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Creative campus on show at open day
A creative lampshade-making contest, free music, and a chance to ride a Segway scooter were popular options for hundreds of prospective students at today's Wellington campus open day.
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Te Kairanga Wines visionary support for Gallery
The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery is delighted to announce a new partnership with Te Kairanga Wines.
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Downtown Diva: Arts for ACT auction still event of summer
Downtown Diva can attest to the fact that in its 20th year, the Arts for ACT Fine Art Auction and Gala remains the most fun fundraising event around.
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HOT auction is Sunday
WHITTIER - A local group will use art to promote Latino culture this weekend, and will benefit high school graduates in the process.
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CD Review: Honeybrowne 'Mile by Mile'
CountryHoneybrowne "Mile by Mile” (Smith Entertainment)If the Texas country music scene were a high school, Honeybrowne would be the likable kid who's friends with both the jocks and the art teacher. Long-touring troubadours south of the Red River, Honeybrowne have built a loyal, if modest, following with their laid-back brand of Texas country. There's nothing particularly remarkable about ...
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WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
FEELING BLUE Blues - August 24 Let the blues wash over you at Lincoln Center's 25th Annual Roots of American Music Festival, in which Patti Smith, Charlie Haden, the Knitters and Macavine Hayes will be among the performers in "The Music Maker Revue"...
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CLASSICAL
AVERY FISHER HALL: The Mostly Mozart Festival closes with Louis Langree conducting the orchestra in Mozart's Mass in C Minor with vocal soloists Sally Matthews, Kate Lindsey, William Ferguson and Jason Grant today and tomorrow at 8 p.m...
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Great Performances Festival: The Mahler Cycle, Art Heist, Collected Stories
To call the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra’s three-year commitment to all nine of Gustav Mahler’s symphonies "ambitious" is not hyperbole. It’s a huge, ovation-worthy undertaking, and it’s likely that when this cycle is finished in late summer 2009, Miguel Harth-Bedoya will look back and say, "Wow, did we really do that?" This year’s event continues this weekend, with performances at 7:30 p.m. ...
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What's coming up: Performing arts
West Side Story Lyric Stage had such success with its 2007 production of Carousel with a full orchestra that it’s using a big orchestra with two classics in the 2008-09 season. The first is this Leonard Bernstein masterpiece, Sept. 5-14 at the Irving Arts Center’s Carpenter Hall (in 2009, they’ll do it with The King and I ). $20-$50. 972-252-2787; www.lyricstage.org . Pops Goes ...
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Wine and Food Festival this weekend
Swirl, sniff and savor. The eighth annual Wine and Food Festival at the Meadow Brook Music Festival will bring wine, food and entertainment together this weekend.
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China: The Unforgotten Past
Liu Heung Sheng (or HS as he is widely known) is a Pulitzer-prize winner who came to photography by a circuitous route, but one which has helped him produce the new book China: Portrait of a Country ( Taschen ), a remarkable study of the rich but virtually unknown history of Chinese photography since 1949. We have become all too used to seeing China as it appeared to the visitor from Europe or ...
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'Frozen River' cracks under weight of its solemnity
Frozen River ** 97 min., R (strong language) Winner of the 2008 Grand Prize at Sundance, Frozen River is a slice of miserable realism that only a film festival jury could love. Melissa Leo, of 21 Grams fame, plays Ray, a downtrodden mother of two whose lout of a husband absconds with the money they had been saving for a down payment on a house. While out searching for her husband, Ray ...
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In the nation's capital, free attractions abound
There are so many free and cheap things to do in Washington, D.C., that the biggest challenge is carving out enough time to take advantage of them. Many museums, monuments and other institutions - from the zoo to the botanic garden - that are run by the federal government charge no admission.
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SA leaders urged to follow Gandhi teachings
South African leaders need to return to the lessons of selflessness and humility set by freedom icon Mahatma Gandhi. That's according to KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Finance and Economic Development, Zweli Mkhize. He was speaking at the launch of the Indian Experience festival in Durban.
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George Deem Dies at 75; Painted His Love: Art
Mr. Deem admired master painters so much that he spent his own career repainting their works, albeit with clever alterations.
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Art in Review
Lisette Model at Zabriskie Gallery, ?A Member of the Wedding? at Daniel Reich, Phoebe Washburn at Zach Feuer and others.
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A British Men?s Club With a Taste for Classics
A quirky, fascinating show at the J. Paul Getty Museum examines the culture of connoisseurship in a men?s club in 18th-century London.
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Now You Perceive It, Now You Think You Do
The second part of ?The Cinema Effect? at the Hirshhorn Museum, an exhaustive survey of film and video art, showcases 19 artists who find fictions lurking behind every window, door and screen.
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Modernist Optimism and Postmodernist Doubt
?Progress,? an intermittently thought-provoking show of works from 1926 to 2008 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, starts strongly but ends weakly.
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Dusting Off a Museum?s Curio Cabinet
The Museum of Modern Art?s new permanent-collection exhibition aims to create new insights by organizing prints, sculptures, design objects and other works into inventive, thematic clusters.
New York Times |
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Annual art, balloon festival takes flight
The Lincoln Art and Balloon Festival will be held today through Sunday in Lincoln.
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Arts: Showcasing sets and sculptures
The USC art department is featuring a show of theater set models by Christian Thee. Thee grew up in Columbia, getting involved with Town Theatre as a child. He later worked in set design in New York. About 15 years ago he returned to Columbia, where he has designed and directed plays (most recently “Bug” at Trustus) and pursued a career as a trompe l’oeil painter. “Behind the Curtain” is made up ...
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Customer Service
TOFINO, B.C. - Thieves walked off with an ivory carving from the Cedar Corner Art Gallery in Tofino on Tuesday. Gallery owner Gord Johns says the large piece is worth $5,000.
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Artists commemorate Mau Than offensive
VietNamNet Bridge – The Mau Than Spring 1968 general offensive and uprising has been vividly depicted in an exhibition of 243 paintings and sculptures sponsored by the People's Committee and the Fine Arts Association of HCM City.
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$500 painting stolen from medical complex in Newton
By TOM HOWELL JR. NEWTON -- A $500 painting was stolen Wednesday from the Norman Silbert Medical Complex, the second such theft this year from the building on High Street, police said.
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