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The Eye: 'Pink Glasses, 2001'
Today's artwork chosen by Stephanie Peek
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Funny games
Arts & entertainment: Who's in charge here - model or photographer? Adrian Searle on manipulation and make-believe in a new exhibition of fashion photography
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Busy time at Ararat Regional Art Gallery
ARARAT - It has been a busy few weeks at Ararat Regional Art Gallery.
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Seattle council puts $146 million parks measure on Nov. 4 ballot
The Seattle City Council today added a $146 million parks measure to the Nov. 4 ballot. If voters approve, the money would fund the acquisition of land for new parks and open spaces, playground upgrades and improvements to historic buildings such as the Seattle Asian Art Museum.
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Art show to mark Beano anniversary
ORIGINAL artwork from the first issue of Britain's favourite children's comic is to go on public display for the first time as part of the 70th birthday celebrations f
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Death of Charlie Hennessy, 77, ‘tremendous loss’
THE death of Charlie Hennessy yesterday was described as “a tremendous loss to Cork city” by Cork film festival director Mick Hannigan.
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AHF chart shows how Senate global AIDS bill will save five to seven million lives
A chart prepared by AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), which provides AIDS care and treatment services to more than 79,000 individuals in 20 countries worldwide, shows how the Senate version of legislation to re-authorize PEPFAR (the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), the successful US global AIDS program, will be able to save five to seven million lives over the next five years.
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Hideyuki Kikuchi Celebrates His Birthday at NY Anime Fest
Norwalk, CT, July 21, 2008: The New York Anime Festival (NYAF) today announced Vampire Hunter D author and NYAF Guest of Honor Hideyuki Kikuchi will be celebrating his BIRTHDAY at the close of the 2008 New York Anime Festival at a restaurant in Midtown Manhattan with illustrator Yoshitaka Amano , translator Kevin Leahy , and ten seats at the table reserved for his most die-hard American fans.
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Indian Carving Gets Preservation Work
That well-known city landmark on the corner of Lincoln and Yellowstone in Idaho Falls is getting a little sprucing up this week.
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Sarah Jessica Parker Dips A Toe Into Reality Waters With 'Project Art Fag' [Make It Hirst]
Tireless, chin-mole-free multi-hyphenate Sarah Jessica Parker is donning yet another hat, and this one you'll be pleased to hear contains not a single twig-sculpture or lepidoptera specimen. Rather,...
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A Recent History of Writing and Drawing, ICA, London
The ICA, marking its 60th anniversary, is facing up to a very different art-world from when it was founded. Then, being seen as a quirky place of experimentation was enough to justify the ICA's place. Lately, it has been joined by the chic Parasol; 176 (Anita Zabludowicz's space); a revitalised Hayward Gallery; the Serpentine Gallery; and (soon) a refurbished Whitechapel, not to mention Tate ...
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Preview: Friday Late Village Fete, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The Victoria and Albert Museum's annual village fête in the museum's John Madejski garden, now in its ninth year, offers a snazzy twist on the traditional English summer fête of soggy sandwiches, bunting and terrible prizes: the stall-holders are all contemporary artists and designers showcasing their work.
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Downtown Happenings Through July 28
Here are the events happening in downtown through Monday, July 28. The Arts & Education Council will host its annual fundraiser on Thursday, from 6-8:30 p.m. at Tanner Hill Gallery. For more information, please call 267-1218.
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NOW Festival, Week 2
Under Disney Hall this week, there's more movement afoot with Dance Magazine's one of “25 to Watch” (2007) Holly Johnston, along with Trisha Brown alumnus Lionel Popkin and, in a more theatrical bent, the wild, humorous and nearly chaotic Poor Dog Group. Johnston, creative force behind Ledges and Bones Dance Project will present a new quartet she calls Politics of Intimacy . Embracing ...
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Wallinger branches out into public art
Mark Wallinger, who won the Turner Prize for State Britain, his incendiary installation of anti-war posters, unveils a giant state-of-the-art steel sculpture today for one of Oxford University's most traditional colleges.
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Blaze of tradition and technology
A new series of artworks connecting customary Mäori tukutuku patterns with urban signage and lighting technology will be exhibited at Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures in Porirua until the end of September.
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Shades of Gray at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts
The Frist Center for the Visual Arts , in Nashville, will host this exhibition featuring 26 drawings by four members of the Southeastern College Art Conference, an organization of art faculty committed to promoting the importance of art in higher education and in the broader community.
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Artwork accidently identified as trash
This week, workers at the Haifa Museum of Art threw out part of Michael Sgan-Cohen's 1981 work, "Coat of Many Colors." The work was to have been displayed at the "Check-Post: Art in Israel in the 1980s" exhibition, which opened this week at the Haifa Museum.
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Growing Camelina Could Bring $80 Million to Colorado's Economy
Oil hit a record $147 earlier this month, further indicating the need to move away from reliance on the troublesome energy source. In a step toward U.S. energy independence, Blue Sun Biodiesel has earned an ACRE grant from the state of Colorado to commercialize a non-food energy crop, camelina, for use in biodiesel.
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AHF Chart Shows How Senate Global AIDS Bill Will Save Five to Seven Million Lives
WASHINGTON----A chart prepared by AIDS Healthcare Foundation , which provides AIDS care and treatment services to more than 79,000 individuals in 20 countries worldwide, shows how the Senate version of legislation to re-authorize PEPFAR , the successful US global AIDS program, will be able to save five to seven million lives over the next five years.
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Oddball museums around the world
From the Ventriloquist Museum, in Fort Mitchell, Ky., to the Toilet Museum in New Delhi, the world's weirdest museums and collections.
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Quebecor Media Inc. Wins 17 Operating Licenses in Spectrum Auction for Advanced Wireless Services
MONTREAL, QUEBEC -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 07/21/08 -- Quebecor Media Inc. (TSX: QBR.A)(TSX: QBR.B) is pleased to announce that it is the successful bidder on 17 operating licenses for third generation Advanced Wireless Services (AWS). 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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Art exhibit chronicles immigrant experience
A new exhibit in Chicago chronicles the immigrant experience in America.
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A south Auckland artist is using a major art exhibition to highlight high fuel prices and New Zealand law restrictions.
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Crafters, vendors needed for harvest festival
The Franklin Downtown Partnership is now taking applications for its annual Harvest Festival on Sunday, September 28, in downtown Franklin center.
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