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Fans animated over New York Anime Festival
Thousands of manga and anime fans, many in full costume as their favorite characters, braved the grey skies and pouring rain last weekend to descend on the Jacob Javits Center.
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Truth = beauty, beauty = truth. QED.
Richard Smith makes his living teaching geometry. Still, he was as surprised as anyone when his past life as a photographer intersected with the presentintheform of a broccoli tree against a night sky. Smith’swife Sharon joked with him after his “Broccoli Landscape” and other work won best in photography at the Honey Horn Art Market and Festival.
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Bentonville museum adds 5 20th-century works
BENTONVILLE — Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art unveiled five paintings from the modernist era that will be included in its permanent collection Thursday at its downtown Bentonville headquarters. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Northwest Edition)
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'Rearranging the real world'
BENTONVILLE ? Those attempting to get their art fix before the opening of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art ? an institution Mayor Bob Mc-Caslin has referred to on several occasions as ?the biggest thing to happen to Bentonville since Wal-Mart ? ? have been busy Googling the names of Gerardus Duyckinck, Charles Willson Peale and Asher B. Durand. (Benton County Daily Record)
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Derby boasts that Quad
, its new "centre for contemporary art and film", cost £11.2m. They'd be better off keeping quiet about this grotesque misuse of funds.
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Parma exhibition aims for Correggio's rediscovery
PARMA, Italy (Reuters Life!) - Critics have placed him among the great masters of Italy's 16th century painting, but Antonio Allegri, known as Correggio after his birthplace, never enjoyed the fame of Michelangelo or Leonardo da Vinci.
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British Museum unveils gold Kate Moss 'Aphrodite'
3 OCTOBER 2008 An 18 carat gold statue of British covergirl Kate Moss has gone on display at the British Museum as part of its Statuefilia exhibition.
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Seven Arts Pictures Starts Principal Photography on Horror Classic NIGHT OF THE DEMONS
Seven Arts Pictures plc (Seven Arts) (OTCBB:SAPXF) (PLUS:SAPP) announced the start of principal photography on Friday, October 3rd, 2008 of the remake of the classic creature horror film "Night of The Demons," in New Orleans, Louisiana. Principal photography is expected to be completed before December 1st, 2008. The budget for the movie is under $15,000,000 and it is expected to be delivered ...
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-10-03 13:09 Europe fuel oil up, Russian supplies increase
LONDON, Oct 3 (Reuters) - European high sulphur fuel oil edged upwards on Friday in thin trade as supply remained tight due to recent exports to Asia and strong demand from the bunkering sector.
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Los Angeles Photographer Robert Duron's Photo Pros Selected for ELLE Magazine Photo Shoot
Photo Pros, the Los Angeles photography firm owned by renowned fashion photographer Robert Duron, has been selected for a photo shoot by ELLE Magazine at the L'Oréal Paris store in the Los Angeles Beverly Center on October 4th. Duron and his team will be photographing guests and printing souvenir photographs at a special event hosted by the magazine. (PRWeb Oct 3, 2008) Read the full story at ...
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Alden PTA schedules photo day
The Alden PTA and Coffee Pond Photography will offer family pictures to be taken at Duxbury Beach on Saturday, Oct. 4.
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Seven Arts Pictures Starts Principal Photography on Horror Classic NIGHT OF THE DEMONS
HOLLYWOOD, Calif.----Seven Arts Pictures plc announced the start of principal photography on Friday, October 3rd, 2008 of the remake of the classic creature horror film “Night of The Demons,” in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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An Artist Makes Himself At Home At The Whitney
"Some artists are happy enough just having their work shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, but 37-year-old Corin Hewitt is actually moving in.
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ALEXIS raves on photography
This summer I got major photography mileage out of a new book from DK Publishing called "Digital Photography Masterclass" by award-winning photographer Tom Ang. The book, which features advanced photographic and image manipulation techniques for taking better pictures, is perfect for both the novice or those with a more advanced eye and the equipment to go along with. Photography is more ...
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Festivals, Cruisin' are highlights of week
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 8
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Miami-Dade library system wins national award
The Miami-Dade Public Library System has been awarded the 2008 National Medal for Museum and Library Service. First Lady Laura Bush will deliver the award at a White House ceremony Tuesday. The award is given to the top five libraries and best five museums for improving a community's quality of life. Each institution receives a medal and $10,000.
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Bloomberg 10/03/08
Asian Art Market Has Seen Worse Days (That's Good News?) "Hong Kong's top art show attracted more galleries this year -- and none dropped out -- a sign Asia's art market can weather the financial slump, the organizer said.
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Cartoonist makes tenth Høsftest appearance
Trygve Olson has to soak up the atmosphere at the Norsk Hstfest before he can really start cartooning. Taking in the sights and sounds of the continent's largest Scandinavian-American festival helps him pinpoint what is new and unique about each Hstfest.
Minot Daily News |
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Carving out a name
Wood carving is a proud Scandinavian tradition, a tradition that is deeply entrenched in not only Becky Lusk's Norwegian heritage, but her family as well.
Minot Daily News |
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Reno conference on art and environment draws artists, scientists, writers
RENO, Nev. - An eclectic group of artists, architects, scientists and writers have gathered at the Nevada Museum of Art to explore how nature and culture intersect in their chosen fields at a conference on art and environment.
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After Hours: Nightspotting
LIVE FROM THE LAWN, themed "Hawaiian Classics," with Brothers Cazimero, more. 5-9 p.m. today, Hawai'i State Art Museum. http://hawaii.gov/sfca.
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Sculpture contest nets food bank 4,000 pounds of goods
Boxes of cookies, cans of soup and many other food items — nearly 4,000 pounds — were donated recently to the Food Bank of South Central Michigan....
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Greenspace for Century Center ? :Project would remove travel lane on St. Joseph Street.
SOUTH BEND -- A proposed sculpture garden outside Century Center could remove at least one traffic lane on St. Joseph Street downtown.
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Parents 'Step Up' to plate :Dickinson group aims to boost parent involvement.
SOUTH BEND -- When Kim Putney and Jeanine Wicker heard that Dickinson Intermediate Center was going to become a fine arts magnet academy this year, they wanted to send their children there.
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‘Picturing America’ is on display at the library
Picturing America, an exciting new initiative from the National Endowment for the Humanities, in cooperation with the American Library Association, brings high-quality reproductions of notable American art masterpieces into classrooms and libraries nationwide.
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