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Fans unite to save Superman's house
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 US$100,000 to restore the rotting home where the Man of Steel was created.
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
Museums are beginning to play with Twitter. Love this: Gallery give-aways as wrapping paper, and other ways of interacting with commercial galleries.
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Con artist admits £2m fraud spree
A woman is facing jail after admitting to stealing paintings, jewellery and antique furniture that were estimated to be worth £2m.
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David Malan: Storytelling With Figures
“My true love is traditional realist art, mainly drawing and painting,” says Salt Lake City artist Dave Malan . The artist is quick to point this out because his career as a 3-D character modeler for video games often belies his interest.
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Zamboanga Hermosa Festival kicks off
THE Zamboanga Hermosa Festival, which reels off Wednesday, will feature daily and nightly activities that will culminate on the feast of the Our Lady of the Pillar on October 12.
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Kurt Cobain - German Artist Threatens To Smoke Cobains Ashes
A German artist purporting to be in possession of KURT COBAIN's ashes is threatening to smoke them as part of a morbid art exhibition. The late Nirvana frontman's ...
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St. Ursula students design banner for history tour
Several St. Ursula Academy senior design portfolio students created a banner to kick off a walking tour of historic Walnut Hills to celebrate the Walnut Hills Festival Sept. 13.
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iMotor Court Basketball Team Into Toyota iQ
LONDON – October 1, 2008: Toyota’s iQ arrived in London earlier this month for an exhibition at the Royal College of Art and iMotor came along to investigate the interior space of this radical new city car.
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Footlose and fancy Drums
speak in Spanish tongues in Dunedin this weekend. One of the headline acts of the 2008 Otago Festival of the Arts, the Camut Band, makes its New Zealand debut at the Regent Theatre tomorrow night.
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Families, volunteers, dedicate new village homes
The Staton family opens a piece of art for their new home, donated by Row House Gallery in Milford. From left are: Tina Staton's aunt, Nancy Lyman, Jeff Staton, Tina Staton and Lily Staton, 2.
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Feathered friend
Duck! There’s a new art show at the Mass Audubon Visual Arts Center in Canton featuring the hand-carved bird decoys of craftsman Anthony Elmer Crowell.
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Artists invited to join growers at Willcox Wine and Art Festival
According to veteran events producers Rod Keeling of the Arizona Wine Growers Assocation and Sharon Good of Southern Arizona Festivals and Events, the multi-talented artisans from Cochise County are invited to set up alongside displays and tasting booths of a variety of fine wines by southeastern Arizona-based vintners.
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Art Teacher Becomes a Writer
Gary Casalo, art teacher for Springfield Catholic High School, will soon be publishing a book dedicated to his art professor from Drury. The book will include numerous works done by Edythe West.
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Survey rethinks downtown
Survey says waterfront use, public art, parking, grocery and specialty shops keys to downtown.
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Brandt Opens State-of-the-Art Dealership in Grande Prairie
Brandt has opened one of the most state-of-the-art construction dealerships in North America. This investment into a new facility is a significant commitment to the community of Grande Prairie and the surrounding areas.
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Via eight video viewing boxes, "Tea and Sympathy" guests will partake of the voyeuristic thrills of a peep show. Pizzi’s show also includes hands-on erotic puzzles; teasing, doll-sized dioramas; and photography of masked nude models, suggesting both exposure and anonymity.
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Snapshots in time
Residents of Winchester will be able to leave their mark on an art exhibition being shown at an intimate city venue this October.
Hampshire Chronicle |
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To Do: Watercolors, Woodwork and Bronze Sculpture
Several local artists have brought together the elements of watercolor painting, wood carvings and burnings, and bronze sculpture for the Watercolors, Woodwork and Bronze Sculpture exhibit at the Central Wisconsin Cultural Center, 240 Johnson St. One artist also is showcasing sculpted silver jewelry. Participating artists include Bill Karberg, who specializes in watercolor and silver jewelry ...
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Lincoln Center Gallery features paintings, dolls
Paintings by Tamara Blecker and dolls from the collection of Janet Swiston will be featured at the Lincoln Center Gallery, 1519 Water St., during October. The paintings will move to the Gilfry Center, 817 Whiting Ave., in November. Blecker has been a professional portrait artist for 30 years and received her training from the Cleveland and Cooper Institutes of Art in Cleveland, Ohio. Her exhibit ...
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Into the Great Wide Open Studio
While whitewashed, well-lit museum walls provide an orderly art-viewing experience, it's the chaos of unstretched canvases, paint-caked brushes and smudged sketchbooks in an artist's studio that tell the real story.... By Tara Morgan.
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It’s The Pitts: Way Off Broadway
Ever since I wrote about the auction market in Centralia, Missouri, that was also being used as a church readers have been sending me examples of other ways auction markets are being utilized.
CattleNetwork.com |
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Foreigners snap nation’s old and new
VietNamNet Bridge – A photography exhibition celebrating an outside-in view of Viet Nam has opened at the Sofitel Plaza Hotel in Ha Noi.
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GSA Suppliers Expo & Conference 2008 Exhibitor Profiles
The GSA Suppliers Expo & Conference 2008 takes place October 2, 2008 in Santa Clara at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Listed below are the GSA Suppliers Expo & Conference 2008 exhibitor profiles.
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October Museum Round Up
Mandara , Image courtesy of Lino Tagliapietra, Inc. Photo by Russell Johnson October at the Museums brings much photographic portraiture with a dash of holiday activity at the end of the month. Get your calendar out now so you don't miss a thing. Opening October 3, Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Glass is the first exhibition to thoroughly examine ...
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Celebrity photographer lights up Paris museum
He's photographed Princess Diana in diamonds, Madonna in lingerie and top model Gisele Bundchen in the buff.
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