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Summer art festival guide
Hello world, there's a song that we're singing: "C'mon get crafty!" There's nothing like a stroll through an art fair to get those creative juices flowing. Here's OnMilwaukee.com's guide to all things arty this spring, summer and autumn.
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RIDGEFIELD 300th: Art walk is planned in August
An evening of strolling through downtown Main Street, where stores and other businesses will feature the works of individual artists from the Ridgefield area “gallery style,” will take place Saturday, Aug. 16, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
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News & Star
ART made from wood and art made from words come together in a new exhibition which runs until the end of June.
The News and Star |
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Teens held for stealing pistol from museum
A 500-YEAR-OLD flintlock pistol is definitely a cool piece of historical artifact to own but stealing it from a museum is no joking matter. Three 17-year-olds learnt that the hard way. They had visited the Kota Tinggi Museum that showcased the pistol.
The New Straits Times |
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Libbey mansion to be a museum
By any legal and practical measure, Jeanene and Lloyd "Skip" Perkins have owned the yellow frame-and-stone mansion in Toledo's Old West End where they have made their home for 15 years.
The Toledo Blade |
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Art
All weekend - “DIGITAL VISIONS: COMPUTER ARTS” - Ends July 9; opening reception, 5:30 to 9 p.m. today; Artlink Contemporary Art Gallery, 437 E. Berry St.; gallery hours, 424-7195 or www.artlinkfw.com.
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette |
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Lost neighborhood on exhibit
It was the McCarthy era, and the Mexican-Americans who lived in Chávez Ravine had no idea the political fear and unrest that had gripped the nation would be the death knell for their tight-knit community.
Salem Statesman Journal |
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North Hampton briefs
North Hampton seniors are invited to the North Hampton School computer lab to learn basic computer skills, keyboarding skills, word processing, exploring the Internet, e-mail, digital photography and more. The next session is 8:10 to 9:15 a.m., Friday,...
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'An honor, a joy and a challenge''
The business card of Doreet Levitte Harten, curator of an exhibition of work by Rafi Lavie slated for the Venice Biennale in 2009, states only her name - not the title "curator." "I don't see curating as an existential condition," she explains, "except for practical purposes."
Haaretz Daily |
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Andrew Wyeth granddaughter gives tours
CHADDS FORD, Pennsylvania - It's clear this isn't the typical tour of a museum with major works of art when the guide sidles up to a painting and begins: "I'll never forget it. We're having cheeseburgers across the street at Hank's and he's telling me about this one."
GMA News |
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Kingston news briefs
KINGSTON — The art department at Sanborn Regional High School is designing a perennial garden to be used as an outdoor classroom for the department. The garden will be used by future art students for drawing, sketching, painting and photography.
The Rockingham News |
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Disabled locals develop into top-notch artists
The paintings that developmentally disabled artists produce are good enough to be shown in museums, according to a Modesto art instructor.
Modesto Bee |
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Belgian City Protects Public Facilities With Scalable Milestone IP Video
The city of Geel in Belgium near Antwerp has a population of 35,000. Their Tourism Center exhibits art in a renovated historical building, and a new community sports hall is actively used. Here they are setting a good example with modern technology: a scalable, centralized approach to security and safety in public facilities using IP network video surveillance from Milestone Systems and Axis ...
RetailSolutionsOnline |
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No Two Alike: Snowflake Photography Reveals Nature's Symmetry [Slide Show] [Features]
Snowflakes are white--Right? No. And a close look reveals that this heavenly dandruff comes in myriad sizes and shapes, sometimes crystallizing into columns and needles, sectored plates or stellar dendrites, among countless other variations. Kenneth Libbrecht's The Art of the Snowflake: A Photographic Album reveals close up the flakey truth--and he is not snowing you. View the slide show ...
Scientific American |
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Historical society marks 85th Loudon Classic
CONCORD — The New Hampshire Historical Society will mark the 85th anniversary of the Loudon Classic, the oldest continuing motorcycle race in America, by offering free museum admission each day of the 2008 Motorcycle Week (June 14-22).
The Citizen of Laconia |
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Teacher of the Year guides students in art, thinking
SAN MARCOS – Susan Lewis teaches art with a capital A at Mission Hills High School. She helps students improve their drawing and painting skills, but more important, she is trying to mold them into observers and thinkers.
San Diego Union-Tribune |
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Police seek advice from DPP on Henson case
Police are seeking advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) about the possibility of prosecuting those involved in the Bill Henson art exhibition at the centre of a police investigation.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
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Mekong artists collaborate for exhibition
Twenty artists from across Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand have collaborated for an exhibition of their varied contemporary works, to run in Hanoi from May 30-June 13.
Nhân Dân |
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Portsmouth news briefs
PORTSMOUTH — The "Splash! The Art of Portsmouth's Young People" exhibit at the library ends Saturday. The exhibit features artwork by local elementary- through high school-age artists and is on display during library hours. Also, the final...
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Whats going on today and this weekend
Appleton Art Center Benefit Exhibition and Sale, 5-10 p.m., Appleton Art Center, 111. W. College Ave., Appleton. Friday Fish Fry, 11 a.m., Scenic Bar Restaurant, 1635 Indiana Ave., Sheboygan. Fish fry, chicken dinners and cocktails. (920) 452-2881. Free Play Fridays, 3-6 p.m., Kiel Public Library, 511 Third St., Kiel. Practice your DDR, Guitar Hero and Smash Bros skills on the librarys new Wii ...
Sheboygan Press |
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Art museum presents: 'The Spy Who Came in From Pop Culture'
One of the New York Museum of Modern Art's latest film acquisitions isn't an art-house experiment by Andy Warhol or Michelangelo Antonioni. It's the spy-action blockbuster “The Bourne Identity” and its sequels.
San Diego Union-Tribune |
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Intermission: Review of "Transient" exhibit
And workmen whistling. We deal, inevitably, with the ephemerality of our existence. Houses are built and abandoned, highways are constructed and the routes are changed, nations rise and fall. But one thing remains unchanged — the impermanence of it all.
Stanford Daily |
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Three generations display artwork at Chapungu Gallery By Anya Semenoff The Reporter-Herald
Three generations of sculptors will come together Saturday to exhibit their work at Loveland’s Chapungu Sculpture Park and Gallery.
Loveland Reporter-Herald |
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ART NEWS: STILL LIFE PAINTINGS ON DISPLAY
Works by painter Jean M. Le Baron of Beachwood will be on display in June at the Ocean County Artists' Guild in Island Heights. Le Baron, who works in various media, including oils and acrylics on canvas, creates representational work and is a member of the guild and of the art cooperative TRACx81, Toms River.
Asbury Park Press |
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SeaWorld emphasizes animals in planned new roller coaster
SeaWorld Orlando wants to blur the difference between thrill ride and animal exhibit when it builds Manta, its next big attraction.
Orlando Sentinel |
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