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New gallery features alternative art, music
BELLINGHAM - Jinx Art Space doesn't have nice paintings of sailboats hanging in the front window.
The Bellingham Herald |
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All Points West fest brings more than 40 bands to Liberty State Park
In 1999, Paul Tollett's Los Angeles-based Goldenvoice company created the Coachella music festival in Indio, Calif. Since then, it has grown into one of the best-known festivals in the country, regularly attracting 50,000-60,000 people a day.
The Star-Ledger |
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Cutting edge exhibit from Mexico showcases young artists
Edmund Tijerina: It's perfectly OK if you don't get the works of contemporary art from Mexico now on display at the Museo Alameda.
San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5 |
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"Anything Goes" at art club show
The San Angelo Art Club is accepting entries for the Anything Goes (Almost) Art Show. All types of art and media are accepted. Entries must be submitted to the Kendall Art Gallery, 119 W. 1st St., between 9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 3.
The San Angelo Standard-Times |
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Photo exhibit highlights photo op cop
FAIRFIELD — Jay Valle has a badge and a gun. He also has a camera. A 15-year veteran of the Fairfield Police Department, Valle's expertise with photography isn't used to catch the bad guys.
Connecticut Post |
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Mud-spattered event benefits local charities
Mark Winters drenched contestants with a fire hose as they stood ankle deep in brown sludge during a benefit Mud Volleyball Tournament held at Three Forks Harbor River Center on Saturday morning.
Muskogee Phoenix |
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AROUND ANGELINA: Museum of East texas still offering Art Camp
The Museum of East Texas still has a couple of weeks of Art Camp to go before back-to-school time. This week, morning classes from 9 a.m. to noon with space available include tempra batik with Melanie Moses and acrylics with Ann Reyes. Afternoon classes from 1 to 4 p.m. with openings include acrylics with Charlie Becker, beads and knots with Melanie Moses, for kids 10 years and up, and Art Smart ...
The Lufkin Daily News |
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Good Causes
PERFORMANCEThe Society Players of Lakeland will present "The Odd Couple" at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Aug. 10 at Polk Museum of Art. Tickets are $12 for adults, $9 for seniors and students. Proceeds benefit the museum's summer art camp program. Call 688-7743.GOLF TOURNAMENT
The Lakeland Ledger |
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Montana's Yaak Valley won't let author return to writing fiction yet
Rick Bass is one of this country’s greatest and most reluctant activists. He grew up in Texas, worked for eight years in Mississippi as an oil and gas geologist and moved, 21 years ago, to the Yaak Valley in northwestern Montana. He started writing fiction, but it didn’t take long for the landscape and a certain “chemistry of spirit,” he writes, to turn him into an ...
The Kansas City Star |
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Nerman Museum show highlights Hispanic weavers
A new textile exhibit at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art throws the spotlight on a centuries-old American textile tradition, long shadowed by prejudice.
The Kansas City Star |
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Itinerary
A spaceship-like pavilion crammed with original artwork will land this fall in New York’s Central Park. It’s the latest stop in a worldwide advertising blitz by Chanel to pay homage to its iconic quilted handbag.
The Kansas City Star |
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Exhibition Featuring Band Posters Made by the Akron Art Museum's Teen Council
John Hicks, Smells Like Teen Spirit, 2008. AKRON.- For anyone who lived through the youth-driven grunge rock movement of the 1990s, Smells Like Teen Spirit may stir memories of the band Nirvana, crunchy guitars and flannel shirts.
Art Daily |
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Photographs by Jeff Wall on View at The Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City
Jeff Wall, Church, Carolina St., Vancouver · 2006. Transparencia en caja de luz, 200 x 247.8 cm (78 x 96.7 in.). Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
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Nieuwe Kerk Museum in Amsterdam Presents Black is Beautiful Exhibit
Jacob Zekveld, Black Head of State. 1966; enamel paint on canvas, 100,0 x 119,5 cm. Collectie Groninger Museum, Groningen. AMSTERDAM.- The Nieuwe Kerk presents a journey of discovery though the history of art.
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Alfred Sisley: Impressionist Landscapes at The Bowes Museum
Alfred Sisley, 14th July at Marly. Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford Borough Council. COUNTY DURHAM.- The work of Alfred Sisley is on now show at The Bowes Museum; the first major exhibition devoted to this leading Impressionist to take place outside London in half a century.
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Buddhist Manuscript Paintings on View at Metropolitan Museum This Summer
Folio from an Ashtasahashirika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) manuscript showing a seated Bodhisattva Maitreya. India (West Bengal) or Bangladesh. Pala period, early 12th century. Opaque watercolor on palm leaf. Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2001.
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Seven Major Paintings in Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Street Series Shown Together
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880-1938), Women on the Street (Frauen auf der Straße). 1915. Oil on canvas. 49 5/8 x 35 7/16" (126 x 90 cm). Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany. Photograph by Peter Frese. © Ingeborg and Dr. Wolfgang Henze-Ketterer, Wichtrach/Bern.
Art Daily |
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Thousands flock to Festival of Arts
Warm weather, miles of booths and bushels of food beckon patrons
The Daily Review |
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Festival Deals with Parking Issues
A popular summer festival returned to Rochester this weekend. Last year, the Park Avenue Summer Arts Fest set an attendance record, drawing more than 200,000 people. With similar attendance numbers expected this year, parking has become an ongoing challenge.
R News |
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47th Annual St. Barnabas Art Show
08/03/2008 - 10:00a.m. to 08/03/2008 - 6:00p.m.
Cape May County Herald |
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Painting the Hall Burgundy and Gold
Art Monk and Darrell green caused a stampede to Canton on Saturday as Redskins fans, tens of thousands of them, monopolized the grounds of the Hall of Fame.
Washington Post |
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Smiling Windmills Bring Joy to Hutt City
A new sculpture which has won the hearts of Hutt Valley residents since its appearance in an outdoor sculpture exhibition at Civic Gardens is being celebrated with a free, fun ceremony.
Scoop.co.nz |
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Newark art exhibition is part swank, part cutting-edge
Aljira Emerge 9 Exhibition . Where: Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, 591 Broad St., Newark. When: Through Sept. 20. Noon-6 p.m. Wednesdays-Fridays; 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays.
The Star-Ledger |
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Photos show plight of Klity creek villagers
The plight of ethnic Karens affected by lead poisoning in Kanchanaburi province's Klity village is now being shown in pictures taken by an amateur photographer, hoping to use his photo exhibition to draw the public's attention to the long-standing environmental disaster.
Bangkok Post - Thailand's English news |
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Renowned Argentine artist Perez Celis dies at 69
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Perez Celis, a prestigious Argentine muralist, painter and sculptor, died Saturday. He was 69.
The Post-Standard |
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