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Artists depict pollution in the Western soul
After Nature. Where: The New Museum, 235 Bowery Ave. at Prince Street, New York. When: Through Sept. 21. Noon-6 p.m. Wednesdays; noon-10 p.m. Thursdays-Fridays; noon-6 p.m. Saturdays-Sundays.
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Dubuque library agrees to sell art collection
Associated Press - July 24, 2008 8:54 PM ET DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) - Dubuque's Carnegie-Stout Public Library Board of Trustees has accepted a half million dollar offer for its lauded Curtis...
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Dubuque library agrees to sell art collection
DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) - Dubuque's Carnegie-Stout Public Library Board of Trustees has accepted a half million dollar offer for its lauded Curtis Collection of art.
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CHANDLER: Artless planning weakens show
The show from the collection of Mark and Polly Addison, of Boulder, at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art is weakened by its lack of theme.
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People: Fair Oaks singer wins TV contest
Melinda Watts of Fair Oaks recently was crowned the winner of the "American Idol"-like Gospel Dream 2008 on the season finale show that aired June 29 on the Gospel Music Channel television network. Melinda Watts of Fair Oaks won the Gospel Music Channel's 2008 Gospel Dream competition.
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Market/Festival
FARMINGTON — Farmington Indian Center sponsoring 7th Annual Indian Market and Festival 9 am.-9p.m., July 25-26, at the Berg Park, Farmington.
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Cool treats for those hot summer days
* Sure, you can get ice cream just about anywhere, but when you want it served up with an extra scoop of nostalgia, head to the Yakima Valley Museum's authentic late-1930s art deco soda fountain at 2105 Tieton Drive.
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Dorian's will rebuild photography business
One of the tenant business in the Joel Building is Dorian's Photography Studio and Thursday night the Mark family is stunned that their 94-year-old business was wiped out so quickly.
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Learning the Truth at Seventeen in 'American Teen'
When previews of "American Teen" were screened on large overhead monitors in a giant sports bar during a party at this year's South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas, the smartly edited montage of life at a Midwestern high school looked like a teaser for a new cable network series. One of the documentary's selling points is its professional slickness, achieved on a remarkably slight $5 ...
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Working Dad: Summer doesn't have to break the bank
With the economy in the tank and gas well above $4 a gallon, many parents are having a lean summer. But with a little work, they can find a mother lode of free museums, field trips and even tickets to children's theater.
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Chainsaw wizard creates masterpiece
For Fort Saskatchewan artist Everett Goodine using a chainsaw is much like using a crayon.
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Museum and Gallery Listings
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Keeping the heritage alive
BADAN Warisan Malaysia in Jalan Stonor, Kuala Lumpur, is currently hosting “Khazanah Brickfields”, a heritage education programme-cum-exhibition that highlights the rich history of Brickfields that surrounds Jalan Tun Sambanthan and the KL Sentral complex.
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2008 British Auto Show: Chevrolet Camaro Convertible Gets a Unique Paint Job
LONDON, England — In one of the more offbeat footnotes to the 2008 British Auto Show , a local artist is showing off paintings of the Chevrolet Camaro convertible and Beat concept cars created by using remote control cars driven through acrylic paints.
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Keeping the heritage alive
The story of Brickfields is told in various media, including sketches and paintings.
The New Straits Times |
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Award Winning Architects Join Tyler Museum Of Art Building Project
The campaign to build a new facility for the Tyler Museum of Art is "on the fast track," with award-winning Tyler firm Fitzpatrick.Butler Architects joining the team as Associate Architect for the project, TMA Director Kimberley Bush Tomio announced.
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Backstage Pass: Behind-the-scenes news in the arts
Even though we’re not in season right now, summer is still a busy time in our local visual arts community. William Meek of the Harmon-Meek Gallery will have a booth showing its contemporary American masters at this month’s ArtHamptons event in New York.
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Hale receives 180 days in jail
Glass artist Cindy Lucich of Yosemite Lakes Park explains her process of painting on old windows, making them look like stained-glass creations.
Sierra Star |
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Lunatics Base-Jumping Off Giant Wind Turbines Have More Guts Than We Do [Eco-xtreme]
The idea of diving out of an airplane with essentially just a thin envelope of fabric protecting me from splattering my organs all over concrete like postmodern art makes me want to pee myself. Yet...
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Hospital's history in art form
As she stood outside the cafeteria at the new Penrose-St. Francis Medical Center on Wednesday, Marica Hefti had about 24 hours to make her newest sculpture, "Three Sisters," finished-looking.
Colorado Springs Gazette |
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Visa rules force top acts to pull out of Womad festival
Organisers of the country's biggest world music festival were forced to make last-minute cancellations yesterday after three musicians in their line-up were unable to obtain visas to play at Womad.
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Welcome to The Louvre Inc.
The museum's director is busy raising millions. But his methods are raising hackles in French art circles
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Thomas Sutcliffe: Exclusive! Hadrian reveals all!
To say that I thought more than once of Heat magazine and Hello! while walking round the British Museum's new exhibition Hadrian: Empire and Conflict might easily suggest that I think something has gone wrong here. The British Museum is, after all, one of the world's great centres of learning – a place where, to paraphrase Neil MacGregor's opening remarks at the press view, visitors can come to ...
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Paperbacks: Face, by William A Ewing
Ranging from the painstaking artifice of Thai transvestites to Alison Jackson's fake shot of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed look-alikes with child, this collection of photographic portraits is a powerful reminder of our emotional investment in the face.
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Abildgaard, Nicolai: The Wounded Philoctetes (1775)
Don't think that the old masters were always masters of subtlety. They could be as crude as we can. An affinity has often been noticed, for example, between the musclebound protagonists of Romantic painting and the superheroes of post-war comic strips.
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