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Westside community mural
Erika Magers, a local Lansing artist who has been working with other painters and community members on the Westside Community Diversity Mural during community painting days at the Black Child & Family Institute, 835 W. Genesee St. in Lansing. “It’s definitely very challenging,� Magers explained.
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Mi Casas ain’t necessarily your Casas
A few pages into The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, an astute observer cautions Roussel, one of several young artists gathered in the gallery of the influential art dealer Vollard, against craving membership in a club that won’t have him or his ilk.
San Antonio Current |
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Dear Uncle Mat
Dear Readers: Gracias, merci, obrigado for the many submissions in our contest asking readers to argue in 25 words why corn tortillas are superior to flour, or vice versa.
San Antonio Current |
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Attention to lighting can make a huge difference in your photos
It's the middle of summer, and you have a brand-new digital camera, but your pictures aren't looking as stellar as you had hoped. Perhaps there are huge shadows under the eyes of your subjects, or a whole lot of squinting faces. It doesn't have to be that way. We checked in with Scott Kelby, author of the best-selling, two-volume The Digital Photography Book, for five basic lighting tips that ...
USA Today |
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'Pictures of Hope' Giving Homeless Children Artistic Voices
Renowned photojournalist LindaSolomon teaches children without homes how to express their dreams for the future through photography through 'Pictures of Hope.'
CBS 42 Austin |
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Picturing the Process: Portraiture through the Lens
Since its invention in 1839, the unique power of photography has been utilized to record the physical world and appearances.
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles |
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Billy Carroll Indicted for Molesting 6 Children
On Tuesday a Travis County Grand Jury returned numerous indictments against 53-year-old Billy Dan Carroll. Carroll was indicted on 14 counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child, 11 counts of indecency by contact, six counts of indecency by exposure, and one count of improper photography.
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Giant Martin Luther King Sculpture Stirs Controversy
"One could argue that some controversy was inevitable no matter what. Memorial sculptures for King have long been lightning rods for racial resentments, black and white.
Arts Journal |
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Ballet Tennessee, Parks And Recreation Present Free Dance Alive Recital Friday
Ballet Tennessee will present the Summer Dance Intensive and Youth Intensive and 2008 Dance Alive Conceert Recital on Friday at 6 p.m. The free recital will be at the UTC Fine Arts Center Roland Hayes Concert Hall.
The Chattanoogan |
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Oh, the Israelites
So you think you know all about Israel. Not so fast, says the Jewish Film Festival.
East Bay Express |
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ARTS & CULTURE
Although Eric Drooker has lived and painted in Berkeley for the last ten years, nine times out of ten his dreams still take place in New York City. Drooker grew up in a seventh-floor apartment building near Manhattan's Lower East Side. He's famous for drawing cityscapes that press against the edge of the page and crush out the organic forms: bruising, two-dimensional illustrations of ...
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Renowned Artist, Richard T. Slone, Has Unveiled His Latest Painting, A Huge Canvas of Miguel Cotto fighting Antonio Margarito unveiled days before their actual fight; Slone Originals to be on display at Mandalay Bay’s Memorabilia Museum in Las Vegas during Fight Week.
Boxing Insider |
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New York Sun 07/22/08
Need A Loan? How About Mortgaging That Art? "Select banks and the two major auction houses, Sotheby's and Christie's, have been offering art financing for a long time. But in recent years, as values in the art market have risen, more and more collectors have taken advantage of it."
Arts Journal |
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Canal Days roots
PORT COLBORNE Thirty years ago the Port Colborne Historical and Marine Museum held Canal Days as a celebration of the first Welland Canal. This year the city is celebrating the 30th annual Canal Days Marine Heritage Festival and the museum grounds will be full of [...]
Welland Tribune |
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New wave of Maori art on show
A unique exhibition by six of the new generation of Maori artists is open at Matapihi ki te Ao, the new Whanganui tertiary education campus.
Scoop.co.nz |
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Hurricane Dolly Means Closures/Cancellations
Duval County Courthouse will be closed all day Wednesday. All major attractions downtown are scheduled to be open "business as usual" Wednesday, except for the Art Museum of South Texas that will close Wednesday and Thursday. They will be back open on Friday.
KIII Corpus Christi |
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Cessnock artist honoured at NAIDOC Week ceremony
Cessnock artist and art teacher Les Elvin received one of the highest accolades awarded to indigenous Australians when he was named Artist of the Year in Canberra at the NAIDOC Week awards ceremony last Saturday night.
The Advertiser |
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Bay Area's best new art, now / YBCA overview offers snapshot of everything from paintings to video
Few can resist the prospect, realistic or not, of an overview of the local cultural landscape. This guarantees "Bay Area Now 5" at Yerba Buena Center a high level of audience interest. The fifth edition of the YBCA's triennial snapshot of regional art...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Datebook
• The Manalapan Arts Council is looking for artists, designers and crafters for its "Arts on the Arboretum 2008" art show and sale to be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 27. The event will be held in the municipal court parking lot in front of the Manalapan-Englishtown Post Office at the corner of Taylors Mills Road and Route 522, Manalapan.
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Participants sought for 'Arts on the Arboretum'
The Manalapan Arts Council is looking for artists, designers and crafters for its "Arts on the Arboretum 2008" art show and sale to be held 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 27 at the municipal complex. Details: Call 732-446-3200, ext. 4001, or visit the Web site at www.twp.manalapan.nj.us.
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Top 10 most-emailed stories
Here are the stories our readers most want to share: the 10 stories most frequently e-mailed by herald-zeitung.com readers today. #2: NBISD won’t add music, art teachers Despite impassioned pleas, the New Braunfels Independent School District board opted Monday not to hire four new art and music teachers.
The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung |
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Was Goldie swiped at open home?
Police say a valuable Charles Goldie painting stolen from an elderly Mosgiel couple's home may have been taken between February and July while the house was for sale.
Otago Daily Times |
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Back to School With the Butthole Surfers
Gibby Haynes is 50, but he's still off the wall like he was in the '80s, when he and the rest of his Butthole Surfers were passing off hallucinogenic-fueled performance-art shows as "music" for the likes of a young, impressionable Daniel Johnston and other Austin freaks looking to get their psych...
The Village Voice |
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In the Arts
"Plein Air 3 Ways" is on exhibit at the Middletown Library through July 31. Favorite scenes through the eyes and art of three plein air artists: Manny Jomok, watercolors; Marge Levine, pastels; and Jim Ferrier, oils. Plein Air artists paint from life and work out of doors to capture the light and movement of an actual scene.
Independent |
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Transforming Heaven and Earth
Large-scale paintings by artist Joan Hierholzer are currently featured in an exhibition titled "Transforming Heaven and Earth: Artistic Visions of Technology" at the Monmouth Museum in Lincroft. The exhibition, which runs through Aug. 3, features powerful and dramatic murals and paintings of industrial and technological subjects.
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