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'Brave New World' culls work of three 'fresh visionaries'
For anyone looking to see a new direction in visual arts, the first stop should be Highland's Uncle Freddy's Gallery, in the eyes of cofounder, Linda Dorman.
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Local Potpourri
JEWELRY AUCTION FOR MS Schererville Join in the excitement of a live jewelry auction beginning at 2 p.m. Sunday at Albert’s Diamond Jewelers, 711 Main St., with proceeds benefiting the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Indiana State Chapter. Many of Albert's vendors donate fabulous jewelry and watches. Also offered will be silent auction items including sports memorabilia, golf packages, ...
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Local arts and crafts shows
arts and crafts VALE FINE ARTS Valparaiso The 5th annual Vale Fine Arts Festival is 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Rogers-Lakewood Park on North Meridian (Campbell Street), three miles south of U.S. 6, will feature local artists in the visual, literary and performing arts media. Visitors will browse through display booths, meet the local artists and watch a live performance on the ...
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Show features tattoo-inspired art
If you find Olivia Britz dumpster diving behind the local skate shop Edge of the World, she isn’t rummaging for food, clothing or plastic bottles that could have been recycled. She’s likely gearing up for her next art show. Britz’s upcoming First Friday show will showcase about a dozen liquid acrylic tattoo-inspired designs produced on broken and discarded skateboard decks. When skaters come ...
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Exhibition celebrates Hubble
Two former NASA astronauts and a key program manager will be at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex today for the grand opening of an exhibition of stunning images captured over the years by NASA's incomparable Hubble Space Telescope.
Florida Today |
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Museums will pass on famous remnants of Cristo curtain
Fabric fragments from the 142,000 square-foot orange curtain that hung across a highway north of Rifle in 1972 are for sale by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
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Flower Man's home damaged, but volunteers flock to aid
Huddled sleeplessly on a sofa in a back room of this Third Ward home, folk sculptor Cleveland Turner — better known as The Flower Man — listened to Hurricane Ike's shrieking winds mangle his fanciful amalgamation of blooming plants and found objects.
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Independent Lens
"Photographs by Jill Greenberg," including "larger-than-life stylized portraits of monkeys, bears and crying children," will be exhibited at the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach from Saturday through Jan. 18. Greenberg recently answered questions, via e-mail, about the works that will be on display:
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PCA&D show features striking, unusual portraits
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design's "fauxREAL" isn't a typical portrait show, mostly because artist Matthew Ivan Cherry relies on more than surface appearance to tell him what a person really looks like. Artist Matthew Ivan Cherry talks about his "fauxREAL" exhibit at Pennsylvania Colleg...
Lancaster Online |
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Aurora museum wants to bring the stars to you
Being a hands-on museum, it only makes sense that Aurora's SciTech wants to help children touch the sky.
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Graffiti gains recognition in First Friday street art exhibition
While some see graffiti as an eyesore on downtown buildings, others see true art on an urban canvas. Street art, or graffiti as it's commonly known, isn't widely considered a legitimate contribution to the art world - but there are people that would like to change that.
Daily Nebraskan |
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Elgin Art Showcase lines up plethora of events
The Elgin Art Showcase is opening the new fall season with an exciting lineup of shows and exhibits throughout October.
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Colorful contest
Junior industrial engineering major Maribel Rosales puts the final touches on her chalk art contest entry in front of the Reed McDonald building Thursday.
The Battalion |
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French Taste Meets American Moxie
In its latest exhibit, the Museum of the City of New York captures the beginning of the long liaison in fashion and design between Paris and New York.
New York Times |
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Revolutionary Hero, Relentless Heroine
Hollywood meets Havana as the 46th New York Film Festival glides and sometimes stumbles into its second week.
New York Times |
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Artist in Residence, Sort of, at the Whitney
Some artists are happy enough just having their work shown at the Whitney Museum, but 37-year-old Corin Hewitt is actually moving in, for three months.
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Paderna one-man exhibit slated in Silay
RAFAEL N. Paderna, a multi-awarded artist since 1961 to the present, is scheduled to hold a one-man exhibit of his artworks at the Bernardino Jalandoni Museum in Silay City on Saturday, October 11 to Sunday, November 16, 2008.
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‘November Devil’ spins on Square
The city unveiled its third piece of public art this year late Thursday. Onlookers shaded their eyes from a piercing setting sun, and they murmured when the black drapes fell away from “November Devil.”
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The Revolution, in art and artifacts
The two Georges stand directly across from each other, as if facing off for a fight. On one wall, Britain's King George III stands in his coronation robes of ermine and velvet. In Allan Ramsay's oil painting, he is aloof, staring into the distance, one hand on a table, the other at his waist.
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Hitler painting resides in Red Men museum
In the back of a vast display hall, surrounded by books and an elaborate selection of guns and armor, sits an inconspicuous diploma-sized watercolor, propped on a three-foot tall wooden table.
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Vandals hit 2nd sculpture in St. Charles
St. Charles park and police officials promised Wednesday to step up patrols of Mount St. Mary Park after the second incident of vandalism to a sculpture exhibit occurred on Tuesday. The piece titled Flourish, a four-foot-tall stainless steel sculpture portrayal of several birds in mid-flight connected by their wings, was found broken and bent by a park employee. • Online: St. Charles park ...
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Tamara Browning: Art Walk will feature one Heck of an exhibit
Brooklyn, N.Y., artist ED HECK’s innocent pop art draws smiles, he says. Heck’s “The Box” focuses on the whimsy of a box of crayons with colors that include yellow, green, blue, purple and red. His “Drum City” fashions a nighttime cityscape of drums into buildings and cymbals into sculpture.
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Aboriginal artists gain royalties for resold art
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian Aboriginal artists whose paintings sell for millions of dollars internationally but who often struggle for money will get a lifeline through a royalty charge imposed on Friday on their resold works.
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Christian fest at the Guild
NEXT week the second Imvuselelo Christian Arts Festival will be held in East London. The event is organised by local Christians across denominations and aims to unite Christians through the arts.
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‘Vera-Alien’ The latest contemporary art collection Created by one of the Kingdom’s renowned contemporary artists M. ...
Çѹ·Õè 3 µØÅÒ¤Á 2551 11:47 ¹. Vera-Alien could be anyone and could take please anywhere in the world. The human like figure that the artist referred to us “An Alien” has no face no gender and yet it represents us. Without an expression to dominate our emotions.
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