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Newspaper blasts detention of photographer
The Galveston County Daily News is planning to file a formal complaint over the detention of one of its photographers and an attempt by police to review his photographs taken near a Texas City oil refinery, the newspaper's editor said.
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I Work at the Community Center
On Thursdays we have art class. Kids make paintings for their dads and a lady comesto explain what a stranger is. When I asked for a dream of my father I had night-sweats three times in a row. I tell the children if you love your paintings they'll love you back but it's a kind...
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Colorful cartoons and the First Friday ArtWalk
The colorful and imaginative work of Texas cartoonist Ryan Thies will go on display at the Museum of Unfine Art this Friday to coincide with the First Friday ArtWalk.
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07/31/08 Lower Valley briefs
SUNNYSIDE -- Lower Valley Hospice will celebrate its 30th anniversary at its annual auction and dinner Saturday. Dr. Richard Kirk, Michael Cunningham and the Rev. Roger Williams, founders of Lower Valley Hospice in 1978, will attend the auction and dinner at St. Joseph Parish Center in Sunnyside.
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Ackland Art Museum at UNC-CH gets gift
The Ackland Art Museum at UNC-Chapel Hill has received $1.25 million from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to expand the museum's role in educating university students.
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Around Whittier
Downey museum holding fundrasier DOWNEY - The Downey Museum of Art is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a million-dollar raffle fundraiser.
Whittier Daily News |
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Long weekend events planned for Barkerville
The historic town of Barkerville, which claims to be the largest historic site in western North America, is celebrating B.C.'s 150th birthday this August long weekend.Among the many attractions and activities is the Saturday to Monday ArtsWells Festival of All Things Art, which is included with the site admission."This year is looking like our best year ever, with more than 50 performances on ...
Prince George Citizen Online |
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Scientists recreate hidden Van Gogh art
A team of European scientists unveiled on Wednesday in Amsterdam a new method for extracting images hidden under old masters’ paintings, recreating a color portrait of a woman’s face unseen since Vincent van Gogh painted over it in 1887.
Lawrence Journal-World |
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Crafts, entertainment and bushels of fruit highlight Grafton fest
GRAFTON - It's peach-picking time in Grafton, whether picking a flesh fight with a peach pit or choosing a less troublesome freestone variety. Among the peaches supplied for the second annual Pere Marquette Peach Festival are Red Haven, White Lady and Glo-Haven peaches from Ringhausen Orchards.
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Art and architecture meet for 2nd annual Plein Air contest
ATHENS — Calling all artists. Today is the last day to register for the Athens Cultural Center’s second annual Plein Air painting and photography contest. The objective? To encourage artists to work in the village.
The Daily Mail |
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Art students, instructor return from Florence
A College of New Caledonia student who recently returned from Florence, Italy, said the city is like one big work of art."It's absolutely incredible with churches made of marble and art works like the Sistine Chapel and Birth of Venus," said Charity Kingsley, an applied business technology student, who spent four-weeks in Florence.Kingsley, Julia Whittaker, CC fine arts instructor, and fellow ...
Prince George Citizen Online |
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"Under The Mountain" Starts Shooting In Auckland
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND (July 31, 2008 )- Under the Mountain, the motion picture adaptation of the popular, award-winning Maurice Gee novel of the same name, will begin principal photography on Monday August 11, 2008. The film's locations around Auckland, include the iconic Rangitoto Island, a volcano in the Hauraki Gulf. The production will conclude in early October 2008.
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Brownstones, flats providing housing options
An urban renaissance in downtown Oklahoma City is rapidly altering the city's skyline along with the lifestyles of some of its citizens. As the city joins the ranks of the big leagues, gaining an NBA basketball team and attracting national attention, housing options also are on the rise. From million-dollar brownstones to ultra-modern flats, prospective residents downtown have more choices ...
The Oklahoman |
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[Best Bets] Monday, August 4
The “Ides of the South” exhibit at the Mississippi Arts Center features photography by Jackson’s Roy Adkins, showcasing locations throughout the southeast United States. The exhibit will be on display through Aug. 17 before moving to Mississippi State University’s Union Gallery.
Jackson Free Press |
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Art students donate work to community
A group of nine art students, and their teacher, Pem Clark, will present three 7-foot paintings to officials representing the city of Henderson, the county of Henderson and Audubon State Park at 2 p.m. Friday at Worsham Hall, 215 N. Elm St.
The Gleaner |
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New venues attracting new acts to North Central College
With three new performance venues on campus, North Central College's fine arts lineup is bigger than ever this year.
Daily Herald |
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On Display in Rome, the Sensuality of a Mysterious Master
?Correggio and the Antique? is a gathering of 25 paintings and more than 30 drawings by the important but lesser known Italian High Renaissance artist.
New York Times |
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Arts notes
Jersey art saleCrane's Mill Towne Square Gallery in West Caldwell, from tomorrow through Sept. 4, will host "Five Mixed Palettes," an exhibition of some 70 artworks by five New Jersey artists: Doree Valenza and Michal Barkai of Livingston, Liron Sissman from Park Ridge, Paula Pearl from Fanwood and Rosalia Tignini Verdun of Roselle Park. Oils, pastels, collages, photos and prints are included, ...
The Star-Ledger |
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Evening in Berlin
The Museum of Modern Art's extensive, world-class collection, not to mention its lending and borrowing powers, enables it to mount small, concentrated shows devoted to subjects most museums could never dream of. A year ago, MoMA dreamed up "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon at 100." This fall, the museum will bring us "Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night," which will center on "The Starry Night," one ...
The New York Sun |
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Museums
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Bradenton Herald |
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Art Galleries
Design Impressions Gallery : 33 S. Palm Ave.
Bradenton Herald |
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Attractions
Children's Museum of Tampa : 7550 North Blvd.
Bradenton Herald |
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A Guide to the Eye: Learning How Humans See Can Make You a Better Photographer [Photography]
If you are serious about photography, at one time or another you may have considered how the human eye reacts to an image. After all, it is logical to assume that possessing information about what...
Gizmodo |
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Famed Architect's Tower To Soar in TriBeCa
Some units have already been sold in a new Manhattan building designed by architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron, which won the Pritzker Prize and is behind Ian Schrager's 40 Bond St. condominium and the Tate Modern Museum of Art in London. The building at 56 Leonard St., at the corner of Church Street in TriBeCa, will be one of the tallest residential towers in New York City. Construction on the ...
The New York Sun |
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'Southern Masters' opens retrospective at Ogden Museum of Southern Art
For close to 50 years, artist, designer, and urban planner Robert Tannen has interwoven visionary urban schemes, many of which were realized, and environmental, social and urban commentary in his art.
The Meridian Star |
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