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Around our world: KU students, staff capture images around the globe
There are orphans in Haiti, protesters in Paris, gondoliers in Italy and toddlers in Japan. The photos represent several continents and many fond memories of travel abroad. The annual “Picture the World” photo exhibition remains on display through the end of this week at the Art & Design Gallery in the Art & Design Building at Kansas University.
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The Lone Star International Film Festival, hosted by the Lone Star Film Society, is a year round series of programs culminating in a five day celebration of cinema in November.
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City where Poe died to celebrate his birth
BALTIMORE — The city where Edgar Allan Poe died will celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth with a year's worth of exhibits and events, including a re-enactment of his funeral, befitting the morose author.
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Vandals topple bamboo pyramid
CARLSBAD — Vandals struck a public art display outside the Carlsbad Museum and Art Center sometime late Saturday or early Sunday, barely a week after it had been installed in an exhibit slated to run through December.
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Grain News
Bozeman, MT--Over 2,100 copies of the Old Time Grain Elevators: Stories and Photography of a Vanishing Way of Life book have been sold since it was published in September 2007.
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A and M-Commerce art exhibit goes to the ‘dog’
An exhibition that features mural-sized photographs of Bandit the dog by Michael Peven, professor of Art at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville will be on display at the University Gallery at Texas A&M University-Commerce this afternoon.
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Big Country contested races
A listing of contested races in the Big Country
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Exhibits pose big questions
Two new exhibits have opened at the Pomona College Museum of Art, 330 N. College Ave., Claremont. First up, "Kara Walker: Annotating History" offers a rereading and restatement of the American Civil War using selections from "Harper's Illustrated History of the Civil War of 1866-1868." Using silhouette figures superimposed over illustrations, Walker's work deals with the themes of battle, death ...
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin |
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Kaleidoscopic Biennial for a Scarred City
New Orleans has joined the biennial rush with Prospect.1, the sprawling exhibition that opened across the city over the weekend.
New York Times |
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Art can be a stinky business
A piece by Belgian conceptual artist Jan Fabre at a contemporary art museum in Antwerp is raising .... well, a stink.
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Israel Cracks Case In Nick Of Time
It took time, but Israeli police detectives have cracked one of the country's greatest crimes - the legendary heist of a priceless clock collection from a Jerusalem museum a quarter century ago.
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Smaller gala marks 5 years
Like many others, the folks at the Children's Museum of the Lowcountry are cutting back this year.
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Extreme Makeover: White House Edition — Reimagining the President's Residence
For all its majesty, the White House is basically the same knockoff neoclassical manse that John Adams relocated to in 1800. Sure, it's riddled with history—but shouldn't we just turn it into a museum and start fresh with something engineered for 21st-century challenges? That's the idea behind White House Redux, a competition to redesign the executive residence, organized by the Storefront ...
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Art Museum Will Carry Name Of Top Donor
Cornelia Corbett has poured her heart and soul into the Tampa Museum of Art, devoting time and money to ensure the city has a place to show its artwork.
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Some community members are outraged that the City of Berkeley-run Addison Street Windows Gallery decided not to display posters from a national series of exhibitions.
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The Fall Auction Season Opens With Little Enthusiasm
During an auction at Sotheby?s, the results were spotty, a relief to those who thought the appetite for art was all but dead, but hardly the success story of seasons past.
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List of sites for art museum grows shorter
The list of feasible sites for an art museum downtown got even shorter Monday. A city task force last week came up with three sites outside of Festival Park to investigate, but two were immediately ruled out during Monday night’s meeting because the property owners don’t want to sell.
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Extreme home makeover starts at White House
The 44th US president will face a mountain of questions: How to fix the economy? What to do about Iran's nuclear program? And what rug, artwork, and desk to have in the Oval Office? If history is any guide, a legion of painters, electricians, and other workers will descend on the 132-room White House to make it ship-shape between the election and inauguration day, January 20, 2009. With the ...
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Flat result at NY season's first art auction
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sotheby's auction of Impressionist and modern art on Monday fell far short of expectations that were mostly set before the collapse of world financial markets but the sale did manage a $60 million top lot and set records for Degas and Munch.
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What's Buggin' You? Art Auction
A local artist wanted her money or her paintings. She submitted several works to the African American Museum in Dallas and was told that some sold. But she didn't get her pay check and that was buggin' her. She called FOX 4's Saul Garza.
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What’s in art galleries
TEHRAN, Nov. 3 (MNA) -- Calligraphy works by Esrafil Shirchi will be displayed in an exhibit at the main gallery of the Niavaran Cultural Center from November 6 to 16.
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The life of jazz
William Claxton called photography "jazz for the eyes". But jazz photographs have to be music to the ears as well. The best pictures of musicians are drenched in the sound of their subjects. Herman Leonard's pictures make everyone sound the same.
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Paris funeral parlour to be modern art HQ
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ARTSPACE congratulations: 08 Walters Prize Winner
ARTSPACE congratulates Peter Robinson, the recipient of the 2008 Walters Prize New Zealand's most prestigious contemporary art award.
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by Diana Uy
FOR many of us, art is a luxury indulged exclusively by the moneyed set. Not surprisingly, most great artworks, except those in museums, are hidden from view of the masses, kept within the expensive homes of the rich and famous.
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