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A Caravaggio Is Stolen
A painting by Caravaggio was stolen in Ukraine, Reuters reported.
New York Times |
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For Governor?s Mansion
A bronze sculpture of Sojourner Truth will be installed at the Governor?s Mansion in Albany.
New York Times |
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Indian Thai artist signals new direction in comic art show
Modern art is exploding across Thailand's capital Bangkok, surplanting the sober, self-contemplative style it had been known for with a riot of colour and more worldly themes.
AFP via Yahoo! News |
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Indian Thai artist signals new direction in comic art show
Modern art is exploding across Thailand's capital Bangkok, surplanting the sober, self-contemplative style it had been known for with a riot of colour and more worldly themes.
AFP via Yahoo! Philippines News |
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North Central concert hall edges toward opening night
Construction on North Central College's concert hall and fine arts center is nearing its grand finale.
Daily Herald |
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NCC putting finishing touches on second new theater
Just a block away from its new concert hall and fine arts center, North Central College is putting the finishing touches on another theater in Naperville.
Daily Herald |
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Sculpting success with dolls
Local optometrist Stephanie Cauley shows off her workshop, which is filled with one-of-a-kind, hand-sculpted dolls in all stages of completion. For the past 10 years, Cauley has made dolls that are sold in shops along the East Coast and in Europe.
The Advocate |
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Smith biopic follows crude punk formula
Music is too important to be left to the musicians. That was the do-it-yourself credo that drove the punk aesthetic, and central to that movement was Patti Smith, an artsy, working-class kid from Woodbury.
The Star-Ledger |
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Quickie films in competition
For the last two weeks, dozens of local film directors, cameramen, actors, sound mixers and boom operators have been working in teams of two to more than a dozen shooting 10-minute films for the short-film competition at the third annual Project Twenty1 Film Festival
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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In Brief: Dogwood teacher to be honored
Dogwood Elementary School art teacher Sandy Wilson will be honored Sunday for her work that has helped produce winners in national art contests for three of the past five school years.
Memphis Commercial Appeal |
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Sukraw wins windmill art competition
North Platte resident Joe Sukraw won the Art Gallery windmill art show with a photomontage. Virginia Clark took second with a photograph and Kim Tobaben of Gothenburg was third with a photo.
North Platte Bulletin |
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Shoot from the hip
The Photography Issue: Local rock photogs give good bulb. Plus: Son Ambulance, Hall and Oates, C.L.A.W.S, and more
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
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2008 Virginia arts awards announced
The Richmond Ballet and its artistic director, the Richmond Jazz Society and Theater IV and its founders are among the 2008 Governor's Awards for the Arts winners announced yesterday. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced the 10 winners, who were selected from 345 nominations. They will be honored Sept. 17 at a ceremony at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Richmond Times-Dispatch |
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Gallery: 10 Green Concept Cars That Are Waaaaay Out There
: Image courtesy Royal College of Art Practicality is the last thing anyone considers when designing concept cars. A car made of glass? Windows like gun slits? An automakers' lawyers would kill those ideas faster than General Motors is killing Hummer. But practicality isn't the point. Concept cars are flights of fantasy carrying auto design into the future. Since our future will be a place ...
Wired News |
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Springfield Museums' Summer Festival Days concludes with 'Favorite Fables'
SPRINGFIELD - Summer Festival Days at the Springfield Museums concludes with "Favorite Fables" from Tuesday to Aug. 15. Activities are free with the price of museum admission unless noted.
The Republican |
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Rare Puerto Rican flag displayed at Westfield Athenaeum
The Puerto Rican flag of the 3rd Provisional Battalion believed to be from the Spanish American War and discovered in the attic of the Westfield Athenaeum went on view in the athenaeum's Jasper Rand Art Museum on July 25 to the sounds of the American and Puerto Rican national anthems.
The Republican |
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Popular business directory searches
I heard a United States congressman say the other day that if our country wants to solve its dependency on foreign oil we need to launch a campaign now — right now — not later. It needs to be a campaign, an all-out effort like the project that created the atomic bomb that ended World War II.
The Enid News & Eagle |
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Upcoming Photo Events And Contests
The organizers of the first FotoWeek DC (to be held this November) are seeking entries in contest. The contest is open to professionals, students and amateurs in D.C., Maryland and Virginia. Winners will be recognized in an awards ceremony Nov. 22 at the National Geographic Society headquarters.
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This week, the world is their sandbox
NORTH MYRTLE BEACH — Each year, the Shearers, the Wodkes and the Vaughans load up their friends and families — including one truck packed solely with sand castle construction equipment — and move ‘em out from Lynchburg, Va., to the North Myrtle Beach area. Their annual project? Build a different sand sculpture every day of their weeklong vacation using a yellow wagon chock full of snow ...
The State |
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Local boys win honors for art pieces
To the boys, the pictures were simply a day project. To administrators of the Boys and Girls Club of America, their artwork was worthy of the club’s National Fine Art Exhibit.
The Facts |
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Art lecture on conservation of architecture on August 16
The first ever Fine Arts School of the University of the Philippines (UP) called the Escuela De Bellas Artes is one fine example of conservation of architecture.
ABS-CBNNEWS.com |
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Festival change sparks debate
The RiverSculpture festival will have a new home this fall, moving away from Asheville's French Broad River Park to Reynolds Village, an upscale residential, commercial and public space under construction in Woodfin.
Asheville Citizen-Times |
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'Art, Life and Change' on display at SoBA
The Society of Bluffton Artists will present "Art, Life and Change," the artwork of Susan Citron through Saturday.
Island Packet |
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Graffiti festival emphasizes community, ecology
College student Dana Jackel, of Maple Glen, is helping to organize a New Jersey recycling-based company's annual graffiti and urban arts festival this weekend in Trenton.
The Ambler Gazette |
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Sallows Gallery group experiments with photographic science
Ascending the stairs in the somewhat-recently renovated Goderich Public Library, and snaking your way around the new fiction, you’ll find yourself in the Sallows gallery, and if it is a Thursday, for the rest of the summer, you just may find yourself walking backwards through time as you pass those photographs.
Goderich Signal-Star |
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