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By: Alison Murphy Staff Writer September 6 - Dec 15 LEWIS BUCK: Beyond the Surface + Fine & Performing Arts Center Museum Life Works in Painting and Assemblage, a retrospective of the the artist's 60 year career. Includes 50 paintings and collages described as bright, vibrant and textural.…
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See the Future at Wired NextFest
Millennium Park -- Chicago's $475 million ode to its future -- is constantly watched over by rangers on Segways who glide around the park's public art and plazas like hallway monitors from the future. And for the next two weeks, the guards will keep an eye on the WiredNextFest 2008 pavilion, which will be showing off bits of the future -- ranging from self-healing robots to a human-powered car ...
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The Grand Louvre in Paris a green museum
MANILA, Philippines—The Louvre Museum in Paris is the biggest and most visited art museum in the world. Its collection of approximately 35,000 pieces is exhibited over 60,000-square-meter floor area. Among the many famous collections in the museum are Venus de Milo and Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.
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Artist group protests against Sir Nicholas Serota’s job renewal
A group of artists has protested to Gordon Brown that the recent reappointment of Sir Nicholas Serota as director of the Tate Gallery was achieved through “sleight of hand”.
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N.B. gallery says gift from Lord Beaverbrook includes art masterpieces
The late Lord Beaverbrook would be spinning in his grave if he knew his heirs were trying to tear apart the legacy of art he created in his home province, says a lawyer for the New Brunswick Art Gallery.
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A slice of Americana
theday.com Log on to listen to samples of some of the bands' songs. if you go What: The First Annual New London Americana Music Festival. Where: Hygienic Art
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Wanna Go to a Gallery Reception Tomorrow?
StrataSphere is an art exhibition space at Germantown Avenue and Berks Street in the Olde Kensington section of Philadelphia. It is a space dedicated to promoting the work of emerging and mid-career artists through themed group exhibitions. Tomorrow, September 27, from 3-5 pm they will be having a closing reception, free and open to the public for their On Loss and Memory exhibition , ...
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art Till September 27 at Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR, Jamini Roy Gallery, 3rd floor, 9A Ho Chi Minh Sarani; 11 am ...
An exhibition of paintings by young women artists from Afghanistan. Till September 27 at Galerie Karma, P-505 Keyatola Road, #2463 6731/32; 10 am - 7 pm: Through the Glass Unbroken , an exhibition of the works of Rebanta Goswami.
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Shopping festival
Puja shopping festivals, in association with The Telegraph , at Mani Square, City Centre and South City Mall. Attractions include Magic Show by P.C. Sorcar at Mani Square, 8pm and a performance by Tanmoy Bose at City Centre, 6pm to 8pm.
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ACL weekend kicks off with sunny days ahead
The wait is almost over and for the Austin City Limits Festival attendees who are spilling over with anticipation. For the next three days, more than 100 acts will perform in front of thousands of music fans, marking the seventh year for the big show.
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Almont Heritage Festival offers many family-friendly activities on Saturday
ALMONT -- The first Almont Fall Heritage Festival will celebrate a week of entertainment and activities observing the community's rural roots beginning Saturday (Sept. 27).
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45th Annual Cabrillo Festival
Cultures come together and history comes alive at the 45th Annual Cabrillo Festival, one of the oldest cultural events in San Diego. The festival will take place on Saturday, September 27 and Sunday, September 28, 2008.
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Are Books Doomed to Become Art Collector Items? [Qotd]
The always fascinating Dark Roasted Blend has an article on alternative uses for books. Sculptures, lamps, structures, furniture... everything made with books. It's an eerie view on book heaven or...
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MillerCoors to Gift Gallery of Greats and Portraits of Success Art Collections to Non-Profit Organizations
MillerCoors announces the gifting of their historic Gallery of Greats and Portraits of Success art collections to select non-profit organizations.
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Gilbert Stuart Among 10 Works Corcoran Gallery Plans to Auction
The Corcoran Gallery of Art plans to sell 10 paintings from its permanent collection at a public auction in December as a first step toward refining the museum's focus and providing funds for purchasing future works.
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From Mexico, A Subversive View of Politics
At last, the political show we've been waiting for. Early fall's promise ended in disappointment -- think Arlington's dogmatic "Picturing Politics" (closing tomorrow) and the Katzen's preachy "Close Encounters." Now, it's the end of political exhibitions as usual.
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Dion Wins Lucelia Prize With Edgy Pseudo-Exhibits
Organizing a career retrospective of artist Mark Dion wouldn't be easy. His work probes the whole idea of the museum show and sometimes even takes the form of pseudo-exhibitions. Put on a show of Dion's displays and you risk an infinite regress, like looking at a mirror in a mirror.
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Sonic Circuits: 8 Days of Drone
On Sunday, the Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music returns, bringing some of the world's well-known experimental and improvisational musicians, including Matmos and the Dead Science, to Washington for eight days of performances.
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Sotheby's to auction cubist Harlequin by Picasso
A Harlequin from Spanish painter Pablo Picasso's cubist period will be auctioned in November by Sotheby's in New York and is expected to fetch more than 30 million dollars, the auction house said Friday.
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Pencil This In...Friday
The American Food & Wine Festival kicks off tonight. / Photo by pink_fish13 via LAist's flickr pool. FILM : Battle in Seattle is a film by Stuart Townsend. Who’s Stuart Townsend? Well, he’s an actor and Charlize Theron’s boyfriend. The film’s backdrop is 1999’s WTO meeting in Seattle, which drew tens of thousands of demonstrators. The story follows protestors, cops and even the ...
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Berlin's Jewish Museum retraces artwork looted by Nazis
More than a half-century after Nazis looted artwork from European Jews, an unprecedented Berlin exhibition tells both sides of the story: how property was seized and efforts, at times fruitless, were made to have it restored.
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Playboy to auction 17 drawings, illustrations
CHICAGO (AP) - For the second time in five years, Playboy magazine is offering illustrations from its archives at a major auction. The 17 pieces from "Playboy: The Art of Beauty" will be auctioned on October 15th at Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas, but bids are already being taken online.
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Daily Digest 09/27/08
Daily Digest for Sept. 27, 2008: Community Garden fest needs donations BLOOMINGTON — The West Side Community Garden, Roosevelt and Mulberry streets, is throwing a harvest festival as part of Make A Difference Day on Oct. 25.
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Eyota man takes on caboose-painting project
Vince McConnell of Eyota has a passion for preserving Eyota's railroad history. Six years ago, when the city acquired a vintage caboose as a symbol of Eyota's railroad past, McConnell became its volu
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Boone County Art Show opens
The Boone County Art Show opens tomorrow and runs through Sunday at Boone County National Bank at Eighth and Broadway.
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