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Altona opens gallery in the gardens
ALTONA -- It's perhaps the first bona fide tourist attraction to open in Manitoba in years and visitors are forewarned: bring along your superlatives. Altona and Friesens Corporation unveiled its Gallery in the Park this weekend, an art house and sculpture garden that is everything you'd expect when Friesens puts its name behind something.
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Campers travel the globe, figuratively speaking, from Wayne Center for the Arts
WOOSTER -- The Himalayas may have been a part of the world a Wooster City Schools elementary art teacher didn't know much about, but this week she pulled out her atlas and studied it with day camp students at Wayne Center for the Arts.
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Junior Museum showcases Morris kids' artwork
MORRIS TWP. -- Kids who spent the past week creating various artistic projects saw their efforts displayed Friday afternoon at the Junior Museum in the upper level of Morris Museum.
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Allentown's Johnny Mañana's is on the block
Johnny Mañana's, celebrated by local politicians and business leaders as a symbol of downtown Allentown's renaissance, is for sale for $1.5 million, according to several sources.
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Bargain antiques can be obtained
A year ago, Antique Furniture Depot, an auction house in Ronkonkoma, N.Y., would get about $3,000 for a circa 1830 mahogany corner cabinet. Recently, one that came up at auction fetched $710, said general manager Laura Bishop. A Louis XV secretaire desk and chest of drawers recently went for $800, a third of what it could have sold for in the recent past; and 19th-century grandfather clocks now ...
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Cpl. Jason Bogar remembered for heroism in Iraq, Afghanistan
Cpl. Jason Bogar, who died in Afghanistan on July 13 had a passion for military service and photography. At a memorial service Friday in Seattle, Bogar received a Bronze Star, and a video montage of his slides was later shown by his family.
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South Dallas community calendar
DALLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY will show the 1964 movie Zulu , starring Michael Caine, 11 a.m. today at the Hall of State at Fair Park. Call 214-421-4500. NEW IMAGES, OLD CONVERSATIONS, an exhibit by artist Frank Frazier, runs through Aug. 30 at the Arthello Beck Gallery at South Dallas Cultural Center, 3400 S. Fitzhugh Ave. Call 214-939-2787.
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Oak Cliff community calendar
GUEST LECTURE SERIES featuring Melani N. Douglass, presented by Artist and Elaine Thornton Foundation for the Arts, will be at 11 a.m. today at the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood St. 972-224-0513. Visit www.artiststuff.com.
Dallas Morning News |
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Miss Vietnam and 100 tuong masks
VietNamNet Bridge - A photo book featuring 100 masks of tuong (Vietnamese classical opera) in the casting of Miss Vietnam Mai Phuong Thuy will be published to coincide with the same exhibition opened during the Tay Son – Binh Dinh Festival.
Vietnam Net |
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Famous Westoe netty finds home at Beamish
ONE of the North’s iconic structures is to enjoy a fresh flush of glory as a tourist attraction. But visitors to Beamish Open Air Museum won’t be able to spend a penny when they visit Westoe Netty.
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Graham Unwin and Helen Scott
Graham Unwin and Helen Scott of Dunston, Gateshead, were married on June 28 at the Old Assembly Rooms, Newcastle, where their reception was also held. Photography by Richardsons Photographers, Chester-le-Street, (0191) 388-3346.
The Journal |
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Aaron Springston/Daily Inter Lake
This bronze sculpture by Robert Ball of Kalispell is titled “Lost and Found.” Ball is one of more than 100 artists featured this weekend at Arts in the Park. The annual show in Kalispell’s Depot Park is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Daily Inter Lake |
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Corrections
A quote and the paragraph preceding it were attributed to the wrong artist in an article about a 1078 Gallery exhibit in the July 24 issue of The Buzz.
Chico Enterprise-Record |
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Exploring the sense of touch through sculpture
Mario Agius at work in Merchants Street, Valletta, yesterday. The sculptor will be at the open air market in Victoria this morning. Photo: Chris Sant Fournier.
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Anderson Ranch readies Art Auction
The Aspen Times |
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Bird Bench sculpture mended
MONTPELIER -- Vandals were unable to keep a good sculpture down -- the Bird Bench is again complete. ... - Times Argus Staff Times Argus Staff Times Argus Staff
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Shakespeare Fest
“Othello with a cell phone? Why not have him riding a bicycle, wearing fluorescent flip-flops and singing pop music? It’s too bad the director of the Shakespeare Festival’s misguided production of ‘Othello’ has not read the New Yorker essay about concept directors. Those bent on updating plays are, according to the New Yorker, ‘tail-end avant garde’ directors, people who think they are clever ...
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Hotel in Downtown Atlanta Gives Guests a Reason to Shop 'til They Drop
Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown is featuring an Atlantic Station shopping package for end-of-summer fun.
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Sculpture made of rubbish from Baikal banks placed in Buryat capital
ULAN-UDE, July 26 (Itar-Tass) - A sculpture composition made of rubbish gathered on Baikal banks was placed in the central part of Buryatia's capital on Saturday.
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Mount named director of museum
PASADENA - Looking for a higher profile and a more defined presence in the city, the six-year-old Pasadena Museum of California Art has hired former New York Museum of Modern Art curator Christopher Mount as its new executive director.
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feature item
(26/07/08) - SALVADOR DALI AND THREE AMERICAN SURREALISTS, MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK, TO 28 JULY: : After exhibiting his Surrealist art at New York's Julien Levy Gallery in 1934, Dalí concluded that his audacious brand of hyperrealistic paintings would inevitably be welcomed by the Hollywood community-the manufacturers of "hallucinatory celluloid."
kamera.co.uk |
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Paintings recovered after 32 years
Three oil paintings, valued at $1 million, took a decades-long, winding path to Alan Yoffie's hands.
Boston Globe |
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Cookie masterpieces meant to be fully enjoyed
From chocolate chip to what looks like stained glass, Nancy Reynolds is bringing the cookie to new heights. Delicious Dish: If you love food, this blog is for you.
El Paso Times |
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Decoys set record at Cape auction
For lovers of antique hunting decoys, fake birds meant real money last weekend in Hyannis.
Cape Cod Times |
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A&E: Booker blitzes downtown
This week, a new public art exhibition throughout downtown. And some outstanding listening for your next road trip.
Indianapolis Business Journal |
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