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RG Museum celebrates Starkey’s and Sheldrake’s new pieces of work
DEL NORTE — Our winter weather has given artist Jill M. Starkey a lot of studio time to create new paintings. This new work, which was done from photographs and ‘plein aire,’ shows energy and clarity.
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Patriotism wins art contest
MONTE VISTA — The Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3228 sponsored the “Young American Patriotic Art” program. The art work was done on canvas or digital by art teacher Dan Garcia’s Art classes.
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Claims Of Multiple Abortions By Yale Art Student Turns Out To Be A Hoax
(NBC) -- Yale University said this week it will not install an art project by a student who claims to have filmed herself inducing repeated abortions unless she includes a disclaimer saying it is a work of fiction.
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TORONTO - A Winnipeg photographer inspired by tree planting in British Columbia has taken the inaugural Grange Prize for contemporary photography. Sarah Anne Johnson gets $50,000 after winning an online vote organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario and Aeroplan.
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Sycamore Teacher Suspended For Inappropriate Conduct
A local art teacher has been suspended without pay. Peter Griga teaches at Sycamore High School. Officials suspended Griga for 10 days due to unprofessional conduct while he was chaperoning a school trip to England.
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Old Fort's Pioneer Day is Saturday
With mountain crafts, historical re-enactors, old-time music and delicious foods, Old Fort's Pioneer Day celebrates the rich heritage of the Appalachian Mountains. The annual event, set for Saturday, has lots of fun-filled activities along with glimpses of life in the past. The 24th Annual Pioneer Day celebration will be held at the Mountain Gateway Museum in Old Fort. The free event will take ...
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Is this the most disgusting art exhibition ever? Incarcerated Pete Doherty misses his art launch
A exhibition of Pete Doherty's bloody paintings launched in Paris yesterday - with the notable absence of the so-called artist himself. The troubled singer, 29, missed his shining moment at the Chappe Gallery in the Montmartre district of the French capital because he is currently incarcerated at Wormwood Scrubs for breaching his probation terms
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Corel Donates Corel(R) Painter(TM) X to Oakland Student Art Charity
Corel Corporation (NASDAQ: CREL; TSX: CRE), a leading developer of graphics, productivity and digital media software, today announced that it has donated Corel(R) Painter(TM) X, the company's award-winning Natural-Media(R) painting and illustration software, to the Emancipated Hearts art program. The software will be used by students to tell stories related to the theme, "What is Family to Me?" ...
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Sarah Anne Johnson wins top photography prize
Sarah Anne Johnson is the inaugural winner of the $50,000 Grange Prize for Contemporary Photography, it was announced tonight by the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO).
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Installation art exhibition Showtel returns by popular demand
Showtel, the one-night installation art exhibition, is back.
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Artists sought for E.B. Fine Arts Festival
The township of East Brunswick, Division of Recreation and Community Services and the East Brunswick Arts Commission will sponsor the sixth annual FineArts Festival, an outdoor juried show and sale of fine art and handmade crafts, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on June 7 around the pond at the East Brunswick municipal complex, Jean Walling Civic Center. Rain date is June 8.
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John Hoyland: Blood on the canvas, by a modern master
"I borrow anything from anything," says the artist John Hoyland. "I'll borrow from other people's work, nature, flowers – anything." In his latest exhibition, Greetings of Love, Hoyland borrows from a more unlikely source, perhaps: a photograph of blood-spatter on the floor of a hospital in Lebanon, accompanied by a piece, about the 33-day conflict in Lebanon and northern Israel in 2006, by ...
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Obituary: John Plumb
Obituary: Artist and art teacher who gave '50s American abstraction an English approach
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China: At The Court Of The Emperors China China China!!! Chinese Contemporary Art, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
What is Florence for? Anyone who stands in the Piazza della Signoria and stares at the self-vaunting bronze equestrian statue of Cosimo de Medici will know the answer to that question. Florence exists to proclaim the greatness of Florence, to be the near-perfect embodiment of its own tremendous civic pride. This is one of the reasons why Florence is not much of a centre for art from elsewhere.
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Photographer Richard Seeley displays work at Wild Side studio
FRISCO Watch a video interview of Richard Seeley as he talks about his background in digital photography and his exhibit, Born to be Wild, at the Wild Side studio in Frisco.
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PRINCESS ANNE: Artist's oil painting selected to showcase Del. Tech gala
PRINCESS ANNE — An oil painting of an Italian countryside by local artist and writer Jeanne du Nord was chosen by Delaware Technical and Community College as a donor appreciation gift to the Italian Heritage Commission, and graces materials promoting the college's annual gala this weekend.
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Bella Sera Benefits Chattanooga Endeavors May 31
Bella Sera comes to the new Renaissance Park for an evening with live music and dancing, a silent auction, wine and specialty dishes from area local restaurants on Saturday, May 31.
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Kazuo Shiraga: Avant-garde artist who painted barefoot and hanging from a rope
The artist Jiro Yoshihara may have been a touch mean-spirited when he sniffed that Kazuo Shiraga was "nobody if he didn't paint with his feet", but history has taken much the same view. In May 1957, Shiraga, dressed in a red Pinocchio suit, suspended himself by a rope from the ceiling of a gallery in Osaka and, dangling in space, began to kick oil paint around on a piece of paper lying on the ...
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All Events for 26 Apr 2008
Until 04 May 2008 Lucy Skaer's new commission for Chisenhale Gallery takes a siege situation as its conceptual underpinning, and as a narrative scenario in which to physically place her large-scale drawings and...
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All Events for 26 Apr 2008
Until 13 Jul 2008 This exhibition is timed to coincide with the 2008 Beijing Olympics and will explore an extraordinary time in Chinese history. China Design Now looks at a range of themes around art, culture and...
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New Koons sculptures unveiled
NEW YORK - With its breathtaking, panoramic views of Central Park and the Manhattan skyline, the Cantor Roof Garden at the Metropolitan Museum of Art may strike you as an excellent place to mount a seasonal outdoor sculpture show, which it does every year.
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Wesleyan Christian School’s Heart and Soul Dinner to offer sports theme and items
With sports as the theme of the upcoming Wesleyan Christian School “Heart and Soul Catch Our Team Spirit” Dinner and Auction Fundraiser, attendees will have the chance to get their hands on some very special sports memorabilia.
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City to auction banners
Muskogee Azalea Festival Street Banner Art Project is an American original, said Joel Everett, special projects coordinator for Muskogee Parks and Recreation Department and creator of the event.
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Young talent floats atop Hass' River of Words
Annual art and poetry contest rewards ecologically minded children
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GETTING READY...
Camille Russell of Cheektowaga Senior Services and Cheektowaga Central Middle School student Dakota Herkey prepare a painting for display at the Art of Charity Auction on May 2. See story on page 5.
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