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Season-ending salute to Argentine master Ginastera
The 25th installment of Festival Miami closed with a Latin-flavored blast of bravura and musical ingenuity as the University of Miami's Frost School of Music rounded off its monthlong festival with a two-night tribute to Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera.
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CMoe’s Breakfast With the Sugarplum Fairy
Evansville, IND. – The Koch Family Children’s Museum of Evansville (cMoe) is currently accepting reservations for the 2nd Annual Breakfast with the Sugarplum Fairy presented by St. Mary’s Children’s Services on Saturday, November 22 beginning at 9 a.m. at The Centre in Downtown Evansville.
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IAF hosting sculpture exhibit on Rumi’s poetry
TEHRAN, Nov. 4 (MNA) -- An exhibit of sculptures entitled “Shams and Bird” created by the Iranian artist Qodratollah Aqeli was opened at Momayyez Gallery of Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) on Monday.
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Interview: Kirschner On The State Of The Art Of Machinima
According to Friedrich Kirschner, festival director of this year's New York-based Machinima Festival, the form is evolving away from gaming in-jokes and toward a broader, more relevant way to create film. For the first time this year, the festival, which has just presented its 2008 'Mackie' awards, has opened up a "long form" category -- for works of over 20 minutes in length. The winners of ...
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Over the teacups
No teacup is too pretty for Auckland artist Karen Dennis. She reworks vintage china pieces, making them fresh by hand painting with cheeky words and pictures. Want a 1960s Crown Lynn floral plate painted with portraits of the Flight of the Conchords duo?
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YSL exhibit displays the art of fashion
The retrospective at San Francisco's de Young museum focuses on the visionary designer, who died earlier this year at age 71, and his knack for drawing inspiration from everything from artists to animals, with stops at Russia, Africa and China in between.
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New lamps from recycled materials
Slides become lamp of memories While working at the Ritz Camera shop in the Apache Mall in Rochester, Andy Janus hated to see old photographic slides being discarded. Then he had a brainstorm idea. Wit
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After bucking the credit crunch, the art market loses its shine in New York
In a sign of the continuing credit crunch, Sotherby's New York sale of impressionist and modern paintings saw only nine of 70 works make their estimates. The £137million auction ended £75million short of expectation.
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Tabriz hosting 5 intl. fairs
TABRIZ, Nov. 4 (MNA) – Five international exhibitions kicked off here at Tabriz Permanent International Fairgrounds on November 3 and will to November 7.
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People so excited to vote they couldn't sleep
Elementary art teacher Marty Brown barely slept a wink last night, she was so excited to cast her ballot.She was one of the first people in line at Bethany Lutheran Church on Forest Drive SE. As she left, she exuded passion about her choice — Barack Obama.“It’s gotta happen,” she said. Retired bookkeeper JoAnne Havran, 78, felt just as strong about the other side of the ticket.She and her ...
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Dutch honour 'humanitarian deeds' of Wehrmacht soldier
Amsterdam - A memorial sculpture was unveiled on Tuesday in the southern-Netherlands city of Riel to honour the humanity of a soldier from the German army during World War II. The initiator of the memorial in Riel in the southern Netherlands, Herma...
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Winner of painting!
Sandra Pierce won a painting donated by local artist Debbie Lincoln at the Morgan Mill fall carnival. Pictured (l-r): PTF member Sonja Reagan, auction coordinator Rhonda Beavers, winner Sandra Pierce, and artist Debbie Lincoln.
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‘Do It Your Damn Self!!’ film festival coming soon
The award-winning Teen Media Program of the Community Art Center will present the annual “Do It Your Damn Self!!” National Youth Video and Film Festival Friday and Saturday, Nov. 14 and 15, at the Boston Public Library and MIT’s Wong Auditorium.
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
Matt Heron, Selma to Montgomery March, Alabama, 1965 . High Museum of Art, Atlanta, purchase with funds from Sherri and Jess Crawford in honor of John Lewis.
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
Winfred Moncrief. Voter registration August 25, 1965, at the Magnolia Motel in Prentiss following passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Federal examiner C. A. Phillips administers voter registration oath to Joe Ella Moore. Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
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Granville artist to be featured in show
NEWARK -- The opening of the an art show featuring Granville artist Kathy Anderson is set for Friday.
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In pictures: Portraits of Cardiff
A group of young people unveil an exhibition in which they celebrate their roots and look to the future
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Wine of the week: Artist's Collection cabernet
Salvatore Principe Artist's Collection Cabernet Sauvignon, Cafayate, California, 2006. Salvatore Principe is a world renowned artist famous for his paintings of hearts.
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Review: Carrie Underwood finds the magic at Pan Am
LAS CRUCES, N.M. - What a difference six months makes. When country-pop superstar Carrie Underwood rolled through El Paso last May 6, she was new to this headlining thing, turning in a stiff performance at UTEP's Don Haskins Center that was more mechanical than magical. Photo gallery: Carrie Underwood concert
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Beautiful LED Kinetic Sculpture Is Powered by Solar [Led]
These simple Mobile Lights by Kyouei Design hang from the ceiling from fishing line to create a glowing kinetic sculpture with the size and shape of your choosing. Each piece is equipped with an LED,...
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'819' wins audience prize at Rome fest
Giacomo Battiato's political drama Resolution 819 won the gold Marcus Aurelius award for best film voted by the public at the Rome Film Festival.The critics' prize for best film went to Afghan director Siddiq Barmak's dark comedy Opium War, ANSA said.Italian actress Donatella Finocchiaro earned a silver Marcus Aurelius for best actress for her work in Galantuomini and Ukrainian actor Bohdan ...
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Yaddo exhibit offers glimpse inside artists' haven
NEW YORK (AP) -- Iron gates from the Yaddo artist colony, with the Yaddo logo and its muscular, musical "Y" spelled out in script, have been installed inside the New York Public Library for a four-month exhibit, allowing you to imagine the same rustic grounds entered by James Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein and so many others.
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Despite gloom, NYC fall art auction sets records
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Sotheby's auction house kicked off its annual art sale in the city this week against the backdrop of a gloomy economy that had some observers wondering whether there were any deep-pocketed buyers left to snap up paintings for tens of millions of dollars.
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Never too late: Cops crack 25-year-old clock theft
JERUSALEM: 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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Gallery hosting Teacher’s Night
Hannibal Alliance Art Gallery will host Second Saturday Gallery Night from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. Featured will be guest artist Bill Krehmeier, retired art teacher. It will also be a tribute to Teacher’s Night.
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