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Honoring heritage runs deep
The Florida Folk festival, a musical celebration of Florida's culture and heritage, typically draws thousands of people to the tiny town northwest of Lake City on Memorial Day weekend.
The Gainesville Sun |
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WallDecorAndHomeAcccents.com Gets a Contemporary Makeover - New Line of Contemporary Wall Art Highlight of and ...
Contemporary wall art has found a new place on the Web. WallDecorAndHomeAccents.com has just unveiled a new line of contemporary and three-dimensional wall art that is sure to appeal to modern art lovers. And to celebrate the launch of its new product line, Wall Décor and Home Accents has given its Website a contemporary makeover.
PRWeb via Yahoo! News |
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Potters Guild site renews hopes
Every promise of potential is haunted by decades of neglect, but the hoped-for renaissance of Old East Village as an arts and culture stronghold may truly be underway.
London Free Press |
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Billy Childish interview
Billy Childish has published 40 collections of poetry, released 100 albums of his music and completed more than 2,000 paintings.
Guardian Unlimited |
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Hue to affirm title as Festival City
Art performance at Festival Hue 2006 . The upcoming biannual Hue festival in central Thua Thien-Hue province will offer new and exciting performances of high professional and artistic quality, in an effort to live up to title of being Vietnam’s ‘Festival City’.
Nhân Dân |
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Security beefed up around Phra Apaimanee sculpture
Rayong - The security was beefed up around the iconic sculpture of Thai folktale hero Phra Apaimanee in Rayong's Klaeng district after its stolen bronze flute was retrieved from a garbage dump on Tuesday.
The Nation - Thailand's English news |
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Gallery draws on students' artistic side
Holding a typical art show for high school students just wouldn't cut it for Brian Smylski. There had to be something special about it. So when the director of the Niagara Falls Art Gallery asked how to jazz it up, the answer was immediate: Cough up the [...]
Niagara Falls Review |
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Manchester Essex student's painting goes to Washington
MANCHESTER and mdash; When high school junior Allison Nitkiewicz of Pleasant Street first began painting a self-portrait this year, she had no idea the 24-by-30-inch oil would become her ticket to travel the country.
Gloucester Daily Times |
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Rocky Neck exhibit brings emotion to forefront
Gloucester photographer Leslie Bartlett sees emotion in the tranquility of Cape Ann's pristine quarries. Iowa artist John Manion expressed his emotion in the creation of a small red wax sculpture called "Little Big Man."
Gloucester Daily Times |
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Peace is unofficial theme of this year's Ithaca Festival
This year's Ithaca Festival will have an unofficial theme of peace.
The Ithaca Journal |
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Voted #1 Florida Press 2004 FIRST PLACE Best Web Site Florida Keys Keynoter
The vacant Southwinds Motel site in the heart of Islamorada could one day feature a sportfishing museum and small auditorium. Development of a conceptual plan for the property, owned by the village since 2004, will be discussed at today's 3 p.m. Village Council workshop.
Keynoter.com |
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Winged statue flies out of park
ST. CHARLES -- Artist Patricia Brutchin had finally fixed her battery-powered "dremmel" engraving tool and was ready to carve her signature into the statue "Winged Crawler." But when she arrived Friday at the spot where she had put it on exhibit in St. Charles' Mount St. Mary Park, she got a shock.
The Beacon News |
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Normah fights on to save the forest
KUALA LUMPUR: Normah Nordin is an example of what a restless soul is. A graduate of Universiti Teknologi Mara in Fine Arts, she has been contributing to the country's performing arts for more than 30 years.
The New Straits Times |
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Reward offered for art missing from St. Charles park
Artist Patricia Brutchin finally had fixed her battery-powered Dremel engraving tool and was ready to carve her signature into the statue Winged Crawler. But when she arrived Friday at the spot where she had put it on exhibit in St. Charles' Mount St. Mary Park, she got a shock. Instead of a black-coated bronze statue, she found sawed-off steel rods sticking out of the statue's limestone base.
The Courier News |
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History museums provide glimpse into Winneconnes past
WINNECONNE Every museum has one that oddity no one has been able to figure out.
The Oshkosh Northwestern |
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Ringo Beheaded
Vandals beheaded a Liverpool garden sculpture of Ringo Starr, knocking the bushy Fab Four down to three.
antiMUSIC |
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Gallery moves to historic site
An under-fire Preston art gallery is to move to one of the city most historic buildings. (21/05/2008 10:00:49)
prestontoday.net |
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Park board member now wants to revive sculpture
Bismarck Park Board member John Sagsveen is going to try to get the United Tribes Technical College eagle art sculpture project back on track this summer.
The Bismarck Tribune |
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Gallery receives $15m donation
The National Gallery of Victoria has received the largest ever cash donation from an individual to an Australian art museum - more than $15 million. But it needs 10 times that amount to regain its competitiveness in the international art market.
The West Australian |
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Rush wants Melbourne to be seen as 'art'
Actor Geoffrey Rush has urged the Victorian government to think of Melbourne as an artwork to be preserved, after it announced changes to planning laws he fears will give developers "open slather."
The West Australian |
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EBACE 2008: Cessna Racks Up Orders In Geneva
Austria's JetAlliance, Russia's Dexter Herald Brisk Business Cessna announced Tuesday at the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE) 2008 two separate orders, from operators in Austria and Russia.
The Aero-News Network |
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St. Charles to hold fine art show
The tenth annual St. Charles Fine Arts Show will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday along First Avenue from Route 64 to Illinois Avenue in downtown St. Charles.
The Glen Ellyn Sun |
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Asian Fusion Festival educates through culture
Liah Tehan comes from Singapore, a country where three ethnic groups create a unique tapestry of Chinese, Malay and Indian. "My background is Malay," she said. But "you cannot just say I am Malay and I just keep my Malay culture. You have to introduce all three" cultures. Tehan will teach about her country's dance, culture and art through the Asian Fusion Festival on May 31 in downtown Elgin.
The Courier News |
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Eastwood among Cannes favourites
CANNES, France (Reuters) - An animated documentary about Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon and an unflinching portrait of the Naples mafia were among the front-runners for top honours as the Cannes film festival hit the halfway point.
Reuters.co.uk |
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Singapore’s National Heritage Board launches The Vietnam Festival
Singaporeans can experience Vietnam’s amazing cultural diversity without jumping on a plane and flying there. The National Heritage Board recently launched the Vietnam Festival, its first Asian-themed celebration.
Radio Singapore International |
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