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Bridge Creek third grader, Gregory Gable, wins art contest
Gregory Gable, a student in Richland Tw o's newest school, Bridge Creek Elementary, recently won first place for third graders in the Congaree Swamp Fest art contest. Students were asked to depict animals and plant life in the Congaree National Park. Tahja Stephens, another 3rd grader at Bridge Creek also received an Honorable Mention for her painting.
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Of travel and photography
AS A journalist, I have two things that I like most -- aside from meeting and talking with some of the famous people around the world. Those two things are travel and photography. And if you are a journalist, you ought to like, if not love, these two things.
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Status Quo - Status Quo Raise Thousands For Charity
Rockers STATUS QUO and their celebrity friends have helped to raise $158,000 (GBP100,000) for a British charity by auctioning off star interpretations of their classic single ...
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It's happening right here in your community
-ART The Columbia Museum of Art Museum Shop will host the Holiday Artisans' Fair and Sale November 14, 5 pm- 8 pm. 343-2159. -BOOKS First Citizens Econ Book Club will meet November 11, 5:30 pm- 7 pm, at the Breed Leadership Center, Columbia College. RSVP by noon November 10. 777- 8676.
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Danforth's 'Matter of Taste' fundraiser is Saturday
Check It Out The Danforth Museum of Art will host an evening of fine wines and tasty treats Saturday, with their collection of American art as an impressive backdrop.
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6 Helpful Tips In Taking Puppy Pictures
Taking puppy pictures is one the best activities you can join in. With puppies as your subjects, you will surely never get bored during the picture taking activity. Make sure that you're equipped with the basics of photography so you can enjoy taking the nicest puppy photos.
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Local bootmaker wins at show
After 25 years of dedicating himself to the art of creating traditional cowboy boots, Wickenburg resident Alfred Reynolds finally entered a contest and came away the big winner.
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Kardinal leaves Museum suddenly
Royce Kardinal is no longer the executive director of the Desert Caballeros Western Museum.
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Celebrity portrait artist paints Michelle Obama and daughter
An oil painting of Michelle Obama and her daughter Sasha was unveiled Wednesday in New York as part of an exhibition by contemporary American artist Elizabeth Peyton.
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Salisbury Gallery Celebrates Homecoming With New Exhibit
SALISBURY-Tino and Susan Galluzzo, owners of The White Gallery on picturesque Main Street in the Lakeville section of town, are finding that their gallery now feels almost as it did when it opened six years ago-and not at all like it did several months ago.
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Portrait Gallery opens Abraham Lincoln exhibit
The exhibit "One Life: The Mask of Lincoln" opens Friday at the museum in downtown Washington and will be on view through July. It comes just before the city celebrates the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth in 2009.
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Keith Haring Comes to Deitch
Starting this weekend, Deitch Projects , which had a hand in the Keith Haring mural on Houston Street and Bowery, will host the late artist's famous The Ten Commandments series. This will be the first U.S. exhibit of the works; Deitch ( PDF ) notes that it is one of his "most powerful series of paintings. The works portray the Ten Commandments from Haring’s point of view, combining a ...
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The Ironton Tribune
This painting of Queen Victoria has been added to the collection of Nannie Kelly Wright memorabilia at the Lawrence County Historical Society.
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Museums, venues preserving collections digitally
Curators of museums large and small are embracing the Internet as a way to move older works from storage to cyberspace — a sort of permanent store room unaffected by moisture and pests, and one that anyone can enter.
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Portrait Gallery opens Abraham Lincoln exhibit
Associated Press - November 6, 2008 11:23 AM ET WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 30 portraits and images of Abraham Lincoln are going on display at the National Portrait Gallery in an exhibit that...
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Arts Center hosts 'Home Sweet Holidays'
"Home Sweet Holidays" will kick off a full house of gallery items and lunch at the Arts Center this Saturday in Le Mars. Several craft vendors from the area have been invited to be a part of the Holiday Market, Saturday and Sunday, a yearly adventure of the Le Mars Arts Council.
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A lowly outsider tries to give life meaning in 'Cockroach'
"Cockroach," the Giller-nominated novel by Rawi Hage, is not about Kafka. In fact, the very mention of "The Metamorphosis," Franz Kafka's masterpiece about a man transformed into "monstrous vermin," makes Hage roll his eyes.
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FIRST FRIDAY FOCUS: A cover up at Metropolis gallery
It goes without saying that music from bands such as The Beatles, Nirvana and Pink Floyd has inspired countless people to become musicians.And while artist Matthew "Portland" Hay is a fan of all the groups' musical hooks and trendsetting melodies, he's a greater fan of something a little mor...
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ART: Honors for Kalargyros Gallery co-owner
Jason Ward, who won the Best in Show award at the York Art Association's 38th Annual Open Juried Exhibit last month, will be the November featured artist at the Kalargyros Gallery, 112 W. Orange St."Field," the 30-by-40-inch acrylic-on-canvas painting that won the prize, will be on display, alon...
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Jewish Family Sues Germany For Restitution
An 82-year-old Holocaust survivor and his family are suing Germany for an extensive art collection Nazis seized and auctioned off during World War II.
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New exhibit opens tonight
The birch paintings of Peter George are featured in Wet'suwet'en: New Perspectives and Long Traditions, a traveling exhibition featured this month at Two Rivers Gallery. "A lot of it has to do with the hereditary chiefs and the clan crests that they use. And just a few of the other animals and different legends behind all the animals," George said. The Wet'suwet'en territory extends from Burns ...
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Go holiday shopping in Newark and Collingswood
The holiday shopping season is upon us! To make it easier -- or maybe just a little less painful -- the Newark Museum and the Perkins Center for the Arts offer their annual holiday sales. Perkins is first, hosting...
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Father/daughter art exhibit opens today at Easley’s
Starting today, Kerry Ellington and his daughter, Kim Ellington, will exhibit their first collection of fine art together at Easley’s Fine Art and Photography in Minden.
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Edgewood Heritage Festival on Tap Saturday
The annual Edgewood Heritage Festival, an all-day affair, is scheduled for 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday at The Heritage Park outdoor museum, north of downtown on Texas Highway 859, locally known as Main Street, north of U.S. Highway 80.
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Vickie Karp: Third Screen: Marshall Arisman on How to Look Around
Arisman is seriously not "art light," and his work is at the very heart of the question asked of much contemporary art -- why does it have to be so dark, so graphic, so violent?
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