee Owner: Anne Marie Hunter The business: Hunter creates corporate and personal photographic greeting cards.
The Kansas City Star |
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Costa Cruises Commissions Monumental Sculpture by Fernando Botero to Add to Fleet's Multimillion Dollar Art Collection
NEW YORK.- Costa, Europe's Number One Cruise Line, has commissioned a monumental bronze sculpture by world-renowned artist Fernando Botero for its newest ship, the Costa Luminosa.
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The Government of Canada Supports Tom Thomson Art Gallery
OWEN SOUND.- Residents and visitors to Owen Sound have an opportunity to enjoy a new exhibition at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery thanks to an investment by the Government of Canada.
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Beijing-Based Artist Cao Fei Presents Projevt at Serpentine Gallery
LONDON.- Beijing-based artist Cao Fei (born 1978) is fusing fantasy with the contemporary Chinese city in her construction of RMB City, an experimental art community in the internet-based virtual world of Second Life.
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Focused Look at Damien Hirst Works at Kansas City's Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
KANSAS CITY.- Love, death, life, suffering, loyalty, and betrayal are among the ambiguities of the human condition explored in the provocative, unconventional and, at times, controversial works of British artist Damien Hirst.
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Birmingham Museum of Art Announces Exhibition of New Works by American Artist Sharon Louden
Louden is creating twelve 13 x 13-inch paintings with watercolor, acrylic, and transparent gel medium on gessoed wood panels. BIRMINGHAM.-
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The Mattress Factory and Robot 250 Partner to Present Eleventh Installment of Exhibition Series
Chris Lisowski, The Toil of Tilling, 2008. Photo: Owen Smith. NEW YORK.- The robots are coming! The robots are coming! The Mattress Factory and Robot 250 have partnered to present the eleventh installment in the museum’s Gestures Exhibition Series.
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The Bird Collector: Ridgefield's 300th Year Anniversary Exhibition
RIDGEFIELD, CT.- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum has mounted several exhibitions featuring birds—painted, sculpted, stuffed, even living—over the course of its exhibition history.
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Walters Art Museum Announces the Temporary Closing of 19th-Century Galleries
Jean-François Millet, The Goose Girl, ca. 1863, oil on canvas, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (37.153, acquired by Henry Walters, 1905). BALTIMORE.-
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Armed Robbers Steal 15 Paintings Made by Antonio Berni in Buenos Aires
A woman looks at a painting made by Antonio Berni. Copyright © 2008 EFE. BUENOS AIRES.- Armed robbers, disguised as policemen stole, 15 paintings made by Argentinean artista Antonio Berni.
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Sotheby's Releases More Details on Damien Hirst Sale
Damien Hirst, Beautiful Love Demelza Painting with Beautiful Butterflies, butterflies and household gloss on canvas 213.3 by 213.3cm. 84 by 84in. (including frame): 238.5 by 236 by 16cm.; 93 7/8 by 92 7/8 by 6 1/4 in. Executed in 2008. © Damien Hirst PHOTO Credit: Prudence Cumming.
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Teatro-Museo Dalí Presents Two Rarely Seen Paintings On View for the Summer in Figueres
FIGUERES.- Antoni Pitxot, director of the Teatro-Museo Dalí in Figueres and Montse Aguer, director of the Centro de Estudios Dalinianos, have presented today o the media the 17th nightly opening of the museum in Figueres.
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The Inglorious Bastards: The Erstwhile 'Glory' of Exploitation
One of the juiciest bits of movie news to come out of this year's Cannes Film Festival is that Quentin Tarantino is finally ready to stop talking about his remake of Enzo Castellari's 1978 war film, "The Inglorious Bastards," and actually start shooting it. Mr. Tarantino is said to be courting Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio to play the leads in his film about a group of Jewish soldiers who ...
The New York Sun |
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Standing Fast at the Bowery Gallery
The Bowery Gallery opens its 17th annual juried exhibition of American artists today. Founded in 1969, the gallery is a cooperative of more than 30 artists seeking to defend the figurative tradition in contemporary art. "We were always about art for art's sake," the gallery's director and a founding member, Lynda Caspe, said. In the early years, that meant rejecting the tenets of conceptualism, ...
The New York Sun |
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