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Our picks for the week's top events
Events on tap this week, besides a bevy of Derby Festival events, include a performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" on stage this weekend at The Rudyard Kipling; the Cherokee Triangle Art Fair; a performance by the Global Rhythms World Music Ensemble; the Psychic Fair; and the 18th annual Louisville Collectible Teddy Bear Show and Sale.
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Curators Point the Way to Hidden Treasures
So you know there?s a water tower at MoMA, a monkey god at the Met, and a giant millipede at the natural history museum? No? Find hidden treasures at the city?s biggest museums.
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Celebrate art and spring with annual Arts in Bloom
Sparks is gearing up for the sixth annual Arts in Bloom Festival, which includes an auction of celebrity-painted plates, live music and art for sale.
Reno Gazette-Journal |
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Canadian wins $50,000 Grange photo prize
Sarah Anne Johnson is the inaugural winner of the $50,000 Grange Prize for Contemporary Photography, it was announced last night by the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Toronto Star |
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Coachella Music Fest begins today
The three-day Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival gears up at Empire Polo Club today.
The Desert Sun |
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Yale Refuses To Display Divisive Abortion Art Project
By Karen W. Arenson THE NEW YORK TIMES When an exhibition of art projects by Yale University seniors opened on Tuesday, one was missing: that of Aliza Shvarts, whose performance-art project reportedly involved artificially inseminating herself repeatedly and then self-aborting.
The Tech |
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Rhody Festival blossoms again
It almost didn't happen. When the Greater Eureka Chamber of Commerce decided it could no longer be the primary organizer of Eureka's much-loved Rhododendron Festival, it looked -- for the first time in more than 40 years -- as if the event
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NEW NYC MUSEUM'S A BEAUT
A lifetime ago, right on Columbus Cir cle, the A&P heir Huntington Hart ford built a famous structure. All white. With portholes. Grown old, long empty, like a grande dame whose lover has left, over the years her spirit crumbled. Now with a...
New York Post |
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’Opera & Meatballs’ set for Saturday
"Opera & Meatballs," a joint fundraiser for the University of Iowa School of Music and the UI Museum of Art, will be at 7 p.m. Saturday in the museum, North Riverside Drive.
The Iowa City Press-Citizen |
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’WOW! Family Day’ will be this weekend
"WOW! Family Day: An African Celebration," a free, public event, will be from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday at the University of Iowa Museum of Art, North Riverside Drive.
The Iowa City Press-Citizen |
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Modern 'til Midnight: Music and art previews
By Mark Lowry and Gaile Robinson This week's Modern 'til Midnight just might be the hippest in the museum's history. Not only can you check out the main exhibit on Martin Puryear and preview the very interesting "Focus: Kehinde Wiley," but there will also be music from Yellow Fever, the Theater Fire, PPT, Strange Fruit Project, DJ Sober and the Trimble Tech High School marching band, which will ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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Mural in fated subway station worth $15 million, agency told
Port Authority of Allegheny, surprised, is unsure of next step. A mural in a subway station that is being demolished is worth $15 million, more than the cash-strapped transit agency expected, raising questions about how the artwork should be cared for once it is removed.
The Morning Call |
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A chilling tool fights cardiac arrest
Max King is no fan of sensationalism, but he relishes declaring, "I literally died." The former journalist and current head of the Heinz Endowments, one of the nation's largest independent philanthropies, was speaking to Pittsburgh civic leaders at the Carnegie Museum of Art 18 months ago when his heart suddenly stopped beating.
Philly.com |
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Top regional attractions
Top Regional Attractions Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences 1900 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy.; 215-299-1000. www.ansp.org. Includes Dinosaur Hall, Egyptian mummies, interactive, educational exhibits for children & more. Ends of the Earth: From Polar Bear
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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Darfur ballet trivializes a tragedy
Ever since the right-wing attacks on the arts in the '80s, arts funders have been driving artists to make multicultural, community or issue-based art, and driving arts organizations to base their operations on business models. So a for-profit, business-model dance company, not beholden to private funding, might sound interesting.
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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North Dallas community calendar
VALLEY HOUSE GALLERY & Sculpture Garden, 6616 Spring Valley Road, presents works by Jim Woodson through Saturday. The gallery and gardens are open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and Saturday. 972-239-2441, www.valleyhouse.com.
Dallas Morning News |
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Photo gallery of alleged Syrian nuclear plant
The White House on April 24, 2008 broke its official silence on the mysterious September 6, 2007 Israeli air strike. "We are convinced, based on a variety of information, that North Korea assisted Syria's covert nuclear activities," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said in a statement.
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FESTIVAL SEASON
By Mark Lowry Just because Main St. Fort Worth Arts Festival was last week doesn't mean the festivals are over. There are some major ones this weekend and coming up. For more about Mayfest, also see Family Fun, Page 16. Here are the festival happenings this week: Friday-Sunday: Art in the Square in Southlake has booths sprinkled throughout the upscale town square, with a juried art show and ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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The Thing From Another World
By Gaile Robinson Fort Worth-based artist Linda Blackburn's work is often created in tandem with her husband, Ed. The two make large paintings that bear a decided resemblance to comic strips. She contributes the words, he the illustrative work. When she works on her own, the images function more like silent movies. The flat, cartoonlike figures are there, often suspended in a stylized ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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Short Takes: More Movie Reviews
Many of us may feel that any movie about graffiti should be based in New York, but Jon Reiss' high-energy doc "Bomb It" hops all across the globe in order to paint the fullest portrait of the most modern art.
New York Daily News |
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Historic artifacts' future unclear
SPRINGFIELD - Intrigue exceeded information last night as officials and historians could do little but hope that artifacts belonging to the former Old First Church could somehow be pulled from an auction scheduled for today.
The Republican |
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Bones' Upcoming Bōnen no Xamdou Anime Trailer Streamed
The official website of the BONES anime studio's Bōnen no Xamdou project is streaming a trailer. (The promotional video requires Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher, and either Adobe Flash Player or Windows Media Player.)
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Students confront their country's darker history
There were many days in Vietnam when students on the trip laughed as they toured old palaces, swam in a sea still warm in December and explored city street life. But their main purpose was to learn about Vietnam's and America's shared past in warfare. Walking through the American War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, looking past pictures of dying civilians, visiting sites of battle and ...
The Kentucky Kernel |
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Eating healthy on the road
"Diet and Nutrition: Eating on the Road," a free health fair and health education session for cultural workers, will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Sunday during Festival International at the Parc Sans Souci Hospitality Tent. Parc Sans Souci is at the corner of Vermilion and Lee streets in downtown Lafayette.
The Lafayette Daily Advertiser |
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Shock and awe in the art exhibit
Contemporary art always incites one of two reactions in me: I'm either compelled by the concept and its resonance in society, or I'm completely appalled by what I'm looking at and seriously question its "artistic merits." I'm sorry, Duchamp, but that's just a toilet.
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