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Rising folk star appearing in Watchung
Ellis is a rising star on the folk music circuit, creating a buzz after being voted "Most Wanted to Return" and performing on the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival preview tour.
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Camp Invention will blast off this month
Children can explore Mars, renovate a sculpture garden and help rebuild a polluted town at Camp Invention. It runs June 23-27 at Branchburg Central Middle School and is open to pupils entering Grades 1-6. Camp Invention fosters creativity, teamwork, inventive-thinking skills and science literacy.
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Embattled Exhibition May Be Hoax
A New York-based artist was questioned by the New York City Police Department and the Secret Service yesterday over an exhibition that may have been at least partly a hoax. A spokesman for the police, Paul Browne, said that a woman called 911 yesterday morning reporting threatening signs in a storefront in midtown. The signs on the storefront, at 264 West 40th Street, said "The Assassination of ...
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Gallery to feature exhibit on 'The Art of Abstraction'
The Hilton Head Island art world features a cottage industry of marsh scenes and Lowcountry sunsets. But the Art League of Hilton Head's new exhibit shows a more abstract version of the island.
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Bluffton's Maye River Gallery packed with compelling pieces
Aproned, her hands dripping with a gooey, texture-producing compound, artist Diane Dean welcomed me, on my second visit in as many weeks, to the all new Maye River Gallery on Calhoun Street in Bluffton. Unusually well situated on one of Bluffton's finest streets, the compact gallery opened earlier this spring.
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Photography classes held at museum
The Coastal Discovery Museum presents The Sun City Photography Club through July 12. An Adobe Photoshop Capabilities class will be held June 14, and a Creative Printing Options class will be held June 28. All are at 11 a.m. in the Jarvis Room.
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Telfair Museum honors Juneteenth celebration
SAVANNAH -- The Telfair Museum of Art will hold a series of programs in remembrance of Juneteenth, from Monday to June 14. Juneteenth -- which originated in Galveston, Texas, in 1865 -- is the oldest celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. In observance of the African-American emancipation day, traditionally held June 19, the Telfair'scelebration will highlight ...
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State medial university seeks SC poets
In February, a 650,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art center for the diagnosis and treatment of heart, vascular and digestive diseases opened on the campus of the Medical University of South Carolina. This hospital features a diverse collection of visual artwork selected from a broad range of South Carolina artists. MUSC wants to augment this display with accompanying poetic works. South ...
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Pottery Festival queen crowned
EAST LIVERPOOL - In 1968, Linda Alexander was crowned as the first Tri-State Pottery Festival Queen. Forty years later, her crown has been passed to Brittany Webber, 17, of Louisville, Ohio. Allie Sanchez, 15, Iesha Abbott, 16, and Samantha Erwin, 17, all of East Liverpool, were named princesses.
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Sweeping up some history
Three generations of Liddics have practiced the art of broommaking, and on June 12, the fourth generation will demonstrate what they have learned about the craft of their predecessors. David, Howard and Steve Liddic will give a demonstration of antique broommaking techniques at 10 a.m. June 12 at the Thomas T. Taber Museum on West Fourth Street.
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Fine art on display in exhibit of work by Souris Kindergarten students
SOURIS — An art exhibition here this week has some people saying it is worthy of a mainstream gallery.
The Guardian |
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[Best Bets] Monday, June 9
One Blu Wall (first floor of Fondren Corner), the newest gallery in Jackson, hosts its opening reception tonight at 5 p.m., featuring the artwork of a slew of local artists and the music of Latinismo!
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8 students are winners of annual writing contest
Seventh-grader Lindsy Mobley is one of several winners of the 16th annual Marin County elementary and middle school writing contest, established by the Phillips
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Klaus Perls, an Art Dealer Who Gave Picassos to the Met, Dies at 96
Mr. Perls donated an important collection of African royal art from Benin and modern works by Picasso and Modigliani to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
New York Times |
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French police recover art by Monet, Sisley, Brueghel
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.
The Kansas City Star |
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Council panel defers action on Rockhill Tennis Club
A Kansas City Council committee on Wednesday postponed action on a dispute over plans by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art for the Rockhill Tennis Club.
The Kansas City Star |
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World's Largest Art Fair Opens in Switzerland
60K flock to Basel's contemporary art fair as world art market soars.
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9:19 p.m. -- 'Art for Animals' at June's First Thursday
Gallery 601 owners Christine Otradovec and Terry Begg rarely come to work
The Idaho Statesman |
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Downtown days
What: Downtown Days is a new, yet old festival for downtown Lee's Summit. It replaces the former Old Tyme Days festival that was dropped two years ago because of construction conflicts. The new fest will have three stages of music, family-friendly entertainment, a car show, a carnival, craft and art vendors, a beer garden and more.
The Kansas City Star |
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Calendar for June 5-11
ARTICHOKES: Artmania Camp for Young Children. Features guest artists. 9 a.m.-noon June 9. $95 plus tax. Includes all art supplies, snack, T-shirt. Call to register. Ages 5-9. Classes continue June 11 and 13. Artmania. Explore sculpture, printmaking, mixed media and drawing. 3-6 p.m. June 10. $85. Includes all art supplies, snack, T-shirt. Call to register. Ages 9-14. Continues Tuesdays and ...
The Kansas City Star |
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Guild of Latino Fine Arts throws a street party to celebrate community.
“I got nominated right on the spot,” Jenny Mendez remembers. Mendez is an accomplished local artist and curator, best known as the director of the Mattie Rhodes Art Center. Her experience recently landed her on the board of the Azteca De Greater Kansas City Guild of Latino Fine Arts. Mendez's appointment came quickly, at the first meeting she attended.
The Kansas City Star |
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Photo exhibition showcases experiences of war
A new exhibition featuring photographs from World War I and World War II showcases the importance of photography in capturing Australian history.
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Museum showcases Pennsylvania longrifle
The Pennsylvania longrifle has an image problem, says Dave Ehrig, president of the Jacobsburg Historical Society. The problem is that most people still think of this unique American invention as the Kentucky longrifle.
The Derrick |
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Merredin banner in the terrace
NORTH Merredin Primary School students have been busy painting the banner to represent the Merredin Shire in this year’s Local Government Week competition in St Georges Terrace.
Merredin Wheatbelt Mercury |
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Records to be recognized at Hue Festival
VietNamNet Bridge - Viet Nam Guinness Book Center (Vietbooks) will announce eight records at Hue Festival 2008, said Ngo Hoa, Deputy Chairman of the People's Committee of Thua Thien Hue Province and Head of the organization board of Hue Festival 2008.
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