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Historic etchings go on show
NICKNAMED the English Rembrandt – the works of the 18th century artist Thomas Worlidge are revealed in an exhibition now on at Peterborough Museum. (05/05/2008)
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Tantasqua senior wins C-SPAN contest
Tantasqua Regional High School senior, Melissa Castonguay, 17, of Holland, deserves congratulations for being one of three Massachusetts winners in C-SPAN's 2008 StudentCam contest.
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Stagecoach first-class
The Stagecoach Country Music Festival found an identity this weekend as a showcase for the many voices of America's regional music.
The Desert Sun |
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Nothing new to see at Morris library display; it's all made of recyclables
HANOVER -- A birdhouse, a Christmas tree, a hassock and even a courthouse replica are among the sculptures that Morris County residents made from recyclables and are now on display at the Morris County Library.
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This bid does not compute. Try $1,000
More than 200 toy robots from one of the world's top collections are up for auction. Have you spent years searching for a mint Space Scout, or is next year's Botstock already marked on your calendar?
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THE FUTURE'S 'BLIGHT'
Forget Atlantic Yards - try "Atlantic Lots."Renderings commissioned by the Municipal Art Society and obtained by The Post reveal for the first time how Bruce Ratner's controversial project in Brooklyn could look - and remain for many years - should...
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Palestinian festival of dance – and debate
Though they were delayed eight hours at the Israeli border, dancers from Belgium's Les Ballets C. De La. B. company eventually made their way to Ramallah's Al Kasba Theatre where they writhed, staggered, and lunged across the stage.
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Winterthur's grand tradition turns 30
George A. "Frolic" Weymouth smiled as he looked over the sun-drenched, people-packed hills of Winterthur Museum & Country Estate on Sunday, recalling the start of Point-to-Point 30 years ago.
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Art to jazz up airport trains
This summer, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport's public-art program turns 20 years old, and the airport is set to begin its most ambitious project yet: pouring $3 million worth of artwork into the $1.1 billion automated-train project.
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Toy robots in online, phone auction
PHILADELPHIA -- Have you spent years searching for a mint Space Scout, or is next year's Botstock already marked on your calendar?
The News Journal |
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Festival's key to success: something for everyone
Variety is the heady spice of successful Maryland Film Festival The 10th annual Maryland Film Festival drew a crowd to the Charles Theatre over the weekend. Variety is the heady spice of the successful Maryland Film Festival.
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Festival's key to success: something for everyone
Variety is the heady spice of successful Maryland Film Festival A block of North Charles Street was turned into a cinematic playpen over the weekend, as thousands of movie lovers ventured to the Charles Theatre and its environs to sample everything from a 90-second short celebrating gnats to the latest film from Oscar-winning documentary director Alex Gibney.
Baltimore Sun |
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Our worthy award winners let imagination lead them
Since the Maryland Film Festival doesn't give out awards, we came up with a few of our own.
Baltimore Sun |
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Art/Culture Review
PALAPYE: Former president Festus Mogae says it is his wish to see a Palapye Museum in place. He said he had been eager to see such a development in place while he was still in power.
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Gallery owner dreams of Brimfield shows
WESTFIELD - Gerald E. Tracy, owner of the Tea Pot Gallery, wants to bring a little bit of Brimfield to downtown Westfield. "We keep losing downtown business," he said last week. "Since last fall, when I moved into Tea Pot Gallery, we lost over 10 businesses here."
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Memories come back
Devastated 5 years ago by a tropical storm, maritime museum to renew main building The oyster plant that once employed thousands in the waterfront community of Eastport, and then briefly housed a museum, is now a ghost of a place.
Baltimore Sun |
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Eliasson: Nature as A Special-Effects Show
Olafur Eliasson is the other foreign superstar getting big play, and drawing crowds, in New York right now. His splashy retrospective fills huge spaces at both the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan and at PS1, the center for contemporary art in Queens.
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Thorndike Art Award competition entries now on display in Laconia
Courtesy Photo LOCAL ARTISTS, Robin Baron and Maureen Bieniarz, arrange the display artwork entered into the Annalee Thorndike Art Competition, which is hosted by the Lakes Region Scholarship Foundation.
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Graffiti encouraged at London festival
Graffiti impresario Banksy and airbrush-wielding guerrilla artists blanketed the walls of an abandoned London tunnel with offbeat murals as part of a three-day stencil-art street party this past weekend.
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Parting shots
In the late 1940s, a physicist from Massachusetts invented photographic film that developed almost instantly.
The Fresno Bee |
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Exhibit recalls hospital on boardwalk
Before the laughs and World War II wartime songs, and even before military planes fly over the surf, visitors to the boardwalk outside Resorts next weekend can meet with some ghosts.
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Bob Shallit: From midtown office complex to artists' showcase
A down-on-its-luck midtown office complex is about to become an arts incubator where local artists can work, mingle with their fans and – ideally – make lots of sales. Steve Memering, known for his landscape and dragonfly paintings, works on a piece at the Sacramento Art Complex, a former office building on K Street. One of Memering's capital skyline works, in the window, will become part ...
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Artist uses fishing line, bones to weave pieces
While snorkeling in the Sea of Cortez off the coast of Baja California, Mexico, local artist Gerri Johnson-McMillin was inspired to create her most recent exhibit called "Medusae (the jellies)."
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Sculpture unveiled at Aquinas College
A new sculpture unveiled April 24 at Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula is likely to be a Ventura artist's last commissioned piece. Charles "Chuck" Kubilos, 79, crafted the 5-foot bronze statue that depicts a seated St. Thomas Aquinas teaching with a book in hand, according to a statement from the college.
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West county event calendar: May 5
- Gourd Art Festival, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Santa Rosa Valley Clubhouse, 11701 E. Las Posas Road. The Channel Islands Gourd Society will display and sell decorated gourds. Free. Information: 649-9868.
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