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Readings and Talks
MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE The Queens museum brings Werner Herzog to the Times Center, a theatre and event space in the new Times skyscraper. The filmmaker will be interviewed by the director Jonathan Demme. (242 W. 41st St. 718-784-4520. June 5 at 6:30.) “MAD. SQ. READS” Richard Price offers . . .
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Art exhibition on the way
The Wilmington Council for the Arts proudly presents the 28th annual Arts Exhibition on Saturday, June 21 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Sunday, June 22 from 1-4 p.m.
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SPORTS HEADLINES
SPRING LAKE — Two Michigan artists have combined their works to form a series of paintings, which will be shown at the Dreese Fine Art and Framing shop in Spring Lake.
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Night Life
ROCK AND POP Musicians and night-club proprietors live complicated lives; it’s advisable to call ahead to confirm engagements. BAM RHYTHM & BLUES FESTIVAL AT METROTECH MetroTech Commons, Flatbush Ave. at Myrtle Ave. (718-636-4100)--June 5: The Beninese guitarist Lionel Loueke employs an unorthodox, homegrown technique that draws on both jazz . . .
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Funhouse
There is something nightmarish about Jeff Koons. The fifty-three-year-old American enchanter and provocateur is a major artist, in the old sense of one who edits the past and sketches the future of an art--in this case, sculpture. (Koons’s uncannily mediocre paintings suggest an insensibility in two . . .
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Extreme Makeover
Last year, when Urs Fischer excavated a hole--a gaping meditation on being and nothingness--in Gavin Brown’s gallery, it was hard to imagine how he could top it. The unlikely answer: with wallpaper. The audacious pileup of visual pleasures and conceptual provocations in “Who’s Afraid of Jasper Johns?,” at . . .
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Art
MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES METROPOLITAN MUSEUM Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)--“Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy.” Through Sept. 1. “Medieval and Renaissance Treasures from the Victoria and Albert Museum.” Through Aug. 17. “Jeff Koons on the Roof.” Through Oct. 26. “Tiepolo Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection.” Through Aug. 17. “Photography . . .
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Above and Beyond
RED HOOK HAPPENINGS A sunset picnic and film festival kick off the Red Hook Waterfront Arts Festival on June 6. It continues the next day with performances by the pirate-puppet-and-rock act Jollyship the Whiz-Bang, the Asian-Afro-beat ensemble Amayo’s Fu-Arkist-Ra, the salsa duo . . .
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Contemplating 'Marine Venus'
The eye-catching sculpture is "just the tip of Dal's artistic iceberg." Only a few pieces of Dal Art Gallery's permanent collection can be displayed at one time.
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Discussion: Let's talk about art
How do you think the Dalhousie Art Gallery could get greater prominence on campus?
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Readings and Talks
MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK In conjunction with its new exhibit, “Catholics in New York 1808-1946,” the museum is screening “On the Waterfront,” whose Father Barry character was based on the Jesuit priest and activist John M. Corridan (1911-1984). Budd Schulberg, the author of the screenplay, will be . . .
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On the Horizon
ABOVE AND BEYOND SWING TIME June 7-8 Governors Island hosts a Jazz Age Lawn Party, featuring swing dancing to Michael Arenella and his Dreamland Orchestra, a pie-baking contest, croquet games, and an exhibit of vintage cars. (www.dreamlandorchestra.com.) MOVIES AUTEUR, AUTEUR June 13-July 3 The Directors’ Fortnight, the Cannes . . .
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Philadelphia Museum of Art CEO Anne d'Harnoncourt dies at 64
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Anne d'Harnoncourt, the longtime chief executive of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and one of the art world's most influential women, has died. She was 64.
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Art
MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES METROPOLITAN MUSEUM Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)--“Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy” rescues clothing from the realm of mere mortals via Hollywood costumes, haute couture, and high-performance sportswear. Designs render the body untouchable (Hussein Chalayan’s rigid airplane dress in fibreglass, Balenciaga’s plated-metal gladiator leggings), or . . .
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Behind the scenes of 'The Colbert Report'
The walls of "The Colbert Report" studio are plastered with letters and artwork of the show's fearless leader submitted by loyal fans. In one painted portrait, Stephen Colbert, astride a horse, is substituted for George Washington.
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Above and Beyond
WORLD SCIENCE FESTIVAL Neurologists, paleontologists, cosmologists, theoretical physicists, and scientists of all stripes meet up with writers, dancers, musicians, and other artists at this inspired gathering. (May 28-June 1. For more information, visit www.worldsciencefestival.com.) “WHITMAN’S BROOKLYN” May 31 is Walt Whitman’s birthday (his hundred and eighty-ninth), and to . . .
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Watershed
Paintings and photographs from “Action/Abstraction,” an exhibition at the Jewish Museum reviewed by Peter Schjeldahl.
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In brief
Schröder stays. The Vienna Albertina museum Director Klaus Albrecht Schröder has had his contract extended five years until 2014. Schröder, 52, has been linked with the directorship of Vienna’s Art History Museum.
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MCOT English News : Thai puppet troupe wins 'Best Performance Award'
BANGKOK, June 9 (TNA) - Traditional Thai puppetry won the hearts of the judges at an international festival of puppet art held in the Czech Republic.
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Hang art so it's easy to view
D EAR GAIL: We bought a piece of artwork for our master bedroom and intended to hang it over the bed, but it's too big. We can't return it since we bought it at an out-of-town art fair. We hadn't planned on buying anything, but just fell in love with it.
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Weird Science
A portfolio of images from the magazine and “Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe,” a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Quilts, Gourds And Carvings, Oh My
The Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea will be hosting several art demonstrations this month. Artists range from quilters to wood carvers to gourd painters.
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Shutterfly snaps up technology veteran for top e-commerce role
Online photography retailer Shutterfly Inc. has hired Geoffrey Weber as its new vice president of operations. Weber will oversee Shutterfly’s online operations, including systems, networks, data centers and Shutterfly’s archive of more than one billion customer images.
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62nd Rhododendron Festival offers music, food and handmade crafts
The 62nd Annual Rhododendron Arts and Crafts Festival will take place the weekend of June 21-22, marking the approximate peak blooming phase of the flower that gave the festival its name.
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(14/06) Eclectic art exhibition
AN eclectic art exhibition, including wood carvings, jewellery, bags, sculpture, prints and installation work, will open at the Dairy Gallery in Westbury on Saturday. (14/06) (09/06/2008 16:15:39)
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