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Tretyakov Gallery today: comprehensive or eclectic?
MOSCOW. (Anatoly Korolev for RIA Novosti) - The State Tretyakov Gallery is celebrating its 115th anniversary. The occasion makes art lovers once again reverentially assess the private endeavor that reached the scope of a national program.
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Buena Vista Concerts and AEG Live Announce the Launch of the Disney Music Block Party Tour, a Dynamic Concert Festival ...
Buena Vista Concerts and AEG Live announce the Disney Music Block Party tour, an engaging concert festival experience for kids and their families featuring favorite recording artists performing live on stage. Families can spend the afternoon exploring the festival grounds with fun-filled activity zones where kids can try out the latest toys at PLAYSKOOL'S Play Experience area, make their own ...
Centre Daily Times |
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Prescott Park boosts lineup
PORTSMOUTH — The Prescott Park Arts Festival plans to take some of the sting out of high gas prices by giving people a reason to stay closer to home. The venue has booked an unprecedented number of national touring music performers for both its...
Portsmouth Herald |
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A World Full of Voices -- Alone -- at the Kennedy Center A Cappella Festival
Birds do it. Bees do it. They make sounds without instrumental accompaniment. When people do it, it is called a cappella singing, and it is the most basic form of musicmaking: the mother singing a lullaby to her child, the kindergarten class sitting in a circle for "Eensy Weensy Spider," the farm...
Washington Post |
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Floodgates Open for the Source Festival
What do you do if you put out a call for new 10-minute plays for a summer festival, and you get 910 submissions for 25 slots?
Washington Post |
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OY, DID THEY PICK ON THE WRONG PERSON
Sunburned and looking quite handsome, I had planned to take this week off and just reprint an old column. But then I looked at the front page of The New York Post and The Daily News and there was this photo of my good friend Ruth Kalb of the Vered Gallery being busted by the East Hampton police.
East Hampton Independent |
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Go & Do - Things to be done this week
Sample delicious food and drink while helping eliminate childhood hunger as 60 top local chefs and beer and wine purveyors gather at Strawbery Banke Museum for the 14th annual Taste of the Nation Portsmouth gala on Wednesday, June 18. General admission...
Portsmouth Herald |
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Students key to re-enacting past
The education and curatorial departments have been particularly busy over the past several weeks as the museum prepares to open for its 108th season. Seasonal staff and volunteers — novice and veteran alike — are being oriented to the museum...
The York Weekly |
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Springing up art: Artists participating in YAA show enjoy its sense of community
The York Art Association (YAA) opened its spring art show on Friday night, featuring a broad range of oils, acrylics, pastels, watercolors, photography and sculptures, all created by YAA members and all for sale.
The York Weekly |
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Catalonia's x-rated sculpture park
Travel: The artist Xicu Cabanyes has created an open-air gallery of sensual sculptures in a forest just north of Barcelona
Guardian Unlimited |
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Prison film "Hunger" offers little food for thought
CANNES (Hollywood Reporter) - Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen brings the key tenets required to win Britain's top honor for modern art to directing his first film, and so it is trite, grim and feebly provocative.
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Prison film "Hunger" offers little food for thought
Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen brings the key tenets required to win Britain's top honor for modern art to directing his first film, and so it is trite, grim and feebly provocative.
Reuters via Yahoo! News |
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Buena Vista Concerts and AEG Live Announce the Launch of the Disney Music Block Party Tour, a Dynamic Concert Festival ...
BURBANK, Calif.----Buena Vista Concerts and AEG Live announce the Disney Music Block Party tour, an engaging concert festival experience for kids and their families featuring favorite recording artists performing live on stage.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Australian artists, politicians debate nude teen photos
SYDNEY, Australia - A debate over censorship versus art raged in Australia on Wednesday, nearly a week after police shut down an exhibit by a leading Australian photographer and confiscated portraits of nude teenagers.
GMA News |
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Eurovision Song Contest: UK could lose guaranteed place in final
The UK could lose its guaranteed place in the Eurovision Song Contest final following criticism that the event is becoming increasingly biased against western European countries. By Leigh Holmwood
Guardian Unlimited |
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Australians debate nude photo exhibit
A debate over censorship versus art raged in Australia on Wednesday, nearly a week after police shut down an exhibit by a leading Australian photographer and confiscated portraits of nude teenagers. The exhibit by Bill Henson was shut down before it could even open last Thursday night. Since then, two other galleries in New South Wales state have removed his work from their walls. Police said ...
The Charlotte Observer |
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Australians debate nude photo exhibit
By TANALEE SMITH SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- A debate over censorship versus art raged in Australia on Wednesday, nearly a week after police shut down an exhibit by a leading Australian photographer and confiscated portraits of nude teenagers.
Bay News 9 Tampa Bay |
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Munch Museum to be Opera's new neighbour
City officials plan to move Oslo's famed Munch Museum into new quarters near the new Opera House on the capital's eastern waterfront. The city's main library will also move into the neighbourhood.
Aftenposten |
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Students' work in the frame
PHOTOGRAPHY students from Stevenson College will be displaying the best of their work next month.
Edinburgh Evening News |
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NEWS: When in Rome
A few weeks ago, a class on the architecture of St. Peter's unexpectedly turned into a morning spent absorbing the bizarre scene of a papal audience. My classmates and I did our best to catch a glimpse of the pope as he zipped around, standing and waving like some Miss America contestant on top of a parade float.
The Dartmouth |
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Reception for former local artist
The Works of Jeanne Tamisiea - Tribute Exhibition - are now on display in the Bismarck Art and Gallery Association's main gallery. Jeanne Tamisiea (Kane) worked in the Bismarck-Mandan area in the late '70s and early '80s, before joining the faculty of Black Hawk College in Iowa's Quad Cities. She died on July 4, 2006.
The Bismarck Tribune |
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'Biggest drawing in the world' exposed as hoax
London, May 28 : A Swedish art student who claimed to have created the "biggest drawing in the world" using a GPS device and an international package delivery service has been exposed as a hoaxer.
New Kerala |
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Thousands flock to sun drenched Féile na Tuaithe
Féile na Tuaithe at the Museum of Country Life, Turlough welcomed a record number of visitors to the festival which was held last weekend. Over 20,000 visitors attended the Féile which was held on the grounds of the museum on Saturday and Sunday last compared to a total of 12,000 people last year.
Western People |
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Eclectic Iowa: Matchstick Marvels Museum
For Patrick Acton, matchsticks aren’t just for making fires. Acton is an Iowa artist who builds scaled models out of matchsticks the old fashioned...
Juice |
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Invasion of the 'tape people'
GENEVA -- "Tape people" invaded Geneva High School recently, as art students put their best work on display.
The Geneva Sun |
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