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Dark Visions of a Lonely Town on the Brink
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner?s paintings of stylishly dressed streetwalkers at the Museum of Modern Art have a a bracing ugliness and a burning emotional intensity.
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Dissecting a Painting
A small, engrossing, meditative exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum examines a bruised Reinhardt, molecule by molecule. Holland Cotter reviews.
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Tall, Dark and Fragile
A small, engrossing, meditative exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum examines a bruised Reinhardt, molecule by molecule.
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National Business Briefs
Massachusetts security regulators accused Merrill Lynch of fraud yesterday for allegedly promoting the sale of auction-rate securities when they knew the investments were becoming increasingly unstable.
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CLASSICAL
BARGEMUSIC: Solo violinist Mark Peskanov plays Mozart and Beethoven tomorrow at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 4 p.m. Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn; (718) 624-2083. MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: A free concert in the Sculpture Garden performed by the New...
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Davenport views Oklahoma Land Run of ’91 with fresh perspective
Historic murals in Davenport now number two with the recent completion of a 32-foot painting on the community’s two-story Masonic Building, located at Broadway and Main Street. “This mural depicts early Davenport, the beginnings of Davenport,” said Don E. Sporleder, chairman of Davenport’s mural committee. The painting, on the outside south wall of the building, depicts a handful of ...
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Keys handed over in symbolic gesture commencing Addison Gallery construction
ANDOVER — The $30 million renovation of Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy got its official start yesterday as museum Director Brian Allen handed the keys to the historic institution over to the contractor handling the two-year job.
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Artists Are Doing Well At Highlands Festival
Before the rain started Wednesday evening, several vendors were packing up and several more were setting up at the Virginia Highlands Festival.
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Plea for new art festival funding deal
THE chairman of the Edinburgh Art Festival (EAF), the grouping of more than 40 galleries that launched their summer exhibitions yesterday, has called for three-year fu
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Friday Saturday Sunday
Summer concerts Catch a free concert: The Imitations, 6:30-8:30 p.m. today in the Museum of Coastal Carolina parking lot, 21 E. Second St., Ocean Isle Beach, N.C.
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Placate your crafty side
Clyde Gilmore took a few minutes Tuesday from overseeing the first day of setup for the Craftsmen's Summer Classic Arts & Crafts Festival, which opens today at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center. The executive director of this show marking its 26th year in Myrtle Beach said the more than 250 artisans represent 21 states. "This is true Americana," Gilmore said. "It's not stuff you'll find ...
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Museum in Gaza to Display Area's Rich Cultural History
GAZA CITY, Gaza -- It may sound like the escapist indulgence of a well-fed man fleeing the misery around him.
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Carrying A Torch For Environment
LAND O' LAKES - Bradley Arthur was sweaty enough to enter a wet T-shirt contest. That happens when you spend hours under the sun forging metal with power tools.
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Mantle family in talks about museum
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Officials with Oklahoma City’s Triple-A baseball team have started preliminary discussions with Mickey Mantle’s family to create a museum honoring the Oklahoma native.
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Workshop revives art of pine basketry
At the Putnam County Museum Thursday afternoon, 10 heads were bent concentrating on pushing a needle under a piece of thread holding long pine needles in place as baskets were being formed during a pine needle basketry program.
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Remembering The Great Art Mishaps Of Yesteryear
The sculpture that was smashed in a British museum this week is only the latest in a long line of art-related disasters over the years. Who could forget the Cambridge man who tripped down a staircase, taking two priceless Chinese vases with him?
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Styles blend
CANTON Just as the Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival was getting under way, Tommy Morgan completed his six-panel mural of the Hall on a building in the 300 block of Cleveland Avenue NW.
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On the scene: Arrive breaks bonds of modern jazz
REVIEW: Arrive , a jazz quartet with members from Chicago and Oakland, performed two stirring shows in Columbia last weekend. The first, last Friday at the Columbia Museum of Art, was patient and probing but included enough dynamic thrusts for one guest to ask, “Y’all recognize this jazz?” Another said: “This is too modern for me.” That should be a compliment, as too much of modern jazz isn’t ...
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Music, fireworks make Oxford fest a blast
OXFORD -- Oxford Furnace Summer Festival committee members have banished parking costs this year to offer people a fun, economical day out. The third annual Oxford Furnace Summer Festival will be held rain or shine from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
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Landscapes, ceramics featured this month at Gallery 23
BLAIRSTOWN -- Painter Curtis Engesser and ceramic artist Carol House are the Artists of the Month for August at Gallery 23 in Blairstown. They will be on hand to meet the public at Gallery 23 from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 2.
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Hackettstown artist subject of exhibit
Gene Feller of Hackettstown is exhibiting his eclectic collection of seascapes, landscapes and floral art at the Bouras Galleries, Summit, through Aug. 29.A love of animals and nature enables Feller to capture the spirit of his subject matter so the viewer can feel the mood of the animal or the scene painted.
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Kemper Museum to open Crossroads space
The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art on Nov. 7 will open a downtown outpost. Kemper at the Crossroads will be at 1901 Baltimore Ave., in the heart of the Crossroads Arts District. The building is the former home of Dolphin Gallery, which has moved to the West Bottoms.
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The packaging of music icons
Celebrity photographer Harrison Funk has snapped everyone from Bono to Amy Winehouse. More than 50 of his music-related images make up "Packaging the Music" at the Palm Beach Photographic Centre in Delray Beach Aug. 14 through Nov. 15.
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More Classic Monterey Jazz Festival Performances Coming
On August 5, 2008 in its second full slate of archival releases, Monterey Jazz Festival Records, an imprint of the Concord Music Group, will release a new series of never-before-heard concert performances by six jazz greats: Art Blakey, Dave Brubeck, Shirley Horn, Tito Puente and Cal Tjader and classic blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon
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Vero museum among top 200 in U.S.
It’s not the Forbes 400, but the Vero Beach Museum of Art can claim to be among the nation’s “Museum 200.”
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