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Interim Director Named For Benton Museum Of Art
T homas Bruhn has been named interim director of the William Benton Museum of Art , the state's art museum on the University of Connecticut campus at Storrs .
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JACQIE PERRY'S DIVA WEARS: Supermodel turned fashion designer supports battered young girls.
*Recently acclaimed model Jacqie Perry, and her supporting friends gathered together in Hollywood to promote her new swimwear line and raise funds for Stop It Now an organization that prevents the sexual abuse of children, with a live fashion show and silent auction.
Eurweb |
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SJP's Next Move
Provisionally entitled American Artist , the show promises to be to artists what Runway is to models, with contestants battling to draw, paint, and sculpt their way to a career springboard into the art world.
British Vogue |
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Nominations being accepted for Governor's Arts Awards
The Louisiana Division of the Arts in the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism are now accepting nominations for the 2008 Governor's Arts Awards. The annual Arts Awards recognizes Louisiana's artists, arts educators, businesses and arts organizations.
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"Dune Cedars,” a painting, by Cheryl Crews, is part of The Aquarian Project's "Honoring Our Native Trees," which will be on exhibit at the Avalon Museum for the month of August.
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Welsh MAN Gets Royal Esoteric Treatment
The new MAN reissues are an eclectic lot of three stellar albums, and one of them is their studio masterpiece. You might remember that I wrote a piece about the Welsh band, MAN, a few months ago when I was still a newbie to their music. Since then I have received some mind-blowing MAN albums, bursting with their eclectic blend of West Coast psychedelia, hard rock, blues, progressive rock, funk, ...
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Rhys back on the capital's summer social scene for gallery bash
Showing he's putting his much-publicised split from starlet Sienna Miller well and truly behind him Rhys Ifans was on dapper form as he attended the Serpentine Gallery's annual summer party this week. The actor mingled with socialites and arty types at the event which is generally regarded as the highlight of the London summer season.
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Hewitt eliminated from 'Nashville Star'
Ashlee Hewitt's pursuit to become the next "Nashville Star" ended Monday night. Advertisement: Folk Arts Council of Winnipeg Inc. Folklorama! August 3 - 16, 2008 Experience the energy of Folklorama, the largest and longest running multicultural event of its kind in the world! From traditional home-cooked meals to electrifying nightly performances by local, national and international ...
Grand Forks Herald |
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Eye-Fi Expands Service with Adobe Photoshop Express and Nikon's My Picturetown and Announces Nationwide Retail ...
Eye-Fi Inc., makers of the world's first wireless memory card for digital cameras, today announced new online photo sharing partnerships with Adobe and Nikon and its first nationwide retailer Circuit City.
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Project ETHOS, Sundance Film Festival of Fashion, Music and Art Closes the Gap Between Mainstream and Indie
Project ETHOS, known as the "Sundance Film Festival of Gen Y fashion, music and art," is a bi-annual, red carpet event in Los Angeles that showcases all emerging Millennial Generation forms of creativity in one house on one night .
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Banned 'brazen' nude back on show afer 61 years
A painting of a nude once described by a church leader as "an affront to womanhood" goes back on display after 60 years in a vault.
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Gallery: Karadzic's arrest
The former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is arrested in Belgrade.
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Rachel Sherman 1907-2008: Writer, watercolorist taught music at OSU
Ohio State University art students made three pieces of glass sculpture as a gift for Rachel Sherman, who turned 101 on Jan. 23.
The Columbus Dispatch |
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Researchers Make Breakthrough in Verifying Artworks
"One finding was that when an artist had tried to copy van Gogh's style - whether honestly or with intent to pass off the work as authentic - the painting displayed telltale characteristics at a very small scale."
Arts Journal |
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Download Festival 07.19.08 California
The cacophony of commerce hit you before you walked through the gates of Shoreline Amphitheatre last Saturday. Sexy new VW convertibles sat outside the box office offering eco-friendly cool in an attractive range of colors.
All About Jazz |
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Hospice House fund-raiser is Aug. 7
CHEBOYGAN - Call it a heavy metal dinner. VitalCare Hospice of the Straits will host its fund-raiser on Aug. 7, featuring a live auction of 16 metal garden sculpture butterflies.
The Mackinaw Journal |
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ART EXHIBIT: Acrylic works are on display
Check out textured acrylic paintings by Mexican artist Connie De Alva Higgins of Spring Garden Township through the end of July at Blue Moon Restaurant, 361 W.
York Daily Record |
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Woman's love of art enriches Pine Belt
One woman's passion has become a treasure trove for Mississippi art lovers. That same passion helped save many of her artworks, damaged by floodwaters from Katrina.
Hattiesburg American |
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A sheriff today warned former world boxing champion Scott Harrison that his criminal record was "escalating".
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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Search on for hidden Souzas
AUCTION house Bonhams is mounting a campaign to uncover hidden pictures by the Indian artist Francis Newton Souza which could be in private collections in the Capital.
Edinburgh Evening News |
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New home for exhibit
AWARD-WINNING Edinburgh-based artist Catherine Rayner will be showcasing her work at an exhibition being staged at
Edinburgh Evening News |
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Fair photo entries due
Anyone who has taken pho tographs, professional or amateur, is encouraged to enter Thurston County Fair's photography competition.
The Olympian |
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Michelangelo 'wasn't handsome at all'
Washington, July 22 : Italian Renaissance painter-sculptor Michelangelo was an ugly and rather unclean man, suggest a series of rare, contemporary portraits and writings on show in Florence.
New Kerala |
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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'.
Evening Standard |
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ACROSS the BIG SKY
BROWNING — A museum advocacy group will offer a traditional Native American games camp here from Aug. 4-8 for middle and high school students.
Great Falls Tribune |
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