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Frank Zappa's biggest fans
VILNIUS- A duplicate of the bronze sculpture of Frank Zappa is headed to his native Baltimore from Vilnius this week, sculpted by the premiere sculptor in Lithuania.
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Computed Radiography System Helps Uncover Secrets From The Past
Digital medical imaging and information technology is helping The Field Museum discover and analyze secrets hidden within its world-class collections. A computed radiography system enables the museum -- for the first time -- to capture, archive and share digital x-ray images from more than one million priceless artifacts in its Anthropology collection. The museum is also using a picture ...
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Angola: Painter At Lisbon Art/2008
Angolan painter Hildebrando de Melo "HM" is preparing to participate in the Contemporary Art Festival (Arte Lisboa/2008), happening on 19-24 November, in Portugal, where various artists of the world will be present.
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Local Arts Visionary Lost (Friday, May 9)
Last week, Northeast Ohio lost one of its most important and distinguished leaders in the field of contemporary art -- Marjorie Talalay. Forty years ago this December, Talalay co-founded The New Gallery in University Circle, which would later become the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, and more recently, MOCA Cleveland. During her tenure as the gallery's director, Marjorie introduced ...
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NEW: Festival 66 returns to Edwardsville on June 13, 14
A fine art fair, talent showcase and classic car show are among the attractions planned for this year's Festival 66 in Edwardsville.
Collinsville Herald |
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The Week[end]: May 9-11, 2008
Get ready to run around, because it's one of those weekends in Madison when everything is happening all at once. Let's see... the big ones to remember the kickoff of Bike To Work Week, the opening of the Chris Farley Remembered exhibit at the Wisconsin Historical Museum and the Circus Celebration at the Chazen, along with the return of Cars on State, the Mad Rollin' Dolls 2008 finals, and the ...
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Dogwood Fine Arts Festival begins today
DOWAGIAC - A week-long celebration of the arts today as the Dogwood Fine Arts Festival kicks off with a presentation of the musical comedy, "Married Alive!" at the Beckwith Theatre.
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Dream of Peace in Persian Gulf: 15th Environmental Art Festival in Iran at the Persian Gulf
In December 2007, we held an environmental art festival in the Persian Gulf. This festival had no sponsors. The young artists paid for the cost of their trip, food, and supplies they needed to create their art works.
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Seaton Sluice clergy to put art on display
MANY pieces of artwork by members of the local clergy will be going on display for the first time this month. (07/05/2008 13:21:25)
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Three Authors To Read At Studio Eleven In Conjunction With Exhibition
Hollins University alumnae and authors Jeanne Larsen, Heather Davis, and Mattie Quesenberry Smith will present “Foresight is 20-20-20: Sixty Minutes Divided by Three Hollins Writers,” a reading and book signing, on Friday, May 16 at 7 p.m. at Studio Eleven.
Rockbridge Weekly |
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Sotheby's Posts Loss on Lower Sales, Higher Salaries (Update3)
May 9 (Bloomberg) -- Sotheby's , the world's second-largest art auctioneer by sales in 2007, said it had a first-quarter loss after auction commissions declined and it spent more money on salaries and marketing.
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Google's Street View snaps of Paris may result in lawsuits
Google has begun scanning the streets of Paris, gathering data for its Street View service , which adds street-level photography to the satellite views offered by Google Maps. The search company will gather a wealth of data from the project but, thanks to France's strict privacy laws, it may also pick up a few lawsuits on the way if it chooses to publish the photos unedited. Two ...
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Art Appreciation
Jana Jae’s Gallery Southwest played host to over 120 Grove Lower Elementary third grade students Tuesday afternoon as part of an ongoing art appreciation and cultural awareness effort set up by the school.
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Society - Most relevant news
NIŠ -- An exhibition entitled “Leonardo’s Codes and Machines“ will be opened in the gallery of the Tobbaco Factory in Niš.
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Forums, music and art at Eel Festival
LAKE BOLAC - The Lake Bolac Eel Festival this weekend has something for everyone.
Ararat Advertiser |
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Go wild with photography as summer months unfold
As the land and lakes thaw and the sun begins to shine, life begins again. Here are some tips on photographing it. How accurately you focus on an image can make or break the photograph. Not every image needs to be 100 percent in focus.
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Junk, redefined
A team of four students from Beaver Dam High School won the sculpture junkyard competition held at Moraine Park Technical College on Wednesday. "They did an outstanding job," BDHS metals instructor Mark Boehmer said. "Both groups from Beaver Dam did well and so did all the rest of the groups. It's a nice event and good for these kids to do this."This year's theme was mechanical mechanisms, and ...
Beaver Dam Daily Citizen |
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Entertainment In Brief: 05/09/2008
'Woman in Black' will benefit WRC; NMC offers a 'Chance to Dance;' Exhibit inspired by trip around Superior; Harvestmen bring music to Cadillac; Painting exhibit helps butterflies
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Photography student who pictured notorious suicide sites for university project is found hanging from a tree
A 21-year-old student who was carrying out a project photographing sites where people commit suicide was found hanging from a tree, an inquest heard today
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'Kamban Vizha' begins in Pondy
Puducherry, May 09: Chief Justice of Jharkand High Court, Mr Justice Karppaga Vinayagam, today inaugurated the three-day 'Kamban Vizha' (Kamban festival) here.
Chennai Online |
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Body of work: Artist, photographer collaborate on exhibit
BLOOMINGTON -- In collaborating on a photo-art project, commercial artist Mikki Lower and photojournalist B Mosher created an exhibit that is neither journalism nor commercial art. Video: Creating a work of body art
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Auction of Estella Collection draws artists' indignation
When the first half of a collection of contemporary Chinese art went on the block in April in Hong Kong, it brought in $18 million, but many of the artists say that they were duped as the collection was being formed, and that the buyers were a group of investors who quickly cashed in.
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Melotti has retrospective in New York
The first major Fausto Melotti retrospective in the United States is taking place in New York, where the Italian artist's sculptures, from his plaster works of 1935 to wire constructions from 1984, fill two floors of the Acquavella Galleries town house.
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Associated Press Friday Morning Newsminute - 5/9/2008
ROME (AP) - The Cleveland Museum of Art and the Italian government have reached deal to return artifacts that Rome says were looted or smuggled out of the country. Culture minister Sandro Rutelli says 16 artifacts are on their way back to Rome.
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A forest of shadows at the Danforth
Can a shadow cast a shadow? Look at Katherine Gulla's intriguing photo images of shadows of trees throwing shadows on the walls of the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, and decide for yourself.
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