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Jazz Videos
Get featured! Submit your video Description Sonny Fortune Quartet at the McPhail Center or Music in Minneapolis. Headlining the Twin Cities Winter Jazz Festival. March 2nd, 2008. (This video includes only Fortune's solo.)
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Art City: The wacky, wonderful Calatrava
The concrete of the Milwaukee Art Museum's new building was still raw and the construction site filled with puddles when I flew to Washington, D.C., about seven years ago.Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava had competed for a museum com...
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'Destination Anywhere'
Traveling exhibit showcases young artists with disabilities
Pensacola News Journal |
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Symphony backers put on suede shoes
The Akron Symphony's Fanfare 2008 was The Ultimate Elvis Experience Saturday. Andrea Wlaszyn chaired the event and Doug Lane of WDPN-AM was master of ceremonies for an evening featuring dinner and live and silent auctions, in addition to a concert from ''the King.''
Akron Beacon Journal |
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Auction to benefit CSA, artists
Karen Fry and Rene Miller work together to fix a display stand Sunday for today’s Community School of the Arts’ art auction. ahirsch@chronicle-tribune.com
Marion Chronicle-Tribune |
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Filmmaker hopes short goes long way
For Josh Smith, winner of the Pennsylvania Filmmaker Award of the 2008 West Chester Film Festival, ideas for many films come to him in the middle of the night. They come in the form of dreams, mapped out and ready for the screen.
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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MONDAY'S CALENDAR
WYES Art Collection Twelve Preview Party WYES-TV Studio, 916 Navarre Ave. Guests may view and place advance bids on the artwork, antiques, jewelry and other items to be auctioned on air in June to benefit the public television station. Hours are 3-8.Call 483-8487.
New Orleans Times-Picayune |
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Big Spenders Dropped $1.56 Billion on Sport of Choice: Auctions
May 19 (Bloomberg) -- The two-week New York art auctions were a raucous party for some of the world's richest spenders, who parted with $1.56 billion, confirming that contemporary art has become their sport of choice.
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Wayne Memorial High art student follows Andy Warhol's footsteps with award
Shawn Smith is an average 17-year-old who enjoys hanging with friends in his free time. But the former Wayne Memorial High School student also is a talented artist who earned the $10,000 Scholastic Art Portfolio Gold Award, presented by the national nonprofit program Alliance for Young Artists & Writers.
Detroit News |
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Tough times for local booksellers
Stepping into the 19th century barn housing Vintage Books, visitors are surrounded by cabinets and shelves holding 35,000 volumes about everything from Paleolithic cave paintings to a cookbook of Dutch recipes. Video: Explore the stacks
The Daily News Tribune |
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Art's Alive!
If your social calendar has been a bit blank, you obviously haven't been paying attention to the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (3750 Washington Boulevard; 314-535-4660 or www.contemporarystl.org). The art space generally offers much in the way of programming, but today alone it hosts two events ...
Riverfront Times |
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A fast-forward of post-'50s Phila.
Rarely has Philadelphia art in private collections been more vividly shown than at the exhibition "Main Line Collects Philadelphia" at the Main Line Art Center in Haverford.
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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Arting Around
Art doesn't just live in sterile galleries and pristine theaters. In fact, you can find artistic expression everywhere you look and in every county, especially in south county this weekend. The free Festival of Arts takes place there at Affton High School (8309 Mackenzie Road) from noon to 6 p.m. In ...
Riverfront Times |
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Cannes Film Festival
Harrison Ford loves his his new Indiana Jones film Beneath that remarkably well-preserved skin and hair (albeit completely grey), there are genuine signs of enthusiasm in the famously dour Mr. Ford, 65.
Toronto Star |
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Exhibit examines morbid pull of Jack the Ripper
As you leave a new exhibition about Jack the Ripper, you're invited to feel ashamed.
The Standard-Times |
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Benjamin Herman, a Photo Essay to be Released at North Sea Jazz Festival
At the opening of the North Sea Jazz Festival art show in Rotterdam, The Netherlands on July 9, Happy the Man , the new photo essay about the life of alto saxophonist Benjamin Herman (New Cool Collective) will be released.
All About Jazz |
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Doings on the Avenue for a Museum Festival
The 30th annual Museum Mile Festival on June 3 will feature nine cultural institutions offering admission at no charge.
New York Times |
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Missouri legislators pull plug on expanded festival license
Efforts to pass legislation to expand festival licensing to other entertainment districts other than just the Kansas City Power & Light District were taken off life support in the Missouri General Assembly.
The Business Journal of Kansas City |
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Coming Up
SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA: For 17 days and nights, Spoleto Festival USA fills Charleston's historic theaters, churches and outdoor spaces with over 120 performances by renowned artists and emerging performers in opera, theater, music theater, dance and chamber, symphonic, choral and jazz music, as well as the visual arts.
The Post and Courier |
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Cannes red carpet welcome for 'Serbis', Filipino delegation
Filipino filmmaker Brillante Mendoza and the cast of his film "Serbis", which is competition for the Cannes Film Festival's prestigious Palm d'Or and other coveted awards, received a red carpet welcome in the French city on Sunday.
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Students' artwork on display at mall
TRUMBULL — These elections don't involve names like Clinton, McCain, Obama or any other political figures. At the Westfield Trumbull mall, spectators are voting for their favorite artist this
Connecticut Post |
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The Mystery Art Buyer
Who bought the 1976 Francis Bacon painting ?Triptych? for $86.3 million and the 1995 Lucian Freud painting ?Benefits Supervisor Sleeping? for $33.6 million last week at Sotheby?s in New York?
New York Times |
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Music in Review
Reviews of the Moscow Virtuosi and Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert.
New York Times |
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Italian director brings crime wave to Cannes
Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone's Rome loft is dominated by two oversized paintings he made, dating back to his early career as an artist.
Reuters via Yahoo! News |
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No gold medal at first National Magic Festival
VietNamNet Bridge - After four nights of competition, the first National Magic Festival closed last night with no gold medal awarded.
Vietnam Net |
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