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Fair opens to the public at 10 a.m. this Saturday
The White Pine County Fair and livestock exposition are scheduled this weekend. Yougsters with the 4-H will exhibit and auction their projects. And the fair offers entertainment, contests, fun activities and exhibits galore.
Ely Daily Times |
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Sotheby's To Move Its Asian Art Sales To Asia
Sotheby's said it will cease holding auctions of Asian contemporary art in New York and 'consolidate' them instead in Hong Kong, with biannual sales in the Asian city.
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Hand-tufting at Spring Place Festival on Saturday
SPRING PLACE — The hand-tufting of bedspreads will be a premier attraction as the Spring Place Festival recalls a bygone era on Saturday. The 11th annual event takes place at the Old Spring Place Methodist Church just off Highway 225 South at its juncture with Smyrna Spring Place Road.
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Foothills Gallery Features Doris Maples
Doris Maples and her watercolors will be the featured artist of the month at the Foothills Gallery. The gallery is located at 309 Main St. in LaFayette.
The Chattanoogan |
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Artist to show appearance of truth at UC Clermont
BATAVIA - 'Verisimilitude,' an exhibit by artist Richard J. Luschek II is being featured in the UC Clermont College Art Gallery through Aug. 29.
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Seattle Art Museum gets gift for Coast Salish exhibit
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the Seattle Art Museum $400,000 for the presentation of "The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists," running Oct. 24-Jan. 11.
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"Barbie" undergoes artsy makeover in San Francisco
The blond hair, pert nose and twinkling eyes of the shapely doll were unmistakably Barbie, but what was she doing attached to a prehistoric bug?
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
Yesterday I asked the office of Iowa Gov. Chet Culver (D) if the governor supports the regents' process of assessing the monetary value (and potential sale) of Jackson Pollock's Mural , or if he believes that the university and University of Iowa Museum of Art should adhere to industry practices and should leave the museum's collection alone.
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Gaming, Entertainment for Back-to-School and Beyond with Affordable Gateway P-7811FX Notebook
Gateway, a wholly owned subsidiary of Acer Inc., today debuts the Gateway P-7811FX(R) notebook PC, the latest in its P-Series FX Edition line for gaming, entertainment and digital media hobbies such as photography and video editing.
Centre Daily Times |
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Kids say thanks for Children's Museum donations
The York Area Children's Museum benefited from two generous donations recently. The first, came in the form of a check from Cornerstone Insurance Group through IMT. The second, came in the form of an SUV, built specifically for the museum by Shannon Legg of Abengoa Bioenergy.
York News-Times |
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Council to take final vote on alcohol referendum
Florence City Council will meet Thursday morning to take a final vote regarding a proposed alcohol referendum and hear a request to buy a downtown building for the Florence Museum of Art, Science and History.
Florence Morning News |
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Another fun weekend with Cruise Nite, SPSA exhibit, 1st Sunday at Santa Paula Airport
It seems like Santa Paula isn’t taking off any time from staging fun activities, and this weekend, after taking a hiatus for the month of July, Cruise Nite will be pulling up again on Main Street where a second event, the 40th Anniversary Celebration of the Santa Paula Society of the Arts, will be held close by at the Santa Paula California Oil Museum (SPCOM).
Santa Paula Times |
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Photography tips focus in on fall foliage
Jeff Folger photographs fall foliage and provides commentary for Yankee magazine's yankeefoliage.com Web site, where readers from around the country ask questions about...
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Good to be King
The Size of Things in the Mind’s Eye , a mid-career retrospective of artist Elizabeth King now on display at Lincoln’s Sheldon Museum of Art, is one of the most challenging shows — and one of the most visually stimulating — of the year.
The Reader |
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Borsini-Burr opens doors to new home for ï¬ ne art
Starting from two buildings on Main Street in Half Moon Bay, Borsini-Burr Gallery now has a gracious new home on Main Street, Montara.
Half Moon Bay Review |
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Allerton Hotel Reopens in Chicago After $85 Million Overhaul
Chicago's Allerton Hotel reopens this week after undergoing an $85 million overhaul that touched every space within the property. The 1922 hotel, a landmark on Miracle Mile, features redesigned guestrooms and public spaces, as well as the relocation of the lobby (which features a Stairway to Heaven sculpture by Eric Clapton) to its original second-floor setting.
Hospitality Design |
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Potters, painters unite at art show
UXBRIDGE -- For Marlene Parisi, making pottery is a break from her everyday occupation. "It's a lot of fun, it's very relaxing," said the Uxbridge resident and bookkeeper....
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Berry fest will aid Sodaville park
SODAVILLE — Organizers of the Sodaville Blackberry Festival have added more attractions to Saturday’s festival: pony rides, inflated bounce toys and other rides for children and performances by the mid-valley band Shades of Gray.
Albany Democrat-Herald |
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Rare collection of Lennon art shown in Waukesha
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) John Lennons wife Yoko Ono and his admirers are so protective of the late Beatles legacy they dont want any of his original drawings photographed in full. Some are fragile and worth hundreds of thousands of dollars or more, and they dont want them to hit the Internet, where they can be counterfeited. So for the first time the public will get to see 27 pencil and pen drawings ...
Stevens Point Journal |
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Names in the news
The Hayley Gallery in New Albany is displaying "Painting with Glass," an exhibition featuring the glass mosaic works of Powell artist Terri Albanese this month.
This Week Olentangy |
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The New York Times and Bergdorf Goodman to Kick off NY Fashion Week with Special Window Displays and In-Store Exhibit ...
The New York Times and Bergdorf Goodman announced today that they will kick off New York Fashion Week in September with special window displays and an in-store exhibit of Bill Cunningham's photography from his long-running "On the Street" and "Evening Hours" columns. Both columns appear weekly in the Sunday Styles section of The Times and online at NYTimes.com. The windows will be on view from ...
Centre Daily Times |
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Shock tactics return
"The only thing humans, rats and crows have in common is garbage," announced Ryuta Ushiro, leader of artist unit Chim ↑ Pom, with a mischievous smile. Before I had a chance to suggest some others, a sudden and very unhuman scuffling sound at the back of the gallery made it clear that this was no time for pedantry. Whatever incongruous conclusion these wacky artists had drawn from their dodgy ...
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Traditional delights
In a summertime exhibition to celebrate the 120th anniversary of Kokka, the authoritative Japanese journal on pre-modern Asian art, and the 130th anniversary of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, the (TNM) has taken an interesting change of direction in its curation. Though at first the thematic structure of "Dueling Geniuses — The Greatest Highlights of Japanese Artists" seems gimmicky (especially in ...
The Japan Times |
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MARKET SNAPSHOT: U.S. Stocks End Lower, Pressured By Oil, Financials
U.S. stocks ended in the red Wednesday, weighed down by a rebound in oil prices and ongoing worries about the financial sector sparked by Merrill Lynch's downgrades of several banks.
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Mobiles - the 21st Century muse
Pablo Picasso worked everyday artefacts like newspapers into his collages. Andy Warhol painted soup cans. Now artists are taking the everyday a step further by using one object - the mobile phone - as the paint, the canvas and the gallery.
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