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FD police seek artwork vandals
A multipart artwork that graces the front of the Fort Dodge Public Library recently lost some pieces to vandals. Police are seeking the public's help in nabbing the vandals. The Catherine Vincent Deardorf Charitable Foundation is offering a $150 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the people who damaged the art. Webster County Crime Stoppers may also offer a reward.
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Museum dusts off wax figures for 'The Last Supper'
FORT WORTH, Texas --Stunning life-sized wax figures of Jesus and his apostles patterned after Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece "The Last Supper" have been in a warehouse for 11 years.
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Music series brings fans 'out of the woodwork'
Indy folk artist Sara Hickman is lined up to take the stage at the Longview Museum of Fine Arts on Nov. 14 for the third in a new live music series that's drawn more than 200 people for each of the first two shows.
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El Paso Remembers Men Of Company From WWII
Thanks to a memorial unveiled Friday, the Men of Company have a permanent place in El Paso. The El Paso Public Art Program, together with the city of El Paso Museums and Cultural Affairs Department, began plans for the memorial more than a year ago.
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Artist Subodh Gupta pitches in for Bihar flood relief
New Delhi, Nov 8 : Leading contemporary artist Subodh Gupta is paying back to his home state Bihar, which is still reeling under the effects of the devastating floods that killed at least 191 people and left thousands homeless, with a charity art auction.
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Community Calendar
Through the Seasons: Color and Black-and-White Photographs by Otto Knoll of Celoron, Prendergast Library Art Gallery, Jamestown. Opening reception will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 28, in the Library's Fireplace Room.
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Still a part of the art world in Selma
Walk into the Selma Art Guild gallery; look up, look down and take a full turn, and the fruit of Joanna Nichols’ hands come washing over. It’s not just the splashes of choreographed colors on canvas. It’s literally in the ceilings and on the floors.
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Belgian bank backing proposed Ferris wheel on Laclede's Landing
An artist’s rendering of a proposed Ferris wheel on Laclede’s Landing. The brothers proposing a Ferris wheel on Laclede's Landing said Friday that they have a Belgian lender but are unsure whether the 175-foot high contraption will be spinning by next summer's All-Star game.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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Sculpture will honor bank owner and father
A striking contemporary sculpture — a tribute to the late lawyer, banker and philanthropist Bart Cohen and his late father, Joseph — is about to be installed in Overland Park.
The Kansas City Star |
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New art gallery opens
After staging sold-out group exhibitions in Manila and Kuala Lumpur, visual artist-fashion designer Patricia Eustaquio goes solo with Death to the Major, Viva Minor, her first individual exhibition in four years, now on display as the inaugural show of Silverlens Gallery’s new space, the Silverlens Lab or SLab.
Manila Standard Today |
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Art for U!
Collin Caruso (front, left), a fourth-grader at Truckee Elementary, and Lauren Tanner, a kindergartner at Glenshire Elementary, show their award-winning artwork last week at Plumas Bank Truckee Branch.
Sierra Sun |
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A Sneak Peek to Remember
Just 16 months after a series of sledge hammers broke through a wall in the former Autry Room Lounge, symbolically kicking off the renovation of the Autry Court Complex, donors to the project walked inside of the renovated Tudor Fieldhouse on Friday night. Sneak Peek Ceremony Photo Gallery
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Projections to light up cathedral
St Paul's Cathedral will become a lighthouse of text and light projections on London's skyline. The project, entitled The Question Mark Inside, was created by public artist Martin Firrell.
Liverpool Echo |
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Riverside County agency raises awareness of adopting foster children
Tereska Sears decided to adopt 12-year-old Tatiana the day she saw the girl's photograph and words last year in the Heart Gallery, a traveling exhibition of portraits of Riverside County children who need homes.
The Press-Enterprise |
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CHRISTMAS IN MAY by David Morrell
The idea for THE SPY WHO CAME FOR CHRISTMAS occurred to me in a place that isn’t normally associated with snow and Christmas trees. A couple of years ago, in the heat of May, I was in Jacksonville, Florida, at a readers’ festival called Much Ado About Books that was sponsored by the local library.
Book Reporter |
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Harter: SanTan Apple Festival takes place Saturday in Q.C.
The Apple Dumpling Cafe’s annual SanTan Apple Festival will be held 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the cafe’s Queen Creek location.
East Valley Tribune |
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Three small canisters contain national treasures
VIEW SLIDESHOW ENGLEWOOD - Tony and Albert Fagler didn't know too much about Grandpa Albert, except that he did something with photography in the armed forces during World War II.
9 News Denver |
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Art shows paint over diplomatic cracks
When a major exhibition of paintings by JMW Turner opens in Moscow this month it will mark the latest example of “cultural diplomacy” between British arts institutions and their counterparts in countries that have awkward political relations with the UK government.
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Find discounts on the arts across town
PORTLAND -- Stretching your dollar gets even better as we try to help parents entertain and educate their kids (in some cases for free)! Take art museums. Who says they are only for quiet contemplation?
KGW NewsChannel 8 Portland |
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Government abandons plans for portrait gallery
The troubled and controversial selection process to find a home for the Portrait Gallery of Canada has been officially abandoned by the federal government.
Canada.com |
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A “glamorous” night at the Gala
Magnificent lighting filled the Roanoke skyline – the Taubman Museum of Art is ready for its grand opening this weekend. If the outside wasn’t enough to get your attention, the look on people’s faces as they walked in said it all.
WSLS Newschannel 10 Roanoke |
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Downtown Print Fair Reports Strong Attendance & Pleased Exhibitors
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Eve Sussman & The Rufus Corporation at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
HUMLEBAEK.- The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art presents Eve Sussman & The Rufus Corporation, on view through February 15, 2009. The history of art takes on a new dimension with the artist Eve Sussman (b. 1961), when her film installations awakens classic paintings from their centuries of sleep.
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German Artist Kai Althoff Presents First Canadian Exhibition at Vancouver Art Gallery
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Ian Wallace - A Literature of Images
ROTTERDAM.- Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art presents the first large scale exhibition trilogy of Vancouver-based artist Ian Wallace in Europe, in collaboration with Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen (Düsseldorf) and Kunsthalle Zurich.
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