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St. Paul art museum loses director; searches for new home
The executive director of the Minnesota Museum of American Art, Bruce Lilly, has resigned from his post after 11 years, according to media reports.
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The people's art: Public sculptures are part of the fabric of North Jersey life
Pigeons - contrary to rumor - are not the only fans of outdoor sculpture. Old General Whatsisname on his horse, the city father in the town square, the big concrete doughnut in front of the corporate center affect all of us subliminally, says Mahwah artist Judith Peck.
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Speculators wrongly blamed, says BP
IT WAS booming demand for energy from developing nations that was driving oil prices higher rather than the financial market speculators being blamed by politicians and analysts, BP chief economist Christof Ruehl said yesterday.
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Oh shucks
AN ARTIST inspired by gardeners from Brazil is holding her latest exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Sarah Staton has worked with fashion designers, furniture designers and architects but draws her latest inspiration from sketches of sculpted trees made by roadside gardeners in Brazil.
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EEPC seeks participation of Orissa entrepreneurs
The Engineering Export Promotion Council (EEPC) has sought the participation of the Orissa entrepreneurs in the coming engineering exhibitions to be held in Malaysia and China.
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Mandela work gifted to toy museum
Toys fashioned by Nelson Mandela are gifted to a German toy museum by the Stirling Smith gallery.
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McCain Visits Buffalo Monday
Buffalo is preparing for a visit from republican presidential candidate John McCain. Local media report he will attend two private events Monday: a dinner at the home of buffalo businessman Anthony Gioia and a fundraiser at the Albright Knox Art Gallery.
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Study on public arts on way
Peoria developing strategy on where to put artwork, the types of art to undertake and priorities.
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Mandela work gifted to toy museum
Toys created by Nelson Mandela and children in Soweto are gifted to Nuremberg's international toy museum by the Stirling Smith gallery.
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For art's sake - Area exhibits abound
Art blooms in likely and unlikely spaces in the Evansville area, from galleries and museums to regular displays in public libraries, colleges and universities, banks, empty storefronts and coffee houses.
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Photo-Me develops gains on US sale
LONDON (SHARECAST) - Troubled digital photography group Photo-Me has sold its loss-making US vending business to ex-employee Jean-Claude Perrottey, giving its shares a boost Monday.
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Lenexa Residents Invited to Enter Annual Art Show
Paintings, drawings, photography, 3-D art will be featured
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Vote for the Winner of the Rachel Carson Sense of Wonder Contest
The U.S. EPA Aging Initiative, in partnership with Generations United and the Rachel Carson Council Inc., invites the public to vote for their favorite submissions for the Second Annual Rachel Carson Sense of Wonder Intergenerational Poetry, Essay and Photography Contest.
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Puerto Rican sights, sounds to draw families
Peña Adobe Park will host the sixth annual Festival De La Isla, which will bring top salsa music talent to Solano County on Saturday, Aug. 16. The event is expected to draw thousands of salsa enthusiasts from through- out Northern California, the Bay Area and Southern California.
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Art fills the air at Peña Adobe
About a handful of artists set up shop Sunday afternoon in Vacaville's historic Peña Adobe Park, taking advantage of the park's first plein air gathering as well as the delights of the park itself. Plein air, explained event organizer Dotty Schenk, means "in the open air.
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Splash concert huge success: festival chair
There were a lot of expectations heading into this year's Splash concert and the festival chairperson feels those expectations were met - and then some.
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Soaring High to Research the "Rainforests of the Atlantic Coast"
Dalhousie PhD student Jeff Barrell and Professor Jon Grant outfitted a blimp-shaped helium balloon with expensive photography equipment and sent it soaring a few hundred metres in the air to acquire much-needed aerial photography of eelgrass meadows in Atlantic coastal areas.
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Nigel Barker, Photographer
Millions know fashion photographer Nigel Barker as a judge on America's Next Top Model. But Barker, who has had a photography studio in New York City for over a decade, is also spokesperson for The Humane Society of the United States' Protect Seals program and visited the Canadian seal hunt earlier this year. On Friday, an exhibit including his photographs and a documentary from the ...
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Griffin Museum opens new gallery at Stoneham Theatre
The Griffin Museum of Photography will celebrate the opening of its new gallery at the Stoneham Theatre with an exhibit of the work of Fran Forman.
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4-H'ers share 10 years of memories
These are two of several members who have spent 10 years with 4-H. We #8217;ll introduce you to more throughout the Allen County Fair, Tuesday-Sunday. 4-H is open to students through Grade 12 of the exhibition year.
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Music Festival starts this week
The 2008 Quartz Mountain Music Festival this week brings some of the best-known works of Mozart, Bunch, Boccherini, Rodrigo and Mendelssohn and a world-famous classical guitarist to Southwest Oklahoma’s Quartz Mountain State Park.
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Hingham’s annual Summerfest is July 24-26
Live music, crafts, a barbecue, contests and sidewalk sales will mark Summerfest, the downtown’s annual celebration of the season, Thursday through Saturday.
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Pinched Picasso recovered in Brazil
A 30-year-old Sao Paulo man has been arrested in connection with the theft of an engraving by Pablo Picasso from the Estacao Pinacoteca museum, police said. The BBC said the suspect told police where they could find The Painter and the Model after he was arrested for allegedly attempting to steal an automated teller machine. The art work, along with another Picasso engraving and two paintings by ...
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List of Events
MAY 2008 Evansville Museum, 411 SE Riverside Drive, 425-2406, www.emuseum.org; "Storefronts of America: The Mesker Story," through May 25; "381 Days: The Montgomery Bus Boycott Story," through July 13; "Real Robotics," through July 27; "Rodin: In His Own Words," through Aug. 17. New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, 506 Main St., New Harmony, Ind., 682-3156, www.nhgallery.com.; "Elissa ...
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SUV Sculpture Unintentionally Sends the Wrong Message [Land Rover]
Constructed of 3500 parts, connected by 4,900 bolts and standing 112 feet in the air, this sculpture commissioned by Land Rover is certainly an idolatrous addition to the Festival of Speed. But, uhh,...
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