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GO TO IT: Bolivar to host traveling Smithsonian Exhibit
The Little Courthouse Museum in Bolivar will host 'New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music' beginning Aug. 9 through Sept. 20, according to a press release.
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Death Row Records auctioned for $24 million
Death Row Records, the hip-hop label that released seminal gangster rap albums by Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, has been auctioned for $24 million. The New York-based Global Music Group Inc. said in a statement to The Associated Press on Monday that on June 24 it purchased Death Row, including its enviable back catalog and current artist contracts. The purchase concluded the ...
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Death Row Records auctioned for $24 million
Death Row Records, the hip-hop label that released seminal gangster rap albums by Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, has been auctioned for $24 million.
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Queen Pageant returns to Porter County Fair
On Thursday, July 17 at 7 p.m. at the Radio One Park Place Pavilion, the Porter County Fair will host its annual contest to crown the fair queen. Nine local candidates, each sponsored by a business in the area, vie for the title in the 48th year of the pageant.
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National Gallery shows works by Ron Mueck, Guy Ben-Ner in 'Real Life' exhibit
OTTAWA - Works by two important figures in contemporary art - internationally renowned Australian sculptor Ron Mueck and Berlin-based video artist Guy Ben-Ner - are featured in a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada.
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Royal Ontario Museum displays Caribana art exhibit 'Roots to Rhythm'
TORONTO - Works by 24 artists of African-Canadian heritage will be displayed at the Royal Ontario Museum during the city's annual Caribana festival.
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Annual Parkdale Youth Festival back in August for third year
In what has become an annual tradition, this year's Parkdale Youth Festival will take place on Saturday, August 25, noon to 6 p.m. at Masaryk-Cowan Park, Queen and Cowan. The third installment promi...
East York Mirror |
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Vivienne Westwood, Ebi-chan in Maquillage and more
The latest Vivienne Westwood exhibition rolls into Tokyo this week. After the acclaimed "Vivienne Westwood: 35 Years in Fashion" held at the Mori Arts Center in 2005, this show includes one of the largest fashion books ever published, and is sure to be an instant hit with Westwood's huge Japanese fan base. Showing July 19 till Aug. 10 at Zel Cafe Gallery in Roppongi, "The Vivienne Westwood Opus ...
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Reggie Jackson Caught in 'Jew' Comment Flap
Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson was caught on camera making a comment of questionable nature to a Jewish artist over the price of a painting, the New York Post reports. The baseball legend was negotiating with the artist, Peter Zonis, on the street in Midtown when Jackson apparently asked him if he was Jewish, according to Post photographer Larry Schwartzwald. Schwartzwald then turned on his video ...
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Rirkrit Tiravanija NZ Exhibition Dates
ARTSPACE is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija in New Zealand. Tiravanija will be in Auckland to launch magazine station no. 5 and is bringing two young Thai artists, Pratchaya Phinthong and Pattara Chanruechachai to work on the project.
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Annual Parkdale Youth Festival back in August for third year
In what has become an annual tradition, this year's Parkdale Youth Festival will take place on Saturday, August 25, noon to 6 p.m. at Masaryk-Cowan Park, Queen and Cowan.
North York Mirror |
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Tom D'Antoni: Bush is the Oil Companies' Scott McClellan
Why is it we should listen to anything GW Bush says on the subject of oil? In addition, why does he think we still haven't...
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Two plays, art exhibit tap into our reality-obsessed culture
A promotional poster for 'Reality Show,' top, captures the spirit of the mixed-media collaboration by artists Jill Pangallo, Anna Krachey, Cecelia Phillips, Laura Turner and Jamie Wentz at the gallery Women and Their Work. Above: Cliff Miller and Jude Hickey star in 'I Google Myself,' a play about three dissimilar men who have the same name and find one another through the Internet search engine.
Austin American-Statesman |
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Snap to it
Inside the emerging trend of party photography
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art Till July 15 at Galerie Karma, P 505 Keyatola Road; 10 am - 7 pm:
An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Abhijit Guha. Till July 15 at Nandalal Bose Gallery, Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR, 9A Ho Chi Minh Sarani; 11 am - 6 pm: Springs in White , an exhibition of works by contemporary Italian artists using different mediums with focus on the theme of the colour white.
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50Mpixel image sensor produces vivid colors
Eastman Kodak Co. has claimed the industry's first 50Mpixel CCD image sensor for the professional photography market, capturing digital images at unprecedented resolution and detail thanks to a newly designed 6µMpixel and several other advances.
Electronic Engineering Times Asia |
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Death Row Records auctioned for $24 million
Death Row Records, the hip-hop label that released seminal gangster rap albums by Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, has been auctioned for $24 million. The New York-based Global Music Group Inc. said in a statement to The Associated Press on Monday that...
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Expression through art
For V Gopal, art seems to come naturally. From paintings to photography to cartoons, he has unleashed his creativity in all forms of artistic expression and much of it was visible in his latest exhibition at the Indian Institute of Cartoons.
Deccan Herald |
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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts names sales and marketing chief
Alexis Vaughn has been named the new head of sales and marketing at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The museum announced today that Vaughn, who was deputy director and chief operating officer at the North Carolina Museum of Art from 2004-2007, will supervise sales, food service, special events, marketing and public affairs, visitor services, publications, and media production operations.
Richmond Times-Dispatch |
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Death Row Records auctioned for $24 million
NEW YORK - Death Row Records, the hip-hop label that released seminal gangster rap albums by Tupac Shakur, Dr.
San Jose Mercury News |
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It Ain't Rockwell, but it sure is Americana
Only in America could a portrait of a classic movie monster by a pin-up painter wind up in a museum dedicated to the wholesome images of Norman Rockwell. This wonderful rendering...
About.com |
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Yakima native one of 16 contestants on new season of 'Project Runway'
Super-fab Yakima native Blayne Walsh, 23, is among the fashionista finalists in the running for the title of top designer in season five of the Bravo Channel's "Project Runway."
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Al Ghurair, ETA Ascon Star Group in $2b Libya deal
DUBAI — The Star Consortium comprising of the Al Ghurair Investments' subsidiary TransAsia Gas International and ETA Ascon Star Group's Star Petro Energy, has concluded a $2 billion deal with the National Oil Company (NOC) of Libya to set up a joint venture company to own and upgrade its Ras Lanuf refinery.
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More public art for Bartle Hall
There's more art on the way for Bartle Hall, joining the R.M. Fisher “Sky Stations” atop the pylons and Omaha artist Jun Kaneko's “Water Plaza” on the south side of the ballroom. The newest project, an animated mesh “tapestry” designed by New York artist Suikang Zhao, is part of Crawford Architects' improvements to the convention center's north dock.
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Death Row Records auctioned for $24 million
NEW YORK July 14, 2008, 04:21 pm ET · Death Row Records, the hip-hop label that released seminal gangster rap albums by Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, has been auctioned for $24 million.
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