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Vancouver's Downtown Eastside residents line up to join photo contest
Hundreds of people, some pushing shopping carts with their belongings, lined up on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside on Saturday morning hoping to enter a photography contest.
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Volunteer of the Week:
Mary Matton works with the Annapolis Quilt Guild on various charitabnle projects. She also has volunteered for the Smithsonian, giving tours and demonstrations for the American History Museum.
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Art...and all that jazz
Frog painting came back for another year at the McKinney Art and Jazz Festival on Saturday and Sunday downtown. In addition to hands-on art projects, the event featured several vendors, food, music and several different forms of art.
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Brutal heat doesn't stop legions from Heritage Days
TRENTON — Hundreds of area residents weathered yesterday’s oppressive 95-degree temp to enjoy the Heritage Days Festival here along West State Street.
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Pirates of the Burning Sea Announces Video Contest
Got a videographer's bent? Subscribe to Pirates of the Burning Sea? If so, the PotBS devs have a contest for you. All the details can be discovered after the jump.
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Just who is this 'Stephen Colbert' character?
NEW YORK (AP) -- 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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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-06-09 18:40 Affordable Art Fair opens in NYC for novice buyers
NEW YORK (AP) - Just because artworks are selling for tens of millions of dollars at auction doesn't mean you need that much money to buy original art.
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Instruments strike chord at Music Museum
One visitor might be drawn to the six-string Spanish guitar on which Bob Dylan composed some of his earliest songs.
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Grant takes museum tour outside
Special to The Herald
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Affordable Art Fair opens in NYC for novice buyers
(AP:NEW YORK) Just because artworks are selling for tens of millions of dollars at auction doesn't mean you need that much money to buy original art. Art experts say that collectors of modest means needn't settle for a life of posters and reproductions.
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
A few weeks ago I criticized the Hirshhorn for presenting an Amy Sillman exhibition that is nearly indistinguishable from a commercial gallery show. The National Gallery of Art has gone further: It is presenting an exhibition that essentially was a commercial gallery exhibit.
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‘Art All Over’ exhibit displays local originality
WEST WINDSOR — “Art All Over,” a new exhibit at Mercer County Community College celebrating what Gallery Director Tricia Fagan called the “exuberant art spirit that motivates human beings to adorn, appropriate, change, embellish, color, and re-create the objects and environments that define their lives,” opened Tuesday at Mercer County...
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Library News: Rhinelander artwork on display
Painter and Printmaker Mary Rhinelander shows her work at the Sawyer Free Library in Gloucester during the month of June. Fabric, buttons, paint and color fill the entry with energy and pattern.
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Mercer eateries participate in annual food fest
NEW BRUNSWICK — Some of Mercer County’s top eateries — including Rat’s Restaurant at the Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, The Brothers Moon and The Blue Bottle Café in Hopewell, the Lawrenceville Inn in Lawrenceville and Tre Piani, Mediterra and Salt Creek Grille in Princeton — are among the more...
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Meteorite shaped like Michigan sells for $20,000 at auction
DETROIT -- India trumps Michigan _ at least in the world of extraterrestrial art. A 75-pound nickel-and-iron meteorite resembling Michigan's Lower Peninsula sold at auction Sunday...
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Affordable Art Fair opens in NYC for novice buyers
Art lovers looking to snare some original artwork don't have to be millionaires. Just check out the Affordable Art Fair, a four-day contemporary art show of up-and-coming and established artists that opens this week in New York City for its seventh year.
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Affordable Art Fair opens in NYC for novice buyers
Just because artworks are selling for tens of millions of dollars at auction doesn't mean you need that much money to buy original art.
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Festivals join forces to green-up London's summer
It is the season for Forest City festivals but this summer's festivities will see a coalition of sorts, looking to make this years events a touch greener.
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Affordable Art Fair Opens In NYC For Novice Buyers
Just because artworks are selling for tens of millions of dollars at auction doesn't mean you need that much money to buy original art. Art experts say that collectors of modest means needn't settle for a life of posters and reproductions. It's possible to find good, original contemporary art in galleries, online and at art fairs if collectors are willing to train their eye and look at a lot of ...
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Master art forger exhibits own work and fakes
Dutch art forger Geert Jan Jansen, once dubbed the master forger of the 20th century, has gone legit with an exhibition of his work in the city of Zeist.
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The Devil's in the Details: Jason D’Aquino at Fuse Gallery
Like artists who used to carve whole panoramas on a tiny piece of ivory, Brooklynite D’Aquino uses small items, such as vintage matchbooks, on which to sketch his graphite line drawings of voluptuous women, aliens, devils, monkeys, pistols and motorbikes.
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Review: Ndrive G800 sat nav
The G800 is the first sat nav we’ve seen that uses full colour satellite photography for its mapping, the idea being that you’ll recognise your surroundings better when in unfamiliar territory.
Personal Computer World |
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The painted quilt
WHAT'S the latest development with the Canada-based Cebuana artist Paulina Constancia? She’s back home though I can’t say that her return comes with a vengeance. She brought with her a new collection of painted quilts, which she will show at the Ayala Museum in Makati on June 20. It is aptly called “Quiltopia.”
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Baxa Corporation Launches PACT(TM) Product Line at the ASHP Summer Meeting
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. ( Map ) - ENGLEWOOD, Colo. , June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Baxa Corporation is launching a new product line -- Productivity and Compliance Tools, or PACT -- at the annual ASHP Summer Meeting and Exhibition.
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Affordable Art Fair opens in NYC for novice buyers
Associated Press - June 9, 2008 12:55 PM ET NEW YORK (AP) - Art lovers looking to snare some original artwork don't have to be millionaires.
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