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Yale: Student's Artwork Purporting to Show Abortion a Hoax
HARTFORD, Conn. A Yale University art student's claim that she induced repeated abortions on herself and used the blood for her senior project is false, school officials said after her account was published in the student newspaper.
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First Handwritten Bible in 500 Years on View at Tacoma Art Museum
Donald Jackson, with Andrew Jamieson and Sally Mae Joseph, "To the Ends of the Earth." (c) 2002 The Saint John's Bible, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library at Saint John's University.
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Israel Museum Presents Major Survey of Contemporary Israeli Art from Past Decade
Shahar Marcus, Freeze, 2008, Video, 6 min. Photo courtesy of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and Meidad Suchowolski. JERUSALEM.-
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Sculptures by Renowned American Artist Jeff Koons On View at Metropolitan Museum
Jeff Koons, Installation view 6: Sacred Heart (Red/Gold), 1994-2007, The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Collection. © Jeff Koons. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof garden. Photograph: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Anna Marie Kellen.
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Brain game
Take part in Brainobrainfest 2008 at Birla High School, 9.30am. Be there at the prize distribution ceremony of Greenwood Spirit Theatre Festival at GD Birla Sabhagar, 6pm.
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Simple, startling images
Male nudes are the protagonists of Sekhar Baran Karmakar’s exhibition of watercolours on paper that ended at Gandhara Art Gallery on Saturday. Its title and the text in the catalogue with their references to theory are preposterous and pretentious.
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Turkish film scoops top annual award at Istanbul film festival
The 27th Istanbul International Film Festival awarded on Saturday its most prestigious prize, the Golden Tulip, to "Yumurta" (Egg) by Turkish film-maker Semih Kaplanoglu for best film of the year.
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Of Crime and Perception at Abu Ghraib
With ?Standard Operating Procedure,? the filmmaker Errol Morris grapples with elusive photographic truth in a heart of darkness.
New York Times |
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Art Show Off To A Good Start
WESLEY CHAPEL - Kids clambered up dirt piles and got to decorate giant chocolate chip cookies while their adults perused the works of dozens of local artists on Saturday at the first Art in the Park here.
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Animal artistry
Bud Burger, of Burger Brothers fame, spends his retirement years up north living next to his brother in a wildlife wonderland, creating top-end sculptures of animals in their natural environments. Summary.
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune |
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• Wave your hands in the air!
It was tough not to smile Saturday at the Ginn Open. director of photography Tracy Wilcox caught all highlights at Reunion Resort.
GolfWeek |
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Art along the waterfront of downtown St. Pete
The Mainsail Arts Festival unfolds along the waterfront of St. Petersburg's Vinoy Park this weekend. More than 100,000 people are expected to browse through displays from more than 250 artists who have set up to show off and sell their work. Expect to see everything from oil paintings to photography to glass sculpture, all along the backdrop of blue skies and the waters of Tampa Bay.
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On display
Submitted photos - Members of Point Pleasant Primary School's Parent Teacher Organization hosted a Family Fun Night earlier this week. The PTO sponsored a book fair and art show featuring a variety of work created by students at the school.
Point Pleasant Register |
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Opel Bionic Designs: Design That's Second Nature - VIDEO STORY
NEW YORK - April 19, 2008: At the "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Opel engineers are using nature to influence their design and technology. Check out an explanation about their display and their work from the people who make it possible.
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Garden Club Gets Creative at Natural History Museum
Off-the-wall flower art marks groups’ 90th anniversary.
Santa Barbara Independent |
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Red Bridge Film Festival makes its debut
Joel Maxwell of Max Bailey Photography recorded last weekend’s Red Bridge Film Festival in black and white.
Park Rapids Enterprise |
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Blogging for fun, stumbling upon success
In 1994, a young American student named Justin Hall began publishing details of his relationships on an Internet website. That slightly exhibitionist exercise has since turned into an Internet milestone, for it is widely recognised as the first blog — or weblog — in the history of mankind.
Hindustan Times |
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Car-ka-bob appears doomed
The skewered cars sculpture featured in the movie "Wayne's World" appears bound for the scrapyard after a failed online auction, an Illinois mall official says.
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Theres more to the fine print
The phone call was routine, the kind often made before big auctions. So the auction house contacted a Baltimore historian considered to be the world's leading Talbot expert and asked if he could grace the sale's catalogue with any interesting scholarly details about the print - known as a photogenic drawing, a crude precursor to the photograph.
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TRAVELGIRL: Treehouses and tall shoes
Head over to Longwood Gardens just outside Philadelphia for an event that will make you feel like a kid again. The debut of "Nature's Castles: The Treehouse Reimagined" outdoor art exhibit will happen on April 25th. Visitors are invited to climb trees and explore three large-scale treehouses designed by the country's top treehouse designers. Explore the adirondack style of Lookout Loft, the ...
Centre Daily Times |
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Car-ka-bob appears doomed
The skewered cars sculpture featured in the movie Wayne's World appears bound for the scrapyard after a failed online auction, an Illinois mall official says.Concordia Realty official Michael Flight, whose company manages the Berwyn mall where the spindle sculpture resides, said an attempt to sell the huge piece of art on eBay has failed to attract any bids, the Chicago Sun-Times reported ...
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Downtown sculptures will return this summer
DAYTON — Downtown Dayton will bring the arts to life again this summer with sculptures that delighted downtown visitors last year.
Dayton Daily News |
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Beat writer Jack Kerouac's manuscript goes on ... and on ... at Texas exhibit
The first words read, "I first met Neal after my father died." Later - 119 feet, 8 inches later - it reads, "eaten by dogs." The yellowing manuscript has no chapter or paragraph breaks. The sentences are single-spaced.
Centre Daily Times |
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Beat writer Jack Kerouac's manuscript goes on ... and on ... at Texas exhibit
The first words read, "I first met Neal after my father died." Later - 119 feet, 8 inches later - it reads, "eaten by dogs." The yellowing manuscript has no chapter or paragraph breaks. The sentences are single-spaced. And so the helter-skelter typewritten words pour forth, one after another, on the original typewritten manuscript of Jack Kerouac's generation-changing novel, "On the Road." The ...
Lexington Herald-Leader |
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Filmmaker grad returning to BC
With the Independent Film Festival of Boston rolling across Boston and Somerville later this week (stories, page N13), you're forgiven if you want to conserve all your Local Action energy for that event's parties, panels, and movies.
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