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Art contest winner is drawn to racing
MILLVILLE -- Diane Roberts needs to buy a whole bunch of marking pens.
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YANKEE HOMECOMING SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
MARKET SQUARE FESTIVAL 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Market Square, waterfront, and area of State, Pleasant and Inn streets
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Christy to address weekly Exchange Club
The speaker for the weekly meeting of The Exchange Club of Murfreesboro, set for Tuesday, will be Gloria Christy of Shacklett's Photography, according to Carol Puryear, club president. Christy has been the longtime Director of Uncle Dave Macon Days.
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Edmonton, Alberta, Celebrates Their Flourishing Culture and Arts Scene
The Edmonton theatre and performing arts scene is thriving as venues in the city’s Downtown Arts District are attracting more and more in-demand acts and performers from across Canada and around the world. Art lovers are ecstatic about the construction of the new Art Gallery of Alberta, due to open its doors next year Edmonton, Alberta. With over 30,000 square feet of quality museum space, the ...
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Hirst auction 'due to fetch £65m'
An auction of new works by artist Damien Hirst is expected to fetch more than £65m, Sotheby's says.
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ARTIST HIRST JUMPS THE SHARK, CUTS OUT DEALERS
Shock-artist Damien Hirst - who stunned the art world by selling a diamond-encrusted skull last autumn for $100 million - hopes to grab another $200 million auctioning formaldehyde-pickled animals, ripped-off butterfly wings and spin art...
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Life in a young artist’s eyes
VietNamNet Bridge – A solo photographic exhibition entitled "Life is..." by young artist Minh Chau is currently on at the Sun Wah Tower building in downtown HCMC, after the opening day was held at the Renaissance Riverside Hotel Saigon last week.
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What's going on: Mario Batali dinner auctioned
Superstar chef Mario Batali is once again volunteering to cook dinner Up North in Omena for 12 lucky -- and generous -- bidders in the annual Leelanau Conservancy silent auction and picnic.
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Clear the Stage for Photography:
http://www.fotocommunity.com, Europe's community for photography, will be at the photokina in Cologne from September 23 to 28. Visitors to the world's largest photography fair will experience just what makes fotocommunity special: real-life photography.
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Phila. skyscraper art wows visitors
This city best known to tourists for its historical sites and museums has a surprise new high-tech hit that is developing into a must-see attraction: a huge atrium wall in Philadelphia's newest and tallest skyscraper where a cast of dancers and...
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Local and live
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 • "MONTANA GHOST TOWNS": Western Heritage Center, 2822 Montana Ave. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Photography by Denes G. Istvanffy. Up through Sept. 18. $3, adults; $2, ages 55, older and students; free, ages 12, younger and WHC members. 256-6809.
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Rug afficionados can cover themselves by knowing long history
The history of rugs has hada bearing on their contemporary design and production. (Photo provided) In non-Western cultures, rugs are highly valued works of art. In some communities, rugs maintain a similar status to that of paintings in Wwestern culture.
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Damien Hirst auction: 'He'd be the world record holder for a living artist'
d & ad. central london. £30,000 pa. denny executive resourcing. generating new business and existing account manag…. £45000 - £55000 per annum + 15 % bonus potential + car allowance.
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The Art of Hardstone Carving and Mosaic Inlay
During the Renaissance and Baroque periods, it was common practice to cut semiprecious stones, such as agate and lapis lazuli, to fashion extravagantly designed luxury objects.
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Festival a big step for symphony
She will be one of the 14 guest musicians taking part in five nights of classical music in the Whitefish Center for the Performing Arts. The festival, with the theme “Mountains by Day, Music by Night,” is the first of its kind offered by the symphony and chorale.
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NEWS + NOTES
MIL-WACKY THE Wii-ification of America has come full-circle with the Milwaukee Art Museum's motion-driven installation "Act/React", running Oct. 4-Jan. 11. Interact with exhibits without keyboards or touchscreens - just your body's own motion (mam...
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Polar Express 4-D Joins Dollywood's Smoky Mountain Christmas Festival
Pigeon Forge, TN -- Dollywood announced The Polar Express 4-D Experience will be added to the theme park's Imagination Cinema as part of the park's 19th annual Smoky Mountain Christmas festival starting November 8th and continuing through January 3, 2009.
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Tuesday Haitian art exhibit
`IMAGINARY LAND, REAL WORLD' Imaginary Land, Real World: Haiti, a new exhibition by 19 artists, features 42 works that portray the country, traditions and people of Haiti. A portion of proceeds from art sales will benefit Haitian orphans.
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Art Galleries
"Off The Wall Small" Group show of small works. Show runs Jan. 9-Feb. 10, Free. For more information, call Pixie Couch at 650-701-1018 or e-mail pixiec@mindspring.com or visit www.themaingallery.org . The Main Gallery, 1018 Main St., Redwood City
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Festival Mozaic Concert Review: A festival by any other name is just as grand
Festival Mozaic, which ended Sunday with terrific performances of Mozart and Dvorak, is over until next year, and least two things stand out. First, the name change to Festival Mozaic from Mozart Festival turned out to have been ultimately unimportant. Crowds for the orchestra concerts seemed overall to be the same size and demographic, although the chamber concerts I heard skewed a little ...
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Flickr users help update photo details
A collaboration between the Library of Congress and the Internet photo-sharing community Flickr is giving photography enthusiasts a chance to play history detective.
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Featured Photo: "Lobby lounging"
UT visiting scholar Guoliang Xu reads in the Connector Lobby between the A.C.E.S. building and Taylor Hall on Wednesday afternoon. The oil and collage painting behind him, entitled "Veronica," is by artist Dan Rizzie.
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Maev Kennedy on Damien Hirst's art auction
Maev Kennedy discusses Damien Hirst's formaldehyde animal auction
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Win Film Festival tickets!
The Dispatchonline team is giving readers an opportunity to win double tickets to see I’m Not There as well as a slew of other art films. In I’m Not There the life of legendary musician Bob Dylan is told through six incarnations: an actor, a folk singer, a troubadour, Rimbaud, Billy the Kid, and Woody Guthrie.
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Successful 80/35 festival will have encore in 2009
There will be an 80/35 Music Festival in Des Moines next summer. The nonprofit Greater Des Moines Music Coalition announced Monday that the first-year festival, held over the Fourth of July weekend in downtown Des Moines' Western Gateway Park, will break even or better.
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