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Josh Turner Looks Forward to Returning to CMA Music Festival's Big Stage
Josh Turner may be no stranger to the limelight, but he does admit that performing in front of more than 50,000 cheering and adoring fans can be somewhat intimidating. "The big show," he said smiling, "you get butterflies."
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Art for the Environment inspiring climate action
Climate Change Minister David Parker says he is delighted to open the United Nations Art for the Environment exhibition today as part of World Environment Day 2008 celebrations being hosted in New Zealand.
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Art Museum Offers Immersion in Gullah Culture
Residents and visitors to the Grand Strand can learn about Gullah culture at the Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum’s Free Family Day June 14. With the works of African American artist Jonathan Green as a backdrop plus a host of notable experts in Gullah art and culture, and lots of hands-on activities for all ages, the Museum will be “full’up” with fun for the whole family. A ...
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French police recover 4 paintings stolen in August
Police on Wednesday recovered a Monet landscape and three other paintings that were stolen by masked gunmen from a museum on the French Riviera last August, judicial officials said.
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Gap's new T-shirts give props to NYC
Gap has gone arty recently with the release of its new limited-edition Artist Editions tees, created by 13 of today's hottest artists in celebration of the Whitney Museum of American Art's biennial. The T-shirt designers can be spotted wearing their tees in a slick new ad campaign. There's Chuck Close (in his pixilated creation), Kenny Scharf (collagey) and Marilyn Minter (rockin' it Pat ...
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A bouquet of tips from the chintz prince
Mario Buatta, the “Prince of Chintz,” has had his own New York decorating firm for 45 years. His lavish yet cozy rooms, resplendent in cabbage rose print slipcovers, swagged curtains and dog paintings evoke an Americanized view of English country style. He has lacquered walls in peach and lavender at a Manhattan triplex for Mariah Carey and accessorized and mixed patterns for ...
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Eye on the Scene: No Names Needed
The first issue of a new quarterly journal about the city’s contemporary art scene is scheduled for release on Friday, July 4, just in time for that month’s First Friday celebration.
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French police recover 4 paintings stolen in August
MARSEILLE, France—Police on Wednesday recovered a Monet landscape and three other paintings that were stolen by masked gunmen from a museum on the French Riviera last August, judicial officials said.
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OCR unchanged at 8.25 percent
The Official Cash Rate (OCR) remains unchanged at 8.25 percent. Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard said: "The global economy is currently experiencing significant increases in oil and food prices.
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French police recover 4 paintings stolen in August
Police on Wednesday recovered a Monet landscape and three other paintings that were stolen by masked gunmen from a museum on the French Riviera last August, judicial officials said.
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Art Camp in Yarnell ,
Tamlin Allbritten is offering her Art Camp in Yarnell this summer, where kids can learn and create. Allbritten has been an art teacher for nearly 30 years and is offering the following classes:
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Cops Question Artist About 'Assassination' Art Exhibit
The NYPD shut down an art exhibition on the West Side that featured a large window display with the words "The Assassination of Hillary Clinton & The Assassination of Barack Obama," reported the New York Times City Room blog. Detectives and Secret Service agents took the artist, Yazmany Arboleda, in for questioning.
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APA recognizes The Reporter
The Sand Mountain Reporter has earned six awards in the Alabama Press Association’s (APA) Better Newspaper Editorial Contest. The contest honors the best journalism in state newspapers each year. The Reporter competes with the largest non-daily newspapers in Alabama.
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The trashy art of Asian diplomacy
When curator Mizuki Takahashi was selecting artists for the Japan Foundation-sponsored exhibition "Kita! Japanese Artists Meet Indonesia," held earlier this year in Indonesia, she deliberately chose ones "capable of involving local people and working in local environments." So, when six-person artist group Chim ↑ Pom went to Bali, rented a helicopter and dropped rubbish from the sky onto a ...
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Art Museum Audit Will Show Trouble, Clear Air
An audit due out in the next two weeks appears certain to give the Long Beach Museum of Art a black eye, perhaps even a bloody nose. Executive Director Ron Nelson says he welcomes the audit’s release.
gazettes.com |
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Launch of Interactive Physics Website Prompts Online Astro-Photo Contest
Focus on the universe through your camera lens. June 30 marks the launch of OurUndiscoveredUniverse.com
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A knight to remember
VILNIUS - If you have ever had the urge to build a time machine to go back to the Middle Ages, don’t bother. The Trakai Medieval festival – due to start on June 7 – will showcase a massive range of medieval events.
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Gallery left homeless by flood moves into Fredericton Playhouse
A Fredericton gallery driven out of its building by spring flooding has found a temporary home at a local theatre.
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Palo Alto Weekly Photo Contest Winners
Unleashing their lenses on the people, places and particulars of the Peninsula and beyond, this year’s Photo Contest winners present us with a contrast of intimacy and detachment.
Palo Alto Weekly |
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Bridge fest comes this Sunday
COVINGTON – If you shy away from the big local beer festivals, but prefer more family-friendly, history-oriented events, this weekend’s Roeblingfest may be for you.
The Cincinnati Enquirer |
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Embalmed sheep exhibit alarms museum
An embalmed sheep is at the center of a growing controversy in Los Angeles after being given its own armed guard in an art gallery.The display by young British artist Damien Hurst at the Broad Contemporary Art Museum now includes three gun-carrying security officers, one of whom now stands a few feet in front of Hirst's Away From the Flock exhibit, reported The Independent Wednesday. Visitors ...
Moldova.org |
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Launch of Interactive Physics Website Prompts Online Astro-Photo Contest
MINNEAPOLIS----Focus on the universe through your camera lens. June 30 marks the launch of OurUndiscoveredUniverse.com and the website is celebrating by announcing an astro-photo contest for amateur photographers.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Clinton/Obama assassination exhibit closed
A controversial art exhibit was shut down in Midtown Manhattan Wednesday.
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Luminato festival
Luminato -- Toronto's Festival of Arts and Creativity -- runs June 6 through 15. Stay with thestar.com/uminato for full coverage. Renegade choreographer Morris is aging gracefully Mark Morris, who directs one of the world's leading dance companies, is at once a traditionalist, working extensively in ballet and opera, and a renegade – still sexy, barefoot and bare-legged, and still prone to ...
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104: a new social contract for the arts?
There is an imagined space where all manner of art - from fashion, design and circus acts to music, dance, theater, film, writing, visual and fine arts and digital arts - come together in an organic relationship with both the neighborhood and the global communities. The space's creators envision studios.
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