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Moss lipstick portrait fetches $A74,000
A self-portrait by British supermodel Kate Moss, drawn with lipstick and marked with her lip prints, was picked up by a private buyer for 33,600 pounds ($A74,000), after failing to sell at auction. A
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Eco-carnival brings sustainable living strategies to Knoxville
The Sustainable Living Roadshow is a clean fuel festival that is touring the country and has stopped in Knoxville for the weekend.
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Hispanic Heritage Honored at Brogan Museum
To celebrate Hispanic Heritage month, the Brogan Museum offered an arts and craft exhibit, showcasing Hispanic works.
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BIG JOE CLARK: Officials painting on ugly captions
Most artists get to start with a blank canvas. It should be pure white, waiting for the talented hand of the artist. We live in a financial world where there have been many coats of paint, and yet the artists of today have to solve the problems.
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Spam carving event in Katonah draws laughs
KATONAH - Famed sculptor Michaelangelo once said, 'In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me.'
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Taste of 4th Avenue attracting large crowd downtown Birmingham
Jazz bands are scheduled to perform until midnight on a stage set up on Fourth Avenue at 18th Street. Admission to the festival is free.
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Clinton Apple 'n Pork Festival celebrates its 40th year
CLINTON -- The 40th annual Apple ’n Pork Festival brought out thousands of people on a sunny Saturday for one of Clinton’s biggest celebrations, but there was more available than just what the name implies.
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Date set for Naples Fall Art Festival
The Downtown Naples Fall Art Festival has set its 10th anniversary event on Oct. 18-19 on Fifth Avenue South. The outdoor art showcase is to feature 150 artists and $15 million in artwork available for sale. Admission is free.
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Hemlock, Michigan, art students put their creativity to work
On their knees, immersed in homecoming buzz and fog, 17 Hemlock High School art students worked to finish chalk murals depicting cities from around the world before class ended at 9:42 a.m. "The kids have really been working very hard....
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ODDS AND ENDS: Italy the theme for a fundraiser, zoo celebrates harvest season, dance and have dinner at SVSU
Italy is the theme this year for the fourth annual fundraising dinner/art auction benefiting the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum at Saginaw Valley State University. "Saints, Sinners and Sopranos" runs from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3, in...
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Saginaw's Mid-Michigan Children's Museum hires a play educator
David A. Sommers The Saginaw NewsKathleen "Kit" Wolcott-Kroulik, 48, of Saginaw is the Play Educator for the Mid-Michigan Children's Museum. Turtles in the trees are wonderful, says Kathleen (Kit) Wolcott-Kroulik, who has seen just such an occurrence on her...
The Saginaw News |
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Ceramic artist wins second "Best in Show" at Festival of the Arts
COLUMBIA — The forms are figure-like. Their colors, vibrant. Their material, delicate. This isn't your typical clay pottery. This is porcelain stoneware at its finest — hand-carved and glazed — and these pieces were part of the collection of ceramics that took "Best in Show" at this weekend's Festival of the Arts. The artist, Paul Pfrehm of Wewoka, Okla., has been doing ceramics for more ...
Columbia Missourian |
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FLCC Hosts NYC Latino Exhibit
A local college is helping Hispanic residents celebrate their culture. Finger Lakes Community College hosted the Brooklyn-based Latino Heritage Museum's traveling exhibit, "Success Runs in My Race."
R News |
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Smithsonian Museum Day at Brogan Museum
The Brogan Museum sparked some scientific interest, while hosting its second "Smithsonian Magazine's Museum Day."
WCTV Tallahassee |
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You are the Ref, Paul Trevillion, Keith Hackett
The Sporting Words Festival 2008: Meet Observer artist Paul Trevillion and a top referee at the first ever live You Are The Ref session...
Guardian Unlimited |
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Drenching rain doesn't deter heritage seekers
VIDEO WITH THIS ARTICLE Occasional monsoon-like weather didn’t prevent families from partaking in the fifth annual Heritage Harvest Festival at Heritage State Park Saturday.
Fall River Herald News |
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Public art display comes down in San Mateo
n Official says area was reserved for promotional material, while some cry censorship
San Mateo County Times |
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Explore Iowa's covered bridges
Guided bus tours of covered bridges highlight the Madison County Covered Bridge Festival Oct. 11-12 in Winterset, Iowa. Visitors can see the historic structures that dot part of state's southern countryside.
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This Weekends Events
Until 03 Oct 2008 Concrete and Glass is showcasing some of the best talent in music and contemporary art. Taking the creative hub of Shoreditch and the east end as its inspiration Concrete and Glass taps into the...
My Village City of London |
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Library of Congress's National Book Festival Attracts More Than 120,000 Book Lovers to the National Mall
More than 120,000 book lovers gathered today on the National Mall for the eighth annual National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted by Mrs. Laura Bush. Festival-goers were entertained by their favorite authors, illustrators and poets as they celebrated creativity and imagination among the favorite standing-room-only pavilions including the Let's Read ...
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Whitehaven News
Mike McKenzie talks about the importance of framing and composition when taking photographs. Framing and composition is a very important aspect of photography and yet it would appear to be the least understood. How you frame the shot determines how it will look to your eye when your view it.
The Whitehaven News |
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This Weekends Events
Until 05 Oct 2008 An exhibition of paintings and drawings.... more details Until 02 Nov 2008 Photographs of the working people of Egypt by Yasser Alwan....
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Arts festival helps sustain aspiring artists
Allison Fees had a tough realization when she decided to become a professional artist. “Once you decide it’s a career, you can’t just give art away,” the 25-year-old painter/sculptor said.
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Lee Rosenbaum's cultural commentary
NY Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff , in his review for tomorrow's NY Times "Arts & Leisure" section (online today), demonstrates astoundingly meanspirited wrongheadedness: He puts the brand new Museum of Arts and Design at the end of his top-seven list of New York City buildings that he believes ought to be "candidates for demolition."
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Remsen fest: ‘The people come, they shop and they enjoy’
Christine Secor indulged in more than $100 worth of woodcrafts at the Tennessee Twigs booth at the Remsen Barn Festival of the Arts Saturday.
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