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Museum unveils Michelle Obama portrait
A NYC museum unveiled a painting of Michelle and her daughter Sasha.
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It’s oil or nothing at new show
VietNamNet Bridge – An exhibition of Vietnamese oil paintings opened its doors to the public in Ha Noi yesterday. Organised by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism's Department of Fine Arts, Photography and Exhibition, the show will present Viet Nam's best oil paintings.
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Honoring our veterans next Tuesday
An outing to an unusual museum evoking the past and an outreach to the generations of the future will mark the commemoration of Veterans Day in Wayland this year. Homage will also be paid to tradition with ceremonies at the Wayland Veterans Memorial starting at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 11.
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Readjusting to the real world
The revision of the price scale in the market for Impressionist and Modern Art became more drastic at a sale by Christie's in New York on Wednesday evening, with only 41 of 58 lots selling.
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Coutts to host artist reception Friday
Opening Friday, the “Kansas Art Quilters: Altered Views” will be featured at Coutts Museum of Art, 110 N. Main.
El Dorado Times |
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World War II History Center to host open house
The World War II History Center will be open all day and will feature its Tribute Gallery, Research Library, Gift Shop and a display of items from its collection.
El Dorado Times |
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Jewish Family sues Germany for Restitution
An 82 year-old Holocaust survivor and his family are suing Germany for an extensive art collection Nazis seized and auctioned off during World War II.
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Library exhibits quality prints, pictures America through art
Allies Day, 1917 -- Childe Hassam's oil painting is reproduced in a high quality print, on display with other works from the Picturing America initiative at the Berkeley Heights Public Library in November. BERKELEY HEIGHTS -- Picturing America, a new...
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Shoot, Wait, Enjoy: AIGA Polaroid Scavenger Hunt
Image by Renata Alves dos Anjos Polaroid Scavenger Hunt and Gallery Show Saturday, November 8 Lewis Carnegie ( 2130 Goodrich Ave. ) $15-$45, 1-5 pm, Registration Required. Gallery Show, 7-10 pm, free [ info ] Since it was announced earlier this year that Polaroid film will no longer be produced , parting with Polaroid has sent many fans of the iconic instant film and camera into ...
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Billboard.com -- Stagecoach Snags Kid Rock, Reba, Paisley, Chesney
Kid Rock, Reba McEntire, Brad Paisley and Kenny Chesney will headline the third Stagecoach Country Music Festival, to be held April 25-26 at Empire Polo Field in Indio, Calif. Tickets for the event, which is produced by Goldenvoice, the Messina Group and Moore Entertainment Group, go on sale Nov. 14.
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Anish Kapoor to be Brighton festival's guest director
Brighton festival organisers have revealed a surprise coup for their 2009 programme, appointing artist Anish Kapoor as guest director of the festival in May next year.
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Lee Rosenbaum's cultural commentary
Everyone knows Michael Crichton as the author of page-turners like "The Andromeda Strain" and "Jurassic Park." But the author, who died Tuesday at the age of 66, was also a collector of works by Jasper Johns , who chose Crichton to author the catalogue (revised and reissued in 1994) for his 1977 retrospective at the Whitney Museum.
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'A Journey to North' warmly received in Moscow
Iran - Film - Moscow Iranian quartet 'A Journey to North' directed by Amir Reza Khuzestani was staged in Moscow and warmly welcomed by the audience. The play was performed at Moscow's International Stanislavski Theater Festival on Wednesday and Thursday.
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Doors of Asheville art auction is tonight
ASHEVILLE – The 2008 Doors of Asheville art auction at the Orange Peel, an annual fundraising event for Mountain Housing Opportunities, is at 6:30 p.m. today.
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3 TO TRY
Global goodies Globe-trotting will get a lot easier this weekend -- not to mention less expensive. The Columbus International Festival will play host to entertainers, vendors and nonprofit organizations representing 80 countries. Go for the arts and crafts, music and dancing; and stay for the food -- a whole bunch of it. Hours are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday at ...
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‘Utterly Brilliant!’ — Timmy Mallett is coming to town!
HE is fondly remembered as the wacky host of the 80s children’s TV programme Wacaday, but Timmy Mallett is rapidly carving himself another talented career.
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Walters Exhibit Full Of Life In 19th-Century Japan
A few Walters Art Museum visitors walked into the "Autumn Colors: Japanese Paintings from the Edo Period" art exhibit Oct. 8, quickly glanced at the paintings and then moved on.
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REVIEW: Q-Tip's hip-hop 'Renaissance'
Q-Tip is 38 years old, an old man in what many consider a young man's game. He's been rapping since 1988, was a founding member of the highly influential group A Tribe Called Quest and has worked on over half a dozen albums. So what he lacks in youthful exuberance, he trumps over many in another area: experience.
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Pine Belt events
Pinebelt in Bloom will host the Cameraderie Photography Society's Pinebelt in Bloom Photography Exhibition will be open 2-6 p.m. through Nov. 22. For more information, call (601) 296-7500.
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A US president we can trust?
In July, Barack Obama spoke before a crowd of 200,000 people at Tiergarten in Berlin. One reporter likened it to a “pop festival, a gathering of peace, love—and loathing for George W. Bush.”
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Photographer Robert Wilson: the edge of glamour
There are many ways to photograph a war. For 50 years, from the mid-1930s to around the mid-1980s, the popular idea of war photography was the Robert Capa model, in which the photographer worked with a small, hand-held camera at the heart of a conflict, risking his or her life to bring back a direct record of the action.
Guardian Unlimited |
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Kenny Chesney will headline Stagecoach Country Music Festival
Kenny Chesney will return to the Empire Polo Club in Indio April 25-26 for the third annual Stagecoach Country Music Festival.
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World War II vet honored in rededication
NARROWSBURG, NY—“Art in Sixes,” an exhibition of small works by local artists, opens at the Alliance Gallery on Saturday, November 15, with a reception from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. The exhibit will be on view through December 20.
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Visit annual Christmas Collection
The 30th annual Christmas Collection Holiday sale at Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, 1400 1st Ave. N., features arts, handcrafted items, gift ideas and more. Admission is $3; free for museum members. Hours today are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Call 727-8255 for more information.
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Push to toughen rules on children in art
IN A move designed to tighten censorship guidelines surrounding art exhibitions, the NSW Attorney-General, John Hatzistergos, will ask censorship ministers to clarify and streamline the National Classification Scheme as it applies to artworks depicting children.
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