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Preserving Berlin's Living Symbol Of Division
"For decades the Berlin Wall was the physical symbol of the Cold War "Iron Curtain" between East and West. But since it was breached in 1989, one remaining part of the wall has taken on a new role, as a 1.3km art gallery.
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Harvard Museum To Receive $245m In Art, Cash
"As museums grapple with the potential effects of the economic crisis, the Harvard Art Museum has received a windfall from Emily Rauh Pulitzer, a former curator who earned a graduate degree at Harvard, that includes artworks worth nearly $200 million and a cash gift of $45 million."
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Namibia: Latest Art Exhibition of a True Visual Artist
An exhibition titled, Imagination and Reality, by coastal artist Angela Hanke is to be officially opened tomorrow at the Fine Art Gallery in Swakopmund.
AllAfrica.com |
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Sculpture depicts Berkeley's biggest protests
Berkeley is immortalizing its greatest protests - from People's Park to disability rights to the tree-sitters' standoff at Memorial Stadium - in a towering sculpture of fist-waving demonstrators on a pedestrian and bicycle bridge over busy Interstate 80. The...
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Nick Cave to present Turner Prize
Singer-songwriter Nick Cave will announce this year's contemporary art Turner Prize winner.
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OnMilwaukee.com Weekend Preview: Oct. 17-19
Gallery Night is back this weekend as we fall into autumn in Milwaukee. The Admirals are back. too, and there's music from Trace Adkins to The B-52s to Matisyahu. What else? The Heart Walk, Run Up to the Runway, Carlos Mencia, the MSO, Charlotte's Web, Boo at the Zoo, several new plays and much more.
OnMilwaukee.com |
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Improvements to Highway 92 should ease pumpkin festival traffic in Half Moon Bay
Driving to Half Moon Bay's annual Art & Pumpkin Festival this weekend is expected to be much easier than in previous years thanks to improvements on the road that lead to the event.
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'Peace is an unachievable Utopia'
...This is according to Anselm Kiefer, a German sculptor who has been awarded the German Book Trade Peace Prize.
Independent Online |
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
Michael Taylor is the curator of modern art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Introduction to the series here. Michael Taylor: The biting satire of this portrait of George Washington reflects the artist's nihilistic mood during the Second World War, which had brought back painful memories of the jingoistic patriotism that had led to the senseless loss of so many of his friends and even family ...
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Pittsfield native joins latest list of reality TV stars
PITTSFIELD — Pittsfield has another reality television star. Last night, celebrity host Vivica A. Fox announced stylist Indashio, a.k.a., Pittsfield-native Brad Batory, 24, as the winner of VH-1's first "Glam God" televised contest series.
Berkshire Eagle |
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Singing, dancing, storytelling, crafts at Museum of Indian Culture's Time of Thanksgiving festival
Express-Times Photo KEN WHITEA man dances during the Spring Corn Festival at the Museum of Indian Culture in Allentown in May 2007. Storytelling, dancing and cultural demonstrations this weekend will give visitors to the Museum of Indian Culture in...
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50 works are donated to Akron Art Museum
Akron is sharing in one of the most incomparable gifts of art in the history of the United States.
Akron Beacon Journal |
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Cinema Mariposa: Unassuming clapboard building home to town's artsy film house
MARIPOSA -- Two young Germans passing through this mountain hamlet on their honeymoon entered "cinema" into their global positioning system.
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Church gears up for pumpkin fest fun
A day of fun is planned from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at First United Methodist Church’s Pumpkin Patch Festival, 701 Lindsey Lane, Atlanta, Texas. The pumpkin patch has thousands of pumpkins that cost $1.50 to $25. Proceeds will go toward missions.
Texarkana Gazette |
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Artistic Day of the Dead tribute to an Alameda dad
Sailor's son crafts leatherwork mosaic of man found drowned in Mexico while on solo voyage to Ireland
Alameda Times-Star |
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AppleFest organizers expect large crowd for festival
ASHLAND — Downtown Ashland’s fifth annual AppleFest is expected to draw hundreds to Eighth and Centre streets Saturday for entertainment, games and food.
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Artist's work leaps over the topography of love
Derek Cracco's newest artwork is all about the emotional distance that can develop between lovers. Take, for example, the abyss that opened between Cracco and fiancee Kelly Schiff when he decided to include life-size photos of their scantily clad bodies...
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Peace unachievable, peace prize winner Kiefer says
Frankfurt - Anselm Kiefer, a German sculptor who has been awarded the German Book Trade Peace Prize this year, on Friday called peace an unachievable utopia. Kiefer, 63, who lives has lived in France since 1993, is the first artist to be given the a...
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Crystal Bridges builders pour finesse into concrete
BENTONVILLE — Once finished, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will contain more than four times the amount of concrete as a ninestory hospital in Tulsa. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Northwest Edition)
NWAnews.com |
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B Arty
B-STORE is the latest London fashion hub with an intention to celebrate this year's Frieze Art Fair in style; the Savile Row retailer will today open the first UK exhibition of work by the seminal Japanese artist and musician Yamataka EYE.
British Vogue |
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Barbecue and the blues take center stage at free Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival
John Mooney plays the festival on Saturday, Oct. 18. New Orleans may not measure up to Chicago or Memphis as a blues town. But as evidenced by this weekend's Crescent City Blues and BBQ Festival, the city and state support...
New Orleans Times-Picayune |
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Film Fest 'Blooms' with Chicago connections Photos
The 44th Chicago International Film Festival opened Thursday night with a film shot in Prague yet rife with Chicago connections.
Chicago Tribune |
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Original drawings from 'MAD' magazine up for auction
Alfred E. Neuman, the grinning face with the flapping ears, has gazed out from the covers of MAD magazine for half a century - becoming such a familiar presence that Charles , Prince of Wales, may have felt it necessary to deny that he looked like him.
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Day in History, Oct. 17
One year ago: More than $65,000 was raised in the auction of 14 blue-heron statues in Winona. The birds had been placed throughout the city since April, leading up to the Fine Arts Commission fundraiser.
Post-Bulletin |
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FVCC Photo Show Highlights Study Abroad Experience
For the Flathead Valley Community College students and instructors who spent last spring studying abroad, the art photography show on display in the school is a reminder of an education unlike any they could have received at home: A six-week cram session in Nepalese culture, religion, and history. But with the photo show, the students and instructors aim to share a bit of their experience and ...
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