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Reed’s experience to boost quality
Starting Monday the Williston Herald will be welcoming a new managing editor to its staff, Alan Reed. Reed, who held the managing editor's position at the Dickinson Press, has over 35 years of experience. His wide-ranging qualifications extend from print media and photography to radio broadcasting.
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Shutterbugs Awarded For Capturing Best Belait Celebration
Kuala Belait - Winners in the four contested categories of the Belait Arts and Photography Competition Exhibition are Awg Hj Hasan bin Bakal-, Awg Essa bin Hj Hujan, Awg Hj Othman bin Hj Paun and Awg Dayang bin Awg Kahar.
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It’s so cool, it’s hot
NEWPORT — While the years and the fame and the sheer icon status of Aretha Franklin mean that her voice can no longer be the audacious, fresh force it once was, now it’s the voice of experience — one of the voices in popular music that cannot tell a lie. And yesterday at the JVC Jazz Festival-Newport, in front of a crowd of 7,300, Franklin closed out the day’s events with a collection of her R&B ...
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Black and white beauty
I WANT to thank Alex Moh who wrote in last week to inform me and StarMag readers that black and white photography is very much alive and well in Malaysia. I am happy to hear that there are also exhibitions dedicated to the art of black and photography.
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Documenting brilliance
We have some great artists whose works are collected internationally, who win awards – and who are relatively unknown in their own country. One gallery owner is determined to change that.
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The Natchez Democrat
Photographers Of Louisiana recently had their annual convention and competition in Central Louisiana. Cindy Thompson of Cindy Thompson Photography located in Jonesville placed first place in the print competition in the bridal/wedding category and first place in children’s category.
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Beautiful but lonely -- not all of Italy's museums get crowds
Take the National Royal Palace Museum in Pisa. Weeks can go by without a visitor. With so many cultural treasures in Italy, some are bound to be ignored. Francesco Ra is the Maytag repairman of Italian tourism.
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Mamat's film parody bags 5 awards
PUTRAJAYA: Kala Malam Bulan Mengambang, a parody of the 1950s filmed in black and white, proved to be the biggest winner at the 21st Malaysian Film Festival (FFM21) awards held here last night.
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Playwrights rarely succeed when their second act is writing novels
Playwrights rarely succeed as novelists. There’s Samuel Beckett, but a lot of his plays read more like novelistic prose than drama. Michael Frayn’s novels have their fans, although I couldn’t finish Headlong, his tale of an art historian and a lost Bruegel painting.
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Kansas City sculptor Jesse Small goes global
Kansas City artist Jesse Small came back from a year in China in 2005 with enough inspiration for an eye-catching new body of work.
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Global art show in Des Moines
DES MOINES In “World Histories” at the Des Moines Art Center, 11 artists from 10 countries combine the sacred and the profane in occasionally predictable but often fascinating ways.
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KC artist wins Art the Vote billboard contest
A Kansas City artist has won the online “Art the Vote” billboard contest, part of a get out the vote initiative sponsored by the Missouri Billboard Project, a nonpartisan political organization based in Missouri.
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Jean Miotte: Black Paintings at Chelsea Art Museum
NEW YORK.- Abstraction for Jean Miotte has never been an escape into the self from the conditions of the world. Indeed, painting for Miotte has always had eminently ethical overtones, a commitment to the world beyond the self.
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Klippel/Klippel: Opus 2008 at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
MELBOURNE.- Robert Klippel is regarded as Australia’s most important sculptor of the post-war 20th century period. Known for his abstract assemblages created from found objects he is a distinguished figure in the history of Australian art.
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Auspicious Charms for Transcultural Living by Kate benyon at Art Gallery of New South Wales
SYDNEY.- Kate Beynon’s new paintings feature female characters surrounded and supported by owls, dragons, bats, orchids, flags and emblems – charms and talismans that draw out aspects of the figures’ identities and have the power to influence their futures.
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MAK Center Residents Present Final Projects
WEST HOLLYWOOD.- Following six months of living and working in Los Angeles, Group XXVI of the MAK Center Artists and Architects in Residence program will present their Final Projects in an exhibition at the Schindler House.
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Jane South: Deceptive Volume at the Queens Museum of Art
QUEENS, NY.- Informed by a Do-It-Yourself spirit, Jane South's structures come from a combination of ample patience and basic engineering know-how.
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Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery Announces its 2008-2009 Exhibition Schedule
NEW YORK.- The Fine Arts Gallery is pleased to announce its 2008–2009 exhibition schedule effective through May 8, 2009. Each exhibition will be presented at the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery located in the Old Gym, at the corner of 23rd and West End Avenues.
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Place Makers: Contemporary Queensland Architects at Queensland Art Gallery
QUEENSLAND.- ‘Place Makers: Contemporary Queensland Architects’ presents the work of 22 Queensland architects in a major new exhibition.
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Purely Pastel: PastelArtists.ca 17th Open Juried Exhibition at Art Gallery of Hamilton
Interior - Gallery One. Photo: Mike Lalich. Copyright 2005. HAMILTON.- The AGH is delighted to host Pastel Artists Canada’s 17th Open Juried Exhibition in the Jean and Ross Fischer Gallery. PAC started out small in southern Ontario in 1989, and now boasts a wide membership across Canada.
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American Impressionist Anna Richards Brewster Exhibition at Hudson River Museum
Anna Richards Brewster, Arab Marketplace, 1926. Watercolor, 17 x 22 inches. NEW YORK.- Anna Richards Brewster: American Impressionist is an examination of the struggles and triumphs of an American woman’s career in art in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Sound Artist Janet Cardiff's First Solo Exhibition in the Northwest
Janet Cardiff, The Forty Part Motet (A Re-working of Spem in Alium Nunquam Habui 1573, by Thomas Tallis), 2001. Installation view at Tacoma Art Museum, 2008. 40 loudspeakers mounted on stands, placed in an oval, amplifiers, and playback computer, 14-minute loop with 11 minutes of music and 3 minutes of intermission.
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Beautiful Losers
NEW YORK.- Beautiful Losers celebrates the spirit behind one of the most influential cultural movements of a generation. In the early 1990's a loose-knit group of likeminded outsiders found common ground at a little NYC storefront gallery.
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Roman Holiday Photographs from the Joseph and Elaine Monsen Photography Collection at Henry Art Gallery
Robert MacPherson. Untitled (Arch of Constantine ). c. 1860. Albumen print. Henry Art Gallery , extended loan of Joseph and Elaine Monsen, EL 81/4. SEATTLE.-
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Victoria & Albert Museum Announces Magnificence of the Tsars
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