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Belgian Beer Fest, review part deux
Belgium is a beautiful country. It brings us chocolate, freedom fries, waffles, and a weird molecule sculpture. It brings us the intoxicating idea of the European Union, and the even more intoxicating beverage known as beer. My culinary companion and I had the opportunity to savor the incredibly diverse and complex varieties of beer at Saturday’s little Belgium-in-Boston, Beer Advocate ’s ...
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The New British Invasion
"West End dramas and musicals are again the rage in New York, an American opera has a UK director - and a Brit is running the Museum of Modern Art... In fact culture, in the broader sense, blown in from England has never been held in higher esteem."
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Keep The Faith
A Balinese woman presents an offering on a Denpasar curbside during Galungan festival. (Photo courtesy: I WAYAN JUNIARTHA/The Jakarta Post) After landing at Denpasar International Airport in Bali after a long tiring flight, all I could think of is rest.
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Pumpkin Fest parade kicks off season
Filled with more than 300 units and thousands of participants, the 2008 West Virginia Pumpkin Festival parade took place in MIlton today.
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Financial crisis weighs on Asia's top filmfest
BUSAN, South Korea (AFP) - The global financial crisis will weigh heavily on the minds of filmmakers when they gather in South Korea this week for Asia's premier film festival.
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Olympus Micro Four Thirds Concept
A gloriously retro concept camera based on the Micro Four Thirds system wowed the crowds at Photokina, the photography trade show in Cologne.
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Apple Anticipation: 31st annual festival set Friday, Saturday in Erwin
ERWIN — One of the well-known elements of the Apple Festival is the stage on Love Street in front of First Baptist Church where nothing but gospel music is played.
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Consider The Box
What defines an art gallery, beyond the simple fact that someone has hung some art in it? "Agreeable spaces, controlled lighting, hints of the incongruous or transgressive licensed by the sanctity of art."
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Fine arts lecturer takes artwork to NY, Paris
Fine Arts lecturer Stuart Shepherd will also take work by self-taught Australian artists to the fair New York. It will be the first time in the fair’s 17-year history that work by Australasian artists has been on show.
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Register Online For The SKYCITY Festival Of Poker
This October expect to see the City of Sails set alight with poker fever, as the SKYCITY Festival of Poker kicks off.
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International Sxulpture Center Opens 2008 Membership Conference This Week
GRAND RAPIDS.- The International Sculpture Center (ISC) will open their 21st International Sculpture Conference - Sculpture in Public: Part 2, Public Art, will be held October 2-4, 2008 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Mark Dion Is the 2008 Winner of Smithsonian American Art Museum's Annual Contemporary Artist Award
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum announced that Mark Dion is the 2008 winner of the museum’s Lucelia Artist Award.
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Williams Family Presents Major Gift of Western American Paintings To the Cincinnati Art Museum
CINCINNATI.-
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Four Kings: A Special Installation at the National Portrait Gallery
WASHINGTON, DC.- The year 2008 marks the 225th anniversary of the Treaty of Paris which ended the American Revolution. To commemorate this event, the National Portrait Gallery is showing the earliest surviving full-length oil portraits of North American Native people painted from life.
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Exhibition on 19th Century American Presidential Campaign Art Opens at Fenimore Art Museum
COOPERSTOWN, NY.- The exhibition Of, By, and For the People: The Art of Presidential Elections which features rare folk art created specifically for presidential campaigns of the 19th-century, is on view at the Fenimore Art Museum in the Clark Gallery.
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Oskar Kokoschka Exhibition in Compton Verney
NEW YORK.- Oskar Kokoschka (1886 - 1980) and Jack B Yeats developed a great friendship and admiration for each others' work towards the last decade of Yeats' life. This exhibition highlights a shared fascination with people on the margins of society and their search for new forms of expression.
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Blanton Museum of Art Presents The New York Graphic Workshop, 1964 - 1970
AUSTIN.- This exhibition is the first comprehensive presentation of a crucial, yet little-known, episode in the history of American and Latin American Conceptual art.
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The Studio at The Herbert Art Gallery to Show The World of Apu
COVENTRY.- The final chapter in one of the greatest film trilogy’s ever made will be screened at The Herbert in October.
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Contemporary Arts Center Presents Austrian Painter Maria Lassnig's First Exhibition in the U.S.
Maria Lassnig, 3 Ways of Being (3 Arten zu Sein) 2004. Oil on canvas 126 X 205 cm. © 2008 Maria Lassnig. Courtesy of the artist, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati and Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York.
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Framing and Being Framed: The Uses of Documentary Photography
Alfredo Jaar, The Power of Words, 1984, black and white photograph mounted on Plexiglass 56 x 48 inches. Courtesy the Artist and Galerie Lelong, New York.
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Celts and Scandinavians: Artistic Connections From 7th to 12th Century at Musée National du Moyen Age
Reliquaire de Rannveig. The National Museum of Denmark, Danish Middle Ages and Renaissance © John Lee/National Museum of Denmark. Ecosse, Fin VIIIe – début IXe siècle Cuivre, étain et émail sur âme de bois d’if, 10 cm x 13, 5 cm.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art Announces Three Significant Additions to its Celebrated Collection
Jennifer Bartlett (American, born 1941) Song, (Enamel over silkscreen grid on baked enamel, steel plates, 2007). Gift of Agnes Gund. CLEVELAND.-
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Kunsthaus Zürich Presents Rivoluzione! Italian Modernism from
Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Wäsche in der Sonne (Panni al sole), 1905. Oil on canvas, 87 x 131 cm. Privat collection, Courtesy James Roundell. ZURICH.-
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Emil Nolde Exhibition Opens at the Grand Palais in Paris
Emil Nolde, Couple. Stiftung Seebüll Ada und Emil Nolde Neukirchen, Allemagne © Nolde Stiftung-Seebüll 1931-1935. Aquarelle 36,5 x 50,4 PARIS.- German expressionism is a new subject in France. Emil Nolde (1867-1956), one of the main representatives of the movement, has never had a retrospective.
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Alcona kicks off art program once again
Alcona Community Schools students will have the chance to express their patriotic views through a locally created art program which saw higher than anticipated participation during its first year. For the second year, students from Head Start up to high school seniors are being given the option to participate in the Head Start to High School Art Contest.
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