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$30K grant funds area artists
Six Waltham arts and humanities organizations, including the Rose Art Museum and a collection of local musicians, received grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council totaling nearly $30,000.
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Impressionist and other works on display at Harvard museum
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Art by Cezanne, Degas, Picasso, Matisse and Van Gogh are among 600 works on display at the Harvard Art Museum's Arthur M. Sackler Museum in a show called "Re-View." ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
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From Football field to battlefield
WHEN IT COMES to art and loss, some people decry the misappropriation of the Elgin Marbles -- the British essentially swiped them from Greece -- while others bemoan the still-unsolved theft of three Rembrandts from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, but as for me? I weep for the loss of the art form known as the high school football program book.
New Hampshire Union Leader |
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DECISION MAKERS
Meredith Harriss Harriss New position: account services executive at McKinnon and Harris Previous position: co-owner of Urban Artifacts; Realtor with Long & Foster Realtors Birthplace: Mansfield, Mass. Education: bachelor of fine arts degree from Virginia Commonwealth University Career: "Working at McKinnon & Harris will enable me to draw from virtually all of my past career experiences ...
Richmond Times-Dispatch |
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What is it? An Art Deco eagle
n The Art Deco eagle relief sculpture on the Kaufman Fuel building, 836 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport, between Iranistan and Park avenues.n Kaufman Fuel purchased the building in the early 1970s.
Connecticut Post |
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Local photographer highlights waiting children
Jenni Maroney gave an enthusiastic "yes" when, shortly after moving her Vermont photography business to Boulder, Boulder County Social Services asked if she would volunteer her time.
Boulder Daily Camera |
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NFA World: Marching band hosts festival this Saturday
The ninth grade is sponsoring a dance from 7-10 p.m. Friday in Norton Gym.
The Norwich Bulletin |
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'Giant Squid' a Smithsonian traveling exhibition
Dr. Clyde Roper says the ocean -- not outer space -- is our final frontier, and the Giant Squid is living proof.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
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Vince Aletti: "Street Art, Street Life," at the Bronx Museum.
In its attempt to keep an impossibly broad and popular subject manageable, the Bronx Museum stunts and nearly smothers “Street Art, Street Life,” but the sprawling exhibition’s best work survives. Driven primarily by photography, video, and performance art, the show opens in the nineteen-fifties, with images by Robert Frank . . .
The New Yorker |
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Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks
MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK The journalist Nicholas Lemann talks politics with Theodore C. Sorensen, former adviser to President John F. Kennedy. (Museum of the City of New York, Fifth Ave. at 103rd St. 212-534-1672. Oct. 1 at 6:30.) SYMPHONY SPACE Salman Rushdie, the editor of “The Best . . .
The New Yorker |
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Goings on About Town: On the Horizon
AUCTIONS STRINGS ATTACHED Oct. 10 Martin Guitar--a storied brand in the history of blues and rock--is a hundred and seventy-five years old, and Christie’s is marking the anniversary by offering forty-nine of the company’s guitars at its upcoming sale of musical instruments. (212-636-2000.) MOVIES POLAND, SPRUNG . . .
The New Yorker |
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Goings on About Town: Art
MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES METROPOLITAN MUSEUM Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)--“Giorgio Morandi, 1890-1964.” The first ever American retrospective of the Italian modern master is the sleeper hit of the season. Morandi’s many still-lifes, each an adventure, are unbeatably radical meditations on what can and can’t happen when three . . .
The New Yorker |
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School briefs
Duckbill dinosaur to serve as guest of honor at history exhibit The guest of honor at Mercyhurst College's third annual Sincak Natural History Exhibit will be Tsintaosaurus, a type of duckbill dinosaur indigenous to China.
Erie Times-News |
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Goings on About Town: Above and Beyond
NEW YORKER FESTIVAL The ninth annual gathering of contributors to the magazine takes place Oct. 3-5. Advance tickets to many events have sold out, but, as of press time, others are still available. A partial list follows. Oct. 4 at 1: The dancer Alexei Ratmansky talks with the critic Joan . . .
The New Yorker |
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Art Scholar Ties Philosophy To Contemporary Art
BENTONVILLE -- A painting can have taste but lack spirit and there’s no remedy for lack of spirit, art scholar Arthur Danto said.
The Morning News |
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Photographer takes a unique view
Ever since Greg Apple of Covington, Ind., received a Polaroid One Step camera for a birthday present some 30 years ago, he’s seen the world through a viewfinder and nurtured a dream of making it as a photographic artist. As Apple is preparing for his first photography show, that dream is about to become reality.
The Danville Commercial-News |
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Site of Tijuana drug tunnel becomes art center
TIJUANA, Mexico ---- Artists and intellectuals now sip wine where drug traffickers once convened. Sculptures have replaced bundles of U.S.-bound marijuana.
North County Times |
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Miss Teen, Junior Teen crowned at Autumn Leaf event
Photo by Heather Leskanic - Brianna Bennett, 18, ( left) was crowned Miss Teen Autumn Leaf Festival at Saturday's annual pageant while Sierra Smith, 14, was named Miss Junior Teen. There were eight Miss Teen contestants and four in the junior division.
The Derrick |
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FUMC sees full house for organ concert
Fourteen golden horns, ascending high above the congregation at First United Methodist Church, filled the sanctuary with full, powerful overtones from 10 masterpieces, or what one man called, "the breath of God," at the rededication of the church's historic organ Sunday.
The Marshall News Messenger |
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U. artist puts 'green' paintings on display
Combining the environmental movement with art, the Green Wave exhibition opened Thursday at the Alfa Art Gallery on Church Street featuring Mason Gross School of the Arts sophomore Pavol Olsavsky III and Bulgarian art student Konstantin A. Konstantinov. The exhibition is dedicated to exploring environmental issues like global warming and climate change through artwork.
The Daily Targum |
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Artists showcase graffitti murals
Media Credit: Kelly Wright/The Lantern Local artists work together to create large-scale murals at Urban Scrawl, a festival held Saturday at Dodge Park. This piece is one of 18 other murals. Nestled along the Scioto River, Dodge Park in Franklinton was the host of Saturday's Urban Scrawl, a skateboarding competition and graffiti art event sponsored by the Franklinton Arts District and ...
The Lantern |
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Fall Festival of the Arts maintains local flavor
Fifth annual Union City gathering features artisans, food, wine in Decoto
The Daily Review |
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JA New York to debut next top jewelry designers
New York—The next generation of star jewelry designers will make their industry debut in the 31st Annual New Designer Gallery at the JA New York Summer Show, to be held from July 27-30 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City.
National Jeweler |
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Jewelry From Kanye West, Diddy, 50 Cent And More To Be Auctioned Off
How much would you pay for Lil Jon's 12-pound "Crunk Ain't Dead" pendant, which holds the Guinness Book of World Records mark as the largest diamond pendant ever?
MTV Asia |
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Cham people celebrate Kate festival in central provinces
VietNamNet Bridge - The Cham ethnic minority people, followers of Balamon religion, in central Ninh Thuan province are holding their traditional Kate festival, the biggest annual festival of Cham people, from Sept. 28-30.
Vietnam Net |
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