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Artists Leap Into the Moment
?How Soon Is Now?? at the Bronx Museum of the Arts is almost nothing but symptoms reflecting almost nothing but failings.
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Will the Revolution Be Museumized? Will There Be a Revolution?
?That Was Then ... This Is Now? is an ambitious if disappointing effort to extend the activist spirit of the Vietnam War protest days into the Iraq war era.
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Angels Appear, and Museums Rejoice
A recently discovered drawing of the Archangel Gabriel by the Netherlandish artist Lucas van Leyden has been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Hired and admired
NEW YORK -- At times it seems that commercial photography as we know it has successfully merged with fine art photography.
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Inspired by Vikings and Volcanoes
Two exhibitions of Icelandic art are on view for another couple of weeks at Scandinavia House and the Luhring Augustine gallery.
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Art Makes Such Weird Bedfellows
Everyone-into-the-pool gallery group shows like ?Pretty Ugly? are a welcome distraction in a steamy New York midsummer.
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Comic-Con: Keanu Reeves, Robert Rodriguez, More
We're there on the ground getting you all the Comic-Con intel you need to know—and plenty of photos in our Comic-Con gallery. Here are the highlights from Day One: Keanu...
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WHATELSE?
TODAY Surfboard art Myrtle Beach native Drew Brophy will demonstrate his art of painting on surfboards. His art is found in murals, fabric designs, books, tiki sculptures, skateboards, clothing, bodyboards, toys, cell phone skins and wallpapers, and many other articles. See his works at www.drewbrophy.com .
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Festival lines up diverse offerings
The 18th annual Pawleys Island Festival of Music and Art will include a comedy troupe and a children's event with area dancers. The three-weekend fest in September will showcase a variety of arts and music at several sites. Sam Bush, known as the "King of Newgrass," will kick things off Sept. 12 at Brookgreen Gardens.
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Class Action Lawsuit Filed After Miss. River Oil Spill
A class action lawsuit is filed in response to the oil spill in the Mississippi River.
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Main Art Gallery shows 'The Spore Collective'
Through August, Main Art Gallery in Uptown is featuring "The Spore Collective," works by 10 University of Mary Washington sculpture students. The Spore Collective is a group of students enrolled in the university's ARTS 331: Sculpture II class. The group's motto is "Fast, cheap and out of control." Its manifesto states, among other things: "One must strive to push his/her imagination beyond the ...
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Timbaland's Polish Show Confirmed By Promoter
Timbaland’s appearance at the Coke Live Festival in Warsaw, Poland has been confirmed, still leaving a conflicting date with his upcoming Australian tour.
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Fledgling galleries band together
Hunger, having something to prove — these are good qualities in an art gallery.
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Cool Pool: Friends add to adventures in food, music or artwork
Here’s what’s on the to-do lists for this weekend:
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Morag Stokes’s first photographic exhibition
runs at Photospace gallery 24th July to 16th August. The visual inspiration for this set of photographic works came primarily from Morag’s time living and working in the Middle East, but was also fed by her love of Spanish ceramic decoration and her recent interest in Australian Aboriginal painting.
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Record auction price for vintage motorbike
A Mowbrays’ subsidiary has notched up a New Zealand record auction price for a vintage motorbike which till recently had been lying idle in an old barn.
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2-day celebration of arts in Old Lyme
OLD LYME — A two-day celebration of the arts takes place in the heart of Old Lyme’s historic district, a haven for artists since the early 20th century, during the Midsummer Festival celebration for all ages on Friday and Saturday, July 26 and 27.
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Undergrad to open for Coldplay
Every year, Drexel students repeatedly excel in academia-related competitions around the world, but this summer, one music industry junior has rocked-literally. Singer/songwriter Jonah Delso won a contest to open for the popular British group Coldplay July 25 at Philadelphia's Wachovia Center.
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Jeannette arts group shows work during Community Days
An arts organization in Jeannette that hopes to begin an after-school program for children has a juried art exhibit on display this weekend during Jeannette Community Days.
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'Bachelor' stars Grant, Lamas break up
Matt Grant and Shayne Lamas, the couple who met on the most recent edition of the U.S. reality romance series, The Bachelor, say they have broken up.Grant, a British financier, chose Lamas, an actress from California, from among the 25 female contestants who competed to win his heart on the series. He proposed to Lamas in the show's last episode, which aired in May, and Lamas accepted.We tried ...
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Bear 'steels' show
Curtis Wiesz's huge steel sculpture of a bear is quite an attention-getter at the State Fair. Numerous fair-goers Thursday morning stopped by the exhibit of the 8 1/2-foot-tall bear, which has one of its paws in a trap. The bear sculpture is attached by a chain to a tree stump. The sculpture is located in 4-H Hall in the State Fair Center.
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Oil reserves would last U.S. less than 3 years
QUESTION: How much is in the United States' oil reserves? How long could we go using our own oil and not buying from the Middle East or another country? Would this be possible?
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Happy feats: Art that’s fun, funky
Art is a serious thing. Paintings are to be looked at and maybe longed for, but not often laughed at. Musical masterpieces are often dark — think Mozart’s “Requiem.” Then there’s the dying swan in the ballet “Swan Lake.” In theater, you have Shakespeare’s tragedies: “Hamlet,” “Romeo and Juliet,” “Othello.” With the economy hitting bum notes, a tank of gas costing more than an opera ticket and ...
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On the Scene: Jazz quartet Arrive in town
EARLY ARRIVAL: Arrive , a jazz quartet featuring players based in Chicago and Oakland, Calif., will play two shows in town this weekend. The first is at 7:30 tonight at the Columbia Museum of Art, and the second is at 9 p.m. Saturday at The Whig. Arrive, an improvisational post-bop band impervious to modern jazz templates, doesn’t trade in chord changes. “In what I do, the themes and melodies ...
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Artists discuss concepts for welcome center attraction
Missouri Department of Transportation officials want Joplin’s new Interstate 44 Welcome Center to start showing up in family scrapbooks. “We want it to be something that people want to get their pictures taken with,” said Lori Marble, MoDOT’s Southwest District community relations manager.
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