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Association reinvents Uptown festival
The Uptown Ankeny Association has tossed out Taste of Uptown in favor of a new, family friendly event that will offer even more food-tasting opportunities along with other activities for all ages.
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Weekendat Cowtown
One of Cowtown's biggest eventsof the year, Rails and Trails, takes place Saturday and Sunday at the livimg-history museum. Here's what you'll see if you go: 1) The day will be filled with music, dancing saloon girls, gunfighters and an exhibition of railroad displays by the Wichita Toy Train club and Garden Railway. 2) The "Coasters Bicycle Club" will be on display at the museum's Visitor ...
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Art gallery for Sir Kyffin opens
A £1.5m gallery is to open on Anglesey, dedicated to the life and works of the late artist Sir Kyffin Williams.
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Hot days, cool places to go
Summer can be a slow time of year when it comes to entertainment options. But that doesn't mean there's nothing to do. The Wichita area is full of museums and attractions waiting to be explored. As part of an occasional series, we'll visit some of those attractions and give you the information you need to make a decision about how to spend your leisure hours. Kansas Firefighters Museum ...
The Wichita Eagle |
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Dillon Art Festival -- 07/18/08 at Dillon
Dillon Art Festival -- 07/18/08 at Dillon
Rocky Mountain News |
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Former museum could get facelift
The former Mississippi Museum of Art building in downtown Jackson could get a $100 million transformation into a mixed-use development with a focus on artist and performance space under a plan debuted Thursday night.
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Lifelong artist, 91, will be featured
Artist Jane Graham has been painting for more than 70 years but has never publicly exhibited her paintings -- until now.
El Paso Times |
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Barnstable County Fair kicks off today
EAST FALMOUTH — As the gates open for the first day of the Barnstable County Fair today, participants of the fair's exhibits will be able to learn the results of the judging that concluded yesterday.
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ART GALLERIES, MUSEUMS
Tuesday "Mysteries of Ancient America," video, 12:30 p.m., Wichita Art Museum, 1400 W. Museum Blvd. Included with admission. Information, 316-268-4921. Works by outgoing Derby High School seniors, on exhibit through July, at Derby City Hall Art Gallery, 611 Mulberry Road, Derby. Artists' reception, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Tue. Gallery open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., and during City Council ...
The Wichita Eagle |
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SPECIAL EVENTS
Today-Sunday American Veterans Traveling Tribute Exhibit, Vietnam Memorial Traveling Wall on view through Sun., Veterans Point, El Dorado Lake & State Park, El Dorado. Activities include music by Crazy Heart at 7 p.m. today, El Dorado Municipal Band at 10:30 a.m. Sat., Section 8 at 6 p.m. Sat., and the Neons at 7:30 p.m. Sat., a helicopter fly-in at 9 a.m. today, and fireworks at dusk ...
The Wichita Eagle |
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Vision Festival 2008: Day 1
Opening Invocation; Taylor Ho Bynum; Dave Douglas; The Nu Band; Mark Dresser & Denman Maroney. 13th Annual Vision Festival Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York City June 10, 2008
All About Jazz |
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Kongsberg Jazzfestival: Music from the Hall of the Mountain King
Ever since David Lindley's The Sweet Sunny North reached distant shores in the early 1990s, Norway has been on many musical radar screens. Maybe it is impossible to think of the country without the fjords and the fells, so let's get them done and dusted.
All About Jazz |
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NEW EXHIBITS
Fabreana: "Recent Works." Through July 31. Free. Hours: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. daily. 1410 Market St. 668-0466.
Tallahassee Democrat |
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Museum internship program takes off
Spending hot summer days in a 250-year-old house might be the last thing on the minds of many teens -- but not the interns at the Schifferstadt Architectural Museum.
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Best Bets
Art opening: More than 40 photographic artists — including Robert Fichter, George Blakely, Todd Bertolaet and Liz Poin (whose work is shown above) — are included in the new "Photocentric" exhibition that opens with a reception from 7 to 9 p.m. today at the FSU Museum of Fine Arts, corner of Copeland and Call streets.
Tallahassee Democrat |
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Corning first-graders' design work on display
CORNING -- A collaboration among an art teacher, a store owner and an arts agency has resulted in a public display of architectural design work by first-grade students from Severn Elementary School.
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Art gallery for Sir Kyffin opens
A £1.5m gallery dedicated to the life and works of the late Welsh artist Sir Kyffin Williams, opens later.
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Exhibits
Three-Way Street, a mixed-media exhibit by local artists Tobi Balin Grossman, Bob Heim and Brad Earl including oil, acrylic and pastel paintings and cartoons. Meet the artists at an opening reception tonight 5:30 to 8. Continues through Aug. 30 at Marquis Art & Frame, 122 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre. Hours: Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 823-0518.
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Japanese prints at Blanton
For their special summer exhibit, the Blanton has on display "Exquisite Visions of Japan," a wide selection of more than 50 prints from the James A. Michener Collection of the Honolulu Academy of the Arts. The prints range from private scenes of beautiful women, raucous parties and powerful pastorals.
The Daily Texan |
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Chet Baker documentary
A movie review in Thursday's Home & Garden section listed the wrong days that the Oklahoma City Museum of Art is showing the Chet Baker documentary "Let's Get Lost.” The movie will show at 5:30 and 8 p.m. today and Saturday in the museum's Noble Theater, 415 Couch Drive. read more
The Oklahoman |
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Death Row Records auctioned
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. Global Music Group Inc. said that on June 24 it purchased Death Row, including its enviable back catalog and current artist contracts. Under owner Marion "Suge” Knight, Death Row sold tens of millions of albums in the heyday of ...
The Oklahoman |
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Everybody needs a rock
A brisk wind off the lake didn’t stop families from participating in “Everybody Needs a Rock,” an activity organized by Harbor Friends during the Grand Marais Art Festival Saturday afternoon.
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5 themes characterize Picasso's last years
Few people ever had a more productive old age than Pablo Picasso. And few people ever hated growing old more. "He's full of energy, but he also knows death is around the corner," said Tariana Navas-Nieves, who curated an exhibit of Picasso etchings that opens today at the Fine Arts Center.
Colorado Springs Gazette |
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State Historical Society awards grants
DES MOINES — The State Historical Society of Iowa has awarded grants for historical preservation projects at the Charles H. MacNider Art Museum in Mason City, the Carnegie Library Building in Charles City and the Algona Land and Loan Office.
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REGION: Sympathetic man returns violin after learning it had been stolen
A violin stolen in April was returned to its owner Wednesday after detectives tracked down the Poway man who unwittingly bought the instrument at a San Diego pawn shop. Kai Tang of Poway said he first saw the violin on the Internet auction site eBay
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