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Ashland celebrates 150 years
Excitement, entertainment, enthusiasm and mystery -- that's how the Town of Ashland celebrated its 150th birthday on Saturday.View Photo Gallery Excitement, entertainment, enthusiasm and mystery—that’s how the Town of Ashland celebrated its 150th birthday on Saturday. A cool autumn breeze was blowing as the stands at Day Football Field on the campus of Randolph-Macon College filled with family, ...
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Nigeria: PH.D Degree Holders Don't Make Better Artists -Frank Ugiomoh
ONE of the eleven points resolution proffered in a communique issued at the recently concluded first African Regional Summit and Exhibition on the Visual Arts (ARESUVA) organised by the National Gallery of Art, NGA, Abuja stated as follows: "The summit is seriously concerned with NUC's directive that the acquisition of Ph.D is a pre-condition for promotion for lecturers in studio art.
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Contemporary Art Auction Market Deflates
"By the end of the sale, 27 percent of the works remained stranded. At the press conference held in a subdued atmosphere, a Sotheby's spokesperson revealed that the auction house had worked hard to persuade consignors to bring down their reserves.
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EXTRA: Rescue flag exhibition teases government over rescue plan
Berlin - While German banks began queuing up for a handout under the government's 500-billion-euro plan for shoring up the financial sector, rescue flags begun emerging across the lawn in front of the nation's parliament building, the Reichstag. Swis...
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Daniel Vosovic, Project Runway Finalist : Free Book Signing at FIDM Museum Shop November 5 at 11:30
FIDM Museum Shop Announces Daniel Vosovic, Project Runway Finalist, Speaking and Signing Books at FIDM Museum Shop Los Angeles, CA Daniel Vosovic, noted designer and Project Runway season 2 finalist, has announced that one of the two LA booksignings of his new book will be held at FIDM Museum Shop on Wednesday, November 5 from 11:30am to 1:30. There will be a Q & A session along with the ...
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Prices Drop At Frieze Fair
Some dealers appeared to have lowered prices. At London's White Cube, a richly enameled painting by Anglo-Indian star Raqib Shaw was on hold at 575,000 pounds. In June at Art Basel, a similar-sized work by Shaw sold for 750,000 pounds.
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Talk canceled
CHAMPAIGN – Artist Fred Tomaselli, who was to have given a talk at 5:30 p.m. today at Krannert Art Museum, has canceled due to illness. University of Illinois art history Professor Jonathan Fineberg said the talk will be rescheduled for the spring.
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Portraits from Papunya
ALMOST four decades ago, in the remote western desert community of Papunya, senior Aboriginal men began painting their traditional designs. Swiftly, insistently, the art map of Australia changed. Within a few years, those first, small works on board, and the elaborate, tightly dotted landscape images that followed from them were being widely noticed, admired, and collected: the modern indigenous ...
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Bay City teacher honored as state's best art educator
Kolb Elementary School art teacher Diane Brown wont the Michigan Elementary Art Educator of the Year award for an innovative teaching style and her methods to incorporate art in other course subjects. Brown is the first Bay City teacher to win the state award. Dan Staudacher Times Photo Kolb Elementary School art teacher Diane Brown wont the Michigan Elementary Art Educator of the Year ...
The Bay City Times |
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Canon U.S.A. Will Showcase Leading Scanning Technologies at ARMA Annual Conference
Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leading provider of digital office imaging systems and solutions, will exhibit its leading document scanners, microfilm readers, and check transports at the 53rd ARMA International Annual Conference and Expo in Las Vegas. Also at the show will be a sneak preview of Canon's latest addition to its award winning imageFORMULA product line.
Centre Daily Times |
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45th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival -"the Market - A Tale Of Trade" Wins Best Film Award
ANTALYA - "The Market - A Tale of Trade" directed by Ben Hopkins has won the "Best Film Award" at the 45th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival Feature Film Competition.
TurkishPress.com |
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Auctioning Motorized Muscle
Enfield — Inside a long prefab steel shed, a standing-room-only crowd gathered around a row of classic cars lined up bumper to bumper. As each one started up and rolled forward, filling the air with exhaust, an auctioneer seated on a high platform called out bids in rapid-fire cadence.
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Museum projects on hold for now
Planned restoration projects for the Layland Museum and Lowell Smith Sr. History Center remain in limbo given the Cleburne City Council’s recent decision to freeze spending on new capital projects
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Desert masters claim place in history
IT was almost four decades ago, in this harsh desert country, that the Aboriginal painting movement was born. Now, after many tribulations and triumphs, the definitive history of that bold renaissance has been written, and welcomed into the landscape where it all began.
The Australian |
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Canon U.S.A. Will Showcase Leading Scanning Technologies at ARMA Annual Conference
LAS VEGAS----Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leading provider of digital office imaging systems and solutions, will exhibit its leading document scanners, microfilm readers, and check transports at the 53rd ARMA International Annual Conference and Expo in Las Vegas.
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Top photographer's work goes on display
DURSLEY’S On View project has seen four empty shops transformed into exhibition space for local artists. This month the project has attracted an exhibition by a professional photographer who has photographed the royal family and television stars. Gazette reporter Claire Marshall talks to the man behind the photos, Mike Henton, who moved to the area 18 months ago.
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Councillors debate Salmon Festival future: Grand Falls-Windsor Organizing committee fishing for new ideas
After the disastrous summer of 2007, when the Exploits Valley Salmon Festival posted a loss of $200,000 to the town of Grand Falls-Windsor, Coun-cillor Jim Courtney and the other members of the festival planning committee took a hard look at how to improve the performance of the summer tradition.
Grand Falls Advertiser |
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Rehearse your own funeral at Vienna art exhibit
VIENNA (Reuters Life!) - If you want to make sure everything goes to plan on your special day...then rehearse your own funeral in Vienna, with music, flowers and an audience.
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Photographers capture Movement at cafe
AN image of a surfer won a recent photography competition. (10/10/2008 14:54:13)
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Area briefly
Ottawa County 4-H Endowment Auction will be 6 p.m. Saturday at the Camp Perry Clubhouse.
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
Kenneth Baker names the two works of art that "formed his sensibilities." (Good idea. Memo to self: 'Borrow' this idea sometime.) In the NYT, Karen Rosenberg has a nice take on Rachel Whiteread at the MFA Boston.
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Rehearse your own funeral at Vienna art exhibit
If you want to make sure everything goes to plan on your special day...then rehearse your own funeral in Vienna, with music, flowers and an audience.
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Renaissance man : Romare Bearden?s ?Sacrifice? serves as a window into the genius of one of the most wellrounded ...
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of five weekly features exploring the artists behind the first five modern art paintings recently announced as part of the permanent collection of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. (Benton County Daily Record)
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Daily Herald
HALIFAX — Rain stayed away from the annual Harvest Days on Saturday bringing a modest crowd to the 4-H Rural Life Center to look at farm exhibits, buy goods from vendors and learn more about the Valley’s past.
Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald |
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The art market bubble bursts? (9 pictures)
An unfinished oil portrait of Francis Bacon, painted by Lucian Freud, sold for more than £5.4m at Christie's but had been estimated to sell for up to £7m. Freud painted two portraits of Bacon.
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