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Icelandic Art Exhibition Opens in New York
Iceland does not have a reputation for protest. But, you’d be mistaken if you thought the country was immune to strike. more Click on the picture to watch an audio slideshow of the lambing season at Brimnes, a farm in the north of Iceland.
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Striking Times
The exhibition “From Another Shore: Recent Icelandic Art” opened in the Scandinavia House – The Nordic Center in America, located in New York, on Friday. The pieces of art on display include sculpture, installation, painting, photography, and videos.
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Art calendar
NATIVE HAWAIIAN ARTS MARKET AND FESTIVAL, featuring the work of dozens of native artists; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. May 4; Bishop Museum; 847-3511, www.bishopmuseum.org.
Honolulu Advertiser |
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PCA art students are seventh in the state 05-04-2008
Students at Plainview Christian Academy and High School recently earned seventh place out of 60 schools participating in TAPPS (Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools), earning 11 placements out of 17 categories at Concordia University in Austin.
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library briefs
Color Play Exhibit
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Antiques and Collecting: Old tools can become garden folk art
Folk art takes many forms -- anything from cigar-store Indians to bottle-cap figures and carved-coal pictures. It's the art of the untrained, and each piece is unique.
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Honor Roll
The annual Fine Arts Wall of Honor induction ceremony will take place Saturday at St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute's Cullen Center for the Performing Arts, 845 Kenmore Ave.
The Buffalo News |
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Auction to benefit AIDS organization
Some of Ohio's best-known artists will offer sculpture, paintings, photography, glass and collage works during the Art for Life auction Saturday in a transformed Columbus City Center.
The Columbus Dispatch |
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Cloud Cult off radar
Three years ago, Cloud Cult skipped out on a scheduled performance at the South by Southwest music festival in Texas – a potentially career-making gig for ambitious indie rock bands – to open for Ralph Nader at a protest rally.
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette |
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A star is (re)born
Slightly more than a decade ago, artist Ernest Silva built an inviting houselike structure, “Cora's Rain House/Casa de Lluvia,” that filled part of the Children's Museum/Museo de los Niños at 200 W. Island Ave. downtown.
San Diego Union-Tribune |
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Art camps to be held June, July
Week-long summer art camps sponsored by the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art, including Mud Daubers and Clay Kids as well as other themes, will be held in at least two Coast counties for nine sessions.
Hattiesburg American |
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Carving creations: Woodcarvers share hobby
Dick Marzolf of Adrian started this goldfinch carving on a Monday and had it finished and in the mail to fill an order the following Saturday.
The Daily Telegram |
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Classes/Workshops
Expressive Painting Experiment with paint and color in this workshop. Work abstractly or non-representationally. Apply paint with brush and palette knife; by pouring, dripping, glazing, impasto, more. For teens and Adults. All levels welcome, including those with no previous art experience.
Palo Alto Weekly |
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18th- and 19th-century 'small paintings' are at the Taft
'Small Paintings," 18th- and 19th-century American and European paintings popular at the turn of the 20th century, are on display at the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati.
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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Art & 'moral beauty'
"Cultivate Beauty" may sound like a great bumper-sticker slogan, but it's an exhibition with the intriguing goal of showing art that explores aesthetic beauty or attempts to "cultivate moral beauty through art-making."
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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Arts Calendar: The week in arts
The week's highlights include concerts by the Casting Crowns and Elvis Costello; Walden Theatre's Young American Shakespeare Festival; a bill of two one-act plays from The Necessary Theatre Company; and more.
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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Famous pop sculpture demolished
Workers have dismantled and removed a towering sculpture of eight cars made famous in the movie "Wayne's World."
Belleville News-Democrat |
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News Digest
Good Morning Oregon Barker Foundation gives Oregon university museum $1 million
Argus Observer |
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Tibetan Art Museum to celebrate milestone
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art will celebrate its 60th anniversary at its Spring Benefit, May 14, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at The Explorers Club, 46 East 80th St., Manhattan. Tickets are $150 per person. For reservations, call the museum by Wednesday at 718-987-3500.
Staten Island Advance |
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A MOTHER'S ANGUISH
READERS might remember that last Sunday I wrote about Kim Ki-duk, the South Korean filmmaker who was receiving a complete retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. This week, I turn to another director from South Korea, Lee Chang-dong, whose four...
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College Honors
Staff Report Mobilian David Histing has been accepted into the 2008 Hampden-Sydney Music Festival Artist Fellowship Program in Hampden-Sydney, Va. He is a graduate student at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.
Mobile Press-Register |
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Resthaven hosts art exhibition
The judges were picky for the Woman's Art Club of Cincinnati's 115th annual juried exhibition, choosing 58 works, fewer than in recent years.
The Cincinnati Enquirer |
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APME presents 2007 state newspaper awards
Staff Report The Birmingham News, Dothan Eagle, News-Courier of Athens and Messenger of Troy won Newswriting Sweepstakes awards in the 2007 journalism contest of the Alabama Associated Press Managing Editors, a statewide organization of Associated Press member newspapers.
Mobile Press-Register |
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BofA offers free admission to more than 70 museums
Free museums: Bank on it
Los Angeles Times |
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His window on the world
Exhibit by U.N. war photographer focuses on people and exotic animals John Isaac has a guardian angel. It protects him as a photographer of wildlife around the world just as it protected him as a photographer of war zones for the United Nations.
The Morning Call |
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