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Providence Italian arts fest aims for high notes
PROVIDENCE - The first Providence Italian Arts & Music Festival scheduled for Aug. 7-11 promises to be special for a couple of reasons. First, it's expected to be the biggest such celebration ever held in this city, and it will feature many Italian singers, including Al Martino, also known as "Johnny Fontaine," friend of the Corleone family in "The Godfather."
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Herald/Justin Cox
Click image(s) to enlarge Larry Prellop, who owns and operates Prellop Fine Art Gallery on Main Street in Salado, looks over a cowboy boot he carved. Prellop is one of the featured artists at the Salado Art Fair, which continues from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at Pace Park along the Salado Creek.
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Eos dishes are 'works of art'
Savannah artist Marcus Kenney and two groups of well-wishers were celebrating his current exhibit "Yes No Maybe So," with dinner and wine at Eos Restaurant and Wine Bar, the intimate little restaurant on Habersham Street. But Kenney's artistry wasn't the only reason to celebrate - the dishes Ms. Lamb and I sampled were "best of show." Shelley Smith and Brian Torres teamed up to open Eos in ...
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New show for Spacey
Kevin Spacey is to merge the worlds of art and acting - by staging a comedy in which famous sculptures come to life.
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Lewiston Outdoor Arts Festival
Aug. 8 and 9
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Show vs. Show By Kathryn Dailey Loveland Reporter-Herald
Loveland will be getting busy this week with artists from all over the world coming in to show off their talents at two of the largest sculpture shows in the nation. Sculpture in the Park will celebrate its 25th anniversary Saturday and Sunday in the Benson Park Sculpture Garden. Across the street, the Loveland Sculpture Invitational will host almost 300 sculptors.
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Pulleys, sprockets and whimsy automate artist's sculptures
Courier Arts / Special Sections Editor WATERLOO --- Steve Gerberich sees things a little differently.
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10 contestants vie for title as Lore City baby
LORE CITY -- There will be a baby contest during this year's Lore City Festival, slated the weekend of Aug. 15. The winners of the baby contest will be announced at 3:15 p.m. on Aug. 16 at the Community Building Pavilion.
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Summer movie fest offers 2 Korean films
K-Fest, Hawai'i's summer Korean film festival, started the year I became chairman of the board for the Hawai'i International Film Festival in 2005.
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Restructuring destruction
"I assume you want to come here," says Leland Miyano, the O'ahu-born sculptor, landscape designer and naturalist.
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Lit beat
"BARRY MOSER: THE ART OF THE BOOK," exhibition featuring the works of Moser, today; Honolulu Academy of Arts; $10 general, $5 seniors (62 and older) and students (13 and older), free for military and children younger than 12; 532-8700.
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Art calendar
10TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL GROUP SHOW, exhibition, Aug. 4-8; opening reception 5-7 p.m. Aug. 4; Honolulu Hale; free; 523-4674.
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Varied line-up for arts festival 2008
THE full programme for this year's Hailsham Arts Festival has been unveiled. (29/07/2008 16:12:29)
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Pretty in park
Dianne Quinn, perhaps best known for organizing the annual Art in the Park festival in downtown Plymouth, said she's looking to give back to the city that's been home to her nationally renowned art fair the past 29 years.
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Berlin's Latest Museum Draws Surrealists-Loving Crowds
Some 120 years ago, Otto Gerstenberg, the founding president of the German Victoria insurance company, began assembling a fabulous art collection in Berlin. His descendants have extended it and put it on display.
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PAH-fest honors Livonia team's 6-minute film
The second annual Project Accessible Hollywood (PAH-fest) Motown'08 has come to a close after a week of events, contests, filmmaking, and concerts. Area artists stepped into the limelight as their stories were showcased during an awards ceremony at Madonna University's Kresge Hall, on Sunday, July 20. The ceremony, featuring movie-viewing, awards and celebration, was hosted by WXYZ Channel 7's ...
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Lewiston hosts jazz and art festivals this month
From Rochester: It's about a 90-minute drive if you take the New York state Thruway to Buffalo, then head north (Route 290 to Route 190). Attraction: On two August weekends, the Niagara County village turns its picturesque Center Street over to free outdoor music shows and art displays.
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The Sun-Powered City
The 2008 Hólar Festival will be held in the old bishopric in north Iceland August 15 to 17. The program includes a symposium on textile as part of church art, pilgrimage hiking tours, a special mass and ceremony at the cathedral.
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Gallery & Story: Art Walk brings residents downtown
NEWARK -- Gary Chaconas wore a black Hawaiian button-down shirt and chatted with people as they walked past his sidewalk exhibit of more than 70 oil paintings.
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Today at the fair - Sunday, Aug. 3
Cheese : Check out the final results of Philadelphia sculptor Jim Victor's 640-pound carved cheddar work of art at OC Cheese A-Fair. Concert : German rockers Scorpions return to melt faces at Pacific Amphitheatre with Sammy Hagar & the Wabos opening the show at Pacific Amphitheatre at 7 p.m. ($45-$85).
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Over the bar
A.C. Gilbert is one of Salem's most heralded native sons. He invented the Erector Set building toys, was an innovative business owner, and his name is attached to a children's museum, A.C. Gilbert's Discovery Village on the waterfront in Salem.
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A rockin' story told through art and music
Musician takes audience on band's journey of discovery The 24 cubist-influenced pieces in Craig Matis' exhibit are boldly colorful, highly textured works of cut paper and spray paint that fall somewhere between collage and painting.
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Illuminating life's philosophy through photographs
The Dalai Lama left Bethlehem 19 days ago but a filament of his philosophy remains in a Banana Factory exhibit of Ryan Hulvat's photographs of light fixtures. Like the Tibetan religious leader, he finds enlightenment in the everyday -- even an unused bulb at a dead steel plant.
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Artist's tribute reflects passion, creations
Jerry Okimoto grew up in Waianae and spent most of his career in New York, such that the artist -- whose work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Hirshhorn Museum, Chrysler and Cleveland museums of art, among dozens of institutions nationwide -- isn't particularly well known in his home state.
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Embarcadero's 'Urban Trees' take root Public art exhibit's sculptures to spend next year on display
DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO – A fanciful forest of public artwork called “Urban Trees 5” was officially unveiled yesterday on San Diego's North Embarcadero.
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