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Notes on the Environment at Mostly Mozart Festival
The grief that runs through Mozart?s Requiem is most often associated with human life, but two of the works in this year?s Mostly Mozart Festival environmental loss.
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Journal staff win 15 NEAPNEA awards
Providence Journal writers and photographers have won more than a dozen awards in this year’s New England Associated Press News Executives Association’s writing, photo and design contest.
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Mass. Group Wants To Sell Valuable Painting
NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH (AP) -- A group of North Attleborough residents is urging the town's select board to sell a valuable painting that was discovered hanging in a local school.
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Swing Vote Comedy about bungled voting starts funny, ends maudlin
In a bizarre turn of events, the presidential contest comes down to the vote of one man. Of course, it's the vote of an utterly disinterested, rural doofus (played amiably if unconvincingly by Kevin Costner), which sets up the film's best bits: the craven pandering of the two presidential contenders -- Republican incumbent Kelsey Grammer and progressive Dem Dennis Hopper -- to the capricious ...
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Think ahead to next year’s Fest and apply now
THE National Arts Festival in Grahamstown has been scheduled to run from July 2 to 11 next year. The Festival Committee is inviting proposals for all performance and visual art presentations for the main programme.
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Stretchable Silicon Camera Next Step To Artificial Retina
Digital cameras have transformed the world of photography. Now new technology inspired by the human eye could push the photographic image farther forward by producing improved images with a wider field of view. By combining stretchable optoelectronics and biologically inspired design, scientists have created a remarkable imaging device, with a layout based on the human eye.
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'Dobie Gillis' star bringing his artwork to Short Pump
One of Dobie Gillis' many loves turns out to be art. Dwayne Hickman, who starred as the title character on the early 1960s sitcom "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" gave up acting for the most part in the 1970s, and for a long time has been expressing himself creatively through art. He has brought his brightly colored paintings of houses and flowers to Richmond several times in the last few years, ...
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Lewis Ginter Show Explores "Alternate Botanical Universe"
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden recently mounted a show of paintings and drawings by Richmond artist Tony Klotz. The artist's imagery depicts an alternate botanical universe, where cells recombine into whimsical and intricate new forms. "He produces a lovely futuristic chaos on a micro scale by combining imagery from multiple species of plants with machine parts and architecture," says ...
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Chamber Festival creates grand finale
Octets, ballet music, café music and other dinner (tafelmusik) serenades to make you salivate: Trust the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival to assemble big, beguiling ensembles. All the same, the founding artists pared the instrumental forces down to mostly one-on-one for the season finale. Brahms held court with the single large-scale work on Program IV: the great G Major String Quintet No. 2, ...
The Palm Beach Post |
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'Before I Forget'
AUG . 13 With lines like "Except for suicide, not much interests me," you'll know you haven't wandered into "Kung Fu Panda" by mistake. Director and star Jacques Nolot's unsparingly honest portrait of an aging gay gigolo is wrenching. 8 p.m. $10, $8 seniors and students. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave., Boston. 617-369-3687. www.mfa.org/film
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Humboldt Institute Adding Multi-purpose Building
STEUBEN — The Humboldt Field Research Institute is completing construction on a 10,000-square-foot building that will house a fine dining room, library, art gallery and meeting and office space.
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Analyzing Freud
Sigmund Freud, as everyone knows, made a living analyzing others. But these days it seems Freud is the one being analyzed -- by the hundreds of visitors who every year traipse through his former home (now a museum) where he established a famous practice and spent 47 years of his life.
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Seventeen artists display their take on the Lowcountry
EXHIBIT: Seventeen artists of the Art League of Hilton Head are giving their take on the essence of the Lowcountry. The latest exhibit, "Art of the Lowcountry," is comprised of scenes of Spanish moss-draped trees, sunsets over the marsh, rusted boats and Palmetto-shaded beach roads. Artists were given the task of submitting work that captures their view of the Lowcountry.
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Citron's art on display at SoBA gallery
The Society of Bluffton Artists presents "Art, Life and Change," artwork by Susan Citron, through Saturday.
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Get ready to 'BARK!'
Madeline Dukes' latest body of work featuring trees, cold noses and warm hearts will open with a reception 5:30 to 8 p.m. Saturday at Sandpiper Gallery, 2019-C Middle St. on Sullivan's Island. The "BARK!" show will feature depictions of ethereal trees in the coastal setting of the South Carolina Lowcountry, as well as paintings created as tributes to man's best friend. "This series of dreamlike ...
The Post and Courier |
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Design Revealed For Sculpture At Stewart Plaza
The design for a major new permanent sculpture to be installed at the Stewart Plaza, on the corner of High and Colombo Streets, in central Christchurch has been revealed.
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Dig This: Garden Notes
Before we published photographs last week of gardeners' favorite salvaged yard art, we posted an online gallery of all the pictures we received.
The Tampa Tribune |
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New South Side festival a musical vision
Anthony Kiedis from the Red Hot Chili Peppers admits he was intrigued, but also a bit leery, when he was approached by American Eagle Outfitters to curate a music festival.
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Festival to bring storytellers from far and wide
Storyteller Dan Keding, who will be performing in the Pittsburgh area this weekend, knows he needs to take his audience's mood temperature before deciding which stories to tell.
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Review: Mattress Factory's 'Gestures' exhibit lets visitors meet the robots
"Meet the Made," the 11th installment of the Mattress Factory's "Gestures" series, is unique among its predecessors because its focus is on robotic art.
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New Elliott Museum wins design award
The New Elliott Museum has received a design award even before it is built.
Stuart News |
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Summer sets
GREENVILLE - "A Day at the Beach" opens today at the City Art Gallery, 511 Red Banks Road, Greenville. The exhibit includes new works by Kevin LePrince, James Kerr and Mike Rooney.
Kinston Free Press |
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Celebratin’ — exhibition style
Creative works from this summer's art camp students will be on display Monday-Aug. 14 in the Hampton Gallery. Rabbits, tractors and sun faces will help tell the story of the
Kinston Free Press |
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Art, food, religion abound near North Halls
North Halls, offering its residents suites instead of standard dorms, is the smallest of the residence areas with only three residence halls -- giving way to some surprise that there are, in fact, people who live there. The area, sheltered away from much of the main campus hot spots, is close to several hidden gems on campus, including an art museum and spiritual center.
Penn State Collegian |
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Sarus Dance Festival
Submitted by Tim Pulliam on 6 August 2008 - 11:35pm. READ MORE: WILMINGTON--It's day 3 for the Sarus Dance Festival for Performing Arts. The festival features several performance groups dancing outdoors. Our cameras caught the Turning Wheel dance company performing on Front Street.
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