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Hang on to your mind’s world, David O’Doherty, the viscount of rumpled whimsy, the marble fawn of tiny keyboard based musical comedy is coming! Taking part in his first tour, the musical comedy star will appear at South Street Arts Centre on Thursday, part of Reading’s Comedy Festival.
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A crafting tradition in Forksville: Flaming Foliage Festival promotes local arts
FORKSVILLE — The 41st annual Flaming Foliage Festival in Forksville was brimming with patrons and crafters on Sunday, the second day of the festival sponsored by the Craftsmen of the Endless Mountains.
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Warhol's Polaroids (9 pictures)
A new retrospective at London's Hayward Gallery (October 7 2008 - January 18 2009) brings together the films, screen-tests and videos of Andy Warhol.
Guardian Unlimited |
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Regional Briefs
The Falls Harvest Festival will be held from 1-8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11 in downtown Montour Falls.
The Ithaca Journal |
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Divorce can be no laughing matter – not so for Dillie Keane. The comedian Is starring In My Brilliant Divorce, a comedy drama which will be performed at The Hexagon as part of this year’s Comedy Festival.
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Germany celebrates sense of humour
Germany has challenged age-old prejudices by opening a museum that celebrates the nation's sense of humour. The state-sponsored Caricatura Museum in Frankfurt is to become a shrine to the country's humour, satire and comic art, which have so far remained largely unknown to the international public.
China Daily |
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Catherine Borg
Mon, Oct 6, 2008 (2 a.m.) Medium: Multiple — video, audio, photography and sculpture. Considers her art to be photographic even when it is a video, sculpture or drawing.
Las Vegas Sun |
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Church welcomes special cross
Standing near the altar in the sanctuary of the First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple is a striking sculpture: "Crucifixion," by Chicago artist John Kearney. But it is the underlying story of this artwork that is even more striking.
Chicago Sun-Times |
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The beach is where this carver's heart is
An original stone carving by artist Roger Cox can cost anywhere from several hundred to a few thousand dollars, and can be bought at a local gallery or at the artist's home and studio, a log on English Bay Beach. Roger Cox is homeless by choice.
Vancouver Sun |
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Candidates agree on oil shale, not on health care
For the past two years, Bill Dew and his wife, Jolene, lived overseas in Jordan as humanitarian missionaries. The couple distributed wheelchairs, taught English classes and did other service work as part of a non-proselytizing mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
The Salt Lake Tribune |
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St. James Art Show wraps up
Thousands of people slowly shuffled through the streets of Old Louisville yesterday on the final day of the 52nd annual St. James Court Art Show.
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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Playing to the gallery
There's a Porsche in the office, a tree house in the sun room, Zaha Hadid on the wall. Art dealer Kenny Schachter shows Helen Chislett why he loves to take his work home.
Guardian Unlimited |
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Corbusier's vertical hold on history
The gloomy crypt is all that was finished of Edward Lutyens' Catholic cathedral in Liverpool. Now, with dissonant irony, it houses a major exhibition of Le Corbusier. Why irony? Generally, because Lutyens was historicist and Corb was anti-sentiment, at least of the historic sort.
Guardian Unlimited |
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Andy Warhol
Why are films about Andy Warhol always so bad? Jonathan Jones on wigs, myths and freaks
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Minds are open to Nuit Blanche but streets aren't
If anything, Nuit Blanche may have become too successful. In three short years, the all-night "contemporary art thing" has grown to the point where hundreds of thousands of people participate. According to CBC Radio, no fewer than one million attended between Saturday evening and Sunday morning.
Toronto Star |
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Nuit Blanche: While you were sleeping
A little older, a little wiser. A year ago, we proved the impossibility of visiting every single exhibition at Toronto's annual Nuit Blanche festival by attempting to do just that.
Toronto Star |
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Hear, hear
Hear, hear lords and ladies on both sides of the river: Events leading up to the 2008 Alabama Renaissance Faire will soon begin.This year, new activities are on the pre-festival schedule along with traditions such as the Renaissance feast and costume-making workshop.
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Input sought on public art plan
Burlington is seeking public input on its new 10-year public art master plan. The plan is set to explore sites where art could be placed in public spaces.
Hamilton Spectator |
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World's Richest Photographic Competition
Tony Oxley, Director of The International Aperture Awards, announced today that due to the extraordinary number of requests for a single image entry, we have made some positive changes to the entry fees and also to the number of images able to be accepted per entrant.
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Pondy govt to set up Performing Arts Centre
Puducherry, Oct 6 Puducherry government is planning to set up a 'Centre for Performing Arts' within the precincts of the government-run Bharathiar Palkalaikoodam (a multi disciplinary fine arts and music institute) at Ariankuppam near Pudhucherry.
Chennai Online |
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Tudor-era chain of office to be auctioned
LONDON (Reuters) - The only known complete surviving collar of office from the time of Henry VIII, thought to have been given by the king to one of his closest advisers, will go under the hammer on November 6, Christie's said on Monday.
Scotland Today |
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Real estate company to hold ribbon-cutting in Palm Springs
Tahiti Partners Real Estate and Oceo-East will have a ribbon-cutting and sculpture dedication at 5 p.m. Thursday at 1700 S. Camino Real. The event is hosted by the Palm Springs Chamber of Commerce.
The Desert Sun |
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Reception hosted for new Palm Desert photography show
The Palm Desert Community Gallery will hold an opening reception for its new exhibit, “It's All About Nature,” at 5:30 p.m. tonight at at the gallery, at the city's Visitor Center, 72-567 Highway 111.
The Desert Sun |
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Spanierman Modern Presents the Work of Contemporary Artist Dan Rizzie
Spanierman Modern is pleased to announce the opening on October 16, 2008 of "Dan Rizzie", an exhibition and sale of this contemporary artist's recent mixed media work. Focusing on a single form or motif, in his images, Rizzie creates meticulously detailed collage-like environments in which he blends a fastidious attention to detail with a pared-down minimalist approach with which he modifies ...
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Nigeria: Capital Oil And Gas Completes Apapa Jetty
The Chief Executive Officer of Capital Oil and Gas, Mr Ifeanyi Ubah, has said that the multibillion naira private jetty project that will prevent ships bringing petroleum products from incurring demurrage has been completed.
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