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Whitehaven News
A TREASURE trove of Whitehaven mining memorabilia and rare pocket watches made in the town will go under the hammer in a fine art auction next month. The collection of thousands of items of historic Whitehaven interest came from one small terraced property in Whitehaven.
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Museums on the move
Aberdeen City Council's Art Gallery & Museums as part of its membership of the Northeast Museums Partnership (NEMP) hopes to attract new audiences by displaying their collections in non-museum locations. 2008/08/26 00:00:00
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Visual art: Steven Assael
Wed., Aug. 27... By Cinque Hicks Tats, spikes, body mods and yards of black fabric are sure to be in evidence as goth figure painter and Pratt prof STEVEN ASSAEL makes his Atlanta-area debut Wed., AUG. 27, at Kennesaw State University's Sturgis Library Gallery. Assael is affiliated with the bicoastal art powerhouse Forum Gallery, and brings all that juicy Forum-style neorealism to the Kennesaw ...
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Dragon*Con and the Decatur Book Festival: Books vs. blogs
How the Internet's changing the way authors do business... By Curt Holman In the early 21st century, which comes first: the book or the blog? Well, books have been around for centuries, while the terms "Web log" and "blog" were coined for online journals about 10 years ago. In little more than a decade, blogs and book writing have become seemingly inextricable, especially with authors at the ...
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High times for Atlanta lowbrow
Southern culture goes beyond the skids ... By David Lee Simmons Any of the 2,500 or so people who head out to the Starlight Six Drive-In this weekend will feel like they're attending a family reunion. Drive-Invasion, the annual harmonic convergence of Atlanta's lowbrow-culture scene, brings together punk-inspired rockabilly, garage and surf rock, hot-rod and custom-car contests, and a slew of ...
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Skip Williamson defends against fascists
Artist hits Decatur Book Festival, Dragon*Con... One of the most political, satirical and influential figures of the underground commix movement of the 1960s, cartoonist and painter Skip Williamson knew and worked with such diverse figures as Hugh Hefner, Gloria Steinem and activist Abbie Hoffman, who facilitated Williamson's courtroom illustrations of the notorious "Chicago Seven trial" in ...
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Ringling Brothers: Ring leaders
Artists show a shared philosophy and school... By Cinque Hicks Steven Dixey's "Nemesis, Goddess of Divine Retribution," on view at Beep Beep Gallery, would be easy to misread. The small, acrylic painting depicts the multiarmed goddess clutching instruments of justice and punishment: a cat o' nine tails, a sword, a set of balance scales. Shadowed in deep chiaroscuro, she spreads her dark wings ...
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The photography of Esteban Pastorino Díaz is so fascinating, it would make anyone do a double take. But even more remarkable than the photographs are the hand-made instruments he uses to obtain such images.
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SE Tech lauds local art
Thanks to a state law and the local vision of a committee, Minnesota State College Southeast Technical has become an art gallery of sorts that boasts beautiful work found right outside their doors.
Winona Post |
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Tough Economy Calls for More Impactful Property Marketing
A recent survey conducted jointly by VHT, Inc., and PropertyPreviews.com highlights the impact that videos and professional photography have on the perceived value of a property.
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A moment to remember Local delegate meets Michelle Obama
Ann Arbor's Lynne Schwartz is getting a bit more than her Andy Warhol-allotted 15 minutes of fame at the Democratic National Convention.
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Mass. museum loses prized painting
Wellesley College has lost a 1921 painting by French cubist Fernand Leger that could be worth millions of dollars.
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M-Audio Announces Sponsorship of International Songwriting Competition
LOS ANGELES, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 08/27/08 -- M-Audio, a part of Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID), and a leading provider of creative tools for musicians, is proud to sponsor the 2008 International Songwriting Competition (ISC). Judged by a host of A-list artists and producers, the ISC is the premiere contest for aspiring songwriters across the world.
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India Gets Its First Contemporary Art Museum
"In a way, Devi is the natural next step for a country awash in new wealth, soaring art prices and a prolific crop of artists and collectors. A modern art museum is also under way in the eastern city of Calcutta.
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Salute to the Arts enjoys another big year
Everett Moody Park on Longacre Drive was the place to be this weekend for the avid fancier of the fine arts, as Fairview Heights hosted the Midwest Salute to the Arts.
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A first for India: A museum of contemporary art
The Devi Art Foundation in Delhi is poised to be India's first noncommercial, nonprofit exhibition space for contemporary art from India and the subcontinent.
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Sugg’s sculpture of Kosciuszko headed to military academy
West Point Military Academy in New York is acquiring a sculpture from Mississippi artist Tracy H. Sugg for their permanent collection. The sculpture is a bust of General Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a volunteer from Poland who fought in the Revolutionary War and designed West Point.
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Clooney and Pitt in farce
George Clooney and Brad Pitt star in a comedy at the Venice Film Festival as big studio movies stay away.
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Nikon D90 Gets Official, Shoots HD Video
As happens with seemingly every new product release these days, there have been rumours circulating about the Nikon D90 for a while now. All of those can be confirmed or put to bed as Nikon officially annouced the D90 earlier today . It is a camera that is aimed squarely at the serious end of the amateur photography spectrum, with features filtering down from some of Nikon's higher end ...
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Local Dirt: Around Hear: The Buzzard Has Landed - Rock Hall Commemorates WMMS
By D.X. Ferris The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame exhibit WMMS: A Cleveland Legend Turns 40 opens Friday, August 29. The display pays tribute to the storied radio station, which shaped FM radio. "WMMS was Cleveland radio," says Rock Hall curator Meredith Rutledge. "It really redefined what radio was, not only in Cleveland but nationally. It really pushed the envelope." In the '70s and '80s, the ...
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Arts Calendar: Pass The Popcorn - George Daugherty Leads Blossom Night At The Movies August 30 And 31
By Michael Gill WARHOL PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION The best known of Andy Warhol's many works are his paintings and silk-screen prints of pop-culture icons, from Marilyn Monroe to cans of Campbells Soup. But the basis for much of that work was his copious and accomplished photography, much of it documenting people and events at the Factory in New York in the mid to late '60s. Warhol often shot the ...
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Frugal Fun Alert: Wednesday
Fun around town, for $10 or less: Art and Wine: Art exhibit by the residents of Park Pleasant Nursing Home and free wine and cheese at Abbracio (820 S 47th), 5-7PM. Free Knitty: Knitting circle at Vagabond (37 N 3rd), 6-8PM. Free Phishy: Strange Design and Long Walk Home at the Khyber (56 S 2nd), 8PM. $8 Quizzo Mania: Get your Quizzo on at 12 Steps Down (831 ...
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LIFESTYLE IN BRIEF 27/8
The first festival for scooter-lovers will be held over two days starting on Saturday at Vuon Xoai eco-tourist area in the southern province of Dong Nai.
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Arts Lead: Landscaping - Three Ohio Artists Re-arrange The Not-so-great Outdoors At Fava Gallery
By Douglas Max Utter There's lots of landscape on the way from Cleveland to Oberlin's Firelands Association for the Visual Arts (FAVA). Unless you're transported there in a blindfold, you get to see a characteristic range of Rust Belt scenery: Battered inner-ring and downtown real estate sinks below the surreal swoops and long slow curves of the interstate. If the three artists in the exhibit ...
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Arts: Arts News
By Michael Gill Air-conditioning is not the kind of thing that typically shows up in arts news, but when it means the preservation of art made by Clevelanders, it's worth a note. The board of trustees of the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, whose business is to preserve and exhibit work by member artists of the region, has decided to install an air-conditioning and dehumidification ...
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