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Inside Wong’s world
GALLERIE Taksu in Keramat Hujung, Kuala Lumpur, presents “Inward”, an exhibition by up-and-coming artist Wong Chee Meng.
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Justin Miura
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa junior and Academy for Creative Media student Justin Miura takes photographs with interesting angles, oftentimes rich in color. "Photography to me is all about communication," he says. "Although I take many landscape shots due to their abundance and availability, I truly enjoy photographing inanimate non-landscape objects.
The Kaleo Voice |
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Political artwork in Sausalito turning heads
Foreign visitor Frank Beyaert smiled broadly as he sized up a lineup of hand-drawn sketches of this country's presidential and vice presidential candidates.
Marin Independent Journal |
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Bakersfield Showcase House of Design: If you can't buy, why not browse?
If not quite a cure for the woes caused by the current economic and mortgage crises, the 2008 Bakersfield Showcase House of Design might nevertheless be a soothing and welcome placebo. "Just because things are bad doesn't mean I'm not going to go to a museum and look at a Renoir," said Showcase coordinator Lisa Bonin. The tour, which raises money for the Club Zion Youth Ministries program for ...
The Bakersfield Californian |
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Egg-Citing Votes
The votes in the Forbes-Instructables contest are in! And the winner is...
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Painting couple have new exhibition showcasing talents
Jeffrey Boron and Linny Vine complement each other quite nicely. As painters and partners, their work is similar in nature: they both paint landscapes, drawing from Vancouver Island’s wealth of natural inspiration.
Victoria News |
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Lee Homecoming To Offer Music Festival
As part of Lee University's Homecoming Weekend, the School of Music will be offering its annual Music Festival which showcases the instrumental and vocal ensembles on-campus. The concert will be held on Saturday, Nov. 8, at 7 p.m. in the Conn Center.
The Chattanoogan |
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Festival celebrates Pacific art and culture
Instilling a sense of cultural pride through art, crafts, language and music is a key focus of next month’s Waitakere Pacifica Living Arts Festival.
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Creating Barack Obama & John McCain Jack-o-lanterns
A New York artist using pumpkins as his canvas. Hugh McMahon is carving pumpkins that look like Barack Obama and John McCain. It's all free and designed to show off his carving technique.
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Farewell, Mohair: Cinerama Putting Asses in Plush New Seats
It's no secret that Seattlest, like every right-thinking film fan in this town, loves the Cinerama . (Most recent visit: the restored print of The Godfather a couple of weekends ago.) While on the Cinerama site, we noticed that the venue was going to close down for a few weeks after hosting the 2008 Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. Why? To install "fabulous new seats and ...
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Art evaluators to converge in Doha
DOHA • Qatar will witness a huge inflow of art critics from all over the world following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Qatar Airways and Qatar Museum Authority (QMA). The airline will bring the world's best art evaluators to Doha for the week-long opening celebration of Museum of Islamic Art (MIA).
The Peninsula |
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Sacramento airport to sport giant rabbit
Sacramento officials have approved the centerpiece art exhibit for the airport's new terminal, a 56-foot-long fiberglass rabbit.
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AM Doha Time
Finalists for speech contest picked ICC-ONE Toastmasters held the pre-qualifiers for the IBQ Communicator Awards 2008-international speech at the Royal Qatar Hotel recently.
Gulf Times |
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Business students test their skills in contest
A GROUP of students at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar raised QR30,000 by implementing different business ideas over a three-day period through participation in the campus’s second version of American reality show The Apprentice.
Gulf Times |
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New Silver Lake Art Craft & Vintage Flea Market to Debut
One of our goals this year is to not be shopping and wrapping presents on Christmas Eve. But that means one has to now start thinking of what to buy and where to shop. So here's one good place to start: the art gallery Ghettogloss has announced the Silver Lake Art Craft & Vintage flea market that begins on November 15 and runs on Saturday and Sundays through December 21. "With all the ...
LAist |
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Milipol 2008 to see more participation
Doha • Top international, regional and Arab dignitaries will be adding sheen to security exhibition, Milipol Qatar 2008, according to a top official.
The Peninsula |
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AM Doha Time
By Pratap John QATAR Airways has teamed up with the Museum of Islamic Art to bring some of the world’s best art critics to Doha for its November 22 grand opening.
Gulf Times |
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Art exhibit reception tonight
The Victoria Regional Museum's Life Collages art exhibit will have an open reception from 7-9 p.m. Thursday in the O'Connor Gallery at the McNamara House. The exhibit will display the artwork and writings of high school students from Mitchell Guidance Center.
The Victoria Advocate |
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A Literal Economic Meltdown
Photographs by Frank Franklin II/AP Today, on the 79th anniversary of the 1929 Black Tuesday stock market crash, artists Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese-- Ligorano/Reese-- installed an ice sculpture of the word "Economy" in Foley Square. And the piece, called "Main Street Meltdown," is a "temporary monument" and Ligorano explained, " To see the word 'economy' melting down is ...
Gothamist |
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PRSA Silicon Valley and Computer History Museum to Host Annual "Tech Media Predicts '09"
PRSA Silicon Valley and the Computer History Museum are teaming up again to deliver "Tech Media Predicts '09" -- where top business and technology media highlight the most important and relevant technologies, trends and topics from 2008, and predict what will be most notable in 2009.
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Italian museum boss, Corinne Diserens, sacked after leaping to defend a crucified frog
The director of an Italian museum that defied the Pope by refusing to remove a modern art sculpture portraying a crucified green frog has been dismissed.
Times Online |
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Ex-museum head to repay Smithsonian for expenses
The founding director of the National Museum of the American Indian has agreed to repay the Smithsonian Institution more than $9,700 for improper travel and entertainment reimbursements, according to an audit released Wednesday.
The Washington Times |
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Northside Art Walk planned for Saturday
The Northside Arts District in Akron's downtown will continue its monthly Art Walks — featuring exhibitions, food and entertainment — from 5 to 10 p.m. this Saturday.
Akron Beacon Journal |
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Punk auction set for NYC
NEW YORK — Never mind the auction block — here’s the Sex Pistols. From a scrawled flier for one of the Clash’s first shows to publicity photos signed by the Sex Pistols, memorabilia from some of punk rock’s biggest acts and seminal moments is headed for a Nov. 24 Christie’s auction.
Journal Inquirer |
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ART: Cursed Mountain
Seven pieces of artwork from the survival horror title
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