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Engravings by Toyohara Chikanobu at MNAR
The exhibited engravings works events, ceremonies and activities from the Shogun’s Court in the capital city of Edo (Tokyo today), from a period preceding the Meiji epoch.
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New York's MoMA exhibits architecture in the Big Apple
New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) showcases the inspiration the Big Apple exerted on the world's top architects in the 1970s through a collection of drawings, projects and scale models reflecting both the pragmatic and utopian views of the city.
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Man pleads not guilty to photographing women as they undressed
GREEN LAKE Clayton L. Weiss, 48, of Berlin, today pleaded not guilty in Green Lake County Circuit Court to 11 counts alleging that he secretly photographed area pageant contestants as they undressed in his photo studio bathroom.
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New York's MoMA exhibits architecture in the Big Apple
New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) showcases the inspiration the Big Apple exerted on the world's top architects in the 1970s through a collection of drawings, projects and scale models reflecting both the pragmatic and utopian views of the city.
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New queen to have busy year
Emily McCracken's reign as the 2008 Wabash County Festival's Queen is going to be a busy one. She won the crown Friday night at the Honeywell Center. In early August she will preside over a few events at the FunFest by the River festival in North Manchester.
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art July 29 - August 4 at the Academy of Fine Arts, New South B Gallery; 3pm to 8pm:
Inner Scape II — an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Arjun Bhattacharjee, Amit Kumar Dey, Partha Sarathi Pan, Sandip Sekhar Sinha, Sudipta Dutta and Utpal Dutta.
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Assam festival
Festival of Assam at EZCC, IB 201 Salt Lake City at 6pm. Concert by sarod player Ranajit Sengupta and Miguel Guldimann on the 8 String Guitar at Calcutta School of Music, 7pm.
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$2 Music Monday: Wesley Willis's Joyrides
Wesley Willis artwork from official Joyrides website Wesley Willis’s Joyrides Monday, July 28 Alamo Drafthouse Downtown ( 320 E 6th Street ) 10:20pm, $2 / $1 Student, Senior, AFS [ info ] [ tickets ] In 1996, Chicago-born artist, poet and musician Wesley Willis had a brush with MTV-style celebrity when his song Alanis Morissette (and its accompanying video ) became a minor radio ...
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Chicago exhibit highlights pop appeal of Jeff Koons
It all began with an art show featuring basketballs suspended in tanks of water.
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Govt to ban plaster of Paris idols
PANAJI — The government has decided to impose a blanket ban on making of plaster of Paris idols, their import from neighbouring state and sale during the upcoming Ganesh Chaturthi festival in a bid to prevent damage to environment and ecology as well as to alleviate the health concerns.
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Caribbean festival a success
The "Amazing Tonka'' entertained hundreds of area residents at Saturday's first annual Caribbean Canadian Festival in Chatham. Festival organizer Phil Piggott described the event as a "huge success'' and is planning to hold it annually in Chatham. "The goal of the family-oriented event is simple -- to [...]
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Call for artists ... for August art show
Despite its name, this show is open to all artists in the Wayne County area. The entry fee is $15 for up to four pieces, depending on space availability.
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Salzburg Festival: Audi Night - The main sponsor's opening-night Highlight
INGOLSTADT/SALTZBURG - July 28, 2008: Every year in summer the eyes of the world turn to Salzburg. For five weeks, the Salzburg Festival draws lovers of theater and music to the city of Mozart. Once again this year, Audi is supporting this first-class cultural event as the main sponsor.
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Art of Murder: FBI Confidential
The best point-and-click adventure games combine striking artwork and clever brainteasers with engaging story lines and (when applicable) A-list voice acting.
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Hirst auction expected to raise £65m
An auction of new works by Damien Hirst, which are being offered to the public directly instead of through the artist’s usual dealer and gallery, is expected to raise more than £65m, the auctioneers Sotheby’s announced on Monday.
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UPI NewsTrack Quirks in the News
Family turned down over ugly mobile home ... Gallery owner cuffed because of nude man ... Wrong Larry appears on Obama buttons ... Expert prepares students for China visit ... UPI Quirks in the News.
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Western painting, bronze fetch $9M-plus at auction
Two iconic pieces by turn-of-the-century Western artist Charles M. Russell have sold at an auction for more than $9 million.
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Cheap Photo Sites Pit Amateurs Vs. Pros
Graphic design and photography pros are scrambling to stay viable as barriers to entry fall and stock agencies buy from hobbyists
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The Editor and the Architect
A splashy new show at the Museum of Modern Art puts a spotlight on a three-year-old story in Time and the issue of covering one’s relatives. Last week, MOMA opened with much fanfare an exhibit of new designs in prefabricated homes that featuring five full-sized homes erected on a vacant lot adjoining the museum, including one by Jeremy Edmiston, a New York architect, who, with a partner, ...
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Old & grand!
He is every fine arts students favourite model. Chandrahas Kotekar meets Nana, the grand old model of Gulbarga.
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Drops from the desert
Nature and art have always gone together to bring out the best in any artist. The former has, time and again, been the inspiration for some of the best pieces of art ever created. And a narrative art by women artisans from Kala Raksha brought out the importance of water in their lives at an exhibition held by Yamini at Ulsoor recently.
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McMillan Museum Hosts Mask Workshop
The A. C. McMillan African American Museum in Emory recently hosted 35 youth from the Emory community in its Young Artists Day Program under the direction of Barbara Roth, a creative artist.
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Berlin man pleads innocent to secretly photographing women
GREEN LAKE Clayton L. Weiss, 48, of Berlin, pleaded innocent in Green Lake County Circuit Court Monday to 11 counts against him in connection with secretly photographing area pageant contestants as they undressed in his photo studio bathroom.
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Generation Unsafe Sex
It was after 4 a.m. on a Sunday morning last month when Sophie and Jeff drunkenly stumbled upstairs to his East Village walk-up. They had met a week earlier at an art gallery opening, and now, after a few drinks at Gallery Bar, followed by a nightcap and a joint at Jeff’s apartment, they were having sex when the condom broke. “We pinky-sweared we were both clean, and continued having sex,” ...
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Gallery accused of selling indigenous fakes
The artist signs his name as Duk Duk - "agile wallaby" in the local Aboriginal dialect - and on the internet auction site OZtion he cites the work of noted Yirrakala painter Wanjuk (sic) Marika among his strongest influences.
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