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On display after 60 years: The 'brazen' nude painting which scandalised a town
An oil painting of a nude woman went back on show today - more than 60 years after it was banned for being 'too brazen'. The portrait of a naked woman smoking was bought by a public gallery in 1947.
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Memelabs Rolls Out Customized and Cost-effective Contest Platform for Non-Profit Organizations and Charities
Memelabs, the user-generated video contest platform company, today announces the release of a custom version of memelabs to help non-profit organizations and charities easily create and manage User Generated Video (UGV) campaigns online. The company is rolling out a pilot version of the new platform for Apathy is Boring, a Canadian non-partisan project that uses art, media, and technology to ...
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City looking blooming marvellous as judging kicks off
Judges for the Communities in Bloom International Challenge will be in Aberdeen this week to assess various classes in the contest. 2008/07/21 00:00:00
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VINELAND: More activities at Landis Park today for Puerto Rican Festival
VINELAND -- Here is the schedule of events for the Puerto Rican Festival of New Jersey, which continues through Sunday.
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New art gallery opening at old Victorian mill
A NEW gallery is opening with an eclectic collection of contemporary art next to a popular restaurant.
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SKorean appellate court upholds conviction of ex-professor for faking Yale doctorate
Seoul, South Korea (AP, July 22, 2008 6:28 AM) -- A South Korean court on Tuesday upheld an earlier ruling sentencing a former university professor to 18 months in jail for faking a Yale doctorate and embezzling museum funds.
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Runners will take to downtown for 2nd annual road race
LANCASTER - The final day of this year's Lancaster Festival will kick off with a good dose of health and fitness.
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Oceana event nets big reward
You know you have a successful fundraiser when Harrison Ford signs your son's name on the fedora from his first "Indiana Jones" movie that you just won in auction.
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Kudos: Murals take center stage at Urban Youth Festival
Kids - stop and think before you tag that building with your spray can! Why not head down to the 12th annual SF/Bay Area Urban Youth Arts Festival instead, where aerosol painting will actually be one of the featured activities?
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Look-alike crowned in homage to Hemingway
A white-bearded Florida man won an Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest, a highlight of a festival honouring the late Nobel Prize-winning author.
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A trio of unusual exhibits
Randy Shull's "Crossing Boundaries," now at the San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design, is a rich retrospective for an artist whose work ranges from bright, original furniture to small but powerful objects fashioned of wood and building material.
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Graffiti artist makes off-the-wall remarks
Museum-goers know that painters prepare little detailed studies before they embark on a full-blown canvas. Graffiti-taggers do the same, but they take the process a step further, drawing their studies in one another’s “piece books” (slang for “masterpiece”).
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Wall-to-wall Hadrian at British Museum
He has shown more box office pulling power than Michelangelo - even if he cannot quite rival the Terracotta Warriors.
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SKorean gets jail term for faking degree
Tue, Jul 22, 2008 (2:42 a.m.) A South Korean court on Tuesday upheld an earlier ruling sentencing a former university professor to 18 months in jail for faking a Yale doctorate and embezzling museum funds.
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Guest Hotels Switch on to Capital Culture
Guest Hotels and The Institute of Contemporary Arts today unveils plans for its new digital service, Capital Culture, giving art lovers a distinctive and specialised steer of what to see and do in the capital. This will be broadcast online at www.guesthotels.com and throughout its five hotels across London, including the iconic Blakes in Kensington. (PRWeb Jul 22, 2008) Read the full ...
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ACE Film Festival Announces Exciting Program Line-Up for 2008 Event
After sifting through over 850 entries from across the country, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) proudly presents the 2008 ACE Film Festival program. Now in its second year, ACE Fest has grown exponentially, expanding to 4-days and moving to a centralized Midtown location, but stays true to its original mission - to promote and preserve the "American cinematic experience." Festival ...
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Jacques Kaplan, 83, bold furrier, dies
Kaplan was an absurdist furrier and art gallery owner who brought a sense of mischief to the staid world of the mink stole.
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Pitchfork Music Festival 2008: Sunday
Part three of our 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival recap includes photos of the entire day's sets and interviews with HEALTH, Apples in Stereo, King Khan, Les Savy Fav, M. Ward, Bon Iver, and Spoon. read more
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SKorean gets jail term for faking degree
A South Korean court on Tuesday upheld an earlier ruling sentencing a former university professor to 18 months in jail for faking a Yale doctorate and embezzling museum funds.
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Artist rounds up colour Cyclorama
An American artist is to unveil an "E-Cyclorama" as part of an exhibition in the Edinburgh Art festival.
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M.F. Husain set to return to India
By Dipankar De Sarkar, London, July 22 : Maqbool Fida Husain, independent India's only artist in exile, says he will return home as soon as he has finished his current series of paintings.
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City may spend $2 million on O'Hare art exhibit
With airlines struggling to survive and capital funding at O'Hare Airport in short supply, Chicago's Aviation Department is talking about spending $2 million to finance an exhibit of stained-glass cabinets made from the extensive window collection of Chicago banking scion E. B. Smith Jr.
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Pitchfork Music Festival 2008: Saturday
Part two of our 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival recap includes photos of the entire day's sets and interviews with Titus Andronicus, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Jay Reatard, Icy Demons, Dizzee Rascal, Vampire Weekend, !!!, the Hold Steady, No Age, and Animal Collective. read more
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SKorean gets jail term for faking degree
A South Korean court on Tuesday upheld an earlier ruling sentencing a former university professor to 18 months in jail for faking a Yale doctorate and embezzling museum funds.
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Colonial Australia's first artwork sold to a museum
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - An engraved silver disc believed to be colonial Australia's first work of art was sold at auction on Tuesday for A$873,750 (almost $857,000) to an Australian museum, the organizers of the sale said.
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