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Around the Valley
Students invited to submit historical art for contest
The Fresno Bee |
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Zimbabwe: Fashion Designers Set to Exhibit Their Garments
The country's most progressive designers will have their garments exhibited at the ongoing Harare International Festival of the Arts.
AllAfrica.com |
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Zimbabwe: The Loupe Comes to HIFA
A play titled The Loupe by Edzai Isu will make its world premiere at this year's Harare International Festival of the Arts at The Standard Theatre.
AllAfrica.com |
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: Dartmouth professor awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
To the casual observer, white paint on a white canvas appears to be nothing more than a copy of the wall behind it. In our world of self-perceived hyper-competence, many viewers scoff rather than confront the enigmatic concepts of contemporary art. But most are just not up to the humbling challenge.
The Dartmouth |
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Museum Umbrella Renamed
A museum by any other name will still smell as sweet. Or sweeter, according to Daron Manoogian, spokesman for the newly-styled Harvard Art Museum.
The Harvard Crimson |
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Historic event goes Saturday
The 125th annual Doan’s May Picnic spreads over the lawn of the historic Doan’s Adobe on Saturday.
Wichita Falls Times Record News |
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East Timor Leader Meets His Would-Be Assassin
DILI, East Timor — The alleged triggerman in an assassination attempt on East Timor's president, Jose Ramos-Horta, wept yesterday after surrendering with 11 other mutinous troops and handing over their automatic weapons. A state of emergency is still in effect nearly three months after failed attempts on the lives of the tiny nation's two leaders, with two suspects still at large. But ...
The New York Sun |
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Art investment
The Virág Judit Gallery prides itself in being ahead of the game when it comes to the business of art.
The Budapest Sun |
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Beauties benefit Beautification Board
Mistress of ceremonies Lisa Washington, right, Channel 19 anchorwoman, introduces model Sadie London during the Dogwood Festival Fashion Show and Luncheon held Tuesday at the Beasley Center. The event was sponsored by the Athens-Limestone Beautification Board.
The Athens News Courier |
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After America: Fareed Zakaria's 'Post-American World'
In recent years, a series of startling global developments has provoked a new round of thinking among students of international affairs about the international order and America's place in it. China's staggering economic growth and military buildup, India's dramatic economic turnaround, Russia's swelling oil wealth and resurgent autocracy, Iran's petro-dollar-fueled and Islamic-inspired ...
The New York Sun |
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Jazz Videos
Get featured! Submit your video Description Percy Heath is featured playing the piccolo bass at the Bern Jazz Festival.
All About Jazz |
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Beach is now 'open' to visitors
For years in Jacksonville Beach, weekend festivals were as familiar a sight as the tides. Each spring, streets in the downtown area closed and traffic was rerouted almost weekly to make way for the thousands that descended to the oceanfront for fun in the sun.
Beaches Leader |
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Fight club
Barack Obama won 12 contests in a row against Hillary Clinton, but when he reached Ohio he got his clock cleaned. She beat him in the Ohio primary by 10 points and narrowly defeated him in Texas as well.
Journal Inquirer |
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WEDNESDAY'S CALENDAR
Chaz Fest The Truck Farm, 3020 St. Claude Ave. Music on two stages with local bands Schatzy, Morning 40 Federation, Loose Marbles, The Geraniums, Happy Talk Band and more, food and dancing, noon-10. Tickets are $25. Call 645-7090, www.chazfestival.com.
New Orleans Times-Picayune |
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The Natchez Democrat
NATCHEZ — In music, symphonies have movements, and in Natchez, gardens do, too. The Natchez Symphony of Gardens, a self-guided tour of private and estate gardens in the Natchez area, will be Friday and Saturday as a part of the Natchez Festival of Music.
The Natchez Democrat |
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With Books as a Catalyst, Minneapolis Neighborhood Revives
Three nonprofit groups opened Open Book, a literary and arts center, in May 2000, and a neighborhood renaissance flowered.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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Clintonâ€s Art in the Park canceled
CLINTON, Iowa — Organizers have decided to cancel Clinton’s annual Art in the Park festival after 45 years due to difficulty in attracting artists to the event.
Quad-City Times |
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Sculpture park hosts family events Saturday
UNIVERSITY PARK A summer of art, fun and friends kicks off on Saturday with a day of activities for families at the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park on the grounds of Governors State University.
The Times of Northwest Indiana |
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Art student presents Human Masks
VALPARAISO Valparaiso University art student David Taylor II of Sterling Heights, Mich., will examine the masks people put on in an exhibition now open at Dance Unlimited Studio, 1705 LaPorte Ave.
The Times of Northwest Indiana |
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Students put mural on bowling alley
Fraser High School art teacher Roger Drabant looked beyond the vanilla blandness of a concrete block wall and saw a blank canvass that could be used to instill community pride.
Macomb Daily |
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Lovely in the Distance, New Works on Paper by Bill Frederick at Zg Gallery, Chicago
CHICAGO.- Bill Frederick’s new paintings are recollections of recent road trips. Frederick states, “Drawn from imagination, photography, and personal observation, my paintings reflect an interest in art as an expressive response to experience.
Art Daily |
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Personal Exhibition by Moscow Artist Elena Potyeva at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art
MOSCOW.- Moscow Museum of Modern Art and PROJECT FABRIKA are opening a personal exhibition by Moscow artist Elena Potyeva. The central theme of her work is the perfection and harmony of the human body. We can see this if we freeze movement stopping motion at a defined point.
Art Daily |
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Photographs for Charity by Cambridge Jones at Getty Images Gallery in London
LONDON.- Leading children’s charity Barnardo’s and a host of well known faces have joined forces with acclaimed photographer Cambridge Jones in a pioneering bid to find permanent homes for the thousands of children awaiting adoption across the UK.
Art Daily |
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Large-Scale Photographs by Gilbert & George at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
They, Gilbert & George: George Passmore (English, born 1942) and Gilbert Proesch (English, born Italy 1943), 1986. Hand dyed black and white photographs.
Art Daily |
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Experiment Marathon Announced by Reykjavík Art Museum and the Serpentine Gallery
REYKJAVIK.- One of the highlights of the Reykjavik Arts Festival will be the Experiment Marathon Reykjavík, an exhibition and program of related events organized by the Reykjavík Art Museum and the Serpentine Gallery, London.
Art Daily |
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