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Rubber ducks
The new exhibit at the Westport Arts Center’s Studio Gallery, Lucy Sander Sceery’s whimsical take on rubber ducks, will open this evening, Thursday, Oct. 30. There will be a studio party from 6:30 to 8:30 to mark the opening of Not All Rubber Ducks Look Alike, which will remain on view through Nov. 30.
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It's happening right here in your community
-AUCTION The Columbia Museum of Art Contemporaries host the fifth annual Artist of the Year Soirée and Silent Auction on November 6 from 7 pm- 10 pm. 343- 0480.
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Apache tribe featured in photo exhibit
SEGUIN — Henry Moore has always had an appreciation of Native American culture.
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Nonprofit news roundup for Oct. 30, 2008
Of the nonprofits fighting to survive the financial crisis, art museums are among the hardest hit, The Wall Street Journal reported Oct. 30 (see museum story ). Coming off a two-decade art boom, many museums are struggling to pay for expansions to their facilities while their board members, many of them former real-estate and Wall Street executives, are tightening their belts.
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1st major Christie's punk auction set for NYC
Memorabilia from some of punk rock's biggest acts and seminal moments — including a scrawled flier for an early Clash show and photos signed by the Sex Pistols — is headed for a Nov. 24 Christie's auction.
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Uganda: Art - Strength of a Woman
At the new home of Alliance Francaise (AF) and the Uganda German Cultural Society (UGCS) on Mackinnon Road, in Nakasero, Yusuf Ssali held the first art exhibition in that breezing place recently.
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Garden art blooms from old castoffs
Scrap metal is gold to Bob Woodside.Through his hobby/business, Recycling Metal Into Art, the Lancastrian turns random metal pieces — even from old water heaters — into outdoor treasures.The 50-year-old plumber started metal sculpting about 15 years ago, from the back of his pickup truck...
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Live with Lanny! Visits Quilt Festival
More than 50,000 people attend the International Quilt Festival in Houston on an annual basis. FOX 26 reporter Lanny Griffith previews the highly-anticipated event from the George R. Brown Convention Center.
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Met, MoMA Feel Wall Street's Pain
From the Wall Street Journal : "How dependent is the museum business on Wall Street and financial-services income? Boards are actually fairly well diversified, but Wall Streeters have been disproportionately generous. The Met's first gallery devoted to contemporary photography, Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall, opened earlier this year; it was endowed chiefly by Robert Menschel, a senior ...
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Artsy Up Your Pictures with Poladroid [Featured Mac Download]
Mac only: Want your candid photos to look a little more retro chic but don't want to spend a fortune tracking down whats left of the world's Polaroid film stock and lug the signature boxy, plastic...
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Customer Service
MINNEAPOLIS - The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has sent a painting by cubist Fernand Leger back to the heirs of a Jewish art collector in France, after concluding it had been stolen by the Nazis during the Second World War.
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Former Met Director Philippe de Montebello Says Recession Might be Good for the Museum
On Wednesday, Oct. 29., the French-born Philippe de Montebello was honored at the French Institute Alliance Francaise's Trophee des Arts Gala at the Plaza for his longstanding career as the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "I always like to be honored!" Mr. Montebello told the Daily Transom. "I have no idea how they found me, I guess they must have looked me up in the phone ...
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Painting shows 82nd paratroopers in action
The 82nd Airborne Division will unveil a new painting depicting some of its troopers in action in Iraq.
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Limited edition jewellery timepieces on display at Paragon
SINGAPORE: Horological art lovers at the Jewellery Time exhibition at Paragon Shopping Centre had a chance to rub shoulders with Hong Kong celebrities, Leon Lai and Michelle Reis, who were at the opening on Thursday evening.
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International Arts Festival to be held in Hannibal Friday
HANNIBAL, Mo. -- Hannibal's first International Halloween Arts Festival from noon to midnight Friday will feature a wide array of performances, food and art.
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Waller-owned horse heads for Louisiana
Photo Courtesy Of Coady Photography American Quarter Horse Somekinda Beau, a 2-year-old sorrel gelding by Gros Oreille out of Bedawee Beau, qualified to run in the Louisiana Breeders Futurity Finals, covering the 400-yard race in a time of 20.429. The horse was trained by Janet Van Bebber. Proud owners Pat Huckman of Waller and Henry Kennedy Jr. of Tomball head to Evangeline Downs in Opelousas, ...
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Local artist's reception
An artist’s reception is planned for opening night, Nov. 7, at Marbles Gallery, 1905 Park Avenue in Lafayette Square, St. Louis, where visitors will find select works of art by Madison County Artists, Russell Middleton and Kevin Ward.
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Hundreds flock to toilet to see art
BERLIN (Reuters) - A public toilet in Munich which has been transformed into an art museum has attracted hundreds of people in the first days after opening, a spokesman for the city's tourism agency said on Thursday.
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Fall festival concludes this weekend
Moon Over Minden, the city’s bi-annual Halloween celebration sponsored by Cultural Crossroads, will continue this Friday with haunted graveyard tours and a trek through the grim reaper’s maze and conclude on Saturday with the Monster Ball.
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The Rock offers community-wide family fun
The Rock Family Worship Center will host the third annual Harvest Festival on Friday, Oct. 31, from 6 until 10 p.m. “We have a lot of games planned,” said Patrick Kritner of The Rock Family Worship Center.
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Mid-Daily Items: New Yorkers watch the 'Economy' melt
The economy is melting — literally. Two artists on Wednesday installed a 1,500-pound ice sculpture that spelled the word “Economy” in Manhattan’s financial district.
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ONGOING/OPENING EXHIBITS
Fairfield County District Library 219 N. BROAD ST., LANCASTER (740-653-2745) "Lancaster Art Guild 2008 Autumn Open," juried pieces by guild members and nonmembers, through Nov. 28
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Capitol displays photos of kids up for adoption
A portrait gallery of children hoping to be adopted has made a visit to the Utah Capitol.
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Lecture frames the contemporary portrait
Students and faculty alike could not help but react with excited laughter, intrigued head nods and surprised exclamations as Director of the Middlebury College Museum of Art and Walter Cerf Distinguished College Professor of History of Art & Architecture Richard Saunders gave a lecture entitled "The Contemporary Portrait in American Society.
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Behind the myth of Byzantium
Byzantium at the Royal Academy , in London, is a mind-expanding exhibition. It's the kind of exhibition the Royal Academy has always done superbly, shatteringly well - the colossal blockbuster that lets you encounter the treasures of an entire civilisation in one go.
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