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Painterly brushwork celebrates Oregon with new stamp
At 11 a.m. today in the state Capitol, the artwork for the postage stamp to commemorate Oregon's sesquicentennial next year is scheduled to be unveiled.
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Art and science combine to detect masterpieces from fakes
Vincent van Gogh's masterpieces have inspired both young artists and prospective forgers seeking to recreate his vivid landscapes and portraits. Those forgeries are inspirations, too. But in an ironic twist, scientists are turning to modern technology to give art experts better tools to answer an expensive and age-old question: Is it an original van Gogh painting or a fake?
Ventura County Star |
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Do a little sleuthing and unearth Twin Cities' political past
Hosting a Republican National Convention is old hat to Minnesota. Really, really old. Across the Mississippi River from present-day Minneapolis skyscrapers once stood an exhibition hall where Republicans nominated Benjamin Harrison for a second term as president in 1892. Harrison met defeat to Democrat Grover Cleveland, and the Industrial Exposition Building met the wrecking ball half a century ...
Ventura County Star |
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Jewellery inspired by underwater
A book on underwater photography unwittingly inspired a Wairarapa jeweller's new collection. Phillipa Gee, pictured, began to see the resemblance of coral and sea anemone in her latest pieces weeks after she had put the book down.
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Springfield WWII history foretold in new art exhibit
SPRINGFIELD -- History -- both powerful and poignant -- comes alive during the exhibit, "The Hub of the Universe: Springfield in World War II," at the Miller Art Center. ... - By JOSH O'GORMAN Herald Staff
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Worldwide gifting lounges' producer DPA coming to Toronto to host a spectacular gifting suite during the Toronto Film ...
Nathalie Dubois-Sissoko and DPA will produce for the first time a gifting lounge, in the Intercontinental Toronto Centre Hotel, during the Toronto Film festival.
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www.olympic.org - Site Officiel du Mouvement Olympique
Huge success for Olympex: the exhibition on Olympic stamps, coins, memorabilia and art has been attended over the last 10 days by more than 100,000 visitors.
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Young artist finds success in bus safety contest
CRIMORA — Sketches in various state of completion litter Dylan Bozic's desk. His latest work includes a few different dog characters, part of a book project he's working on with his father.
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World Photography Day observed
National Forum of Photo Journalists (NFPJ) Nepal, organised a rally to mark the 169th World Photography Day in Kathmandu, Tuesday. Photo journalists, photographers and other photo enthusiasts wearing camera shaped mask participated in the rally.
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Rotary seeks art for silent auction
ALHAMBRA - The Rotary Club of Alhambra has planned a silent art auction, to be held along with the club's annual Rotary Raffle, Nov.
Pasadena Star-News |
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Yonkers City Hall's sculpture garden gets latest addition: C-Squared
YONKERS - For artist Jerome Harris Parmet, the biggest difference between his sculpting and his former architecture career is back-talk.
The Journal News |
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Local and live
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 • "MONTANA GHOST TOWNS": Western Heritage Center, 2822 Montana Ave. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Photography by Denes G. Istvanffy. Up through Sept. 18. $3, adults; $2, ages 55, older and students; free, ages 12, younger and WHC members. 256-6809.
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Brazilian police find Picasso print stolen from Sao Paulo museum
The Estacao Pinacoteca museum's stolen print "Minotaur, Drinker and Women," by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, was recovered Monday, Brazilian police announced. The piece, which was stolen from the Sao Paulo museum on June 12, was the last one of four stolen artworks to be recovered. Brazilian police launched an operation on Aug. 15 to retrieve the famed print. Three men allegedly involved in the ...
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Community stunned by embezzlement
Thousands of dollars embezzled from the nonprofit association that organizes Lompoc's biggest festivals has left citizens, sponsors and volunteers in disbelief and questioning how it could have happened.
The Lompoc Record |
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Business Digest
OktoberfestFestival starts this weekend with beer, food, art and more Snowbird Ski & Summer Resort's 36th annual Oktoberfest celebration begins Saturday.
The Salt Lake Tribune |
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Artists set for Bayonne show
Jersey City's Barbara Fisher Williams has been drawn to art since she was a child growing up in New York's Spanish Harlem. "I went to Wagner Junior High School and my mentor was Miss Sutton, the art teacher," Fisher Williams recalled. "I went to her house and she taught me how to make a collage.
The Jersey Journal |
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Man admits he knowingly sold stolen art
A Salt Lake City man accused of participating in an antique theft ring has admitted to knowingly selling a stolen painting to a local antique dealer. John W.
The Salt Lake Tribune |
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Calendar -- Ankeny
Re-Viewing 30 Years of Painting. Through Oct. 11. Works by Pat Hykes. Ankeny Art Center, 1520 S.W. Ordnance Road, Ankeny. ankenyarts@ankenyartcenter; 965-0940; www.ankenyartcenter.com .
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Calendar -- West Des Moines, Clive & Waukee
Paintings by Tilly Woodward. July 25 through Aug. 23. Olson-Larsen Galleries, 203 Fifth St., West Des Moines. 277-6734; www.olsonlarsen.com .
The Altoona Herald-Mitchellville Index |
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Great garden shots
This summer, our camera-toting readers found inspiration in everything from kids' science projects to backcountry hiking. And many superb examples of their photography poured in to our no-prize summer photo contest.
The Times-News |
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Painting, acting keep Jane Seymour busy
It took a near-death experience to turn actress Jane Seymour's life around. She was making a biopic on Maria Callas in Spain when she came down with bronchitis. An antibiotic was injected into a vein instead of the muscle, and Seymour -- best known as the invincible Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman -- went into anaphylactic shock. "The nurse that had administered it saved my life by injecting me ...
The Wichita Eagle |
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Master plan for schools unveiled
As school leaders officially unveiled an ambitious $685 million school construction plan at the Contemporary Arts Center -- a gallery proposed as the location of a new high school -- educators across the city applauded the massive scope of the effort but seemed thirsty for more details.
New Orleans Times-Picayune |
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Open Artist Studio Tour Oct. 11
MILLVILLE - Calling all area artists. Organizers of the 2nd annual Open Artist Studio Tour are seeking Cumberland County painters, sculptors, photographers, ceramic artists, furniture makers and fiber artists who are willing to share their talents and work spaces with the public.
Bridgeton News |
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Rabbitbrush Rambler
You might safely say that I care a lot about museums after spending countless hours in them as a visitor or as a researcher, as well as being editor of publications for the Colorado Historical Society with its main museum and smaller regional ones.
Alamosa Valley Courier |
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One of Mindanao’s colorful festivals
THE Kadayawan sa Dabaw’s “Tunog Mindanaw’, a pop music composition competition that incorporates Mindanaoan indigenous and folk music, has finally selected eight entries from Mindanawon artists that will compete in the finals slated on August 20, at 5 p.m. at NCCC Mall.
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