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Car customizer in Ohio taking artwork outside the body shop
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- In a business that's attracting older car buffs and creating new fans with the young, Don Boeke is among the masters. The longtime car customizer has reincarnated Porsches, Corvettes, Packards and Bentleys, repairing, painting and often pinstriping them.
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Unveiling a millennium's worth of treasures
The 35 objects in "Medieval and Renaissance Treasures from the Victoria and Albert Museum," new at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, are as various and assorted as only treasure can be, ranging in date from 300 to 1600 AD and in origin from imperial Byzantine workshops in Constantinople to the famed enamel workshops in Limoges, France.
The Star-Ledger |
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A new vision for Indian Arrival
Embrace the future or be blotted out by it. When the Hindu Festivals Society was formed in January, the survival of Indian culture locally was foremost on the members' minds.
Trinidad Express |
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UBC's Bill Reid art collection hit by thieves
Thieves have robbed the University of British Columbia's Museum of Anthropology overnight with pieces from the Bill Reid collection apparently targeted.
Canada.com |
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Virtu includes 'kinoptic art' too
WESTERLY – Newport artist Julio Amaro caught the attention of festival-goers Saturday with his two-for-one paintings.
Westerly Sun |
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Browsing!
PLANTATION IMAGES Museum leader featured at Moveable Feast The new executive director of the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston will be the featured author at this week's Moveable Feast.
The Myrtle Beach Sun News |
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5/25 Around Angelina
It's almost time for the Museum of East Texas Art Camp, celebrating its 11th year of bringing the joy of creation to East Texas youth. Classes are available for children ages three to 14 from June until August. Classes are offered on a weekly basis and participants choose from a variety of class offerings, depending on the age of the participant. Art Camp teachers are local and regional ...
The Lufkin Daily News |
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Ancient world in images
Sue Lezon is working to keep an ancient world from turning into a lost world. The Plattsburgh State photography teacher travels regularly to Egypt to work with an archaeology project.
Plattsburgh Press Republican |
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Hit the road for musical feasts
From Coachella's desert setting in Southern California to the hills of Tennessee for Bonnaroo, to the parking lot at Giants Stadium in New Jersey for the Bamboozle Festival, destination concerts are the trend du jour of the 2000s.
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Warhol hosts major Mondrian exhibit
"Piet (Mondrian) in Pittsburgh" features 24 abstract paintings by the Dutch artist whose work is widely recognized for having prominent influences on postwar art, architecture, design and printing.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
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Reward offered for stolen fountain
BRISTOL, R.I. -- An antique copper fountain has gone missing and museum officials are offering a $500 reward to help retrieve it.
NBC 10 Providence |
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Artist wows critics with coal sculptures
VietNamNet Bridge - One Ha Long City artist is standing out from the crowd with his critically acclaimed coal sculptures. Vu Khanh Linh finds out more.
Vietnam Net |
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Obituary: Nettie Cooper / Owner of Squirrel Hill photography studio
For nearly 30 years, Nettie Cooper operated a photography studio in Squirrel Hill, next to the Giant Eagle store on Murray Avenue. ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
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Travel industry expects cutback
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. But since opening last fall, the attraction featuring likenesses of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton - among many others - hasn't been a big enough draw. Crowds dwindled after the opening, and Madame Tussauds is cutting prices. Adult tickets, previously selling ...
The Myrtle Beach Sun News |
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Investing in art can have big risks, big rewards
Two decades after his death, Andy Warhol, a larger-than-life artist known for hype and breaking boundaries, might even have been shocked by the recent $71.7 million sale of one of his paintings. ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
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How to fix Stratford
There's a tempest ripping through Ontario's Shakespeare festival. So we ask the cream of the theatrical crop...
Jam! Showbiz |
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Washington Sunday Bulletin Board
Washington -- "Great American Favorites" is a concert set for 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. next Sunday in Olin Fine Arts Center at Washington & Jefferson College. ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
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Making sense of the pieces
Paul Catanese's installation at 1708 Gallery asks more questions than it fully answers.
Richmond Times-Dispatch |
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Road survey: Woman turns time spent in traffic into a photo exhibit
BLACK MOUNTAIN -- Stuck in traffic, Rebecca d'Angelo would pick up her camera and fire away.
Asheville Citizen-Times |
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Cannes prepares for prizes in festival finale
CANNES, France May 25, 2008, 12:06 am ET · Established Hollywood stars and filmmakers such as Clint Eastwood and Angelina Jolie were competing against movies from acclaimed international directors for the top honors at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday.
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COLLAGE: The beauty of imperfection
HENDERSONVILLE - "Sabi Series," an exhibit of new work by William Martin Jean, is based on the quintessential Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi, a concept that considers imperfect, impermanent and incomplete as beautiful.
Asheville Citizen-Times |
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Artist Mary Cassatt let money, not her feelings, inspire work
Impressionist artist Mary Cassatt, born in Allegheny City in 1844, was known for paintings of women and children as well as her businesslike attitude about her work.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
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Chattanooga: Who-Fest at Renaissance Park celebrates folk art
A celebration of the self-taught artist, Who-Fest, covers Renaissance Park with art and music this weekend.
Chattanooga Times Free Press |
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Asheville HATCHfest announces dates, sites
ASHEVILLE - Film screenings, concerts and exhibits from groundbreaking artists from around the world are part of the inaugural Asheville HATCHfest April 15-19 next year, organizers of the creative artists festival announced Tuesday.
Asheville Citizen-Times |
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Visual arts calendar
To best facilitate publication, send items at least two weeks in advance to Paul Clark via e-mail to pclark@CITIZEN-TIMES.com. Please include the opening and closing dates of exhibits and a number that may be published to call for information.
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