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May Fest presents 'visual world'
The final concert for the 2008 festival is a multimedia experiment mixing art and Berlioz' "Romeo et Juliette." It's a strange hybrid of symphony, cantata and opera.
The Cincinnati Enquirer |
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Sami Kubo From shy painter to the Sundance kid
Filmmaker Sami Kubo has just turned 18 and is feeling quite festive. That's because she has already taken a movie to the Sundance Film Festival, where she was one of the few students across the country to have a film featured.
Seattle Times |
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Pulaski High gets a head START on tolerance
PULASKI Entries in a recent coloring contest convinced senior Emily Dahms that a new club dedicated to tolerance and diversity at Pulaski High School is making positive inroads with students.
Green Bay Press-Gazette |
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Festival excitement continues
BLUEFIELD — Hordes of people swamped the group of eight carvers during day-two of the Echo Cole Chevy 2008 Mountain Festival Carving Invitational as the hot sun baked the world-class competitors as they labored on their masterpiece sculptures.
Bluefield Daily Telegraph |
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Brazen thieves steal Bill Reid art pieces worth in the millions
Thieves have taken art worth millions from the Bill Reid Collection at the University of B.C.'s Museum of Anthropology. The heist happened late Friday or early yesterday, with significant works from the famed Haida artist's collection targeted.
Vancouver Province |
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City of Surrey trying to halt radio orchestra's swan song
The battle to save the Vancouver-based CBC Radio Orchestra continued yesterday with a public rally outside the city's art gallery.
Vancouver Province |
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Photo center founder Capa dies
Cornell Capa, a globetrotting photojournalist who founded the International Center of Photography in New York and dedicated himself to preserving the legacy of his older brother, war photographer Robert Capa, died Friday at his home in New York of Parkinson's disease. He was 90.
The Monterey County Herald |
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"old" Art College graduates exhibition
MIX is a group of artists and designers who were originally all mature students at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee.
The Dundee Messenger |
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POW exhibit coming to Hartland
Brighton resident James Kuszmaul was only 19 years old when he began touring Europe during World War II.
Livingston County Daily Press & Argus |
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Exhibit shows work of caratoonist who stood up for the little guy
One of Chicago's most beloved cartoonists was a man named Chester Commodore.
SouthtownStar |
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Recent Original Stories
"Yesterday, I had an hour to work with Apple's new Power Mac Quad G5, and for anyone in the broadcast, sciences, music, print and photography industries, I have some advice : Place your orders now!"
OS News |
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C. Capa, documenter of social history
NEW YORK - Pioneering photojournalist Cornell Capa, who founded the International Center of Photography and illuminated social and political topics from the campaigns of the Kennedy brothers to the destruction of native cultures in Latin America, died Friday at the age of 90.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Naomi Campbell art larger than life
HOT-TEMPERED supermodel Naomi Campbell is to be immortalised in a series of larger-than-life sculptures.
News Interactive |
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Lemon Fest taking poster submissions
The Pacific View mall is accepting submissions for its 2008 Lemon Fest poster contest.
Ventura County Star |
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Exhibit shows Herblock's 'toons
Political cartoonist Herblock went after those he considered the biggest bullies in society — and they often included U.S. presidents. Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon got so upset with his work that they canceled their subscriptions at times to The Washington Post, the cartoonist's employer.
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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Today Art exhibit ODESSA -- The Ellen No and euml;l Art Museum, 4909 E. University, is hosting an exhibition by the Art Guys -- Michael Galbreth and Jack Massing entitled "The Art Guys Cloud Cuckoo Land: 25 years of Drawings, Proposals, Failed Schemes and Pipe Dreams."
Midland Reporter-Telegram |
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Local artist in Houston exhibit; Lincoln art encouraged
Louisville artist Cynthia Norton, also known as her performance persona and country musician Ninnie, is part of a stellar international cast of artists at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston through July 20. The exhibit is "The Old, Weird America," titled after the weird but compelling 1997 book by culture critic Greil Marcus about Bob Dylan and folk music.
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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Eastern medicine
he Asian Festival began yesterday, offering its standard colorful fare of food, art and entertainment.
The Columbus Dispatch |
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Art museum Director Timothy Rub said to be on short list for Metropolitan Museum of Art
UPDATED: 04 :42 a.m. EDT, May 25, 2008 Chuck Yarborough becomes a volunteer on the Steamship William G. Mather. Talk arts, movies, music, dining and more!
The Plain Dealer |
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Raitt warms up Blues Festival with heart for Santa Cruz
Bonnie Raitt doesn't so much strum the guitar as she pierces your soul with it. The famously red-haired blues legend skillfully deployed her raspy voice and nimble guitar-picking to warm up the first night of the chilly Santa Cruz Blues Festival at Aptos Village Park on Saturday.
Santa Cruz Sentinel |
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Racers on Hobart
For the first time in its 40 years, the Kinetic Sculpture Race kicked off Saturday without its glorious founder Hobart Brown, who died last November.
Eureka Times-Standard |
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Business Calendar: May 25, 2008
This week BOULDER CREEK ART, WINE & MUSIC FESTIVAL will take place Sunday & Monday, May 25-26 from noon to 6 p.
Santa Cruz Sentinel |
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Mountain festival offers weekend entertainment
Watercolorist Kathleen Lepori worried about the weather as the 19th annual Boulder Creek Art & Wine Festival opened Saturday.
Santa Cruz Sentinel |
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The jewelry is unwearable, the graffiti unreadable in exhibits
Things are getting hot down on Puyallup Avenue. Not only is the D Street overpass soon to be completed, allowing (eventually) artgoers to walk from the Museum of Glass to the galleries in the Dome District, but two new shows are up at the tiny-but-cool spaces at 301 Puyallup Ave. Both part of the one building, Mineral and Greasespot are featuring work in wildly different media – concrete and ...
Tacoma News Tribune |
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Christie's: Chinese painting depicting communist youth group fetches record US$9.7 million
A modern Chinese painting featuring eight masked characters wearing the red scarves of China's communist youth organization has fetched a record US$9.7 million (€6.2 million), an auction house said Sunday.
AP via Yahoo! Malaysia News |
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