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SFMOMA Showcases New Work by Zilvinas Kempinas, Alyson Shotz and Mary Temple
Alyson Shotz, Allusion of Gravity, 2005 (detail); Private collection. SAN FRANCISCO.- From August 1 through November 1, 2008, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) features the exhibition New Work: Zilvinas Kempinas, Alyson Shotz, Mary Temple.
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'Hidden' Van Gogh Painting Revealed Under Patch of Grass
Vincent van Gogh, Patch of Grass © Kröller-Müller Museum, NL. DELFT.- A new technique allows pictures which were later painted over to be revealed once more.
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Irish Artist James Coleman Exhibit Opens at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
James Coleman, Background, 1991-94, Projected images with synchronised audio narration. Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, Purchased, Heritage Fund, 2004. Photo: Courtesy of James Coleman ©.
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Tourism sector gears up to promote indigenous food
THE TOURISM sector is bent on elevating indigenous foods to global standards and become more competitive in the international market because food always goes with tourism Mary Ann M. Montemayor, managing director of Konkordans, the event organizer of the Mindanao Culinary Festival (MCF) 2008 speaking at the Club 888 Forum of the Marco Polo Davao said that destinations cannot be promoted without ...
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Sums add up for museum to buy Medieval ‘calculator’
A "calculator" used in the time of Geoffrey Chaucer and described as one of the most sophisticated such tools before the computer age is to remain in the UK.
The Herald |
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Bugs save pest-controller's life in Australian desert
File photo shows a woman walking past a seven-metre-tall sculpture of a termite mound at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art. An Australian pest controller who got lost in the desert while prospecting for gold survived by turning for help to the bugs he usually kills -- and eating them.
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Datebook - July 30, 2008
Hunter Jumper Horse Show Festival I. Competitions represent the hunter jumper disciplines. Fairgrounds at Stanley Park, 586-6104. Rocky Mountain National Park program 7:30 p.m. Our Heritage – Our National Parks. Learn about the nation’s first national parks, 586-1206.
Estes Park Trail Gazette |
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Ribs, music highlight festival
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yorkregion.com |
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Return of the tern
MIGRATION: Actor Ronnie Corbett welcomed a sculpture home when he unveiled it outside the Scottish Seabird Centre yesterday. The large bronze sculpture of an Arctic tern is back in North Berwick after three years in Luxembourg.
The Herald |
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After the spectacularly offensive Norbit, Eddie Murphy returns with the phenomenally dull Meet Dave.
Oliver Assayas's stately drama, which received its premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, is as exquisitely assembled as the art and antiques which lie at its heart.
The Herald |
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Tickets On Sale For First Annual Bessie Smith Heritage Festival
A music-filled day with nationally recognized talent is planned for the first annual Bessie Smith Heritage Festival, an event coordinated by the Chattanooga African American Museum.
The Chattanoogan |
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McCain, Obama become comic heroes
It's a year of superheroes in Hollywood. But a big-budget production out of Washington, D.C., is carving a political niche.
Newsday |
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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.
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Scouts' Art Adorns Chicago's Airports
The exhibit features 50 paintings that portray the city's neighborhoods and community experiences from the youth's perspectives.
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Chamber players tickle kids' funny bones and interest
Familiar classics — and musical flatulence jokes — entertain kids at a Seattle Chamber Music Society Summer Festival family concert.
Seattle Times |
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New X-ray technology uncovers hidden art
A team of European scientists unveiled Wednesday a new method for extracting images hidden under old masters' paintings, re-creating a color portrait of a woman's face unseen since Vincent van Gogh painted over it in 1887. For years, art historians have been...
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Festival lets kids in on the act
From workshops to free, nightly movies at the Open Space to student film discussions, this year's festival offers several opportunities for young people to get involved.
Traverse City Record-Eagle |
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Memories of 'Spider-Man,''Star Wars' for sale
Everybody is a collector, the way Joe Maddalena sees it, just not everybody wants to collect paintings by Andy Warhol or Roy Lichtenstein. Some would prefer to own a Spider-Man costume. "It's the same exact thing as collecting contemporary art," Maddalena...
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Colouring Contest At SR Kapok
Bandar Seri Begawan - About 50 students of Kapok Primary School, Muara took part in a plaster mould colouring contest organised by Ting Su Lee Enterprise (Art Centre).
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Trailers feature local talent
and quot;Cherry Birds and quot; — which has two cherries that look like birds, or birds that look like cherries, talking about attending the Film Festival — is one of four new trailers that will show before festival movies this year as the result of an annual contest.
Traverse City Record-Eagle |
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First Friday
Fort Worth art collector and historian Morris C. Matson, known throughout the Texas art world as the “unofficial docent” of A.C. Cook’s Bull Ring, will bring his insights on pioneering artists of the Lone Star State 135 miles to the east, as he leads the August First Friday Art Tour at the Tyler Museum of Art.
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Star Of Queens
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: Arnie Migliaccio has done much to serve his country as well as community. He served in the Navy during World War II, worked closely with aircrafts in the Cradle of Aviation Museum and served in the NYPD’s Auxiliary Police Department.
Queens Courier |
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Martinez celebrates first Beaver Festival Saturday
The first annual Beaver Festival is Saturday afternoon in downtown Martinez.
Contra Costa Times |
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A worldview of life through the lens
“I was doing a wedding once,” explained photographer Mary Kay Clark, as she prepared for an upcoming exhibit, “and I noticed in the chrome around the headlamp of a vintage Triumph car was the reflection of the church where the couple just got married. Where did I focus?
Yellow Springs News |
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UDA extends deadline for artists' applications
The Urban Districts Alliance has extended the deadline for artists' applications for the 11th Annual Cider Days Arts & Crafts Festival on Historic Walnut Street.
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