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Hitting the Radar: A Festival Soars in Texas
Judging by the strength of the music, the smoothness of operations and the fervor of crowds, the Austin City Limits Music Festival deserves recognition as a first-tier rock fest, with a regional twist.
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Dancing Gargoyles Cause Mayhem; Glued Ants Pile Up: Chelsea Art
Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Nature is celebrated and changeable in London-based artist David Harrison's oil paintings at the Daniel Reich gallery, and it comes up against an even faster changing societal landscape.
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Bombs Into Angels: Sculptor Melts Weapons to Make Art, Peace
Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Sculptor Lin Evola-Smidt has a new take on Isaiah: Instead of swords into plowshares, she collects firearms, bombs and missile casings, melts them down and turns them into angels.
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Pagan Pride Day promotes religious tolerance
Educators, singers and a "kilted caveman" unite for the Mid-Missouri Pagan Pride Day festival in Peace Park.
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The Andalusia Star-News
A simple Christmas gift has led to tremendous success for Opp artist Toby Hollinghead who, after a decade of painting, will see her art be available to art enthusiasts across the nation through Macy’s.
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Artist's style blooms at show
Cindy O'Daniel has a love of flowers. However, her work is done not in the garden but on the canvas. O'Daniel will be one of the painters at this year's Hyde Park Square Art Show.
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Octoberâ€s 14th Christmas in the Woods featured in Country Living magazine
COLUMBIANA- The 14th annual Old-Fashioned Christmas in the Woods, at Shaker Woods in Columbiana, will be held Oct. 11-12 and 18-19. The festival will host 200 quality craftspeople and artisans.
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Thai film delves into murky Muslim insurgency
BANGKOK (Reuters Life!) - Five years on, the insurgency in Thailand's mainly Muslim south continues to defy attempts to placate it and a new Thai documentary uses the brutal death of a young Buddhist art teacher to examine why.
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ARTS 2:20 p.m. — Traveling Japanese pottery exhibit at Isla Center through Friday
2 p.m., Sept. 30 — A traveling Japanese pottery exhibit, The Rising Generation From Traditional Japanese Kilns, will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m.through Friday at the Isla Center for the Arts, 15 Dean's Circle, University of Guam.
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Chili and Soup Festival rouses nostalgia
Maybe it's the season - fall lends itself to nostalgia. Or maybe it's reaching a certain age - remin ...
Hutchinson News |
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Thai film delves into murky Muslim insurgency
Five years on, the insurgency in Thailand's mainly Muslim south continues to defy attempts to placate it and a new Thai documentary uses the brutal death of a young Buddhist art teacher to examine why.
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Thai film delves into murky Muslim insurgency
Five years on, the insurgency in Thailand's mainly Muslim south continues to defy attempts to placate it and a new Thai documentary uses the brutal death of a young Buddhist art teacher to examine why.
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Marting's building inspected
Will the Marting's building be opened to the Phantom Art Gallery this weekend?
Portsmouth Daily Times |
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Cave Art Sculpture Part of State Fair
This year's State Fair of Texas features a new splash of colors: a yellow shirt for Big Tex; new red and blue Midway tents; and a lot more GREEN. KERA's BJ Austin says there are twice as many gardens dotting the fairgrounds, many of them with sculptures.
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Fundraising prospects for art museum doubted
Dave Wilson, a member of a task force studying a proposed $15 million art museum, said raising any money in today’s declining economy would be impossible.
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Kansas City Public Library wins 2008 National Medal for Museum and Library Services
The creative partners behind the Kansas City Public Library know they have been on a roll. And now they have the nation’s highest honor for libraries to show for it.
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Sign up for art show in Stuart next year
The 22nd Annual ArtsFest, the Treasure Coast's premier visual and performing arts festival, will be Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 at Flagler Park.
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Kids Draw Their Way Into Florida Hospital 5k Run Contest
About 150 kids and their parents showed up Sunday at Florida Hospital Heartland Division for a chance to become famous.
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Laura Bush to give award to museum in Palm Beach
First lady Laura Bush will award the Norton Museum of Art the 2008 National Medal for Museum and Library Service, the nation's highest honor for museums and libraries, at a White House ceremony Sunday.
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"Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism"
Monet. Renoir. Sargent. Pissaro. Courbet. Hassam. Sisley. Inness. The Impressionism movement doesn’t lack for artists which now we would consider something akin to celebrities, and those names come one after the other in a new exhibition of 40 oil paintings at the Portland Museum of Art.
Bangor Daily News |
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Diary of an artist
ALTHOUGH 33-year-old artist Jane Yap does not have a pet cat, she has developed a lasting passion painting these adorable felines as she felt their characters and antics best reflect her everyday life and experiences.
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Columbia Festival of the Arts showcases Columbia's most creative
Visual and performing arts all had a place at the Columbia Festival of the Arts.
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Chinese Painting of the Week
The early Northern Song dynasty witnessed the flowering of one of the supreme artistic expressions of Chinese civilization: monumental landscape painting.
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At the Blanco Family Museum
My family spent two hours at the Blanco Family Museum on Sunday afternoon. My younger daughter Alex had been there before; one of the Blanco grandchildren is her classmate. It was an enriching experience. Art as I like it. No pretentiousness, no false profoundness, no gimmickry.
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Sid Chafetz: Professor's vision breeds political artwork
Media Credit: Amanda Forbes/The Lantern Sid Chafetz talks about his exhibit at the OSU Urban Arts Space. Sid Chafetz stood, hunched slightly, gripping his cane. He gazed over his glasses and spoke with a low rasp to those surrounding him, waiting for their turn to greet the honored guest. Although Chafetz looks as though he should be spending his days enjoying some down-time, his ...
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