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Rescued dog wins show; Photographer share pictures
A contender in the Goldlen Leaf Festival’s annual dog show waits patiently for the judge’s decision.
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Group Meetings
Porcelain Art Club of Austin — 9:30 a.m. Monday. Frances Davis demonstrates painting 'Little Treasures.' Zilker Garden Center, 2220 Barton Springs Road. Free. 925-2144, www.texasporcelainart.com.
Austin American-Statesman |
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Revel 2008 kicks off
Smells of everything from funnel cake to seafood blended in the air with the sounds of live music, signaling the kickoff today of the 2008 Red River Revel Festival.
The Shreveport Times |
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Sunday events
THE Merdeka Painting exhibition by Wang Lan, Wang Xu and Shen Jiawe titled WALLSCAPES is on at Petronas Gallery, Level 3, Suria KLCC, Kuala Lumpur. Admission is free and it is open from 10am to 8pm.
The Star |
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FEATURE-Baghdad museum treasures still locked from view
Source: Reuters By Aseel Kami and Mohammed Abbas BAGHDAD, Oct 5 (Reuters) - In Iraq's national museum a frieze shows Assyrian King Sargon II, who ruled an empire from what is now northern Iraq, storming a rampart ...
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Greystone resident wins Bluff Park Art Show
Nevin R. Newton's wooden piece, "Heralding Trumpets," won the top award at the Bluff Park Art Show.
Birmingham News |
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Art Show On Main WBNG-TV Binghamton, NY Local Top Stories
An annual art show with a new twist brings amateur and professional artists together. The third annual "Art Show on Main" was held at Union Center Christian Church in Endicott.
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Arts, crafts the fare at Indialantic Festival
INDIALANTIC -- The second Indialantic Craft Festival was held today at Nance Park on State Road A1A. There are more than 100 crafters displaying original art works.
Florida Today |
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The interview: Richard Serra
Hailed as the world's 'greatest living sculptor', Richard Serra remains a combative figure in the art world. Sean O'Hagan is granted a rare interview
Guardian Unlimited |
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Italian festival lauds Iran’s “Solitude”
TEHRAN, Oct. 4 (MNA) -- The Iranian film animation “Solitude” directed by Mehrdad Sheikhan was awarded at the Matita Film Festival that was held from September 25 to 28 in Chieti, Italy.
mehrnews.com |
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What’s in art galleries
TEHRAN, Oct. 4 (MNA) -- Masters of embossing will put their artworks on display in an exhibition at the Mess Negar Gallery from October 11 to November 6.
mehrnews.com |
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TMCA displaying works of art school professors
TEHRAN, Oct. 4 (MNA) -- Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA) is hosting an exhibition of artworks by master artists teaching art at Tehran universities and colleges.
mehrnews.com |
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Celebrating "Pumpkin Fest" in a big way
Nothing says Autumn quite like pumpkins, and at a festival in Nekoosa people are celebrating the season in a big way.
WAOW Wausau |
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Sheep, goat industry honored
SONORA - When the Ranch Museum and Gift Shop ribbon is snipped for the grand opening Oct. 25, Rosie Whitehead Jones will join other ranchers in this region, known as the Stockmen's Paradise, to celebrate the long-awaited reality.
The San Angelo Standard-Times |
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Power Portrait
Royal Institute of Oil Painters exhibition piece to illustrate London life - without bendy buses
Guardian Unlimited |
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Close-up: Gerda Taro
All photography is a form of editing. By pointing a camera in a particular direction, a photographer selects a version of reality to present to the world. It is intriguing to imagine, then, what Gerda Taro, one of the 20th century's greatest photojournalists and the first female reporter known to have died in battle, might make of the way she has been airbrushed out of history.
Independent |
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Fashion: Rise of the style flick
Paris is a city synonymous with fashion and cinema, so it was fitting that Paris Fashion Week kicked off with a mini film festival highlighting the increasingly interesting relationship between the two.
Independent |
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Page Turner: A history of the world in blood and other fluids
What do you think of when you look at a painting by Mark Rothko? What do you make of his mysterious portals, horizons, distances, depths and black skies? For Charles Darwent, writing last week in the IoS about the new show at Tate Modern, his rusted hues brought congealed blood inescapably to mind. I found the emotional effect overwhelming, as I moved from the red canvases to the blacks, then ...
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21 Nights, By Prince and Randee St Nicholas
Luton airport has never looked as glamorous as it does in the glossy pages of Prince's first book, a collection of "photography, poetry, lyrics and music" (a CD is included), celebrating his extraordinary series of 21 shows (and 14 aftershow performances) at the O2 venue during August and September last year.
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Islanders call for return of Welsh crown
Artefact from holy island of Bardsey currently in storage at Merseyside Maritime Museum
Guardian Unlimited |
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Kings Place Opening Festival, Kings Place, London Varjak Paw, Linbury Studio, London
Does London really need two new venues for chamber music? A glamorous curve of glass in the wind-whipped wasteland north of King's Cross, Peter Millican's languidly beautiful, privately financed, multi-purpose Kings Place seems as improbable in these make-do-and-mend times as Butler's Wharf did in the early 1990s. Though the pimps and prostitutes have moved on, York Way has yet to attract the ...
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This Weekends Events
Until 08 Nov 2008 James Cauty and his 15-year-old son Harry collaborate on their multi-media assault and Cartoon Art Gift Shop show.... more details Until 31 Dec 2008 The museum collections include artefacts, objects and documents which offer an insight into the maritime history of the dock....
My Village City of London |
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Pretty girl, death’s head
GenNext III at Aakriti Art gallery has, apart from artists under 40 from all over the country, participants from Italy, the US, Poland, Pakistan and Bangladesh as well. Like their Indian counterparts, the works of foreigners are also marked by sensitivity, innovativeness and skill of a high degree.
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Renaissance Faces: Van Eyck to Titian - The Art Newspaper
The National Gallery's own rich collection of Renaissance portraits is joined by loans from the UK, Europe and North America in this major exhibition that explores the rise of portraiture in 15th- and 16th-century Europe.
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Ann-Margret wows crowd in Flint at Bikes on the Bricks
FLINT, Michigan -- The seconnd annual Bikes on the Bricks festival Saturday in downtown Flint may go down as one of the coolest moments in Brian Ashley's life, and it has little to do with the bikes. Staring wide eyed...
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