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Deadline is Friday for Elsah photography contest
ELSAH - The submission deadline for a photography exhibit featuring the "Colors and Contrasts of Elsah" is nearing. According to the exhibit invitation, the purpose of the 2008 Photography Exhibit at the Village of Elsah Museum is to celebrate the beauty and uniqueness of Elsah.
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Fisk boots fundraising following failed Georgia O'Keefe art sale
NASHVILLE — A renewed focus on fundraising by Fisk University has netted about $6 million since December. The historically black university has redoubled its fundraising efforts in the wake of a failed effort to sell portions of an art collection donated by Georgia O’Keeffe in 1949.
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MRH Foundation announces art show
The Maury Regional Healthcare Foundation’s second annual art show and sale will be held Aug. 8-9 at the Memorial Building in Columbia. Thirty six local and regional artists will be participating this year.
Columbia Daily Herald |
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American Artist: Colleen Howe's Pastel Landscapes
View an online exclusive gallery of more work by July/August American Artist 2008 featured artist Colleen Howe. The Cowboy 2007, pastel, 14 x 18. All artwork this gallery collection the artist.
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TECH CHRONICLES / A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle's technology blog (sfgate.com/blogs/tech)
Polaroid's new shot at the photography business The days of old Polaroid pictures, the kind you shook for a minute while they developed, are over. The cameras are no longer sold, and the film will be gone soon enough. So what do you do if you're Polaroid,...
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Artist Mary Ellen Scherl makes monuments for change
"Monumental Woman," by Mary Ellen Scherl. Scherl is visiting Philinda Gallery in Edwards, the only local gallery carrying her work, Monday and Tuesday.
Vail Daily |
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Big Touch-Up for the Blue and the Gray
The Gettysburg Cyclorama, an enormous painting in the round, is to reopen on Sept. 26 after a five-year restoration.
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Good things in the garden
Newark Museum's 2008 "Jazz in the Garden" Series When: Thursdays, 12:15-1:45 p.m., through Aug. 7 Where: Alice Ransom Dreyfuss Memorial Garden of the Newark Museum, 49 Washington St., Newark How much: $3; members and children, free.
The Star-Ledger |
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Bronx Museum Leads Borough's Renaissance
When Holly Block left the downtown arts venue Art in General to run the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2006, many of her friends told her she was crazy. The museum was in serious trouble: It had almost no base of private support, had been running deficits for three years, and was about to open a new building that it didn't have the funds to operate. But Ms. Block, who had worked at the museum as a ...
The New York Sun |
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The Socratic Method
In Manhattan, most outdoor summer movie events are about getting away from the congested streets and the crowded subways, if only for a few hours. But in Queens, the organizers of one outdoor movie series approach the endeavor not as a fleeting escape, but as a recurring event not to be missed. On Wednesday, Long Island City's Socrates Sculpture Park will kick off the 10th year of its Outdoor ...
The New York Sun |
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Program sponsors art on Main
School's out but art is still in this summer, thanks to a new program that allows talented art students a chance to improve their skill.
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$7.5 million for Rotorua Museum of Art and History
Rotorua’s Museum of Art and History is to get a $7.5 million government grant to complete its centenary redevelopment project, Prime Minister and Minister Arts, Culture and Heritage Helen Clark announced today.
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Grease Pole Competition
Coverage of the grease pole competition at the 15th Annual Festival Italiano on July 6th. The area's top 40 Under 40 are recognized for their achievements.
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Pros Attend Photography Workshop
Bandar Seri Begawan - Thirty one public relations officers from government ministries and departments attended a workshop on photography techniques at Tasek Lama.
BruDirect.com |
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Buddha's caves
On the lip of the Gobi Desert, sand and tourists threaten the hundreds of rock-cut Buddhist grottoes that are filled with paradisiacal frescos and sculptures that are singular in the Chinese Buddhist world.
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Finding Movement Across the Globe
DURHAM, N.C. — It may be called the American Dance Festival, but it is no longer strictly an American affair. In its first incarnation in 1934, more than 100 students flocked to the festival school to learn about a uniquely American art form known as modern dance from early icons such as Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidman. Since then, artists from countries including China, ...
The New York Sun |
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Castles in the Sands of Mexico Beach
Following Mexico Beach's rocking fireworks displays they had a nice calming sand castle contest, but it doesn't mean it lacked a little competition.
WJHG Panama City |
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NZ Nominees for Signature Art Prize
Thirty-four artworks by artists from 12 countries in Asia Pacific have been nominated for the inaugural Asia Pacific Breweries (APB) Foundation Signature Art Prize.
Scoop.co.nz |
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Story behind Olympic dancing man's seal of approval
One year after Beijing won the rights to host the Games, organizers launched a contest in a bid to find a special logo for China's largest public event. Seasoned advertising man, Guo Chunning, beat 1,300 other professionals with his ...
People's Daily |
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Chicago exhibit illustrates immigrant experiences
CHICAGO -- A window washer dressed as Spiderman scales a building. A nanny clad as Cat Woman attends to children. A pizza delivery man wearing Superman garb rides a bike with pies in the basket.
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Artful manipulation
Surrounded by art, I'm facing a lustrous sea view framed by an enormous carving. So what grabs my eye? Two words glaring from the centre of one painting: "Black bum".
The New Zealand Herald |
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Chennai mechanic turns artist by night
This painter by night has been shortlisted to display his paintings in Moscow as part of its Year of India celebration in January 2009.
The Times of India |
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Moshing for Jesus at "Christian Woodstock"
A music festival with heavy metal, punk, hip-hop and pop music might seem like an unusual place to get baptized, but Creation is a festival with strict rules: no alcohol, no drugs and no sex before marriage.
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Global ensemble
The Rainforest World Music Festival is still very much focused on culture and tradition.
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Man rips head from Hitler wax figure
A man tore the head from a controversial waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin's Madame Tussauds museum, police said. Just minutes after the museum opened, the 41-year-old German man pushed aside two security men guarding the exhibit.
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