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September 2008
Couple finds the ‘light’ of their lives When Bob and Sandra Shanklin met, it was love at first sight. After all, they both were lighthouse people and artists. Bob was a photographer, Sandra a painter, and they would host art shows together.
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Antiques calendar
TODAY-SUNDAY: There will be 100 exhibitors from around the country and Canada booked for the 156th Weschester Stamp, Coin & Paper Money Show at the Westchester County Center. Collectors will find American and foreign stamps, coin and paper dealers along with related ephemera and estate jewelry.
Norwalk Advocate |
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Cannes Film Festival - Movie Reviews Blindness
Director Fernando Meirelles, who reportedly reworked Blindness after it was savaged by critics at the Cannes Film Festival last May -- and who has been under attack in recent ...
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NTID Silent Auction Features Senior Art
Artful Aging is the focus of a silent auction at National Technical Institute for the Deaf Next Week. It's Lifespan's second big fundraiser of the year.
R News |
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Events Guide: Nuit Blanche preview
Toronto is staying up late tomorrow night for the third annual Nuit Blanche. With so many exhibitions in all the galleries and museums around the city, we thought we would take a look at some of the exciting things happening outdoors, in the parks and streets of Toronto. WHAT: Art and music at St Thomas’s Anglican [...]
Spacing Wire |
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It's Festival Time
There are tons of festivals this weekend. Even a chocolate salon. / 'Photo by Brad Herman via LAist's flickr pool. It's prime time festival season, and LAist wanted to give you a heads up on the various festivals around down. There's something for everyone this weekend: The TarFest is a festival of emerging film, music and art at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum Row. It ...
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Boston Attractions
Visit this museum on the first Friday of each month for “MFA Fridays,” where cocktails, music and performances fill the Koch Gallery from 5:30 to 9:30. The event is free with admission.
New York Times |
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Kate Moss off 5%
An 18-carat gold statue of super model Kate Moss was unveiled at the British Museum on Thursday. With legs crossed behind her head in a racy yoga pose, the life size statue weighs in at 110 pounds, about Moss’ own weight, and cost $2.7 million to make.
Market Watch |
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Arts Agenda
Image of work by Langley Spurlock and John Martin Tarrat at Studio Gallery It's First Friday tonight, though many of the Dupont galleries seem to be showing the same exhibit as last month. Enjoy a brisk fall walk to see them again, and find at least one new show at Studio Gallery . Artist Langley Spurlock and poet John Martin Tarrat bring a little art nerdism in Secrets of the ...
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Pizzano featured in The Gallery
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST -- Denville resident Isabella Pizzano is the featured artist in The Gallery, Summit Free Public Library, 75 Maple St. SUMMIT -- Denville resident Isabella Pizzano is the featured artist in The Gallery at The Summit Free Public...
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20 Days & 20 Nights Of Tri-State Art
The festival kicks off the arts and culture season with some free events.
WCPO Cincinnati |
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Advertisement starts
Everything revolves around those four things." But money, for one, seems of little personal interest. While contemporary art has entered the public discourse as never before in the past decade -- with prices to match -- Gilbert & George off-handedly dismiss the frenzy.
Tiscali |
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20 Days & 20 Nights Of Tri-State Art
The Tri-State arts and culture scene gets a boost with a festival showcasing local artists work. "20 days and 20 nights" takes place at a number of venues across Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky.
The Kentucky Post |
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Nelson museum cuts hours, lighting
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art's decision to close on Tuesdays is only one measure the museum has taken to save money and reduce operating costs. In July, The museum cut back the lighting of the Bloch Building lenses by 14 hours per week.
The Kansas City Star |
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Philly Open Studio Tours
Sooner or later you reach the point where the posters on your wall outlive their decorating value and original art is what should be hanging on your walls anyway; anything else is "wall decor" not art! And one of the best ways to spend a full artsy weekend and at the same time see a lot of artwork at all levels of the economic scale is to make sure that you spend time visiting the 9th ...
Phillyist |
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MAM's "Act/React" ditches the middleman
Interactive exhibits are nothing new. And George Fifield, guest curator of Milwaukee Art Museum's "Act/React" show, which opens today -- would be the first to admit that. But, he says, that's not what "Act/React" is, exactly. Thanks to its lack of interface, "Act/React" is the world's first unmediated interactive exhibition.
OnMilwaukee.com |
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Come On In!
The Museum Center at 5ive Points will begin its Free Saturdays at the museum the first Saturday of every month beginning this October offering free admission for all visitors.
Bradley News Weekly |
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Harwood's celebrity artist
While his series of paintings, "Ticket to Ride," tells the story of a day in the life of a woman on a subway, Michael Bell spends much of his time far from the subway teaching art in rural southern Anne Arundel County.
The Capital |
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School receives totem pole
When Vicky Addison listened to a phone message offering to give her school a piece of artwork, she was expecting a painting.
The Augusta Chronicle |
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Surfrider Foundation to receive SOLV award
The Newport Chapter of Surfrider Foundation has been named the 2008 SOLV Citizenship Award winner in the Community Group category. Surfrider Foundation and three other citizenship award winners will be honored at the 2008 SOLV Citizenship Awards Banquet on Oct. 30 at the Portland Art Museum.
Newport News-Times |
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Sample Art of Wine at PGSMA tonight
The 11th annual Art of Wine features wine tasting, exhibits, live jazz and more. Tickets cost $15, wine tastes range from $1 to $4. The event takes place from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, 1400 1st Ave. N. Call 727-8255 for further information.
Great Falls Tribune |
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Modern art in unexpected places at Prague's third Tina B festival
Have you ever wondered what a spider's web made out of neckties would look like? Or perhaps a dilapidated Italian house inside a Czech garage? Well, look no further: the Tina B Contemporary Art Festival has, for the past week, been presenting some rather unusual pieces of art in some extremely unusual Prague venues. Artists from as far afield as Iceland and Japan have been exhibiting works ...
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Cleanliness is next to Godliness
Messages of peace and good hygiene The ashram-museum in Ahmedabad devoted to India's highly revered icon of freedom Mahatma Gandhi recently re-installed a replica of the spiritual leader's personal toilet, in that Gandhi's own hygiene-consciousness was such a part of his legacy. It is said that he cleaned the toilet daily and referred to it as his "temple," but ashram officials had removed it in ...
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier |
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Uhles: Festival had room for improvement
After 10 days of performances and three days of recuperation, I can finally look at the inaugural Westobou Festival objectively.
The Augusta Chronicle |
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Testimony: Poulsen put investors' money at risk
Painting a portrait of a CEO at the center of an alleged fraud, a former National Century Financial Enterprises Inc. executive told jurors Friday his boss put investors’ money at risk by providing excessive financing to some health-care firms out of the company’s reserves.
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