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Richard Kidd: Artist and children's writer
Richard Kidd was a highly original landscape painter and later also a talented author and illustrator of children's books. Although widely exhibited and consistently well reviewed, he never achieved the popular artistic or literary breakthrough that always seemed just about to happen, and might well still have done so had he lived to a greater age.
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Silicon Alleys
COINCIDING with the 2008 presidential election, Dr. Seuss has posthumously thrown his "hat" into the fray with a new art show, "Dr. Seuss for President," at the Peabody Gallery in Los Gatos, featuring never-before-released politically charged prints of Seuss' work.
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Silicon Valley News Notes
Goodbye to Red Racks? Abetted by the Adobe Systems–funded 1stACT Silicon Valley group, San Jose's Office of Economic Development and Redevelopment attempted last month to introduce an ordinance to regulate news racks in the downtown area without talking to newspaper publishers.
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Chicken Barbeque, Art And Auction Continues A Tradition At St. Giles
The rapid chattering of an auctioneer echoed through the trees as clouds of white smoke, flavored with wisps of burnt spice, and the distinctive smell of caramelizing chicken tantalized attendees looking over the tables piled high with second-hand treasures at the St. Giles Episcopal Church annual country fair and chicken barbeque in Jefferson July 26.
The Lincoln County News |
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Public Megaphone Takes Drunk Dialing to Insane New Levels [Riiiiiiiicola]
More often than not, very public art installations are pretentious and, well...pretty damn stupid. But every once in a while you come across a rare gem like the "Telemegaphone Dale." On August 2nd,...
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ISO Werewolf Porn
Thumpers Need Sex, Too It's a special insomnia-laced column! Posted: July 16, 2008 Jack Off All Labels Dan exhibits a fondness for exhibitionism,or at least for the term.
Washington City Paper |
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Purge Overkill
Let’s Call It Ethan: A tale of two brothers took top-drama honors at the Capital Fringe Festival. For altogether too much fringe coverage, visit the Fringe & Purge blog.
Washington City Paper |
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NPR to offer webcast of Newport music festivals
Music fans unable to attend the Newport folk and jazz festivals will be able to listen to some concerts online.
The Washington Times |
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FAMCC announces official opening date
Fredericksburg, VA – Edwin W. Watson, President & CEO of the Fredericksburg Area Museum and Cultural Center, made an official announcement this week that the Catherine W. Jones McKann Center will open to the public on Saturday, December 6. The chosen date aligns with the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Museum’s original Town Hall / Market House site.
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Talk through the camera
This month the EasyStart contest had two winners, both dealing with images: making them, and preserving them for life. Last week not one but two $100,000 checks were issued in the EasyStart contest of the month, one check to each of two entrepreneurs with groundbreaking ideas.
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Contemporary art thrives in hills of Hudson Valley
There's no question that New York City is the art capital of the United States. But there are treasures to be found beyond the Big Apple - indeed, just an hour up the...
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Chicago museum's new wing features "Flying Carpet"
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Airy, transparent, and welcoming are some attributes ascribed to Renzo Piano's new wing for the Art Institute of Chicago set to open this spring.
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Bettina Lesieur opens studio for summer exhibition
Bettina Lesieur’s fifth annual summer art exhibition will begin Friday with a twilight gala reception and garden party. She will donate a percentage of the winning silent auction bid for her signature painting, “Road to the Gurnet,” to New England Assistance Dog Services.
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Tuna cans pile up to Guinness record
Five MSU architecture students set a Guinness record when they built the world's largest sculpture made of canned food goods at the Rothbury Music Festival in Rothbury, Mich.
KBZK Bozeman |
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It's Pine Tree Fest Time!
It's time for the 2008 Pine Tree Festival in Dierks, Arkansas. The festival will be held August 1st and 2nd.
KTAL Shreveport |
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Exhibit Spotlights Underground Art Culture
A new art show in the Firehouse Gallery on Church Street in Burlington is unlike what you typically see in gallery spaces.
WCAX-TV Vermont |
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Chicago museum's new wing features "Flying Carpet"
Airy, transparent, and welcoming are some attributes ascribed to Renzo Piano's new wing for the Art Institute of Chicago set to open this spring.
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Souq Waqif rides the rainbow of Arab artists’ imagination
DOHA • Artists participating in the Qatari Diar Art Symposium unveiled their finished masterpieces on the subject of Souq Waqif in an exhibition which started yesterday.
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Lee Rosenbaum's cultural commentary
Not only are the Metropolitan Museum's more than 84,000 works acquired during the 31-year reign of director Philippe de Montebello going to be celebrated in an exhibition of more than 250 selected objects, but they are also the focus of a graduate art history course, named for the exhibition, offered this fall at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts.
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Scientists recreate hidden Vincent van Gogh portrait
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A team of European scientists unveiled today a new method for extracting images hidden under old masters' paintings, recreating a color portrait...
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Black Footnotes, Wrapped, Fairy Tale and Ubu Complete NYMF Slate
The New York Musical Theatre Festival has revealed the complete line-up for its fifth season of new works, running Sept. 15–Oct. 5.
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Minnesota Center for Photography ends 18-year run
Tough times force the closing of a cornerstone of the Twin Cities art scene.
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Library news
Our summer reading programs ended last week. Incredible how quickly it went! Anyway, this summer 15 adults won prizes during the five weeks of our trivia contests. Children and adults enjoyed new topics during the three Lunch & Learn's developed especially for families.
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YSL art collection set to fetch $A490m
An art collection amassed over four decades by late fashion king Yves Saint Laurent and his companion Pierre Berge goes up for sale next February, expected to fetch at least 300 million euros ($A491.8 million).
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Sustainable Scituate tackles Heritage Days display
For some Scituate residents, the upcoming Heritage Days festival represents a chance to hear good music.
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