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11 a.m. - Guma' Mami "Creative Spirits" art exhibit, auction this Friday
11 a.m., May 26 — Guma' Mami Inc. presents its ninth art exhibit -- "Creative Spirits" from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the CarsPlus showrooms in Maite. Featured will be art by people with disabilities, and a silent auction of art donated by Guam's local artists.
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Wilmington's Thalian Association raises money by selling art
A two day art festival was held in Downtown Wilminton to raise money for the Thalian Association.
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Children Visit ‘Know Your Museum' Exhibition
Bandar Seri Begawan - The Brunei Museum in Kota Batu and the `Know Your Museum' exhibition which is currently held at the Old Custom Building in the capital received pupils from several primary schools recently.
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Allen Soon’s mind teasers
ARTIST extraordinaire Allen Soon, 41, has interpreted his dreams, thoughts, facts and fiction into remarkable pieces of art in his latest solo exhibition aptly themed “Alastria — where the passion wind blows”.
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Arthur’s tales in pictures
House Shrines captures Ubud, Bali. “A NEW Beginning” is a photography exhibition of 30 silver gelatin black and white prints shot in Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar and Cambodia.
The New Straits Times |
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Arthur’s tales in pictures
“A NEW Beginning” is a photography exhibition of 30 silver gelatin black and white prints shot in Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar and Cambodia.
The New Straits Times |
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Allen Soon’s mind teasers
Soon posing beside one of his paintings at the Alpha Utatra Art Gallery in Lebuh China. ARTIST extraordinaire Allen Soon, 41, has interpreted his dreams, thoughts, facts and fiction into remarkable pieces of art in his latest solo exhibition aptly themed “Alastria — where the passion wind blows”.
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Derek Walcott: 'The Chatterbox'
AN hour was all Derek Walcott needed to remind the large and very diverse gathering of book lovers at the just-concluded Calabash International Literary Festival in Treasure Beach, St Elizabeth, why he is one of the world's most celebrated poets and thinkers.
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Military museums seek relevance in new age
Military museums across the United States are suffering this Memorial Day weekend as they try to compete with high-tech entertainment options, experts say.Professionals in the field have long preferred solemnity and history lessons over entertainment values, and that is coming back to haunt many of the 90 such facilities in the United States, The Washington Post reported Sunday, citing the ...
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art May 26 - 31 at Chemould Art Gallery, 12F park Street; 2 pm - 7 pm:
An exhibition of paintings by Suvra Chandra. Till May 26 at Academy of Fine Arts, Central Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Kolkata Canvas. Participants: Aloke Sardar, Biswarup Halder, Ranjan Mitra, Malay Chandan Saha and Anirban Seth.
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Fear not the foreign film
JOY of joys, March brought with it the fabulous Iranian Film Festival. I’m already a foreign film buff but Iranian films are my absolute favourite. I watched six of the films, totally enjoying myself but also finding myself totally alone in the cinemas.
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Airport going to auction
GOULBURN Airport will go up for auction in about three months, following councillors' unanimous endorsement at a meeting last Tuesday to offload the facility.
Goulburn Post |
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Council to pay $10k for lake sculpture
THE Goulburn Regional Art Gallery will purchase a bronze sculpture depicting Lake George for $10,000. Councillors signed off on the decision at a meeting on Tuesday, without discussion.
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Famous pub painting could fetch €120,000
A HUMOUROUS painting paying homage to the best-known pubs around Dublin in the 1940s will be the toast of an auction house when it goes under the hammer this week.
Irish Examiner |
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Museum plans $5.5 million expansion
The Fort Wayne Museum of Art will undergo a $5.5 million expansion and modernization to help turn it into 1 of the nation's top exhibit spaces for American art.
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Military museums seek relevance in new age
WASHINGTON, May 25 (UPI) -- Military museums across the United States are suffering this Memorial Day weekend as they try to compete with high-tech entertainment options, experts say.
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White night offered by Art Galleries in Bucharest
Photographs, graphic works or paintings exhibitions, music and discussions on contemporary arts provided a new opportunity for a white night to the inhabitants of Bucharest, a week after the museum itinerary provided by the White Night of Museums.
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Russia won Eurovision 2008, Romania ranked 20th
Russia, represented by Dima Bilan, won on Saturday evening, with the song “Believe”, Eurovision Contest 2008, which was held in Belgrade Arena, while Romania, with Nico and Vlad Mirita, ranked the 20th, receiving 45 points.
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Dust off the paintbrushes
Artists, young or old, experienced or beginning, and all men and women, are encouraged to dust off the paintbrushes and get started on their next winning artwork.
Mudgee Guardian |
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Blind artist is back in Mudgee
Blind artist, Phillip Coster and his wife, Lola are back in town after painting their way around Australia.
Mudgee Guardian |
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Masks show living values transforming art
St Luke’s Mother’s Smart Art Group has seized on the recycling effort of local furniture designer Jimmy Possum and other manufacturers to turn a line headed for the trash into modern art.
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Malaysian’s work of art fetches RM117,000 at Christie’s
KUALA LUMPUR: A digital art piece called Huminodun by Malaysian artist Yee I-Lann was sold for more than RM100,000 at a Christie’s auction in Hong Kong on Saturday.
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French classroom drama wins Cannes' top prize
The French film "The Class," a frank tale about classroom life using real students and teachers at a junior high school, won top honors Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival.
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First Tecumseh Art Festival a success
The debut edition of the Tecumseh Art Festival on the weekend has been deemed a rousing success. "For a first time show we were very pleased with the numbers," said organizer Rita Ossington.
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Preview: Psycho Buildings, Hayward Gallery, London
What exactly is a psycho building? According to Ralph Rugoff, the director of the Hayward Gallery and curator of Psycho Buildings: "The exhibition takes its title from a book of photographs of odd structures by the artist Martin Kippenberger. A lot of urban spaces are very regimented, and a 'psycho building' is something that breaks out of this and reveals that our relationships with space can ...
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