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Dover Police Probe Theft of Rare Painting
DOVER , Del.- Dover police are investigating the theft of a rare painting depicting the home of the president of Wesley College.
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Sarkozy lauds Islam at Louvre ceremony with Saudi prince
French President Nicolas Sarkozy praised Islam on Wednesday at a ceremony with Saudi Prince Al Walid bin Talal to lay the first stone for a new Islamic art section of the Louvre museum.
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Brit-Fil band in England fest
MANILA, Philippines—A British-Filipino band named Firefalldown has landed in the regional semi-finals of the Surface Unsigned Festival in England.
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Times Ticker
Photography reception Photography by Marea of Bellevue will be the featured art in July and August at Creekside Framing and Gallery, 120 N. Washington St. in Papillion.
La Vista Sun |
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Local briefs
A public reception will be held for the show from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday. The museum's hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
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Toronto Attractions
The St. Lawrence Market , at the corner of Front and Jarvis Streets, houses more than 50 vendors who sell meat, produce, fish and baked goods. The Harbourfront Center (235 Queen's Quay West, 416-973-4000 www.harbourfrontcentre.com ) offers concerts, readings, dance, performances and ethnic food festivals on weekday evenings and weekends.
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Mail Art Exhibit coming to Kernville July 25-27
The International Mail Art Exhibit with the theme Thumb! will be held at the OddFellows Hall in Kernville July 26, and 27 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The opening reception is Friday July 25 from 6 p.m. to 9 pm. Artists from 26 countries contributed work for this show.
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KRVR: Barbee project at Fox Theatre Aug. 1
Local documentary filmmaker Chuck Barbee is busy getting at least a modicum of recognition of the Kern River Valley at the Kern County Museum in Bakersfield.
Kern Valley Sun |
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Contemporary art thrives beyond New York City
It's no surprise that art connoisseurs regularly flock to New York for a fix of what's hot or just to revisit timeless classics - the Big Apple is the definitive art capital of the United States. But beyond Fifth Avenue, Chelsea and Long Island City - indeed, an hour north of the George Washington Bridge - there are treasures to be found upstream. Far from the city lights, in the rolling hills ...
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
So a few weeks ago I walked into Regen Projects' new space and saw all these tables. They had little cupped-out areas carved into them, and they were covered with carefully-placed stuff: Receipts, notes between friends, ticket stubs, books, CDs, and so on.
Arts Journal |
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Contemporary art thrives beyond New York City
It's no surprise that art connoisseurs regularly flock to New York for a fix of what's hot or just to revisit timeless classics - the Big Apple is the definitive art capital of the United States. But beyond Fifth Avenue, Chelsea and Long Island City - indeed, an hour north of the George Washington Bridge - there are treasures to be found upstream.
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“In Residence”
Critical acclaim is great, as is a sale or two, but for up-and-coming artists, a residency is the Big Fish. Just ask the participants in this year’s artist-in-residence program at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. Their new exhibit, “In Residence,” includes fiber and felt wor ...
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“Perspectives 162: Snow”
It’s Christmas in July at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. “Perspectives 162: Snow” features the work of L.A.-based Allie Bogle and Houston native Libbie Masterson, two artists who work individually to create an arctic feel. For Antarctica 360o,Masterson mounted seven-foot-tall, ...
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Shannon Cannings: “Trigger Happy”
The paintings in Shannon Cannings’s show “Trigger Happy” pay homage to a forbidden fruit of her youth: toy guns. The artist says her parents wouldn’t allow anything resembling the weapon into the house, and this, you could say, triggered some rebelliousness in her adulthood. On a ...
Houston Press |
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“Windows & Mirrors: Marcus Miller”
“Windows & Mirrors” is a homecoming for Houston-born, now Portland-based artist Dr. Marcus Miller. The show reflects his education and experiences in internal and naturopathic medicine. His monotype prints and paintings depict bodies with an unearthly feel that sometimes appear as a mixtur ...
Houston Press |
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8 makeup mistakes you know you've made
Come on, you know you've made them A favorite black-humor scene from the 2002 Jennifer Aniston movie "The Good Girl" is when Retail Rodeo employee Cheryl (Zooey Deschanel) provides a makeover for a 60-ish customer at the Texas drugstore. Her finished, garish work recalls the paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec, a look that she trumpets as the latest trend from France called "Cirque du Face." ...
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Seth Alverson Rules the Group Show at Blaffer
Seth Alverson's work always amazes me, not only because of his virtuosity as a painter but because of the compelling mystery that lies within. You don't have to know or understand his reasons for painting to appreciate what he does. In Blaffer Gallery's "2008 Houston Area Exhibition," the tenth inst ...
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Capsule Art Reviews: "Dave Darraugh & Hana Hillerova," "Dramas: Real and Imagined," "The Old Weird America: Folk ...
"Dave Darraugh & Hana Hillerova" After long employing baroque and rich imagery, Hana Hillerova has moved into the minimal with a group of systematic works. In glass sculptures, tubes of different lengths are attached with webs of wire. Their angular forms rest at sharp angles in loosely arranged but ...
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Chapel Hill public art wins kudos
A stone wall embedded with tools and a winding marble bench created for Chapel Hill's Town Operations Center were recognized as outstanding public art during a national conference last month in Philadelphia.
The News & Observer |
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Visual art: 4 on the Floor
Sat., July 19... By David Lee Simmons The Gallery at East Atlanta Tattoo is riding high on its wave of lowbrow art events that have grown in attendance since the gallery's inception in September. June's Monster Mayhem, a phantasmagoric celebration of '50s- and '60s-inspired monster and sci-fi iconography, packed in nearly 600 fans. Next comes 4 ON THE FLOOR Sat., JULY 19, with up-and-comers ...
Creative Loafing Atlanta |
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Visual art: Stand!
Tues., July 22... By Cinque Hicks It's like 1968 all over again. Planned in conjunction with the National Black Arts Festival, the Rialto Center for the Arts features STAND!, an exhibition of Civil Rights-era photography by a duo of Atlanta-based photographers, continuing Tues., JULY 22. Stand! joins the city's Civil Rights mania, as evidenced by a similarly themed exhibition currently at the ...
Creative Loafing Atlanta |
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Dave MacDowell puts 4 on the Floor
Show opens July 19 at the Gallery at East Atlanta Tattoo... By David Lee Simmons Lowbrow artist Dave MacDowell asks a lot of pointed questions in his works, often challenging paradoxical notions that come out in wild and wacked-out acrylics on canvas. They'll be on full display with those of Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn, Emma Mount and Brandi Read 4 on the Floor at the Gallery at East Atlanta Tattoo ...
Creative Loafing Atlanta |
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Sculptors greet at Reeves-Reed
SUMMIT -- The public is invited to attend an artist's reception at Reeves-Reed Arboretum, 165 Hobart Ave., 2 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, July 20.
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Italian artist's work at Albright-Knox
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery has gained a 71-piece collection valued at more than $3 million.
Business First of Buffalo |
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Yamato USA's Fantasy Figure Gallery Debuts at San Diego Comic Con
TORRANCE, CA, July 15, 2008. Yamato USA invites you to explore your fantasies as we debut our Fantasy Figure Gallery at the San Diego Comic Con. Our Fantasy Figure Gallery is a unique union of East and West as the leading portrait sculptors of Asia render the worlds of legendary fantasy artists from Europe and the Americas as only they are capable.
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