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Epic Tibetan Thangka paintings to debut during Olympics
A total of 1,288 traditional Thangka paintings, which follow the epic tale of Tibetan hero "Gesar", will be shown here from July 30 to Aug. 20 as a key program for the Olympic Culture Festival.
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Half a million walk out in pay row
Hundreds of thousands of council workers mounted picket lines outside schools, libraries, museums, sports centres and refuse collection depots as they launched a 48-hour strike in a bitter dispute over pay.
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Calendar: 07.16.08
The exhibit "Revealing Character: Robb Kendrick's Texas Tintypes" continues at the Art Museum of South Texas, 1902 N. Shoreline Blvd. The exhibit features 66 tintypes of cowboys taken from the Lone Star State, plus 12 enlarged prints of tintype images
Corpus Christi Caller-Times |
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Overnight sensation now established star
Over the past century, the Ravinia Festival has had its share of historymaking moments.
Chicago Sun-Times |
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Television - Entertainment
Brendan Macfarlane's designs are already at the heart of modern art and his latest on the banks of the Seine River will host the new hub of fashion and design.
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Lakeshore update
MANITOWOC Open class entries for the 2008 Manitowoc County Fair are due July 25. Exhibitor fee of $20 includes grounds admission for the entire week of the fair, Aug. 19-24, as well as parking and exhibiting. The cost of entering an exhibit is 10 cents per entry.
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News in Northeastern Wisconsin
Jon Knipfer, Algoma, was the grand-prize winner in the 2008 Shanty Days photo contest with his capture of Winter Sunset, according to chairwoman Bonnie Moede.
Green Bay Press-Gazette |
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What I’m Into: Lee Ann Conlan, 34, artist
Lee Ann Conlan is quite the provocateur. Her last show, "Play Dead," was themed around voyeurism. Conlan painted a live nude model during the exhibit...
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collegenotes
GSU Latino Film Festival
The Lincoln-Way Sun |
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From Maritimes to Mali, musicians coming from all corners of the world
The 2008 edition of the Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival is going to couple the best in Maritime musical talent alongside a lineup of international artists, organizers say.
Daily Gleaner |
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HEAVYWEIGHT GEM $CUFFLE
It's a gem of a dispute. A California art dealer has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Harry Winston, claiming the jeweler is holding his 733-carat sapphire hostage. Jack Armstrong, 51, made his sensational claim in legal papers filed...
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Elgin tap dancers set sites on national contest
Members of The Centre of Elgin's adult tap class have danced their way into their first national competition. The group will compete later this month in the Novice Parent Act category at Cathy Roe's Ultimate Dance Challenge in Mason, Ohio.
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IUS offering noncredit classes this summer
The Division of Continuing Studies at Indiana University Southeast is offering several noncredit courses: Photographic portraiture, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., four Thursdays beginning tomorrow.
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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Rolling sculptures
An overmatched electric fan can't stop sweat from forming on Matthew Rodriguez's forehead. Clad in a protective leather jacket and welding helmet, he puts a torch to a lowrider bicycle frame he'd curved by hand around an old tire rim.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Caribana presents island rhythms
In the midst of dazzling Caribbean costumes and passionate steel drum beats, the Scotiabank Caribana festival kicked off at Nathan Phillips Square yesterday.
Toronto Star |
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Fringe boss's mission: to surpass Edmonton
Chuck McEwen knows everyone is expecting his first Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival as executive producer to be a box-office record-breaker. That's how things are done at a thriving organization that has made "bigger and better" its unofficial mantra for the last 21 years. Since 1999, only once has the artistic free-for-all in and around Old Market Square not set a new high for indoor ticket ...
Winnipeg Free Press |
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Cleveland Museum of Art names C. Griffith Mann chief curator
UPDATED: 04 :42 a.m. EDT, July 16, 2008 Chuck Yarborough becomes a field archaeologist. Talk arts, movies, music, dining and more!
The Plain Dealer |
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Sculptor's £300 work is binned
A STUDENT was shocked when his exhibit was mistakenly thrown away! John Scott, an art student at the University of East London, was alarmed when his steel sculpture was picked up by a recycling contractor and destroyed.
Newham Recorder |
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Pageant contestants usher in WEIO spirit of competition
FAIRBANKS — Conditioning caribou hide in rotten caribou brain water, flinging around-the-worlds with homemade Eskimo yo-yos and speaking in their tribe’s native languages were just a few of the talents showcased at the pageant Tuesday morning.
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner |
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New art gallery honors cultures
Walking through the bright folk paintings and crafts that fill Monica Williams' small downtown store is like shopping and getting a cultural history lesson at the same time.
Battle Creek Enquirer |
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Latino Film Fest grows in diversity - and everything else
The New York International Latino Film Festival has grown explosively in its nine-year history. The nationally recognized showcase for Latino filmmaking runs from Tuesday to Sunday next week.
New York Daily News |
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Crystal skulls and Kermit: Museums no relic of past
When British scientist James Smithson died in 1829, he left his fortune to the United States, a country he had never visited, for an "Establishment for the increase & diffusion of Knowledge."
The Washington Times |
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David Maschke holds off challenger in Dougherty School Board contest
Two hotly contested Dougherty County School Board races go down to the wire before winners are declared.
The Albany Herald |
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Confederacy group, Concord Museum celebrate history
Cabarrus County will host multiple Civil War and Confederate history events this week. The Sons of Confederate Veterans annual convention runs Wednesday through Saturday at the Cabarrus Arena & Events Center in Concord, and at least two other events are scheduled to coincide with it. Tourism officials estimate the convention will draw about 2,000 visitors from around the country and bring an ...
Independent Tribune |
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PROUD MAN
ANDRES Serrano tells Page Six he isn't upset the theme of his upcoming exhibition was leaked. As we first reported Monday, "[Bleep]: An Investigation" is a photo display of different animals' fecal matter, including Serrano's own. The controversial...
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