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One Hundred Works by Latin American Artist Fernando Botero on View at New Orleans Museum
Fernando Botero. NEW ORLEANS.-
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Kimbell Opens The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890), The Bedroom, 1889. Oil on canvas, 29 x 365⁄8 in. The Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection.
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Art auction raises cash for depression
(Auckland, New Zealand) 88 artists from the New Zealand Art Guild have joined forces to raise money for the Mental Health Foundation, producing a collaborative work which is to be auctioned on Trade Me from July 19th.
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Framing shop and gallery to be reinvented after fire
When a fire swept through The Art Corner, Wendy Snow-Lang’s framing shop and gallery space, the artist’s Zen-like reaction was to go home and fix herself a drink.
The Salem Gazette |
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Palmetto Ridge High School grad dies in crash
She was the girl with the sneaker obsession. The girl with a Mohawk. The girl with an incredible eye for photography. On Saturday, the woman voted “most unique” by her fellow graduates at Palmetto Ridge High School died in a car crash in Collier County. She was 18.
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Some artists find success at Arts Festival
Kansas woodworker Sue Mersman sold all but a handful of the 35 wall hangings she brought to this weekend’s Des Moines Arts Festival — so many, in fact, that she canceled her invitation to an upcoming show in Wisconsin.
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Colorado bellmaker's work on display in Vail
Artist Jim Moore talks about his work in his studio surrounded by two of his bronze bell sculptures in various stages of completion at his home on the Eastern Colorado plains.
Vail Daily |
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Public invited to participate in North Shore photography contest
By Sherry Martell Truro Daily News Malagash — Shutter bugs are invited to share their favourite photos at the Malagash Salt Miners Museum.
The Truro Daily News |
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Portrait wins Best of Show
Best of Show was awarded to Sharon Irla during the opening reception Sunday for the Competitive Art Show at the Five Civilized Tribes Museum. Her top honors were given for an oil and mixed media portrait titled “Mother’s Prayer.”
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Baiduri Expo Ends On Colourful Note
Bandar Seri Begawan - The four-day expo on 'Saving for a brighter future', organised by Baiduri Bank group at the International Convention Centre came to a close last night with performances by popular local artist Maria followed by presentation of prizes to winners of Bintang Baiduri, including two lucky draw contests.
BruDirect.com |
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East Texas Photography
The beauty, diversity and uniqueness of East Texas was on display, Sunday in an annual photography contest in Longview.
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Actor News
Oscar winning actress Dame Judi Dench is to attend the gala opening concert of an arts festival in North Oxford. The James Bond actress is a patron of the North Wall and has lent her support to the award-winning new arts centre, which opened last year.
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Passing on a Dream of Dance
DALY CITY — When she was 16 and just six years into ballet dancing in the Philippines, Malu Rivera went with her teacher mentor Tita Radaic and her dance classmates to the famed Aberdeen International Youth festival in Scotland.
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Lincoln Center Festival Lights Up
The Lincoln Center Festival, which starts Wednesday, has done a bit of a juggling act this year. Ongoing renovations ruled out the New York State Theater and Alice Tully Hall, while Avery Fisher Hall is operational for only one week of the festival's 25-day duration. "The underlying thread this year is that we have had to look elsewhere for performance spaces," the director of the festival, ...
The New York Sun |
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Lincoln Center's Face-lift
Though some events are taking place off-site, Lincoln Center Festival and its summer cohorts, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors and Midsummer Night's Swing, still provide plenty of reasons for a trip to the Lincoln Center complex. This year, though, visitors to the plaza may walk away with a question in mind: What happened to the drink cart? As one of several construction projects under way this ...
The New York Sun |
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Hungarian Festival in the Works for 2009
BUDAPEST, Hungary — László Jakab Orsós, the charismatic director of the Hungarian Cultural Center, is not your typical cultural diplomat. In Budapest, he was a newspaper columnist, a lecturer in screenwriting at the Budapest Academy of Film, and half of a rather notorious pair of restaurant critics, who wrote under the pseudonym "The Wittman Brothers." It is easy to imagine Mr. Orsós, who goes ...
The New York Sun |
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American Dance Festival Preps the Next Generation
Durham, N.C. — The American Dance Festival, now in its 75th season, hosts big-name companies such as Paul Taylor, Martha Graham, and Pilobolus. But at least as important as these field leaders are the students who attend ADF. More than 400 dancers, anywhere between their late teenage years and early 30s, attend the festival to broaden their views and deepen their understanding of the art form's ...
The New York Sun |
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A public art show even a mayor can love
Waterfalls, dreamed up by the Danish-Icelandic conceptualist Olafur Eliasson, aims to change the way New Yorkers look at their water
The Globe and Mail |
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Ringo Starr - Starr Sells Personal Art Collection
Fans of former BEATLE RINGO STARR can now become owners of the drummer's own personalised pop art collection. Starr's artwork - which began its sale on the ...
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Entertainment
Original paintings and prints by Pro Hart and some of Australia’s biggest artists are for sale in Perth this month. The Artmart Off the Wall Art Sale will be held in the city’s west end at 834 Hay Street, from this morning to Saturday, July 19.
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Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2008: Days 1-3
It would be perfectly understandable for the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal to “take a year off” in 2008. Next year will be the festival's 30th anniversary and this year presents logistical challenges with the loss of a few staple venues and construction on-site.
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Eye on the prize
THE case for an expanded View Street arts precinct grew stronger at the weekend, with a record breaking finish to the Archibald Prize exhibition at the Bendigo Art Gallery.
Bendigo Advertiser |
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Dazzling Lights Photo Contest
Bandar Seri Begawan - Organisers of the Dazzling Lights exhibition announced a photography competition from July 1-30 with cash prizes at stake.
BruDirect.com |
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Week Around the Ists
Photograph of one of the man-made waterfalls under the Brooklyn Bridge by Jake Dobkin Gothamist enjoyed watching New York City's latest big public art project-- four multi-story man-made waterfalls -- rise up in East River and the debate about whether it's art or folly (but they sure look pretty at night ). Londonist handed out advice on how to queue for Wimbledon tickets, then ...
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Spotlight on safety solutions
MANAMA: The Bahrain National Occupational Safety and Health Centre (OSHO) took part in the eighth Sabic Technical Meeting and Exhibition STM-8. It was held at the Cultural Centre at Jubail Industrial City, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia.
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