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Harpsichord recital to honor 1591 debut of Western music
A harpsichord performance will be held this weekend at a gallery in Kyoto, using a recently completed instrument with fine painting by Kansai-based artist Satoshi Mabuchi. "It has been more than 30 years since I bought a harpsichord kit in the United States," recalls the owner, Yasuhei Taniguchi, a jurist who formerly taught at Kyoto University and served, from 2000 to 2007, as a member of the ...
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UNF considering agreement with MOCA Jacksonville
The possibility of acquiring the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville was discussed at Thursday's Board of Trustees meeting. UNF President John Delaney said committee has been formed to look into MOCA Jacksonville's collection, building and financial situation. On Thursday, the board voted to allow Delaney to continue negotiating an ...
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This Navratri, garba artists will feel at home
With the state government and the corporate sector promoting the Navratri festival as nine nights of revelry to attract tourists from across the globe, many of the reputed garba artists, who earlier chose to visit overseas during Navratri, have enough motivation to stay back home now.
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Leesburg Embraces Fall At First Friday Gallery Walk
Organizers of Leesburg's First Friday Gallery Walk have some new, exciting attractions in store for visitors to the town from 6 to 9 p.m. this Friday, Oct. 3. Downtown Leesburg vendors open wide their doors for the first gallery walk of the fall season, featuring everything from live music to palm readings to art exhibits.
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Visit Waterford Fair This Weekend
Residents of the Village of Waterford have been busy over the last several weeks, preparing their normally quiet community for an influx of visitors keen to take part in the 65th Annual Waterford Homes Tour and Crafts Exhibit, staged from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, Oct. 3, 4 and 5.
Leesburg Today |
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RiverWoods hosts gala for ‘SquamComm’
EXETER — It will be a Saturday night filled with fine wine, gourmet food, live music and the talents of the Seacoast’s most sought-after auctioneer for a startling price of just $60.
Portsmouth Herald |
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RENO, Nev. - An eclectic group of artists, architects, scientists and writers are gathering at the Nevada Museum of Art on the edge of the Sierra this week to explore how nature and culture intersect in their chosen fields at a conference on "Art and Environment."
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'Vorticists' claim their place in art history
Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914-1939. Where: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York. When: Through Dec. 7. 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Sundays and Tuesdays-Thursdays; 9:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays. How much: Suggested donation $20; $10...
The Star-Ledger |
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Big, big sculptures: ‘It is what it is’
John Henry is used to big. Big is what he creates. His large-scale sculptures, usually destined for outdoor display, are giant stalks of steel that average 75 to 85 feet and are frequently finished in some sense-sizzling paint — fire engine red, bumblebee yellow or sapphire blue.
Naples Daily News |
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Robert De Niro Says Returning to a Gritty New York May Not Be All Bad
Barry Levinson ’s What Just Happened? is not a particularly good or funny or incisive inside-Hollywood movie, but no one who was leaving the film's premiere on Wednesday evening at the Museum of Modern Art seemed to mind. Afterward, on the second and third floors of the nearby 21 Club, Sean Penn -- who before the film started had spent at least three minutes having a gesticulation-heavy ...
The New York Observer |
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Lincoln's Elvis tribute artist heading to Las Vegas
Joseph Hall didn’t win $1 million, but he will get a chance to perform in Las Vegas. Hall, the 24-year-old Elvis Presley tribute artist from Lincoln, has been booked with several other season three “America’s Got Talent” contestants for an Oct. 17 concert at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Lincoln Journal Star |
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Art: Masterpiece photographs
Opening today: During more than 30 years as photo curator at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the late Ted Hartwell courted local collectors, encouraged young photographers and kept his eye out for great pictures.
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What Comes After: The 46th New York Film Festival
We were in the storm last year.
filmcritic.com |
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Artist MacAnn explores printmaking process in exhibit
“Moving Pictures: New Intaglio Prints” by professor/artist Treelee MacAnn will open in the Rebecca Randall Bryan Art Gallery at Coastal Carolina University on Thursday, Oct. 23 with a reception from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Both the exhibit and the reception are free and open to the public. The exhibition continues through Nov. 20. MacAnn creates a visual narrative by rearranging imagery from black ...
The Myrtle Beach Sun News |
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ARTS + FEATURES
Putting Moscow on the modern art map. Entering Daria Zhukova’s Garage Center for Contemporary Culture before its opening late last month was like entering a vault.
St. Petersburg Times |
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Students and Teachers Dedicate New Studio Art Building
Painters, sculptors, photographers, and other artists at the University of Virginia dedicated their new studio art building Thursday. Ruffin Hall is the first new arts building built on Grounds since the 1970s. Art students previously worked in Brooks Hall, which is near the Corner.
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Gay Festival Hit By Fire Inspection
Two popular local nightclubs are facing closure after they agreed to hold a gay and lesbian film festival on their premises.
St. Petersburg Times |
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Pencil This In: Thursday
We just really like this photo by ~db~ via LAist’s flickr pool. POLTICAL KARAOKE* : It’s election season, and what better way to celebrate it then by singing a little “ Executive Order Karaoke ” at MOCA Grand Avenue’s Sculpture Plaza? The event is part of MOCA’s Engagement Party series, a “public action in which participants are invited to sing their favorite mixes of George W. ...
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Central Naval Museum
4 Birzhevaya Pl.,M. Nevsky Pr., Vasileostravskaya, Sportivnaya. Tel. 328-2502. Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed last Thursday of the each month.
St. Petersburg Times |
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Dr. Jack Kevorkian to show paintings at Watertown museum
Kevorkian’s art is very provocative, and blunt. It is not for the squeamish.
Watertown Tab & Press |
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DINING GUIDE
Cafe Idiot — Great Russian and vegetarian food served all day. Jazz, cappuccino, fresh juice, specialty teas. Happy hour from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Weekend brunch. Used English-language books and magazines, plus an art gallery. Open daily, 11 a.m. to 1 a.m.
St. Petersburg Times |
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Rehner to serve as Apple Festival parade marshal
Many people in Bloomfield say that there could not have been a more deserving and appropriate person chosen as grand marshal of the Apple Festival's 2008 parade than Robert Pataconi-Rehner.
Greene County Daily World |
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Hayek sees no reason to delay sell-off of cellular networks
Lebanon still has a good chance to privatize its cellular networks before the parliamentary elections in 2009, Higher Privatization Council President Ziyad Hayek says. "Technically there is nothing that prevents us from launching the auction of the cellular companies before the end of the government's term.
The Daily Star Lebannon |
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How ancient builders used their heads
Athens A Roman sculpture of the head of a bearded man, right, and a stone torso, both of which were used to build an ancient harbour wall, have been rediscovered in Greece.
Times Online |
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Mueck, Gormley sculptures join ancient works at British Museum
Artworks by a handful of prominent contemporary sculptors will share space with ancient artifacts at the British Museum this fall.
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