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Radiohead set to head Lollapalooza
Thousands of music fans swarmed Chicago's sun-drenched lakefront on Friday for the opening of a three-day festival that will feature British sensation Radiohead and local hip-hop phenomenon Kanye West.
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Springfield Artist Not Going to Summer Olympic Games
One local artist is getting ready for international exposure. Susan Sommer-Luarca is an official artist for the 2008 Summer Olympics and on Friday night she was signing autographs at her gallery as she prepares to paint the games.
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S'pore Academy Opens Its Doors For Fine Arts Courses
Bandar Seri Begawan - In an effort to promote the Nanyang Academy of Fine Art (NAFA) in Singapore, a roadshow was held yesterday at the Chung Hwa School in the capital. A talk was given by Ms Heidi Wu Shi Swan, the Executive Officer for Marketing and Administration of NAFA, Singapore.
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Life's a Beach for Bay Area Sculptor
World-famous sand sculptor Kirk Rademaker has brought his beach art to Roseville.
News10 Sacramento |
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World of outlooks on display at Ohlone gallery
Works include those by student from Iran, professor from China
The Fremont Argus |
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Trevor Bates: Sculptor of distinctive, spiky forms
The lean, upright and spiky sculpture of Trevor Bates belonged to the so-called "geometry of fear" school of post-war British sculpture. Although he is less well-known than Reg Butler, the winner of the landmark competition "The Unknown Political Prisoner" (1953), or Bernard Meadows, Kenneth Armitage and Lynn Chadwick, Bates created distinctive figurative forms that shared the existential mood, ...
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Judah-Clottey weigh-in gallery
All the shots from today's Zab Judah vs. Joshua Clottey weigh-in at The Palms in Las Vegas. . . . . Click here for more
Fightnews.com |
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Family Fun Fridays
Horizon’s Credit Union kicks off their 7th annual, Family Fun Friday by displaying student artwork on city busses.
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Festival celebrates Filipino heritage
Historic Filipinotown will come to life with music and dance today as Los Angeles Filipinos celebrate their heritage
LA.com |
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Professor Jonathan Frankel: Historian of modern Jewry
Jonathan Frankel was the most highly regarded historian of modern Jewry of his generation. A man of unusual generosity of spirit and the author of many works, his academic reputation is based primarily on two masterpieces of historical scholarship – Prophecy and Politics: socialism, nationalism and the Russian Jews, 1862-1917 (1981) and The Damascus Affair (1997). He wrote, on an epic scale, ...
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If You Build It...
The 75th Annual Great Sand Sculpting Contest breaks ground in Long Beach August 9th
LA.com |
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CRAFT DEMONSTRATION
MARK WAITE / PVT Children attending an Art for Young People demonstration at the Pahrump Valley Museum, sponsored by the Pahrump Arts Council last Saturday, learned how to make wallets out of duct tape and personalized greeting cards.
Pahrump Valley Times |
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Fuji Rock Festival Day 2
Having met some cool Japanese people on our journey to get food and no real plan of who to see first, we decided to join our new friends in checking out some local bands. First up on the White Stage, were a brilliant, 3 piece, Japanese punk rock band “Rin to Shite Shigure”.
Undercover |
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Pyramid Hill adds new museum and festival pavilion
A formal opening is still at least six weeks away, but Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park already has moved its offices and has begun loading its collection of ancient art into the new Museum of Antiquities.
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Local Color: Inspiration for artists
Leach Theater in Castleman Hall is presently featuring art work by the artists of Local Color, a regional artists’ organization. The exhibit includes more than 50 paintings and photographs created by 13 area artists and can be viewed from 8 a.m. through 5:30 p.m. any weekday through Sept. 7.
Rolla Daily News |
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Xeric Winner "Jazz: Cool Birth" Based on '50s Album Cover Design
Through study of album covers, television program title artwork, and common illustrations used in everything from health booklets to instruction manuals from the 1950s, author/designer Gary Scott Beatty created recent Xeric Foundation grant winner “Jazz: Cool Birth," a jazz club murder mystery.
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Local Artist With Rare Disorder is Recognized Nationally
A native Montanan is being recognized around the country for her artwork and now it's on display at the Montana State Fair. Amber Olson of Monarch has a disorder that limits movement in her arms and legs. But that hasn't stopped her from doing what she loves.
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Families emotional as cafe unveils tornado victim memorial sculpture
Independent artist Scott Phillips unveiled the Memorial Wildcat Sculpture at the Cornerstone Cafe Friday afternoon. The 8-foot by 8-foot welded metal sculpture honors the eight Enterprise High School students who were killed in last year’s tornado.
The Enterprise Ledger |
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Search Engine Strategies (SES) San Jose 2008 to Feature Wide Range of Conference Speakers from Brand Name Companies
Speakers from Adobe, Cisco, Digitas, Discover, HP, Intuit, Ogilvy, Omnicom, Procter & Gamble, The New York Times and Walt Disney to Give Presentations at SES (PRWeb Aug 1, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/08/prweb1171744.htm
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Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival
Tonight Opera, "Madame Butterfly" Frank Paul Fetta, artistic director and producer. Louis Lebherz, stage director. The compelling story of a young, faithful geisha bride and the U.S. Navy officer who abandons her, then returns three years later to claim their son. Co-sponsored by Northrop Grumman Employees Charity Organization and Target.
Redlands Daily Facts |
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Ahwatukee mom turns painting into her passion
Ahwatukee resident Christine Hartland has done it all - Kyrene de la Colina's Parent-Teacher Organization, Girls Scouts, Cub Scouts, the National Charity League and more.
The Arizona Republic |
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Painting pachyderms
What the "green" message was during a painting session with elephants at the Topeka Zoo.
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String Band Music Festival Underway
Appalachian music takes center stage through Sunday.
The Charleston State Journal |
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Search Engine Strategies (SES) San Jose 2008 to Feature Wide Range of Conference Speakers from Brand Name Companies
Speakers from Adobe, Cisco, Digitas, Discover, HP, Intuit, Ogilvy, Omnicom, Procter & Gamble, The New York Times and Walt Disney to Give Presentations at SES
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Boroughs featured at Common Grounds
MATTOON — The artwork of Charleston resident Marcia Boroughs will be on display during August and September at Common Grounds, 1612 Charleston Ave., Mattoon.
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