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Wenatchee artist DeRooy featured at Oak Hollow
The works of Wenatchee artist Vicki DeRooy will go on display today at Oak Hollow Gallery in Chalet Place, 5631 Summitview Ave. The solo show, titled "Layers," opens with a reception from 5:30-8 tonight. The show runs through Sept. 3. Call 965-3846.
Yakima Herald-Republic |
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Turning Inlet into art
The view inside Dina Hall's photography exhibit at Coastal Carolina University comes into color; it's not all black and white. "Landscape as Metaphor," continuing through Aug. 29, takes viewers to the coastal atmosphere in which the Murrells Inlet resident said she will live the rest of her life. A wall of 15 black-and-white shots scales the marshes, many showing the water and its varied ...
The Myrtle Beach Sun News |
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Modern art project befuddles uncool Japanese town
Sitting in her quiet shoe store on the main shopping street of this far northern Japanese town, 79-year-old Yoshiko Sugawara wonders what exactly the huge red object was supposed to be.
AFP via Yahoo! News |
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Modern art project befuddles uncool Japanese town
Sitting in her quiet shoe store on the main shopping street of this far northern Japanese town, 79-year-old Yoshiko Sugawara wonders what exactly the huge red object was supposed to be.
AFP via Yahoo! Malaysia News |
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New Path to the Pros
(Editor's note: This is the fourth in a four-part series taking a look at the state of boxing in the Ohio Valley. Today's story focuses on how the Toughman Contest has been the avenue of choice to the pro ranks for local fighters).
The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register |
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Spaceship-like Chanel exhibition to land in NY's Central Park
NEW YORK -- A spaceship-like pavilion crammed with original artwork will land in New York's Central Park this fall. It's the latest stop in a worldwide advertising blitz by Chanel to pay homage to its iconic quilted handbag.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
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Trinumeral festival adds up at Deerfields
Friday isn't just Aug. 8, it's 08/08/08. Music fans looking for a memorable way to mark this convergence of calendar numbers can head to Deerfields this weekend for the Trinumeral Music & Arts Festival.
Asheville Citizen-Times |
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Plantation offers reward for information on vandalism incident
Plimoth Plantation is offering $1,000 and a lifetime membership to the museum to anyone with information that will lead to the arrest and conviction of vandals who trashed the Pilgrim village over the weekend.
The Brockton Enterprise |
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Muslimah Students In KL For Educational Visit
The delegation will visit museums, art galleries, mosques, orphanages, Rumah Harapan Malaysia, and many more. The aims of the visit are to strengthen the ties between Muslimah Brunei and Muslimah Malaysia, and to increase their knowledge.
BruDirect.com |
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Art, icons in world of fun and games
It was all very inviting, last weekend's opening reception in Jacksonville Beach for Comics and Classics' first group art show: "Icons: Interpretations in Comics and Gaming Pop Culture." Martini glasses flowed over with Jelly Bellies and the melodic yet futuristic sound of the Flaming Lips paired perfectly with a shop full of fantasy. Even the Batman-for-hire refused to break character to talk ...
The Florida Times-Union |
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Portage la Prairie News
The Central Region Juried Art Exhibition has officially opened its 27th annual art exhibit in Portage la Prairie, and a number of talented local artists are featured in the show.
Portage Daily Graphic |
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The Edmond Sun |
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The numbers add up in this exhibition
It would be hard to count the number of times numbers come up in art. S.C. native Jasper Johns has spent much of his career exploring images of numbers. Charles Demuth’s 1928 masterpiece “The Figure 5 in Gold” is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. And this: 1.618. That’s the “golden ratio.” Artists and architects dating back to the Renaissance have proportioned their works to ...
The State |
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Exhibit has something for everyone
[ It takes some doing, figuring out how to arrange 240 pieces of art made so differently by community groups who meet at the Lyndon House.
Athens Banner-Herald |
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Yes, the Live Music Is Lovely, but Will the Plants Like It?
Green art is flourishing, improbably, in a Midtown office building, in a show called ?Implant? at the UBS Art Gallery.
New York Times |
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Bellevue Mall, African-American Museum Get Metro Funding
The Metro Council voted unanimously Thursday to approve a tax increment-financing package for the redevelopment of Bellevue Center Mall and early funding for The Museum of African American Music, Art, & Culture. In exchange for the $12-million public-financing deal, California-based Foursquare Properties, Inc. will revitalize the mall, build a 32,000 square foot library, make improvements to ...
The Tennessean |
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Art gallery seeking Milford location
MILFORD — An upscale "New York-style" art gallery is negotiating to rent a downtown storefront, officials said Thursday. The visibility of the arts is already increasing
Connecticut Post |
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Area business in brief: Corporate Arts Festival winners announced
The Kansas City Business Committee for the Arts published the winners of its 2008 Corporate Arts Festival, displayed last week at Union Station.
The Kansas City Star |
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Movie stuff
“CHRISTMAS IN JULY” Thinking he’s won a contest, Dick Powell goes on a dizzying spending spree. 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Film Vault, KC Central Library.
The Kansas City Star |
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47th Annual St. Barnabas Art Show
08/08/2008 - 10:00a.m. to 08/08/2008 - 6:00p.m.
Cape May County Herald |
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Couple killed in plane crash lived adventurously
The homebuilt aircraft on which Eugene and Jeanette Long spent some of their best times featured a painting of Longs Peak above the wings.
Greeley Tribune |
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Calendar for Friday Aug 8
FESTIVAL OF BUTTERFLIES: Powell Gardens, 30 miles east of Kansas City on U.S. 50, Kingsville. www.powellgardens.org (816-697-2600)
The Kansas City Star |
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Mozart Reinterpreted For An Eco-Conscious Today
A dance performance and an art installation showcased during this year's Mostly Mozart Festival rethink the composer's Requiem to express concerns about climate change and other current threats to the eco-system.
Arts Journal |
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Tickets on sale for Vatican exhibit
What is the Vatican really worshipping? The Vatican should be selling this crap to help feed the starving around the world. Jesus drove the peddlers and money changers from the … read more temple; I think today he would be driving them out of Vatican City.
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune |
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Oklahoma City Is Booming With Oil and a New Exuberance
ON THE WATER Taxi boats transport tourists on the Bricktown Canal in the city’s revitalized riverfront district.
New York Times |
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