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Getting better snapshots
Charleston photographer Steve Payne has shot art and portrait photography for more than 20 years. Recently he answered questions about how we can get the most out of summer photography opportunities.Q: We have lots of family vacation pictures of us lined u...
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To Our Readers
Beginning Aug. 3, several of your favorite features will be moving to an expanded Sunday Arts & Entertainment section. Craig LaBan's restaurant reviews and Rick Nichols' "Food" column will find a new home in A&E. So, too, will Lisa Scottoline's "Chick Wit" column and Merl Reagle's crossword puzzle. In addition, Edith Newhall's gallery reviews will move to A&E from the Friday Weekend section, ...
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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New platform for emerging artists
A new platform for emerging Canterbury artists has been developed by home furnishings retailer, McKenzie & Willis. The inaugural ‘start’ exhibition will be held in their Tuam St store in November this year, featuring 13 artists from the region.
Scoop.co.nz |
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‘Leonardo find’ may be worth R1.5bn
A DRAWING of a young woman bought at auction for R165000 (£ 11000) and thought to be the work of an unknown artist has been attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, sending its potential value rocketing to R1.5billion or more.
Daily Dispatch |
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Teen takes top honours for pictures
AN EAST London schoolgirl has won a bronze medal for her photography after submitting work alongside hundreds of adults worldwide .
Daily Dispatch |
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More Tiki?
Follynesia is scheduled for Sept. 8-14 on Folly Beach. The event will have a Tiki carving session with the founders of the art revival movement, exotic cocktail "show-n-tell-n-taste," surf music and more. For more information, go to www.follynesia.com. On the Web: To see v...
The Post and Courier |
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Nancy Gray Owner, Art Consultant, FSG Art Consulting
Confused by that strange painting in the conference room? Bored by the dull sculpture in the lobby?
BizJournals |
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LATV Fest to Pair Pros With Joes
As the LATV Festival readies for its sophomore outing this week, executives at the National Association of Television Program Executives are looking at the gathering as a glimpse of the future, in more ways than one.
TV Week |
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Columbia Museum of Art throws itself an anniversary bash
Newcomers and regulars flocked to the Columbia Museum of Art’s celebration Sunday of its move to Main Street 10 years ago. The party prompted Dan Marshall of Gaston to view displays of paintings, sculpture, photographs, furniture and more after much procrastination. “I’m trying to do all the things I’ve wanted to do,” he said. “I’ve been too wrapped up with too many other things.” Michael ...
The State |
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Couple to win wedding
Lexington venue’s unusual contest offering big prize Flowers, entertainment, photos, food, dresses, rings, honeymoons. The list of wedding must-haves goes on and on. With everything costing more these days, including gas to travel, couples planning a grand event can expect grand expenses. With that in mind, Phyllis James, owner of The Mitchell House and Gardens, has decided to offer one lucky ...
The State |
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BofA funds museum tours
Giving back The Bank of America Charitable Foundation has pledged $600,000 toward free Portland Art Museum tours for school groups, grades K through 12. Each year the museum welcomes more than 20,000 children through school groups and field trips. This is the second largest corporate gift the museum has received and is one of the largest corporate gifts in support of arts and culture in Oregon.
BizJournals |
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Blind sculptor creates art by 'seeing"
n Students who have lost sight explore talent by sculpting figures using chunks of clay
The Daily Review |
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Biker Build Off: Masterpieces with motors
BY BERND FRANKE Tribune Staff WELLAND With polished chrome shining as far as the squinting eye could see and with intricate paint jobs lovingly waxed to a mirror finish, the motorcycles parked along judges’ row at the Canadian Biker Build Off looked more like displays [...]
Welland Tribune |
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Football kicks off without Peyton Manning
The Big Event: Pro Football Hall of Fame game Sure, it may only be an exhibition game, but Sunday's Pro Football Hall of Fame game in Canton, Ohio, signifies a whole lot more.
Orlando Sentinel |
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Painting theft is the kind of compliment artist could do without (4:41 p.m.)
LAS CRUCES — Edmundo Resendez is flattered — sort of. At least, his friends say he should be. The 37-year-old Las Cruces artist recently went through what colleagues have called a rite of passage: his art was stolen.
Las Cruces Sun-News |
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Artsy band posters from Virginia
Public Domain, a C'ville-based design company, does artsy, one-of-a-kind show posters for the New Pornographers, Girl Talk, Modest Mouse and The National.
Richmond Times-Dispatch |
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The Cross-eyed Queen
In May, a tiny, exquisite volume went on display at the Morgan Library & Museum: a prayer book made for Queen Claude of France, who was born in the penultimate year of the fifteenth century. Claude, a near-contemporary of Anne Boleyn, who served her at the French court as a . . .
The New Yorker |
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Photos: Culture exhibition at Qingdao Olympic village
A handicraft artist makes embroidery handicrafts at the folk customs culture exhibition at the Qingd...
Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Official Website |
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Eighty One
At this new American eatery, just across from the Museum of Natural History, surprises abound. One evening, a hostess led a party past the main room and down a narrow hallway, which opened into the kitchen: a gantlet of sorts, lined with staff, all of whom rushed to wish the . . .
The New Yorker |
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Feeling Blue
After Nature” is an important group show of twenty-six international artists, past and present, at the New Museum, which proposes a saturnine new direction in art. The catalogue is a foldout slipcover around a paperback of “After Nature,” a book-length poem in three parts by W. G. Sebald . . .
The New Yorker |
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Art
MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES METROPOLITAN MUSEUM Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)--“J. M. W. Turner.” Through Sept. 1. “Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe.” Through Sept. 21. “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy.” Through Sept. 1. “Medieval and Renaissance Treasures from the Victoria and . . .
The New Yorker |
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Overlooked at Christie's
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's purchase of a previously unknown drawing by the Netherlandish artist Lucas van Leyden is a coup for the museum and its visitors, but something of an embarrassment for Christie's, whose specialists overlooked the drawing when it was sold there in 2005. The 16th-century drawing, depicting the Archangel Gabriel, was sold at a sale of "Maritime Pictures and ...
The New York Sun |
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Three Civil War-themed exhibits open at Museum of Art
HUNTINGTON -- Doug and Janie Charles pulled into the Huntington Museum of Art just in time Sunday afternoon.
The Huntington Herald-Dispatch |
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REO Speedwagon to appear Saturday at Sterlingfest
Sterling Heights city employees are gearing up for the community's annual 3-day festival, "Sterlingfest Art & Jazz Fair."
Macomb Daily |
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Public Art, Public Space
In May 2008, two Mobile Art projects were displayed in Tokyo, Japan and Madison, Wisconsin, USA. The blog is composed of stolen images from Chanel Art Mobile website and the Curved Collective Flickr site and text from Art Daily press release and an email from Jennifer Anne in Wisconsin.
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