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Sunday Happenings
Fluff -- Rain or shine, there will be Fluff . Union Square, Somerville, 4 p.m. Free. Escape from Mom's Basement -- The Boston Comic Book, CD/Record, and Pop Culture Spectacular will be the place to be, if you are a nerd. Radisson Hotel Boston, 200 Stuart St., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. $7. Movies -- Esther Robinson is an accidental film director. A chance meeting at the Andy Warhol ...
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Things to do outside the academy, too
While most of the critters and state-of-the-art displays were inside the new California Academy of Sciences building Saturday, there was plenty going on outside to entertain the thousands of people who jammed into Golden Gate Park for the museum's grand...
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Art museum visitors double in first year -- and so do utility bills -- but new building also draws new money
Press Photo/T.J. HamiltonIlluminating: Utility bills doubled at the new GRAM -- but for a space three times as large as the old one. GRAND RAPIDS -- In its first year in its new $75 million home, the Grand Rapids Art...
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Settlers association donates a further $20,000
The Otago Settlers Association has donated a further $20,000 to the Otago Settlers Museum redevelopment project, bringing public fundraising to about $8 million.
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Art gallery closing
On October 7, Billis Fine Art will be closing its doors. Our decision has been difficult both because of the wonderful people we have met, the friends we made, and the pride we take in having created both the Fine Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden. Its reception has been gratifying.
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Arts & Leisure: Golden rule
In Euclidean geometry, the straight line represents the most efficient connection between two points -- an apt summary for National Artist Arturo Luz's aesthetic philosophy: "Good design is simple, direct and to the point. No playing around. It's also about integrity to material and imagination, whether in sculpture, painting, or jewelry."
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City Book Fair wants to put burgeoning literary community on the same page
Buenos Aires had Borges. St. Petersburg had Pushkin. And Nabokov. And Akhmatova. And Brodsky. Not to mention Dostoevsky. (Ah, the Russians!) Even petite Newburyport, Mass., population 17,000, draws thousands of tourists and over 60 authors to its annual literary festival. What about San Diego?
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Mack is back!
A late arriving crowd at the National Guard Armory in Northeast Philadelphia was treated to quite a night of boxing featuring two highly contested ten round title fights.
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Symphony colleagues add art to the chamber music experience
Demarre McGill is best known as the San Diego Symphony's distinguished principal flutist. But he and fellow symphony member Kate Hatmaker are stepping out. On Tuesday, their chamber music series, “Art of Élan,” opens its second season at the San Diego Museum of Art.
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Prosser has Mustang pride (w/gallery)
PROSSER -- Stroll through downtown Prosser any Friday night this fall and you'll see most storefronts displaying a "Closed" sign.
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HEROES' DAY: London honours its heroes
It was beneath a sky gun-metal grey they had gathered – a gathering of heroes in every sense of the word, congregated in exhibits of the present and images from the past.
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Museum sues Hollis resident
HOLLIS – A town resident and her three children are being sued by the Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Mass. for allegedly embezzling more than a $1 million from the museum.
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Orion Quartet opens chamber season
The Orion String Quartet will open the 68th season of the Chamber Music Society of Utica with a concert at 2:30 p.m. today at the Museum of Art Auditorium, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, 310 Genesee St.
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Auction Proceeds Will Help N.C. Pottery Center
SEAGROVE, N.C. -- Supporters of the North Carolina Pottery Center in Seagrove hope an auction of old pottery will raise as much as $20,000 to keep the center open.
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African American Fine Art Show
The African American Fine Art Show Chicago is one of the largest fine art shows in the Midwest
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Laura Bush, Jenna read at book festival
First lady Laura Bush and daughter Jenna took a lesson from their own book Saturday at the National Book Festival.
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New Allentown Art Musem director wants to expose more of its treasures
Nine months have passed since Gregory Perry became executive director of the Allentown Art Museum, and he still hasn't changed the paintings in his office. Frankly, he likes the Colonial and American Impressionist works chosen by his predecessor, David Brigham, from the permanent collection. Besides, there are more important wheels to turn in his wheelhouse.
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Quilts reflect rural strength of community
Lucy Mingo remembers the day in the mid 1990s when Atlanta art collector and entrepreneur William Arnett walked into her house in Gee's Bend, Ala., and admired her quilts.
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A glowing presence
Neon is a spiritual force for sculptor/painter Stephen Antonakos It was the early 1980s, and Stephen Antonakos was in an airplane circling Manhattan, his home island for more than 30 years. He saw one of his outdoor neon sculptures, a five-story arrangement of red arcs shadowed by cobalt blue, on 42nd Street, near the area where in the early '60s he had first fallen for the garish glow of ...
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New Allentown Art Musem director wants to expose more of its treasures
Nine months have passed since Gregory Perry became executive director of the Allentown Art Museum, and he still hasn't changed the paintings in his office. Frankly, he likes the Colonial and American Impressionist works chosen by his predecessor, David Brigham, from the permanent collection. Besides, there are more important wheels to turn in his wheelhouse.
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Weaving energy into fiber sculpture
A loosely woven portrait of Ted Hallman, who for five decades has been making magnetic, mesmerizing fiber sculptures:
The Morning Call |
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Warhol Exhibit Comes To Columbus
Multimedia exhibits shows full spectrum of the artist's work.
TheCelebrityCafe.com |
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Hoboken Fall Arts and Music Festival kicks off at 11
Jersey Journal file photo Festivalgoers check out some art -- and some wearable art -- at last year's Hoboken Arts and Music Festival.
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Public art display with nude cartoons comes down in San Mateo
nAttack on freedom of expression, curator says
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Molana message is peace, friendship
Iran -Molana Commemoration Day September 29 marks Molana Day in the Iranian calendar. Molana Jalaleddin Mohammad Balkhi was born in 604 AH. He created valuable works during his life spanning 68 years including his masterpiece Masnavi (couplet).
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