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AMOA features distinct art collections
The Austin Museum of Art is celebrating summer with two separate exhibits. Currently on display the museum is LeWitt x2, a two-part exhibit focusing on the art of Sol LeWitt and his personal art collection.
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Mares chosen as director of museum he helped build
The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History at the University of Oklahoma will welcome back Michael A. Mares as museum director beginning Sept. 1, pending approval of the OU Board of Regents at its regularly scheduled meeting in September.
The Norman Transcript |
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Experts Uncover A Painting Van Gogh Covered Up
All Things Considered , August 2, 2008 · It's rare that new paintings by Old Masters are discovered.
NPR |
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Emin: Fashionably late for her stylish opening
opened her new exhibition in front of a star-studded audience at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh last night.
Sunday Herald |
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Gagosian Gallery
I'm interested in what some of these images imagine... most of the time, what's represented is just wishful thinking. I'm interested in wishful thinking.
Teknemedia arte |
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Redskins, Colts ready to kick off 2008 exhibition season
CANTON, Ohio -- Darrell Green, Art Monk and Joe Gibbs are the links to Washington's championship past.
Detroit News |
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Attractive asceticism, eternal Varanasi
A large exhibition of Haku Shah, the Gandhian idealist from Gujarat, titled Maanush has opened at Emami Chisel Art on the EM Bypass. As the title suggests, it is all about high ideals that may seem unrealistic but somehow it works when this 74-year-old handles the human figure.
The Telegraph |
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Weather attracts shoppers
Saturday's summer weather draws in big crowds for an art festival in Escanaba.
WLUC Marquette |
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Events help visitors explore Hunting Island State Park as part of 75th celebration
A few mermaids, a couple of turtles and even SpongeBob SquarePantswere a part of the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism 75th anniversary celebration, thanks to some creative sand sculptors.
The Beaufort Gazette |
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Singer Launches Virtual Drinking Contest
A top story from this week. Aria Records recording artist Stephen Cochran is launching his new video game. The virtual bar allows fans to challenge Stephen in a drinking contest
antiMUSIC |
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Rare Stones Photo Exhibit
A top story from this week. Rolling Stones photo exhibit has made its world debut at the San Francisco Art Exchange gallery in California.
antiMUSIC |
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Boulder's open space department announces photo contest winners
To see the winners' photos, visit osmp.org or call 303-441-3440. Visitors are encouraged to vote on their favorite photograph for the "people's choice" award.
Boulder Daily Camera |
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Obama Attempts to Explain Shift on Offshore Drilling
ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., fought back against the perception that he’s shifted away from his opposition to off-shore oil drilling by suggesting he softened his position as a compromise toward a broader energy policy. Obama...
ABC News |
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A REVEALING MOMENT
Van Gogh's portrait of a peasant woman, concealed beneath another painting, has been reconstructed
Express India |
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Maserati: The ultimate in automotive artwork
Ask any concert pianist whether they would rather play a Steinway & Sons piano or a Yamaha, and I'll bet you a season ticket to the Opera House in London's Covent Garden that they would nod for the former. When I chatted with just such a virtuoso several months ago, he was smitten with the Steinway. "It's not that the Japanese brand is inferior," he stressed. "It is world class, and the sound is ...
The Japan Times |
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Millionaire Marxist, industrialist treads party line
Last month when the Lok Sabha debated and voted the trust motion, there was an unusual Left fellow-traveller watching the proceedings from the Speaker's gallery.
Express India |
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Tomorrow’s Violin Stars Emerge
NEW YORK—Three full days of rigorous violin competition and extraordinary musicianship came to a successful conclusion as female contestant Tong Yan was crowned the winner of NTDTV's first Chinese International Violin Competition at the famed Town Hall theater in New York City on Sunday, July 27th.
The Epoch Times |
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Art: Old salts in a new vessel
-The Minnesota Marine Art Museum brings a touch of New England to Winona.
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune |
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Lansing's Jazz Festival
Going through Saturday
WLNS Lansing |
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Times & Star
CHARITY music festival BFest has begun at the Bower House Inn in Eskdale. This is Nicole Regan's festival diary and will include photos, mini-reviews and videos during the two-day event.
West Cumberland Times & Star |
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A happening time at the Art Show
Art afficionados attend on Friday night the Historic Woodland Downtown Merchants first-ever Art Walk.
The Daily Democrat |
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She paid HOW MUCH for a brooch?
It's the auction everyone is talking about - unclaimed property from the state of Florida that goes to the highest bidder every year.
WTSP - Tampa Bay's 10 News |
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View a portrait of hip-hop at the Smithsonian
There's nothing marginal about hip-hop, and the Smithsonian says so in a new exhibit in the National Portrait Gallery.
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune |
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What part of beer don’t you understand?
It seems fitting that Oregon’s biggest annual beer event, The Oregon Brewers Festival, is preceded by a small gathering at Portland’s Rogue Ales Public House, where Fred Eckhardt schooled and entertained a sold-out crowd of enthusiasts on beer, cheese, and delicate art of milking a manatee.
Realbeer.com |
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Cape Cod painting nets more than $1M at auction
A painting owned for generations by a Cape Cod family who had no idea what it was worth has netted more than $1 million.
Boston Globe |
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