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Small Art, Big Ideas
In abstract painting, small can be subversive. A number of artists are showcasing their small paintings in exhibitions around the city. At left, Katy Moran's "Smoker's Junction."
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Try This: Celebrate Earth, justice
The Marshall Center’s Earth Day Celebration offers fun and games to raise consciousness about how to take care of our planet. The event includes Earth-friendly crafts, booths, games and face painting. Demonstrations include container gardening, recycled garden art, composting and tree planting.
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Khristi Zimmeth: Celadon temple jar is good quality, but not old
'Caveat emptor," or "buyer beware," is a good motto in life and in collecting. Linda Gill found that out first-hand after a recent appraisal with Robert DuMouchelle at DuMouchelle's Art Gallery in downtown Detroit. She also found out that when buying art and decorative objects, it's a good idea to get things in writing.
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Art students use spring break to make Quigley a little brighter
For most students, enjoying spring break means staying far away from hard work.
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At 86: 'Living is paramount'
The cuckoo clock ticks as the afternoon light sweeps in on paintings of a fox hunter, a cowboy and a fairy.There is a tea set on a
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Harpers Ferry is focus of lecture set at MSV
Winchester — How Harpers Ferry, W.Va. emerged and evolved in American and European landscape art will be the topic of an illustrated lecture at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley.
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Busan performing arts festival kicks off in May
SEOUL -- Aspiring to become Asia's center for theatrical dramas, Busan holds its annual international performing arts festival from May 3 to 15 at the Busan Cultural Center and four other venues in the southeastern port city.
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N.C. film fest grows up
You know the growth spurt some kids go through when they reach double digits, rocketing up between ages 9 and 10 so much they're hard to recognize the next year? It's hit RiverRun. The Winston-Salem event has lived up to its full name -- RiverRun International Film Festival -- for quite a while. But this year's expanded version, which runs Wednesday through April 28, may startle even longtime ...
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Operatic saga `Amistad' will reopen 1930s theater
Nineteen years after being clobbered by Hurricane Hugo, Charleston's Memminger Auditorium will soon have a new beginning. The 1930s theater has finally been gutted and remodeled. This long-neglected piece of Charleston returns to service May 22. The Spoleto Festival USA took its cue from the occasion. "We wanted to find a piece that would be relevant to the community and the history of ...
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Local boat show organizers plan on smooth sailin'
MUSCATINE, Iowa — This year’s “That Was Then This is Now” Muscatine boat show and racing boat exhibition is expected to be even better than the last — that is, if the weather cooperates.
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Times wins 20 press awards
The Washington Times won 20 journalism awards in the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association 2007 Editorial contest, including 15 in the large newspaper division and five "Best of Show" across all-sized newspapers.
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Ivory powers
In the minds of most Westerners, African art is synonymous with primitive wooden masks and statues. A new exhibition at the Smithsonians National Museum of African Art expands that narrow view by...
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Exhibit excels in color and composition
To say that the first thing one notices about George Kopp's photographs is the colors would be a little unfair.
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Arts notes
Footwear fantasyThe Mikhail Zakin Gallery in Demarest is showing "Shoe Fleur," a comic exhibition by New York digital artist Michel Tcherevkoff, through May 9, and it's an eye-popper.
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Setback for Art Dealer
Lawrence B. Salander, a prominent Manhattan art dealer, suffered a defeat in a Poughkeepsie, N.Y., court when he and his wife, Julie, were ordered to cede control of their finances to an independent trustee, Bloomberg News reported. Federal Bankruptcy Judge Cecelia G. Morris approved a motion brought by lawyers for the Justice Department to convert the Salanders? case from a Chapter 11 ...
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Controversy Over Abortion Art
A Yale University art student?s startling claim that she artificially inseminated herself, induced repeated abortions and used the blood for her senior project is false, Yale officials said after her account was published in the student newspaper, The Associated Press reported. In an article on Thursday in The Yale Daily News, the student, Aliza Shvarts, was quoted as saying she had inseminated ...
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Poetic jam session
Like the beatniks in the 60’s, an audience sipped on Java and juice while students at Roseboro-Salemburg Middle read original poetry to them. The free event was hosted in the middle school library with artwork adorning the walls.
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In Windsor Farms, a tree is reborn
Poet Joyce Kilmer wrote that "only God can make a tree." But in Windsor Farms, one of Richmond's most exclusive neighborhoods and site of next Thursday's Historic Garden Week city tour, that sentiment now includes God and Rockville sculptor Charles Reed.
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Is Painting Small the Next Big Thing?
Small paintings of the abstract kind are having a moment right now in New York.
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Nine Writers See if the Fate of the Earth Can Be Any More Dramatic
Global warming is the star in a festival of one-acts.
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Events happening in southwestern Michigan
v The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, 314 S. Park St., is featuring Art Magic as the finale of its SUNDAY FUNDAY series. The family program includes storytelling, hands-on art projects, gallery activities and a performance by magician Brian Penny. There is no charge. 349-7775. 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday.
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Contestants try to adjust to weather
LAKE FORK — Last year's Toyota Texas Bass Classic was marked by gusty winds and cold temperatures. It was a bit of deja vu Friday for anglers when a line of storms pelted the area.
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New Dali Museum Would Add Touch Of Surreal To Waterfront
Salvador Dali Museum officials on Friday unveiled initial designs for their new $32 million building on the downtown waterfront, set to open in 2010.
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Cost Of Being Free
A visitor looks through a window inside the Capital Museum in Beijing in this undated photo. The Capital Museum is among dozens of others in the capital to open the public free of charge.
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Escape the Heritage: What to do beyond the tournament
Those of you here to catch the 40th annual Verizon Heritage Tournament might have little interest in perusing museums or libraries or art galleries this weekend. But for those of us who: a) can't get enough information about loggerhead sea turtles, or b) need some form of entertainment that doesn't involve spending several hours hunting down a legal parking space in the vicinity of Harbour Town ...
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