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Unique New Pipe Organ Inaugurated - More Suitable for Bach's Music than Any Other Organ in North America
The nation's first precise scientific working replica of Europe's best-preserved late Baroque organ was inaugurated in October at a public concert followed by a four-day Festival in Rochester, New York. The organ's completion marks the culmination of almost a decade of research, planning and hand craftsmanship, and a global collaboration involving world-renowned organ experts from the U.S. ...
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Brand-New Website That's Just Launched, All About Digital Photography -- FreshPhotograph.net
This website is "dedicated to improving your skills and knowledge with respect to the world of Digital Photography." This site has been created by a retired Professional Advertising Photographer, who shares his images and knowledge, in the hope that others will expand their horizons and pushed the boundaries of their creativity to produce beautiful images of their own.
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Snapshots
Judd Halloween party is Friday Butte Celebrations annual Charlie Judd Memorial Halloween Party will be held from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31, in the Museum of Fine Arts Building, 405 W. Park St.
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Wichita teens to share their worldviews in exhibit ART IN PERSPECTIVES
Monica Williams and Lina Chang know Wichita's young people have something to say. "We have our own unique perspective on the world," said Williams, 17, a senior at Maize High School. "So we thought it would be cool to go out and survey youth and somehow portray what they thought." The result is "Our Voices: Youth in ICT Speak Out," a multimedia art exhibit designed to tell the story of what ...
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Museum examines work of Czech master
CORNING -- The evolution of the glass artistry of Czech master Frantisek Vizner will be on display beginning Saturday when the Corning Museum of Glass opens the second installment of its series, Masters of Studio Glass.
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Renovations to bridge gallery gap
Egerton Swartwout graduated from Yale College in 1891, and by 1925 he was a renowned architect presenting plans for a Gallery of Fine Arts at his alma mater.
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YUAG pieces to travel, teach during renovations
John Trumbull’s painting of the Declaration of Independence, a cane chiseled with the healing arts of Africa and a silver beaker inscribed with Dutch allegories are all on vacation from the Yale University Art Gallery.
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Murphy: Fake Yale weekend
I just saw my fifth Parents’ Weekend. My parents stayed home, sensibly stopping at four. In their absence, I observed the holiday the way we used to — by doing an on-campus activity that would have never occurred to me otherwise. I went on a student-led tour of the Yale University Art Gallery.
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Artists beginning with D
The only painting of fairies that's truly convincing? While incarcerated in Bedlam after murdering his father, Dadd spent nine years working on this spellbinding image. And it's not just down to the fairies. Dadd's minuscule attention to natural detail makes this a work of crazed wonderment.
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Jazz Videos
Get featured! Submit your video Description Randy Brecker performs perennial Brecker Brothers favorite, "Sponge," at Summer Festival in Ourense, Spain, with tenor saxophonist Ada Rovatti, pianist Dave Kikoski, bassist Chris Minh Doky, drummer Rodney Holmes and an unspecified guitarist.
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Six seconds with...Joel McHale
While Joel McHale, the Tyra Banks–obsessed host of The Soup, has never lived in New York (Haddonfield, N.J., doesn't count), we interviewed the L.A. resident anyway because he's so damn funny. And because he's performing at Town Hall on November 8 as part of the New York Comedy Festival. Joel, 36, says his sons, Eddie and Isaac, are a wealth of material for his stand-up routine. "They're 3 ...
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Steamboat Briefs for Oct. 27
Business to auction bracelet for breast cancer
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Orchard sculpture celebrates apple weekend
A giant apple is ‘growing’ in the orchard at Cotehele in East Cornwall in time for the National Trust’s Apple Day celebrations on Saturday September 27 and 28.
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City celebrates Chinese culture with China Fest
The City of Gainesville held its first China Fest on Sunday at the Thomas Center. The festival was made possible by a $5,000 grant from the Smithsonian Community Grant program.
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Giorgio Morandi's Crockery Obsession Resonates in Quiet Show
Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- For almost all of his 73 years, the Italian painter Giorgio Morandi lived in his parents' apartment in Bologna and devoted himself to painting small, pale still-life tableaux of shapely earthenware jugs, ceramic vases and long- necked bottles.
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Art lovers, can you spare $10M?
The public campaign to raise the last 10 percent of the $100 million expansion of the Crocker Art Museum will start in the spring.
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Met Opera Tops 2007 U.S. Arts Fundraising With $128.1 Million
Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The Metropolitan Opera led all U.S. arts organizations in fundraising from private sources with $128.1 million in 2007, according to a survey of 400 nonprofits by the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
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Scene
This Week Thursday The Akron Area Arts Alliance will host a preview party, Haunted Artspace, from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at Summit Artspace, 140 E. Market St., Akron. Tour an eerie art installation created by eight professional artists and four emerging artists, and see Fresh & Spooky, a juried gallery show by 91 artists from Summit, Portage and Medina counties. $50, reservations limited to 125 ...
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United Way extendsbidding on sculptures
Bidding has been extended until 4 p.m. Friday for the remaining sculptures from this year's United Way Art of Caring event.
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Your Calendar - Lake County
FOCUS ON LANDSCAPES Munster Art enthusiasts are invited to attend South Shore Arts Art in Focus meeting for a video and discussion on "John Constable, landscape artist." It will be held from 10 a.m. to noon today in the Bachman Gallery at the Center for Visual & Performing Arts, 1040 Ridge Road.
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Palatine sponsors youth art calendar contest
The village of Palatine and the Palatine Inverness Arts Council invites all students in grades K-12 to submit original artwork by Friday, Oct. 31, to Palatine Village Hall, 200 E. Wood St., Palatine, IL 60067.
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Portage parks seeking sponsors
PORTAGE The Portage Parks and Recreation Department is looking for sponsors for everything from sports teams to recreational programs and city festivals.
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Halloween happenings
TRICK OR TREAT HOURS All trick or treating is Oct. 31 Chesterton 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Hebron 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Kouts 5 to 7 p.m. LaCrosse: 5 to 7 p.m. Portage: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Porter County 5:30 to 7:30 Oct. 31 Valparaiso: 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 31 Wanatah: 5 to 7 p.m. Hobart: 5 to 7:30 p.m. Lake Station: 5 to 8 p.m. Merrillville: 5:30 to 7 p.m. PUMPKIN CARVING CONTEST Chesterton A community-wide ...
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Pop culture minor may aid in anticipating cultural trends
On Friday, popular culture minor Bianca Garza arrived back in Bowling Green after a quick trip to New York City for a visit to the offices of Rolling Stone Magazine. The trip was Garza's second interview with Rolling Stone's photography department for a potential internship in summer 2009.
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Canadian museum director 'ignorant' of ANZACs
The Canadian director of the Auckland War Memorial Museum has been accused of being ignorant of the Anzac tradition in a dispute over a memorial to World War 2 Bomber Command veterans.
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