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The Renaissance ... Recreated
Great mantels incorporate all the key components of European architecture, and those classic elements can be seen in renowned sculptures throughout history.
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Al Noor Institute presents awards to contest winners
doha • Al Noor Institute for the Blind, one of the most advanced centres for the visually impaired in the Gulf, held the finale of its scientific competition at the Millennium Hotel yesterday.
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It's official: 'Goya work' was painted by his pupil
Francisco de Goya's arresting image of a brooding giant rising above a stampede of terrified people and animals has held pride of place for decades in Madrid's Prado museum.
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Exhibition invites youth to explore techology
doha • Making a movie using the new Mac iLive program. Players demonstrating their skill in a football match on a virtual field. These are some of technologies on display at an exhibition in the Villaggio mall.
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Glastonbury brightens up after critical storm
One question hovers on the lips of 130,000 people: is it going to rain? And so they began gathering at Michael Eavis's Somerset farm for this weekend's Glastonbury Festival in wellingtons.
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Council walkout over NERAM
A WALKOUT by three councillors at an extraordinary meeting of the Armidale Dumaresq Council on Wednesday night has added to the controversy surrounding the New England Regional Art Museum (NERAM).
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Couple gives $15M for new Ocean Hall at National Museum of Natural History
WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents and his wife announced a US$15-million gift Thursday to support the new Ocean Hall at the National Museum of Natural History.
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Side roads: Shakespeare on the river
Winona, Minn. Two of Shakespeare's classic plays --"The Taming of the Shrew" and "The Merchant of Venice" -- will highlight the Great River Shakespeare Festival through July 27 at Winona State University in Winona, Minn. Showtimes vary on Tuesdays through Sundays (no show this Tuesday).
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Manhattan splashes out with public art: waterfalls
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Four giant artificial waterfalls cascaded into the water off Manhattan on Thursday in a public art project the mayor said could generate $55 million in economic activity for New York City.
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GET OUT: What are you doing this weekend?
FRIDAY Downtown Jackson hosts its monthly Fabulous Friday event with several special events, including an outdoor dance at Rock-A-Billy Hall of Fame featuring the band Red, Hot and Blue. The Dickson Gallery hosts its final hurrah with saxophonist Denny Anderson and an art sale.
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The Brooklyn Bridge Waterfalls Have Risen [Art]
Olafur Eliasson's public arts project, man-made waterfalls under the Brooklyn Bridge, has commenced. Click for the video! [Video via Curbed; Eliasson Waterfall at Brooklyn Bridge from rsguskind on...
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Romanian Museums host traditional fairs to celebrate the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul
The celebration of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul by all Christians, due this Sunday, will be preceded in Bucharest by several traditional fairs organized by the Bucharest museums.
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Delirious DVD Review
The star and director of Living in Oblivion team up again for Delirious , the supposedly hip, indie look at the world of Paparazzi. Tom Dicillo directs the great Steve Buscemi as Les, a creepy, weasely, small time paparazzi obsessed with making it in the big time world of celebrity photography.
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'Waterfalls' makes splashy debut on the East River
Olafur Eliasson's New York City Waterfalls roared to life Thursday in the most ambitious public arts installation since 2005's "The Gates." The four monumental, man-made falls tower 90 to 120 feet high in four sites along the East River's shores.
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Prep chef glad he competed in contest 06/27/08
HURON TWP. — The road to culinary success is paved with such things as pastas prepared to perfection and slowly marinated cuts of meat. Although Cody Bailey, 17, was in the process of learning to master those arts, he is taking his career path in another direction.
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ictQATAR launches technology expo for children
AS PART of its ‘Promise of e campaign’, the Supreme Council of Information and Communication Technology yesterday launched a three-day exhibition called ‘Live Technology’.
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art Till June 28 at Chemould Art Gallery, 12F Park Street, #22298641; 2 pm - 7 pm:
An exhibition of paintings by Anirban Banerjee. Till June 28 at Tejas Art Gallery, 11 Mayfair Road, #98300 49825; 1 pm - 7.30 pm: Summer Workshop : Acrylic and charcoal works, inspired by the Bengal countryside, by Dhiren Sasmal, Ashok Ganguly, Arunava Mondol, Biswarup Garai, Avijit Mukherjee, Tarun Chakravorty, Malay Chandan Saha, Debasish Sen Gupta and Subrata Sen.
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Couple gives $15M for Smithsonian Ocean Hall
WASHINGTON June 26, 2008, 05:27 pm ET · The chairman of the Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents and his wife announced a $15 million gift Thursday to support the new Ocean Hall at the National Museum of Natural History.
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News: The Thing Prep Box Set, LPs With Albini and O'Rourke
Box set includes DVD of festival performance with Thurston Moore Photo by Rune Mortensen Scandinavian avant/jazz group the Thing have so many records coming out in the next year that it hurts our heads just thinking about all of them. So pull up a chair while we go find the Tylenol. The Thing's first new release is a box set called Now and Forever , due June 30 via ...
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Forward.com
In the wake of an outcry from Chicago-area Jews, the Windy City’s only Jewish museum closed down a high-profile maps exhibition that parsed the issue of Israel’s borders and boundaries.
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Bloomberg unveils `Waterfalls' art project in NYC
Four walls of water cascaded into the East River off Manhattan on Thursday in a public art spectacle that Mayor Michael Bloomberg called the "most unexpected" waterfalls between North America and Africa.
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Couple gives $15M for Smithsonian Ocean Hall
(AP:WASHINGTON) The chairman of the Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents and his wife announced a $15 million gift Thursday to support the new Ocean Hall at the National Museum of Natural History.
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New Sacajawea Sculpture Unveiled at Richland Wye
Thanks to a donation by Columbia Center Rotary, the landscape at the Richland Wye is changing with a new statue. If you read through Lewis and Clark's journals you'll see that the spot marked by a new statue is as far as they came up the Columbia River on their journey west.
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The Waterfalls Unveiled
Four walls of water cascaded into the East River off Manhattan on Thursday in a public art spectacle that Mayor Michael Bloomberg called the ``most unexpected'' waterfalls between North America and Africa. READ MORE>>
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Television - Entertainment
The Queenstown Winter Festival opens tonight. The event is in its 34th year and brings 60,000 visitors to the party town every year.
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