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Italy museum defies pope anger over crucified frog
ROME (AP) — An art museum in northern Italy said Thursday it will continue displaying a sculpture portraying a green frog nailed to a cross that has angered Pope Benedict XVI and local officials. The board of the foundation of the Museion in the city of Bolzano voted [...]
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Destinations
GREAT BRITAIN: SAY CHEESE! This year's Great British Cheese Festival is slated for Sept. 27-28 at Cardiff Castle in the capital city of Wales. Britain's biggest Cheese Market will dominate the event with more than 500 cheeses from across the kingdom to sample and purchase, but visitors can also enjoy an extraordinary diversity of food and drink in the other markets on site.
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Drawing on Lennon's legacy
Come Together: The Artwork of John Lennon" includes more than 100 pieces by the former Beatle and Liverpool College of Art dropout - the touring exhibit has been highly attended through the years, and Lennon's widow says she knows why.
Cape Cod Times |
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Our picks: The week's best stuff to do
See which films are the "reel" deal at a Video Party from 7:30 to 10 p.m. at the Schoolhouse Gallery, 494 Commercial St., Provincetown.
Cape Cod Times |
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Nuwandart no more
This First Friday will be the Nuwandart Gallery's last. The popular A Street gallery will strip the art from its walls and close its doors Sept. 5 because of rising maintenance costs.
Ashland Daily Tidings |
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UK-Odd Summary
Italian museum defies pope over crucified frog
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Carnegie Brings Color To Covington
Residents of the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky region associate the Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center with cutting edge regional artists’ exhibitions and performances in its recently renovated Otto M. Budig Theatre.
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News: Halloween at Sea World Orlando
Aug. 28th, 2008 -- ORLANDO, Fla. – From pumpkin fishes to friendly sea witches, Halloween meets the sea this October during SeaWorld ’s Halloween Spooktacular, carving an underwater “fantasea” where children can dance with an ice DJ, learn from a school of fish, and play with a sea fairy.
Thrill Network.com |
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Tories refuse to release information on portrait gallery
New Democratic Party MP Paul Dewar has decried the 'secrecy' of the federal government after the Heritage Department refused his Access to Information request for the names of the people on the committee deciding where the Portrait Gallery of Canada will be located.
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Tories refuse to release information on portrait gallery
New Democratic Party MP Paul Dewar has decried the 'secrecy' of the federal government after the Heritage Department refused his Access to Information request for the names of the people on the committee deciding where the Portrait Gallery of Canada will be located.
Canada.com |
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Local Sports Briefs
The Douglas Little League will elect new board members for the upcoming 2009 season at a special board meeting set for 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 28 at Backdrop Photography, 1009 G. Ave.
The Daily Dispatch |
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Local Sports Briefs
The Douglas Little League will elect new board members for the upcoming 2009 season at a special board meeting set for 6 p.m. tonight at Backdrop Photography, 1009 G. Ave.
The Daily Dispatch |
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GEICO Poster Contest Aims to Boost Safety Belt Use
Break out those markers and dust off your paint brushes, it's time to enter GEICO's annual Safety Belt Poster Contest! The national GEICO competition (http://www.geico.com/about/in-the-community/poster-contest/) kicks off Sept. 1 for students age 6-18 and offers students a chance to earn cash prizes at both the regional and national levels.
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Fall offerings at Anthropology museum include exhibit, family workshops, lectures
Wake Forest University’s Museum of Anthropology will kick off the 2008 fall semester with its annual “Dia de los Muertos” (Day of the Dead) exhibit. This semester will also include a new series of Cultures Up Close family workshops, educational lectures and two museum shop sales.
Wake Forest University News Service |
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GEICO Poster Contest Aims to Boost Safety Belt Use
Break out those markers and dust off your paint brushes, it´s time to enter GEICO´s annual
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Bumbershoot: Be sure to book some time for the festival's lively literary lineup
Bumbershoot continues to enliven its literary offerings with intriguing panels as well as musical components. John Marshall offers his picks of this weekend's best literary events at the annual arts fest.
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NORTH YORK: Great new exhibits opening in September
There are lots of arts events to keep you busy in September. Local galleries have great new exhibits opening, including Learning to See, The Way of Now and no. it is opposition. There's the Giant Gardening and Nature used book sale to benefit the Weston Family Library.
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Call of the Conscience
The speech delivered by Manoranjan Selliah, Chief organiser of the ‘Call of the Conscience’- a human rights art exhibit on the conflict in Sri Lanka, held at Roy Thomson Hall in downtown Toronto last week.
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WELCOME GUEST! Takeshi Kitano on Thursday unveiled "Achilles and the Tortoise," the Japanese actor-director's tragi-comic take on an artist's yearning for fame, as the Venice film festival got into full swing.
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Sculptures on display at Griffiss Technology & Business Park
ROME, N.Y. (WKTV) - Celebrating art right here in Central New York. That is the idea behind one of a series of sculptures, now on display.
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GEICO Poster Contest Aims to Boost Safety Belt Use
FREDERICKSBURG, Va.----Break out those markers and dust off your paint brushes, it's time to enter GEICO's annual Safety Belt Poster Contest! The national GEICO competition kicks off Sept. 1 for students age 6-18 and offers students a chance to earn cash prizes at both the regional and national levels.
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Kate Moss immortalised in gold
New York, Aug 28 : A solid gold statue of supermodel Kate Moss is to go on display at the British Museum in October this year. The sculpture, crafted by artist Marc Quinn, has been valued at $2.8 million, reports contactmusic.com.
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Felten sculptures among art finalists
Pete Felten’s stone sculptures are among the 24 finalists for the 8 Wonders of Kansas Art list.
Hays Daily News |
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Prairie Photo Contest Held In Conjunction With Federal Duck Stamp Contest
MINNEAPOLIS — On the eve of the 2008 Federal Duck Stamp Contest, The Nature Conservancy will hold a digital photography contest to highlight the beauty of native prairie in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.
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Today, in Mammoth
Yosemite Renaissance Benefit Art Auction Paintings, photographs, prints, sculptures and fabric arts will be auctioned. Online bids cane be made on www.yosemiterenaissance.org up to 5 p.m. tonight. All proceeds benefit the Artist-in-Residence program.
Mammoth Times |
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