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Kemper Museum opens a Crossroads outpost Friday
Last year the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art opened the Bloch Building, and Johnson County Community College launched the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. Now it’s the Kemper Museum’s turn.
The Kansas City Star |
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MoMA Opens Exhibition Focusing on the Transformative Decade of Joan Miro's Work
Joan Miró. Still Life with Old Shoe. 1937. Oil on canvas, 32 x 46” (81.3 x 116.8 cm).
Art Daily |
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Savannah Film Festival Honors Suzanne de Passe with Lifetime Achievement Award
R&B singer Kenny Lattimore, fellow entertainment entrepreneurs Michael and Judy Mauldin on hand for event
PR Newswire via Yahoo! News |
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Bark Park auction rakes in big money
In a town barking mad for dogs, it took just a year to collect $100,000 in donations to build the Provincetown Pilgrim Bark Park.
Cape Cod Times |
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Fall celebrated at Kenan's Mill
Children ran from the rope bridge, to the mill and back again as adults listened to music, shopped and ate. Saturday marked the seventh annual Kenan’s Mill Bluegrass Festival, an event met with perfect weather and positive crowd response.
The Selma Times-Journal |
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The GEM of history
The Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square, with its deep-rose, neo-classical façade, has stood as one of the city's most familiar landmarks since its construction in 1902. It is home to 150,000 of the nation's most important artefacts from a long and unique span of Egypt's history.
Al-Ahram Weekly |
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Art masters compete
Marcy Smith, a judge for the Masters Art Show, said it’s hard to judge the masters’ entries. “You have to be very technical with the entries,” said Smith, a Muskogee artist. “These artists have already obtained recognition so we have to go deeper.”
Muskogee Phoenix |
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Flights of Fancy Delight, Even Those of Paper Wings
On Saturday, the New York Hall of Science again became a testing ground for paper airplanes, as dozens of children and a few adults prepared for a public arts event and contest.
New York Times |
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Fans, musicians converge at music festival on SPI
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND - For Del Castillo band members and brothers Rick and Mark Castillo, playing at South Padre Island on Saturday was a homecoming of sorts.
The Brownsville Herald |
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Day of the Dead brings lively festival to Mesa
Dancing skeletons and rising spirits might not sound like a typical day of family fun, but the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos is a colorful celebration of life as much as it is a remembrance of the past.
East Valley Tribune |
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The human nude as object: Paintings by Philip Pearlstein
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTPhilippe de Montebello at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, examining the recently acquired "Madonna and Child," by Duccio di Buoninsegna, circa 1300. Philip Pearlstein: Objectifications and Early 20th Century American Figurative Art: The Soyer Bequest. Where: The...
The Star-Ledger |
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Social Commentary in Evocative Prints From Goya
Goya?s prints at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum should not be missed by anybody with a serious interest in the visual arts.
New York Times |
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British Royal Couple At UBD
Visibly awe struck by the variety of crafts and arts produced by the students, the British royal couple spent time to tour the exhibition as well as the Islamic Art workshop put up in their honor.
BruDirect.com |
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Marvel of Marbles! A Painter's Sleight of Hand
When exhibit designers want to reshape the marble halls of the National Gallery of Art, they turn to one of the most remarkable artists in Washington: Glenn Perry. Trained as a landscape painter, Perry, 54, uses paint to turn ordinary plywood into something indistinguishable from marble. Almost e...
Washington Post |
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Environmental film festival in Wellington
Award-winning New Zealand film, The Nuclear Comeback, will open the Wellington season of the Reel Earth Environmental Film Festival on 20 November.
Scoop.co.nz |
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Albert Boime, Leading Art Historian, Dies at 75
Professor Boime, who wrote the four-volume ?Social History of Modern Art,? was a scholar of art history who took the history every bit as seriously as the art.
New York Times |
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Stamps of war dead on show
A CONTROVERSIAL art exhibition made up of the faces of British servicemen and women killed in Iraq is to go on show in Scotland for the first time.
The Scotsman |
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Prey of the times
The financial squeeze has cancelled plans to put an eclectic bunch of 20 sculptures, including one of a tapir, under an online auction hammer to raise funds for worldwide animal conservation.
The Star |
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Soldier David gets his commission: Winning photography
This year's competition winner is no stranger to exotic settings. David Hall is currently in his final year of training at the Edinburgh Medical School to become a military doctor. This 25-year-old photography lover has been based in Ethiopia for the past three months but doesn't see any problem arranging a couple of weeks in civvies to take up his first prize: a professional commission from ...
Independent |
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Shannyn Moore: LIFE BEGINS AT RAPE...ASK PALIN
Can you imagine having to pay for the CSI (crime scene investigation-fingerprinting, photography, etc) if your home was robbed? What if a bill came for...
HuffingtonPost |
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Inspirational pieces
Done sans outline, these wax drawings are more than an artwork, they bring messages of peace and happiness.
The Star |
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Festival showcases all of the arts
The Diamond Valley Arts Council presented its third annual Festival of the Arts this past weekend. A formal reception on Friday gave guests a sneak preview of the diverse collection provided by juried artists and authors.
The Press-Enterprise |
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Festival showcases all of the arts
The Diamond Valley Arts Council presented its third annual Festival of the Arts this past weekend. A formal reception on Friday gave guests a sneak preview of the diverse collection provided by juried artists and authors.
The Press-Enterprise |
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Scarysville contest winners announced
The votes are in and winners have been named in the "Scaryville" costume contest held Friday, Oct. 24 in Uptown Marysville.
This Week Marysville |
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50 miles of art
The talent of many artists and artisans in North East Missouri is on display this weekend during the 50-miles of art gallery and studio tour.
WGEM Quincy |
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