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Michael Burtch steps down from art gallery
When Michael Burtch became curator of Art Gallery of Algoma in 1981, it's a position he expected he'd hold for "maybe three years." Instead, he helped guide the gallery for nearly 30 years before deciding to retire effective June 1 at age 58. In fact, [...]
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center cancels annual Springfield festival
SPRINGFIELD - After 31 years, the Puerto Rican Cultural Center has decided to cancel the Puerto Rican Festival, held every summer at Riverfront Park.
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Dinosculpture Exhibit WBNG-TV Binghamton, NY Local Top Stories
Don't be alarmed if you start spotting dinosaurs around town. Meet Gronk, the dinosaur used in "Ya Gotta Have Hart" from the B.C. Comic Strip. Gronk was created by the award-winning cartoonist Johnny Hart, who died last year.
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Museum relieved after B.C. RCMP recover some stolen art treasures intact
VANCOUVER - At least some of the Bill Reid art treasures stolen last month in a heist from a B.C. museum have been recovered, RCMP said Monday, news that came as a relief to museum officials who had feared the pieces might be melted down for their gold. Const. Annie Linteau confirmed some of the 15 items - 12 by the legendary Haida artist and three other Mexican works - were seized as search ...
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Affordable Art Fair opens in NYC
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.
AM New York |
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Art show
• ‘Patriots Dream’ Juried Art Show by Uintah Arts Council, opens June 2 through 27 at the Western Heritage Museum.
Vernal Express |
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New Jack the Ripper Exhibit in London
A new museum exhibition opens the case file on Jack the Ripper—and affords a grim look at the London of the time—a city made for murder.
Newsweek |
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Auckland Piano Festival goes national
The third annual Auckland International Piano Festival is opens next month at Auckland’s Raye Freedman Centre. Increased demand for tickets from outside of Auckland sees this years’ event holding two concerts in Hamilton and three concerts each in both Napier and Wellington.
Scoop.co.nz |
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art June 10 - 15 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, 4th floor; 4 pm - 8 pm:
Achin Potua presents its annual exhibition of drawings, paintings and sculptures. Participants: Asish Gupta, Raktim Mukherjee, Gopal Das, Indrajit Narayan, Arunesh Choudhury, Sandip Mukherjee, Swapan Kumar Ghosh, Mohammad Fokhrul Islam and Sabyasachi Sengupta.
The Telegraph |
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Looking for Cool Junk on the First Day of MoCCA
It wouldn’t be the annual MoCCA Arts Festival if I didn’t make a ton of frivolous purchases. Normally, I tell myself that I go for the interesting slideshows and panel discussions, but this year’s line-up of programs looked like nothing but cheap excuses to hawk upcoming books ( Blake Bell promotes his book on comics’ legend Steve Ditko and graphic designer Chip Kidd peddles a history of Batman ...
New York Press |
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Art and Air is quite an affair
The show must go on. After bouncing back from a rained-out event on Friday into the sweltering heat on Saturday and Sunday, Art and Air continued to showcase artwork of artists from around the country.
Kirkwood-Webster Journal |
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Behind the scenes of 'The Colbert Report'
NEW YORK -- 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.
The Pantagraph |
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Presidio Trust endorses museum, hotel and theaters for the park
The agency that oversees the Presidio recommended in an environmental report released today placing a large museum, a 125-room hotel and new movie theaters in the park's center. The 300-page report lays out four options for developing the Main Post, the heart...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Bhutan Post Features Unusual Postage Stamps, Children's Art Program at Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Bhutan's Postal Service will feature its unique postage stamp history, including the world's first CD-ROM postage stamp with Web portal and mini-documentary at the 2008 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Multichannel News Video
The accompanying video is part of Fuse music network's $15 million advertising campaign, dubbed `Music Is.' The campaign, designed by the Brooklyn Brothers, features up-and-coming music artists and directors illustrating their own personal connection to music using various media including photography and computer animation..
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Affordable Art Fair opens in New York City for novice buyers
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.
Canoe Travel |
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Calling all artists
Sugar Sand Park is accepting applications for the “Boca Festival Days” second annual Juried Art Exhibition.
Boca Raton News |
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Fifth-grader's poster promotes safety in the hot summer sun
Leah Veltema is the Michigan winner of the SHADE Foundation of America poster contest, and the distinction brought lots of good things to her and her classmates.
MLive.com |
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B.C. cops have breakthrough in missing art case
Policehave achieved a breakthrough in the search for the gold pieces by Canadian artist Bill Reid, which went missing from a museum at the University of British Columbia on May 24.
CTV.ca |
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Artists Union of Russia Exhibition Center
38 Bolshaya Morskaya Ul. Tel. 314-3060. Daily, 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Borey 58 Liteiny Prospekt. M. Vladimirskaya, Mayakovskaya. Tel. 273-3693. Tuesday - Saturday 12 a.m. to 8 p.m.
St. Petersburg Times |
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State Russian Museum:Marble Palace
Daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed Tuesday. A branch of the State Russian Museum.
St. Petersburg Times |
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Peace in the Park
It may not put an end to wars, but events like the Art of Peace festival go a long way toward making the world a better place, supporters say.
Niagara This Week |
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BC RCMP recover some stolen art treasures after executing warrants
RCMP say they've recovered some of the Bill Reid art treasures stolen from the UBC Museum of Anthropology late last month.
Times & Transcript |
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Garden festival to highlight importance of green behavior
This year's Garden Show and Spring Festival aims to celebrate what it is to be Lebanese and highlight the responsibility that Lebanon's citizens have to their environment, organizers say. The fifth edition of the Garden Show and Spring Festival will open its gates Tuesday from 4-10 p.m., and will run until June 14.
The Daily Star Lebannon |
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Weekend MidSummer's Dream festival needs approval
The MidSummer's Dream music and art festival is slated to open this weekend, but the Planning Commission has yet to approve organizers' conditional use permit.
Ashland Daily Tidings |
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