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Taste of the Orient
Visitors to Hastings Museum and Art Gallery were treated to the Eastern touch at the opening of a display of Japanese prints. (24/06/2008 17:11:58)
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AGO looks for $22M more to finish its revamp
The Art Gallery of Ontario says it has met its capital campaign goal of $254 million and plans to increase its fundraising target by an additional $22 million.
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At Fairfax Library, Reading Is Truly an Art Form
William Gordon has gotten good at doing creatures, the common currency of many public art projects. He and his wife, Barbara, did a donkey dressed as Uncle Sam and a "Kung Pao" panda sitting in a bowl of noodles for the District. They did eight five-foot crabs for Baltimore, including two dressed in...
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Kansas City Office Building Announces New Art Display Downtown in Cooperation With the Urban Culture Project
City Center Square recently sponsored an installation art exhibit as part of the Urban Culture Project, to transform a window in the downtown office building, providing opportunities for local artists to contribute to the revitalization of downtown Kansas City.
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Art
The Paper Warehouse and Art Gallery, 113 Newman St., hosts 25 artists from seven states through June. Each artist has been given "saw blades," which were donated by Komp Equipment after Hurricane Katrina. The artists were invited to create something unique. There are no parameters other than the saw blades must be the dominant part of the piece.
Hattiesburg American |
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General News
The Clarion University Summer Musical Theatre Festival is presenting “Suessical: The Musical” in Marwyck-Boyd Clarion on July 3, 4 and 5 and at the Sawmill Art Center in Cook Forest on July 10-12 and16-19.
Clarion News |
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Parrino, Taylor and Goldstein: In contemporary art world, it pays to be dead
The message from the market is as clear as it is macabre. In a quest for fresh material, blue-chip contemporary-art dealers are finding a healthy source of revenue buried six feet under.
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The rhythm of jazz
HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. Jazz artist Jimmy Cobb, the drummer from Miles Davis masterpiece Kind of Blue, will give a free concert Saturday in Harpers Ferry. Cobb and acclaimed bassist Jymie Merritt, who collaborated with Max Roach and Art Blakeys Jazz Messengers, are the recipients of this years Don Redman Heritage Award, given to living jazz artists who, like the awards namesake, were innovators of ...
The Herald-Mail |
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Hailing from Florida, Social Ghost will help support the living
Orlando-based rock group Social Ghost is certainly social but anything but invisible after touring with Alice in Chains in 2007, performing in the Warped Tour 2006 and winning a $25,000 Grammy Showcase contest in Florida. The band will be traveling to the Tri-State area to perform at the Carroll Creek Amphitheater in Frederick, Md., to raise money for the American Cancer Society on Saturday, ...
The Herald-Mail |
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Ongoing exhibits
Lost and Found; 'Regarding: Light'; Going Out; Photo exhibit; Artist of the month; Photography by Jennfer Fountain; Art in the Hallway; Frederick County 360/365; 'An Eye for Detail'; New treasures
The Herald-Mail |
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Around Halfway
Art glass exhibit to begin this week; Hagerstown Market in the Square; Music after work set for downtown; Annual Salute to Independence; Share your news
The Herald-Mail |
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Independent soul
Eric Roberson, who will perform at African American Heritage Festival, does things his own way E ric Roberson saw the writing on the wall early.
Baltimore Sun |
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Talented youths showcase skills at What You Got?
youth festival
The Olympian |
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Whitehaven News
Exhibitions Whitehaven: Ferrous Horizon, Jewelled Sky, The Beacon, until July 12. Rosehill:Remember the Glorious Days of Steam, artist Paul Hull, until July 7.
The Whitehaven News |
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American Veterinary Medical Association Condemns Abuse Of Cattle Shown In New Video
Upon learning of disturbing new footage showing cattle abused at a Portales, N.M., livestock auction, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) strongly condemned the cruelty and issued a call for stricter adherence to humane animal handling guidelines and standards.
Medical News Today |
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Go Guide Picks: Kutztown Folk Festival feeds your ethnic need
Summer is the time for festivals, for strolling around fairgrounds with a lemonade in hand, but few events boast the kind of kitschy draw as the Kutztown Folk Festival, which celebrates all that is Pennsylvania Dutch.
The Morning Call |
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Youth festival planned Saturday for Sutton Park in Groton
Budding young artists and musicians from across the region will flock to Sutton Park in Groton Saturday where they will showcase their artistic creativity as
New London Day |
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Mobeetie Hoedown ode to old-fashioned fun
MOBEETIE - The Old Mobeetie Texas Association is finalizing plans for the upcoming “Old Town Hoedown” Saturday, June 28 at the Old Mobeetie Jail Museum. The activities will begin at 3 p.m. A chuckwagon supper will be served at 6 p.m. with, organizers say, lots of fun in between.
The Pampa News |
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Warners to come back home
A long-awaited garden sculpture will be unveiled Sunday, June 29, at the Warner Mansion in Farmington.
Farmington Observer |
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10 Hotels That Are Smart About Art concierge.com
Yet another insipid still-life "painting" of inert flowers on your hotel-room wall? Feel as if you'd shoot yourself if you saw another ponderous oil painting in a resort lobby? Hotels have long fallen victim to bad art, often sticking up stuff so bland as to offend (and interest) no one. A new wave of owners, though, have realized that intriguing, even controversial works draw a savvy, ...
Hospitality Net |
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Meat meets art in Cambridge gallery
The title of the art show at the Pierre Menard Gallery raises a lot of questions, and even fewer answers, which may be a good thing for the artists of the “Meat After Meat Joy” exhibition.
Cambridge Chronicle & Cambridge Tab |
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Sarkozy's father stages erotic art exhibition in Spain
Madrid - Pal Sarkozy, 80, father of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, is staging a surrealistic and erotic art exhibition in Madrid, Spanish media reported Thursday. The 35 works on display, many of which combine painting with photomontage, have been...
EARTHtimes.org |
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IP donates $100K for culinary art studio
OCEAN SPRINGS -- The Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Center offers workshops for woodcarving, weaving and calligraphy, among other skills. After a welcomed donation Wednesday, cooking classes will soon be on the menu.
The Mississippi Press |
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Kanye West - West Offended Over Festival Criticism
Kanye West has hit back at criticism over keeping fans waiting at the Bonnaroo festival.The hip-hop star claimed the complaints were the most offended I've ...
ContactMusic |
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Lavender fest not just flowers
The Daffodil Hill Lavender Festival will keep area residents entertained for three days this weekend.
Salem Statesman Journal |
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