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Historic house moves into cyberspace
The 13th Palazzo Falson Historic House Museum in Mdina has taken a quantum leap into the 21st century through the launch of an electronic website that showcases its history and antiques collection.
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Vandals destroy art works
A team of sculptors in Christchurch are devastated by an apparently senseless act of vandalism in which hundreds of their works of art have been smashed to pieces.
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Smooth operators
Great matches are found in just about every field: Tracy and Hepburn. Gilbert and Sullivan. Peaches and cream. But marbles and wood? With exhibits, the Ohio Craft Museum has discovered that such a combo is a winner. "We put them together last year and had a great response," museum Director Betty Talbott said. "They attracted completely different, but equally enthusiastic, audiences." So the ...
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Suspect held in theft of Picasso prints
Sao Paulo, Brazil- Police have arrested a suspect in the theft of two Pablo Picasso prints from a museum in Sao Paulo and recovered one of the works, police and a museum official said Saturday.
The Plain Dealer |
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Film festival for train fans kicks off tonight
For years, Jim Clark made his living crashing trains. Well, part of his living anyway.
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New curator at Pulitzer
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts has named Francesca Herndon-Consagra the foundation's senior curator, a new position. Herndon-Consagra has been curator of prints, drawings and photographs at the St. Louis Art Museum for eight years.
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Art outdoors
NEW YORK Art in New York City this summer is not just what's hanging on museum walls. It's on the water, it's on a rooftop, it's an entire building.The July issue of Conde Nast Traveler magazine is offering a guide to seeing a half-dozen of these eclectic installations around the city.
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Music festival almost wasn't
When Nancy Barker started Kentucky Music Weekend in 1976 as part of the American Bicentennial celebration, she didn't expect the festival to run for more than 30 consecutive years. The celebration of Appalachian and Southern acoustic music continues Friday and Saturday at Iroquois Amphitheater.
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Best Bets July 20, 2008
Begley family fire relief Enjoy music by El Cuarto Verde, local wines, complimentary appetizers and a no-host bar plus a local art auction with proceeds benefiting the Begley family, whose members lost their homes in the Trabing Fire.
Santa Cruz Sentinel |
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Arts fest makes it despite economy
The painful price of gas may have discouraged some artists from venturing to Gig Harbor’s annual Summer Art Festival – but not Yukie Adams.
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Today – “Old-Fashioned Fiddle Contest,” featuring a variety of music, including Celtic, traditional, folk, country and bluegrass, on two stages, Eckley Miners’ Village, noon to 5 p.m.; age groups, 12 and under, 13 to 18, and 19 and older; 636-2070 or www.eckleyminers.org.
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Today through Sept. 21 – “Roberson Regional Juried Art Exhibition,” Roberson Museum and Science Center, 30 Front St., Binghamton, N.Y., Wednesday through Sunday, noon to 5 p.m., Fridays, noon to 9 p.m.
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The Week Ahead
Today Lawn concerts The free annual Summer Sunday Lawn concert at the Museum of the Southwest, 1705 W. Missouri Ave., continues today with David Newbould, July 20, sponsored by Lone Star Signs and Lite Rock 98 KODM.
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'Where the Heart Finds Art' celebrates its 10th anniversary
Many art galleries come and go, so it's certainly a milestone that Wickwire Gallery in downtown Hendersonville will celebrate its 10th anniversary this month.
The Hendersonville Times-News |
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Bele Chere celebrates 30th anniversary
ASHEVILLE - Bele Chere is turning 30! The South's ultimate entertainment, arts and food festival celebrates its big 3-0 Friday through Sunday, July 27, in downtown Asheville. Drawing more than 300,000 visitors, Bele Chere offers the unique opportunity to see, taste and hear some of the region's finest art, cuisine and music. The best part of the...
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In this section
NOW IN its 10th year, the Westonbirt Festival of the Tree promises to be better than ever.
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Television - National
The world's most famous artist and inventor, Leonardo Da Vinci, may have met his match. The interest in Fred and Myrtle's paua house in the Canterbury Museum is so strong, visitors have been queuing out the door to get a taste of kiwi kitsch.
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Kaplan's the Man behind Mozart
Founder's faith in beautiful music makes festival 35-year fixture
The Burlington Free Press |
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Monet? Gauguin? Using art to make better doctors
Dr. Joel Katz's class of Harvard Medical School students meets on Friday afternoons at the Museum of Fine Arts, where they discuss the Seated Bodhisattva, a towering figure carved in ancient China, Joseph Mallord William Turner's Slave Ship, and other artworks Katz believes will make them better doctors.
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Gallery to host show, reception for artists
A group show and reception for local artists will be held Friday at the Gerry High Art Gallery, 68-565 Highway 111.
The Desert Sun |
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Easton gallery invites the world in with art for all
Ron Morris and Ken Jones Jr. like to build nests. The couple's new gallery in Easton is a tiny, lofty salon five blocks from their house. A wide range of works by a wide range of artists at a wide range of prices -- $7,000 to $500 to $0 -- invites visitors to take home a piece of art with the mission statement that art doesn't have to be expensive to be priceless.
The Morning Call |
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Latino Film Festival offers reel look at Hispanic issues
Since its launch in 1999, the New York International Latino Film Festival has always had plenty to offer on a global scale - especially with the filmmakers coming from different Hispanic backgrounds here and abroad.
New York Daily News |
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Lambert School getting an overhaul
LAMBERT - No matter how long the oil boom lasts, the Lambert school district plans to have something to show for it. School Superintendent Steven Schwarz fairly beamed as he gave a tour of the Lambert School, where the enrollment this year was 84 stud ...
Billings Gazette |
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Easton gallery invites the world in with art for all
Ron Morris and Ken Jones Jr. like to build nests. The couple's new gallery in Easton is a tiny, lofty salon five blocks from their house. A wide range of works by a wide range of artists at a wide range of prices -- $7,000 to $500 to $0 -- invites visitors to take home a piece of art with the mission statement that art doesn't have to be expensive to be priceless.
The Morning Call |
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Lambert School getting an overhaul
LAMBERT - No matter how long the oil boom lasts, the Lambert school district plans to have something to show for it.
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