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Glastonbury boost for Jay-Z's album
Jay-Z caused such a stir at this year's Glastonbury Festival that sales of his album by a music chain have enjoyed a near five-fold increase.
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Old Cranks
Man’s Antique Cars Form Foundation Of Galax Museum GALAX, Va. – Tom Littrell cranked up his museum of old cars on the outskirts of Galax simply because he had to. Why’s that? Well, back home, Littrell said, “We ran out of room.” Littrell, 64, has collected old cars for decades. Along the way though, he has opted to sell only one antique vehicle. “One,” Littrell said, announcing that sale with a ...
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Wheels Through Time
‘Museum That Runs’ Features Motorcycles, More MAGGIE VALLEY, N.C. – You can get a good idea about a place by reading a sign on the wall. Inside the Wheels Through Time Museum, one display says, “This is the museum that runs.” Enough said. This hulking attraction at Maggie Valley, N.C., sports dozens of different kinds of motorcycles, dating back to a 1903 Indian, one of the first of 250 ...
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Michigan festival aims to find its niche in a summer filled with multi-day music events
DETROIT - Maybe it's the result of tightening economics in the concert industry. Perhaps it's a reflection of our changing music tastes. Maybe we're just finally catching up with Europe. Whatever the case, one thing is clear: The music festivals are mushrooming. Following in the steps of a tradition long entrenched overseas, North America has caught festival fever. Dozens of fests - ...
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Minerva to celebrate 175 years
Minerva's 175th birthday celebration will be held Friday through Sunday in Municipal Park. Many events are scheduled for the three-day celebration. There will be craft vendors and an art show and display from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. all three days in the community building.
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CCA hires new executive director
The newly hired executive director of the Center for Contemporary Arts is bringing youthful enthusiasm and fresh ideas to the job, according to members of the search committee who interviewed more than 20 applicants.
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Ceremony applies final stroke on community’s talent showcase
The six-day Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Sidewalk Art Festival came to a close Wednesday night with food, music and a little recognition.
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Artist exhibitions begin
Lake Street studios in Glen Arbor will host a new, one-person exhibition each week throughout the summer beginning this month. Each artist's show opens with a 6 p.m. reception at the gallery, located at 6023 S. Lake St. The public is welcome.
Leelanau Enterprise |
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S-M Parish Festival, Chicken Dinner is July 13
The 84th annual St. Mary Parish Festival and Chicken Dinner will be held Sunday, July 13. Brian Krombeen and Dave Fortner are the chairpersons for the event, which raises thousands of dollars each year for St. Mary School.
Leelanau Enterprise |
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Museum celebrates Barnum's birthday
BRIDGEPORT — P.T. Barnum, who spent much of his life filling children with wonder and delight, would have approved of the celebration of his 198th birthday Wednesday at the
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Alt Live is all over the 40th Ak Film Festival
During the Auckland International Film Festival (7th July - 25th July), Alt TV's counter culture remote control crusader, The Chris, will interview festival directors and actors every day on Alt Live at 5.30pm, Alt TV SKY Digital 65.
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A room of their own - Studio space for young artists
Seven creative young artists have been honored for ideas that can invigorate traditional Chinese folk art. Even better, they have received cash prizes and free studio space in Ming Da Ai Tao Creative Plaza in Yangpu District to develop their ideas.
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Shame, Shame, Shame: The Mural and the Governor
Since he resigned in disgrace, Eliot Spitzer has been pretty quiet. But the former governor turned out to be a key player in a Fox 5 investigative report. Brooklyn artist Newton Meyers had been trying to get back what he considers his masterpiece -- an 11-foot wide mural -- that was hanging outside a suite of medical offices at a building owned by Spitzer's father. The building management told ...
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Full Life-Size Recreations of Paintings From The National Gallery Transform the Streets of York
YORK.- Full life-size recreations of paintings from the National Gallery and York Art Gallery will transform the streets of York into a gallery for the next 17 weeks.
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American Impressionist Masterpieces Arrive at Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
Gifford Beal (1879-1956), On the Hudson at Newburgh, 1918. Oil on canvas. 36 x 58 ½ in. The Phillips Collection, acquired 1924. MONTGOMERY.- In America, the radical new style of impressionism blended European approaches to painting with American sensibilities and preferences.
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Gwen John and the Catholic Church to be the Focus of the Barber's Summer Exhibition
Gwen John, Girl in a Blue Dress, (c.1914-15) Oil on canvas. Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales. BIRMINGHAM.- What made British artist Gwen John carry out no fewer than eight versions of the same painting — the subject of which was a seventeenth-century French nun?
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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Reunites Two Great Masterpieces by Paolo de' Matteis
“The Annunciation" by Paolo de' Matteis (Italian, 1662-1728). (Photo: St. Louis Art Museum). RICHMOND, VA.- This loan reunites two great masterpieces by the Italian late-Baroque painter Paolo de' Matteis: VMFA’s own “Adoration of the Shepherds” and the St. Louis Art Museum’s “Annunciation.”
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Wyndham Lewis Portraits to Open at The National Portrait Gallery in UK
Edith Sitwell by Percy Wyndham Lewis, 1943. LONDON.-
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John Keast to hang up the brush — sort of
Special to The Star RYDAL BANK — Well-known Algoma District artist John Keast says this weekend’s Four Friends Art Show and Sale will be his last. Keast, 85, along with Brian Torrance, chairman of the art show committee, developed the concept of the event, which will [...]
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Four Friends keeps getting friendlier
Special to The Star BRUCE MINES – It’s that time again to brush up on Algoma art. This weekend’s Four Friends Art Show and Sale, which runs from Friday through Sunday at the Bruce Mines Community Hall, will attract anywhere from 2,000 to 4,000 people to view the [...]
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Neighbouring Environments Programme 2008 on View at Artium
Ismael Iglesias 2008. Photo: copyright Gert Voor in’t Holt. VITORIA-GASTEIZ.- The Neighbouring Environments programme was created by ARTIUM of Alava in 2004 with the intention of supporting, promoting and disseminating the work of artists based near the Centre-Museum.
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Antonio Lopez Installs Day and Night Sculpture at Atocha Train Station in Madrid
Artist Antonio Lopez observes with his wife one of his sculptures "Night", which together with "Day" were installed in Atocha train station in Madrid. Photo: EFE / Ballesteros.
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Indian artist creates recycled tiger for CNN
In a unique off-air initiative to highlight its week of special environmental programming, CNN has invited well-known contemporary Indian artist Suryakant Lokhande to create a work of art using recycled rubbish. He created a life-size sculpture of a tiger and a short film documenting the making of the piece is streamed online at CNN's Going Green: Search for Solutions.
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude pitch Arkansas River project
Artist's rendering of "Over the River." ASPEN — Artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude don’t have small ideas. And on Tuesday the pair pitched their big plans for the Arkansas River in Colorado to an Aspen Ideas Festival audience at the Paepcke Auditorium.
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A $21,000 grand theft, suitable for framing
Police say art dealer sold copy of "Battle of Trafalgar" as real thing.
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