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Lots of cake for just a few candles at MOCA
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Jacksonville was conceived to be not only a place to view some of the finest art created in the past half-century or so, it was also intended to be a destination for corporate and social functions.
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Presidents on ‘exhibit’ at Arkansas Capitol
LITTLE ROCK—Conservative-leaning artist Chas Fagan set out 10 years ago to portray the U.S. presidency in an apolitical light and inspire patriotism when he was commissioned for a national television series to paint each of the nation’s chief executives since George Washington.
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Ebbsfleet designs unveiled
Designs for a public sculpture, roughly the height of Nelson's Column, were unveiled this morning. At 50 metres, the Ebbsfleet Landmark will measure twice the size of the Angel of the North - Antony Gormley's sculpture which looms above the A1 at Gateshead.
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Wednesday
SINGAPORE, May 7 (Bernama) -- A Malaysian artist who once studied art in this island state, will hold an exhibition under a cultural programme between the two neighbouring countries at the National Museum of Singapore, starting Thursday.
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College Hill Middle School to hold 2 festivals
College Hill Middle School will hold two festivals this week. An art festival begins at 6 p.m. Thursday and will exhibit students’ artwork throughout the building. Entertainment will be provided by the CHMS mime troupe, dancers, drummers, choir and strings.
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
There are three galleries around which curator Douglas Fogle's Carnegie International revolves. One features nine intense Vija Celmins paintings of starscapes. The Carnegie's Hall of Sculpture features Mike Kelley's take on a grade-school science fair run amok.
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Claude Monet painting fetches USD 41.48 mn
New York, May 7 : A Claude Monet painting fetched $41.48 million at a New York auction, breaking the record for a work by the French Impressionist painter.
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HCC Professional Crafts students to hold graduate show
The graduating class of Haywood Community College's Professional Crafts department will exhibit their best work at the Folk Art Center May 24-Sep. 27.
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Indigo-Energy, Inc. to Acquire 106,000 Acres of Oil and Gas Leases in Illinois Basin
Indigo-Energy, Inc. (OTCBB: IDGG) is pleased to announce that the Company has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire approximately 106,000 acres of gas and oil leases in the Illinois Basin. The properties are located in Southern Illinois, Southwestern Indiana and Western Kentucky; and this transaction will also include the acquisition of a natural gas processing facility in Southern Indiana.
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Committee planning new format for annual Beebe Art Auction
Planning for Beebe Medical Foundation’s 19th Annual Best of the Beach Art Auction Dinner and Dance is under way, with committee members creating a new format and plenty of surprises for event goers.
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Artists Not Pleased By Quick Art Flip
Many artists and curators are angry over the recent sale of some 200 works of Chinese art at auction in New York. "As the collection was being formed, they were duped into thinking that a rich Westerner was putting together a permanent collection and would eventually donate some of the works to leading museums.
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Ups And Downs At Christie's
"Fears that the Christie's sale of Impressionist and modern art would usher in a market meltdown were assuaged early Tuesday evening when everything from a Monet landscape to a monumental sculpture by Rodin brought record prices.
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Qatar confident of successful 2016 Olympics bid
BANGKOK - Oil and gas rich Qatar hopes lavish facilities and a groundswell of support from the Muslim world will earn the tiny Gulf state the chance to host the 2016 Olympics.
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Caribou Coffee Wins SCAA's 2008 Roasters Guild Roasters Choice Tasting Competition
Local gourmet coffeehouse operator Caribou Coffee won the Roasters Guild 2008 Roasters Choice Tasting Competition yesterday at the Specialty Coffee Association of America's (SCAA) 20th Annual Conference & Exhibition in Minneapolis, Minn. Celebrating the art of roasting specialty coffee, the competition featured exceptional coffees from some of the finest coffee roasters throughout the country. ...
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The Tech Museum of Innovation Announces UCanTu: A Virtual Exhibit Creation Initiative Highlighting Technology ...
The Tech Museum of Innovation (The Tech), one of the nation's premier science and technology museums, today announced "UCanTu," the next phase of The Tech Virtual (http://thetechvirtual.org/projects/ucantu/). Following on the success of The Tech's "Art, Film & Music" virtual exhibit design contest in Second Life, UCanTu is a virtual exhibit design initiative based on the international ...
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MALAYSIAN ARTIST TO-2
S. Amin, who studied art at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts here in 1977, said the art project would be completed this year.
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Indigo-Energy, Inc. to Acquire 106,000 Acres of Oil and Gas Leases in Illinois Basin
HENDERSON, Nev.----Indigo-Energy, Inc. is pleased to announce that the Company has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire approximately 106,000 acres of gas and oil leases in the Illinois Basin.
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Monet painting sold for $41 million at NYC auction
NEW YORK - A Claude Monet painting was auctioned Tuesday for more than $41 million, breaking the auction record for the French Impressionist artist.
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Vann named Artist of the Month
BENTON COUNTY — Multi-media artist Bobbie Vann is the Wishing Spring Gallery’s Artist of the Month for May. Vann has been a member of the Village Art Club for many years and served as gallery director for two years. (Benton County Daily Record)
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UI Art museum head Collinson suddenly quits
Director of the UI Museum of Art Howard Collinson has voluntarily resigned, a separation agreement obtained Tuesday shows. Collinson, who served for more than eight years in the position, announced his resignation Monday, though he signed a separation agreement with university officials May 2.
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A taste of real life
Tonight's New Play Festival première takes its playwright from subjects such as vampires and the distant past to one closer to home, though no less dramatic - the roller coaster of the human heart.
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MALAYSIAN ARTIST TO HOLD EXHIBITION IN SINGAPORE
SINGAPORE, May 7 (Bernama) -- A Malaysian artist who once studied art in this island state, will hold an exhibition under a cultural programme between the two neighbouring countries at the National Museum of Singapore, starting tomorrow.
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Becerra finds peace in her art
Patty Becerra turned to painting as a way of coping with the pain of losing one of her children. Two years ago, Marcus, her 14-year-old son, died of asthma-related complications.
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Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company acquires control of ExCel London
Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company (Adnec), which operates one of the world’s most modern exhibitions and convention centres in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, has acquired control of ExCeL London, the UK capital’s leading exhibition and conference venue through a UK subsidiary.
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The Political Power of Sex Exposed in International Museum of Women’s Global Online Exhibition
The International Museum of Women (I.M.O.W.), a non-partisan social change museum, confronts provocative stereotypes about women, sex and power in the global online exhibition Women, Power and Politics in the month of May. Launched on March 8, the cutting-edge multimedia exhibition runs until December 31 in four languagesArabic, English, French and Spanish at www.imow.org.
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