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Kenya Shimizu: Cult Of The Warrior
An exhibition of images from Japan depicting the homoerotic fantasies of an extraordinary young talent and exclusive Adonis Art discovery - the Japanese artist Kenya Shimizu – is happening in London this July.
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Met 'Damnation' offers high-tech art and athletics
High-tech circus meets grand opera. That's a quick way to sum up the Metropolitan Opera's production of Hector Berlioz's masterpiece, "La Damnation de Faust," which opened Friday at Lincoln Center.
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Crafts and culture meet
Children and their parents got their hands dirty and learned about Japanese culture Saturday. Dozens of families attended the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts' Family Day Japan, in which people were admitted to the museum for free and did arts and crafts.
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Preserving collections digitally
he keepers of history aren't all about looking back in time. 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. At the Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo, workers are busy digitally photographing each work in their care from ...
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NEW YORK - High-tech circus meets grand opera. That's a quick way to sum up the Metropolitan Opera's production of Hector Berlioz's masterpiece, "La Damnation de Faust," which opened Friday at Lincoln Centre.
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Photo Club Members Find Imagination The Only Limit
With digital photography, anyone's computer can transform into a darkroom. And the art of photography has spread with more widely accessible equipment and photo sharing sites on the Internet.
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Art in the Palms draws crowds to Palm Island
PALM ISLAND — Usually accessible only by a pricey ferry ride, this tiny barrier island threw open its arms to the world Saturday for the annual Art in the Palms festival.
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Artist returns to East Bay to step up
Arroyo High grad hoping Mill Valley exhibit will boost career
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Lowering the barre
For several years I was happy to spend much of my small salary from teaching art history on buying the work of local artists and supporting the Detroit Institute of Arts and its oldest auxiliary, Friends of Modern Art. For my husband and me, a wonderful chunk our social life revolved around FMA events: too many vodkas at parties in the Great Hall before lectures, (overly) long formal dinners ...
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'The Pick-Up Artist' on VH1
Learning the art of seduction can be painful for a group of young male contestants, but it's often even more painful to watch them. Every week, "The Pick-Up Artist" begins with a group hug. The contestant who narrowly escaped elimination in the previous episode returns to the rest of the survivors and is fully embraced by them, in a combination of brotherhood and desperation.
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Wim Delvoye's Controversial Tattooed Pigs
One of the modern art world's ongoing controversies are the tattooed pigs of Belgian artist Wim Delvoye. Here we take a closer look at this high-debated expression of skin art.
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Taubman Museum of Art celebrates Grand Opening
At last, the ribbon was cut at the Taubman Museum of Art on Saturday morning. Some of Virginia’s most influential people, including Governor Tim Kaine, were there to celebrate. Jenny Taubman, a museum benefactor, was there beside them in an opening ceremony.
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Met 'Damnation' offers high-tech art and athletics
High-tech circus meets grand opera. That's a quick way to sum up the Metropolitan Opera's production of Hector Berlioz's masterpiece, "La Damnation de Faust," which opened Friday at Lincoln Center. It took computers and motion-sensitive cameras to create the pulsating water, fire, sky and grass that are the cinematic backdrop for the drama. Even digitally generated birds ...
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The Ironton Tribune
We are back in business now at the Lawrence County Historical Society. The museum has been beautifully decorated for Christmas by members of the society. The Webers decorated the stairway and steps and it looks lovely when you come in the front door.
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Foodlink Benefits from 'Canstruction'
If you build it, they will be fed. Teams of engineers and architects used some rather unusual construction materials to build sculptures in downtown Rochester.
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Home calendar
The Sculpture Objects & Function Art Fair (SOFA Chicago) will be from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9, at Navy Pier's Festival Hall, 600 E. Grand Ave., Chicago. Tickets are $15. Call (800) 563-7632 for more information or visit sofaexpo.com.
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Roadside bather with the eyes of a god
Magpies collect bright objects that catch their fancy and like to display them as conspicuously as possible. Artist Sumitro Basak possibly follows the example of these birds, or so it appeared at a slide show of his work organised by CIMA Gallery at Studio 21.
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Girl s artwork illuminates problem of hunger
STRATFORD -- Even before she was born, Emily Wajda had to fight to survive. Emily, now 12, was born a co-joined twin at Bridgeport Hospital, and two weeks later, underwent five hours of surgery at
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Photos: Tannenbaum Festival
Olivia Herrera, 2, of Manitowoc, looks at the candy underneath the Christmas tree at the Tannenbaum Festival at Rahr West Art Museum on Saturday, sponsored by the Lakeshore Community Action Program.
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Campbell makes 147 break
The Bahrain Snooker Championship began in right earnest yesterday. A maximum break of 147 and a string of century efforts were the highlights of the day as super stars of snooker sparkled under the arch lights at the Bahrain International Exhibition Centre.
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Tate gallery’s Rothkos are left in a twist
Casual observers could be forgiven for not knowing whether an abstract artwork was hanging the wrong way round. Yet paintings by Mark Rothko, one of the greatest American artists of the 20th century, appear to have confounded even experts at the Tate gallery.
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Amy Winehouse ‘shot down’ in name of art
Amy Winehouse, the skeletal singer now as famous for her hedonistic lifestyle as for her music, is portrayed as a dead rock star in a sculpture being unveiled this week.
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KANSAI: Who & What
Unicul Festival plans to offer global experiences Unicul Festival 2008 will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto. Read the full story
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A debt that must never be forgotten
This past week I visited the War Museum with a group of justice studies students from St. Lawrence College. I had visited the War Museum [...]
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Festival celebrates Native American history, tradition
They are a people with a long and rich history. They form a community that embraces tradition and heritage. And this weekend, they are bringing their culture to the people of metro-Detroit at the 16th Annual Native American Festival & Mini Pow Wow.
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