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Featured Photo: "Just Beat It"
Spectators watch intently as Megan Clark and Robbyn Perdue, members of the UT GinDaiko group, along with Matt Steitle, a guest drummer, perform a traditional Japanese drum routine Wednesday afternoon in front of the Blanton Museum of Art.
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What's On: Out of Town
Brott Music Festival presents the British Invasion Weekend with Last Night at the Proms Sat. 7:30 p.m. at the Hamilton Place Great Hall; High Tea at Burlington's Royal Botanical Gardens is "Big, British & Brass" Sun. 3 p.m.; Valerie Tryon offers Russian Rhapsody Wed. 7:30 p.m. at Melrose United in Hamilton.
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Exhibit explores reality TV phenomenon through art
The exhibit "Reality Show," now at Women and Their Work, explores the "reality" presented by television's favorite format. The artists are Jill Pangallo, Cecelia Phillips, Anna Krachey, Jaime Wentz and Laura Turner. The artists' work uses the ubiquitous reality television format as material, though the show's brochure explains that reality television "is far from their main concern.
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More than 100,000 people are expected to attend a mostly free four-day festival celebrating the culture of Iran at Harbourfront this weekend .
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Ormond Beach museum goes local with 'Surf's Up' exhibit
When the Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens was looking for new ways to lure visitors, it didn't have to search far. It took its inspiration from the coast to organize "Surf's Up," a collection of surfing-inspired artwork.
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PEP auctions items from FHM's 5 Sexiest Women!
Buy and at the same time help a charitable institution by bidding in PEP's PEP HOTTIE auction. The items that will be auctioned are from this year's FHM Sexiest Women - Angel Locsin, Marian Rivera, Katrina Halili, Ehra Madrigal, and Diana Zubiri.
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Pride flag flies again as festival begins
The rainbow flag will be flying at city hall when the 10-day Pride London Festival begins its 26th annual run today. The festival kicks off at the Forest City Gallery with an official opening at 7 p.m.
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Donkey Punch, about a sado-masochistic sex murder, is the vilest film Amanda Platell has ever seen
Already the buzz around Donkey Punch is building. After a rave reception at the Sundance film festival earlier this year, it's rapidly emerging as the must-see movie of the summer.
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UM art students play hide and seek with sculptures
Ten art students plus 100 rolls of clear plastic packing tape add up to an imaginative game of sculpture hide-and-seek in Montevallo's Orr Park.
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La Quinta artist's jewelry ‘rocks'
La Quinta jeweler Lauren Youngs can take a bag full of discarded and aging beads sent to her by mail and turn them into a masterpiece.
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Cinema Diverse film festival embraces gay community
Cinema Diverse, the new gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual film festival, opens Tuesday at Camelot Theatres in Palm Springs. The festival is presented by the Palm Springs Cultural Center.
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Sculptures chosen to decorate El Paseo
Karen Reitzel has been an enthusiastic artist since she was in kindergarten. “I got reprimanded for using too much paper,” said the Los Angeles-based artist, one of 18 whose work has been selected for the 2009-2010 El Paseo Invitational Sculpture Exhibition.
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Isle of Wight: White Air tickets on sale
By Ross Findon - Thursday, July 17, 2008 TICKETS have gone on sale for this year’s extreme sports festival, White Air. This year will feature more sports, more chances to have a go and more music and art, according to organisers.
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One night, all art
Editor’s note — Correspondent Robert Parlier strolled among the many art exhibits offered at last week’s monthly Friday for the Arts! in downtown Petersburg. This is his report.
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Backer donates oil paintings to Over Museum
VERMILLION, S.D. -- Ron D. Backer, the 1996 South Dakota Hall of Fame Artist of the Year, donated 13 original oil paintings to the Friends of the W. H. Over Museum.
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Start: The Nivea Art Award (2008-07-08 - 2008-08-02)
The START THE NIVEA ART AWARD exhibition, which opened 08 July and runs through 02 August 2008 at KZNSA Gallery, showcases for sale the final competition artworks of 24 up-and-coming art talents. From these 24 finalists, three winners will be selected and will be awarded cash prizes – 1st: R20 000, 2nd: R10 000, 3rd: R5000. The winner also receives a solo exhibition in the NIVEA Gallery the ...
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Solo Exhibition: Trisha Lambi (2008-07-17 - 2008-08-15)
Trisha Lambi's works dating from 2003 to 2008 will be exhibited in a solo show to be held at Kerala Art and Photography Gallery in Melbourne. Opening night is on Thursday, 17th July at 6.30pm. The gallery is located at 283 High Street, Northcote, 3070 and the show runs until 15th August 2008. Trisha Lambi has been a Premiere Portfolio Artist at absolutearts.com since 2001. Lambi comments on her ...
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On the Edge, Juried by Alan Avery (2008-07-11 - 2008-08-22)
On the Edge, juried by Alan Avery will be on view at Atlanta Photography Group and Gallery from July 11 through August 22, 2008. These dynamic, new images take us to new places, deliver new insights, and speak to us in ways we haven’t heard before. This exhibition will feature the work of a small group of photographers who are re-defining what photography means to them. "Deliverance" is one of ...
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Park Cities community calendar
ORCHESTRA OF NEW SPAIN performs "Music in the Time of Fernando Gallego" at 7 tonight at the Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University campus, 5900 Bishop Blvd. $25. 214-750-1492, www.orchestraofnewspain.org.
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Painting by night
MIDDLETOWN -- Artists Jesse and Wendy Abbott's first hundred or so dates only lasted a few seconds at a time -- and they took place at a tollbooth.
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Death Row Records sold for $24M
NEW YORK -- 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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Fake forest hides in plain sight
Artifical-tree sculpture gets little notice on busy North Avenue Braking at the intersection of North Avenue and St. Paul Street, drivers breathe cigarette smoke out their windows, slosh takeout sodas, stare at their nails.
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'Miss Lizzie,' A Greek Chorus That Rocks
The spirit of fringe is rock-and-roll, so it's fitting that one of the most sizzling acts thus far in the third Capital Fringe Festival is an hour-long ramble through Greek tragedy set to amplified music.
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toasting reggae
Family-operated vineyard Linganore hosts the Reggae Wine Festival this weekend. In 1977, Linganore held its first wine festival as a way to present its first vintage to the public. Since then, the vineyard has won more than 200 medals in competitions. Harvey's Catering and Jamaica Catering will provide beef, turkey, chicken, fries, nachos, jerk chicken, barbeque, lemonade, smoothies and seafood. ...
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CLASSICAL+JAZZ HIGHLIGHTS: Hear terrific jazz free all weekend
Summer is jazz festival season. Of course, the big daddy of them all is the four-day 29th annual Detroit International Jazz Festival on Labor Day weekend. But there's lots of action in the meantime, starting with the 14th annual Michigan Jazz Festival on Sunday at Schoolcraft College in Livonia.
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