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Bosnia and Herzegovina: Failure to protect "Sarajevo Queer Festival"
The authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina must provide adequate security for the participants in the first “Sarajevo Queer Festival”, said Amnesty International after several people were attacked at the end of the first day of the festival.
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The Buzz On Business
PLAYBOY ART WILL BE AUCTIONED: In one drawing, a naked woman leans over a ship railing, her ample derriere playfully peppered with travel stickers. In another, a busty blonde runs forward, casting off her button-down shirt with splayed arms and manicured nails. This is the art of Playboy magazine, and for the second time in five years, it's being made available to the public at a major ...
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Scrimshaw tooth fetches premium price
A sperm whale's tooth carved by a Wilmington sailor in 1835 sold Friday for $98,500 -- $38,500 more than estimated -- in an auction at Sotheby's in New York, according to the company's Web site.
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Ryda Hecht Levi
Philanthropist's foundation gives education and arts grants to local causes, including the Baltimore Museum of Art. R yda Hecht Levi, a philanthropist whose family foundation gives educational and arts grants, died of congestive heart failure Wednesday at her Green Spring Valley home. She was 92.
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Beautiful Losers
"Beautiful Losers" follows a loose-knit group of like-minded and creative outsiders in the 1990s who found common ground at a little NYC storefront art gallery.
East Bay Express |
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Local authors spotlight Michigan art and architecture
If you're a fan of Michigan public art and architectural landmarks, join the fun at the Book Beat in Oak Park from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Sunday. Two new books will share the spotlight: "Great Architecture of Michigan" (Wayne State University Press, $60), by Free Press architecture critic John Gallagher and photographer Balthazar Korab, and "Art in Detroit Public Places" (Wayne State University Press, ...
Detroit Free Press |
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Decoy & Gunning Show helps sustain art of carving
J.P. "Jamie" Hand perched on a wooden bench in one corner of the Jersey Shore Folklife Center at the Tuckerton Seaport one recent Sunday, cutting into a block of wood with a small knife. To one side was a basket of wooden blocks; to the other lay a row of carved wooden duck heads waiting for bodies.
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Volunteer of the week: Merritt Mann of San Rafael
Name: Merritt Mann Residence: San Rafael Agency: Art Works Downtown, which encourages artistic activities by providing low-income housing, studio and exhibition
Marin Independent Journal |
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Czech master helped revive Waterford glass
Miroslav Havel, a glass blower, cutter, engraver, designer, polisher and sculptor who was one of a pair of unlikely Czech immigrants to Ireland who together revived the Waterford glass industry after a century's dormancy, died in Waterford on Sept. 5. He was 86.
Miami Herald |
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Work of sculptor John Rogers highlighted at Seward House
AUBURN - The Seward House contains many treasures, from historical documents to fine works of art.
The Auburn Citizen |
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Art Installation
An art installation by Berlin-based Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota with hundreds of shoes stuck on the facade of a building in Berlin's Mitte District, part of the "Torstrasse, 166--House of Imagination" exhibition. Photo courtesy: AFP.
Sin Chew Jit Poh |
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Echoes of a great past
The Echoes from the Great Pyramid Era exhibition displays 150 replicas of cultural relics and visual art pieces from Egypt.
China Daily |
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Governor presents Loveland with annual arts award By Anthony Bowe Loveland Reporter-Herald
The bright hues and decorative brush strokes of Loveland art surrounded Gov. Bill Ritter on Friday as he presented the city with the Governor’s Arts Award at the Loveland Museum/Gallery. As an embodiment of the art he was awarding, Ritter gifted Loveland with a bright orange and yellow oil painting of a team of two horses.
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Advice for art world beginners
For many people, the art world can be intimidating. Whether you are a frequent visitor to art museums or a novice, there is always something new to learn.
Courier-Post |
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What's Happening
Annual Salmon Festival Starts at 10 a.m. Sept. 27 in Oroville. Free admission and shuttle. Features Feather River Fish Hatchery, Oroville Salmon street fair, Salmon at the State Theater and more.
Oroville Mercury-Register |
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Paint locally, collaborate globally
For the past two years, Pacha Hornaday has given out prepainted canvases of different sizes to artists locally and around the globe with an expectation that they be returned painted with fresh artwork. Pacha, who is known in the art community by her first name, recommended a color or theme. The rest was left up to each artist’s creative vision. Over the past few months, she has gathered the ...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune |
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Catholic museum opening at St. Thomas
Catholic history takes center stage at the Thursday opening of the Archbishop John C. Favalora Archive & Museum at St. Thomas University in northwest Miami-Dade.
Miami Herald |
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Maidu basket weaver's art featured in center exhibit
A show featuring Lilly Baker is displaying a newly acquired coiled basket, tools and basketry material prepared and used by the Maidu basket weaver before her death in 2006.
The Sacramento Bee |
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Sego Festival lights up Provo
For the third year in a row, artists from around Utah County will be gathering in Provo for the Sego Arts Festival this weekend.
Provo Daily Herald |
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Celebrate Banned Books Week
Read a challenged book or visit the art exhibit 'Banned and Recovered: Artists Respond to Censorship' in Oakland to learn more about banned, burned and censored texts.
Contra Costa Times |
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Pair of artists to show their work at Tiffin University
Artists M.B. Hopkins and Evelyn Mahrt are to share their "visual interpretations into the soul" with a joint exhibition of their paintings in a new exhibition at Tiffin University's Diane Kidd Gallery. A special reception to open "inSIGHT: The Paintings of M.B. Hopkins and Evelyn Mahrt," is set for 7-8 p.m. Oct. 9 at the gallery, located inside the Hayes Center for the Arts on the TU campus.
The Advertiser-Tribune |
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"Pittsburgh 250 Festival of Lights" Largest Festival of its Kind in the United States Starts October 10th
Expanded Footprint in Downtown, Oakland and Surrounding Neighborhoods to be Transform Buildings Into Large Scale Works of Art Starting October 10th - November 20, 2008
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Pamlico River guild’s quilt show has something for all
The Washington Civic Center has turned into an art gallery of sorts this weekend for “Piecing It Together,” the Pamlico River Quilters’ Guild show.
Washington Daily News |
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Cans of food to be collected for sculptures
Organizers of Candemonium, the Staunton Augusta Art Center project designed to raise awareness about poverty, have set up bins for the collection of canned food throughout Staunton.
The Staunton News Leader |
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Dancing, art at Edward-Dean Museum on Sunday
CHERRY VALLEY - Dances from around the world will be on display Sunday at the Edward-Dean Museum in Cherry Valley. The Cultural Arts & Dance Festival will feature live hula, ballet, tap, East Indian and belly dancing performances.
The Press-Enterprise |
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