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'Talking with the Clay': A window into Pueblo pottery today
When we first visit the American Southwest, we bring with us lifetimes of expectation. We've heard about the miracle of American Indian people still living close to their homelands. We've seen a thousand photos of the stunning traditional crafts of Pueblo artists displayed on sun-warmed adobe walls.
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Gallery displays Obama-inspired street art
Some of the biggest names in street art are displaying work inspired by Barack Obama.
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Get Ready to Salsa at the 3rd Annual Sonoma County Salsa Dance Festival: A Fundraising Event for the Buena Vista ...
Buena Vista Children's Foundation:
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Dead Sea Scrolls to be displayed on Internet
High-tech cameras using infrared photography are being used to uncover sections of the 2,000-year-old scrolls that have faded over the centuries and become indecipherable.
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Artist to show works at Mayslake Peabody Estate
Local artist Judith Barath will be showing her work at the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County’s Mayslake Peabody Estate in Oak Brook at an exhibition called “Oak Brook Celebrates: An Oak Brook Artist.”
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Brad Pitt, George Clooney light up Venice red carpet
Hollywood megastars George Clooney and Brad Pitt helped kick off the 65th Venice film festival, taking to the red carpet along with their directors the Coen brothers in "Burn After Reading."
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Fragile Dead Sea Scrolls to go online
A handout picture released by Israels Antiquity Authority shows a combo picture of a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls before (L) and after (R) being captured using spectral photography.
Middle East Times |
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Lost Thelwell cartoon sale
A previously lost Norman Thelwell cartoon is being auctioned in Cheshire and is expected to make £3,000
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Pope sides with frog-art critic
An Italian politician whose pet peeve is a statue of a crucified frog says he now has the pope himself on his side.Franz Pahl told Italy's ANSA news service Wednesday that Pope Benedict XVI had sent him a letter sharing his views that the art piece on display at a museum in Bolanzo is an insult.ANSA said the pontiff wrote earlier this month that the sculpture ''has injured the religious feeling ...
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An artist's palate
To celebrate the arrival of Veuve Clicquot Rose NV in New Zealand, the French Champagne house has commissioned artist Gidon Bing to create a series of temporal public outdoor sculptures. Bing is an Auckland-based painter and sculptor.
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Gallery shows off Obama-inspired street art
In a scruffy gallery topped with the word "HOPE" sculpted out of bike wheels, some of the biggest names in street art are displaying work inspired by Barack Obama's presidential campaign.
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CMA Music Festival: Country's Night to Rock
Summer heats up when ABC heads to Nashville to take you to the hottest music event, "CMA Music Festival: Country's Night to Rock." It airs Monday, September 8 on ABC.
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24-foot statue based on da Vinci design going up at Tech Museum, San Jose
Using tools and materials of Leonardo da Vinci's time, Italian artisans are erecting a 24-foot-tall, six-ton statue based on a 15th century da Vinci design in front of The Tech Museum of Innovation this week in San Jose.
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Brad Pitt, George Clooney light up Venice red carpet
US actor Brad Pitt poses before the screening of the movie "Burn After Reading" directed by Ethan and Joel Coen during the 65th Venice International Film Festival at the Venice Lido.
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Gallery shows off Obama-inspired street art
By CATHERINE TSAI DENVER (AP) -- In a scruffy gallery topped with the word "HOPE" sculpted out of bike wheels, some of the biggest names in street art are displaying work inspired by Barack Obama's presidential campaign.
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Get Ready to Salsa at the 3rd Annual Sonoma County Salsa Dance Festival: A Fundraising Event for the Buena Vista ...
SANTA ROSA, Calif.----Buena Vista Children's Foundation: When: Saturday, September 13th, 2008, 2pm-1:30am Where: Finley Community Center 2060 West College Ave., Santa Rosa, CA, 95401 To purchase tickets or for more info: SonomaCountySalsa.com, 707-484-6086 Advance Tickets: Full event pass $50: $75 with reserved Gala seating; Gala only $20 At the Door: Full Event Pass $65; Gala only $25
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Quilt exhibit Thursday at GWU
BOILINGS SPRINGS - The Gardner-Webb University Department of Fine Arts - Visual Arts Division will present its first exhibit of the semester with quilts by Sue Rash, featuring an opening reception in the Communication Studies Hall Gallery Thursday from 4 to 6 p.m.
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More on Hollein: Another U.S. Museum Connection; "Too American"?
A CultureGrrl reader helpfully alerted me to the fact that Max Hollein , possibly to be named the next Metropolitan Museum director, is also on the board of trustees of the Neue Galerie, New York. And I've also discovered that a documentary film has recently been made about him by Avanti Media.
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The Up and Comers: Sebastian Martorana
As a recent MFA graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, Sebastian Martorana has found a calling in stone. A sometimes over-looked medium, Martorana creates work that is often somber and other times light in emotion. This fresh face in the art world is still finding his way as a sculptor as his style progresses, but he's one to keep your eye on. You can see a sample of his work at ...
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Brad Pitt, George Clooney light up Venice red carpet
VENICE, Italy - Hollywood megastars George Clooney and Brad Pitt helped kick off the 65th Venice film festival, taking to the red carpet along with their directors the Coen brothers in 'Burn After Reading.'
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Sculptors make a home in Gold Beach
Call it fate — man meets woman along the majestic California coastline of Monterey. Two lives interwoven, married, and collaborate; as metal sculptor Douglas Purdy and his wife Emily, who with a strong art background, undertook their first enterprise — the opening of an art gallery in Carmel.
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Brad Pitt, George Clooney light up Venice red carpet
VENICE, Italy (AFP) - Hollywood megastars George Clooney and Brad Pitt helped kick off the 65th Venice film festival, taking to the red carpet along with their directors the Coen brothers in "Burn After Reading."
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The Royal Academy of Arts’ Choice Cuts in London
WITH prices for fine art continuing to set dizzying records, it’s safe to predict that the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London will be a rousing success. British artists from Sir Joshua Reynolds (the academy’s first president) to David Hockney (master of the cool California pool) have presented their works at this event, held annually since 1769 and now billed as “the ...
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Wellesley College loses prized painting
Wellesley College has lost a 1921 painting by French cubist Fernand Leger that could be worth millions of dollars. "Woman and Child" had hung in the college's Davis Museum and Cultural Center since 1954.
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Fresh! 2008 at Projects Gallery
We're big supporters of new emerging artists and thus we're really looking forward to seeing Northern Liberties' Projects Gallery open its 2008-09 exhibition season with Fresh! 2008. This invitational exhibition includes an impressive number of the city's emerging artists, including many recent graduates from various art programs. Selected by gallery Director Helen Meyrick because of her ...
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