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Musical Echoes fills FWB with music (with SCHEDULE)
FORT WALTON BEACH — Musical Echoes, a national festival celebrating Native American culture, art, and music, began Thursday with a special “RadioLive” concert in Pensacola and continues through Sunday at Fort Walton Landing. It’s a family-oriented, alcohol-free juried event that highlights the Native American flute. This year’s theme is the dragonfly. Featured musical artists for festival ...
Northwest Florida Daily News |
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A keen sense of separation comes together in book
FROM TEREZIN By Gail Peck. Pudding House Publications. 28 pages. $10. Gail Peck's latest collection grows out of a visit in the fall of 2005 to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., where she discovered a book, "I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawing and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp 1942-1944." A year later, she visited Terezin, the camp outside Prague where ...
The Charlotte Observer |
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Wedding dream comes true for local couple
A destination wedding in Naples often comes with a large price tag, but not for one couple. Hollie Harrah, formerly or Cape Coral, and her fiancé Jeff Gorden won a national contest for a “Wedding in Paradise” put on by the Naples, Marco Island, Everglades Convention and Visitors Bureau for a June 8 wedding.
Naples Daily News |
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Heritage Jazz Festival this evening in downtown area
The public is invited to the third annual Heritage Plaza Jazz Festival, which will take place this evening beginning at 5:30.
The Union-Recorder |
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Annual Spring Arts Festival kicks off at ‘Farm’
So far, area students have been having all the fun, but beginning tonight, adults can join in the exciting as well as educational events of the 2008 Spring Arts Festival.
Minden Press-Herald |
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Experts need extra time to check Tretyakov Gallery
MOSCOW. April 25 (Interfax) - Russian culture heritage watchdog has extended the Tretyakov Gallery inspection term until mid-May, Federal Mass Communications and Cultural Heritage Oversight Service (Rossvyazokhrankultury) deputy head Anatoly Vilkov said on Friday.
Interfax |
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Painting lost in Holocaust is sold
(AP:LONDON) A 17th-century Dutch painting, lost in the Holocaust, was auctioned after Poland helped broker a deal between the late Jewish art dealer's descendants and the current owner.
INO News |
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45th Shrimp Festival
The Isle of Eight Flags Shrimp Festival will celebrate its 45th anniversary May 2-4 in downtown Fernandina Beach with more than 300 juried fine arts and crafts exhibitors, 75-plus antiques and collectibles vendors, a Fun Zone with kid friendly activities, live entertainment from three stages, contests, a pirate invasion and fireworks.
Fernandina Beach News-Leader |
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Man Falls Into Hole Near Art Museum
Rescuers were called to the Art Museum of Philadelphia after reports of a man falling into a gaping hole early Friday morning.
CBS 3 Philadelphia |
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Lowriders are car culture's 'Faberge eggs'
Lowriding is high art these days and Jesse Valadez, who makes his living reupholstering cars, is one of its masters. Once considered lowbrow, these cars are now museum pieces.
MSNBC |
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Art expresses diverse experiences
EUREKA -- Two exhibits about the natural world featuring the works of artists Bob Benson and Becky Evans are showing this month at Piante Gallery, 620 Second St.
Eureka Times-Standard |
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Tourism center's new home provides better exposure
The Dixon Welcome Center has found a new home, and wants to show it off. The 1860s-era structure at 106 W. River St. is owned by Patti Hummel, who runs her photography business upstairs.
SaukValley.com |
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Regional Digest/Lotteries
BALTIMORE - A photographer for The (Baltimore) Examiner was attacked by a student while she was taking pictures at a school where an art teacher was assaulted earlier this month, the newspaper said.
The Capital |
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New St George painting unveiled at Cathedral
St George and Dead Soldier, a new painting by Scott Norwood Witts, was unveiled on Wednesday at St George's Cathedral to mark St George's Day.
London SE1 |
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Painting lost in Holocaust is sold
A 17th-century Dutch painting, lost in the Holocaust, was auctioned after Poland helped broker a deal between the late Jewish art dealer's descendants and the current owner.
AP via Yahoo! Finance |
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indieWIRE INTERVIEW "Up the Yangtze!" Director Yung Chang
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Yung Chang's interview for his doc "Up the Yangtze!" first appeared in indieWIRE as part of our profiles of first-time feature directors with films debuting at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Zeitgeist Films opens the film today (4/25) at IFC Center in New York.]
indieWIRE |
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Presenter 'fizzing' to share new angling adventures
The television fishing show with a reputation for crazy action, fishing stunts and incredibly clear underwater photography returns to the screen today.
The New Zealand Herald |
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Your Weekend
Theater, music, exhibits in Elmhurst, Western Springs and Hinsdale. Here's our list of fun things to do, close to home, for April 25-27.
The Doings Oak Brook |
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Lowriders Are Car Culture's 'Faberge Eggs'
Lowriding is high art these days and Jesse Valadez, who makes his living reupholstering cars, is one of its masters. Once considered lowbrow, these cars are now museum pieces.
NBC 5 Chicago |
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Flash: Seen at 'Heroes of Gallipoli'
On Tuesday night the Auckland War Memorial Museum started the build-up to Anzac Day with a special event in which all Aucklanders could share. The centrepiece was a spectacular outdoor projection of the rare film Heroes of Gallipoli , which included historical scenes of British, New Zealand and Australian troops.
The New Zealand Herald |
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"Harry Potter: The Exhibition" is Coming
Becker Group, in partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Products, today announced it will bring worldwide audiences "Harry Potter: The Exhibition," a state-of-the-art exhibition highlighting artifacts from the Warner Bros. films based on J.K. Rowling's books. The 10,000 square foot experience will premiere in spring 2009 in a major market, and will appear in ten or more cities around the world ...
Coming Soon |
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Origins of oil-based paints are traced to 7th century
A study of murals in Afghanistan caves shows that the painting technique was used 800 years before they appeared in Europe in the 15th century. The technique of painting in oils was developed in Asia as much as 800 years before it appeared in Europe, according to a new analysis of murals found inside caves at Bamiyan in Afghanistan.
Los Angeles Times |
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"Swarm Intelligence" at galleryHomeland
In one typical painting, called "Termite Cathedral 8," armies of the miniature black creatures swarm over a colossal termite mound, forming lace-like trails.
The Oregonian |
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Art ordered returned to son of Romanian dictator Ceausescu
A Romanian court has ordered the National Art Museum to return works of art confiscated during the 1989 anti-communist revolt to a son of late dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, he said Friday.
Boston Globe |
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Bouton receives scholarship
Ashley Elizabeth Bouton, a senior at Indiana Area Senior High School, was recently named the Indiana Art Association Student Scholarship winner for 2008. The competition, judged by retired art teacher Dick Vitale, awards $500 to be used for school supplies.
The Indiana Gazette |
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