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Ellyce Field: Fun family picks for the week
This week, tots can test their skills in the Nursery School Olympics, families can take advantage of plenty of kid-friendly activities at the annual Festival of the Arts or check out the new bat show at Cranbrook Institute of Science.
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Berlin - a Mecca for art enthusiasts
Berlin, June 4 : Long considered a backwater of the arts world, the German capital is today attracting a wave of art dealers, gallery operators and collectors from around the world.
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Marion exhibit conveys profound sense of place
The warm glow of Mediterranean sunlight brightens the walls at the Marion Art Center's current exhibit, titled "A Month In Sicily."
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Defending champion wins bell ringing contest
Leonard Oats walked home today with a trophy for a contest that epitomizes San Francisco and celebrates an art form found nowhere else.
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Ongoing Visual Arts
Piccolo Richard Hagerty Invitational Exhibit, "Celebration": An exhibition featuring the official poster artist for the 30th Piccolo Spoleto Festival. Surgeon Richard (Duke) Hagerty is a self-taught artist who draws his surreal, fantastical imagery f...
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Commentary forms fabric of textile exhibit
In "Devotion to Thread," a new exhibit at Woodland Pattern Book Center, the do-it-yourself soul of underground craft culture merges with fine art sensibilities.
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9/11 Memorial in New Jersey Honors 40 People Too Many
Carved into the granite base of the sculpture across the Hudson River from ground zero are the names of more than 40 people who were not among the 2,979 killed on Sept. 11 and in the 1993 bombing.
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Public Lives: Curator of the Objects of Terrible Memory
Jan Seidler Ramirez is the chief curator of the nascent memorial museum at ground zero, a collection from a disaster not yet parsed by history.
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Museum Acquires Modernist House
The nonprofit MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles has acquired R. M. Schindler?s renowned Modernist Fitzpatrick-Leland House, shown above when it was built in 1936, perched on a cliff near the intersection of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Mulholland Drive. The three-level L-shaped house, with its interlocking volumes, was a gift from Russ Leland, who bought it in 1990 and spent ...
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Museums Set Stricter Guidelines for Acquiring Antiquities
The directors of the country?s largest art museums will announce new guidelines on Wednesday for how their institutions should collect antiquities.
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Anne d?Harnoncourt: Discerning Enthusiasm for Art
By any measure, Anne d?Harnoncourt?s tenure as director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art was distinguished.
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Fighting to make artMiniature depiction of the 'Great War' has big impact by bringing battle to life
Well, this is certainly a new take on an old subject. The "Great War," imported from Holland by the group Hotel Modern and making its U.S. premiere at Spoleto Festival USA tonight, is a creative combination of theater, film, puppetry and animation. It's miniature, yet portrays the grand sw...
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Clay continues to resonate in exhibits here
This weekend a ceramics exhibition will close at the Society for Contemporary Craft, Strip District, while another will open in Trinity Cathedral, Downtown. ...
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Sights and sounds
Have you seen an outstanding slice of entertainment recently in the Beaches area? A good band? An interesting art exhibit? A play not to be missed?
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Fest features
Belmar will play host to its 22nd New Jersey Seafood Festival this weekend with more than 45 vendors offering their take on shell- and fin-fish dishes from lobster to crabcakes to alliga tor sausage.
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'Great Art of Our Nation' Arriving at Public Schools
Portraits of George Washington and photos of the Brooklyn Bridge will be arriving at every New York City public school this summer, courtesy of a new initiative that aims to expose students to great American art. Each school will receive a package containing copies of 40 famous paintings and photographs, as well as suggestions on how to incorporate them into lesson plans. Educators said the ...
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Hue culture takes centre stage
VietNamNet Bridge – A series of art performances marked the opening ceremony of the nine-day Hue Festival at Ngo Mon (Noon Gate) Square last night. Titled Dem Hoi Hoang Cung (Royal Palace Festival Night), it featured 60 Vietnamese art troupes and international ones.
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USGA christens new Palmer golf history center
FAR HILLS, N.J. (AP) - Having a new addition to the USGA Museum dedicated to him on Tuesday brought back memories of Walter Hagen, Dwight Eisenhower and Bobby Jones for Arnold Palmer.
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Chattanooga: Council approves public art expenditure after dissent
Despite three council members speaking out against the expense, the Chattanooga City Council voted Tuesday to buy a $27,685 piece of public art near the Tennessee Aquarium.
Chattanooga Times Free Press |
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Return Champ Wins Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest
Leonard Oats walked home Tuesday with a trophy for a contest that epitomizes San Francisco and celebrates an art form found nowhere else.
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Plein Air Painting Workshop
Landscape painting workshop conducted by Carolyn Lewis in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park and Metro Parks. June 5-7, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; $225 for center members, $250 for nonmembers Cuyahoga Valley Art Center (330) 928-8092
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John Trumbull, Revolutionary artist
John Trumbull, who was born this week (June 6) in 1756, is someone most Americans have never heard of, yet he painted America's most famous, and most visited, painting, "The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776," which has hung in the Rotunda of the Capitol in Washington since 1826.
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Indianapolis Museum Announces Major Weegee Acquisition
A trove of Weegee photos discovered in a trunk at a 2003 yard sale has been acquired by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the museum announced Tuesday.
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Chattanooga: Council approves public art expenditure after dissent
Despite three council members speaking out against the expense, the Chattanooga City Council voted tonight to buy a $27,685 piece of public art near the Tennessee Aquarium.
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Fighting to make art
Well, this is certainly a new take on an old subject. The "Great War," imported from Holland by the group Hotel Modern and making its U.S. premiere at Spoleto Festival USA tonight, is a creative combination of theater, film, puppetry and animation. It's miniature, yet portrays the grand sweep of war in all its horror.
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