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Exhibit chronicles American Indians in baseball
HOWES CAVE, N.Y. - Long before Jackie Robinson endured torrents of racial taunts in breaking baseball"s color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, Louis Sockalexis had a bull"s-eye on his back.
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Daniels: Tax caps are working
INDIANAPOLIS Looming state property tax caps are forcing Lake County leaders to consider long overdue spending cuts, Gov. Mitch Daniels said a day after the city of Gary canceled a $25,000 photography contract with the mayor's son.
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RIVERS FLOATS ABOVE REST
BEFORE Andy Warhol painted his first soup can - and way before Damien Hirst found art in formaldehyde - Larry Rivers was stirring things up. He used stencils, collages and charcoal smudges, sometimes all at once; painted his mother-in-law in the...
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Art Fest continues to delight
Wayne Trinklein's metal tree sculptures were a welcome sight to Lincolnshire Art Festival goers who missed the giant Oak tree that used to grace Village Green.
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The Long Christmas Ride Home, Late Nights at the Dallas Museum of Art, The Big Bang
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel counts as one of her influences the great Cuban-American Maria Irene Fornes, whose inventive use of puppets in The Danube is likely one of the germinating ideas that led to Vogel’s The Long Christmas Ride Home . In Ride , a dysfunctional family really gets into verbal combat after a holiday dinner. The show is performed in bunraku style, with ...
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What's coming up: Performing arts
Texas Camerata This Fort Worth-based early music ensemble begins its season with the program "The Baroque Violin With Cynthia Roberts," which features music for violins and continuo, such as Vivaldi’s Concerto in A Minor for Two Violins and Telemann’s Concerto in C Major for Four Violins. 2 p.m. Sept. 20 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. $20. 817-738-7939; www.musichost.com/txcam ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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Sylvia Anderson
With only two minutes to spare, Mary Kay Lyle raced across the street with her lemon meringue pie in hand to the Home Economics Building at the 2008 Missouri State Fair in Sedalia. The pie had to be there at 9:30 a.m. to be qualified to enter Melanie Blunt’s First Lady Pie Contest.
St. Joseph News-Press |
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Decorators add touch of exotic to aid zoo's nocturnal exhibit
Story on the "Room with a Zoo" program, a fundraiser for Mesker Park Zoo.
The Gleaner |
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Rare Lennon Drawings to Go on Display
Some of his drawings that have not been publicly exhibited will be on display in Milwaukee this weekend, The Associated Press reported.
New York Times |
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Interior Lives: Cribs of the Rich and Regal
The Cooper-Hewitt National Design?s show of jewel-like renderings of rooms and their furnishings dovetails seamlessly with our voyeuristic, overdecorated times.
New York Times |
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Hidden Details at the Met
The pictures in this slide show were taken by Librado Romero, a staff photographer for The New York Times , at the Metropolitan Museum of Art . All depict details of works currently on display at the museum.
New York Times |
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Fiber and beads serve Judaic spirituality
The Newark Museum's "Completing the Circle: The Fiber and Beaded Art of Ina Golub" is an exhibition of more than 30 beaded and woven textiles by a Newark native who has been making art out of fabrics since the 1960s.
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Indian dance: a rare look at the diaspora
NEW YORK -- Billed as a festival of Indian dance, the performances, lectures and panel discussions that the Indo-American Arts Council will present next week add up to a bit more than that.
The Star-Ledger |
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Cedar Block artists cross art and wit at Milwaukee Art Museum
What do you get when you cross a rhino with an elephant? Or, how about a painter and a sculptor?
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
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Foundation to host back-to-school festival
LA MARQUE — The La Marque school district’s Education Foundation will hold its first back-to-school “BBQ Bash” for the community Saturday.
Galveston County Daily News |
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Sidedish: Milwaukee Wine Festival joins lakefront scene
A new festival is joining the lakefront scene, and this one won’t be all about the beer.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
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Festival brings music to Centennial Grove
ESSEX and mdash; Fifteen years ago Sweet Loretta and Dr. Earl, members of the Snake Oil Jug Band, rallied the community together to save one of Essex's natural treasures. The more than a century old Centennial Grove had fallen into disrepair. The pavilion, for instance, where bands used to play in the 1920s and '60s before it was neglected, was in need of a complete overhaul, including a new ...
Gloucester Daily Times |
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Wayside exhibit opens at Postville Courthouse
LINCOLN -- Postville Courthouse volunteer coordinator Shirley Bartelmay keeps asking the same question as she strolls around the courthouse where Abraham Lincoln once practiced law.
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Qatar Pursues De Montebello
The outgoing director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philippe de Montebello, may get more deeply involved in museum development projects in the Middle East. Mr. de Montebello, who will retire at the end of this year or when a successor is named, has already been appointed as a special adviser on NYU Abu Dhabi. He will be involved in visual arts programming and structuring an arts curriculum. ...
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National touring exhibit to open at local museum
PDT Staff Report "Far From the Tree," a national touring exhibition, opens Aug. 23, at Southern Ohio Museum's Richards Gallery and runs through Oct. 30. Originated by the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine, the exhibit presents a visual history of woodturning's emergence as a vibrant artistic form over the past 60 years.
Portsmouth Daily Times |
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Louisiana man wins Elvis tribute contest
A Louisiana man won the 2008 Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest on Thursday in Memphis, Tenn. Brandon Bennett of Ponchatoula took the title, said Brian Brigner, chief operating officer of On Stage Entertainment, the producers of Legends In Concert. Donny Edwards of Las Vegas finished second. Joseph Hall, the NBC "America's Got Talent" contestant who performed in July at Legends' theater in ...
The Myrtle Beach Sun News |
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Deck the walls: Arts Council members' show attracts record number of entrants
A clay head adorned with plastic chess pieces sits in one corner of the Carroll Arts Center’s Tevis Gallery. Meanwhile, the gallery walls are covered with paintings and photographs, featuring subjects ranging from green jalapeno peppers to blooming flowers to farm landscapes.
Carroll County Times |
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MUSEUMS
BROOKGREEN GARDENS, U.S. 17, between Murrells Inlet and Pawleys Island, has a collection of outdoor sculptures by American artists, and an accredited zoo. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. "Cool Summer Evenings" conclude today, open until 9 p.m., with live entertainment and $7 evening cruises on the creek, free with admission. Seven-day gate admission for ages 13-64, ...
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'Elements' arts village planned for along Town Lake
Artist BJ Katz's painted panes of melted glassworks hang in a Dutch museum and a New Zealand penguin conservatory. If Tempe has its way, an arts campus along Town Lake will house a window into her craftsmanship.
The Arizona Republic |
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The Mt. Hood Jazz Festival Preview
When Mt. Hood Community College proposed earlier this year that the Mt. Hood Jazz Festival come back to the institution, festival organizers, though intrigued, declined. They already had planned to hold the well-known event at the Center for the Arts in downtown Gresham.
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