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Backyard sculptor
Its not that Don Schombergs yard was uninteresting.
Sheboygan Press |
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Oil Fest draws to a close -- but not without lasting memories
With the sun pouring out over the City of Titusville, the annual Oil Festival brought out the best in everyone once more. Community members enjoyed a combination of music and food throughout the week and the colorful parade on Saturday.
The Titusville Herald |
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Gabby Concepcion explains why daughter KC is not part of his debut album
Certified singer na si Gabby Concepcion pagkatapos ilabas ang kanyang first self-titled album under Warner Music Corporation. Kasunod ng album ang sunud-sunod na concerts ni Gabby. May show siya sa Zirkoh Timog on August 14 at sa Music Museum on August 15 and 16.
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Artwork with energy
Woven throughout the artwork of “Impacted Nations” is the theme of race, poverty and the environment — the greatest equalizer being the depletion of natural resources, contaminated water and soil and polluted air that affects all races and social classes on a global scale.
Rapid City Journal |
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Festival of India won't have parade
For the past 15 years, Indo-Americans have marched along the streets of central Fremont in August to celebrate Asian Indian culture and independence.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Gas pains paint a new picture for AGH
Rising gas prices are even threatening Hamilton's culture: soon our art may come from Detroit rather than Italy. The Art Gallery of Hamilton has been hit with higher fuel surcharges to ship art to its downtown location.
Hamilton Spectator |
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Nevada Museum of Art holds annual benefit
Wine will be an honorary fifth element at the Nevada Museum of Art's Wine and Food Tasting Benefit on Friday night.
Reno Gazette-Journal |
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Around town
ARTSAlabama Outdoor Photography Exhibit: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday through Aug. 29 and during Bama Theatre events, in the Junior League Gallery at the Bama Theatre, 600 Greensboro Ave. Free admission. Call 205-758-5195 or visit www.tusc arts.org. COMMUNITY
The Tuscaloosa News |
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Nic director attends Getty conference
Holly Turner, executive director of the Nicolaysen Art Museum, recently attended the Museum Leadership Institute at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. More than 30 museum leaders from around the world attended the conference for an intensive three-week course on the business of running a museum.
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Colour Photo: SP Photo by Gord Waldner / LET'S DANCE: Dancers with Oriental Dance Art performed for a large crowd on Saturday, the final day of the Saskatoon Fringe Theatre Festival. Three-year-old Victoria Blom joined in on the fun. ;
Saskatoon StarPhoenix |
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Lackluster exhibit at Kachina
The Kachina Lounge and Gallery has had some very interesting recent exhibitions, like Jill Renne-Smith's "Forgotten Girls," which makes the current exhibit "The Last Sin & The Mending Tree" by Ernesto Trujillo comparatively lackluster.
Arizona Daily Wildcat |
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Brock's war club, papers to be offered to U.S. buyers
A Canadian art dealer says he's tried to keep the pieces in the country, but he 'can't afford not to sell them'
The Globe and Mail |
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Tight-knit group aids troops
With the precision of an artist touching up an oil painting, Bette Bland pulled and prodded brown yarn with her green crochet hook, held delicately in her right hand.
Courier-Post |
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New pavilion stands up to an all-Beethoven test
The Strings Music Festival took a big leap forward this season with a $4.3 million concert hall, which opened June 28 and has been used for all its summer events since.
Denver Post |
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Museums, venues preserving collections digitally
Associated Press - August 11, 2008 3:05 AM ET BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - In cyberspace, nothing gets wet and no pests can get in but the door is always open.
WCAX-TV Vermont |
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From the ashes arises empathy
When fire swept through the Concow area July 8, Reta Rickmers and Jamie Albertie lost not only their home on Pine Cluster Lane, but also most of their possessions, including dozens of paintings the two artists had done.
Chico Enterprise-Record |
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City Beat
Aeros juggle bomber logos A couple of times a year, the Houston Aeros hockey team literally sells the shirts off the players’ backs to help out charity auctions, or perhaps just make some extra money to bolster the team’s dental plan.
BizJournals |
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Clark exhibit highlights memories
For the past six years, Baltimore-area artist Sonya Clark has literally poured her mind and body into the works that make up her newest exhibit.
Baltimore Examiner |
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Photo exhibit reveals how plastic bags haunt desert
A Green Valley couple has begun a grass-roots movement to dig Tucson out of a mountain of plastic bags.
Arizona Daily Star |
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Local man's screenplay lauded at film festival
From the U.S. Air Force to the palm trees of Hollywood Boulevard to the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, Luis Saumell has come a long way from an early childhood in Cuba.
The Maryville Daily Times |
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All in the family
It's clear this isn't the typical tour of a museum with major works of art when the guide sidles up to a painting and begins, "I'll never forget it. We're having cheeseburgers across the street at Hank's and he's telling me about this one."
Courier-Post |
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Photography studio finds Gahanna space to house related businesses
Jeff Burt’s customers may struggle with sales given the economy, but those problems have not trickled down to his trio of photography and production businesses.
BizJournals |
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Power of female form adds to Genesee County sculptor's resilience
A recent stroke sharpened LeRoy artist Adriana Slutzky's resolve to forge ahead with her four-acre sculpture garden. It's open to the public with more than 40 pieces.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |
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Olympic Opening Ceremony Boosts Sales of Bamboo Art
The Olympic opening ceremony has boosted the sales of bamboo artwork, people.com.cn reports.
China Economic Net |
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Daily 'Inherent Connection' art exhibit
`INHERENT CONNECTION' Inherent Connection is a two-person exhibit with resident artists Elsa Carolina Munoz and Melissa Ruffino that highlights the importance of revival and abstract art.
Miami Herald |
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