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Just Playing: Catherine Thompson
Leave it to Twist Gallery to throw a new twist into the traditional downtown art crawl: opening two different shows, in separate spaces, on the same night. Local artist Catherine Thompson explores memory, time and the games people play in her new exhibit of multimedia work, Just Playing . Thom...
Nashville Scene |
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Fitchburg Art Museum to host pair of workshops
FITCHBURG -- Two exciting art workshops for mature teens and adults will be held at Fitchburg Art Museum.
Sentinel & Enterprise |
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Mo. museum works to save Becky Thatcher House
Officials with the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum hoped throngs of summer tourists would spread the word about their efforts to save the childhood home of Tom Sawyer's sweetheart.
The Kansas City Star |
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Mo. museum works to save Becky Thatcher House
Officials with the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum hoped throngs of summer tourists would spread the word about their efforts to save the childhood home of Tom Sawyer's sweetheart. But even though downtown Hannibal remained bone-dry while other Mississippi River towns flooded last month, attendance at the boyhood home of Samuel Clemens - who later wrote as Twain - is down about 30 percent. ...
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Festival-goers make way back to city
Lost festival-goers are expected to return to the city this weekend as music makes a comeback at the waterfront. Now that concerts have been revived as a part of festival activities, at least some patrons who didn't bother attending last summer's music-free event are coming back. A [...]
The North Bay Nugget |
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Old pig barn in Mawdesley hogs limelight as famous art gallery
A FORMER pig farm attracted international artists when it played host to a craft fair recently. Julie Baillie opened the Cedar Farm Gallery in Mawdesley with friend Sally O’Farrell 21 years ago when the farm was home to thousands of pigs.
Ormskirk Maghull and Skelmersdale Advertiser |
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09:41 (BST), 31/07/2008 Urban Rivals Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS , Boostr the development company behind ...
, Boostr the development company behind Urban Rivals is delighted to offer freelance character design contracts to the winners of the USA and UK Art Star contests.
gamesindustry.biz |
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Whitehaven News
Your guide to art and community events taking place over the coming week. Exhibitions Whitehaven: 300th Anniversary of Whitehaven Harbour, The Beacon, until September 6.
The Whitehaven News |
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Top things to do Aug. 1-3
Two exhibits open at the Irvine Fine Arts Center, Rod Stewart performs in Irvine and Taiko drummers and fire eaters flair up in Anaheim.
Orange County Register |
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Tourism drop at Mark Twain museum hurts efforts to raise money to restore Becky Thatcher House
ST. LOUIS - Officials with the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum hoped throngs of summer tourists would spread the word about their efforts to save the childhood home of Tom Sawyer's sweetheart.
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune |
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Jazz Festival This Week
The Gulf Coast Ethnic and Heritage Jazz Festival starts tonight. The festival enters its 10th season. Watch Video
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Great Works Land Trust sets art auction for Aug. 16
OGUNQUIT and#8212; One of the summer's highlights for art lovers is rapidly approaching. The Great Works Regional Land Trust is holding its fifth annual Art Auction on Aug. 16.
York County Coast Star |
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Jolda exhibits art at college library
WELLS and#8212; The Library at York County Community College will exhibit the artwork of Jason Jolda during the months of August and September.
York County Coast Star |
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Ink, watercolor artist opens show at Kennebunk library
KENNEBUNK and#8212; An exhibition titled "The Art of Nancy Cooper Funk and#8212; nature-pets-scenes of the Kennebunks" will be on display at the Kennebunk Free Library in Hank's Gallery during the month of August. This very talented artist will display a...
York County Coast Star |
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Museum works to save "Becky Thatcher House"
The Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum in Hannibal hoped throngs of summer tourists would spread the word about its urgent efforts to save the Becky Thatcher House. It's the childhood residence of the real-life girl who lived near young Samuel Clemens and inspired one of his beloved characters when he later wrote as Twain.
Belleville News-Democrat |
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Enhancing their image
So much wonderful art has made its way into the world as the result of two simple words: what if? If Beth Wheeler wasn’t fond of asking that very question, then she never would have created Threadography. It’s a fusion of fabric and photography, a process of altering and embellishing. Photo caption: Lori Marquette and Beth Wheeler run the Two Sipsters Studio out of Wheeler’s home. The two ...
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette |
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New American Music Union festival takes over SouthSide Works Aug. 8-9
This past spring, when the locally headquartered American Eagle Outfitters announced with little warning that it would be hosting a two-day music festival in Pittsburgh, curated by Anthony Kiedis, the city's music-lovers did a collective double-take. After all, Pittsburgh's status as a secon... By CP Staff.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
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From art to eat
You won’t find Mickey Mouse there anymore, but you might spot some of Boca Raton’s better known residents at the former International Museum of Cartoon Art in Mizner Park come November.
BizJournals |
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Texas character
Photo exhibit displays traits native to state
Corpus Christi Caller-Times |
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Sculpture gets face lift
"Atman," the 10-ton steel sculpture that has anchored the back lawn of the Cincinnati Art Museum since 1985, is getting new parts and a new paint job.
The Cincinnati Enquirer |
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Shorewood nearly at Crossroads
SHOREWOOD -- The annual Shorewood Crossroads Festival is one of the most popular festivals in the area because it features a variety of entertainment, activities, and competitions for everyone.
The Herald News |
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New Van Gogh pic discovered using German atom-smasher
Mysterious 'Doris' lurks beneath 'Patch of Grass' There may be some readers out there who aren't entirely clear just what synchrotrons - enormous, kilometre-wide magnetic doughnuts used to thrash electrons within an inch of their lives - are actually for. Today, the news furnishes us with a partial answer - you can use a synchrotron to see old paintings hidden beneath other paintings.…
The Register |
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Locals up for CBC award
Five candidates are vying for the title of 2008 CBC Galaxie Rising Star in connection with this year's Harvest Jazz And Blues Festival.
Daily Gleaner |
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Time Lapse of Patrick Burke Sculpture
Sculptor Patrick Burke of Newton created a clay bust of his sister Colleen at the Rahr-West Art Museum on Saturday, July 26 and Sunday, July 27. A total of 541 still photographs were taken of the process and combined in this video format to show the sculpture developing.
Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter |
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Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell'
Some of Joyce Carol Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest. Oates sets out to solve a fictionalized version of the JonBenet Ramsey murder, with skating prodigy "Bliss" Rampike replacing the real-life child beauty pageant contestant. The resolution she imagines is heartrending, grotesque and totally believable. And it's only the ...
The Courier News |
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