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Rudd hates nude kid art
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd says he can't stand artwork that depicts naked children and criticised this month's edition of Art Monthly Australia magazine.
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Florida Naturally features 34 works in color photography, painting and bronze sculpture
Now through August 20, Florida Naturally features 34 works in color photography, painting and bronze sculpture. Artists who choose landscapes and wildlife as their subject matter have a very special affinity for nature.
Collier Citizen |
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Winslow Homer's odyssey
In Winslow Homer's dramatic etching "Eight Bells" a weathered mariner in an oilskin slicker charts a safe course across darkening seas. Like the seaman at his sextant, Homer seems the right guiding spirit to launch celebrations at the Museum of Fine Arts for reaching the first milestone of a major building project propelling Boston's premier arts institution into the 21st century.
The MetroWest Daily News |
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Creative invasion of BigBots will tweak art, tech concepts
Robot 250 will stretch the definitions of robot and art with larger-than-life sculptures -- in prominent locations around the city -- highlighting Pittsburgh's connections to robotics.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
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Miming normality in G'stown
The map will replace this text. If any users do not have Flash Player 8 (or above), they'll see this message. Walking the streets of Grahamstown during the National Arts Festival borders on nightmare.
Mail and Guardian |
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Cedarville University sculpture by Jon Barlow Hudson reflects theological mission
The huge block of Masabi black granite has had quite a journey.
Dayton Daily News |
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Quick Questions: AdamH.Alfrey
Adam H. Alfrey is the curator of exhibitions/museum planner for the Knox County Public Library, working primarily with the East Tennessee Historical Society and the Beck Cultural Exchange Center. Alfrey, a native of Knoxville and graduate of the art history program at the University of Tennessee, has previous museum experiences that include the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Ewing Gallery of ...
Knoxville News Sentinel |
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Business ventures turn hobby into full-time passion
Erich Buechel sits serenely at the center of his own renaissance. He is surrounded by impressionist, cubist, avant-garde and realist paintings and drawings - all products of his own ultra-prolific hands and imagination.
Knoxville News Sentinel |
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[Best Bets] Thursday, July 10
Be sure to check out the Mississippi Arts Center for the last few days of Arthur Stubbs’ “Moksha” acryllic and mixedmedia exhibit and Andrew Willis’ “Tamaha” photography exhibit. Free, donations welcome.
Jackson Free Press |
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Gingerbread Houses Get Fresh Look
The building at 32 Kartashov St. had had enough. It once served as home to a 19th century merchant, a little log masterpiece with ornate doors and shutters carved like doilies and a structural swagger that said, "Look at me!"
The Tampa Tribune |
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Hall of a new museum
Visitors taking a tour of the construction site for the soon-to-be-finished Hall at Patriot Place can't help but walk away impressed, even though there is nothing inside...
Boston Herald |
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Pottery created in Zoar subject of new book
A book titled “The Pottery of Zoar, Ohio Research and Photos of Known Zoar Pieces” is available at the Zoar Community Assn. gift shop located in the town hall museum. The hard cover book was written by Jack Adamson of Zoar. Chuck Knaack of Zoar also helped work on the book.
The Times-Reporter |
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By Jupiter, plans for Alliance arts center in city's downtown
ALLIANCE Before Richard Kindler hangs a single painting, his first work of art will be to convert an empty, cavernous building into an inviting community arts center known as Jupiter Studios.
The Canton Repository |
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Photo Gallery
MINERVA They didn't pedal all the way from Salem, but they could have. Bob and Barb McBride had a homecoming of sorts participating in the 175th Birthday Celebration parade in Bob's former home of Minerva. The pair rode their custom-built bicycle for two.
The Canton Repository |
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Man rips head from Hitler wax figure
BERLIN -- A man tore the head from a controversial waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin's Madame Tussauds museum Saturday, police said.
China Daily |
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Servant's letters from royalty fetch thousands in auction
Collectors paid thousands of dollars Saturday for letters from British royalty to a trusted servant, including a note from the late Queen Mother Elizabeth requesting the aide to pack bottles of gin and Dubonnet for an outing, "in case it is needed.
Los Angeles Daily News |
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Shirley Wild: Nursery honors L.B.'s first lady
V irginia Country Club was the site of Long Beach Day Nursery's Tea Time Treasures, a luncheon and silent auction.
Long Beach Press-Telegram |
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New kind of Chinese art on display at museum
Not many people know about contemporary Chinese art. Sometimes, not even people in China. "If they've been to China, what they see is traditional cultures," says Janet Baker, curator of Asian art at the Phoenix Art Museum. "You get the idea it's all about ancient China."
East Valley Tribune |
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Crossroads Ballet Festival unites national and local dancers for summer show
Let’s say the NBA brings its annual All-Star game to the Sprint Center. Kobe Bryant. LeBron James. Paul Pierce. Dazzling dunks, killer crossovers, phenomenal fade-aways.
The Kansas City Star |
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TV contestant takes stage in Elvis tribute
Joseph Hall compared the men's dressing area at Legends in Concert to the size of the holding room where he spent nine hours until his taping for national TV. An hour before show time late Tuesday afternoon at Legends in Surfside Beach, he relaxed in a T-shirt, jeans and low-cut boots, all black. Fresh from his appearance June 24 on NBC's "America's Got Talent," Hall has brought his tribute ...
The Myrtle Beach Sun News |
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Newly Unearthed Painting by Leonardo Da Vinci
PARIS- A new addition to the very rare works of the Master Leonardo Da Vinci has come to light.
Art Daily |
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Morse Plans New Wing to House Objects from Tiffany's Estate on Long Island
WINTER PARK- The Board of Trustees of the Charles Hosmer Morse Foundation announced today that the Morse Museum has begun design development on a new wing in which to exhibit most of its holdings of objects and architectural elements from Louis Comfort Tiffany's Long Island country estate, Laurelton Hall.
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Portland Museum of Art Breaks Ground on Landscape and Parking Project
Illustration of the project. PORTLAND, ME.- On Monday, July 7, the Portland Museum of Art will break ground on a landscape and parking project on the Museum’s adjacent lot at 87 Spring Street.
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Taking Shape: Geometric Abstraction from the Collection of the Ulrich Museum of Art
Work of art by Edna Andrade. WICHITA, KS.- Contrasting two primary colors—yellow and blue—and repeating a single, simple form—a bisected circle—with only slight modification, painter Edna Andrade plays tricks with our eyes.
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Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts Opens Mapping Norfolk by Kabir Hussain
Kabir Hussain working on the sculptures. NORWICH.- Mapping Norfolk, a new exhibition of work by artist Kabir Hussain, opened in the Link at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich on 1 July and runs until 31 August.
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