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Photo du Jour 261 (4-way tie!)
If you read SFist frequently, and shame on you for not, you know we're fanatics over local artist/photographer Darwin Bell . (You can also find his work here and here .) And since we loathe judging anyone or anything based off the color of its skin, we can't decide which one of these images to select as today's photo of the day. So? It's a 4-way tie. There is an image gallery to this ...
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Fisher School exhibits Dedham pottery collection
Items of Dedham Pottery from the collection of Susan (Beal) Dyer will be exhibited at the Westwood Historical Society’s Fisher School on Sunday, Nov. 2 between the hours of 2 and 4 p.m. The collection, as a whole, is considered on of the premier ones in New England. Susan’s parents, Helen and Wendell Beal, started collection Dedham Pottery during the WW II years an d cont inued for four decades ...
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As economy melts away, so does N.Y. sculpture
Two artists on Wednesday installed a 1,500-pound ice sculpture that spelled the word "Economy" in Manhattan's financial district.
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Big Easy Art Event Aims to Heal City
The Prospect 1 New Orleans project is slated to open in November. Dan Cameron, the director of the Contemporary Arts Center, aims to create a citywide, international art event akin to the Venice Bienanle. He sees it as a promotional and healing tool for the city.
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Melting ice sculpture captures Wall Street crisis
The economy is melting - literally. On Wednesday, two artists installed a 1,500-pound ice sculpture carved to spell the word "Economy" in Manhattan's financial district.
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Kodak net income doubles to $96 m
Eastman Kodak Co, the 128-year-old photography company reshaping itself as traditional film demand wanes, said third-quarter earnings more than doubled on demand for digital cameras.
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The Juan MacLean and We Are the World haunt museums
The Natural History Museum and the Hammer have unexpected Halloween fun.
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A glimpse into students' lives
The Life Collages project is about more than students making some art and writing some poems. It's a glimpse into their lives, Victoria Regional Museum Association education coordinator Veronica Martinez said.
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Museum looking for donations for garage sale
The Victoria Regional Museum Association is accepting donations for its annual Elegant Elephant Garage Sale, which will be Dec. 5-7.
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MoMA exhibit explores Miro's wild side
If a painter refuses to paint, is he still a painter? If an artist says that a painting isn't a painting, what is it? What does it take to make a painting not a painting?
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Look, but don't touch!
Fred, the skeleton who sometimes haunts the Zephyr art gallery, is bewitched by the painting Totally Hypnotic by Adriana Wagg. [...]
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Dean & Britta Score Warhol Screen Tests, Help Obama
Photo by Michael Lavine Andy Warhol 's famed screen tests found the pop art icon settling his lens on a subject for several minutes, the camera staring at them while they stared right back. A baker's dozen such transfixing shots of the likes of Lou Reed, Nico, Dennis Hopper, and Edie Sedgwick have been put to all-new music by Dean & Britta and will be released on DVD by Plexifilm ...
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Maine Discovery Museum Annual Gala Dinner Auction Set For Saturday
BANGOR (NEWS CENTER) -- More than 50 Maine artists have donated their time and talents to create works of art from ordinary rocking chairs. Those rocking chairs will be auctioned off at the Spectacular Events Center in Bangor on Saturday.
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Carefree festival attracts extensive lineup
Artists flock in from across the country to be in the Carefree Fine Art & Wine Festival.
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Sample "California Vineyards" at tonight's artist's reception
NOBLESVILLE -- Randall Scott Harden said the nine days he spent painting on location in California's wine country earlier this month gave him the inspiration for his new art exhibit, opening tonight.
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Audio Slideshow: Photos compete for the Prix Pictet
Take a look at some of the entries for a new global photography prize that focuses on 'sustainability' - with this year's theme being water.
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Rise Above Economic Woes with the Hover Chair - Infrastructure
Scores of exhibitors will show off everything from a pocket-sized DJ mixing desk, a solar-powered mobile phone charger and a "robot guitar" that uses tiny motors to tune its own strings.
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Heritage Arts and Music is at World of Energy in Seneca
Duke Energy's World of Energy will be the site for a weekend festival.
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'Vanity Fair Portraits' at LACMA celebrates celebrity
The new show is, in a word, dull. Founded in 1856, London's National Portrait Gallery is a place where the people in the pictures, not the pictures themselves, are what counts. The museum's website explains: "The National Portrait Gallery was established with the criteria that the Gallery was to be about history, not about art, and about the status of the sitter, rather than the quality or ...
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Art sale to benefit Martin Memorial cancer center
“Magnolias,” stained glass by Margie Murphy, and Ruthann Hewson’s oil painting “The Old Stuart Causeway” will be displayed in the cancer center for one year. If the pieces are sold, 15 percent will benefit the cancer center, through the Martin Memorial Foundation, with 5 percent going to the Arts Council of Martin County.
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
Last month I warned LACMA about the celebrity-for-celebrity's-sake turn some of the museum's programming was taking. This just in: Christopher Knight piles on.
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Interview: Jason Fulford the food shooter?
Jason Fulford may seem like an odd choice of photographer for a cookbook project. His straightforward documentary style runs contrary to today’s brightly lit, carefully arranged food photography.
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Foundation formed to honor Rocky Mount homicide victim
An art auction and sale on Saturday will benefit a charitable foundation formed in the name of a Rocky Mount woman killed during an attack at a church last fall.
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Electronic House Expo Fall 2008 Exhibitor Profiles
Electronic House Expo Fall 2008 takes place November 4-7, 2008 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California. Listed below are the Electronic House Expo Fall 2008 exhibitor profiles.
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Malvern artist's work takes political turn
Submitted photos - Zack Jones will open the exhibit “Red, White, Blue” Friday at The Old Market Artists Gallery in downtown Omaha. A reception will be held Tuesday, Election Day, from 5 to 9 p.m.
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