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'Resonance' and AudioBus: Experience sound
Two sound installations open this weekend in San Francisco. One will be housed in a gallery, while the other will hit the streets on a double-decker bus. But both force audiences to take an active role in the audio experience. "Resonance," an installation by...
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Elisa Barston brings zest to Olympic Music Festival
The Olympic Music Festival continues its 26th year with a long list of new and ambitious musicians.
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Museum's tea rooms 'will reopen'
Tea rooms at a Warwickshire museum are to be reopened to attract more visitors to the attraction.
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Arts Center has packed schedule
SHELL LAKE-- The week of July 13-18 will bring concert band, piano accompaniment, and painting camps at Shell Lake Arts Center. As a result, opportunities are numerous for the community to visit the Center to take in a variety of concerts and art shows during the week.
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Mixed Media
I had a few days in New York over the long weekend and spent a ton of time with my friend Brad in art museums. Here are the highlights: I had a long list of museums, but limited time, so we chose two museums and three shows: The Guggenheim’s Louise Bourgeois retrospective and the Brooklyn Museum ’s shows: Ghada Amir’s Love Has No End , the Takishi Murakami show.
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Be My Guest
Mystery, an opportunity to be part of something larger than oneself and the change artists want to see in the world, are at the heart of what’s happening at Lincoln’s Tugboat Gallery.
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Richard Dresser's A View of the Harbor Premieres at WV's Contemporary Fest
The world premiere of Richard Dresser's A View of the Harbor is one of five plays being seen in rotating rep at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival in Shepherdstown, WV, located 90 minutes outside of Washington, DC.
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French man pleads guilty in art theft case
A French man pleaded guilty Thursday to attempting to sell four valuable paintings that were stolen last year from a French art museum in a brazen robbery by masked, armed thieves. Bernard Jean Ternus, 56, admitted conspiring to sell the paintings for about $4.7 million to buyers who turned out to be undercover FBI and French police agents. Four of their meetings were videotaped and dozens of ...
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One-time child star returns to the gospel spotlight
ParagraphText1:After an impressive start in gospel music as a child singer, Bryan Wilson stepped away from the music industry for nearly nine years. But the 26-year-old vocalist is back in the spotlight with the just-released CD, "A Second Coming," and is scheduled to sing in Toledo on Sunday at the Fourth Annual African-American Festival. ParagraphText2:Wilson, now 26, had been featured at ...
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Start Your Weekend Early
The XPoNential Music Festival kicks off tonight at Wiggins Park on the Camden Waterfront. Featured acts will include The Blind Boys of Alabama , Beth Orton , Alejandro Escovedo , Amos Lee , Ingrid Michaelson , and Joan Osborne . (Remember her? We do, too!) Tickets are available for $25 a day ($17 for XPN Members) or $60 for a four-day pass ($40 for XPN members) online or at the door. ...
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SUMMER'S FRESH FRUIT HAS RIPENED
The Sixth Annual Fresh Fruit Festival of queer arts is back and runs July 11-27 at venues throughout Manhattan. The festival includes both themed-evenings and shows, highlights of which follow:
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Elkas in town for show Saturday
Singer/songwriter Peter Elkas, fresh off an appearance at the Mariposa Folk Festival, comes to Mississauga this Saturday. Elkas, who gained prominence with the band, Local Rabbits, before going it on his own, will perform at a free concert at the Central Library Square.
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Frenchman pleads guilty to trying to sell stolen Monet and Brueghel paintings
Frenchman pleads guilty in US court to attempting the sale of four paintings that were stolen by masked gunmen from the Museum of Fine Arts in Nice
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Art Opening: Just Been Fired at Gallery Lombardi
"Before Dawn," clay, wood, acrylic & graphite by Alejandra Almuelle (detail) Gallery Lombardi Presents Just Been Fired 2008 Thursday, July 10 Gallery Lombardi ( 602 West Seventh St. ) 7-10 p.m. [ info ] Tonight's your chance to check out some home-baked goodness by some of Austin’s most talented artists— Just Been Fired , an annual group show at Gallery Lombardi, will feature a ...
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Harvey Gantt says, "Leap forward with Bethel Church."
On Thursday morning, June 19, in the convention center on Lincoln Street, the Renaissance Foundation passed a milestone in its fund- raising efforts to convert historic Bethel Church into a cultural arts center. The breakfast gathering filled the room, mostly on the drawing power of former Charlott...
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Times & Star
Art attack! AN ART exhibition is being held next week to promote the work of two Workington schools. Southfield Technology College, on Moorclose Road, is working with Workington Sixth Form Centre, on Needham Drive, to produce the exhibition called Pure Devotion.
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Tunisia: 14th Session of Mahdia's 'Sea Fest' to Showcase Leisure Activities And Cultural Heritage
The 14 th session of Mahdia's "sea festival" which is expected to take place from July 19 to 26, will showcase leisure activities, culture, as well as the area's rich heritage inherited from a myriad of successive dynasties which have reigned on the legendary city.
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Cazenovia show offers variety
CAZENOVIA — Cazenovia Counterpoint, a festival featuring Central New York composers, performers, writers, visual artists, and filmmakers will be held in multiple venues in Cazenovia starting July 17. The Society for New Music presents the diverse group of Central New York professional artists and a variety of original works.
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St. Anthony Hospital will showcase fine art
Sculptor Mardie Rees works on a Maquette (small-scale model) of St. Anthony of Padua. She created the one-quarter-sized version of the statue to allow the St. Anthony art committee to review what the life-sized version would look like and to “get a feel of the piece.”
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Old-time festival offers fresh events
LISBON — The drink may be billed as old-fashioned, but the festival celebrating it is boasting new additions for its silver anniversary this year. What started out as a book signing 25 years ago has morphed into a three-day Moxie Festival running Friday through Sunday.
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Watch out for street closures this weekend
With festivals in full swing, several Seattle streets will be closed this weekend. • The Pioneer Square Fire Festival, Friday from...
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Career Opportunities: How I Got My Job
In our July issue, PDN talks to over 20 professionals anonymously who work in the photography industry (but don't take pictures) about the things they like about their jobs, the things they aren't crazy about and, most intriguingly, what they earn in salary and other perks.
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Frenchman pleads guilty in Florida to art theft
MIAMI (Reuters) - A Frenchman pleaded guilty in a U.S. court on Thursday to charges of conspiring to transport artwork stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Nice, including a painting by French impressionist Claude Monet.
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Sculpture to jewelry, artists' gallery has it
Business owners know the retail market in Fountain Hills is far from its zenith. But it hasn't stopped 37 artists from starting their own co-op style art gallery.
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Frenchman pleads guilty in Florida to art theft
A Frenchman pleaded guilty in a U.S. court on Thursday to charges of conspiring to transport artwork stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Nice, including a painting by French impressionist Claude Monet.
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