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Transportation Museum upgrades to start soon
PLATTSBURGH — An aggressive project to upgrade the Champlain Valley Transportation Museum in Plattsburgh will soon begin in earnest.
Plattsburgh Press Republican |
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Summer activities for children
Packwood House Museum • July 1— Soap Tales. 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. • July 8 — Games for Kids. 10:30 a.m. to noon. • July 19 — Painting for Kids. For children age 8 to 15. 10:30 a.m. to noon. • July 22 — Creating Your Own Photographs. For children age 8 to 15. 10:30 a.m. to noon.
The Milton Standard-Journal |
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‘Staycations’ may prove easier on wallet and more convenient
LEWISBURG — Still not sure about fronting the money for a full-blown vacation this summer? Try a “staycation” as a way to relax and rehabilitate. Believe or not, the Central Susquehanna Valley offers a variety of things to all types of people, including parks, museums and other points of interest. Even if you lived here your entire life, it’s unlikely you’ve seen it all. Almost every town has ...
The Milton Standard-Journal |
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Painting Pig Goes Prime Time
Those familiar with Smithfield the painting pig already know that he can be a ham.
WCMH Columbus |
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Painting Missing From Phila. Parks System Office
A 19th-century painting worth up to $75,000 has disappeared from the center city offices of the Philadelphia Parks System, prompting the FBI to offer a reward for its return.
KYW News Radio 1060 |
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Clo & Iz Launches Home Show Gallery Venture, Taps into Growing Home Parties Sector with Dynamic Selection of ...
Clo & Iz is a distinctive collection of accessories and gifts that are sold through home-based trunk and gallery shows. The dynamic assortment of carefully selected artist-designed pieces includes sterling silver jewelry, fabric headbands, belts, and totes. The Clo & Iz model leverages the growing demand for sociable and stylish shopping experiences with the desire for unique goods that are not ...
PRWeb via Yahoo! News |
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First Leica M8 Fetches 24,000 Euros at Charity Auction
Photography Products - New photo products and accessories for today
PDNonline |
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Utah Arts Festival offers a variety of artistic revels
Are you serious about art? How serious? The Utah Arts Festival is so serious that they're taking an entire four-day weekend to celebrate painting, sculpture, music, dance, food, film, theater, literature -- you name it, and somebody at the UAF is ready to exhibit it, entertain with it, or educate about it.
Provo Daily Herald |
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Daily Digest 6/25
AMERICAN FORK • Congratulations to Kristie Chidester of American Fork, one of five students from The Art Institute of Salt Lake City, a media arts, fashion, culinary and fine arts institution, who received medal honors at the American Culinary Federation (ACF) Beehive Chefs Chapter Annual Nicholas Food Show "K" Competition. The third-quarter AISLC culinary arts students competed within ...
Provo Daily Herald |
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Heavy Rain's Cage: Games Stuck In Primitive Emotional Range
During a recent event held at France's Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, the largest science museum in Europe, two noted game designers spoke on the future of gaming with respect to emotion and immersion. Quantic Dream's David Cage, known for the 2005 adventure game Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy in North America) and the earlier The Nomad Soul (Omikron: The Nomad Soul), addressed the ...
Gamasutra |
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Peace Plaza and historic theater inspire painter
As downtown visitors get a look at the newly renovated Peace Plaza, they can also see it through the eye of painter Ron Hunt, who will create some of the first images of the new plaza during a SEMVA Art Gallery open house Thursday
Post-Bulletin |
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Exhibition aims to inspire
INSPIRATION for other artists is the aim behind an exhibition of work from the Winslow and District Art Society (WADAS) which is being run as part of the Bucks Open Studios. (24/06/2008 13:57:47)
Buckingham Today |
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Festival of the Arts opens exciting 16th season
The Huntsville Festival of the Arts kicks off its 16th season on Thursday, July 3. That evening the Algonquin Theatre will come alive with the festival’s first show, the Blues Brothers’ Revival, the hippest, most authentic Blues Brothers show around.
The Huntsville Forester |
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Instant weekend: Palma
Why should I go? This year, 9m people will fly to Mallorca. The good news is that 8,999,998 of them will head straight for the beaches, leaving you free to enjoy a compact collection of museums, galleries, restaurants and suave hotels.
Times Online |
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South County Beat: Adobe seeks funds to care for burros
The Dana Adobe in Nipomo is seeking donations to help pay for the feed and veterinary care of its two burros. The animals, named Polly and Darlene, arrived on the historic ranch in January 2005. Their presence adds to the educational experience of local schoolchildren and visitors every week, said the adobe’s publicist, Ethel Landers. Visitors often bring the burros baby carrots and slices ...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune |
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Record $85m gilds lily for Monet market
ONE of Claude Monet's large waterlily paintings yesterday sold for a world record pound stg. 41 million ($84.4 million), heralding a week of London art sales that could raise more than pound stg. 500 million in defiance of the global economic downturn.
The Australian |
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Indiana couple's Monet painting sells for $80M
LONDON - A water lily painting by impressionist master Claude Monet owned by the estate of an Indiana couple has sold for more than $80 million at auction, kicking off a week of modern-art sales expected to reach records that defy the global economic downturn.
The Times of Northwest Indiana |
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Arts Festival too arbitrary
Even though I have participated successfully in the Tooele Arts Festival for the past few years, this year I was denied. It seems that it depends on who you are that determines if you’re accepted into the festival.
Tooele Transcript-Bulletin |
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Pawel Piatek
I am a freelance photographer based in Hampstead, London. In 2005 I decided to follow my lifelong passion for photography and I have never looked back ever since.
FashionGates.com |
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It was the place to be: Hanover Day again draws quite the crowd
For the better part of Saturday, Ellen Fitzpatrick monitored the community art exhibit displayed inside the Sylvester Elementary School.
Hanover Mariner |
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Hoosiers' Monet fetches more than $80 million
A Claude Monet painting owned by art and architecture lovers J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller of Columbus set a record for a Monet sale Tuesday, going for more than $80 million at Christie's International in London.
Palladium-Item |
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Namibia: Nampost to Issue New Stamp
NamPost plans to issue a miniature sheet of three postage stamps with portraits of three famous pre-historic rock paintings from Twyfelfontein to commemorate this famous UNESCO Heritage Site found in the Kunene region.
AllAfrica.com |
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$40,000 Painting Dropped Off At Goodwill
A painting dropped off at a Goodwill store turned out to be a work by a French Impressionist. And now, thanks to the sharp eye of a store employee, the charitable organization is $40,000 richer.
WBAL-TV Baltimore |
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Lee Rosenbaum's cultural commentary
Earlier this month, the Association of Art Museum Directors took an important first step towards deescalating the protracted antiquities wars that have roiled the Getty Museum, Metropolitan Museum and Boston Museum of Fine Arts, among others.
Arts Journal |
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Stolen Philly Painting Prompts Reward
Artwork depicting one of the most picturesque scenes in Philly is gone.
NBC 10 Philadelphia |
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