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Culture Crawl has Syracuse bustling
Syracuse bustled Saturday as the Carol M. Baldwin Culture Crawl ran along the Connective Corridor between Syracuse University and downtown. More than 40 venues participated, offering artwork, food and film. The Post-Standard
'Junior,' 'Surgeon' top Hot Docs Festival
The top prizes in this year's Hot Docs Festival in Toronto went to the movies Junior and The English Surgeon, event presenters announced.Surgeon was awarded the festival's International Feature award, while Junior was named the best Canadian Feature, Variety reported Friday.Surgeon follows a medical collaboration involving British brain surgeon Henry Marsh, while Junior represented a drama ... Moldova.org
Museum receives select accreditation again
BLOOMINGTON -- In 1984, the McLean County Museum of History became the first county history museum in Illinois to be accredited by the American Association of Museums. The Pantagraph
Apple Blossom Weekend events
Saturday’s events ◆ Fiddlers’ Contest: 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., Eastmont Junior High School ◆ Los Orchids: 5 p.m., Memorial Park ◆ Wenatchee Big Band: 6:30 p.m., Memorial Park ◆ Chrissy Alexander & Roughstock: 8 p.m., Memorial Park Sunday’s events ◆ Fiddlers’ Contest: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Eastmont Junior High School ◆ Valentine’s Performing Pigs: 11 a.m., Memorial Park ◆ Art 4 Kidz: 11 a.m. to 4 ... The Wenatchee World
Flower auction centre plan for Hosur
Hosur: An international flower auction centre is likely to come up in this major hub of floriculture. The town now handles more than 35 per cent of the cut flowers traded in the country. Roses are cultivated on about 500 ha in the ... The Hindu
Museum In Osprey Is A Point To Ponder
Bertha Honore Palmer lived on her property overlooking Little Sarasota Bay until 1918, when she died of breast cancer at 68. The pioneers who lived there before her are long gone, too, and so are the first settlers, Native Americans who fished and buried their dead here 5,000 years ago. The Tampa Tribune
'Junior,' 'Surgeon' top Hot Docs Festival
The top prizes in this year's Hot Docs Festival in Toronto went to the movies "Junior" and "The English Surgeon," event presenters announced. UPI
Local Artist Celebrates 25 Years
Children's book author and sculptor George Carruth was featured at the Waterville Garden Smiles as part of a celebration of his years of work. WTVG-TV Toledo
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Decoys at the Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition and Art Festival line a table for judging at the Ocean City Convention Center, Saturday, April 26. Eastern Shore News
Cannes' Fortnight dominated by French
French movies or co-productions represent the bulk of the Cannes Film Festival's 40th Directors' Fortnight this year, festival officials said.Of the 22 movies being featured in the Fortnight event, festival officials said Friday that 12 were made in France or involved France, Variety reported.Among the French productions to be shown during the directorial event are Les Bureaux de Dieu and De la ... Moldova.org
School festival
Take part in Creation 2008, an inter-school festival in association with t2, on the Victoria Memorial premises, 8am to noon. The Telegraph
Art fair revival in highrise
The famous art fair of the mid-1960s in the park opposite the Calcutta Municipal Corporation headquarters, where Bikash Bhattacharjee, Ganesh Pyne and Suhas Roy were among the artists who exhibited their works and sold them for a song, has become a chrerished memory. The Telegraph
CORRECTING and REPLACING Zaio Hits Milestone with 20 Million Photos
24/04/2008 00:26:00 Business Wire ca98886b1085 Second graph, first sentence of release should read: "We are well on the way of meeting our goal of having virtually every property in the largest metropolitan areas in the United States in our secure database by 2011," states Tom Beverly, VP of Photography (sted "We are well on the way of meeting our goal of having virtually every property in the ... InfoBolsa
Area news in brief
GRAND ISLE -- An art exhibit depicting nature with a focus on coastal erosion, particularly in relation Grand Isle, begins today and runs through April 20 at the Grand Isle Community Center. The Houma Courier
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Do we wear a mask all the time? A mask to hide hope, despair, doom or delight! But when a mask fascinates an artist, new meanings, insights and expressions get unfolded. This is the end result when artist Kanu Patel chose ‘Mask’ as the theme to draw a whole series of paintings. Deccan Herald
Martin Creed's exhibition will run and run at Tate Britain
He exhibited a flickering light to win the Turner prize. Now Martin Creed is to send a group of athletes running around Tate Britain Gallery in his latest effort to stretch the definition of art. Times Online
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BEIJING, CHINA - A security guard stands on a sand sculpture at the Noah's Ark Sand Sculpture Park on April 26, 2008 in Beijing, China. The park occupies about 8.46 acres and is the biggest in China, it displays about 100 sand sculptures. Tiscali
Despite Scorching Heat, Coachella Packs 'Em in With High-Energy Sets
Tens of thousands of concertgoers are at the overheated intersection of the Mojave and Colorado deserts to watch 134 bands rock out at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. The bands, including Prince, Portishead and Kraftwerk, will perform Friday through Sunday on five stages spread out over a giant Polo field. Wired News
Biography
John Klemmer began playing guitar at age 5. After interests in graphics and visual art & writing with ambitions of being dancer, puppeteer, painter, sculptor, writer, & poet, at schools that include The Chicago Institute of Art, he began alto sax at age 11 switching to tenor sax by high school. All About Jazz
Renovated 'Splash Zone' gallery opens at Monterey Bay Aquarium
Roots painted orange, green, pink and virtually every other color weave together as they climb to form a giant kelp holdfast. Centre Daily Times
Renovated 'Splash Zone' gallery opens at Monterey Bay Aquarium
Roots painted orange, green, pink and virtually every other color weave together as they climb to form a giant kelp holdfast. The sculpture mimics a real holdfast, in which kelp anchors to the ocean floor; a clear pocket containing white marbles represents how fish lay eggs inside the kelp. A living red octopus swims inside a tank built into the structure. Children crawl through cutouts at ... The Charlotte Observer
Melbourne Arts Festival draws in the crowds, art lovers
For artists, art lovers and those who just want to stroll among the displays of paintings, pottery and other works, downtown Melbourne is the place to be today and Sunday. Florida Today
Sculpture shows woman's love of reading, grandson
By JESSICA DELEÓN BEDFORD -- Matthew Hurdle, 12, of Haslet, has been immortalized in bronze. A sculpture of Matthew reading a book will be placed at Old Bedford School this summer. His grandmother, the late Ann B. Hooks, a Bedford Public Library volunteer for about 30 years, donated the piece. "It means a lot to me," said Matthew Hurdle, a sixth-grader at Gene Pike Middle School in Justin. "I ... Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Bay Area painter Paul Wonner dies
Painter Paul Wonner, long associated with the tendency known as Bay Area Figuration, died Wednesday in San Francisco of natural causes on the eve of his 88th birthday. Mr. Wonner, acclaimed for his distinctive mature style of still life painting, had numerous... San Francisco Chronicle
Revisit heyday of the 'studio without a studio'
A Hollywood sometime gold standard, sometime tarnished relic gets buffed and polished again next month, as United Artists is saluted with a 90th anniversary touring festival that stops at the Brattle Theatre beginning Friday. Boston Globe