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Dozens attend Water Lily Festival
David Busch has wanted a water feature in his yard "for years." His art-teacher wife, Cathy, loves Monet. On Sunday, June 22, they found the perfect way to combine the two when they attended the Ohio Water Lily Festival.
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Glasgow Boy’s work bought for museum
A renowned Glasgow Boys painter's "nationally important work" has been bought for more than £200,000 for the city's new Riverside Museum of Transport.
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Independence festival worth the wait in Exeter
Although American Independence Day is traditionally celebrated on July 4, Exeter's American Independence Festival is celebrated two weeks later - that's how long it took the copy of the Declaration of Independence to arrive in Exeter via horseback from Philadelphia.
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Community art
No one expects to see tents pitched in front of an art gallery. But the "Station of Contemporary Art" that Bezalel Academy of Art and Design students erected in Ramle of all places strives to surprise.
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Show Me A Story: Bear Fight Art Night
TYLER - There's a group of East Texas students turning a local coffee shop into an outdoor gallery. Photojournalist Michael Lowe introduces us to "Bear Fight Art Night."
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Stone carving competition and other family fun
FLORENCE, Texas (KXAN) -- The Vineyard at Florence will host a stone carving competition and demonstration today from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Families are welcome to watch as seven area carvers create fountain finials from blocks of raw limestone in Old World Tuscan style.
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Drawing on family ties inspires Bendigo's young at art
THE Archibald Prize 08 exhibition has been inspiring future Bendigo artists.
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Archibald a winner
RECORD crowds have been flocking to Bendigo Art Gallery for the Archibald Prize 08 exhibition. About 4500 people went through the doors during the exhibition’s second last weekend in the city, bringing attendance levels to around the 30,000 mark so far.
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Art show at Ramada Plaza
DOHA • Following a successful one-month exhibition, Doha College Level A students are currently venturing on an Art Expo at the Ramada Plaza hotel this time catering to a wider range of audience.
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Dutch Participation NZ International Film Festival
Three Dutch productions (two Dutch and one Belgium/Netherlands co-production) will be part of the New Zealand International Film Festival 2008.
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QMA delegation’s visit to Berlin ‘huge success’
OFFICIALS of the Qatar Museums Authority have described their visit to Berlin to showcase the state-of-the-art Museum of Islamic Art as a ‘huge success’.
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Westporter Leonard Fisher Opens Show in Greenwich
Westport artist Leonard Fisher(r) opened his new art show today with a reception at the Cavalier Gallery in Greenwich. He spoke with Westporter Theodore Diamond in front of his painting “The Skaters.”
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Double trouble: The visual language of Gary Hume and Cy Twombly is a challenge for the viewer
Chalk and cheese; chalk first. Gary Hume's Door Paintings are based on the kind of double swing doors you find in the corridors of hospitals and colleges. These simple and recognisable arrangements of circles and rectangles provide the motifs for a series of "abstract" paintings – approximately door-sized and painted in household gloss – that Hume has made from the late 1980s until now. About ...
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Rock concerts 'add years' to artworks
Rock concerts staged in the grounds of country homes are damaging works of art with sound vibrations which "age" them, Russian research reveals.
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Howard Mandel's freelance Urban Improvisation
"We're doing everything we can to eliminate jazz from American culture," a promoter for Live Nation Artists , the world's dominant pop music production and marketing firm "joked" to Florida councilmen considering a proposed upcoming music festival. Jazz responds with a can't-be-bothered shrug.
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Prizes awarded in global music contest held in LA
More than $250,000 in prizes were announced Sunday after a weeklong competition that mingled features from "American Idol" with the world of classical music. Top prizes of $50,000 in the Jose Iturbi International Music Competition were awarded to soprano Angela Meade, 30, a resident artist at Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts, and pianist Mariya Kim, 26, of the Ukraine and Germany. Kim ...
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City unites to clear walls of graffiti
Someone’s painting Columbia, but the city doesn’t like the colors.
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Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む
An old Japanese samurai warrior talkie reconstructed from among more than 100 films donated by a Los Angeles museum was recently screened.
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City unites to clear walls of graffiti
Someone’s painting Columbia, but the city doesn’t like the colors. Applying art to the walls and property of businesses and the city is much more prevalent than in past years, ...
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Canadian Artists Tire Of Donating Art For Charity
"They say giving away art to be auctioned off at charitable events costs artists money, and often they don't even get a tax receipt." CBC 06/20/08
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Sculpting Olympic athletes
Just in time for the Olympic Trials, a local artist is sculpting the perfect athletes.
KVAL Eugene |
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Auction gallery focuses on works of Spain
AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) -- Austin Auction Gallery is hosting an auction offering the contents of a 17 th century villa from Andalusia, Spain as well as a selection of Colonial furnishings.
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Blimey! It's reverse colonialism
A giant tube map painting, with all stations in Maori, is on show in London this month.
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Kapiti artist Shona Moller has cracked the lucrative British market, selling 19 out of 19 works at a London exhibition for a $116,000 payday.
Stuff |
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‘Soccer Rocks’ scoops first prize
THE curtain came down on the Art for Life exhibition held in Harare that portrayed the celebration and negation of the environment in pictorial form.
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