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No Spitting No Kidding
The opening reception for a 30-year retrospective of Robbie Conal’s career as artist and activist, titled “NO SPITTING NO KIDDING,” took place at Track 16 Gallery in Bergamot Station on Saturday, October 18. Turnout was huge, and L.A. Latin hip-hop band Ozatmatli played at the event.
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Shaker Hts.: First Baptist Church holds juried art show this weekend
The 8th annual Juried Arts and Crafts Show will be held from noon to 8 p.m. Friday (Oct. 24) and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday (Oct. 25) at the First Baptist Church of Greater Cleveland, 3630 Fairmount Blvd.,...
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Photo shoot with Queen
LONDON — Annie Leibovitz revisited a tense moment last year with the Queen as the celebrity photographer showcased a new exhibit of her work in London on Wednesday.
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“Art-About” Friday in Hoquiam
Hoquiam businesses and a new co-op gallery are opening their doors Friday afternoon for a citywide art walking tour. Kathleen Graddy, president of the newly formed Harbor Art Guild, said 18 different locations will be hosting original artwork from local artists in lobbies, entryways and displays.
The Daily World |
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Getty Images buys Jupitermedia unit
Stock photography company Getty Images is expanding its content. (JUPM)
Puget Sound Business Journal |
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BVAC open house art exhibit and sale
An open house, art exhibit and sale will be held Sat. Nov. 22, 2 to 7 p.m. and hosted by the Norman family, 28 Roosevelt St., Babylon Village The Babylon Village Arts Council art sale showcasing BVAC members is just in time for the holiday season. This is an opportunity to view works of art by local Long Island artists and purchase art.
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Chloe Veltman on how culture will save the world
The National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul has the following inscription on it: "A nation stays alive when its culture stays alive." This statement should be the mantra accompanying visitors as they look around Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul , a globe-trotting exhibition of some of the war-ravaged country's most precious artifacts, which opens at San Francisco's ...
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American Artist: Kitty Teerling's "Louisa" and "Connie"
These drawings by Kitty Teerling were done in graphite in a Moleskine sketchbook with off-white pages. They are observational value studies that serve to train and speed up the artist's hand for painting in oil.
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Travel almanac: Creation Museum claims big crowds
Louisville, Ky. - The museum exhibits are taken from the Old Testament, but the special effects are pure Hollywood: a state-of-the-art planetarium, animatronics and a massive model of Noah's Ark, all intended to explain the origins of the universe from a biblical viewpoint.
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Fracas on the fringe
In her inaugural speech to this edition of the Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre (CIFET), Martha Coigney, the longstanding head of the international selection committee, pensively wondered at the fleeting nature of time, saying she could hardly believe that the festival was already 20 years old (21 to be precise, if you count in the year it was cancelled on account of the ...
Al-Ahram Weekly |
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"Fire" And "Light" Show Opens At Gallery
Painter and photographer Carmen Monne will join with Farideh Azad, glass artist and ceramicist, in an exciting show, "Shaped By Fire, Revealed by Light," which opens at the Topanga Canyon Gallery on October 22. Both refugees from troubled countries, they have infused the beauty of their remembered homelands into their art.
Topanga Messenger |
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PAINTING FOUND: Search on for local owner of formerly long lost art
About 37 years after it was first reported stolen, a painting belonging to a Winchester resident has been re-discovered.
The Winchester Star |
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Chatham photographer exhibits 'Flora and Fauna'
REFLECTING POOL -- Photographer Allyson Hurley of Chatham Township exhibits Flora and Fauna, at the Bouras Galleries through October. Dr. Hurley is a dentist with a practice in Chatham. She is an accredited member of the American Academy of Cosmetic...
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New Orleans Voodoo music festival hits decade mark
Stephen Rehage lost thousands of dollars in the making of the first New Orleans Voodoo Experience, the outdoor music festival he first produced in 1999 that only drew about 8,000 people.
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Titian canvas at heart of public appeal goes on display in London
A vibrant, 16th century Titian canvas has been placed on prominent display at the National Gallery in London, in attempt to boost the current fundraising campaign to keep the valuable painting in the U.K.
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Arts around the Mid-coast; Oct. 23, 2008
Roll & Go to perform at Maine Maritime Museum BATH — The sea music group Roll & Go will be performing from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday for the annual Pirates' Party at the Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington St.
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Students unleash on LittleBigPlanet's levels
Over one lost weekend last month, a school full of designers and art students gathered at the LittleBigPlanet Game Jam, turning virtual bits of sponge, wood and metal into labyrinthine worlds of racetracks, washing machines and monsters.
Rocky Mountain News |
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Can't Miss It: Thursday
GENUINELY COOL, ARTSY FARTSY NIGHT : Go to the Filter release party at the Richard Hugo House tonight for readings, hobnob opps with writerly folks, and performances by Awesome!. The literary magazine celebrates the release of its second issue, and if you haven't seen this work of art yet, you may not know: this is a beautiful and well-crafted literary magazine, not only in content but in ...
Seattlest |
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Art in Smithtown, 'Midnight Oils,' horror theme
Mills Pond House is gussied up for its Fool Moon Festival. But besides the usual Halloween haunted house - actually, a haunted tent - the Smithtown Township Arts Council has mounted a fine art show in the St. James galleries that pokes fun at horror and plumbs it for philosophical ruminations on death.
Newsday |
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Wildfire Near LA's Getty Museum Contained
A wildfire burned 100 acres of brush and grass near the world-famous Getty art museum before it was doused early Thursday without causing any damage or injuries, fire officials said.
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USAO seniors join for exhibit
Dramatic colors, a lot of movement, unusual reflections and classic cars are just a few of the images on display Nov. 3-21 in the Davis Hall Third Floor Gallery at the University of Science and Arts.
The Express-Star |
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Study Shows McCain Winning Over Hummer Moms, Obama Cleaning Up With Hatchback-Owning Gay Art Students [Race To The ...
A survey of more than 11,000 car owners and likely voters by Kelley Blue Book shows that Senator John McCain does better than Senator Barack Obama among owners of domestic brands and full-size SUVs,...
Jalopnik |
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Kids and their costumes make for fun contest
Nearly 200 children and adults set a lively and colorful tone for this year’s Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival by turning up for the Costume Contest, which started out the weekend on Saturday morning.
Half Moon Bay Review |
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Pumpkin Festival declared a success
Half Moon Bay has just completed its own spin on the Cinderella story: Over a brief weekend the humble city magically transformed into a pumpkin palace — stealing the spotlight among the well-to-do cities of the Bay Area — only to revert back to its quaint Coastside, smalltown identity overnight.
Half Moon Bay Review |
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Museum exhibition honors local natives
By Richard O Jones
Dayton Daily News |
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