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Inaugural Outside Lands Lives up to Its Potential
It's safe to say that there were a lot of expectation for the first-ever Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival. For the most part, the festival did live up to its potential; at times there were simply stunning moments and the venue itself was quite a scene to behold.
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‘Brush’ up your skills if you are below 35, SR10,000 prize might be waiting for you
RIYADH: The Ministry of Cultural and Information has announced a contest aimed at promoting young artists. According to Abdul-Aziz Al-Subaiel, the project is aimed at artists under the age of 35. Cash prizes of up to SR10,000 are being offered.
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World’s Smallest Art Gallery hosts ‘Circus and Tibet’ installation
After Randi Vann saw Olympic torch protests in San Francisco earlier this year, she had to do something. The result is Circus and Tibet, an art installation at the World’s Smallest Art Gallery on Mill Street East in Elora.
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Kansas Town Hosts Toilet Seat Art Show
The "Toilet Seat Art Show and Auction," will be opening Saturday, August 30th. The town of Lucas, KS needs accessible, eccentric, visionary, quirky public restrooms on Main Street.
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The barn and the arena
I’ve always thought it somewhat ironic that the area’s internationally renowned music festival holds its premiere concerts in a works department shed.
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Saratoga painter captures celebrities with watercolors
Inside the wreath hanging on the front door of Maree Lubran's Saratoga home, a bird's nest nestles among the flowers and leaves. That the nest hides a trio of tiny eggs is just one of the surprises to be found at Lubran's cozy cottage. The real eye-opener lies just inside the door: Visitors who step over the threshold will discover a remarkable art gallery that covers virtually all of Lubran's ...
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10:05 a.m. - Japanese pottery exhibit opens tomorrow
10:05 a.m., Aug. 27 — An opening reception for a traveling Japanese pottery exhibit, "The Rising Generation From Traditional Japanese Kilns," will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at the Isla Center for the Arts, 15 Dean Circle, University of Guam.
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St. Benedict Church and School, 165 Bethany Road, Holmdel, will hold its parish fair 1-7 p.m. Sept. 7. It will feature rides, games, face painting, various foods, a beer garden (age 21 and older only), baking contest and live entertainment. Demos by the Holmdel Township Police K-9 unit and a tribute to veterans and first responders will be held at 3 p.m.
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Middletown Arts Center announces fall season
MIDDLETOWN — With the new slogan "You'll find it all at the Middletown Arts Center," the nonprofit, award-winning facility has announced a 21-event fall schedule that includes art exhibits, a concert series, dance, comedy, drama, poetry, magic, themed socials, even a masquerade ball.
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Fabulous Fiber
Anew exhibition at the Monmouth Museum explores traditional and contemporary works in fiber. "Fabulous Fiber" will be on view through Sept. 21. Juried by award-winning fiber artists Joanie San Chirico and Geraldine Velasquez, this exhibition features artwork that represents unique approaches within the media of fiber and demonstrates diversity in contemporary fiber art.
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Works by Landau will be exhibited
FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — The Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County will host a gala opening reception for its first major exhibit, "Jacob Landau: Humanist and Visionary.
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Painting for Pisa
The young Italian reviving Renaissance art
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Merdeka festivities
Get set to soak up the fun at the 2nd Rantai Merdeka 2008, a three-day festival of independent art,film and music.
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9:40 a.m. - Ric Castro's "Island Spirits" exhibit at Bank of Guam
9:40 a.m., Aug. 27 — The Bank of Guam-Chamorro Artists Association featured artist of the Month is Ric Castro, a member of the association.
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Arts commission slates summer's last trip
The Metuchen Cultural Arts Commission is sponsoring the last of its summer excursions on Saturday, Sept. 6, to the Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton. The bus will depart from Metuchen Borough Hall at 9:30 a.m. and return at approximately 4 p.m.
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Arts diary: Top-notch cast lined up for art world spoof
The contemporary art world is set to be lampooned this autumn in a new film featuring a top-notch cast
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Painting Missouri: Landscapes by Billy O'Donnell
The beauty of the Missouri countryside and its small towns are represented in colorful, lush impressionistic paintings by artist Billy O'Donnell in a current art exhibit at the St. Louis Mercantile Library on campus. "An Artist Paints Missouri: Landscapes by Billyo O'Donnell" features paintings from the artist's project to paint all 114 counties in the state, plus the independent City of St.
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Clips for Wednesday, 27 through Friday, Aug. 29
See latest and greatest of Park City Public Art Sneak a peak at Park City's newest public artwork Friday, Aug.
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Portraits close exhibit series
GLEN ARBOR -- Lake Street Studios will close its summer season of exhibits with a showing of expressionist portraits by Ann Arbor artist Jill Donovan.
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Art in the Park returns to the Grove
By TYLER KULA For The Observer Art in the Park returns for its 28th year on Sept. 6, but under a new logo. “As this spectacularly successful event expands, we needed to provide its own identity,” said Gallery in the Grove convener, Sandi Grimshaw. The [...]
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'SCV Rock Star' contest resets voting to ensure fair results
By Signal Staff Posted: Aug. 26, 2008 4:24 p.m.
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In a city overflowing with contemporary art exhibits -- shows brimming with the abstract, conceptual and experimental -- it's easy to forget about simpler art.
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Iron Horse Gallery's show gives hope to people halfway across the world
Nathaniel Dunigan is proof of the difference one man can make. He first visited Uganda for a month as a volunteer HIV/AIDS prevention educator in
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Mike Ming masterpieces laptops
Dell has launched five Special Art Edition designs for the Dell Studio 15 and 17 laptops, exclusively created by Brooklyn-based urban artist Mike Ming (www.mikeming.com).
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Warren Storey: Painter and art educationist
For more than half a century, the well-crafted paintings of Warren Storey were a regular feature of the Autumn Exhibition at the Royal West of England Academy (RWA), Bristol, where he served as artists' chairman under Mary Fedden during the 1980s and as vice-president during the early 1990s.
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