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Hello Kitty exhibit reveals art with a purrpose
Hello Kitty: child plaything or feminist icon? To Leslie Holt, 39, an artist who wears sensible shoes and frequently paints the mentally ill, the answer is clear: Hello Kitty is a heroine for a new generation.
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Exhibit features American soldiers' Vietnam War memories
Viet Art Center will host the grand opening of Memories of Vietnam, an exhibit featuring 100 photos of life in the midst of a war
Orange County Register |
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Belgrade
WHY GO NOW? Music (of sorts) is in the air as Serbia's capital and largest city prepares to host the Eurovision Song Contest on 24 May in the Belgrade Arena.
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In paintings by Monet and Manet we see how men's hobbies begin
Ian Jack: Britain invented the steam railway, but France has better pictures and more skilful engineers
Guardian Unlimited |
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Orkney’s St Magnus Festival: Sound of the summer
Residents of Orkney do a good line in self-deprecation. When asked to pinpoint their island home, the traditional response appears to be: "The bit under the big black cloud on the BBC weather map." What they don't mention is that when the sun shines – and it does, frequently – this beautiful archipelago off the north coast of Scotland is a glorious place to visit. After all, if it were so ...
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Sizeable prize for unique photo contest
3 May 2008 Snap happy Aucklanders have the chance to see one of their photos really hit the big time. The Auckland Festival of Photography is calling for entries for its "big smiles, little moments" competition where the winning photo will be showcased on a CBD billboard.
NZCity |
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Vandals flood human rights center, damage artwork
Its mission is to promote human dignity, but today those with the Human Rights Education Center in Boise are cleaning up a big mess left by vandals.
KTVB Boise |
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Christian Marclay's musical artworks
The Fraenkel Gallery once again looks beyond its mainstay, photography, to devote a show and publication to freewheeling New York artist Christian Marclay. Some photographs are included, but Marclay makes no great claims for them as artworks. A composer and...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Artwork by man fatally shot by La Habra police on display
Exhibit seeks to draw more community support; details about the case are still pending.
Orange County Register |
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Moore retains love of teaching while patrolling city streets
The Cleveland Police Department is known for its talented officers, and Dr. Bobby Moore is no exception. The 32-year-old could be considered by some standards a “Renaissance Man.”
The Bolivar Commercial |
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Documentary follows photographer as he captures the 21st-century industrial revolution at work
Wednesday, nearly a year and a half after its Sundance Film Festival screening, "Manufactured Landscapes," a cinematic portrait of Canadian
Park Record |
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Two Local Museums Get Grant Boost
Two local museums got a little boost to help them preserve history.
KERO 23 Bakersfield |
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Marjorie Talalay, co-founder of the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, dies at 87
Marjorie Talalay, who first brought cutting-edge art to Cleveland in 1968 and expanded the city's arts consciousness in a way that continues today, died Thursday at New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, where she had recently moved to be closer to family. She was 87.
The Plain Dealer |
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National Gallery gets endowment for art touring
One month after federal funding to support touring art exhibitions was cut, a group of patrons of the National Gallery of Canada have donated $650,000 toward a touring fund for the Ottawa gallery.
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Mart gets to ART of the matter
(Crain’s) — Two years after Merchandise Mart Properties Inc. rescued Art Chicago, an annual contemporary art fair that had lost its luster over the years, the show returned last week with strong attendance numbers and positive feedback from exhibitors. More than 47,000 art lovers, ...
Crain's Chicago Business |
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'Leap of Faith' exhibit at Snyder Museum
Enterprise News Services The Snyder Museum in Bastrop will present an exhibition titled "A Leap of Faith: Three Artists' Interpretation of Faith in the 21st Century." The show's emphasis centers around each artists sense of spirituality as they deal with the everyday and the impact that it has on their work. The exhibition includes local artists, Renee Parnell and Joy Surles, and Alabama ...
Bastrop Daily Enterprise |
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Maker Faire: Flaming Sculpture, DIY Demos
Wired.com brings you up-to-the minute news, video and photos from Maker Faire, an annual celebration of do-it-yourself culture that is expected to draw 500 exhibitors and 60,000 attendees.
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Down the Street gallery and First Friday Art and Antiques Walk celebrate one year
Down the Street Art Galley at 703 W. Main, will celebrate its one-year anniversary with a free wine tasting sponsored by the Beverage Place. In addition, the KRIM Radio remote will be there along with a silent auction for the Payson Humane Society.
The Payson Roundup |
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Fiber art show this weekend
Coloring outside the lines is part of the creative mission of The Threadplayers. "I am fascinated with using thread as paint and the perspective achieved with the light and dark threads," Trudy Ooms stitched on the back of one of her fiber art works.
The Payson Roundup |
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Rome's mayor set to clip wings of fledgling Rome Film Festival
Rome's new right-wing mayor - having weighed in on the question of architecture with a promise to tear down the city's newest museum - is turning his sights on its film festival.
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Women take the documentary helm at Tribeca fest
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Documentaries are the perfect genre for women, says Sheila Johnson, who produced "A Powerful Noise," a portrait of female activists and one of dozens of female-helmed documentaries playing this year at New York's Tribeca Film Festival.
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iPO Free on iTunes - Rich Man, Poor man, Everyman, Art & More
Vern Seward offers a tour of several art-related free offerings available on iTunes, including Sotheby's Private View, KQED's Gallery Crawl, and the National Gallery of Art. He also has a roundup of the mainstream free music and videos available at the iTunes Store
The Mac Observer |
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Student wins Hidden Glen scholarship
Olathe East High School senior Sarah Spencer talked about some of her photographs during a reception Thursday for her and other students by the Hidden Glen Arts Festival organization.
The Olathe News |
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Name a Terrible Painting, Win Prizes
In partnership with the curators of the Museum of Bad Art, Berkeley's Ten Speed Press - publisher of the new book, The Museum of Bad Art: Masterworks - is running a contest throughout the month of May. Prizes will be awarded to whomever dreams up the best name and appropriately obnoxious interpretation for a now-nameless, anonymous painting that may or may not depict two Grim Reapers playing ...
East Bay Express |
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'Biggest' Banksy exhibition in London tunnel
What has been billed as the biggest exhibition by British graffiti artist Banksy will open to the public on Saturday, in a railway tunnel near Waterloo train station in central London.
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