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Blaine, Mullen anchor festival country showcase
Project Discovery 2002, sponsored by Country Music Television, produced one winner. Just six years later, Jason Blaine has released his second CD and has enjoyed the success of two Top 10 hits.
myKawartha.com |
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British Museum buys medieval astronomy tool
Thu, Jul 31, 2008 (9:21 a.m.) A rare astronomy tool that helped medieval scientists tell time will remain in Britain after the British Museum scrambled to come up with the money to buy it.
Las Vegas Sun |
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Museum works to save 'Becky Thatcher House'
ST. LOUIS (AP) — 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.
Park Hills Daily Journal |
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Cannon Cultural Museum grand opening set
The Arts Center of Cannon County announces the opening of the exhibition Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: The Three Rs in Tennessee's Cultural History, on display Aug. 7 through the spring of 2009.
Daily News Journal |
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British Museum buys medieval astronomy tool after being outbid in auction
LONDON - A rare astronomy tool that helped medieval scientists tell time will remain in Britain after the British Museum scrambled to come up with the money to buy it.
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Geitzenauer named 150th Fair Queen
ALGONA-Over 400 people filled the Kossuth County Fairgrounds grandstands for the 150th Fair Queen ceremony on Monday, July 28. Past Fair Queens, family and friends came to see who would take home top honors in the Lil' Miss, Princess, Junior Miss, and Queen contests.
Mid-Iowa News |
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British Museum buys medieval astronomy tool
A rare astronomy tool that helped medieval scientists tell time will remain in Britain after the British Museum scrambled to come up with the money to buy it. The brass device, called an astrolabe quadrant, had been sold at auction last year, and the museum was outbid. But money from the National Heritage Memorial fund, The Art Fund and the British Museum Friends helped the museum purchase it ...
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State Museum scores with juried art exhibition
Richland County artists submitted 278 works of art for the jury's consideration. Lexington County artists offered 111; Greenville County, 79. The juried exhibition of S.C. art to commemorate the S.C. State Museum's 20th anniversary attracted 925 entries from 504 S.C. artists.
Columbia Star |
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Nude women take to tub in art world stunt
TWO naked women cavorting in a bath in a Woolloongabba shopfront are being used to promote a new Brisbane art gallery in a stunt that has drawn fire from a family group.
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It's happening right here in your community
-ANIMALS The South Carolina Wildlife Federation will host The 2008 Wild Summer's Nite Auction and Wild Game Feast August 23 at the SC National Guard Armory on Bluff Road. Tickets purchased in advance. 256- 0670 or www.bluetreemarketing.
Columbia Star |
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Get in Touch with Your Wild Side This August at "The Wild Life" Art Show in West L.a.
Susie Ghahremani is proud to announce The Wild Life, a solo exhibit of new works at Giant Robot's Los Angeles gallery beginning with a reception on Saturday, August 16, 2008. The Wild Life, the artist's fifth solo show, will feature an extensive collection of over 100 never-before-seen miniature paintings surrounded by a hand-crafted installation. Exhibit runs August 16 - September 17, 2008 at ...
PR.com |
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Scientists recreate hidden Van Gogh portrait
Scientists unveiled a color portrait of a woman's face unseen in a Van Gogh painting.
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British Museum buys medieval astronomy tool
A rare astronomy tool that helped medieval scientists tell time will remain in Britain after the British Museum scrambled to come up with the money to buy it.
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North Carolinian wins Collingwood Elvis competition
David Muggeridge will be representing the Collingwood Elvis Festival in Memphis from Aug. 9-17 at the Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest. The 36-year-old, who was originally from Montreal, but now lives in Mount Airry North Carolina, was named the grand champion of the festival.
Simcoe.com |
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'American Teen'
'American Teen' Nanette Burstein's documentary following the lives of five high-school students in a small Indiana town plays by many of the same rules as reality television, but is miles ahead in terms of quality and effectiveness. While she traffics in what seem at first stereotypes - artsy chick, jock, rich mean girl, etc. - Burstein turns up much more, and creates characters anyone who's ...
The Arizona Republic |
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SPORTS HEADLINES
"He's really good — really, really good," said one little boy who was playing on a pilings sculpture while 10-year-old James McCann packed up his guitar Tuesday evening.
Grand Haven Tribune |
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Gallery Hopping: Joyce Yamada and Joanne Ungar at NURTUREart
Usually when someone calls a piece of art ‘trash,’ it connotes a negative impression (to say the least). This is not the case for the exhibition at NURTUREart titled, Demo Eco M.O . In this group show, the idea is to recycle elements and create new works out of them.
New York Press |
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Rolling Stones - Rolling Stones Plan German Museum
THE ROLLING STONES are to be honoured with their own museum in Germany. The band will be immortalised with a multi-million dollar exhibit in Hamburg, which is due to open ...
ContactMusic |
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British scholar appointed director of Qatari museum
LONDON. Dr Oliver Watson is returning to the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) in Qatar as director, after spending three years as Keeper of the Department of Eastern Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
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Watercolor show opens Saturday
Heidi Lynn Christiansen of Elizabethton is the 2008 Chosen Student Stipend Recipient for this yearÕs Newell-Hendershot Watermedia Exhibit. On Saturday, Aug. 2, the annual Newell-Hendershot Watermedia Exhibition starts with a day of art demonstrations and the Awards Reception.
Elizabethton Star |
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Clamdigging Around Rowayton
Commissioner Mike Barbis tells us that a developer, Q Properties, is proposing an indoor sports terminal on Martin Luther King Blvd., instead of an oil terminal previously proposed.
Darien News-Review |
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Memories of 'Spider-Man,' 'Star Wars' for sale
(AP:LOS ANGELES) 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.
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Direct metal sculpture on display at gallery
LAKEVILLE — The Great Ponds Gallery at the Lakeville Public Library is presenting an exhibit of watercolor paintings and direct metal sculpture by artist Anita Pina Riley Robinson through Aug. 29, with a reception planned for Aug. 7 at 5 p.m.
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Community art classs cheduled for Friday
EL CAJON: Sophie's Art Gallery will offer a community art class Friday as part of the city's First Fridays program, which encourages downtown businesses to offer special activities on the first Friday of the month.
San Diego Union-Tribune |
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New method discovered to see under paintings
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – A team of European scientists yesterday unveiled 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.
San Diego Union-Tribune |
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