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Bead artist holds sessions at university museum
Athabascan artist Kathleen Hildebrand Meckel is holding sessions on beadworking at the University of Alaska Museum of the North in Fairbanks next week.
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Peta’s work of art for National Gallery
The National Museum of Australia will tomorrow take possession of an artwork created as a Higher School Certificate major work by a Lithgow High School student.
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Seattle Art Museum curator takes Tokyo job
The Seattle Art Museum's curator of Asian art, Yukiko Shirahara, is leaving to become chief curator at the Nezu Institute of Fine Arts in Tokyo. She began her career at the Nezu Institute, and has been at SAM for a little over six years.
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Art Dealer and Collector Hildy Beyeler Dies
Hildy Beyeler, who with her husband Ernst Beyeler established a foundation to house the art collection they built up over 50 years, has died. She was 86. Beyeler died at home in Riehen, near Basel, Switzerland, on July 18 after a long illness, according to Catherine Schott, a spokeswoman for the Fondation Beyeler. The Beyelers were art dealers who kept some paintings that they didn't want to ...
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Nitish proposes windfall tax on MPs who profited
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday took a leaf out of Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh’s book. Mr Singh had advocated imposition of windfall tax on private oil firms such as Reliance Industries.
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MAKUHARI, JAPAN - A visitor takes a picture of a pop-artist-designed Darth Vader helmet during the Star Wars Celebration Japan, a exhibition to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Star Wars movies at the Makuhari Messe on July 21, 2008 in Makuhari.
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Scottish artist Jack Vettriano has donated a rare drawing to help raise funds to keep the oldest art gallery in Wales ...
Supermarket chain Asda appeared to have started a petrol price war last night after announcing it would cut the cost of unleaded and diesel by 3p a litre.
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Quebecor Media Inc. Wins 17 Operating Licenses in Spectrum Auction for Advanced Wireless Services
MONTREAL, QUEBEC-- - Quebecor Media Inc. is pleased to announce that it is the successful bidder on 17 operating licenses for third generation Advanced Wireless Services . The Company held the high bids on 40 MHz of spectrum across Qu c, except the Eastern Ontario and Outaouais regions where it won 20 MHz.
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Quebecor Media Inc. Wins 17 Operating Licenses in Spectrum Auction for Advanced Wireless Services
Quebecor Media Inc.(TSX: QBR.B) is pleased to announce that it is the successful bidder on 17 operating licenses for third generation Advanced Wireless Services. The Company held the high bids on 40 MHz of spectrum across Quï¿1/2bec, except the Eastern Ontario and Outaouais regions where it won 20 MHz.
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After an £18m revamp, a once-neglected Sheffield museum has won the Guardian Family Friendly Museums award. Alfred Hickling and friends put it to the test
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Athabascan bead artist to hold sessions at UA Museum of the North
FAIRBANKS — Athabascan artist Kathleen Hildebrand Meckel is holding sessions on beadworking at the University of Alaska Museum of the North in Fairbanks this week.
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Art in the making
The best painting of the current Qatar Diar Art Symposium is to get “a cash prize of QR75,000”. The next best two artworks will receive “valuable cash gifts”.
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Photo display continues at Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
Lynn Saville: Night Shift, a showing of the artist's works, will continue through Aug. 3 at the Montgomer Museum of Fine Arts, admission is free. The MMFAA is open until 5 a.m. today, Sunday. Its regular hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.
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Event Gallery opened at Haynie's Corner
Evansville restaurateur Tim Mills has branched out to investing in the Haynie’s Corner Arts District by opening The Event Gallery at 956 Parrett St.
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More than 150 staff were evacuated from Aberdeen Royal Infirmary yesterday after a chemical spill.
Scottish artist Jack Vettriano has donated a rare drawing to help raise funds to keep the oldest art gallery in Wales open.
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Old Brooklyn Vaudeville Theater Renovation to Enhance BAM Cultural District
Another jewel in the BAM Cultural district crown has been revealed with the recent announcement that the city-owned Strand Theatre at 647 Fulton Street will be renovated for expanded use by BRIC – the Brooklyn cultural organization that manages Celebrate Brooklyn!, BCAT, and the Rotunda Gallery, among other programs – and UrbanGlass , an educational glassworks group. Both organizations ...
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SOMA NewArt Gallery invites you to an informal gallery talk with Artist Sean Taylor.
07/22/2008 - 6:00p.m. to 07/22/2008 - 9:00p.m. SOMA NewArt Gallery invites you to an informal gallery talk with Artist Sean Taylor. Sean will walk the exhibit and discuss how he as an artist fashioned these paintings, his creative process, technique and his hope for the 'American dream.'
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Art Institute’s Modern Wing to Open Next Spring
Last week, while at a certain Olympic bid fundraiser at Pritzker, we noticed a strange building in the south skyline. We soon realized that we were looking at the Art Institute’s new Modern Wing , and were surprised at how … done it looked. Which is a good thing, since the Art Institute announced last Thursday that its 264,000 square-foot addition to the museum will be opened to the ...
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A slice of North East
The art and culture of the North East has come closer with the North East Crafts Bazaar, an exhibition showcasing handicrafts and handlooms of the eight states of North East — Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim.
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Commercial art: industry overview
Commercial art includes photography, graphic design, animation, set designing and good old advertising. All these sub-fields are flourishing, but the first four are the new boom areas, where youngsters are making a mark.
Hindustan Times |
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art July 22 - August 16 at Anant Art Gallery,18-A, Alipore Road; 11 am - 7 pm:
Hybrid , an exhibition of recent works (paintings and sculptures) by Rajesh Ram. Till July 22 at Artline, 125 Rashbehari Avenue, 1st floor, #98304 60667; 12 noon - 7.30 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Aloke Sardar, Swapan Kumar Das, Diptish Ghosh Dastidar, Rupchand Kundu, Soumitra Kar and Sasanka Ghosh.
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Jessica Simpson's father, agents, thrilled with her first country show
Members of Jessica Simpson's career team say they are thrilled with her first country performance Saturday at Country Thunder, a Wisconsin music festival.
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Vettriano drawing to help gallery
Artist Jack Vettriano donates a rare drawing for an auction to help raise funds for one of Wales' oldest galleries.
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Fiber Arts Festival in the works
Iron Horse Farm will sponsor the annual Fiber Arts Festival on Saturday, Nov. 8, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., rain or shine, at the Sherborn Community Center, 3 Sanger St.
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Tidings wins 18 awards in state newspaper contest
The Daily Tidings won 18 Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association awards in its 2008 Better Newspaper Contest, five taking first place honors.
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