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A Technicolor Hadid arrives at the National Portrait Gallery
One of Britain's most colourful architects has been immortalised in a portrait as vivid as she is. Zaha Hadid, 57, joins the ranks of the great and the good in a new commission by the National Portrait Gallery.
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Color bleed
The vibrant swaths of color that cut across the canvases of local artist Thad Morgan will represent the vibrant mix of local food, music and culture that is Festivals Acadiens et Créoles.
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Deutsche Bank Loans Kiefer, Beuys, Polke Art to Staedel Museum
Deutsche Bank has one of the world's biggest corporate art collections with more than 53,000 works. The loan comprises 370 graphic works, 161 works on paper and 60 paintings and sculptures.
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Man charged with stealing paintings
KERHONKSON – A Kerhonkson man has been charged with felony grand larceny for allegedly stealing two paintings from his roommate and then selling them to a local art dealer’s shop.
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Dutch museum discovers sixth formerly unknown Hals painting
Amsterdam - The Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem in the Netherlands announced the discovery of another previously unknown painting by the Laughing Cavalier painter Frans Hals (1583-1666). It is the second time within four days the museum has made such an...
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Aurora museum hoping to raise $5 million to build planetarium
Campaign kicks off for building planetarium Aurora's SciTech Hands On Museum has launched a $5 million fundraising campaign to build a west suburban planetarium that would be the state's second largest, officials said Tuesday.
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Krohn, bonsai society host big show for tiny trees
Ever wondered how bonsai trees stay so small? Find out at the Bonsai Society of Greater Cincinnati's annual fall exhibition, Saturday and Sunday at Krohn Conservatory.
The Cincinnati Enquirer |
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Museum, now 10, aims to keep growing
There will be cake, door prizes and free tours this weekend as one of the stars of the Salem arts scene — Willamette University's Hallie Ford Museum of Art — turns 10 years old.
Salem Statesman Journal |
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Operation Smile
October is Family Portrait Month, and "Mears Photography" in Chillicothe is banding together with the "Professional Photographers of America" to donate money from those portraits to pay for facial correction surgery for needy children.
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Community Calendar
Buffalo in the Snow: Acrylics by Kristen Briggs of Jamestown, Prendergast Library Art Gallery, Jamestown, 509 Cherry St.
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electronic India 2008 marches ahead
BANGALORE, INDIA: The Indian and international electronics industry was present in full might at electronicIndia 2008 held at Bangalore from 2-5 th Sept at the Bangalore International Exhibition Center. electronicIndia proved to be the largest trade fair for the electronic components, assemblies, materials and production equipment with 1010 exhibitors including agents and principals thereof 446 ...
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Free in Mesa
Beginning October 5, 2008 and throughout October 2009 three Mesa museums, all within walking distance, will be free to the public on the first Sunday of every month. © Mesa...
About.com |
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Portsmouth area community calendar
"MONSTERS" EXHIBIT OPENING RECEPTION will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3 (in conjunction with Art 'Round Town's First Friday Artwalk) at ellO gallery andamp; shop, 110 State St., Portsmouth. The exhibit runs from Oct. 1 to Nov. 3. 433-9110.
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DarienTimes.com • News • Get your engines started: Big Rig Gig rolls into town Oct. 5
More than 20 big trucks, the New York Rangers Road Tour, and the Bossy Frog Band are driving into Darien on Sunday, Oct. 5, for the annual Big Rig Gig. This family day includes moon bounces, a silent auction and raffle, refreshments and more.
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'Urban Explorations': York library hosts mixed-media exhibit
YORK and#8212; "Urban Explorations," an exhibit of the works of award-winning artist Jim Kelly, is on display at the York Public Library from now through Nov. 24. The library's Art Committee will host a public reception and talk by the artist at 5:30 p.m.
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Battle of San Jacinto Pistol, Officer's Trunk from Battle of Little Big Horn, & Temple Houston's Colt 45 in Historic ...
A Colt .45 single action once belonging to Temple Houston, son of revolutionary hero General Sam Houston, a trunk with ties to the Battle of Little Big Horn and a pistol used in the Battle of San Jacinto are up for auction in Texas. The items, from a San Antonio estate plus select consignments, are included in one of the largest groups of significant historically-related artifacts ever sold at ...
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Akram Khan portrait unveiled
The National Portrait Gallery has put on show a portrait of dancer and choreographer Akram Khan by American-Iranian artist Darvish Fakhr
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Lay off our Kelvingrove
LEAVE our Kelvingrove alone. That's the message from city leaders who have told "ill-informed" and "elitist" critics to stop attacking Glasgow's favourite museum.
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It's better with butter
NEW HARTFORD — Thumbprints and fingernails were the only tools Lobsang Damchoe, a Tibetan monk, used to create intricate sculptures out of butter and beeswax in a demonstration of Buddhist tradition at the Dae Yen Sa International Buddhist Temple here Monday.
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Picture family violence
Paintings are on exhibit all month for domestic abuse awareness. Barb Whitman knows the colors children often use to paint domestic violence: blue, purple, gray, brown and dark green -- the palette of abuse.
The Morning Call |
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Museum's fraktur sells for $75,000
Amount was less than estimated but will aid Lehigh historical society's efforts. A rare piece of folk art that had been in the Lehigh County Historical Society's possession for more than 50 years -- but never displayed -- sold for $75,000 at auction last week, below expectations.
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Deputies charge man in theft of paintings
STONE RIDGE - Ulster County Sheriff's deputies arrested a man who stole two pieces of art from his former roommate as he moved out, but have yet to find the purloined paintings.
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The dying art of gig photography
Rock'n'roll is such a dramatic art form, the images we took still shape the way we experience music," says legendary rock photographer Mick Rock. And not even the ubiquity of the music video, prompted by mtv in the early 80s, can compete. "There's something about the static image that imprints ...
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Business raising money for Childrens Museum
Throughout the month of October, the Gallery and Frame Shop will donate a portion of sales to the Fond du Lac Childrens Museum.
Fond du Lac Reporter |
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$100 000 saves Superman's home on Earth
Superman's home planet Krypton was destroyed, but his house on Earth will live on thanks to loyal fans and an online auction that raised $101 744 to restore the rotting home where the man of steel was created.
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