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Meat Loaf - Meat Loaf To Receive Q Music Award
Rocker MEAT LOAF's masterpiece BAT OUT OF HELL is to be honoured with a classic song award. The Grammy-winning singer will be presented with the gong for the title track ...
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Wildlife photo exhibit opens Oct. 2
Wild in Wisconsin is the title of a new exhibit of wildlife photography by John Dart and Thomas Freund of Fond du Lac that is coming to the Langdon Divers Community Gallery at the Fond du Lac Public Library, 32 Sheboygan St.
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Beverage Magnates Make Multimillion-Dollar Donation To LACMA
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has received a $45 million-donation to fund a wave of renovations, including a massive new gallery for special exhibits.
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Budding artist Rachel Loree became enthralled with mixed media painting of nature scenes at John F. Ross Collegiate and this July she had the trip of a lifetime: joining seven other area students on an art excursion to Europe.
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Photography exhibit explores America's communities
Known and respected as a documentary photographer, Catherine Opie catches the people and moments we all might miss as we race through our lives — an empty highway, a lesbian couple, street corner shrines, a lone surfer.
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Sudbury, Burlington to exchange artists
The Art Gallery of Sudbury, in partnership with the Burlington Art Centre, has launched an artist exchange program to encourage and support regional artists’ connections [...]
The Sudbury Star |
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Contested art by graffiti star Banksy fail to sell
Five works by cult graffiti artist Banksy failed to sell at a weekend auction after doubts were raised about their authenticity.
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LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, home to works by Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, received a US$45-million donation to fund a wave of renovations, including a massive new gallery for special exhibits.
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Artist tells her story through paintings
Everyone’s life is a story waiting to be told, and self-taught painter Linda Carter Holman, the featured artist at Cushing’s Festival in the Park this
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Iggy Pop cancels Sarajevo concert after violence
SARAJEVO (Reuters Life!) - American punk icon Iggy Pop and his band The Stooges canceled an October 1 concert in Sarajevo over security fears after violence disrupted the Bosnian capital's first gay festival last week.
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South Western grad hopes to inspire orphans with photography
Seth Shimkonis want to help the orphans of Peru tell their own own story. In November, the 2000 South Western High School graduate will travel to Arequipa, Peru, for six months to teach the children of New Hope Children's Home the art of photography.
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Live Free for a Year contest returns
Start rubbing your hands in anticipation. The Live Free for a Year contest by the Prince George Citizen and Integris Credit Union is back, and this 11th annual contest could be your turn to win.The contest is a 10-week promotion in which both subscribers and non-subscribers have a chance to win a share of more than $33,000 in cash and prizes with the biggest winning draws offering mortgage ...
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Festival Time!
I am confused about life and death…
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Party With the King of Prawns at the Upcoming National Shrimp Festival
Join over 300,000 of your closest friends as they descend upon the Alabama Gulf Coast for a party unlike any other. From live music to savory seafood, the 37th Annual National Shrimp Festival presented by Zatarain's will fill the main public beach in Gulf Shores with four days of non-stop excitement at one of the nation's premier outdoor festivals.
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God bless America
Kurt Perschke is an American artist born in Chicago and living in New York City whose speciality is "public project" art. According to a pamphlet his people distributed on his behalf downtown this week his projects have "traveled to Barcelona, St. Louis, Korea, SYdney, Arizona and Portland," and he has won a national award for his work from the "Americans for the Arts Public Art Network.
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Library of Congress's National Book Festival Attracts More Than 120,000 Book Lovers to the National Mall
"The National Book Festival is a joyous celebration of reading and an inspiration for new generations of creativity," said Dr. James H. Billington, the Librarian of Congress. (PRWeb Sep 29, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/09/prweb1398494.htm
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Minnie Evans book to raise money for arts education center, Evans family
Fundraising in the medical community has bankrolled a book about and filled with the art of the late Minnie Evans, a renowned Wilmington folk artist, and proceeds from book sales, in part, will benefit fledgling artists through the DREAMS Center for Arts Education.
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50 years - 50 photographs: Photographs by Kamran Adle
Tehran's AAran Art Gallery celebrates its opening by showing 50 photographs of Kamran Adle . For 50 years Kamran Adle has recorded the pulse of a nation. From Graffiti at Iranian bazaars to silent moments of reflection at a Zoroastrian temple.
Payvand Iran News |
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The Private Plane is a Necessity, Say Moguls
Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that the chairman and chief executive officer of Lehman Brothers, Richard Fuld Jr., has placed his highly prized modern art collection on the market. Also, former Lehman President Joe Gregory has sold the private helicopter that he used to commute to work every day from Huntington, N.Y. But while Lehman executives have been eager to cash out, ...
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Iggy Pop cancels Sarajevo concert after violence
American punk icon Iggy Pop and his band The Stooges canceled an October 1 concert in Sarajevo over security fears after violence disrupted the Bosnian capital's first gay festival last week.
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Art for Science's Sake
Tiny green diatoms create the illusion of a fernlike forest as they attach to their marine-invertebrate hosts. Mario De Stefano of the Second University of Naples, Italy, captured this miniscule "jungle" from the Mediterranean Sea with a scanning electron microscope. The image earned first place in the photography category of the 2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization ...
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Celebrate 100th birthday of 4—H; Submit competitive exhibit entries
“Celebrate and Educate” is the theme of this year’s State Fair of Louisiana, which will be held October 23 through November 9 in Shreveport. Plans are underway for special activities during the Louisiana State Fair to commemorate the 100th Birthday of Louisiana 4-H.
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Akron: 'Mechanized' art takes stage at art museum
AKRON -- It's not often a piano is connected to anything other than human fingers, but a new exhibit at the Akron Art Museum shows that a piano can do a lot when linked with other objects.
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Day of the Dead souvenirs enliven a folk-art collection
Couple started their collection of Mexican souvenirs unintentionally
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Angola: Singer Sabino Henda Shines at Festisumbe
Angolan singer Sabino Henda was at the limelight of Sumbe's International Festival of Music (Festisumbe2008) by touching the over 30,000 spectators that were at this city's marginal avenue, ANGOP has learnt.
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