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Gallery celebrates Baker stamp
The Sheldon Art Galleries will host a free First Day of Sale event for a new stamp commemorating St. Louis-born entertainer Josephine Baker at 2 p.m. Wednesday. The stamp is part of the Vintage Black Cinema Stamps series published by the U.S. Postal Service.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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Pulitzer wants your lamps
In conjunction with its long-running exhibition, "Dan Flavin: Constructed Light," the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts is planning a number of events this fall dealing with light. Among them will be four outdoor light installations by artists from New York City and Europe.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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Not just castles made of sand
Muscovites are discovering there is more to the art of sand sculpture than buckets and spades.
ITN via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Recent Art
I've been looking through my uploaded photos of recent art exhibitions and music shows we've put on. There's a lot missing (sorry Jens Hamran, sorry Somadrone) but here's some pics that weren't lost. First off, the Hilmar Fredriksen exhibition....
Blather |
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Harley-Davidson Museum Opens to Motorcycle Fans
A new museum dedicated to Harley-Davidson motorcycles opens to fans of the legendary bikes.
Newsweek |
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A family album of contemporary art from China
"Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art From the Logan Collection," which opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on Thursday, reacquaints us with some of the works and artists represented in the 1999 fractional gifts by Kent and Vicki Logan...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Woodcarvers Show Off Their Skills
The News On 6's Rick Wells reports woodcarvers from five states have brought out their best work to the Wonderful World of Wood Show.
News On 6 Tulsa |
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Community asked to put their heart, head — and cans — into it
A special addition has been added to the Fort Ontario Festival of the Arts this August. The event, called “Art with a Heart,” involves building a sculpture made — unexpectedly — out of cans.
The Palladium-Times |
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Frenchman admits trying to sell stolen paintings
A Frenchman has pleaded guilty to attempting to sell four valuable paintings that were stolen from a French art museum last year in a brazen robbery by masked, armed thieves.
Times Online |
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Phaistos Disc declared as fake by scholar
Some say that its 45 mysterious symbols are the words of a 4,000-year-old poem, or perhaps a sacred text. Others contest that they are a magical inscription, a piece of ancient music or the world's oldest example of punctuation.
Times Online |
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BC BREAKING NEWS:
Frank’s Supermarket owner Dave Vatamaniuck is upset vandals have smashed the back and head of a fibreglass bear made by Quesnel sculptors. A Quesnel business owner is seething with frustration after the latest in a string of vandalism attacks on his store.
Kelowna Capital News |
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Great funding opportunity for Niagara County Arts Organizations
North Tonawanda, NY - The Carnegie Art Center is pleased to announce the 2009 Arts Niagara Decentralization grant cycle has begun! This grant program is designed to expand, nurture, and promote quality arts and cultural programming for the entire community of Niagara County. The Arts Niagara Decentralization program is part funded by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).
WIVB Buffalo |
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Elmira Street Painting Festival
ELMIRA--Art goes to the streets July 12 to 13 as the first annual Elmira Street Painting Festival kicks off. Elmira Downtown Development is celebrating the city through the arts with dozens of volunteer artists who have signed up to decorate the streets.
WENY-TV |
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The mystery behind the crystal skulls: Fact or fiction?
Some mysteries are such fun you almost don't want to know the truth. That may help explain why people are fascinated with crystal skulls. Happy to share the spotlight with the latest Indiana Jones movie, the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History has put its crystal skull on display.
The Daily Record |
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Artists with big Seattle presence picked to exhibit at Olympics
Artists Jonathan Borofsky, creator of "Hammering Man" in front of Seattle Art Museum, and Dennis Oppenheim — the artist behind the huge cones in the Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park — are among the seven Americans whose work will be in the Beijing Olympics Sculpture Park.
Seattle Times |
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San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts "Summer for Kids Program"
The San Angelo museum of fine arts this is our summer for kids program which is a summer program that goes for 7 weeks for kids 3 to 12. Everything from molding clay to making masks and learning how to weave is covered.
KSAN - KLST San Angelo |
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Corn Hill Arts Festival Unveils New Sculpture
Rochester, N.Y. -- Corn Hill neighbors are expecting tens of thousands of visitors for their arts festival, and they have something new to show everyone.
13WHAM Rochester |
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10th Osian film fest has grand opening
New Delhi, July 11(IANS) The inaugural ceremony of the 10th Osian's-Cinefan Film Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema here Friday evening saw prominent members of the film fraternity, including some Bollywood celebrities, walk the red carpet.
Calcutta News |
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'Crank It Up' if you're visiting Cesar Chavez Park this weekend
South Park Arts is hosting its "Crank It Up" festival Saturday at the brand-new Cesar Chavez Park.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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Arti, Javed in the limelight on Day I
Calcutta: Jockey D. K. Ashish was simply brilliant, exhibiting his superior class on his way to a fine double which he scored for the visiting trainer Arti Doctor on Friday, the opening day of the monsoon season.
The Telegraph |
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This week's gallery roundup
Here's a look at exhibits running right now at the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Contemporary Arts Center and Xavier University.
The Cincinnati Enquirer |
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Photographers can focus on contest
AJAX -- Focus in, shutterbugs. The Ajax and Black's Superstore 2008 Amateur Photography Contest is again being held and it's open to photographers from across Durham Region. There are...
The Ajax News Advertiser |
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Turn Your Photos into a Small Planet [Digital Photography]
Blogger Tom Hole details an image editing technique for turning a digital photo landscape into a tiny planet. To start off you'll need to create a 360-degree panoramic photo. The author uses a...
Lifehacker |
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art Till July 12 at Tejas Art Gallery, 11 Mayfair Road, #98300 49825; 1 pm - 7.30 pm:
Summer Workshop : Acrylic and charcoal works, inspired by the Bengal countryside, by Dhiren Sasmal, Ashok Ganguly, Arunava Mondol, Biswarup Garai, Avijit Mukherjee, Tarun Chakravorty, Malay Chandan Saha, Debasish Sen Gupta and Subrata Sen.
The Telegraph |
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Final Touches for the Beaufort Water Festival
The 53rd annual Beaufort Water Festival is officially underway! It's no light load preparing for a 10-day festival that's earned such high expectations.
WSAV Savannah |
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