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Saatchi Gallery: great space, shame about the art
Charlotte Higgins The new Saatchi Gallery at the old Duke of York's barracks in Chelsea, London, opens this week with an exhibition of contemporary Chinese art
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Festival crowds swell to more than 36,000
DESTIN - The 30th Annual Destin Seafood Festival saw record crowds as the festival returned to its roots, along the docks of the Destin Harbor.
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National Buffalo Museumâ€s third white buffalo
JAMESTOWN The white buffalo calf stands out like a little white puff of cloud as it sleeps by the fence near the herd of brown buffalo. Shortly, as if he wants to show himself to visitors, the calf stands up and is in full view for anyone to see and admire.
Minot Daily News |
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Russia's Mercury Group Buys London Art Company Phillips de Pury
Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Moscow-based Mercury Group has bought control of Phillips de Pury & Company , the New York and London- based auction house said today in an e-mailed statement.
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New Work by Jason Bryant at Raandesk Gallery of Art
A collection of recent artwork by Jason Bryant, including large-scale oil paintings and smaller, more intricate portraits, will be presented in this exhibition at the Raandesk Gallery of Art , in New York City. The work presented in this show puts the viewer in intimate proximity with the subjects and highlights the artist’s photorealistic style, which is inspired by images from film and comic ...
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Art worth $28,000 stolen from local gallery
Police are investigating after several thousand dollars worth in paintings were stolen from a local art gallery last week.
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Finger Lakes Gear Up For a Busy Fall
The summer may be long gone but in the Finger Lakes the busiest season is just getting started. From festivals to the fall foliage the fall season attracts more tourists than any other time of year. It’s activity that hasn't slowed down despite a slumping economy.
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FFF art show winner
Awards for the Morgan County Fall Foliage Festival Art Show were handed out Sunday at the First Christian Church. The show was sponsored by the Morgan County Arts and Crafts League. Top: Arts and Craft League member Marian Poe gives Ron Barrett the Edith Martin Award for his painting.
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What is a Mola?
The USM Art Gallery in Gorham is displaying a collection of molas, reverse appliquéd fabric panels worn on the blouses of Kuna women. The Kuna are an indigenous people from Panama and Columbia. A mola, which means "shirt" or "clothing", is an intricately produced textile made up of many layers and colors and is a prominent form of artistic expression for Kuna people, as well as an economic ...
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USM professor and student team up to build and install art show in 10 days
Last week, Ryland Cook spent ten days in St. Louis as an intern for USM art professor Micheal Shaugnessy. Shaugnessy was the artist chosen as the inaugural solo show at a gallery and artist workspace called The Craft Alliance. Cook, a recent USM grad kept a day-by-day journal for the Free Press to chart the daily progress of building and installing the sculpture show.
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Sweet Auburn Festival encourages voter registration
This year's Sweet Auburn Heritage Festival came twinned with a massive voter registration effort, coined by festival founder and coordinator Charles Johnson as the "Million Voter Pledge."
Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
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Students turn trash into art
First year Multimedia Design Students at the CityVarsity School of Media and Creative Arts have created artworks from waste to promote recycling.
Independent Online |
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Area artists invited to participate in Myersart and Friends Art Fair
HICKORY GROVE - The Myersart and Friends Art Fair is looking for more artists to participate in the second annual art fair in Hickory Grove. The fair is a high-quality show with 20 exhibiting artists and craftsmen from the surrounding area. Show dates are Nov. 28-29. The event is held inside the recreation building at Hickory Grove Methodist Church.
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Family Feud Clouds Future Of Important Tribal Art Collection
Three years ago John and Marcia Friede had promised to give San Francisco's deYoung Museum "their entire 4,000-piece collection of tribal art from New Guinea, generally regarded as the best of its kind in private hands.
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Southern Exposure artists exhibit at Upstairs Artspace
The Upstairs Artspace in Tryon, N.C., welcomes the Southern Exposure artists' group with the exhibit "Southern Exposure Exposed." These talented, mid-career artists from the Upstate of South Carolina have been together 30 years - meeting to talk about art, giving each other support, and often exhibiting together.
Gaffney Ledger |
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'The Figure, Clothed' shows paintings of local artists
GROTON -- "The Figure, Clothed" is an exhibit of paintings inspired by the clothed human figure, including one Caravaggio-inspired self-portrait by Lunenburg artist Jill Pottle.
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PG&E Partners With Aquarium of the Bay to Encourage Energy Conservation
Aquarium of the Bay today announced that Pacific Gas and Electric Company is providing major funding for its upcoming climate change exhibit.
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Artist trading cards: Masterpieces in miniature
TOWNSEND -- Usually artists aren't eager to give away their creations. Artist trading cards (ATC) are an exception.
Townsend Times |
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Sposto Interactive Helps Write Nikon's Page in Rock History
Digital Creative Agency Sposto Interactive was tapped by Nikon to create Nikon Live , a dynamic visual feast of rock and roll photography. The site includes VISIONS OF ROCK -- with interviews and bios of rock photography greats, and BEHIND THE LENS -- the result of placing Nikon cameras in the hands of artists like My Chemical Romance to capture life on the road.
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Museum is a tribute to B.B. King
B.B. King is happy that there is a museum dedicated and named for him in his hometown.
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Delta museum is a tribute to bluesman B.B. King
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. They're a reminder of those who labored by day in a segregated society. But at night they escaped to Indianola's Church Street to be entertained by a young man ...
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“Sights & Souls” at Courtyard Gallery
Jack Lardis, left, and Willie Nelson, with a portrait of Nelson by Lardis. “Sightings & Souls,” an exhibition of the paintings, drawings and sculpture of S. Chandler Kissell and Jack Lardis, opened Thursday, Oct. 2, at the Courtyard Gallery on Main in Mystic.
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Delta museum is a tribute to bluesman B.B. King
By SHELIA BYRD 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. They're a reminder of those who labored by day in a segregated society. But at night they escaped to Indianola's Church Street to be entertained by ...
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Gun Lake artist shows work
Supplied photo Rose Marie Redding, of Studio West of Gun Lake, enjoys creating "sentimental artwork" in watercolors, oils, acrylics and pen and ink.
MLive.com |
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Student wins duct-tape contest
Duct tape knew no limits at the “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” contest Saturday. Many footballs and jerseys were in the running to help decorate Derik DeVries new bedroom.
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