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Forty players no match for chess grandmaster at Marco event
Julio Becerra exhibited the typical physical signs of a person deep in thought as he stood hunched over a chess board Saturday afternoon. The No. 8 chess player in the U.S. folded his arms across his chest; he uncrossed them and leaned on the table. His eyes darted from the board to his challenger, then back to the board, where both players had the same pieces left, five each – three pawns, the ...
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Vietnam Veterans Receive Memorial at State Cemetery
Governor Rick Perry helped unveil a monument for Vietnam veterans Saturday at the Texas State Cemetery. The granite monument has a bronze sculpture on top and joins those already dedicated to veterans of World War II and Operation Enduring Freedom.
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Crafts Showcased at Mossy Creek
Hand-made merchandise filled up more than 30 tents at an outdoor crafts festival in Houston County on Saturday. The Mossy Creek Arts and Crafts event featured 150 crafters from around the country.
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Silent Auction Benefits Kessel Peace Institute
Internationally recognized Mideast expert Abbas Mehdi spoke at an art aucti
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Could you be the one to scoop first prize in the 2008 Independent on Sunday/Insight Guide photography competition?
Can you take a great travel photograph? If you think you can, don't miss the chance to enter the 'IoS'/Insight Guides travel photography competition. The winner will receive a professional commission from Insight Guides to take photographs for one of its prestigious travel guides. The commission could even pave the way to a new and exciting career in travel photography.
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Smarties chocolate art goes on display in London museum (+photos)
LONDON - The first thing you notice when you see Prudence Staite's mosaic portrait of Marilyn Monroe made from smarties and chocolate is the smell.
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A celebration of green living in Austin
It was the Earth Day Living Green Festival at Republic Square Park Saturday.
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Close-up: Artist Liliane Lijn
Liliane Lijn's new exhibition is out of this world: the New York-born "kinetic sculptor" has taken the stuff Nasa uses to gather stardust in space, and turned it into a filter of fragments of life on Earth.
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Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Jerwood Space, London Tess Jaray, Lyon & Turnbull, London
As you stand before any of the works in the Jerwood Contemporary Painters show, ask yourself this: does it really matter that it's a painting? Is it actually concerned with paint, or is its medium just a conceptual flag of convenience? These questions seem so very old-fashioned that I'm embarrassed suggesting you ask them. But these are interesting times for painting, and terms need to be ...
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A celebration of green living in Austin
It was a celebration in honor of the planet Saturday. That's because it was Earth Day Living Green Festival at Republic Square Park. Austin Green Art, a non-profit arts organization dedicated to raising awareness of sustainability issues through art is a partner in the event.
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The fabric of art
C P Rajendran meets Shambhavi, a textile artist, for whom the whole process of weaving is an inward journey to self discovery. Kolkata-based Shambhavi held an exhibition called ‘Cloth-Past Continuous’ at the Stainless art gallery recently.
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Social Science
-By Danine Alati. Photography by Farshid Assassi and Richard Payne Banishing the big box, dark, and isolated research laboratories of the past, Berkebile Nelson Immenschuh McDowell Architects (BNIM) in Kansas City, Mo., broke out of this stifling norm with its design of The Fayez S. Sarofim Research Building, home of the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of ...
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This Weekends Events
Until 31/12/2008 The museum was founded in 1989 and offers an insight into innovation in every area of design ranging from industrial design, graphics and multimedia to fashion and architecture....
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Museum pulls plug on Vegas, where money trumps Monet
Guggenheim Hermitage at the Venetian is shutting down after seven years.
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Arts and Eco
Until 31/12/2008 A national award winning 'earth sheltered' building set in a park landscape offering facilities for exhibitions, product launches, receptions and parties....
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Deep Sea 3D
Until 27/04/2008 A 3D journey through the deep ocean and the creatures that inhabit it.... more details Until 22/06/2008 An exhibition looking at Hope's design theory and his ideas about design reform.
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Making mouths water
AH, an enquiry about food photography. It rekindles memories of the time when I was a freelance photographer before joining The Star . It was a hard life then, shooting gourmet cuisine at the finest restaurants in town, sipping champagne after the shoot, and sampling the best foods....
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Painting perspectives
An experienced artist turned first-time curator explains how curating can direct how you think about a work of art.
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Shaping the community
An exhibition sparks thoughts of how our world is changing.
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Earth Days at Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens focus on recycling and wildlife preservation
Hundreds of schoolchildren and others are expected to learn more about ways to lessen their impact on the world during the first Earth Days at the Gardens event.
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Fire closes N.C. Museum of Art
Damage was minimal when a small fire broke out in a stairwell at the N.C. Museum of Art
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The Fergus Falls Daily Journal
A painting titled “Delightful Dahlia," painted by Tracy Anderson of Kensington, was selected by the Red River Watercolor Society to be included in the 15th annual National Juried Watermedia Exhibition.
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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.
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V&A/Vicky Donner Presents Kelly McRaven
Kelly McRaven, Landscape Winter, 64 x 86, 2008. NEW YORK.- V&A/Vicky Donner presents new paintings by Kelly McRaven.
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Auction of Artists' Work To Support Berman Museum Expansion
Ellen Priest, Jazz: Herbie's 'Dolphin Dance' #9 - Copyright 2004. Flashe on collaged paper. 22x 22 Matted, not framed. COLLEGEVILLE, PA.-
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