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Hart Plaza festival celebrates African arts, heritage
Like so many other Metro Detroiters, Candace Gillespie looks forward to mid-August. It's the time of year for the annual African World Festival, one of the city's most popular ethnic festivals at Hart Plaza.
Detroit News |
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New pieces created for N.C. museum exhibit
Knoxville News Sentinel |
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Sand on the Riverfront: Super-sized sand sculptures, fun and sun
LOCATION: Riverside Park HOURS: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. today. ADMISSION: Free VOTING METHOD: Cast a sand dollar vote for your favorite sand sculpture or vehicle in the car and tractor show for $1 per sand dollar or 12 for $10. The People’s Choice Award will be announced at 7:30 p.m. today.
La Crosse Tribune |
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Albuquerque artist in city for one day
Artist Ralph Roybal of Albuquerque, N.M., will visit the Carriage Factory Gallery in Newton today for a one-day showing of bronze sculptures. />Roybal will have sculptures in bronze available for viewing and purchase from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Newton Kansan |
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GISD boosts fine arts funds despite shortfall
GALVESTON — Public school district trustees agreed to pump money into declining fine arts departments, even though the district is facing a budget shortfall.
Galveston County Daily News |
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Frank named permanent curator at UWM’s Inova art center
The Institute of Visual Arts, or Inova, a once internationally recognized contemporary arts institution, has hired a permanent curator after five years.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
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Medieval Music Community Art Day today at museum
The Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art will sponsor a Community Art Day by Dr. John McWilliams of Oklahoma Baptist University on Medieval musical instruments from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. today. Children will be able to create some musical instruments of their own. Dr. McWilliams will discuss the musical instruments that he creates. He has created Medieval, Renaissance and Celtic instruments for 15 years now.
The Shawnee News-Star |
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Smithsonian Gets Archive From Christo
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has acquired a collection of artwork and research materials from the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude that document ?Running Fence.?
New York Times |
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The Gallery - Lanny Liu
We're in the middle of the convention season here in North America, and among all the chaos, dancing, and photo taking I've been seeing in the hallowed halls of AX and Otakon, I'm once again reminded of the big differences between anime fans here and their Japanese counterparts.
Anime News Network |
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The Work of an Artist?s Artist
Peter Saul, who is the subject of a retrospective at the Orange County Museum of Art in California, has long been admired, but he has never exceeded cult status.
New York Times |
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Provocateur: The Peter Saul Manifesto
The influence of Mr. Saul?s paintings, with their cartoony figures, lurid-lush colors, splatter-film expressionism and contrarian take on topical subjects, pervades recent art.
New York Times |
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A Celebration of the Squeezebox
Accordion lovers from as far away as China have come to Arlington, Va., for the American Accordionists? Association?s festival and competition.
New York Times |
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Copper thieves ravage sculptor's works
EASTON — A sculptor who escaped the Iron Curtain's bonds in the 1960s to find artistic freedom in America was dealt a blow recently when some of his best work was destroyed by a copper thief.
Connecticut Post |
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Paint My House
Berlin's landmark Cathedral is illuminated for the light art festival themed "Paint My House!" Photo courtesy: AFP.
Sin Chew Jit Poh |
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Palm Harbor Chamber Plans Scaled-Down Fine Arts Show
An even more eclectic variety of art will be on display this winter during the 34th Palm Harbor Chamber of Commerce Fine Arts and Fine Crafts Show. Chamber President Connie Davis said the chamber is happy to return the art show to downtown Florida Avenue after its 3-year stint on the Tarpon Springs Campus of St. Petersburg College.
The Suncoast News Pinellas |
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Window On Pinellas
The Suncoast Animal League will hold a concert and art auction fundraiser at The Zone, 121 E. Tarpon Ave. 4 - 8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 24.
The Suncoast News Pinellas |
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Sculpting success with dolls
GEISMAR, La. -- Body parts _ tiny heads, arms and feet. That's what you'll find on almost every surface in Stephanie Cauley's workshop. But Cauley has no criminal intent.
KATC 3 Lafayette |
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Local Harley-Davidson museum closes
HUNTINGTON -- A downtown motorcycle museum that drew ZZ Top, Billy Joel and even Willie G. Davidson is gone.
The Huntington Herald-Dispatch |
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Rossiter: Teacher shares lessons from grandfather
[ Frances Chapman missed the first day of school this week. But the art teacher at St. Joseph Catholic School had an excused absence.
Athens Banner-Herald |
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Arts Council Seeking Entries For Exhibition
Art is the product of human activity. Art is intended to stimulate an idea or emotion through the abstract thought of the artist, and the audience who views artwork.
The Suncoast News Pasco |
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Artist Is Painting From Within
Blackness the body possesses. Empathy; compassion and the darker side of emotions.
The Suncoast News Pasco |
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12 Hours of Art on Marblehead Neck
MARBLEHEAD, MA.- In what has become an annual event, a dozen artists will gather to exhibit their work from 11:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, August 30 and Sunday, August 31 on the lawns of 280 Ocean Avenue on Marblehead Neck. The rain date for the event is Monday, September 1.
Art Daily |
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Andy Warhol Photos Donated to K-State's Beach Museum of Art
NEW YORK.- The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art at Kansas State University has received 150 photographs of celebrities and other high-profile Americans taken by pop artist Andy Warhol.
Art Daily |
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Michal Rovner Exhibition at The Heckscher Museum of Art
Michal Rovner, Slope, 2007, stone well with digital projection, 12-1/4" x 37-1/4" x 21" (31.1 cm x 94.6 cm x 53.3 cm). HUNTINGTON, NY.- The Heckscher Museum of Art presents Michal Rovner: Video, Sculpture, Installation.
Art Daily |
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NEH Grants $400,000 for Seattle Art Museum Exhibition of Native Art
Thunderbird Saves Killer Whale, 2006, Red cedar, yellow cedar, paint, Andrea Wilbur-Sigo, Squaxin, 18 x 18 x 22 in. Glenn and Ann Parker. SEATTLE, WA.-
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