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A monument to the possible
Standing on an artificial island off Doha's harbour, Qatar's new Museum of Islamic Art looks like a leftover from an epic Atlantean production.
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Discover ‘Unseen UAE’
Abu Dhabi hosts photography exhibition featuring unique pieces that explore overlooked, unseen corners, images of UAE.
Middle East Online |
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SKETCHY CHARACTERS
Caricature artist Matt Raney works on a portrait of Bronwyn Jones at the annual Celebration of the Arts festival downtown over the weekend. The event wrapped up Sunday afternoon.
Midland Reporter-Telegram |
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Old-Time Country & Bluegrass Music Festival readies for Le Mars debut
Something new has been added to the summer schedule in Le Mars and it's a big event.
Le Mars Daily Sentinel |
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Tests Of Museum Foundation Have Tampa Booming
TAMPA - If you're going to be in downtown Tampa this morning, be prepared for some extra noise.
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Museum now open for business
A steady stream of paying customers toured the Cherokee County History and Arts Museum on Saturday on the first day it was open to the public. The grand opening of the facility took place after seven years of fundraising and planning. The event was held in conjunction with the sixth annual "Potters on Gaffney's Old Field" pottery show at 301 College Drive.
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Fishburne to direct, star in 'Alchemist'
Laurence Fishburne is set to direct, produce and star in a movie version of the novel The Alchemist, The Weinstein Co. announced at the Cannes Film Festival.The studio said it will have exclusive world-wide motion picture and television rights for the adaptation of Paulo Coelho's 1988 novel. Harvey Weinstein is also producing the film and has begun to scout locations for the production, which is ...
Moldova.org |
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Lost Arts Fest revisits the past
GRAND RAPIDS - Artisans offered life facts of an earlier time at Lost Arts Festival this past weekend at Seven...
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Washington's Two Economies-A Growing Income Gap
Washington, D.C., the nation's capital, is one of the great cities of the world. Tourists come here from around the globe to enjoy its world-class museums and art galleries and visit its columned edifices of gleaming marble.
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Arts & Leisure: Art of the ordinary
Quatro cantos gin bottles, bunot (coconut husks), and wooden sandals (bakya) are among the mundane objects that Rachy Cuna -- who prefers to be called a "floral architect" than a florist -- transforms into art in his latest exhibit, BayanCuna: Unity in Philippine Artistry.
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Exhibition in Virginia City; Dayton museum open
Orphic Excavations, an exhibition by Anthony Alston is the product of a two-month long Capital City Arts Initiative artist residency, through June 29 at St. Mary's Art Center, 55 N. R St., Virginia City.
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A banner year Urban Forest Project exhibition adds color, advocacy to Main Street
Walk along Main Street in downtown Ann Arbor this month, and you will notice Trent Busakowski's senior thesis. Overhead, hanging from light poles in the downtown, are more than 30 colorful banners, created to raise awareness of environmental issues in urban areas.
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Travel industry braces for potential downturn
WASHINGTON (AP) - It seemed like a can't-miss tourist attraction that would pull in visitors to the nation's capital: a new Madame Tussauds wax museum.
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Students take home top awards in Scholastic Art competition
Many Wilton students took top awards in the 19th Annual Connecticut Regional Scholastic Art Awards competition. Initially works are entered by art teachers — this year more than 1,300 from 141 schools.
Wilton Bulletin |
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Business celebrating Weir Farm's history of inspiring artists
Wilton’s Weir Farm is depicted in a new exhibit at Building Blocks Art Supplies and Gallery at 49 Ethan Allen Highway (near the intersection of routes 7 and 102).
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Weir Farm gears up for 'Samba' gala
The Weir Farm Art Center’s biennial gala, SAMBA, a celebration of Brazilian culture coupled with an art auction, will take place on Saturday, May 31, at Weir Farm National Historic Site. The event will feature Latin music, dance and cuisine and an auction of more than 50 works of art.
Wilton Bulletin |
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California Flowers in Art at The Irvine Museum
The Irvine Museum's spring 2008 show keeps with their annual tradition of featuring artwork that highlights the outstanding display of wildflowers that once characterized spring in California.
American Artist |
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Recreating Art
Alice High School art students, under the direction of instructor Kathy Westbrook, recreated Vincent Van Gogh’s “The Terrace of the Night Café” inside their classroom Friday morning.
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LeRoy Neiman's Ryder Cup Artwork Available as Golf Collectible for Father's Day
Celebrate Father's Day and the 37th Ryder Cup at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, with Official Artwork by iconic sports artist LeRoy Neiman. (PRWeb May 19, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/05/prweb950624.htm
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Wedding package to be auctioned for fundraiser
Philadelphia's Omni Hotel at Independence Park is donating a big girl's dream to help make a little girl's dream come true.
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Nigeria: NTDC, French Embassy Partner On Tourism Devt
Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC) is set to partner with the French embassy in Nigeria to showcase rare sculpture and paintings of students in the country's tertiary institutions in Enugu tagged "Life in my city".
AllAfrica.com |
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Meda Mládková and her priceless art collection
Meda Mládková is a Czech art collector who spent more than half of her life in exile, mostly in the United States. In 1968 she established a collection of Czech art which she brought to the US from behind the Iron Curtain. After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, Meda Mládková returned to Czechoslovakia and donated her entire collection to the country. I met Mrs Mládková in her museum on Prague’s ...
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Artist says Vuitton design raises Darfur awareness
HAARLEM, Netherlands (Reuters) - Danish art student Nadia Plesner, who is being sued by the fashion house Louis Vuitton for depicting its handbag on a T-shirt, says her design has got more people talking about the Darfur conflict than she ever thought.
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One Book: Photographing the city
To finish off my thoughts about reading Michael Redhill’s novel Consolation, I’d like to look at a theme explored in depth in the later part of the narrative — the power of photography to both capture a moment in time for the future, but also to shape and perhaps distort our image of a city. The [...]
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Return to the landscape
Philip Hunter's paintings, compared with those of Nolan and Williams, plumb the continent's mysteries
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