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Bradley rolls out 2008-09 hoops team
PEORIA - Bradley opens its men's basketball season tonight by hosting Division II Lewis University in a 7:05 p.m. exhibition at Carver Arena.
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News in Brief: Qatar Museums Authority unveils website
DOHA • Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) recently unveiled its website to coincide with the opening of the Museum of Islamic Art on November 22. The website www.qma.org.qa is part of QMA's branding campaign.
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Tampa Museum of Art gets a new name
The Tampa Museum of Art will be renamed the Cornelia Corbett Center upon its opening in fall 2009.
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Never too late: Cops crack 25-year-old clock theft
Monday, November 03, 2008 at 5:06 p.m. JERUSALEM (AP) -- It took time, but Israeli police detectives have cracked one of the country's greatest crimes - the legendary heist of a priceless clock collection from a Jerusalem museum a quarter century ago.
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Nom De Jeu by a nose
IF you want the good oil on this year's Melbourne Cup just ask Eric Woods. The stay-at-home tipster has some fine form behind him and proudly boasts having tipped 35 winners from the past 50 Melbourn...
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Oil refineries 'a health hazard'
SOME of the Gulf region's oil refineries are more dangerous to the environment and human health than nuclear plants, experts said in Bahrain yesterday.
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Museums Authority unveils its website
THE Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) has unveiled its website www.qma.org.qa . The launch precedes the November 22 opening of its flagship project - the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), a spokesperson has said.
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Spears back to her beautiful best
Britney Spears appears back to her beautiful best on her new album cover. The Womanizer singer has released the artwork for her upcoming record Circus and is pictured wearing a strappy dress complete
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I Lost The New Millenium Paper Plane Contest
I knew I was in trouble the moment I walked into the Great Hall at the New York Hall of Science to take part in (and cover) a paper plane contest for wired.com. This place was lousy with ringers. Maybe I wasn’t going to win, but I was going to learn how to play the game.
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Full on art in Wanganui
Wanganui shows off its status as an Art mecca this week, with five exhibitions by Whanganui UCOL Fine Arts and Design students.
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Churchill Downs unveils Derby art
With about six months to go until Kentucky Derby 135, Churchill Downs and licensee JettStream Productions Saturday unveiled the official artwork of the 2009 race.
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Jewish faith and a special place
ARARAT - A series of powerful black and white charcoal drawings by artist Bill Meyer, influenced by his Jewish faith and a connection with the Australian bush, will be presented at the Ararat Regional Art Gallery until November 30.
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Gail’s $35,000 painting prize
“IT’S the colours. It’s the smell of them. It’s mixing them. But chiefly it’s the colours.”
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Entertainment
One man’s stink is another man’s major art project. A piece by Belgian conceptual artist Jan Fabre at the Antwerp’s MuHKA contemporary art museum is challenging the nose as well as the eyes.
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Artists say, please touch at Troy-Hayner Cultural Center exhibit
TROY — Sometimes it's so hard not to touch the art that we have to clasp our hands behind our backs.
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Unexpected discovery expands SCAD collection
There was only one clue that something more lay beneath the Eadweard Muybridge photographic prints owned by SCAD Museum: the labels on the outside of the frames.
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Artist’s work causes a stink - again
One man’s stink is another man’s major art project. A piece by Belgian conceptual artist Jan Fabre at the Antwerp’s MuHKA contemporary art museum is challenging the nose as well as the eyes. The ins
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Portishead's Geoff Barrow Opens Art Gallery
Photo by Shannon McClean If you happen to stumble upon "the smallest gallery in the world...ever" somewhere in the vicinity of Bristol, England, you'll have found yourself in front of the (very tiny) realm of Portishead 's Geoff Barrow. Barrow, along with an associate, recently opened an art space in Bristol they're calling Friend & Co. [via NME.com ]. The gallery, ...
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Auction-House Cryptography: What the "∆□OV" Are These Crazy Symbols?
It's the beginning of New York's big auction season, art-lings, and lots more than the lots is at stake. Just remember that in these financially challenging times, anything short of a bloodbath will be touted as evidence that there's still some money around for quality art.
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Local business supports New Zealand Cup and Show
Christchurch businesses are showing their support of New Zealand Cup and Show Week by getting behind the festival launch this Friday, 7 November.
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Green Festival in San Francisco
The San Francisco Green Festival kicks off Nov. 14 with a big party featuring hip-hop pioneer Chuck D and an evening of music and poetry and continues Nov. 15-16 with more than 400 exhibits, how-to workshops and presentations on all aspects of green living.
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Alvis Hermanis meets UNATC students
The director Alvis Hermanis, whose show “The Sound of Silence” opened the eighteenth edition of the National Theatre Festival, had a meeting on Monday with the students of the National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC), presenting them his vision on directing and his “obsession” for the past, that defines all his theatre productions.
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Daniele Donde returns to Bucharest with the exhibition ‘The Art of Luxury’
The artist Daniele Donde, a predecessor of the movement “Faux Art” will return for the second time in Romania in order to present the exhibition “The Art of Luxury: from Gustav Klimt to Marylin Monroe,” opened during November 5–10, the organizers of the event declared.
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Monday and the Week Ahead
Sample food and/or take part in the silent and live auctions from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Signature Chefs Auction in the Courtyard by Marriott, 7794 Peach St.
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Daily Herald
Pittman Elementary School will host its annual Harvest Festival at 6 p.m., Friday, Nov. 7. The Littleton Senior Citizens will sell chicken and fish dinners on Friday, Nov. 7, at The Littleton Community Center, 238 Oak St., Littleton. Dinners will be ready by 11 a.m., eat in or take out.
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