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Tate spends £5,7m on Rubens sketch
The Tate Britain museum has bought a rare sketch by Peter Paul Rubens with help from several art and heritage foundations to keep it from being sold abroad, the museum said on Thursday.
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Modernism Defined in MOA Exhibits and Lectures
The Museum of Art exhibit 'Turning Point: The Demise of Modernism and the Rebirth of Meaning in American Art,' allows viewers to trace changes that occurred in American art in the late 1960s.
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Doomed trees become art
UXBRIDGE -- "It looks like fire." "Is it seaweed?" Those are comments from Uxbridge Montessori School students who visited the site of a sculpture symposium in Uxbridge'...
Uxbridge Times-Journal |
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Showcase for artists
The Wilton Library’s latest art exhibit is Unhung Heroes, a salute and show for artists who have either not exhibited at the library or not in the recent past.
Lewisboro Ledger |
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A.A. Bondy Headlining Tour
New York indie-folk artist A.A. Bondy will be setting out on a ...
CMJ |
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
LACMA's blog is my new daily obsession. (And not just because I screwed up a link to it yesterday. ) Today: The neat-o story of a curator who really, really, really wants an installation to be juuuust right for the museum's visitors.
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Art exhibition
13-year-old Keenan Cassidy's edgy style earns him praise
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Saatchi Gallery invests in virtualisation
Madeline Bennett, Computing , Thursday 9 October 2008 at 05:00:00 High-availability virtualised IT system in place for new gallery opening today The Saatchi Gallery reopens its doors today in a new Chelsea location, with a high-availability virtualised IT system in place from software development consultancy Octavia Information Systems....
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Macworld Expo Opens Call for Digital Art Gallery Entries
Macworld Conference and Expo opened a call for entries in the new Digital Art Gallery attraction that will be part of the 2009 event in San Francisco. Gallery submissions are open to digital artists from any background using Macintosh computers
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Brentwood girl captures top honors in contest
When Stephanie Shaw draws herself in pictures, she puts herself in the center with thought bubbles surrounding. She's also partial to drawing animals, but it doesn't really matter. She loves drawing anything, and is good at it too. read more »
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Community libraries offer variety of upcoming programs
Library program listings: Brentwood Borough Public Library, located at 3501 Brownsville Road will hold a program that gives students in grades two through five the chance to participate in painting rocks with a different theme each month. read more »
South Hills Record |
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T.D. Jakes, Megafest Go International
The superstar preacher, pastor of the Dallas megachurch The Potter's House and best-selling author was bringing his Megafest to a convention center near Soweto this weekend. It will be the first time since it debuted in Atlanta in 2004 that he has taken the event -- part religious festival, part self-help fair, part gospel concert -- outside the U.S, where it has drawn hundreds of thousands of ...
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Dumbing down the Louvre? Blame Mona Lisa
It's a measure of the cultural distance between Paris and London that French critics of the Louvre consider a Picasso exhibition a grotesque exercise in populist crowd-pleasing.
Guardian Unlimited |
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Hidden treasures of the Landlocked Forest
The Friends of the Landlocked Forest will present a photography exhibit by Philip Keyes titled, “Hidden Treasures of the Landlocked Forest,” from Oct. 1 to 31, with a reception and refreshments from 7 to 9 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 23, at the Burlington Public Library.
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Eight Men Face Jail in Egypt for Sexual Assault
A major problem, one women’s rights activist says, is that although laws on sexual abuses do exist – carrying a maximum one-year jail sentence and/or a fine – a definition of sexual harassment has been difficult to agree on. The photo shows two art students discussing their work.
Middle East Times |
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New Mexico State University hosts International Festival (8:37 a.m.)
New Mexico State University hosts International Festival (8:37 a.m.)
Las Cruces Sun-News |
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Best Bets for weekend: Theater, hot rods, Via Arte, Italian Festival!
FRIDAY "High Fidelity," 8 p.m. today and Saturday, Spotlight Theatre, 1622 19th St. Cost $15634-0692. "Rabbit Hole," 8 p.m. today and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, The Empty Space, 706 Oak St. Suggested donation of $10 to $15. 327-PLAY
The Bakersfield Californian |
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Glass artist Dale Chihuly opens Rhode Island design school gallery
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - In paint-encrusted boots and his trademark eye patch, renowned glass artist Dale Chihuly showed off the colourful, swirling designs that are part of a new $34 million expansion at the museum of the Rhode Island School of Design.
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Angola: Painter Prepares Exhibition for December
An exhibition entitled "Empirical Taxi Driver", by Angolan plastic artist Hildebrando de Melo "HM", will be inaugurated in December, in Luanda.
AllAfrica.com |
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Old Davidsonville filled with history, mystery
DAVIDSONVILLE — Ghosts and artifacts are the only remnants of the first post office in Arkansas and one of its first communities. Actors, posing as spirits, will give an oral history of the Old Davidsonville State Park settlement during its annual fall festival Saturday.
Jonesboro Sun |
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Co-workers collaborate for Art Center show
Two employees of Albert Lea’s Green Mill Restaurant are pooling their talents for the October show at the Albert Lea Art Center. Angela Burch is showing her photography and Ryan Heath is showing both photography and painting.
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Fire station open house, family fair slated
The Albert Lea Fire Station will hold its annual open house from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday. Enter the fire station from the Fountain Street. There will be numerous displays and demonstrations of equipment. Sparky’s Fire Safety House will be on exhibit to show home fire escape and safety practices.
Albert Lea Tribune |
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Art teachers ask District 281 Board to reinstate elementary program
A group of nine Robbinsdale District 281 art teachers on Tuesday implored members of the School Board to reconsider reinstating art instruction at the elementary level.
Brooklyn Center Sun-Post |
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6,800 entries received for first S’pore Int’l Photography Festival
SINGAPORE: The inaugural Singapore International Photography Festival received 6,800 entries from around the world. One reason for its success was the organisers’ drive to minimise the cost of submitting work, to help more emerging photographers take part.
Channel NewsAsia via Yahoo! Philippines News |
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These Films Sleep Well: I Live In Fear (1955, Akira Kurosawa)
Kurosawa documents a man's, and society's, descent into madness. I Live In Fear remains another of his forgotten masterpieces. From 1959's Alain Resnais film, Hiroshima, Mon Amour, through to the 1988 Japanese full-length animation by Isao Takahata, Grave of the Fireflies, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been depicted on celluloid many times and in many different lights but never ...
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