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Mid-Daily Items: 'Papas' gather at Sloppy Joe's
A white-bearded Florida man won an Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest, a highlight of a festival in Key West, Fla. that honors the late Nobel Prize-winning author.
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Church actions cause anger
ROWLAND HEIGHTS - Parishioners and residents who financially backed an art gallery are angry that some of the money is expected to be used instead to relocate a church.
San Gabriel Valley Tribune |
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Iran, Cinema of Fear, and TFF
What have New York's famed Tribeca Film Festival and the horror genre got to do with Iran? Apparently very many things. First, TFF in lower Manhattan annually showcases a new crop of films made in Iran or made about Iran. Second, the festival has in an unusual step this year given its top prize to a Swedish horror film, Let the Right One In, one of my own personal favorites. Third, Iran from all ...
Payvand Iran News |
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Street Art Draws Thousands to Derelict Berlin Brewery
A forsaken red-brick brewery in the former communist east of Berlin has been transformed into a temporary gallery housing a street art exhibition which has proved so popular that curators have extended its run.
Deutsche Welle |
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Columbus art show will have a local touch
FREMONT -- Local artist Theresa Heaton's is one of 39 artists from all over the world to have her artwork displayed at the Columbus Museum of Art this summer.
Fremont News-Messenger |
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Pottery display
Kent Folette of Ruston, La. and Marie Perkins, owner of DaVinci's, look at some of Folette's pottery on Saturday morning in the DaVinci gallery. Follette, Louisiana native who headed the ceramics department at the University of Chicago, has some his work on display at DaVinci's.
Fremont News-Messenger |
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Kenya: Nairobi's Machina And Guhrs-Carr in Exhibits
Nairobi is becoming the city of art exhbitions and the latest are Dixon Machina and Pam Guhrs-Carr's exhibits which have already started and will end on August 9. The exhibits are at RaMoMa on 2nd Avenue Parklands, Nairobi. The two artists have been in art for a while.
AllAfrica.com |
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'Idol' hopefuls suggest show improvements
Louisville auditions begin today as ratings slip for Fox's singing contest.
The Indianapolis Star |
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Catlin Museum marks 20 years
History and cold treats will be sweet partners once again Saturday as the Catlin Historical Society Ice Cream Social celebrates 20 years.
The Danville Commercial-News |
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Turn trash into art for 'Junk-A-Rama' contest
LONGMEADOW With the entire globe now focusing on going green, children are learning at increasingly younger ages what they need to do to help save the planet.
The Reminder |
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Feinberg to perform at Peach Festival this summer
WILBRAHAM Julia Grace Feinberg will be performing as a vocalist at the Wilbraham Peach Festival in the Children's Tent on Aug. 16, 3:30-4 p.m.
The Reminder |
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Opera CDs find the Way
PERRYSBURG — Dr. L. Paul Baldoni loved opera, photography and the Way Public Library. All those passions come together in an...
Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune |
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Portraits: Michelangelo Was No Beauty
Michelangelo was a master at sculpting male beauty, but he was not one, himself.
Discovery Channel |
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112-year-old folk artist going to be exhibited at Baltimore museum
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Bent over or sitting at a table, gripping a ballpoint pen, marker or crayon, Frank Calloway spends his days turning visions from his youth into lively murals - and at 112 years old, the images of his childhood are a window to another time.
The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News |
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New York landmarks come alive in Mumbai photo exhibition
Mumbai, July 21 (IANS) The Empire State Building, Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Museum of art - well-known landmarks of New York city came alive at a photo exhibition that opened here Monday.
IANS via Yahoo! India News |
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Primal Source Fountain Provides Hallucinations Without Drugs [Art]
Last night in Santa Monica, CA, from 7pm to about 7am, Glow 08 took over the piers. It was an art and music festival with a bunch of cool events and attractions, but the coolest looks to have been...
Gizmodo |
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Silk Batik from southeast Asia
The Hotel Phoenicia is keeping up with its tradition of being a base for personalities in arts – this time for the world-wide esteemed Asian artist Sarkasi Said who this year is celebrating his 50th anniversary as a professional artist. Sarkasi Said is synonymous with Batik art. Sarkasi is in Malta to hold an exhibition of some of his works at the Contemporary Hall of the National Museum of ...
Maltamedia.com Daily News |
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New York Sculptor Mark Parsons Teaches Free Workshop at the Arlington Arts Center
VSA arts is bringing New York sculptor Mark C. Parsons to Arlington Arts Center on August 9-10 to hold a free sculpture workshop. Parsons will spend two days with participating children, discussing science as inspiration for art and teaching the students about relief sculpture techniques. Students will experiment with images and texture in clay, later creating both plaster molds and wax ...
PR Newswire via Yahoo! News |
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Lila Higgins' gravity-defying cairns become ephemeral art at Riverside's Division 9 Gallery
Ask anyone to name some rock stars living in the region, and Lila Higgins' name would not likely be mentioned. Higgins' art form is rocks, and she's becoming quite a star in the art world for it.
The Press-Enterprise |
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Stolen Picasso recovered in Brazil
Police in Sao Paulo, Brazil, say they have recovered a Pablo Picasso print stolen from a museum in broad daylight last month.
CBC |
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A prelude to a fair
The Washington County Fair Park grounds were quiet Sunday. No animal exhibits, no commercial vendors, no big ticket bands for the upcoming 150th anniversary fair.
Greater Milwaukee Today |
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Arts Connection Minute for July 7 - July 13
The Arts Connection Minute lists arts events across Central Florida - it's heard weekdays at 9:59 a.m. To find more cultural events, visit The Red Chair Project , Central Florida's official guide to arts and culture. Monday 7/7 Hi I’m Secily Wilson with your Arts Connection Minute for Monday July 7th. Be sure to visit The Museum of Florida ...
WMFE Orlando |
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10th Pacific arts fest begins in a. Samoa
PAGO PAGO, American Samoa-Around 2,000 artists from 22 Pacific Island countries and territories celebrated the official opening of the 10th Festival of Pacific Arts Monday in Pago Pago, American Samoa.
Saipan Tribune |
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Parents recall slain son as talented artist
A 23-year-old man’s art is being showcased at an art show in Scottsdale, Arizona, this week, 400 miles away from the parking garage where he was shot to death a week ago.
KOB-TV Albuquerque |
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
For decades artists have had a love-hate relationship with museums. Ed Ruscha set one on fire. Michael Asher wanted to re-organize collections and Fred Wilson wanted to re-contextualize their collections.
Arts Journal |
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