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Museum comes alive with death Like life, it’s temporary
Fulgencio Lazo tapped brightly colored sand onto the floor of the Tacoma Art Museum. The artist’s tempera powder formed yellow and blue stars and white skulls to greet visitors in the foyer.
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Sunday Sound-off: The most you'd spend on art?
This weekend, Milwaukee celebrated fall Gallery Night and Day, featuring dozens of art galleries free and open to the public. Do you purchase art frequently? Have you at least purchased one original art piece from a local artist? What's the most you'd spend on a piece of art?
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Lighthouse auctions lure novelty-seekers, nostalgic
WASHINGTON -- A construction worker, a nanny and a clothing designer walk into a lighthouse.
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Global warming fills up the Icebox
An exhibition on global warming may not persuade you and your fellow gallery-goers to chuck the old gas-guzzler for a hybrid or the Poland Spring for the faucet, but "Global Warming at the Icebox," presented by Philadelphia Sculptors at the Cran
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Timeless gems
Walters shows how jewelry themes invented centuries ago have transcended the ages W hen Bedazzled , the exhibit of jewelry from the Walters Art Museum collection, opens today, it will be more than just an interesting look at gorgeous pieces from 5,000 years ago to the early 20th century. You'll also see the antecedents of contemporary bracelets, rings, earrings and necklaces that might be ...
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Millennia of riches sparkle at the Walters
B altimore art collector Henry Walters had a great eye for painting and sculpture, but he also had a thing for bling.
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Out of the ruins
A check for $75,000 tops off the unveiling of handsome new spaces in the emerging Annapolis Maritime Museum In 2003, Tropical Storm Isabel ripped yawning holes in the walls of the old McNasby Oyster Co. building, the last standing shucking house in Annapolis. Water filled the rooms, leaving debris and mildew in its trail. Part of the dock was washed away. The damage was crushing to the ...
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Art display focuses on domestic violence
The YWCA Annapolis and Anne Arundel County will hold a Domestic Violence Awareness event 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday at the Vizions Art Gallery, 1 Park Place, Suite 2, Annapolis.
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In and around Parish
OPELOUSAS - The Louisiana Yambilee Association is currently seeking contestants for the First Annual Yam Idol and Battle of the Bands Competitions. Both competitions will be held on the main stage of the Festival Grounds located at Evangeline Downs Racetrack and Casino.
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Artistic pigs
King Bladud's Pigs in Bath, with founder of the King Bladud's Pigs project Gitte Dawson, a public art event to celebrate Bath, its origins and its artists - and provide residents and visitors with artistic enjoyment.
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Treasures from Afghanistan
Today's cover package is about an art exhibition you won't want to miss. As staff writer Jonathan Curiel points out, each of the objects in the Asian Art Museum's "Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures From the National Museum, Kabul" would be worthy of viewing on...
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St. Louis's major abstractions
ST. LOUIS: MAJOR ABSTRACTIONS A major exhibit of abstract art is opening at the Saint Louis Art Museum described as the first major U.S. exhibition in 20 years to re-examine Abstract Expressionism and the movements that followed. The show includes masterpieces by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Arshile Gorky, Philip Guston, Hans Hofmann, Jasper Johns, Lee Krasner, Frank ...
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Heroic Band Wins 98.7 FM's Local Music Competition -- "Rock Star 98.7"
Local Favorites Paperback Hero show that hard work and persistence count in winning hotly contested Los Angeles Radio Station Band Competition (PRWeb Oct 19, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/10/prweb1476374.htm
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"S'abadeb — The Gifts": An inside look at Coast Salish art and culture
A new book "S'abadeb — The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists" accompanies an exhibit at Seattle Art Museum and brings together the voices of artists, scholars and members of the community as they examine old traditions and create new ones.
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Three things our writers love this week
Art book "S'abadeb — The Gifts" My calendar is marked for the major Salish art exhibition that opens Friday at Seattle Art Museum...
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Cheekwood wants visitors to see Red
A new exhibit offers insight into the artistic tickers of Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong.
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Jules de Balincourt's challenging paintings confront societal notions of freedom
Created in the wake of the attacks on New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001, the nonfigurative paintings of French-born, California-bred artist Jules de Balincourt confront Western notions of freedom in our increasingly volatile global society. Working in oil on surfaces of exposed wood, de Balincourt employs a faux naive style that is sophisticated in conception and application.
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Artclectic brings 53 artists from 10 states to town this week
Now in its 12th year, Artclectic — a juried exhibition that will take place at University School of Nashville Thursday through Oct. 26 — brings artists working in everything from oils and watercolors to fiber, printmaking and glass to town from as far away as Hawaii. The annual art show and sale raises money to support University School, a private K-12 institution at 2000 Edgehill Ave.
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Town Square
Published: Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 1:45 a.m. The South Carolina division of International Association of Administrative Professionals met for its annual Leadership Workshop on Aug. 16 at the Columbia Museum of Art.
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THE SATURDAY LIST: Free Press critics' picks for this weekend
If Andy Warhol could make Campbell's soup cans and Brillo boxes iconic, what did he do with real people? The result of his attempt is on glorious silkscreen display for three months at the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills in a new exhibit called "Andy Warhol: Grand Slam."
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Museum plans series of pottery workshops
Published: Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 17, 2008 at 8:44 p.m.
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Own A Piece of Pink Floyd History
A top story from this week. October 15 sees a unique Fender Stratocaster go up for auction, signed by four members of Pink Floyd
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Matisyahu Third Annual Festival of Light
A top story from this week. Matisyahu announces his Third Annual Festival of Light shows in New York City this December.
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Food, fun abound at La Viña
LA UNION — Memories of a wet, harvest-limiting summer evaporated Saturday at the sun-and music-drenched La Viña Harvest Wine Festival, which concludes here today.
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Show signals cultural renaissance for Coast Salish
An unprecedented exhibition of Coast Salish art opening at Seattle Art Museum ("S'abadeb — The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists") erases the artificial boundary between Native American and First Nations groups in Canada and the U.S., allowing artists and scholars to take back their own history.
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