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Wooden Sci-Fi Sculptures Make Great Geek Art
: Courtesy Michael Rea Sculptor Michael Rea has a knack for building. But unlike most architects, he draws on an encyclopedic knowledge of geek culture and an eccentric sense of humor for his unique sculptures. Rea’s movie-influenced menagerie includes electronic consoles, time machines and holy artifacts -- all fashioned from wood. He even built an eight-foot-tall prosthetic suit, ...
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DISPATCH FROM MICHIGAN Michael Moore's Peeps Have Their Turn in the Spotlight at Traverse City
Make way for the Michigan film mafia. The Traverse City Film Festival , headed by Michael Moore , concluded its fourth edition on Sunday, bringing a large dose of cinematic excitement to this lakeshore town, otherwise known for its cherry crop.
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Local News
It was Aug. 3, 1988. Brian Mulroney was Prime Minister of Canada, Lethbridge city crews were starting to clean up an oil spill in the Oldman River, and Tom Cruise’s movie “Cocktail” was at the top of the box office, having raked in $11.7 million the previous weekend.
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Protest Groups Gear Up For Republican Convention
A 73-year-old retired surgeon marching in silence with a tombstone picturing a soldier killed in Iraq. A philosophy professor calling for a new investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks. A long-haul trucker from Texas protesting oil prices.
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New project to develop GPS-like system for moon
This artist's rendering shows an astronaut's-eye view of the lunar navigation system that Ohio State University researchers and their colleagues are developing.
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Submit photos, art for exhibit
HOLLIS -- Beaver Brook Association is heralding a call for artists for its 28th annual Art and Photography Exhibit. ...
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Nature photos exhibit local work
Jefferson photographer Mike Weber's work is on exhibit at the Marshall Visual Art Center through Aug. 18. The exhibit is open from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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IM Pei's Last Museum (And It's A Good One)
"The Museum of Islamic Art, in Doha, the new national symbol of Qatar, is an understated Gulf icon. And it might just be the best new museum or gallery building anywhere.
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On the Horizon
CLASSICAL MUSIC LATE ROMANTIC Aug. 29-31 The big-shot summer festivals have run their course by Labor Day. But Woodstock’s Maverick Concerts series offers a rich weekend of events that includes a piano recital devoted to music by Schubert and David Del Tredici and a chamber-orchestra concert, led by . . .
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Hue Turn
At a time when museums, galleries, and collectors’ homes are full of massive color prints by Andreas Gursky, Cindy Sherman, and Thomas Ruff, the idea that color photographs were once not just unfashionable but unsalable seems impossibly quaint. “When Color Was New,” a smart, compact show at the Julie Saul . . .
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Classical Music
CONCERTS IN TOWN MOSTLY MOZART FESTIVAL The next two weeks bring a bounty of musical riches, both foreign and domestic. Here are some highlights: Aug. 6 at 10:30: Jeremy Denk--one of the most versatile and admired pianists in the city--performs Schubert’s Sonata in B-Flat Major, D. 960 . . .
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Art
MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES METROPOLITAN MUSEUM Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)--“J. M. W. Turner.” Through Sept. 21. As Renaissance Florence and Rome rediscovered classical art, a penchant developed for inlay and carving of semiprecious hard stone (pietre dure, in Italian). The craze swept neighboring countries, and “Art of the . . .
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Art economy is doing fine, exhibitors say
RACINE — The discussion this past week was whether government economic numbers indicate a recession or the proximity of one, yet there didn’t seem to be anything like that on hand this weekend.
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Study urged for another museum proposal
City Councilman Ted Mohn wants a committee to study plans for a new Fayetteville Museum of Art. Mohn will make the request tonight at the council’s 5 p.m. meeting in City Hall. His request is one of the last items on the agenda. He will have several minutes to lobby his colleagues.
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Festival celebrating India comes to East Cobb Park
EAST COBB - About 250 people attended a variety Indian American entertainment program on Sunday at East Cobb Park off Roswell Road, leading up to India's Independence Day on Aug. 15.
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A pleasant sound
Museum illustrates the sound of music in exhibit
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Bank lands top crock
Sunday afternoon’s crock auction at Gnadenhutten Pioneer Days raised $900, $150 of which came from the first crock, which was bought by Indian Village Community Bank. Kim Stull of Gnadenhutten represented the bank during the bidding.
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Belait Women Unveil Domestic Talents
Kuala Belait - Women of different capacities in the Belait District unveiled their domestic creativity and skills during a handicraft, artworks and cookery competition at Dewan Bandaran, organised by the Belait Pertiwi Association in conjunction with His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam's 62" birthday celebration.
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Home is where the art is: Fort Lauderdale lofts designed, priced for artists
Lauderdale lofts are designed, priced for artists — and all booked up Hidden behind the generic shroud of an old residential neighborhood called Sailboat Bend lives a colony of artists. Painters, sculptors, photographers, singers, poets — all the Muses seem to visit here.
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Proposed D to Z mural design to be unveiled
MATTOON — Community members should get an idea of what the first Mattoon Mural Arts Project painting will look like during a meeting Thursday.
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Posted: 04-08-2008 , 02:52 GMT
The planner for the “Al Quds Festival 2008” (Jerusalem Festival 2008), starting this week, said that the famous Lebanese singer Majida Al Roomi will sing on the opening night from Beirut via satellite.
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The Familiar Unique
VALDOSTA — Deb House has a way of capturing familiar scenes that breathes fresh life into them. Her paintings of the Lowndes County Courthouse and the Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts bring new perspective to sites viewers know well.
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Slow economy has more people hitting the books
More people are borrowing books and movies instead of buying them. They're canceling their magazine subscriptions. They're clamoring after discounted museum passes, and spending more time surfing the Internet, for free.
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Obituaries in the news
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Perez Celis, an Argentine muralist, painter and sculptor, died Saturday. He was 69. Perez, who had leukemia, died at the Otamendi sanitarium in the capital, Buenos Aires, the Argentine news agency Noticias Argentinas and the television station Todo Noticias reported.
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Obituaries in the news
Sun, Aug 3, 2008 (7:27 p.m.) BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) _ Perez Celis, an Argentine muralist, painter and sculptor, died Saturday. He was 69.
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