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Best bets for Lake County
The Mount Dora Center for the Arts annual "Art of the Deal" silent and live auction will be held from 6 to 11 p.m. Saturday at the Donnelly Park Building in downtown Mount Dora.
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Children inspired by nature
Year 4 pupils at St Peter and St Paul primary school were inspired by nature when they created outdoor sculpture in their garden. (07/11/2008 08:34:19)
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Lodi crane fest begins tonight
LODI - The 12th annual Lodi Sandhill Crane Festival kicks off at 6 tonight with a reception at Hutchins Street Square in the Cottage-Pisano Rooms.
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Uganda: A Peep Into Life in America
WITH the Obama craze at fever pitch, a peep into what life is like in the US was all I wanted to see. This was made possible by a unique photo exhibition at Makerere University Art Gallery.
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Museum holds gala to celebrate expansion
The Georgia Museum of Art will hold its 11th gala, "Elegant Salute XI: A Hardhat Salute," Saturday in anticipation of the facility's expansion. "Currently we have over 8,000 objects in our collection, but with the space we have now we are only able to display 1 to 3 percent of that at any given time," said Jenny Williams, media relations coordinator for GMOA.
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Photo competition for World Habitat Day
Shutterbugs are invited to participate in a photography competition to mark World Habitat Day that will take place on December 1. Application forms are available at the second floor counter, Architecture Division of the Housing Development Department.
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It's a wooden world
The KZNSA Gallery in Durban has a post-apocalyptic feel to it.
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UBC student wins global exposure for photos
If you wanted to launch a career in photography, you could do worse than working side by side with a National Geographic photographer and having your work posted on National Geographic TV's website.
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Good-Bye to the Old
"Say Good-Bye to…", the exhibition currently on display in the Clifford Art Gallery in Little Hall, opened its doors on October 15. The exhibition features art protests, lamenting the controversial actions of the Bush regime, focusing on the war in Iraq and Hurricane Katrina.
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Top regional attractions
Top Regional Attractions Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences 1900 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy.; 215-299-1000. www.ansp.org. Includes Dinosaur Hall, Egyptian mummies, interactive, live animals, educational exhibits for children & more. $10; $8 seniors, students, military, children 3-12; free for children under 3. Mon.-Fri. 10 am-4:30 pm; Sat.-Sun. 10 am-5 pm.
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Renovations disrupt offices
While undergraduates know “Swing Space” as the stand-in dorm for whichever residential college is under renovation, for the staff of the University Art Gallery, every space is in swing. Susan Matheson, the gallery’s acting director, used to have her office in the Kahn building of the Art Gallery until it started renovations in 2005.
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FOCUS: FILM
Jackie Reem Salloum, a film director and activist, has been one of the key players in the movement to increase global interest in Palestinian art. Born to Palestinian and Syrian parents in Dearborn, Michigan, her artwork was influenced by her experiences as a young woman in the Arab Diaspora.
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Judging book covers
One shouldn’t judge a book by its cover — or should they? The current exhibit at the Whitney Humanities Center, “Book Jacket Design from the Yale University Press,” is a part of the Press’s centennial celebration. Continuing through Jan. 28, the show highlights cover designs from the past decade that have invited the reader to pick up the book in the first place. Director of the Yale University ...
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Auto body commentary shown at SDWC
If not for the carpeted coziness of the exhibition space, visitors to the Sarah Doyle Women's Center Gallery this month might get the sense that they have wandered into an auto repair shop from another planet. The gallery's current show, "Congested Highway," with works by Massachusetts-based artist Dana Filibert, features sculptures that evoke automobile parts while also assuming a strange, ...
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MOVIE NEWS AND NOTES: Windsor festival offers hard-to-catch flicks for serious film fans
When the Windsor Film Festival began four years ago, it offered movie fans in Windsor and Detroit the chance to catch titles they wouldn't otherwise see. Many came from the Toronto Film Festival, held earlier in the fall.
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Exhibition of paintings by George Large
An exhibition of paintings in watercolours by the renowned artist George Large is to be held at the Malta Hilton from today until November 14.
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Mill House opens after years of hard working
It took three and a half years of hard work, but the Mill House museum in Beekman was finally open Nov. 1 and 2 for a brief "sneak preview" of what is to come in the future.
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Parting images from Wayward Girls Productions
Artist Mary Welch's Wayward Girls Productions stages its own wake with the exhibition "Ashes to Ashes," the final visual arts installation in The Chapel of the Good Shepherd Center.
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What to see at First Friday
Monte Dolack Gallery 139 W. Front St. First Friday Gallery Night is the release of Monte Dolack’s “Field of Dreams,” a fine art poster commissioned by Three Dog Down and inspired by Monte Dolack and Mary Beth Dolack’s three dogs: Jack, Stella and Dora. Dolack’s newest original paintings, “Waterton Valley” and “Suguaro Sunrise,” will also be on display. Open from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m.
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Christie's Impressionist Sale Falls Short; 44% Fails to Sell
Nov. 7 (Bloomberg) -- French billionaire Francois Pinault attended his company Christie's International's New York auction of impressionist and modern art last night, and watched from a sky box as almost half the lots failed to sell.
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Vermeer's 'Lady' on display
PASADENA - A small luminous Vermeer masterpiece, one of only 35 in the world, went on display Thursday at the Norton Simon Museum.
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On the Verge of a bright future
Wolves, seagulls and Persian rugs run through the ambitious canvases of Jacob Fossum at Verge Gallery. Fossum, who holds degrees in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art and Utah State University, and now lives in Sacramento, makes a stunning debut with three large and complex oil paintings and two drawings in "Fig. 4," the second show at Verge. Fossum's open-ended ...
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Buddha in Paradise Fleming Museum visits the Buddhist peace of Tibetan art
he architecture of the Fleming Museum's Marble Court at the University of Vermont was created in the over-the-top mode of the Victorian era. Its features include an enormous staircase, a balustrade and gobs of marble in the form of flooring, steps and even columns. ... - By Anne Galloway Times Argus Staff
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Exhibit offers Missoula residents a little optimism
The late autumn rains and graying skies will soon give way to another Missoula winter and, for some, the accompanying wintertime blues that are as constant as the Hellgate winds blow. “Shiny, Happy, Pretty,” an exhibit opening at the Missoula Art Museum tonight as part of First Friday, looks to subdue the darkness in all of us by presenting a sundry mix of media though the collaboration of ...
Montana Kaimin |
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Questions/Answers
Questions and answers on Daily Bulletin stories from readers like you. RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A sculpture by Cheryl Cooper valued at $700 will be the prize of an opportunity drawing and fundraiser by the Chaffey Community Art Association.
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