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New home is fueling art museum's revival
Name the biggest draws for visitors downtown and the top picks likely would be Bricktown and the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum. But don't forget some other big attractions — including the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. A decade ago, the museum was stuck in a time warp, housed in an old institutional-type building at State Fair Park. It was the sort of place that one might have visited ...
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Trail opening, art show planned for Friday
Trail opening, art show planned for Friday
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Former Soell’s site to be sold; store’s contents up for auction
The contents of the former Soell’s Wines and Liquor store, closed since late 2004, will be sold at auction Sunday as the owners prepare to sell the 3815 Mormon Coulee Road site for office and warehouse space.
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Exhibition displays diverse inspirations
A sculpture created from toy cars and helium balloons marked with Spanish proverbs and created by a student from the Galapagos Islands is among works on show in Wanganui from this Wednesday.
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Ky. man admits robbing banks
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - The brother of a former Stonewall Jackson Middle School art teacher admitted in federal court Monday that he robbed two banks in April with his sisters help.Jeremy Mark Brown, 24, of Louisa, Ky., said he robbed the City National Ba...
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Ky. man admits robbing banks
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - The brother of a former Stonewall Jackson Middle School art teacher admitted in federal court Monday that he robbed two banks in April with his sister's help.
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Organizers Gear Up For Unique Music Fest
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- When Another Planet's massive Outside Lands Festival makes its debut in Golden Gate Park next weekend, the inaugural edition of the event will offer Bay Area music lovers a new kind of concert experience as the park hosts amplified music at night for the first time ever.
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The Painter and the City: Parallel Tales of Growth
An exhibition in its final weeks at the Yale Center for British Art, ?Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool,? is the first to focus on this period of the 18th-century painter?s career.
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Picasso print recovered in Brazil woods
SAO PAULO, Brazil Brazilian police said Monday they found a stolen Picasso print, the last of four artworks to be recovered following a museum robbery in June.
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Aug. 19, 1839: Photography Goes Open Source
1839: With a French pension in hand, Louis Daguerre reveals the secrets of making daguerreotypes to a waiting world. The pioneering photographic process is an instant hit. Using chemical reactions to make images with light was not quite new. Doing it fast was. Inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niepce created a rough image using silver salts and a camera obscura, or "dark box," in 1816. The ...
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HUNTERS HILL HAPPENINGS with Mayor SUE HOOPMANN
THE HUNTERS Hill Young in Art Exhibition will start with an opening night on Wednesday August 27 at 6pm in the Hunters Hill Town Hall. The exhibition will continue on August 28 and 29 between 10am-4pm, and again on August 30 and 31 from 11am-3pm.
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Feds raise Fumo fraud estimate to $3.5 million
PHILADELPHIA -- State Sen. Vincent Fumo and associates defrauded the Senate, a museum and nonprofit group of about $3.5 million, far more than the initial estimate, prosecutors said yesterday in ...
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Gallery: Daguerre to Be Different!
: Image: George H. Johnson, 1853/Courtesy Oakland Museum of California The daguerrotype process had a relatively short commercial life span of about two decades. A major reason was that innovators capitalized on "France's gift to the world" and started improving the process immediately. Better emulsions and better developing and fixing solutions improved image quality and reduced exposure ...
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Georgian native fears for family
LAMBERTVILLE -- Art gallery owner Leila Bakashvili doesn't usually fret over geopolitical tensions or the state of affairs in her native homeland, the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
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Authentic View
If you take a trip to Cherokee, through the state-of-the art museum or the Oconaluftee Indian Village, you will likely hear more than just the ancient language of the Cherokee.
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Museum hosts leaders for fundraising help
I n his first visit to the area in almost four decades, former Pennsylvania governor and Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge visited Columbus to tour the National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center at Patriot Park.
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Motorola "Jay-Z" Bluetooth headphones hit the FCC, branches on the ugly tree
Filed under: Cellphones , Peripherals , Portable Audio Hmm, Hov, you may want to check the fine print on whatever deal you've got with Moto, because these Jay-Z-branded MOTOROKR S7-HD Bluetooth headset aren't exactly big pimpin' -- and compared to Dre's big ol' cans , they look downright sad. Of course, the FCC's legendarily nasty product photography isnt helping here, but even A2DP ...
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Give beige walls splash of color
Dear Debbie: We are downsizing from a 10-room house to a two-bedroom apartment. It is painted beige throughout, and they discourage painting.
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Charles Lindsays Upstream: Fly Fishing in the American West at Boise Art Museum
BOISE.- Boise Art Museum (BAM) is pleased to present UPSTREAM: Fly Fishing in the American West. This is BAM’s first exhibition devoted to fly fishing, and forges a new connection with our outdoor-oriented community!
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College Students Enjoy Affordable Year-round Admission to Portland Art Museum
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Tibetan Bronzes on Exhibit at Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art
Photo from The Collection of the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama. AUBURN.- The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art announced the opening of a small exhibition of works from the Nelson and Joan Cousins Hartman Collection of Tibetan Bronzes.
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Silent German Art by Tim Eitel at Kunsthallen Brandts in Denmark
Tim Eitel, Asphalt, 2007, 272 x 318 cm. Courtesy Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin and PaceWildenstein ODENSE.- Tim Eitel’s medium is figurative painting, of which he is an exceptionally gifted master.
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ARKEN'S New Galleries Allow Visitors to See Permanent Collection in a New Way
View of the galleries. COPENHAGEN.- The establishment of ARKEN’s new galleries for special exhibitions means that it is now possible too to present a selection of works from ARKEN’s permanent collection of art.
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Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein Presents Malevich and his Influence
Kazimir Malevich, Black Square, 1929. LICHTENSTEIN.- The Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein presents the exhibition “Malevich and his Influence”, documenting the influence Malevich had on his fellow artists at the time.
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Highlights From the Scottish School
The auction world might be busy preparing for the major fall sales, but there's one sign that the dog days of summer aren't over quite yet. Sotheby's holds its Scottish & Sporting Pictures sale at the Gleneagles Hotel on August 26. A laid-back, late-summer event, it has been attracting a diverse crowd of art aficionados to the Highlands for four decades. "Buyers nowadays are more receptive to ...
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