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Pencil This In
ART: Honey Space is holding a Summer Benefit tonight -- featuring A Yard Sale-Style Art & Junk Auction! "The event will feature a yard sale-style silent auction, where approximately 20 artists will offer art, junk and studio debris for sale. Each artist has been given a 3 x 5 foot blanket, and wall space, with the only requirement being that they submit both artwork, and items that would not ...
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CMT Films Goes 'Crazy' For Theatrical
Principal photography will begin next month in Santa Fe, N.M. on the feature Crazy Heart from CMT Films.
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Sebadoh, Cursive, Faint Members Play Telephone
As resident artist at Omaha's Bemis Center for Contemporary Art , Coyote Bones member David Matysiak has spearheaded a project that builds on the Postal Service method of collaboration. Like Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello sending files back and forth, Matysiak's project consists of multiple musicians playing a game of "Telephone" ( or "Whisper Down the Lane" where I come from-- Ed. ). ...
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Marking the site of a landmark speech
A SCULPTURE in the form of a voter’s cross now stands in front of the Arya Samaj Hall on the grounds of the Zibukezulu School in Imbali to commemorate the landmark speech that Nelson Mandela gave in the hall in 1961.
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PreFork: Pitchfork Music Festival Sunday Preview
The Pitchfork Music Festival kicks off its 2008 edition this weekend at Union Park, and we've been highlighting some of the "can't miss" acts of the weekend on Chicagoist over the next few days. Today we'll tackle eight acts from the sold-out Sunday line-up. But before we do, you should know that Saturday and Sunday are completely sold out and there are only a few walk-up tickets that will ...
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Diane Olsen to instruct plein air workshop
SAUGATUCK, Mich. -- Award-winning artist Diane Olsen will instruct a plein air painting workshop July 29-31 at the Saugatuck Center for the Arts, 400 Culver St.
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A WHOLE NEW WORD / 'Radialvedic' Curator Kimberly Johansson invented the name to describe work of three artists
Some art shows start with a concept and find artists to work with it. Others start with the artists and find a theme. Many times, it's a struggle to name exactly what unites the artists being shown together. Curator Kimberly Johansson of Oakland's Johansson...
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Phila.'s Parkway, home to museums, getting $17M revitalization
Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway will get a $17 million facelift, city and state officials said Thursday.
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Sculpture Is 'Gateway' To Neighborhood's Heritage
A new sculpture is true to Dundalk's community and heritage.
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Nikon prepping D90 for early September?
Nikon has scheduled a press event that could see the release of an anticipated upgrade to the D80, say multiple reports. One claims that the media is receiving invitations to a gathering to be held on September 3rd, three weeks before the Photokina photography expo in Germany. The camera maker often announces some or all of its new cameras for th...
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A Smaller Renaissance
Left: The exterior of Casa Frela in Harlem. Right: A painting by artist Kelly Beeman whose work “reflects a perspective that is unique to being a woman.�
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Workshop on painting landscapes at SBMA
SOUTH BEND -- Cathy McCormick, founder of the Northern Indiana Pastel Society and instructor at the South Bend Museum of Art, will offer a workshop for beginning pastel painters from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 26 at the museum, 120 S. St. Joseph St.
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‘Klezmer meets Bluegrass!’ Friday
Nationally known Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys perform at 8 p.m. Friday in the ArtHouse Café behind the Rome Art and Community Center, 308 W. Bloomfield St.
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Sculpting culture for second year in Botkins
By ANDREA POTEET Staff Writer For two days later this month, the population of Botkins is expected to swell to nearly seven times its size due to an art program offered in the northern Shelby County village.
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Counselor doubles as an artist
A Lonoke school counselor has taken her love of art to the galleries. Carol Rudder, a counselor at Lonoke High School, has been an artist, art teacher and counselor since she graduated from college in 1971.
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Old masters for futuristic motor yacht
Russian billionaire Andrei Melnichenko's futuristic motor yacht has made its maiden voyage - to collect three works of art. The unidentified Monet paintings were delivered to the vessel, which has been renamed 'A' after Melnichenko's wife Aleksandra, in the Norwegian port of Kristiansand.
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Deborah Butterfield's horses make her metal very precious
Deborah Butterfield's horses at the Greg Kucera Gallery put equine sculpture on a heroic scale again, only without men, scepters, guns or swords.
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US museum abuzz with robotic art
The prelude to Robot 250 includes workshops for dozens of teachers so that children and adults could create their own robots.
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UNCG Art Professor to Exhibit Sculpture at Olympics
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) -- A University of North Carolina at Greensboro art professor will have one of his sculptures displayed in Beijing as part of an arts festival associated with the 2008 Olympics. Billy Lee's sculpture "Vessels" was accepted for inclusion in the Olympic Fine Arts 2008, a cultural event organized by the International Olympic Committee and the Chinese Olympic Committee.
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Commissioner Eddy takes heat right and left
Grays Harbor PUD Commissioner Jim Eddy took criticism from both sides at Wednesday night’s debate … literally. He was flanked by his challengers, Westport marine electrician Ray Brown and Hoquiam art teacher Russ Skolrood.
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10th Art Walk opens Friday
These days, Ken Hurley answers more to “Buffalo Man” than his own name. The Raymond resident has been getting national attention for his paintings of wild buffalo and wildlife. He was chosen to create the poster for the 10th Annual Aberdeen Art Walk, which takes place Saturday.
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Russian auditor: Around 50,000 items missing from museums
MOSCOW - A sweeping government audit has revealed that up to 50,000 pieces are missing from Russia's museums - everything from pre-revolutionary medals and weapons to precious works of art - a member of the survey team said Thursday.
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The Human Landscape
Not that the East/West Gallery needed to reaffirm its standing as one of the leading conveyors of classic fine art photography here in town, but its latest exhibition, The Human Landscape , effortlessly does just that.
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The art of summer in NYC
Sculpture, photography, art, even waterfalls – New York's exhibitions entertain with their originality.
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Fortune 's Stanley Bing: Executricks Contest, Part Deux: More Good Stuff
It's clear some very smart people cruise Huffington Post, already practiced in the art of retiring while they are still working. Here are some more of the best responses to my Executricks contest.
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