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North Georgia Folk Festival offers new events and new faces to carry on
The 24th edition of the North Georgia Folk Festival will once again showcase traditional music and art from throughout the Southeast, but this year's fete also features some new wrinkles, all in service to the song.
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Pomfret: Art exhibition opens Friday
Celebrations Gallery & Shoppes in Pomfret will hold an art exhibition, “Fields & Fences,” featuring original intaglio prints of Marian L. O’Connell and impressionist oil paintings of Donna O’Scolaigh Lange.
The Norwich Bulletin |
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Museum exhibit combines art and computer science
MACON - The "arts and sciences" in the name of Macon's museum on Forsyth Road has never seemed more appropriate.
Marietta Daily Journal |
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Hillel student center offers eatery, cafe, art gallery
The Hillel Jewish Student Center will have its grand opening on Tuesday.
The Gainesville Sun |
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Damien Hirst?s Next Sensation: Thinking Outside the Dealer
In a move that some say has the potential to change the face of art dealing, the artist Damien Hirst has cut out his dealers and taken his work straight to auction.
New York Times |
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The Smaller the Better: Sculptor likes 'figuring things out'
Everybody has a different idea about what makes for a satisfying challenge, and, for Phillip A. George, it has come to be making the teeny-tiniest art that he can.
Winston-Salem Journal |
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September 15, 2008
• In case you missed my previous posting on the subject, the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival 's production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night will be telecast on WNET this Thursday at nine p.m. It will be preceded by Shakespeare on the Hudson , a backstage documentary on the making of Twelfth Night , which airs at eight.
Arts Journal |
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Frick displays rediscovered Meissonier painting
A new exhibition at The Frick Art & Historical Center includes the newly restored "1806, Jena."
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
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Artist to speak at museum
Donaldson scheduled to speak Sept. 24 PDT Staff Report Portsmouth native Jamie Donaldson, recognized throughout the region as a master of the woodturning trade, will return to Portsmouth Sept. 24, for a "SmARTtalk" at Southern Ohio Museum. The talk will take place at noon in the Richards Gallery against the backdrop of the "Far From the Tree" exhibit of turned wood objects and will conclude with ...
Portsmouth Daily Times |
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Home and Garden briefs: Sept. 15, 2008
LAKE PLACID -- The Material Girls Quilting Club of Plattsburgh will exhibit vintage-style quilts from the 18th and 19th centuries in the barn meeting room at the John Brown Farm from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20. There will also be a discussion on the myths surrounding quilts and the Underground Rail Road.
Plattsburgh Press Republican |
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Art Gallery Celebrates Women
The St. Vincent College Gallery is joining in the celebration of 25 years of co-education at the Latrobe school by highlighting women artists from its collection.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
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Poetry, Sculpture Count As Art
Here's the deal, says Jeri Wohl. Buy a chair for $100. Then paint it yourself, or get an artist to do it.
Highlands Today |
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In Pictures: Hirst for art
Artist Damien Hirst is putting hundreds of his art works up for sale. He is seen here with a piece called Beautiful Atomic Collision of Flames: Force of Nature Painting, estimated at £100,000 to £200,000.
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Hirst artwork put up for auction
Hundreds of works of art by Damien Hirst are to be auctioned at Sotheby's.
BBC News |
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Peter Schjeldahl: Giorgio Morandi's still-lifes.
In my ideal world, the home of everyone who loves art would come equipped with a painting by Giorgio Morandi, as a gymnasium for daily exercise of the eye, mind, and soul. I want the ad account: “Stay fit the Morandi way!” Take your dream pick from among the hundred . . .
The New Yorker |
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Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks
BARNES & NOBLE Peter Manseau, the author of the 2005 memoir “Vows: The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Their Son,” reads from his début novel, “Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter.” (Broadway at 82nd St. No tickets necessary. Sept. 16 at 7.) MUSEUM OF MODERN ART The film composers Johnny . . .
The New Yorker |
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Turkmenistan to expand oil, gas production in period up to 2030 -Berdimuhamedow
ASHGABAT. Sept 13 (Interfax) - Turkmenistan will expand geological prospecting operations inside the country and increase oil and gas production in the period up to 2030.
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School events
Now through Sept. 18 On display -- "Picturing Faith: A National Photographic Exhibit," Cummings Art Gallery, Mercyhurst College.
Erie Times-News |
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Goings on About Town: Art
MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES METROPOLITAN MUSEUM Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)--“Giorgio Morandi, 1890-1964.” Through Dec. 14. “J. M. W. Turner.” Through Sept. 21. “Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui (1632-1717).” Through Jan. 4. “Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of . . .
The New Yorker |
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Museum Center showcases fashion
The Cincinnati Museum Center and the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning joined together to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Union Terminal Sept. 4 with Project Vintage Fashion, a fashion show that was the culmination of an independent study project guided by George Sarofeen, an adjunct instructor.
The News Record |
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Pottery Festival needs help to continue
EAST LIVERPOOL - The Tri-State Pottery Festival will not be held next year unless it receives financial support, said festival committee president John Weaver.
The East Liverpool Review |
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YOBI.tv Announces First Semi-Finalists
YOBI.tv is a new world of digital entertainment, is free, and has contest channels for Vocal Talent, Film Making, Comedy, Photography, Fashion Design, and Innovation. Voting opened August 18 and in the first three weeks of voting the member chosen winning semi-finalists are from USA, Indonesia, Estonia and Australia.
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Library selected to display reproductions of classic artwork
Claymont Public Library at Uhrichsville is the recipient of the National Endowment of the Humanities Picturing America program.
The Times-Reporter |
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Art Basel to Stay in Miami Beach Through 2011
Contemporary art's equivalent to Cannes, which had insisted on year-to-year contracts with the city since it came to Florida in 2002, has agreed to a three-year contract "under a hard-fought deal with the city that gives the show's owner a financial stake in the Miami Beach Convention Center."
Arts Journal |
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Despite rain, everything comes up 'green' for Irish Fest
By Susan K. Treutler Diehard lovers of all things Irish needed a boat to stay afloat and waders to keep their cuffs dry at some of last weekend's events. Still, in the Irish tradition, the cup of Guinness was half full. • Read the story • Saturday's review of Gaelic Storm • Friday's review of Scythian • Photo gallery of Day 1 • Photo gallery of Day 2 • Photo gallery of Day 3
The Muskegon Chronicle |
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