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Da Kine
Japanese slack-key artists Agnes Kimura and Noboru Matsumoto will perform in a free concert at 6 p.m. today at the Kapiolani Park Bandstand. Both artists spent last week teaching in Ledward Kaapana's Slack Key Guitar Workshops and also performed in yesterday's Slack Key Guitar Festival.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin |
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Edinburgh festival slideshow: Murdo Macleod's second week
Photographer Murdo Macleod snaps highlights from the second week of the Edinburgh festival, while Tony Benn offers some words of wisdom
Guardian Unlimited |
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Founders of Sculpture in the Park share memories By Cara O’Brien Loveland Reporter-Herald
Dan Ostermiller started out in taxidermy. George Lundeen was inspired by a sculpture of a woman in a rocking chair. Fritz White filled a car trunk with marble before he knew how to sculpt. George Walbye grew up “half-cowboy” in Wyoming, without art classes. But at the ends of their meandering, differing paths, these four men found sculpture and the Loveland sculpture community.
Loveland Reporter-Herald |
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Art Gallery renovation under way
Art Gallery of Algoma's first major renovations since opening in 1980 will cost more than $400,000. Barban Construction began an estimated eight-to-10 week project Aug. 11. The gallery's administrative offices and gift shop are trading spaces. New track lighting will be put up in both galleries. A [...]
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Mirror.co.uk's Monday gossip round-up - today's top showbiz
Another weekend, another day spent wearing wellies watching bands in fields, and this Saturday and Sunday saw various famous types cavorting backstage at V - the safe, dependable rather boring Ford Fiesta of festivals.
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The unsolved mystery of Hibbing's history
HIBBING — For nearly a century the subdued grandeur of Hibbing High School has inspired the imaginations of former students and visitors alike with the secrets disguised within its decorative walls. Millions were invested in creating the building and more spent on the artwork purchased and created.
Hibbing Daily Tribune |
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At Clearwater Festival, it's easy being green
The message was clear Sunday: Even the smallest actions can have a big impact on the environment.
Asbury Park Press |
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Family bares Dali gifts
A remarkable relationship came to light this summer when a Williamsville widow decided to unlock the collection of art given to her physician husband by surrealist painter Salvador Dali, whose work is in Buffalo's Albright- Knox Art Gallery.
The Buffalo News |
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Garrison Arts and Crafts Fair attracts thousands
GARRISON - One of Putnam’s most picturesque locations drew thousands for spectators for what has become a summer tradition in the Hudson Valley—the annual Garrison Fine Arts and Crafts Fair.
Mid-Hudson News |
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Burnin' with the 'American Dream'
A man with a dyed-black beard in traditional Muslim clothes will work on a 30-foot-tall wooden sculpture resembling the Statue of Liberty as he yells down to people at a festival in the Nevada desert next week:
Nevada Appeal |
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Arts Visalia showcases local children's summer projects
The faces greet people when they walk into the gallery. No, they aren't real, but their likenesses are based on real people. Mixed-media sculptures line the right entry wall of Arts Visalia.
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Public Meetings
The Art Museum Board will meet at 8 a.m. Wednesday at the art museum, 47 E. 200 North. The Washington County Building Authority will meet at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the county commission chambers, 197 E. Tabernacle.
Saint George Spectrum |
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Commissioner questions
A lobbying organization that bills itself as the voice of the Western Slope is now dominated by oil and gas interests, according to Pitkin County Commissioner Rachel Richards.
Aspen Daily News |
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Arts in Brief
Carol Noel has been promoted to director of development at the Amon Carter Museum. Noel has been with the museum since 2000, first as public relations assistant and then as public relations coordinator and public information officer.
Fort Worth Business Press |
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Setsucon 2009 Registration Updates
Setsucon, Central Pennsylvania's largest anime convention has updated its registration page with more options for 2009. We now have general attendee, Artists Alley, Vendors room, and Anime Music Video contest registration available for those who wish to sign up.
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‘Boy with Green Hair’ leads film week
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth continues Still Moving, a sustained exhibition of classic motion pictures from New York’s Museum of Modern Art archives, at 7 p.m. Aug. 21 with Joseph Losey’s The Boy with Green Hair, a post-WWII fable of haunting resonance.
Fort Worth Business Press |
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Green Art blends landscaping and sculpture
KITTERY, Maine and#8212; Travel along the Route 1 Bypass northbound, over the Sarah Mildred Long Bridge into Kittery, and Green Art quickly comes into sight: a blend of a unique nursery, a garden design center and an outdoor stone art gallery.
Portsmouth Herald |
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Ca Mau loses millions of euros from sale of antiques
VietNamNet Bridge – The questionable decision to hold the auctions of Chinese pottery antiques in the Netherlands is estimated to have cost Vietnam millions of euros.
Vietnam Net |
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A guitar photocopier, for effortlessly making clones of famous bits of wood
Technically, this is a "wood carving duplicator" but the description "guitar photocopier" seems to fit the automated drilling machine so much better.
Tech Digest via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Artist Ravi Gossain makes it big with large format art
Big and bold is now considered beautiful in the capital's art circuit as Delhi-based artist Ravi Gossain showed that canvases were getting bigger, almost gigantic in format, through his exhibition 'Me, Myself, My Obsession. And My Area of Peace'.
Calcutta News |
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Sculptor chosen for Souderton parking lot
,An artist has been chosen and the theme for Souderton's first public sculpture is further defined. "He selected hope, stability and growth," said Gwen Cukierski, an...
The Reporter |
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Clitheroe teenager wins international photo contest
CLITHEROE student Will Lyte has won the UK category of the "Plan Shoot Nations" international photography competition. (18/08/2008 09:27:53)
Burnley Today |
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Wedding thrashers
The wedding was on a Michigan beach, the reception was in an art gallery -- but a former Chicago couple's wedding night was spent in separate jail cells after both bride and groom got shocked by a police Taser and arrested at their raucous reception.
Chicago Sun-Times |
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A whale of a sculpture
Ruth Pearson of Canning, N.S., works on her sand sculpture of a whale and her calf during the 30th annual Clam Harbour Beach Sandcastle and Sculpture Contest on Sunday in Halifax.
Telegraph-Journal |
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Newlyweds Tasered, arrested at reception
The wedding was on a Michigan beach, the reception was in an art gallery -- but a former Chicago couple's wedding night was spent in separate jail cells after both bride and groom got shocked by a police Taser and arrested at their raucous reception.
Chicago Sun-Times |
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