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Pinckney festival bigger, better
This weekend's Art in the Park Festival — now in its 18th year — will be bigger, better and offer fresh talent and art, festival organizers said.
Livingston County Daily Press & Argus |
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Reward offered for stolen sculpture
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, May 16 at the spot where she had put it on exhibit in St. Charles' Mount St. Mary Park, she got a shock.
The St. Charles Sun |
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Elgin-bred 'Tosca' star wouldn't mind coming home
The leading role of Floria Tosca in Giacomo Puccini's operatic masterpiece, Tosca , is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and commanding musical positions to hold. For Amy Johnson, former Elginite and Larkin High School graduate, it has been a way of life for nearly a decade.
The Courier News |
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Drawing them out
Malia Williams crouched on the hardwood floor of Kiaca Gallery and stared intently at a work titled Serious Tone .
The Columbus Dispatch |
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UCSC junior uses photography to give village children new outlook
By placing digital cameras in the hands of Tanzanian children, UC Santa Cruz student Diedre Kelly helped them view vexing problems within their own village through a new lens.
Santa Cruz Sentinel |
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Thomson painting a `steal,' fails to break auction record
The second work by iconic artist Tom Thomson to be sold in two days didn't break any records.
Toronto Star |
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Deadline nears for St. James poster contest
The hunt for the next great artistic depiction of the St. James Court Art Show is nearing an end, but show officials say artists still have a chance to enter.
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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Hollywood star Blanchett steps into row over exhibition of nude photos of girls aged 12 and 13
Hollywood actress Cate Blanchett has attacked Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd after he branded an exhibition of naked photographs of young girls as "revolting".
Evening Standard |
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Police investigate more Henson works
Federal police have revealed they are investigating a number of photographic art pieces at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.
ABC via Yahoo!7 News |
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A taste for wine and fine art
MARIPOSA -- Artist Sharon Bortugno encompassed both aspects of Mariposa's Fine Art & Wine Festival with her watercolor brush strokes.
Merced Sun-Star |
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Walls coming down at El Museo
The galleries of the venerable Museo del Barrio have officially closed to make way for the last stage of a $28 million renovation that will give a needed face-lift to the city?s only Latin-focused museum.
New York Daily News |
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From visual feasts to artistic famines
Review: Festival TransAmériques at various venues in Montreal
The Globe and Mail |
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Art Galleries
Barely Contained: The Box Show Seven Main Gallery artists present their creative interpretations of the box. Through June 29, 11 a.m-4 p.m. For more information, call Pixie Couch at 650-322-2497 or e-mail pixiec@mindspring.com or visit www.themaingallery.org . The Main Gallery, 1018 Main St., Redwood City
Palo Alto Weekly |
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UI student shows film at Cannes
University of Iowa cinema major and short film producer Bob Zegler has returned from the Cannes Film Festival, and he says the trip to France was a success.
The Iowa City Press-Citizen |
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Jump Cut: The dance card isn't as full
While the state continues to be home for talented dancers, there's nothing comparable with the former Vermont Dance Festival, which raised the profile and expanded the audience for dance.
The Burlington Free Press |
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An inspiration to everyone
HICKORY - Mildred McKinney Whitener Coe is remembered as the heart and soul of the Hickory Museum of Art. She is universally described as What a woman! or What a beautiful lady! Mickey, as she was affectionately called, died Friday. She was 93. Coe retired after 36 years as executive director of the museum in 1996. She is known as co-founder of the museum, but throughout her career, she gave her ...
Hickory Daily Record |
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Cannes Class of 2008
CANNES, France—Wading through 20-odd movies in half as many languages, each Cannes jury supplies its own dramatic narrative, to be interpreted according to its president's presumed taste. Days before the 61st Cannes Film Festival ended, rumors were rife that the jury was having difficulties r ...
Phoenix New Times |
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Local & live
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 • "MOSTLY PLAINS: ARRESTING NATIVE AMERICAN ARTWORK": Yellowstone Art Museum, 401 N. 27th St. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Focus on indigenous art of Northern Plains Indians and imported art forms of Charles M. Russell. Display up through June 1. $7, adults; $5, senior citizens; $3, ages 6-18; free, ages 5, younger and YAM members. 256-6804.
Billings Gazette |
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The wacky weather; museum
That was some week for weather last week. I’ve lived in the Valley since early 1957 and I can’t remember another one like it.
The Fountain Hills Times |
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Turns wood into art
Floyd Spets is a second-generation artist, although he doesn’t consider himself an artist. The retired Fountain Hills man has been a painting contractor all his life.
The Fountain Hills Times |
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MLK memorial: A statue fit for a King?
Decades after it was first proposed, 12 years after fundraising started, and only months before construction is set to begin, the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial is mired in controversy – with some artists and art historians saying that Chinese sculptor Lei Yixin's rendering of the civil rights leader resembles the type of art more commonly used to commemorate totalitarian dictators.
The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News |
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South Africa: The Museums of Branding
All over the world, with so many different meanings and perceptions of the word "branding", it appears that it has lost its true meaning; the terminology is more like a walk through a museum with a glorious past.
AllAfrica.com |
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Holocaust historians blast MFA stance in legal dispute
Holocaust historians are criticizing the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for its stance in an escalating legal dispute over the ownership of a valuable 1913 painting. The work, Oskar Kokoschka's "Two Nudes (Lovers)," has hung at the MFA almost continuously since 1973.
Boston Globe |
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InRetail 2008 promises to be a world-class event, in every sense
InRetail 2008, the GCC’s premier trade show for the design, fit-out and operational management of retail outlets, supermarkets and shopping malls, is set to exceed all expectations by featuring some of the world’s best renowned suppliers from 8 to 10 June 2008 at the Dubai International Exhibition Centre.
AME Info |
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Amesbury school notes: Art Program gets $3,000 grant
Ann Bartkiewicz with a $3,000 grant. The grant will be used to purchase computers for the art photography program.
The Daily News of Newburyport |
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