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Preview: Festival Of Asian Film, Asia House, London
This is a year in which Asia has become inexorably embedded in worldwide culture. As the Olympics continue in China's capital, Beijing, and films such as Lust, Caution achieve huge critical acclaim, Asia House has launched its inaugural Festival of Asian Film to promote Eastern cinema to Western audiences.
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Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Abbado, Lucerne Festival, Lucerne
Slow-moving woodwinds etched out Debussy's "Nuages", the first of his Trois Nocturnes, slowly but surely pulling focus on the festival's opening concert. It's something of a paradox that Debussy's brand of impressionism demands absolute clarity – and the medieval city's handsome concert hall delivers it, blending and delineating to perfection.
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The Sun and Moon Corrupted, by Philip Ball
Philip Ball is one of the smartest science writers working in Britain. He is prolific, and there is nothing he seems not to know: physics and chemistry are his specialities, but he's no slouch at biology. The Self-Made Tapestry, a masterpiece about pattern formation from 1999, straddles the art/science divide.
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Gooding & Company Posts Record-Breaking Results of $64.2 Million at 2008 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance Auctions
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Exhibit includes metal sculpture, watercolors
When asked how long she has been an artist, Mattapoisett resident Anita B. Riley Robinson responded without hesitation, “almost all of my life.”
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A Tribute For Richard Widmark
The late Richard Widmark, who died in March at age 93, was revered offscreen as one of Hollywood's true gentlemen and staunchest liberals. It is entirely to his credit that in his most indelible roles—a gallery of giggling killers, sleazy hustlers, and ramrod martinets—he came across ...
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Richard Serra: Thinking On Your Feet
It is happily noted in the press materials for Richard Serra: Thinking On Your Feet , Maria Anna Tappeiner's documentary about the American sculptor, that its subject is something most artists are not: articulate, particularly with regard to his work. Having thus recommended Serra&md...
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Nasher Museum hangs high hopes on El Greco exhibit
Duke's Nasher Museum of Art's upcoming exhibition “El Greco to Velázquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III” will be on view at the museum on the Duke University campus from Aug. 21 through Nov. 9.
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Arts alley
Art exhibit at Coronado Center Brush Strokes has a new exhibition at Coronado Center. The hallway exhibit, which will be in place until Sept. 26, includes paintings by newer members who have not previously shown their work, as well as familiar artists.
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September featured artists
Hot Springs Village Artist Cynthia Schanink, left, and Marlene Gremillion are shown painting at Lake Cortez Pavilion during the Brush Strokes First Wednesday Paint-out.
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North West Evening Mail
A TURNER Prize-winning artist from Cumbria is to exhibit never seen before paintings. More than 20 pictures from Keith Tyson’s Nature Paintings series will be on show at Tullie House in Carlisle from September 20.
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What's happening around Hot Springs
Through September 14 - Hot Springs Airport Hosts Monthly Art Exhibit. The public is invited to view Traditional Art Guild artist Linda Shearer's Chinese Brush Paintings at the terminal building, Hot Springs Memorial Field, 525 Airport Rd.
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Lavish Penn Twp. Home Up For Absolute Auction
A real estate agent lists your home, puts a "for sale" sign in your front yard. Buyers take a look and hopefully put a bid on it. That's the traditional way homes have been sold.
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Help this little bow wow raise the woof for kids
All dogs may go to heaven, but the black lab on Main Street will be first in line.Koda is known for her friendly demeanor as she and gallery owner
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Jazz Festival's education day schools listeners in soul
Improvisation, loud music and public displays of affection are generally frowned upon in the confines of the classroom and it may be fair to say
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Students share vision for green, multicultural future in urban design exhibit
In 40 years, if San Jose becomes more multicultural, youth friendly and "green," that would be ideal.
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Customer Service
TORONTO - CBC Radio Two is scaling down its classical music programming and serving up more contemporary artists in a bid to reach a wider audience, a move that critics say is shutting out many listeners.
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Melbourne to be world 'City of Literature'
The timing could hardly have been better had it appeared in the final chapters of a best-selling thriller. Three days before the opening of the Melbourne Writers Festival, UNESCO has named Melbourne as its second City of Literature. Edinburgh became the first in 2004.
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Dissonance of jazz inspires portrait artist's work
There is something beautiful and uncomfortable about portraiture. While it's easy to look at landscape paintings and cartoons, a portrait is a reflection of another person, a being sometimes all too close to oneself.
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Aerospace Photo Contest: Four Weeks Left to Take Your Best Shot
Mesa, AZ, August 18, 2008 — Inquiries and entries are flying in for the BDN Aerospace Marketing (BDN) Global Photo Contest. And with four weeks left until the Sept. 15 entry deadline, the competition is heating up.
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Step into the surreal world of Amanda Lindahl’s photography
Amanda Lindahl’s photography speaks for itself. She creates beautiful pictures that capture the unique character of each subject.
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Billionaire Chandler Establishes Showcase For Mother's Art
Billionaire investor Richard Chandler is helping his mother break into Manhattan's clubby art scene by spending up to $4 million on a 14,000-square-foot gallery that will sell her paintings. Mr. Chandler, 49, considers the two-story gallery, set to open this fall, an investment, not a gift. "I have provided a loan," he said in an e-mail. "I anticipate being repaid in the fullness of time." ...
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Check out the Mid-South Fair's Trash Can Art Contest
In its eighth year, the Mid-South Fair Trash Can Contest attracts local high school students to participate in decorating these trash cans.
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Putting the record straight on the Scot who invented the bike
As I walked into the Laoshan Velodrome to see Chris Hoy win his first gold medal on Friday, I noticed an arresting vast bronze sculpture on a cliff overlooking the flying saucer arena.
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Mircea Cantor to exhibit in UK
The Romanian artist Mircea Cantor will present the exhibition “The Need for Uncertainty” at the Arnolfini art centre in Bristol (UK) during September 13 – November 9, the Romanian Cultural Institute of London announces.
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