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Music Is Art Festival returns to the city
After a year's hiatus from Buffalo, the Music Is Art Festival will return to the city. The sixth annual festival will take place Saturday, Sept. 13, at Albright- Knox Art Gallery. The all-day event will feature live music from 28 bands, as well as art displays and dance performances by nine ensembles.
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KODAK Gallery Launches Exclusive Partnership with Famed Children's Author Eric Carle
EMERYVILLE, Calif. , Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- KODAK Gallery, today announced an exclusive line of personalized Photo Cards, Photo Invitations and Photo Books featuring the celebrated designs of renowned children's author and illustrator , Eric Carle.
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Two museums, SOTA receive generous book donations
SINGAPORE : The National Museum of Singapore, Asian Civilisations Museum and the School of the Arts have received a generous literary boost.
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Historical society readies for annual McLain Celtic Festival
Cumberland County residents will once again come together to celebrate their Celtic pride as the 14th annual McLain Celtic Festival returns to South Middleton Township’s Two Mile House on Saturday, Aug. 30.
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More join local faces to sing in contest
The talents of Jack Frey and Leslie Glasscock, two longtime Tomball residents, have been added to the list of competitors for the one-day-to-be-coveted title of “Tomball’s American Country Idol,” to be named during The Regional Arts Council’s (TRAC) annual gala.
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Guelph Jazz Festival Seeks Volunteers
Organizers of the Guelph Jazz Festival are looking for volunteers for the 15th annual jazz festival and colloquium, which will be held Sept. 3 to 7 in venues around the City of Guelph and at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre. The festival was started in 1994 by U of G English professor Ajay Heble and has evolved into a world-class showcase for jazz performance and education. Its sponsors ...
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ARTISTS MORE FREE TO EXPRESS FEELINGS THAN POLITICIANS, SAYS SAIFUDDIN
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 11 (Bernama) -- The world of arts is more free compared with politics because artists have greater freedom to express their feelings through their paintings, said Deputy Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah.
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Local Band Nemesis 3 Gets A Shot At Playing With Motley Crue
The local band Nemesis3 has the opportunity of a lifetime; playing with rock legends Motley Crue for their 2009 tour. A national contest from Guitar Center and Motley Crue to Make Rock History is offering Nemesis3 the chance to step up to the next level of entertainment.
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
A note on the one-post-a-day-in-August thing: What's going on with the University of Iowa Museum of Art Pollock will likely change that here and there. Keep an eye on MAN for new details... (Expect at least two posts today.)
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"Explosive" Art Exhibit Honors Olympic Games
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and The Center of International Cultural Exchange, Ministry of Culture, P.R.C. will present the Guggenheim's highly-acclaimed exhibition "Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe" at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing during the Olympics from August 19 to September 2, 2008 as an official event of the cultural Olympiad.
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Few visitors behold beauty in LR court’s $391,000 sculpture
Visitors to the recently expanded federal courts building in downtown Little Rock have, for the past few months, tended to ignore long silvery strips of metal piled on the sidewalk just east of the main entrance. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Northwest Edition)
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NW Arkansas today
QUOTE OF THE DAY “It looks like a urinal — a steel urinal — and it’s leaking!” Robin Miller, attending a hearing at the federal courts building in downtown Little Rock, on the new water sculpture just east of the main entrance Article, 1B Today’s meetings Fayetteville Advertising and Promotion Commission, 2 p.m. Rogers Airport Commission, 4 p.m. Washington County Quorum Court Finance Committee, ...
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Ailing British Lord To Auction Off Life
The title Lord of the Manor, the art, two Bentleys, two hotels and a million pound estate are all up for grabs on e-Bay.
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DATEBOOK
Today Downtown Senior Center Fundraisers and Events: oil painting classes, Mondays, 9 a.m.; line-dancing classes, Tuesdays, 10 a.m.; exercise with Carl, Wednesdays, 10 a.m., 305 Penn Ave. 347-3970.
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KODAK Gallery Launches Exclusive Partnership with Famed Children's Author Eric Carle
KODAK Gallery, today announced an exclusive line of personalized Photo Cards, Photo Invitations and Photo Books featuring the celebrated designs of renowned children's author and illustrator, Eric Carle.
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OC Music Fest Receives Investment Commitment for $5M and Appoints New Officer
OC MUSICFEST, Orange County's regional music festival, today announces the commitment, arranged by Foland Financial Corp, from a nationally renowned media and public relations firm for an investment in kind of 5 Million US Dollars over the next 48 months.
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Axceleon Announces Global Workflow and Pipeline Management
LOS ANGELES----AxceleonTM, a leader in high performance cloud computing solutions for computational grids, clusters and render farms, today announced the introduction of its new global workflow, pipeline and "seamless renderingTM" product named CloudFuzionTM.
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Art Festival announces winners
Following are winners and categories from the weekend's 2008 Lewiston Art Festival:
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Nigeria: Aresuva 2008 - Visual Arts Can Rake in U.S $50 Billion for Country
As the country prepares to host the First African Regional Summit and Exhibition of Visual Arts, (ARESUVA) the Director General, National Gallery of Art (NGA), Chief Joe Musa, has said visual art could rake in $50 billion to the country's economy.
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ONE-TANK GETAWAYS: SONOMA
The Sonoma Valley is more than vineyards and tasting rooms. Art shows, moonlight garden strolls, one-of-a-kind shopping, vintage amusement rides, mineral pools, even hay rides are some of the experiences that can make you feel like you're on vacation -- just miles from home.
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Briefs (Aug. 14)
Voter registration; photography contest; Children's Department blog; more.
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Art Festival Announces Prizes
Mystic - The 51st annual Mystic Outdoor Art Festival jury announced its top awards Sunday for the all-weekend show. Best in
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Black bear roams through Loveland Reporter Herald staff
LOVELAND – A small black bear was on the loose in Loveland and may have traveled through the sculpture shows early Sunday morning before it was tranquilized and taken away by the Colorado Division of Wildlife.
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City is back in the game
Baltimore revives the Junior Open Tennis Tournament, a once-thriving contest that had been on hiatus for 30 years Matthew Gonzalgo, 8, prepares to serve during a game at the Junior Open Tennis Tournament at Druid Hill Park. Baltimore has revived its tournament after about three decades on hiatus.
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Sixty years of holograms marked
A museum hosts an international exhibition celebrating the 60th anniversary of the hologram.
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