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Director Retiring As Tampa Art Museum Takes Shape
Ken Rollins spent most of the past three years dealing with the finances and politics involved in building a new art museum for the city.
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Video Report - Kingsport breaks ground on higher education center
Kingsport, business and educational leaders broke ground Monday on the new Kingsport Center for Higher Education, shown in an artist's rendering.
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High cost of gas inspires quick trips
County parks, museums offer entertainment for those staying close to home. With the price of gas soaring, the auto companies suffering and the weak dollar, thousands of Metro Detroiters have been forced to cancel that yearly trip to Midwest amusement parks, the U.P. or Canada.
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Masters and Surprises
The eccentric German philanthropist Gustav Rau spent part of the last century running an automotive parts empire he inherited from his father. Then, at the age of 40, he enrolled in medical school, became a physician, and moved to Africa, where he built a hospital in the Belgian Congo. The one constant in Rau's extraordinary life was a love of Old Master paintings. Part of his collection, with ...
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Earth-friendly third-grader helps make SamTrans buses a little greener
Foster City's Kevin Huo, 9, wins environmentally-themed art contest
San Mateo County Times |
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Tycoon to turn Bruce Lee's last home into museum
HONG KONG (Reuters) - The billionaire owner of Bruce Lee's final home hopes to build a museum to the martial arts legend, giving in to public calls to prevent the sale of the luxury house in a northern Hong Kong suburb for millions of dollars.
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Beadwork from Around the World-and One Amazing Closet
SEATTLE.- The Seattle Art Museum opens the exhibit A Bead Quiz. No matter where in the world you go, beads are usually there. They travel vast distances, pulling different parts of the world together like miniature magnets.
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Israel's 60th Anniversary, Real Time: Art in Israel 1998-2008 is on View Until August 30
Adi Nes, born 1966. Untitled, 1999. Photo courtesy of the artist. JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, presents a comprehensive survey of contemporary Israeli creativity from the past ten years, tackling what many consider to be the most dynamic decade in the development of modern Israel’s visual culture.
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Guantanamo Museum by Alicia Framis Opens at Centre d'Art Santa Monica
Alicia Framis, Guantánamo Museum House Of Lies CASM, 2008. Photo courtesy of the artist. BARCELONA.-
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Kunsthalle Basel Opens Armando Andrade Tudela - Gamblers Die Broke
Installation view room 5: Left: Untitled (Photography and Glass # 1-4), 2007-08. Photographic print mounted on PVC, tilted glass. Courtesy Carl Freedman Gallery, London. Background: Bars and Corners (22 Corners), 2008, 22 drawings. Biro on paper. Courtesy Carl Freedman Gallery, London.
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Fencing the Museum: 7 Artists Create a Hoarding for the Stedelijk Museum
View of the fence around the Stedelijk Museum. AMSTERDAM.- The project 'Fencing the Museum' involves seven young artists creating a completely different appearance every two months for the fence surrounding the building site of the new Stedelijk Museum.
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Getty Research Institute Exhibition Unites Two Superlative Manuscripts on the History of Peru
Girolamo Benzoni (b. 1519), Come gl`Indiani del Peru adorano il Sole, & lo tengono per il suo`principal`Iddio. 1565. Woodblock. Photo: Courtesy of The J. Paul Getty Trust.
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National Museum Cardiff Launches Four New Galleries with Welsh Landscape Exhibit
Welsh artists of the eighteenth century in focus. CARDIFF.-
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Annie Leibovitz: A Photographers Life, 1990-2005 at Maison Européenne de la Photographie
Nicole Kidman, New York, 2003. © Annie Leibovitz/Contact Press Images. Courtesy Vogue. PARIS.- This summer, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie will present an internationally touring exhibition of works by celebrated photographer Annie Leibovitz.
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Pioneers of Photography Exhibit Opens at Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao
The Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao presents an exhibit featuring pgotographs from the Ordóñez-Falcón Collection. In this picture a visitor looks at a photograph made by Eadweard Muybridge. Photo: EFE / Alfredo Aldai.
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Energetic Rabbits, Melt-Proof Candies and Other Advertising Coups
The new exhibition on advertising at the Science, Industry and Business Library wants to give a twist to the ?Mad Men? series.
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Lawyer Contestant Tells All About 'The Bachelorette'
For the past seven weeks, America has tuned in every Monday night to watch Dallas real estate lawyer Jeremy Anderson compete for lasting love on the reality show "The Bachelorette." But last week, bachelorette DeAnna Pappas sent Anderson packing. Now Anderson talks about the behind-the-scenes happenings that only a lawyer could appreciate, such as going over the extensive contract with the ...
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Digital Photography Classes for Teens at Library
07/09/2008 - 10:00a.m. to 07/09/2008 - 11:30a.m.
Cape May County Herald |
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Fire Arts Festival heats up the Bay Area
The eighth annual Crucible Fire Arts Festival begins Wednesday.
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Artists go zero-gravity painting
LONDON (Reuters) - A group of British artists will take a giant leap for art when they attempt to produce masterpieces in zero gravity conditions on board a plane in Russia on Tuesday.
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Thai museum at Angkor raises Cambodian ire
There is no question that Angkor and its famed temples are among the world's archaeological treasures, providing a window into the Cambodian dynasty that flourished there from the 9th century to the 15th century.
Bangkok Post - Thailand's English news |
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Ogden Arts Festival shows variety of art - Arts and Entertainment
Everyone defines art differently. At the Ogden Arts Festival, this was obvious. The festival started five years ago. On the festival's first night, activities included a silent auction, short films shown by the Four Site Film Festival, and an award ceremony for Weber County High School students.
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Beyond Reasonable Drought reveals home truths
Drought, drought everywhere, and not a drop for farmers. As the implications of climate change hit and the recommendations of the Garnaut report sink in, a timely new exhibition that puts on display the realities of the drought in the bush opens at Old Parliament House today.
Central Midlands & Costal Advocate |
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Artists go zero-gravity painting
A group of British artists will take a giant leap for art when they attempt to produce masterpieces in zero gravity conditions on board a plane in Russia on Tuesday.
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Glam Rock
The Florentines did it better, at least to judge by the dukes and duchesses whose ornate collectibles and patronage gifts make up the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new exhibit "Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure From the Palaces of Europe." The technique of pietre dure, or hard stone, has its origins in ancient Greece and Rome; luxury and everyday items were intricately inlaid with ...
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