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Wooden Feathers Day has spotlighted area artists for 15 years
started carving and painting her own miniature ducks.
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A career in art that started at Warhol's Factory in NYC
A 1964 exhibit of Jasper Johns' pioneering paintings cemented Roberta Bernstein's decision to make art history a career, but Andy Warhol gave her her first "job" in the field.When she entered Columbia University, she became an associate of Warhol's Factory in Manhattan, gaining a glimpse into the life and work of the man behind Pop Art. "I did various things, but the experience was really ...
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Redbank plans home tour, arts show
Redbank Renaissance will hold its second annual Christmas home tour and an arts and crafts show Saturday in New Bethlehem.
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Take perfect pictures of a newborn
If you've got a newborn in your house this holiday season, chances are you're planning to take a few photos. Or a few thousand. Photographer Me Ra Koh, who has created "Refuse to Say Cheese: Capture the Story," a DVD of photography techniques, offers a few tips for getting great pictures of the infant in your life. 1. Timing is the first step. If you want to get shots of your newborn in ...
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In praise of ... Alfred Sisley
Monet painted in central London, at Westminster. Pissarro preferred the south, at Upper Norwood. Alfred Sisley, on the other hand, liked best to paint in west London and particularly, as the National Gallery's current small exhibition makes clear, around Hampton Court.
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Museum sought to display works by region legend
NEOSHO, Mo. — Thomas Hart Benton is a legend in Neosho. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Northwest Edition)
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Arkansas Air Museum post takes Air Force veteran full circle
For Warren Jones the wild blue yonder is a great escape. In fact, the 68-yearold director of the Arkansas Air Museum said he can still remember his first ride in an airplane. (Northwest Arkansas Times)
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Exhibit honors history of mills
WILLIAMSTOWN — With its two art museums, college and numerous businesses and restaurants, this town has come a long way from its manufacturing roots and the Industrial Revolution, but a new exhibit at the House of Local History is designed to bring residents closer to those roots through the history of a local mill slated to be turned into housing.
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Emmanuel Lutheran hosts Biblical exhibit
The Emmanuel Lutheran Church on Pleasant Valley Drive seeks to explore what life must have been like during the time of Jesus Christ with its "A Night in Bethlehem" event.
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“Colorful life” via Pham Luc’s paintings
VietNamNet Bridge – Pham Luc’s exhibition opened at the HCM City Museum of Art last Friday, bringing colorful moments of life to viewers. “Colorful Life” features 64 paintings, mostly acrylic and oil artworks, reflecting the daily life of the working class.
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Miley Cyrus wants to pursue career in photography
Melbourne, Dec 1 : Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus would like to become a photographer and someday work alongside her inspiration Annie Leibovitz, according to reports.
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
In case you missed your weekend MOCA news: I posted some end-the-stalemate thoughts on Thanksgiving morning, including a potential landing spot for embattled MOCA director Jeremy Strick.
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Guernica An image of lament
Pablo Picassos largest painting is grounded in a spirituality that is honest about suffering and the need for lament
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Paste n’ Paint
A.S. Fortuna Ave. in Mandaue is becoming an art strip and soon there will be one more gallery added to the area. It is set to open before the year ends, making a total of three art galleries in the “artistic” avenue.
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Social Networking with an Artistic Twist
At 6pm on December 12, 2008, The Cummings Group will be opening theirs doors, removing their coats and ties and going primal. The agency represents eight artists and will be featuring their work in the confines of an art gallery setting complete with a primal drum circle and hors d'oeuvres and cocktails; a chance for local business owners, affluent art enthusiasts and the general public to ...
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Nikon's D3X Masterpiece DSLR Goes Official With An $8,000 Price Tag [Nikon D3x]
The rumors pointed pretty firmly to it, and then some leaked specs detailed what it'd be like, but now Nikon's new pro-level D3X DSLR has arrived officially. Touting it as a 24-megapixel "Digital...
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Photoburbia.com, a New Online Community for Photographers, Kicks Off with Contest for a Canon Rebel XSi, Complete with ...
QuickPro, LLC is commemorating the launch of Photoburbia.com , its new online community for photographers of all skill levels, with a photography contest that features a Canon Rebel XSi Single-Lens Reflex camera as the grand prize.
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Michigan native to sculpt Gerald Ford
A southwestern Michigan native came out on top in a nationwide search to find an artist to produce a sculpture of former President Gerald Ford that will take up residence in the U.S. Capitol rotunda.
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Famed flagpole arrives at museum
A Maori flagpole is one of the most important objects to arrive at a Cambridge museum, experts say.
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Croatian Reverse Glass Paintings in Miami for Art Basel
Art history is being made this year during Art Basel with the first-ever showing of Croatian Naive Art. Jungle Island has agreed to host a wonderful display of rare imported paintings from the collection of InvestmentArt.com, doing business as the Croatian Naive Art Gallery & Museum Collection, that come from, for the main part, peasant farmer artists in the northern part of Croatia along the ...
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A Tree With All The Trimmings
Visitors at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme view Miss Florence's Artist Tree Sunday after listening to a talk about the tree by David
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Gallery: Holodomar Members of the Urkainian community gather at the London Ukrainian Centre to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Holodomor, the forced famine of 1932-33 which killed millions of Ukrainians, many of them children.
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Pissarro Painting Sets Record Price for Art Auctions in Israel
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- An 1877 painting by French impressionist Camille Pissarro , “Peasant with a Donkey, Pontoise,” set a record last night for a painting sold at auction in Israel, fetching $580,000.
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Breaking down the stigma: HIV positive people now living 20 to 30 years after diagnosis
Don Short works full time, teaches painting, has three kids and owns a house. Sitting in an office at the Tommy Sexton Centre he sips on a large Tim Hortons coffee and talks enthusiastically about his job which includes developing and putting off programs for HIV positive people.
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Blue Ridge Mountain city of Asheville, N.C., offers Biltmore and beyond to those seeking art, music, food
The four-story French Renaissance mansion opened in 1895 with 34 bedrooms, 65 fireplaces, 23 bathrooms, three kitchens, a library with 10,000 volumes and a bowling alley and swimming pool in the basement. It covers four acres or 175,000 square feet. Read comments
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