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Discovery Of Australian Rock Art Rewrites History
Discovery of a "collection of rock art recording life in the area for the past 15,000 years, up until 50 years ago" contradicts "the widely held assumption that the continent was isolated and largely unvisited until the First Fleet arrived in 1788. The paintings suggest that, on the contrary, the people of northern Australia have been interacting with seafaring visitors from Asia and Europe for ...
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King Tut to make triumphal return to S.F.
Thirty years to the month after King Tut first took San Francisco by storm, antiquity's most famous monarch will attempt to reprise the feat. The San Francisco Fine Arts Museums are announcing today that the touring exhibit "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of...
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Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America Announces 28th Annual Art is Ageless Awards Winners
WICHITA, Kan. — Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America (Presbyterian Manors) announced the winners of its 28th annual Art Is Ageless™ and Spirit of Art is Ageless competitions. This year’s juried annual contest featured 102 works of art created by artists ranging in age from 65 to 90.
Park Hills Daily Journal |
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Cultural districts approved
In the close-knit world of artists and gallery owners, the good news spread like wildfire Wednesday — original art is now tax-free.
St. Tammany News |
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Feud threatens de Young collection
Three years ago, at the black-tie opening at the de Young Museum's new home in San Francisco, the collector John Friede held court in the gallery that bore his and his wife's names, looking as proud as if the celebration was in his honor.
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Space history museum turns 32 years old
The New Mexico Museum of Space History, keeper of artifacts integral to the history of the Tularosa Basin's participation in the Space Race, celebrates its 32nd anniversary today. At the opening ceremonies, the founders billed the facility as the "Birthplace of American Space Flight."
Alamogordo Daily News |
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A tribute to the King
INDIANOLA, Miss. Translucent images of long ago, of black men and women, backs bent, picking cotton under an unforgiving sun, are artistically displayed on standing glass panels in a museum carved out of an old brick gin mill in the Mississippi Delta.
The Log Cabin Democrat |
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Algonquin Mill Festival nears
CARROLLTON - Steam power is still a major factor at the 38th annual Algonquin Mill Fall Festival to be held Friday through Sunday.
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ngmoco and GDC Team Up To Offer $10,000 'Best iPhone Game' Prize
Think Services, organizers of the Game Developers Conference and the Independent Games Festival (and the owners of Gamasutra), have entered a new partnership with high-profile iPhone game publisher ngmoco. The deal will add a $10,000 'Best iPhone Game' prize to 2009's Independent Games Festival Mobile, and increase the maximum amount of prizes in the hotly contested indie mobile competition to ...
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Pioneer Farmfest
Above: Susan Richardson demonstrates yarn spinning to Taylor Knight during the annual Pioneer Farmfest at the San Joaquin County Historical Museum at Micke Grove Park on Saturday. Activities included leather stamping, butter-making, panning for gold, and many other pioneer-themed crafts and lessons.
Lodi News-Sentinel |
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Exhibition tells story of French photography
VietNamNet Bridge – It has been said that one picture can be worth 1,000 words. A new exhibition at the Ha Noi Arts College is offering over 1,000 words to tell the story of French pictures.
Vietnam Net |
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Art League's craft guild winners announced
June Bennett's infused glass sculptures, "Blu-Foo Sushi Set", took first place in an Art League of Bonita Springs craft guild exhibition.
The News-Press |
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MEXIDATA . INFO
It is getting to be that time of year again. El Dia de los Muertos – the Mexican Day of the Dead, a complex festival representing the varieties of the Mexican experience and psyche. But what about the other 363 days of the year?
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Pet-arazzi captures canine couture
Campolindo High School grad Karen Ngo has just published a coffee-table book, "InDOGnito," showcasing dogs dressed in costume. Send photos for Dress Up Your Pet contest
Contra Costa Times |
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Art for investment's sake
"There's only one indicator for telling the value of paintings, and that is the saleroom," said Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the French Impressionist painter.
Investors Chronicle |
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Looking back for inspiration
Martinez artist Erik Blome's sculptures of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and others grace public parks, libraries and stadiums across the country,
Inside Bay Area |
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
The news of the weekend broke late Friday: The University of Iowa regents unexpectedly released the University of Iowa Museum of Art's assessment of its famed 1943 Jackson Pollock, Mural . The evaluation reveals that in 2007 Sotheby's guaranteed UIMA $150 million if it could auction off the painting, a shameful bit of unseemly predatory behavior.
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Masriadi Breaks Post-Lehman Stupor at Hong Kong Art Auction
Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- ``Is there an economic crisis? I don't feel it,'' said Chin Yeow Quek, as he rapped the gavel at Sotheby's in Hong Kong, setting a record for Southeast Asian contemporary art for the second time in three days.
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Photographers still have time to enter competition
ONLY a few weeks remain for keen North Devon photographers to submit their final entries in a prestigious competition. The deadline for the Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon's Annual Heritage Photographic Competition is fast approaching and all pictures must be received by Monday, October 20.
North Devon Gazette & Advertiser |
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Kugel Ball at Science Museum of Va. Friday
Kugel Ball: “Friday Night Fever” black-tie gala with cocktails, dinner and dancing, 6:30 p.m. Friday Oct. 10 with Disco Inferno After-Party at 10 p.m. at Science Museum of Virginia. $250 ball ticket, $50 after-party only; reservation required. http://www.smv.org or 864-1541.
Richmond Times-Dispatch |
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Free Press journalists win farm awards
Three Winnipeg Free Press journalists received major awards for agricultural journalism and photography by the Canadian Farm Writers' Federation awards this past weekend. Photographer Phil Hossack, business writer Larry Kusch, and freelance columnist Laura Rance won the prestigious national awards given annually to honour Canada's finest agricultural journalism.
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How to create memorable monotone shots
Black-and-white photography is back Black-and-white (monotone or greyscale) photography can have real impact - it's certainly no poor relation to colour. In fact, removing the colour from a photo can sometimes be the making of it, as the revival of black-and-white wedding photography and the appeal of monotone posters prove.
PC Advisor |
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Crude dips further on crunch fears
The price of oil fell to its lowest level for eight months, as fears over the global economy deepened. Light, sweet crude for November delivery traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange fell more than four dollars to 89.07 US dollars a barrel at one point before rising back up over 90 dollars.
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BUENA VISTA: African American Heritage Museum hits 5-year mark
BUENA VISTA -- The African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey will celebrate its fifth anniversary from 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, at the museum in the Martin Luther King Center, 661 Jackson Road, Newtonville.
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BM doesn't need sculpture face-off to pull in visitors
How should museums engage with the new? And do they have to? Statuephilia , an exhibition of contemporary sculpture at the British Museum, is yet another attempt by a venerable British cultural institution to get its taste of the current popularity, or at least headline-grabbing capacity, of 21st-century British art.
Guardian Unlimited |
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