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$30,000 'pony' painting pilfered
Thieves trotted off with an 1873 oil painting of a horse after busting into a Seba Beach-area home.
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Penobscot Museum coordinator is a cultural resource
INDIAN ISLAND, Maine - For the past 13 years, James Neptune has spent his days happily surrounded by the art, artifacts, objects and literature that narrate the history and customs of the Penobscot people.
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Dropped, smashed, shredded
Forget clumsy visitors. Gallery staff are the real menace when it comes to breakages, finds Laura Barnett
Guardian Unlimited |
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Error led to Bluecoat museum 'inferno'
A CRUCIAL error by a member of staff allowed a devastating fire to spread in the newly refurbished Liverpool Bluecoat museum, according to a report. A kitchen door was wedged open and allowed plumes of acrid black smoke to engulf two floors of the art gallery.
Liverpool Echo |
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Tired of war, filmmakers turn to everyday heroes
Eco-warriors have supplanted conventional soldiers in the documentaries division of this year's Toronto International Film Festival (Sept. 4-13).
Toronto Star |
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Palm Desert residents offered Art of Food & Wine discount
The Art of Food & Wine Palm Desert, a four-day event to showcase the best in food, art and wine hospitality and education, is offering Palm Desert residents a 10 percent discount on individual tickets purchased for the Nov. 6-9 festival.
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Win Film Festival tickets everyday!
The Dispatchonline team is giving readers an opportunity to win double tickets to see City of Men as well as a slew of other art films. In the gripping City of Men best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha set out to learn about their missing fathers’ pasts in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs in the slums of Rio de Janeiro.
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Staff shortages shut Leeds art gallery
COUNCIL bosses have apologised after staff shortages forced Leeds City Art Gallery to close its doors. (30/07/2008)
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Shooting a Hollywood film in Munnar
Santosh Sivan has become truly an international filmmaker. His eighth directorial venture, Before the Rains, a Hollywood film made in Kerala has made it to a number of international film festivals namely Edinburgh, Toronto, Pusan and Palm Springs. Now, the latest feather in his cap is a feature on the film which appeared in the prestigious American Cinematographer magazine.
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12-year-old Venturan to help set goals for healthy living
Twelve-year-old Natalie Smith of Ventura has played basketball since she was 5; has won multiple awards for her photography, academic and athletic abilities; and her mother is a fellow with the Food & Society Policy Fellows program.
Ventura County Star |
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Tree-t yourself to art display
Artist's tree-themed work on show at Priory House exhibit (30/07/2008 08:45:44)
Bedford Today |
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Outdoor concerts offer chance to help charity
Java on the Rocks could mean iced coffee, or the equally refreshing outdoor music festival behind Main Street Java in Souderton.
Souderton Independent |
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On Today
Sooke Fine Arts Show. Through Aug. 4 at SEAPARC Leisure Complex, 2168 Phillips Rd., Sooke. Tickets available at the door. Tel. 250-642-7256 or see www.
Victoria Times Colonist |
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Designing woman
WASHINGTON - When Faye Lone entered a few of her quilting designs in the annual Eiteljorg Museum Indian Market and Festival, she was cautiously optimistic. That optimism turned to gratification when her unique freestyle approach to quilt-making received top honors.
Indian Country Today |
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Work of art on display
CHILDREN from Whittlebury CofE Primary School staged an end-of-term art exhibition for parents. (29/07/2008 13:58:26)
Buckingham Today |
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Go on, get out!
Open season: Been to downtown San Francisco lately? Jessie Square, where the new Contemporary Jewish Museum is located, across from Yerba Buena Gardens, is officially open. The tranquil 40,000-square-foot plaza, replete with benches and landscaping designed...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Town officials want art museum
Oro Valley officials have begun officially courting the Tucson Museum of Art. “We think that we’re in a real desirable location,” Oro Valley Town Manager David Andrews said Monday.
Explorer News |
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Bruce Beasley creates massive sculpture for Beijing Olympics park
Oakland sculptor one of seven Americans chosen to display work
Contra Costa Times |
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Best of Show rosettes are 'all in the family'
Although the overall number of entries in the open class division of judging at the Fayette County Fair was down, the challenge of catching the various judges' eyes, was still there for more than a hundred entrants in the categories of the floral, baked goods, woodworking, photography, handiwork and many other divisions of competition.
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Shaham, Wolff deliver thrills despite difficulties, thunder
ASPEN - A substitute conductor, a revised program and a flash thunderstorm could not dampen the energy and sheer musical power of Sunday's Aspen Festival Orchestra program.
The Aspen Times |
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Raza award for poetry, fine arts
Bhopal, Jul 30 : Ustad Alauddin Khan Sangeet Evam Kala Akademi and Madhya Pradesh Sanskriti Parishad will organise Raza Award distribution ceremony and Madhya Pradesh Kala Pradarshini in August this year.
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Monkey from Mars: a Ga. crime lab's museum oddity
DECATUR, Ga. — Other museums might have more or flashier items to display. But only the mini-museum of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation can boast of possessing such an other-world oddity as the monkey from Mars.
Arizona Daily Star |
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Screening of video art and other media-based art curated by Conduit Gallery. 7pm Mon. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Free. 214-428-8700.
Fort Worth Weekly |
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William Joyce wins award
Shreveport native William Joyce has been named winner of the 2008 Louisiana Writer Award. The Emmy-winning author and illustrator of best-selling children's books will be honored Oct. 4 during the sixth annual Louisiana Book Festival.
The Shreveport Times |
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High-tech study reveals early Van Gogh work beneath another painting
X-rays from a particle accelerator help scientists reconstruct a portrait the artist had covered up to paint his 'Patch of Grass' in 1887. Using a thin beam of synchrotron X-rays generated by a particle accelerator, European scientists have reconstructed a portrait of a peasant woman painted by Vincent van Gogh that had been concealed beneath another painting for 121 years.
Los Angeles Times |
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