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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 (PRWeb Sep 27, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/09/prweb1387084.htm
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Artist explores spatial play with wood
Organic and abstract are two words that would aptly describe Mississauga artist Ryszard Litwiniuk’s exhibit at Peel Heritage Complex Art Gallery of Peel until Oct. 26.
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Photographers' new focus: selling Niles Road house
Richard D. and Amy Griffin, photographers who founded the F8 Fine Art Gallery, have put their Niles Road estate on the market for $3.795 million.
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Things to do this weekend
For more cranberries and fall fun, attend Warrens Cranberry Festival on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The annual event features crafts, art, antiques, food, and, of course, lots of cranberries. For a complete schedule of events, go to the Web site at www.cranfest.com.
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Touring Warhol show heavy in film and video
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A new exhibit makes it easy to imagine pop artist Andy Warhol feeling right at home in the current age of reality TV and Web video.
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Enviro-Art winners announced
It was a tough decision for judges of the very first Enviro-Art Contest, hosted by Visual Arts Brampton and Shoppers World- but winners were narrowed down to six entries that best fit the criteria outlined for the contest.
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The Hays Daily News (http://www.hdnews.net) offers news and information for Hays and Northwest Kansas. Your source for news and information in Northwest Kansas.
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Stolen art found
ITALIAN police have recovered an oil painting of a naked woman by French master Pierre-Auguste Renoir stolen from a private collection 33 years ago.
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Stolen Renoir painting recovered by police
MILAN, Italy, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Police say they have recovered a painting by Impressionist master Pierre-Auguste Renoir that was stolen more than 30 years ago in Italy.
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Seasons of Martis Plein Air artists selected
Judges for the Seasons of Martis Plein Air Art event, an event that helps raise money for North Tahoe Arts and the Truckee-Donner Land Trust, recently announced the names of the 33 artists invited to participate in the exhibition.
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Variety of activities on tap for Battle Days
Nicole Fields/photo Tu-Endie-Wei State Park in Point Pleasant will host a variety of activities during the annual Battle Days Festival, slated this year for Oct. 3-5. Among the scheduled events is the lantern tour, colonial ball and parade.
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Photo Gallery
Why does Stephen Harper think saving the planet is simply some ones pet project? Why does he think the Green Shift, a plan that will [...]
Timmins Times |
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Waterfalls Celebrated for Being Green?
Yesterday Mayor Bloomberg made a curious move by presenting an environmental award to the man behind the Waterfalls project, Olafur Eliasson, and the Public Art Fund, the organization that commissioned the four waterfalls that have run throughout the summer along the city's East River waterfronts. The Doris C. Freedman Award has been given annually for over 25 years to people and groups who ...
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Corporate India buys into the idea of art
Religare’s arts.i gallery marks the debut of India Inc. They buy art, they come for openings, some even associate or promote it, but India Inc has remained divorced from its business potential, save for an art fund or two or three.
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M.A.D.'s New Digs
Museum Unveils $90 Million Makeover The museum stands like an iridescent glass and terra cotta metaphor, right in the hub of a newly gleaming Columbus Circle, about to relaunch in an ambitious new space with the appropriately titled exhibit "Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary."
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A Glimpse of the World From Behind a Burqa
Photography wasn't the likeliest of career choices for a young woman growing up in Afghanistan -- especially someone who grew up with virtually no pictures at home, like Farzana Wahidy. (During the civil war, all of her family's photos were stolen after a rocket struck their house.) But the camer...
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New Home for Museum of Arts and Design Opens
For years, it was one of the more visually unusual structures in midtown Manhattan -- a mostly windowless, white marble construction known as "The Lollipop Building" after a disparaging comment from an architecture critic's review. It was built in 1964 to house one man's art collection, but sat empty for years. The Museum of Arts and Design bought it a few years ago to become its new home.
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Famed photog Michael Smith dies
New Orleans photographer Michael P. Smith, whose work chronicled the city’s cultural, musical and folk traditions for more than four decades, including 34 Jazz & Heritage Festivals, died Friday. He was 71.
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Picasso's Arlequin expected to fetch $31 million Cdn
A cubist Harlequin painting by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso will by auctioned Nov. 3 and is expected to bring more than $31 million Cdn.
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Spider Saloff Appears at South Bend Museum of Art in Speakeasy
Spider Saloff’s Speakeasy: Songs of the 1920’s. November, 19th at 6:30 p.m. South Bend, Indiana. Tickets are $28.00 available @ 1-574-235-9102. Nationally acclaimed vocalist Spider Saloff will make a rare appearance in South Bend for this lively evening of 1920’s jazz.
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Banksy Works Go Unsold; Buyers Stay Away From Urban-Art Auction
Sept. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Works by Banksy and other graffiti painters failed to sell in London today as buyers stayed away from an auction of contemporary and urban art.
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Stolen Renoir painting recovered by police
Police say they have recovered a painting by Impressionist master Pierre-Auguste Renoir that was stolen more than 30 years ago in Italy.Police allege the painting of a naked woman with her back to the viewer, which was grabbed in Milan in 1975, was found after three suspects attempted to get the artistic work appraised by Vittorio Sgarbi, an art critic who also is mayor of Salemi, the Italian ...
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Dandy Warhols are serious, but only about the music
ASPEN - Courtney Taylor and Peter Holmström, friends from their days as Portland, Ore., high school students, came up with a bunch of what Holmström calls "not great band names," before they came up with the one that stuck - the Dandy Warhols.
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Early Kiwi works enticing investors
A sale of 130 important early and rare New Zealand paintings is expected to realise $2 million - reflecting an investment market remaining buoyant during tough economic times.
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Banksy Mural Going Up in Soho Right Now
A huge Banksy mural was spotted being put up in Soho at Wooster and Grand this morning. At first it appeared that it was possibly Banksy himself painting the huge rat, but the painter's American accent quickly revealed that it was not in fact the pseudo-anonymous British graffiti artist. After initially dodging questions, the painter revealed that he was working for the sign painting company ...
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