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Oil, gas talk set
MOREHEAD CITY — Officials with a county environmental group are unhappy they were not invited to an invitation-only symposium on the exploration of oil and gas off the North Carolina coast planned for next week.
Carteret County News-Times |
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Arts: Money And The Bank - Will Pnc Bring Its Largesse To Cleveland Arts Groups?
By Michael Gill National City Bank shows up quite a bit in arts events around town. Flip through the programs, and you'll see the bank's advertisements almost as frequently as you see them on billboards around town. NCB made a major gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art's expansion and underwrote the current season for Opera Cleveland. It's the season sponsor for Dance Cleveland and the Great ...
Cleveland Scene |
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Arts Calendar: Smoking For The Art - T.r. Ericsson Prints At Shaheen Gallery Lead This Week's Arts Picks
By Michael Gill For a recent show at Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York, native Clevelander T.R. Ericsson burned digital photographs into silkscreens and then printed them by placing ashtrays full of smoldering cigarettes beneath the screens, which recreated the image in a sepia nicotine stain on the paper behind it. The process required anywhere from 15 to 600 cigarettes to make a single image. ...
Cleveland Scene |
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New private art gallery "a good niche" for local artists
The bond of friendship usually strengthens over trying situations, but Beaumont residents Sheri Arnold and Maureen Winchell believe the true test of friendship came when they decided to open up a business together.
Beaumont Journal |
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Wordstock Diary: Workshops, Willy Vlautin and Wolk
WW correspondent Matthew Korfhage was nice enough to send us his musings on last week’s Wordstock Festival. And because we’re awful people, we haven’t gotten the post up until today. Don’t worry, it was worth the wait: The Oregon Convention Center, by dint of its sheer inhuman scale, can be a confusing place. It’s never easy [...]
Willamette Week |
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Teacher's Pet: Anna Hodge
Published: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at 8:53 p.m. Anna Hodge, art teacher at Campobello-Gramling School in Spartanburg County School District 1, has to be the top animal lover not only in the county but the state.
Spartanburg Herald-Journal |
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Dell Adds New Artwork to (PRODUCT) RED Line
Dell announced new Studio laptops wearing unique Art House designs on their lids to help benefit (PRODUCT) RED this week. The notebooks are the Dell Studio 15 and 17 with prices starting at $649 and $799 respectively. The work of artists Joseph Amedokp...
I4U |
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Artists stage street scenes to lurk in Google maps
Anyone using Google's Street View map feature to scan one downtown Pittsburgh street is bound to do a double-take. Two 17th century swordsmen doing battle? An escape from a building using knotted sheets? A laser zapping a Steelers fan and a Cleveland Browns fan, rendering them love-struck and about to embrace? That can't be real. But it is. And it isn't. Google really did capture those scenes ...
The State |
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IEA Warning Underscores Need to Develop US O&G Resources
"The report issued today by the International Energy Agency (IEA) underscores the pressing need to do all we can in the United States to develop our own oil and natural gas resources.
Rigzone |
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Going, Going, Gone, Ouch! Sotheby's Auction Falls Miserably Short of Expectations
Chilling news out of the art world today, with Bloomberg reporting that last night's auction at Sotheby's—a multiple-owner show of works by contemporary artists including Ed Ruscha , John Currin , Roy Lichtenstein , Jeff Koons , Andy Warhol , and Robert Rauschenberg —resulted in sales of only 68 percent of its offerings. And while Sotheby's had estimated around $202.3 million in ...
The New York Observer |
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Laughing all the way to the Banksy
Melbourne woman's 'fluke' $1100 Banksy buy six years ago earns her $220,000 at London auction.
The Age |
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Visual art: The First Emperor
Sun., Nov. 16... By Samantha Mach Finally, after all the hype and anticipation, the eighth world wonder is invading the High Museum of Art. Well, part of it, at least. THE FIRST EMPEROR: CHINA'S TERRACOTTA ARMY will include nine warriors, two horses, one strongman, one civil official and two musicians from the 8,000 figures buried with Emperor Qin Shihuangdi in Xi'an, Shaanxi providence. Not ...
Creative Loafing Atlanta |
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Visual art: Tutankhamun
Mon., Nov. 17... By Sean Dettman With every great discovery undoubtedly comes the realization that what you're seeing is real, that it actually exists. In the case of TUTANKHAMUN: THE GOLDEN KING & THE GREAT PHARAOHS, the "real" is rationalized through the docuphotography of companion exhibit WONDERFUL THINGS: THE HARRY BURTON PHOTOGRAPHS AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE TOMB OF TUTANKHAMUN. Less than a ...
Creative Loafing Atlanta |
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Local World Aids Day events set for Dec. 1
Local World AIDS Day events on Dec. 1 will be at Dalton State College and will include an art exhibit and a performing arts event for which volunteers are urged to register.
The Dalton Daily Citizen |
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Culture Ministry plans to buy valuable artwork
Iran - Book of the Year Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry plans to purchase valuable works presented at exhibition-cum-sales of artworks, known as art expo.
Islamic Republic News Agency |
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Fall Auctions Still Getting Paddled
Roy Lichtenstein's Half Face With Collar, depicting a businessman tugging at his shirt, was an apropos cover image for the catalogue to Sotheby's contemporary art sale. The Upper East Side auction house was packed last night, but the tumult ...
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Photography Exhibit Ventures Between the Lines
The Ottawa Public Library featured a photography exhibit featuring Simon Carter and Karen Flanagan McCarthy.
The Epoch Times |
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FIU's Frost Museum gets new director
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University's Tamiami campus has a new building, and now, a director and chief curator: Carol Damian.
Miami Herald |
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Fascinating festive tours at local museums
Book now for Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums cracking Christmas tours at The Tolbooth, Provost Skene's House and Glover House. 2008/11/11 00:00:00
Aberdeen City Council News |
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BY OWEN MORITZ Actor and airplane enthusiast John Travolta offered this aeronautic-themed drawing for the Doodle for Hunger auction at Tavern on the Green.Longtime Daily News sports cartoonist Bill Gallo's drawing covering the Giants' Super Bowl win fetched $6,000 to benefit the Capuchin Food Pantries. Photo by Charles Ruppmann/Daily NewsActress Ashley Judd drew up a friendly picture of peace ...
New York Daily News |
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Northwood students showcase artwork
Students at Northwood Intermediate School recently had the unique opportunity to display their artwork on a public level during the Windows on Tippecanoe Art Show in Tipp City.
The Sidney Daily News |
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Allied Arts hosting bluegrass, second photo contest
Milledgeville Allied Arts is accepting entries for “The Big Click II,” Allied Arts annual photography contest and exhibition, through Nov. 17.
The Union-Recorder |
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Works on paper: Artists featured at Second Sunday Select
Six artists will be featured at the monthly Second Sunday Select event at The Speckled Egg Gallery. Danville native Andrea Akers works with a variety of mediums and subject matter. She is best known for her botanical art, in which she expresses her love for nature.
The Danville Advocate-Messenger |
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Gallery growing for boro's fashionable set
BY GAYLE DEWEES
New York Daily News |
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Barricade beautified by Baldwin artists
Lanai 3rd-grader Kauwila Kalehuawehe, 8, inspects a mural created by Baldwin High School art students on the Whole Foods barricade wall at Maui Mall in Kahului on Saturday.
The Maui News |
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