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Clubs/Meetings
Watercolor Painting Demonstration The Menlo Art League will feature a demonstration by local watercolorist Miho Simunovic. The artist was born in Croatia and graduated from the Academy of Art in Zagreb. He finds inspiration in his world travels and in the California landscape.
Palo Alto Weekly |
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9 Helpful Tips In Taking Puppy Pictures
Taking puppy pictures is perhaps one of the best activities you could enjoy in life. Although taking pictures require patience on your part, the learning process is so much easier when you follow some tips in photography.
Turks.US |
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LEGO Life-sized
Artist Nathan Sawaya, left, and his girlfriend Courtney Simmons poses with LEGO brick sculptures of themselves during the unveiling of the 82nd edition of the Neiman Marcus Christmas Book Tuesday in Irving, Texas.
Texarkana Gazette |
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Iqaluit art dealer named eBay Entrepreneur of the Year
Iqaluit, Nunavut resident Bryan Hellwig has been crowned eBay Canada's 2008 Entrepreneur of the Year for using the power of the Internet to sell Inuit art globally. Taking home $5,000 to help grow his business, Mr.
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Secrets of Van Gogh's night works
An exhibition in New York studies how Vincent Van Gogh created new techniques to paint the night sky.
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"Art' in eye of beholder
Here's one to ponder: if everyone finds the controversial painting at the center of the play "Art" to be so ridiculous, then why so many gasps and groans from the audience when someone prepares to deface it?
Asbury Park Press |
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Urban Planner: October 8, 2008
FILM: War/Dance , winner of the 2007 Hot Docs Audience Award , will be screened tonight at the Bloor Cinema . The documentary follows a children's dance troupe from northern Uganda invited to compete at an annual dance and music festival.
Torontoist |
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Rare view of Llandudno artist
Llandudno Museum will this month be displaying the works of Francis Edouard Chardon (1865-1925) whose home and collection of artefacts now make up the museum.
NewsWales |
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Sotheby's Hong Kong Art Sale Misses Target at HK$1.1 Billion
Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Sotheby's , the world's largest publicly traded art-auction house, missed the estimate for its Hong Kong sale with a tally of HK$1.1 billion ($141.7 million), as a global financial rout led buyers to shun some top lots.
Bloomberg |
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Temple U grad to head N.J. state museum
Eric Pryor, a West Orange, N.J., resident and president of the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, has been named executive director of the New Jersey State Museum.
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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Sculptcycle Display Raises Thousands at Auction
Some unique artwork brought in a lot of money at auction.
WCAX-TV Vermont |
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The art of happiness
With a variety of speakers visiting EWU and a new major being offered, the 2008-2009 school year promises to be eventful for the fine arts on campus. EWU opened a new exhibition in the art gallery last Thursday called "Divertissement." The show features artist Leticia Bajuyo, a professor of art at Hanover University in Indiana.
The Easterner |
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Italy Defends Itself In An Art Show
"An exhibition celebrating a century-old piece of legislation may not seem an obvious crowd pleaser. But for the curators, it's a way of arguing that Italy's art treasures would be vastly diminished were it not for its strict -- some assert, draconian -- cultural-heritage laws."
Arts Journal |
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Canadian Breast Cancer Network launches breast cancer awareness month online auction
The Canadian Breast Cancer Network has launched a Breast Cancer Awareness Month online auction to raise funds...
The Shelburne County Coast Guard |
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Poll Results
Booker’s art, which quickly gained notoriety when she first began making sculpture from the discarded rubber in the late ’90s, is breathing n... Do you sleep in the nude?
Nuvo |
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Barney may go into protective custody
Poor Barney. He gets no respect. A six-foot likeness of the infamous big purple dinosaur is vandalized so often during Owen Sound's Festival of [...]
Owen Sound Sun Times |
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Fall show features works by SC artist Joseph Cave
The Cheryl Newby Gallery will open a Fall Exhibition of paintings by South Carolina artist Joseph Cave on Saturday, October 11, 2008. The show, “Joseph Cave – New Works from 2008” will be on view through November 8th. The exhibition will include twelve new oils by the well-known painter who resides in Georgetown, SC. Among the works, viewers will find Italian scenes inspired by a recent trip, ...
The Myrtle Beach Sun News |
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Tunisia: Local Painter Displays Symphony of Colors
Amar (Ben Belgacem), a Tunisian painter living in France is currently exhibiting his works at the "Art- Libris" gallery in Tunis.
AllAfrica.com |
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In pictures
Preserving Nigeria's ancient bronze sculpture methods
BBC News |
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Tunisia: 'Kalysté' Art Gallery Houses Exceptional Group Exhibit, Featuring Works By Bellagha, Sarfaty, Ben Salem ..
The works of exceptional Tunisian artist painters are currently on display at the "Kalyste" art gallery in Tunis.
AllAfrica.com |
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Tunisia: Voice From Azerbaijan Mesmerizes Carthage Acropolium Audience
The fourth session of the Festival of spiritual music which takes place on the historic scene of the Carthage Acropolium, has revealed an artist at the height of his art, the Azeri Zabit Nabizade.
AllAfrica.com |
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Kava event at UH promotes peace
It's awa for everyone at Saturday's Hawaii Pacific Islands Kava Festival on the University of Hawaii-Manoa campus.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin |
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Tunisia: 14th Session of Mahdia's 'Sea Fest' to Showcase Leisure Activities And Cultural Heritage
The 14 th session of Mahdia's "sea festival" which is expected to take place from July 19 to 26, will showcase leisure activities, culture, as well as the area's rich heritage inherited from a myriad of successive dynasties which have reigned on the legendary city.On the festival's menu organisers have planned an upbeat, non-stop, program of activities ranging from art exhibits to swimming ...
AllAfrica.com |
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Tunisia: Amina Fakhet Closes Medina Festival in Style
A great number of fans and music lovers flocked at the Tunis Municipal Theatre to watch the Tunisian singer Amina Fakhet, whose show was scheduled on Sunday to close the 2008 edition of the Medina festival.
AllAfrica.com |
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Tunisia: Shahram Nazeri Will Close Third Edition of "Mûsîqât"
On Saturday evening, the curtain will fall on the third edition of "Mûsîqât", the festival of traditional and neo-traditional music. The last artist who will perform on the Mûsîqât stage is the renowned Iranian singer and musician Shahram Nazeri, also known as the 'Persian nightingale'.
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