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Arts festival moves to Estero park
Estero will restake its claim as an artistic haven March 28. That's the date of Arts in Estero 2009.
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Barry George exhibit at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Barry George’s sculpture exhibit is now on display -- 11 whimsical and captivating metal sculptures are displayed throughout the gardens. All of the sculptures were created to express forms of nature and interact with the viewer. The sculptures also include birds, trees and people caught in motion.
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Places to go: Speedy art, free home and garden seminars
Places to go A rotating canvas and four-minute paintings? Color us impressed. We’ll be marking our calendars for Nov. 8, and Camp Fire’s annual gala fundraiser "An Artists’ Christmas." The featured artist is Dan Dunn, an improvisational art performer who creates four-minute paintings on a rotating canvas. The event will feature more than 100 original works from local and national artists, ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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COMMUNITY CALENDAR
The 2008 Holiday Marketplace will feature 220 merchants offering unique items for the entire family, including clothing, accessories, jewelry, home and garden décor, fine arts, pottery and ceramics, woodcrafts, metal sculptures, gourmet food, toys, and much more.
The Hanford Sentinel |
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China to build largest contemporary art museum
China has announced it will build its largest yet museum of contemporary art at the Beijing Yihaodi International Artbase in the first half of 2009, according to the Ministry of Culture (MOC).
China Economic Net |
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A Cabinet of Drawings
Ransom Center’s diverse drawings collections features book illustrations, designs, illustrated letters, landscapes, and portraiture.
News 8 Austin |
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Correction: On the Trail of Stanford White
Two picture credits with the Streetscape column last Sunday about the architect Stanford White were reversed. The portrait of White was from Bettman/Corbis, and the photograph of the exterior of his brownstone on Gramercy Park was from ?Stanford White, Architect?/Rizzoli Museum of the City Of New York.
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Preserving the legacy of an icon
Linda Pero had no particular interest in Norman Rockwell's art when, at Nejaime's lunch counter one day in 1984, she approached the curator of The Corner House, the former museum of his work here.
Berkshire Eagle |
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Gallery Owner Prices Art For All Collectors During Downturn
Sometimes a gesture of goodwill can bring unexpected rewards.Lulalyn Gallery, Gifts and Interiors owners Kevin Mitchell and Ralph Dixon, along with th....
The Memphis Daily News |
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Community Theatre’s Ebert leaving for Madison job
Allen Ebert, executive director of the La Crosse Community Theatre, has been named co-director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Art Institute’s Wisconsin Film Festival. His last day with the community theater will be Nov. 14.
La Crosse Tribune |
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Brightening a child's room
Sunny Goode's goal has always been to get more people painting. Her just-published second book, Paint Can! Children's Rooms (Sterling, $24.95), empowers parents to take up glazing, color washing and stenciling to create a special environment for their children.
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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Auctions: Toys - not just for Christmas - at Bertoia's
Bertoia Auctions' three-day Toys for All Seasons sale Nov. 7-9 in Vineland does, indeed, cover the calendar, with lots ranging from cast-iron tractors and other tools of spring planting to Walt Disney tin beach toys for summer to Halloween jack-o'-lanterns for fall to a wintry mechanical Santa Claus-on-a-reindeer store display.
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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Bologna Attractions
This massive modern art museum, more familiarly known as Mambo, opened in May 2007 near the Manifattura delle Arti arts complex in a former bread factory.
New York Times |
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Is Tel Aviv Ready to Crash the Global Art Party?
“Folding Time” by Ori Gersht at Noga Gallery. IRIT SOMMER, eight months pregnant, pushed herself up from her desk at her gallery on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv . Housed in a mansion with high ceilings and polished concrete floors, Sommer Contemporary Art is possibly Israel 's leading contemporary art gallery, with a blue-chip roster of artists like the German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans.
New York Times |
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Pianistic Feats, From Takeoff to Landing
During Marc-André Hamelin?s recital at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Thursday, his upper body barely moved while his hands hurtled across the keys with jaw-dropping speed.
New York Times |
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James Brown drawing big crowds at museum
AUGUSTA, Ga. - Nearly two years after his death, James Brown can still attract an audience.
The Florida Times-Union |
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Exhibit helps point out political messages in Dr. Seuss's works
Big kids and little
The Florida Times-Union |
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Art gallery paying tribute to war brides with activities
The Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery is marking this Remembrance Day with a number of tributes to the women who turned their lives upside down for the soldiers they loved.
Times Herald |
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Touch of the Valley goes Western
The Eagle Foundation’s eighth annual Touch of the Valley event has a Western theme for its yearly auction and tasting event.
The Sentinel |
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Get your art gallery fix this week with these shows
Warm days, cool nights – this week is a great time to take in some new art exhibits. Here are some of the shows that have recently opened up.
Asheville Citizen-Times |
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Newspaper sues to take photos at polling places
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has filed a lawsuit challenging Allegheny County's intention to prevent photography around polling places.
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Shop owners using special events to lure customers
THE OPENING of the Providence Preservation Society’s Most Endangered Properties photo exhibit drew a crowd to Butterfield, a downtown Providence furniture store, on Sept. 18. Some who attended also shopped at the store.
Providence Business News |
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Briefly - Religion notes
Buckner United Methodist Church will hold its “Homespun Harvest” beginning at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Fellowship Hall at the church, 109 S Hudson, Buckner. Homemade chili and soup dinners will be served from 5 to 7 p.m., with a live auction beginning at 7 p.m.
The Examiner |
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Coleman allegations upend Minnesota Senate race
MINNEAPOLIS — As if Minnesota’s U.S. Senate contest weren’t volatile enough, the candidates headed into the final weekend of campaigning amid allegations about one candidate that have the potential to alter the outcome of the race.
Winona Daily News |
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Preserving the legacy of an icon
Sunday, November 02 Linda Pero had no particular interest in Norman Rockwell's art when, at Nejaime's lunch counter one day in 1984, she approached the curator of The Corner House, the former museum of his work here.
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