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Brahms’ music festival underway at USAO
Some things just fit together, like summertime and Brahms. Brahms’ music, that is. The University of Science and Arts continues its Festival of Music and Ideas with two more nights devoted to composer Johannes Brahms June 26-27.
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Green thumbs tackle Walker Botanical Garden
It doesn’t look like much right now, but John Dick envisions a day when the outside of Rodman Hall is as fascinating as the art indoors. The sloped grounds behind the Brock University-owned gallery were once blanketed with exotic trees, colourful flowers and Carolinian foliage, [...]
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$40,000 for art made in garage
FUTURISTIC VISION: Fergus Binns with his $40,000 Metro 5 winning painting. Picture: THE AGE A PAINTING that is taking the Australian art world by storm was painted in a garage in Lismore.
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Smithsonian Folklife Festival opens on Mall
Hundreds of artists, scientists and visitors from three wildly different cultures - Texas, NASA and the isolated Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan - converged Wednesday at the opening of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall. Bhutanese monks in traditional robes stood in line with tourists and NASA engineers for a taste of Texan cuisine that included steak fajitas and noodles from ...
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Smithsonian Folklife Festival opens on Mall
Hundreds of artists, scientists and visitors from three wildly different cultures - Texas, NASA and the isolated Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan - converged Wednesday at the opening of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall.
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Goodwill Painting
An old painting that was dropped off at a rural Maryland Goodwill store this spring was pulled aside by sharp-eyed store employees for their manager Terri Tonelli to research.
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MadTracks -- 'The Reverse' by the The Eric Tessmer Band at BAMFest 2007
Austin-based guitarist Eric Tessmer and his two-man rhythm section plainly caught a contact high last year at the Belleville American Music Festival, as heard in the new live compilation album 'lt;i'gt;BAM Fest 2007'lt;/i'gt;. The youthful bluesman and his mates race through this breathless recording of 'quot;The Reverse'quot; like a careening, nitro-fueled funny car, blistering the beat of the ...
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Artist takes prize for second year
Landscape painter Bruce Naylor has won the overall prize in the Weston Art Show for the second consecutive year.
The Maitland Mercury |
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Own 'Museum in a Book' on War of Independence
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'Taste' Nets $42,584 In Beer
Despite fewer attendees due primarily to inclement weather, Des Plaines' downtown Taste of Des Plaines festival held 2-1/2 weeks ago produced $7,000 more in beer sales compared to 2007.
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Painting left at Goodwill turns out to be French Impressionist work worth $40,000
EASTON, Md. — An old painting dropped off at a rural Maryland 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.
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Young artists hone their skills during Fine Arts Academy
Clay, water colors, ink, colored pencils and sketch pads filled the days of area children over the last week. But the children were not in a summer school classroom, and instead were attending Fine Arts Academy 2008.
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Gilchrist takes lead at Window Arts Malden
Window Arts Malden, the project of a grassroots organization begun in 2006 to pair local artists with downtown businesses and turn Malden Center into an outdoor gallery, is gearing up for its third season under a new coordinator, Stacey Gilchrist.
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Summer on the Chain bridge
The largest free cultural festival in Budapest, Summer on the Chain Bridge (Nyár a Lánchídon), offers more than 100 different cultural programs on the weekends between now and Sunday, Aug 17.
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The soul embodied?
Adéle Eisenstein takes a close up look at a major photography exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts
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Artist Zai Kuning has crafted an artwork aptly called 'Bowl of Rice' from 500kg of the daily staple. Arranged in giant geometric shapes on the floor of Sculpture Square, the rice will be given away to charities after the exhibition.
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Midsummer sponsors
Local mobile telco Pannon GSM Távközlési Zrt was main sponsor of this year's Night of the Museums, which took place on Saturday (June 21) for the sixth time in Budapest and for the fourth time at regional locations.
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The Waterfalls
Tomorrow, 4 monumental, man-made waterfalls will open to the public along the East River. They were created by the Scandanavian artist Olafur Eliasson, in conjunction with the Public Art Fund. Its the....
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Louise Bourgeois
The new Guggenheim Museum exhibit Louise Bourgeois fills the rotunda with seven decades of the French-born artist's lifetime of work. Visitors can see Bourgeois's concepts sketched out on paper di....
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Munson Williams prepares for its 2008 Sidewalk Arts Festival
UTICA - It is officially summertime in the city of Utica as Munson Williams prepares for the 2008 Sidewalk Arts Festival.
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Forward.com
Los Angeles — A brewing land-use dispute that involves a Southern California Chabad-Lubavitch branch, a powerful Los Angeles art museum and a host of outraged neighbors is stoking tensions between the Hasidic Orthodox sect and residents of one of this city’s wealthiest enclaves.
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Enjoy art outdoors this summer in NYC
NEW YORK - Art in New York City this summer is not just what's hanging on museum walls. It's on the water, it's on a rooftop, it's an entire building.
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Salute to the Arts will likely be canceled this year. While the Sonoma Valley Art Alliance board, the nonprofit organization that oversees the annual festival of food, wine and art, has not officially voted on the matter, an overall dearth of money has made the outcome all but inevitable.
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Don Lee’s satirical novel “Wrack and Ruin” is set in a fictionalized HMB
The Boston Globe reviews “Wrack and Ruin”, novel set in a town very much like Half Moon Bay. Lyndon Song, a renowned sculptor, fled the overwhelming New York art scene 17 years earlier to become a Brussels sprouts farmer and part-time welder in Rosarita Bay, a small, misty town an hour south of San Francisco. A marijuana-toking misanthrope, he was looking for peace and solitude, drawn to “the ...
Coastsider |
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Imagine That!
LAPEER -- At Gallery 194, the artistic challenge is on and the public will have its say. The Lapeer Art Association will present the "Imagine That" exhibit featuring abstract and imaginative art June 28-Aug. 2 at Gallery 194 in downtown Lapeer.
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