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Gainesville artist's block print to be featured on art fest poster
An unusual lino-cut block-print image of sandhill cranes flying over Paynes Prairie will be the featured artwork on the poster of Gainesville's Downtown Festival and Art Show in November.
The Gainesville Sun |
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Think: Youth take on WWII
Cempaka Schools will be hosting an exhibition on World War II during the school holidays at the end of the year. Re-enacting the major battles of the war through board games will be one highlight of an exhibition on World War II, writes EDWIN WONG.
The New Straits Times |
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Think: Youth take on WWII
Re-enacting the major battles of the war through board games will be one highlight of an exhibition on World War II, writes EDWIN WONG.
The New Straits Times |
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Festival launches school's solar system
It isn't every day that a set of solar panels gets its own coming-out party.
Marin Independent Journal |
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Film preview: Portobello Film Festival, London
Various venues, W11, Thu 28 to Sep 14
Guardian Unlimited |
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Lincoln ballon festival takes flight this weekend
LINCOLN -- Lincoln resident Jim Phelan is your typical optimist.
The Pantagraph |
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Man shot and killed in Boston's Seaport District
BOSTON -- Police are investigating a fatal shooting in a parking lot near one of Boston's most famous waterfront restaurants and an art museum.
7 News Boston |
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Thai monarch Bhumibol tops royal rich list with €24bn fortune
THAILAND’S revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej is the world’s richest royal, according to a Forbes magazine list, dominated by Middle Eastern monarchs riding high on surging oil prices.
Irish Examiner |
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Downtown Streets Closing for ArtStreet
This year's street festival features more than 200 visual artists plus three stages for live music, theater performances, and dancing.
WBAY Green Bay |
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Sculptures Honor Pioneer Midwives
When the Sarah Sturtevant Leavitt straggled over the rugged southern Utah mountains with the families of her four sons and three daughters, she would little have imagined that more than a century hence the little band would be memorialized in bronze.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Local Sculpture of Olympic Gymnast
Shawn Johnson may be an olympic gold medalist but she's got bronze written all over her. Rick Stewart from Mount Morris just completed a bronze Shawn Johnson sculpture.
WIFR Rockford |
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Folk Art Festival opens at Children's Museum
UTICA (WKTV) - The Children's Museum is playing host to a Folk Art Festival.
WKTV Utica |
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Letters: Don't Sell Jackson Pollock
IOWA CITY - The idea is to sell a university-owned mural by famous artist Jackson Pollock and use the money for flood recovery. The mural was appraised at $150-million dollars a few years ago. Now letters are pouring in arguing that the artwork shouldn't be sold.
KCRG-TV9 Cedar Rapids |
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Taxidermist drawn to the business (includes photo gallery)
Rene Escamilla picked bits of flesh and gristle off the hide of a ram, piling the pulp into a hairy mess on his worktable. Behind his chair on the concrete floor a frozen bobcat thawed.
The Brownsville Herald |
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Durham stakes claim as Triangle's arts center
Durham is home to about 140 arts organizations, which is seven times the number in other counties, officials said.
WRAL.com Raleigh |
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Vandalized sculpture restored ahead of schedule
A popular St. Paul sculpture vandalized in July has been restored, several weeks ahead of schedule.
Minnesota Public Radio |
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Portraits by the artist as a very young man: early Lucian Freuds discovered
The brutal realism of his work has made him the world's most expensive living artist, with each new painting that surfaces attracting great interest from collectors.
Times Online |
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Front Yard Art Causes Buzz
A sculpture in the front yard of a New Iberia home is causing quite a buzz...and not all of it good. East Main Street in has become Wisteria Lane as residents find themselves in an episode of Desperate
KATC 3 Lafayette |
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AUGUST Music Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Great Performances Festival: The Mahler Cycle Aug. 21-24. Bass Hall. $29-$129 for festival passes; individual tickets are $15-$49. Symphony No. 6 in A Minor, "Tragic," 7:30pm Aug. 22 Symphony No. 7 in E Minor, 7:30pm Aug. 23 Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, "Resurrection," 7:30pm Aug. 24 Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra: Community Concert Aug. 31. ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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Dentist charged with taping people in restroom
Associated Press - August 22, 2008 5:05 PM ET HOUSTON (AP) - A Houston dentist accused of videotaping people using the bathroom at his clinic is charged with improper photography.
KXXV Waco |
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God forbid
From terrorism investigation to art exhibitions, the shadow of politics of religion
Express India |
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On the Fringe
This year's Fringe Festival in New York delivered the goods, from dying divas to unsexy, naked men.
The Advocate |
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When will Olympics be game for kung fu?
You've seen it in the Matrix. Bruce Lee is its most famous proponent. Now practitioners hope that wushu, more commonly known as kung fu, will be contested at the Olympics.
Express India |
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Town of Islip resident awarded certificate for art
Islip Town Supervisor Phil Nolan , right, recently presented Robert Harris, second from right, with an official Town certificate. Robert's artwork was displayed in Town Hall as part of the Anti-Bias Student Art Show. Also shown, left to right, are are Robert's grandfather Charles Thomas and his father James Harris.
Babylon Beacon |
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Arts events: Brettell lecture, Indian dance, 'Misery’ in Coppell
Richard R. Brettell The impressionism expert and former director of the Dallas Museum of Art presents "Martin A. Ryerson: A Chicago Lumber Baron Collects Botticelli and Monet." 6 p.m. Friday at the Kimbell Art Museum, 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth. Free. 817-332-8451; www.kimbellart.org . Austin Dance India The Austin dance group combines the classical Indian dance style of ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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