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Festivals, fairs serve as cheap summer entertainment
I didn't used to be cheap.
Knoxville News Sentinel |
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Chattanooga: Water-themed artworks at ArtBox Gallery through July 13
The ArtBox Gallery in the New Salem community of Lookout Mountain, Ga., is hosting its second annual summer show, titled “Get Wet: Aqua de la Vida!”
Chattanooga Times Free Press |
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Chattanooga: William Morris opens Monday at Hunter Museum
William Morris’ glass constructions defy the eye. They look as if they could be made of clay, bone, metal, shell, leather or wood, but they’re glass.
Chattanooga Times Free Press |
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Bayou Boogaloo serves up sounds, tastes of Big Easy
NORFOLK How many habanero peppers can you eat before your stomach bubbles like boiling water? That's what Richard Collins wanted to find out Saturday afternoon. andquot;Who participates in a pepper eating contest with one of the hottest peppers in the world?andquot; asked his wife, Linda. and ...
The Virginian-Pilot |
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Councilman wants art museum to rethink location
Nearly a year after Fayetteville Museum of Art leaders thought they had finally found a home at Festival Park, questions have resurfaced that could jeopardize their plans.
The Fayetteville Observer |
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Clay & Glass Festival draws all ages
ROYAL OAK -- There was something for everyone Saturday afternoon at the 14th annual Royal Oak Clay & Glass Festival. The weekend-long festival kicked off Friday and continues today, featuring live music, food, a beer tent, and even a 55-foot long sandbox on Fifth Street.
Royal Oak Daily Tribune |
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Edmund Tijerina: Works from big names of Mexican art coming to museum
Coming up -- a glimpse into the holdings of the world's second-richest man.
San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5 |
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Tried and true
Never mind IKEA’s common sense. Sometimes when you want good furniture, you’ve got to do it the old-fashioned way, says Brian Gow, a chairmaker from Chippawa. The music teacher at A.N. Myer high school was one of the demonstrators at the Willoughby museum’s Rural Roots Heritage Fair, where a [...]
Niagara Falls Review |
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Nation's Best Canine Competitors Battle it Out in Little Rock Dog Show
A suburban wife and mother vanishes after attending an art show at a gallery, where she argued with a man wearing a blue-velvet coat, the team's only clue to her disappearance. Anne: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.
CW Arkansas |
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Art Festival
If you're an artist or an art lover, Snake River Landing was the place to be today. Today's festival celebrated the art created during the First Annual River Rocks Plein Air Paint-Out held by the Art Museum of Eastern Idaho during the previous two days. Channel 3 Eyewitness News reporter Kris Keach has more on the event.
KIDK TV Idaho Falls |
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Goyas framed by his city
Many painters seem indelibly linked to the cities in which they lived and worked, like Canaletto and Venice or Vermeer of Delft. But paintings are portable and, a few centuries on, can often be dispersed far and wide, which is why one quarter of Vermeer’s output can be seen today in a 10-block stretch of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
The Kansas City Star |
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Central Tuscany Guide
Famed for its wonderful food and wine, beautiful countryside and probably the world’s finest collection of Renaissance art, the Italian region of Tuscany is an enchanting paradise that can’t fail to impress.
RainbowNetwork.com |
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Crowd gathers for Jazz-MU-Tazz festival
HUNTINGTON -- Swinging and swaying in step with the music, a crowd of people gathered at Pullman Square to listen to the sounds of the Jazz-MU-Tazz summer jazz festival.
The Huntington Herald-Dispatch |
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'Arte Contemporanea a Villa Pisani' Opens
VICENZA, ITALY.- An exhibition of works specially created for the site by Igino Legnaghi and Francois Morellet just opened in Bagnolo di Lonigo (province of Vicenza), at the splendid Villa Pisani, perhaps the most outstanding of Andrea Palladio's early villas.
Art Daily |
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Ata Kandó and Eva Besnyo at Huo Gallery Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM.- HUP gallery Amsterdam presents a retrospective of the best works from the oeuvre of photographers Ata Kandó and Eva Besnyö. Hungary was the country where both Ata Kandó (1913) and Eva Besnyö (1910-2003) have their roots.
Art Daily |
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Whitney and Pompidou to Present a New Look at Calder
NEW YORK.- Alexander Calder: The Paris Years is the first comprehensive, critical look at the formative seven-year period between 1926 and 1933, when Calder, on his way to becoming one of the greatest American sculptors, discovered his own singular artistic vocabulary.
Art Daily |
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The Henry Art Gallery Presents The Violet Hour Exhibition
Jen Liu. The Brethren of the Stone: Comfortably Numb (still). 2006. Single channel video. Courtesy of the artist and Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery. SEATTLE, WA.-
Art Daily |
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American Masters of Art Nouveau - The Art of Arthur and Lucia Mathews Coming to Akron Art Museum
Arthur F. Mathews, Youth, c. 1917, oil on canvas, 38 x 50 in., with Furniture Shop frame, 59 ½ x 67 ¾ in., Collection of the Oakland Museum of California, gift of Concours d’Antiques, Art Guild 66.196.24.
Art Daily |
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The Spring-Time of Russian Avant-garde Opens at the Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo
Olga Rozanova (1886-1918), Composition with a Train, Early 1910s, Oil on canvas; 48.5×71.4. TOKYO, JAPAN.-
Art Daily |
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The engineer of dreams
Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe . Where: Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Ave. at 75th Street, New York. When: Through Sept. 21. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesdays-Thursdays; 1-9 p.m. Fridays; 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
The Star-Ledger |
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Work of jean-ius
Springwood artist Marlene Jones might have had to do some quick research on US actress Katey Sagal when she found out she would be painting her jeans for this year’s Jeans for Genes fund-raiser, but her 12-year-old grandson had no such problems.
Canowindra News |
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Weintraub: Survey says ... Celebrity Family Feud is bland
“Password” with celebrities is a pretty good idea. An all-star “Apprentice” — leaving aside the question of whether newspaper gossips and professional reality show contestants rise to the level of stars — is a decent concept for a series, too.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
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Electrifying Damon Gupton raises ‘Othello' to unexpected heights
I might as well just say it: You owe it to yourself to get down to Southmoreland Park to see the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival production of “Othello.”
The Kansas City Star |
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ActiveMusic Auction of Celebrity-Autographed Baldwin Green Baby Grand Piano Goes Live Today; Proceeds to Benefit ...
A one-of-a-kind, Baldwin environmentally “green” baby grand piano, is being auctioned live on the ActiveMusic Web site, www.activemusic.org, the organization announced today. The auction goes live, Friday June 20th, and will continue through July 4, 2008. The piano has been signed by Fats Domino, Dr. John, Ray Brown Jr., Dr. Lonnie Smith, James “Fathead” Newman, Sophie B. Hawkins and others. ...
PR.com |
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Photos: Beach museum marks solstice with medieval revelry
VIRGINIA BEACH Nat Lasley stood around a crackling fire, offering passers-by - young and old - the opportunity to send a wish to the heavens. andquot;Would anybody like to make a wish?andquot; Lasley asked. andquot;We have the one and only bone fire.andquot; But people scooted past, eager to ...
The Virginian-Pilot |
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