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User-Generated Video Contest Sends Message to Congress and Next President: "Take Action on Climate Change"
The winners of a user-generated video contest meant to inspire our next President and Congress to take bold action on climate change were announced this morning at www.vimeo.com/climatematters.
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Native American festival begins Oct. 31
The 2008 War Eagle Native American Festival will be Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 in Auburn, Ala.
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
At right is Robert Frank's Parade -- Hoboken, NJ (1955), suggested by MOCA chief curator Paul Schimmel. The NGA's 50th anniversary re-issue of The Americans is here at 40% off.
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?It?s a team effort? : The Bentonville mayor urged the appropriate utilization of downtown parking lots and spaces.
BENTONVILLE ? Table Mesa Bistro, a tapas-style restaurant, is getting ready to open its doors on the downtown Bentonville Square. The popular eclectic gift store B LaRue has relocated to the space formerly occupied by Fusion Art Gallery. First Friday celebrations in downtown Bentonville have been chalking up new attendance records each month. And, yes, the sidewalk-and-streetimprovement project ...
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Asbury Park seeks designs for street banners
The Arts Coalition of Asbury Park, known as ArtsCAP, is asking artists to submit designs for its "Imagine Asbury Park" contest. The winning designs will be made into banners and hung on the city's light poles after the Christmas holidays....
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Former premiers push for BC offshore oil development, Campbell pushes back
VICTORIA, B.C. - Two former premiers warned Monday that British Columbia's future economic survival may rely heavily on the federal government scrapping a moratorium and allow development of offshore oil and gas resources.
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Baroque or simply broke? Money woes hit art market
NEW 7:05 a.m. LONDON -- The mood was frosty at London's Frieze Art Fair. Bidders were sparse at Christie's and Sotheby's. Even Andy Warhol's multicolored skulls failed to lift the art world's gloom. Stock market update
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Painting Poetry
Poetry is art. But many young poets in the Bay Area have become art -- with the help of Intersection for the Arts, eighteen Bay Area poets have been immortalized on canvas.
New America Media |
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Exhibit of Karsh portraits includes Einstein, Picasso, Hemingway
BOSTON - The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is marking the 100th birthday of legendary Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh with an exhibition of some of his iconic portraits.
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One of the world's best known art collections reaches its 25th year
The Burrell Collection, one of the world's best known artistic collections, celebrates its 25th anniversary.
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Ocean Alliance offers tours of Paint Factory on Oct. 25 and 26
Satisfy your curiosity and join Ocean Alliance for a one-time viewing tours and art show at the historic Tarr and Wonson Paint Manufactory, the iconic red building overlooking Gloucester Harbor from Rocky Neck. Tours will be given Saturday, Oct. 25 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The Cape Ann Beacon |
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Water way to win a photography prize
PHOTOGRAPHERS are being asked to focus on an Oldham waterway to compete for a cash prize. The Huddersfield Narrow Canal is a landscape photographer’s dream come true.
Oldham Chronicle |
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Alan focuses on top job at institute
OLDHAM-BORN professional lensman Alan Stone has been elected to a top photographic role. Alan has become a director of the British Institute of Professional Photography (BIPP).
Oldham Chronicle |
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Pardoning Cash
The second annual Pardon Johnny Cash Flower Pickin' Festival, honoring the late American outlaw icon, preoccupied the music scene in Starkville over the weekend. The three-day musical event featured meet and greets with Cash's family, a 5k run, lectures from close friends of the Man in Black and a downtown concert with headliner Rosanne Cash.
The Reflector |
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RP bags six medals from New York Festivals 2008 TV Broadcasting Awards
The Philippines won a total of six medals in the New York Festivals (NYF) 2008 International TV Broadcasting Awards held on February 1 at the Tribeca Rooftop in lower Manhattan.
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'I'm supporting Madonna': Gwyneth takes sides in Ritchie divorce battle
The actress spoke out on behalf of her friend at the UK premiere of her film Two Lovers which was screened as part of the BFI London Film Festival.
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Mayor honors the arts in Toledo
Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner recognized October as National Arts and Humanities month yesterday in the lobby of the Edison Building downtown, where more than 100 glass pieces are on display for a month-long exhibition. The mayor honored the Toledo Museum of Art, the Arts Commission of Greater Toledo, and the city's privately owned art galleries, including Space 237, 20 North Gallery, and the ...
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CHANEL'S MOBILE ART PAVILION TOUCHES DOWN AT RUMSEY PLAYFIELD
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... Karl Lagerfeld's spiritual home? To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the company's iconic 2.55 quilted bag, Chanel has built a Zaha Hadid-designed torus-shaped exhibition hall in the middle of Central Park's...
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Art market begins to feel effects of financial meltdown
Associated Press LONDON — The mood was frosty at London’s Frieze Art Fair. Bidders were sparse at Christie’s and Sotheby’s. Even Andy Warhol’s multicolored skulls failed to lift the art world’s gloom.
New Haven Register |
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Fundraiser to offer showcase for artists
LEOMINSTER -- Members of the Leominster Art Association are gearing up for their second annual pre-holiday art show and fundraiser at the Leominster Public Library.
Sentinel & Enterprise |
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N.H. Film Festival announces 2008 awards
Another New Hampshire Film Festival has moseyed off into a cinematic sunset, leaving behind more than 6,000 film-filled attendants. The eighth annual festival's audience was up only slightly from last year's NHFF, said Executive Director Nicole Gregg.
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Tourism hurting in Baja
TIJUANA – In five decades at the same spot on Tijuana's Avenida Revolucion, Raúl Mendiola's store has built a loyal clientele eager for brightly colored Talavera pottery, Oaxacan wood carvings and nativity scenes made of tin. But these days, few are dropping by the Emporium, a small shop filled with pieces signed by craftsmen from across Mexico. From Avenida Revolucion to Rosarito Beach's ...
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Quilt Guild celebrates anniversary with exhibit
A group of local women meet at least once per month to practice what some say is becoming a lost art. More than 20 members of the Panhandle Piecemakers Quilt Guild will be celebrating it's 20th anniversary this year and part of that celebration is a free exhibition on Oct. 25 and 26.
The Pampa News |
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DTH Archives
Student art often goes unnoticed by a campus audience. But students have an opportunity to share it with all who walk down the long hallway of the Student Union’s Art Gallery at an upcoming competition.
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Warhol's world: 'He speeds up art and slows down reality'
The Hayward Gallery's Andy Warhol exhibition explores the artist's relationship with the moving image, bringing together films, screen tests, videos and paintings to illuminate how Warhol endlessly reproduced and manipulated the world around him.
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