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Art: Ansel Adams and the American West
Tuesday, July 8... By Leilani Polk Few images are as familiar to American audiences as those taken by photographer Ansel Adams. This Saturday, Museum of Fine Arts opens Ansel Adams and the American West, a celebration of the black-and-white master and his contributions to the development of photography as an art form. The exhibition -- drawn from MFA's holdings and various private collections in ...
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Want to Meet Sugarland?
July 3, 2008 — Sugarland unveiled a Platinum Ticket contest on its website yesterday in which five winners will receive a trip to Nashville to attend the 42nd annual Country Music Association Awards in November and meet the duo’s members, Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush.
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Classic Hollywood Glamour
The vintage Hollywood glamour photographs taken by George Hurrell, mostly in the 1930s and 1940s, are on display through July 20 at the California Heritage Museum on Main Street.
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Nextbook Festival: Jewish Geography
Jews are wanderers, not always by choice, and the theme of Nextbook’s second Los Angeles area festival, held at UCLA on June 29, was “Jewish Geography.” Nextbook, a web site and book publishing outfit based in New York, holds several events each year on themes pertaining to Jewish culture.
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The Art Of Affluence
By Charity Frederick Exhibit: The Art of Affluence: Haute Couture and Luxury Fashions 1947-2007 Dates: July 5 through the end of the year Location: The Mint Museum of Art, 2730 Randolph Road Info: 704-337-2000 or www.mintmuseum.org Dior, Chanel, Versace -- these names are sure to be found in the closet of any well-heeled socialite. And they represent the kind of fancy duds most of us could ...
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Jharkhand goes International
It's great to learn that the indigenous art forms of Kohvar & Sohrai paintings of Hazaribagh are going to be showcased in Rome. Moreover, if the tribals are going to receive commercial benefits from their art form, nothing like it.
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It's great to learn that the indigenous art forms of Kohvar & Sohrai paintings of Hazaribagh are going to be showcased in Rome. Almost everyone on this earth listens to music; each person spends countless hours listening to music.
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In Depth
OneWorld has not yet published a guide for this place. If you'd like to help create one, contact the OneWorld guides editor at Through their own vivid and emotional photography, Romanian children living with HIV share their feelings on issues from discrimination and alienation to hope.
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Calling All Filmmakers
Santa Barbara International Film Festival now open for submissions.
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Things to do today: Fireworks, music and magic
Get a head start on you fireworks watching tonight at the Aloha Tower Marketplace. The fun begins at 5 p.m. and includes ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro, the Pacific Fleet Band, face- and hair-painting and a balloon artist.
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Houstonist Flickr Photo of the Day - Hermann Park 180 - After The Rain (1 of 2)
Hermann Park 180 - After The Rain (1 of 2) by nip2655 Here's a great shot of Hermann Park after a rainstorm. We like the wide angle view and sharp colors of this image. ________________________________________________________________ Every day, Houstonist features an outstanding photo from our flickr pool. If you have a passion for Houston and photography, consider joining ...
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Photographic Images
In March 2003, Paul Kulas and Thomas Padberg drove a truck displaying photographic images of aborted fetuses on the public streets around the perimeter of Dodson Middle School in starting at about 7:30 a.m.
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Cà d'Zan adds digital docents with iPod tour of mansion
Not long ago, visitors to the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art had only nearby object labels, erudite tour guides or dim memories of college art history class to rely on for a sense of what it was they were seeing.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 27th Dec 2007 05:38 UTC
A few weeks ago I published an editorial on the new school of videographers that has recently started to emerge as profoundly as digital art photography did a few years ago.
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Woodblock prints exhibit
“The peace accompanying the beginning of evening happens to me with this print,” said Mary Pixley, associate curator at the MU Museum of Art and Archaeology.
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Sonic Youth Prep SYR8 With Jim O'Rourke, Merzbow
Mere months after the release of the seventh installment in Sonic Youth 's even-more-experimental SYR series, plans have already been drawn up to bring out round eight. SYR8: Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth captures a "structured improvisation" from 2005's Roskilde Festival. The work features the band-- then with Jim O'Rourke on guitar-- plus Thurston and Jim's Original Silence bandmate ...
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The best of what's happening this weekend
This annual festival serves up a multitude of treats boasting the event's featured fruit as well as entertainment for visitors of all ages. Parades, carnival rides and games, live musical performances, air shows, sporting events and 4th of July fireworks are the highlights of this year's schedule. For more information, visit: www.cherryfestival.org. (July 5-12)
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GMA Features Patriotic Little Chute Cheese Sculptor
Troy Landwher from Little Chute carved John Trumbull's iconic painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence into a 2,000-pound block of cheddar.
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Woodblock prints exhibit
“The peace accompanying the beginning of evening happens to me with this print,” said Mary Pixley, associate curator at the MU Museum of Art and Archaeology. She was gazing at ...
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Heard hosts Sizzlin' Summer Saturdays for kids
Corn, sheep, beads, bone and turquoise: They’re all items that were important to American Indians of the Southwest, and they all add up to a good time on a hot July weekend — or so bets the Heard Museum.
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Arts Calendar:
“Inner Expressions” Clausen House Art Collaborative Latest works. Opening reception at 6 p.m. at the Lakeview Mural Gallery, 450 Santa Clara Ave., Oakland. The show runs through Aug. 1. 839-1114.
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Jesse Kaminsky hopes to propagate a hoax when he becomes an Artist in Research (AIR) at Dudley Square's Berwick Research Institute next month. The Jamaica Plain-based sculptor will undertake a new series of work that plays with perception and our brains' ability to make sense of the world.
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Hitler wax figure unveiled in Berlin amid criticism
Berlins new waxwork museum on Thursday unveiled a figure of a glumlooking Adolf Hitler in a mock bunker during the last days of his life an exhibit that has been criticized as in bad taste
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Art Club notes Members to display work at Library Gallery during the summer months
Art Club notes: Members to display work at Library Gallery during the summer months By Dawn Gates Members of the Nipawin Art Club have been busy during May and June. Activities have included two regular meetings, putting up two separate month-long displays at the Library Gallery, hosting a drawing workshop, and planning for future events.
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Big cheese carving celebrates U.S. Independence Day
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A sculpture of the signing of the Declaration of Independence made from a one-tonne block of cheddar cheese glistened on the sidewalk of Times Square in New York on Thursday as an artist's tribute to the Fourth of July.
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