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Winnebago County Fair kicks off Tuesday
OSHKOSH Stacey Kunde is excited to put on her hard work on exhibit at the Winnebago County Fair, which opens its six-day run Tuesday afternoon.
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Photography contest held for safe Olympics
Zhu Ling (L), editor-in-chief of China Daily and Song Jianguo, director of Beijing Traffic Management Bureau, attend the launch ceremony of a traffic photography competition in Beijing, August 3, 2008. The contest, jointly conducted by China Daily, Beijing Traffic Management Bureau and Beijing Photographers Association, is aimed to showcase Beijing's advanced traffic control methods and promote ...
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United Way holds mini sculpture contest
Officials for the Naperville United Way will begin accepting entries for the mini art event "Gardener," from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday in the lobby of the Naperville Municipal Center, 400 S. Eagle St.
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Art Fair weathers well with fans
PORTER -- The unsurpassed weekend weather for the 50th annual Chesterton Art Fair was as much on the minds of art lovers as the creative efforts of the exhibitors as they browsed the booths in Hawthorne Park on Sunday.
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Injunction idea sparks debate...
Shoppers at Festival Park have mixed feelings about the police's plans. Phil Gibson, an artist who lives in May Bank, said youngsters should be allowed to "live and let live". He said: "If it's disturbing residents, then I ...
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Sculptor Donates Bronze Angel For Ship Named After Ancestor
S culptor Sterett-Gittings Kelsey of Roxbury has had her work displayed at locations all over the world, and now she can add a 510-foot, $1.3 billion naval warship to the list.
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Win Film Festival tickets everyday!
The Dispatchonline team is giving readers an opportunity to win double tickets to see Away From Her as well as a slew of other art films. In this startling first feature film directed by young Canadian actress Sarah Polley, Away From Her , tells the story of a man coping with the institutionalisation of his wife because of Alzheimer’s disease and his epiphany when she transfers her affections to ...
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Check It Out
(IsraelNN.com) Jerusalem's Israel Museum has recently acquired the photography collection of Harriette and Noel Levine, considered one of the world's finest private photography collections, which is comprised of 125 photographs spanning 160 years of photographic history.
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Kennels benefit from artwork sale
A Borders hunt makes £11,500 from the sale of a painting to help pay for the upkeep of its kennels.
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Southern Africa: David Martin Memorial Exhibition Opens at National Gallery
Southern African Liberators on Wednesday paid homage to a fellow liberator, the late David Martin when an exhibition hosting the life and work of the late writer, photographer and publisher opened at the National Gallery in Harare.
AllAfrica.com |
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Pulleys, sprockets and whimsy automate artist's sculptures
WATERLOO --- Steve Gerberich sees things a little differently.
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier |
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Costen House's matriarch steps aside
POCOMOKE CITY -- Norma Miles, a founding board member of Costen House Museum and its president for the 10 years, has stepped down.
The Daily Times |
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WEIRD BUT TRUE
Residents of Parshall, ND, are unfazed by an unarmed booster rocket for an intercontinental ballistic missile that was left lying in a ditch when a truck overturned. "We talked about the oil boom, weddings, everything under the sun," resident...
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Want to edit the picture gallery?
The BBC Scotland news website is giving readers the opportunity to edit its weekly picture gallery.
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Group fights Fayetteville art museum location
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - The executive director of the Fayetteville Museum of Art says the museum hasn't started its public fundraising campaign yet because of critics who don't like its location.
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London News and Reviews
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has had an Italian masterpiece altered - because of an exposed breast. The 71-year-old worried that cameras would focus on the naked woman's chest in the painting hanging behind him during his press briefings.
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A resort that offers free facilities to all
IF Rocky Balboa thought that running the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Pennsylvania was the pinnacle of his physical and mental endurance, he ain't seen nothing yet.
The New Straits Times |
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Celebrities flock to Tracey Emin's new art exhibiton
Looks like Orlando Bloom is gripped by Tracey Emin's latest display as he arrives for her new art exhibition... The 31-year-old actor was among a host of celebrities who turned up to admire the artist's collection of work at a gallery in Edinburgh.
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Hackettstown gallery kicking off music shows
HACKETTSTOWN -- Singer-songwriter Kathy Phillips will kick off a week of music at Arts off Main Art Gallery on Friday night, Aug. 8.
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John Piper to Exhibit (2008-08-03 - 2008-08-31)
The sixth annual exhibition at Narborough Hall, Narborough, Norfolk opens on Sunday 3 August. A selection of paintings, watercolours, lithographs and tapestries by John Piper (1903–1992), one of the best-loved British artists of the 20th century, will be on display in the house. The exhibition runs from Sunday 3 August to Sunday 31 August; open Sundays to Wednesdays from 11am–5pm including ...
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Call for Artists: Re-Branding Acts (2008-08-04 - 2008-08-31)
The third edition of TINA B. – The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, organised by Prague’s Galerie Vernon, aims yet again to combine the creative energy of the cultural scene in Central and Eastern Europe with emerging talents and trends from around the world in the Czech Republic’s vibrant capital. Adopting the leitmotif FORMS OF ENGAGEMENT, TINA B. 2008 will focus on the relationships between ...
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Chinese Contemporary Art Masters Exhibition (2008-08-01 - 2008-08-31)
Art Scene China's summer exhibition brings together the work of some of China‚s top contemporary art masters: Zhong Biao, Du Xinjian, Hung Liu, Xue Jiye, Feng Feng, Zhou Weihua and Chen Xinmao. Not only are these artists experienced and technically excellent artists, but they are also very creative and each of their paintings (unlike that of many of their contemporaries) is unique and full of ...
Absolutearts.com |
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RIDE ME / The Art of Urban Transport (2008-08-01 - 2008-08-31)
RIDE ME / The Art of Urban Transport, Group Exhibit curated by Daniel Delisle, is on view at La Petite Mort Gallery in Ottawa, Canada from August 1 - 31, 2008. In today’s day of soaring gas prices, mass-produced attire and the threat of global warming, what better time to slip into your own pair of custom designed sneakers or shred the pavement on your own customized skateboard, bicycle or ...
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FOUR - The Result of CURATE THIS 2008 (2008-08-02 - 2008-09-28)
A group exhibition featuring the works of the top four emerging artists selected via the votes cast by more than 400 guest curators from 11 countries during "CURATE THIS!" 2008. For this exhibition, BECA gallery in New Orleans, LA enlisted the input of art enthusiasts from around the world via 'CURATE THIS!', an online juried event which allowed anyone from anywhere in the world with an ...
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