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Updated 8/5: Antioch Fine Arts Foundation features two for August
The featured artists for the month of August at the Antioch Fine Arts Foundation are Carole Sterne and Arlene Cramer Omerod.
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Baltic Centre appoints new director
The £50m ($93m) Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, the UK’s largest display space for contemporary art outside London, has appointed its fourth director in the space of six years as it seeks to usher in a much-needed period of stability.
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Cats and dogs tour county
MORGANTON - What's a cat without whiskers? Andrew Atkin rhetorically asked a woman pointing out the whiskers on the cat he painted for Burke Arts Council. Atkin, 53, of Granite Falls, designed and painted one of 21 cats and dogs that will travel throughout the county until Oct. 4. Burke Arts Council Executive Director, Ann DiSanto, said, It's a public art project to promote awareness of Burke ...
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Artwork decorates community center
More than a dozen young faces peered up at the wall-sized painting Thursday at the dedication of a new mural at the Booker T. Washington Park Community Center.
Terre Haute Tribune Star |
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UCF Students Showcase Chinese Folk Art
A group of Central Florida college students is using the Beijing Olympics to spread knowledge about Chinese folk art.
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Art tours provide a peek at creative process
Like a ballpark tour for baseball fans or a pub crawl for beer enthusiasts, two free art tours this month will give art lovers a chance to visit dozens of stops with paintings, photographs, ceramics, jewelry, sculptures and more.
Fall River Herald News |
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It’s just heavenly
NARELLE Kliendanze, Visual Art and Photography teacher at Macintyre High School, Inverell has been selected from over 1200 entries to be one of the 70 finalists in the Blake Art Prize. The Blake Prize for Religious Art is one of the more prestigious art prizes in Australia.
Inverell Times |
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Foodoir Photography: Porcini Ravioli at Blue Dahlia Restaurant
Carol L/flickr Hungry to share your most provocative Austin food photos? Send them here. Make sure to include your name, where the photo was taken and a complete description of the food.
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IN THE GALLERIES: The Sculpture Show: Figure and Pattern
Work by local and national sculptors is on view through Thursday at Emmanel Gallery, Auraria Campus, with a closing reception (and metal pour) 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday.
Rocky Mountain News |
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona , the venerable director's fourth consecutive film made outside of the U.S. (and more importantly, outside of New York City), is made up of scenes featuring well-spoken, awkwardly-placed rich people drinking wine, eating excellent Spanish cuisine, and visiting beautifully-aged sets that range from odd museums to classic villas to an amusement park that ...
filmcritic.com |
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Support the arts for a good cause
Lake in the Hills resident Diane Magerko is looking for artists who work in all types of media for an upcoming art festival. It will be a juried art festival with monetary and ribbon awards where works will be on exhibit and for sale. The plan is to hold it Aug. 16th and 17th at the Algonquin Commons.
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Washington, D.C. on the cheap
There are so many free and cheap things to do in Washington that the biggest challenge is carving out enough time to take advantage of them. Many museums, monuments and other institutions - from the zoo to the botanic garden - that are run by the federal government, charge no admission. But even if you've been here, done that 15 times over, the capital is packed with new and overlooked ...
AM New York |
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The Modern's Windows Go From Clear to Colorful
Danny Meyer's restaurant The Modern, located in the base of the Museum of Modern Art, opened in 2005, and until just recently, its exterior had been conspicuously absent of art. Though its bar room features a photograph by German artist Thomas Demand, and its dining room provides a view of the museum's sculpture garden, the restaurant's large, ground-floor windows on 53rd street have been ...
The New York Sun |
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Serra Gamble Cost Guggenheim $6.2M
The Guggenheim Bilbao lost roughly $6.2 million in government funds when it purchased Richard Serra's monumental sculpture installation, "The Matter of Time" (2005), in dollars rather than euros, the Art Newspaper reported Thursday. The museum paid for the Serra installation in three installments, which totaled more than $20 million, in 2004 and 2005. A spokeswoman told the Art Newspaper that ...
The New York Sun |
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Apron Strings Selected forToronto Film Festival
Apron Strings has been officially selected for the prestigious Toronto Film Festival in the Discovery section. The world’s eyes fell on iconic New Zealand films such as Whale Rider and Out of the Blue at this festival, and this is a huge nod to the film makers and quality of this production.
Scoop.co.nz |
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SIGGRAPH Announces 2008 Computer Animation Festival Winners
ACM SIGGRAPH announced the Computer Animation Festival's Best of Show, Jury Award, Student Prize, Audience Prize, and a special Well Told Fable Prize for SIGGRAPH 2008, the 35th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques.
Centre Daily Times |
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Tauranga wildlife park gets second chance
A Tauranga property housing a wildlife park has been withdrawn from a forced auction after its owners were given extra time to try and repay debt.
Otago Daily Times |
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SIGGRAPH Announces 2008 Computer Animation Festival Winners
LOS ANGELES----ACM SIGGRAPH announced the Computer Animation Festival's Best of Show, Jury Award, Student Prize, Audience Prize, and a special Well Told Fable Prize for SIGGRAPH 2008, the 35th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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'The Life of a Jazz Singer': The Ballad of Anita O'Day
For the bulk of her career, the late Anita O'Day (1919-2006) described herself, quite accurately, as a "song stylist" rather than just a jazz vocalist. Not surprisingly, then, the central sequence in "Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer," which makes its premiere Friday at Cinema Village, is a performance. In 1958, O'Day was invited to appear at the Newport Jazz Festival — the same year that ...
The New York Sun |
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Gallery pushes to set purchase record
The Art Gallery of New South Wales is trying to acquire the most expensive artwork ever bought for an Australian gallery.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
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PEARL MOMENT
The replica of an oyster shell with a pearl in Doha has been captured for eternity by numerous photography enthusiasts in Doha. © 2001 The Peninsula. All Rights Reserved.
The Peninsula |
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Napier’s Art deco festival best rated of NZ events
So what is the best festival event in New Zealand? Some may say the World of Wearable Arts event, others say the World Buskers Festival but Lonely Planet rates Napier’s Art Deco weekend the best.
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HOWL! makes a break, hasn’t got the FEVA anymore
This year’s HOWL!! Festival will feature New Orleans-style musical marches, “green” giveaways, comic-book and punk panels and eclectic events at the Bowery Poetry Club — but no FEVA.
The Villager |
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Julio, Greene Photo Gallery!
Jr middlweight KO artist Joel Julio (34-1, 31 KOs) made good on his vow to knock out Jose Varela (23-4, 16 KOs) and unbeaten jr middleweight Joe Greene (20-0, 14 KOs) successfully made the move from 160 to the 154lb division with an impressive win over Jose Miguel Torres (20-4, 18 KOs).
Fightnews.com |
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New Williamson County Adminstration Building
WILLIAMSON COUNTY--We're getting a first glimpse of what the new County Administrative Building will look like. This artist's rendering was released by the Baysinger Design group in Marion.
WSIL 3 Southern Illinois |
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