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At the new Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, there's an exhibition...
At the new Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, there's an exhibition called "In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis," and a fine exhibition it is. (A fine museum too, come to think of it, that almost didn't get built, and hooray for...
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Sails plus sun equal fun
Considering it’s the 25th anniversary of the Whistler Children’s Art Festival this weekend, it’s only fitting that Rob Matthies’ sail car workshop teaches kids about an ancient technology that’s extremely relevant in today’s energy-demanding world.
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Nelson Arts Festival: Nelson in Spring
Nelson welcomes the spring with an explosion of creativity. For 13 years the Nelson Arts Festival has offered Nelsonians and visitors ten days of top national and international theatre, dance, cabaret, music and talks.
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Chch Streets Come Alive w World's Best Public Art
Wandering Lines: Towards a New Culture of Space opens 19 September 2008. Co-curated by Turkey's internationally renowned Fulya Erdemci and New Zealand's Danae Mossman, SCAPE 2008 will open with a distinctive list of artists showcasing new work in public space.
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Nature helps inspire Norman artist's work
NORMAN — The round shape of the Crystal Bridge that seems to stare back at us like a giant eye makes a good focal point for an oil painting in a small show by Norman artist Cindy Smith. Smith's "Focus Oklahoma” exhibit is on display in the Suite 101 gallery of the Norman Arts Council, 220 E Main. Red flowers, green foliage and the suggestion of a path lead us back to the multifaceted building, ...
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Half-Life 2: Episode Three Art Revealed
Valve Artists link the game to PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Into the Pixel is run by industry veterans and experts from the videogame art industry. The organization ran a 2008 contest where it selected videogame art from various artists around the world.
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Close to Home : Sea treasures
The interactive Sea Chest Secret exhibition at Palmerston North's Te Manawa centre provides the chance to unlock the mystery of an intriguing diary found washed up in a sea chest, while learning many maritime marvels.
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Arts & Entertainment Calendar
n The Gallery at the Network, 778 Higuera St., Suite B., San Luis Obispo, will feature nationally and internationally known ceramicist Bill Shinn during July.
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Nik Releases Black-and-white Imaging Plug-in
Nik Software unveiled a new plug-in for Adobe Photoshop and Apple Aperture that lets photographers convert their images into...
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The Knowledge
The web is abuzz over what some believed to be the first concept art of Half-Life 2: Episode Three from an exhibit of video game art called Into the Pixel . And some are so wrong . The first concept art from Valve’s episodic blockbuster actually appeared in the pages of PC Gamer magazine in our November 2007 issue!
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Getting Ready
Once again, local artist Bob Barko and his family are painting the giant rock on the Youngstown State University campus for the Summer Festival of the Arts. This year's celebration features an All-Alumni reunion to celebrate one hundred years of YSU.
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Television - Entertainment
The International Film Festival has opened in Auckland for its 40th year. One of the 170 films on offer over the next two weeks is a documentary on Hunter S Thompson.
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PM, Jeanne for Rainforest music festival opening
Angklung players from the Indonesian Consulate in Kuching performing ‘Negaraku’ at the launch of the Rainforest World Crafts Bazaar yesterday. — NST picture by Nadim Bokhari
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Singapore museum feels the rhythm
National Museum of Singapore is set to entertain music fans with its Night Festival, promising an evening of great entertainment from international acts. Nur Umirra Mohd Sahad has the story.
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A Local Museum Holds Summer Program For Kids 7/10/08
Keep children entertained through the summer can be a daunting task for many parents. Fortunately, there's help on the way. The Ellen Noel Art Museum in Odessa is holding its "Art-Haus" summer program.
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Art Thief Pleads Guilty
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 that he conspired to sell the paintings for about $4.7 million to buyers who turned out to be undercover FBI agents and French police officers. Four of their meetings were videotaped ...
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Peggy Siegal: Bonjour, Cannes!
A private jet, seven lunches, six premieres, 16 parties, five megayachts, one helicopter, one-on-ones with Brad Pitt, Mick Jagger, and Robert De Niro. One woman lives the dream at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Eight lessons on advertising from a world-class chef
The most awarded agency at the 2008 Cannes Festival was BBDO New York (and the most awarded network was BBDO Worldwide). And perhaps the single mastermind of this success is chairman and chief creative officer Dave Lubars.
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Artist to discuss works at Academy on Sunday
SPOTSWOOD - A new art exhibition at the Academy of Music on Main Street features paintings by Katja Valeur. A reception and gallery talk by the artist is set for 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday. The show is entitled, "Sounds and Symbols.
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16 steelbands to celebrate excellence
Sixteen Tobago steelbands will be celebrating excellence in the pan art-form as their contribution for the 2008 Tobago Heritage Festival. The steelband aspect of the Festival will take place on Tuesday July at 8 p.m. at the Milford Road Esplanade.
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Archaeologists find ancient marble love goddess masterpiece
SKOPJE (Macedonia) - MACEDONIAN archaeologists say they have discovered a well-preserved naked statue of the ancient goddess of love in a ruined Roman city near Skopje.
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Kapoor's 'Giants' to be the world's biggest public artwork
A decade ago, Antony Gormley's 65ft sculpture, Angel of the North, was credited with placing Gateshead on the artistic map of Britain and starting a trend for large-scale public artworks nicknamed the "Gormley effect".
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Petroleum odor from .I.C. site has residents, pols fuming
An offensive smell has been hovering over Long Island City for the past few weeks, most prominently along Fifth St. near the PepsiCo sign, where crews are remediating an oil refinery site for future residential development.
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New faces and the new spaces: Rebirth of the British art scene
Credit crunch? What credit crunch? The summer season of London sales drew to a triumphant close this week with Christie's and Sotheby's chalking up sales of contemporary artworks totalling more than $1bn (about £500m). Among the record-breakers in the sales were Jeff Koons, whose Balloon Flower (Magenta) brought him a record high price of £12.9m, and Gilbert and George, whose To Her Majesty ...
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de Goya, Francisco: The Dog (c1820)
It's a frightful picture of dream-like helplessness and despair. It's also a demonstration of the power of simplicity. Goya's The Dog is one of his so-called "Black Paintings", the sequence of murals, usually with nightmarish subjects, that the artist painted on the walls of the Quinta del Sordo, a country house outside Madrid he occupied in the early 1820's.
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