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EDVENTURE’S MILESTONEAN ACTIVE 5-YEAR-OLD
Children’s museum attracts about 200,000 visitors annually Emma Templeton knows her way around the insides of the giant boy named Eddie. While making her way down from his head to the pit of his stomach, the 6-year-old continues to be amazed at the wonders of the human body. “You jump in ... and you see what he eats,” Emma said. “Then you come down the slide (representing the intestines).” For ...
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Boston's Ace Arts Fundraiser
Boston's Museum of Fine Art's success in fundraising "serves as an intriguing case study of how to build -- and expand -- a foundation of generosity."
Arts Journal |
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Sports week ahead: Negro Leagues Baseball Museum heralds the greatness of Buck
The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum will continue its tradition of celebrating the life of Buck O’Neil with several events this week. O’Neil would have turned 97 this Thursday.
The Kansas City Star |
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Sudharani demands quota in government jobs for Fine Arts students
Tiruchirapalli, Nov 10 : Popular dancer Sudharani Raghupathy has urged that the Centre and Tamil Nadu government must introduce special quota in jobs for students of fine arts to motivate youths to study courses in ancient art forms, thereby preserving and promoting India's rich cultural heritage.
New Kerala |
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Is There Cash in Your Attic?
Christine Downing of the HGTV show “Cash in the Attic” told an audience at the Westport Historical Society today how to search through the antiques and collectibles in your home to find heirlooms and other suitable items to sell at auction.
WestportNow |
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ETSU astronomer speaks on exhibit
The General Shale Brick Gray Fossil Site Museum began its "Out of This World" public talk series on Saturday Nov. 1. This coincided with the opening of the new temporary exhibit showing landscapes throughout the solar system. The exhibit is from the Smithsonian Institute and features artist Michael Benson's enhanced images captured on various planets and moons.
East Tennessean |
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Muserum Launches American Collection
The Harvard Art Museum announced the successful completion of its campaign to raise money for permanently funding its department of American Art on Friday.
The Harvard Crimson |
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Museum Bolsters German Art Collection
The Harard Art Museum announced a donation of 50 to 75 pieces of modern and contemporary German art to the Busch-Reisinger Museum on Friday.
The Harvard Crimson |
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Mastery at the museum
Merle Culley's job, a docent at Carnegie Museum of Art, helps students learn the arts while they tour the Oakland facility.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
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Annual Children's Day Festival is back with both fun, educational activities
Cheyanne Hansen waited a whole year for this year's Children's Day Festival at Fonner Park. She wanted a free caricature from Kearney artist Dirk Christensen, but ran out of time to get it last year.
Grand Island Independent |
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OysterFest to auction work of S.J. artists
PITTSGROVE TWP. - The works of several South Jersey artists will be auctioned at the Bayshore Discovery Project's OysterFest 2008, on Friday at 6 p.m., at Centerton Country Club, 1022 Almond Road.
Bridgeton News |
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Toronto's New Gehry Monument
"The Art Gallery of Ontario pulls back its curtain next week. Frank Gehry's only show in Canada has a little to do with the story of a prodigal son, and a whole lot more to do with architecture that will illuminate long into the future."
Arts Journal |
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Artist Gives Away Art By Leaving It Around London
"Art worth an estimated £1m is being given away by one of the world's leading street artists, Adam Neate, in an exhibition that will see 1,000 pieces deposited across the capital and left for whoever wishes to take them."
Arts Journal |
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A secret-site art show
Though visitors to the city this week might never see it, Charleston will create its own, mysterious version of an artists' showcase already held in more than 140 cities worldwide.
The Post and Courier |
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News in the arts Civil Rights Museum to get new look
Four design firms will present their designs for a renovation to the permanent exhibition area of the National Civil Rights Museum at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the museum auditorium.
Memphis Commercial Appeal |
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Arts Rolla to presents Juried Art Competition
Arts Rolla kicked off its 21st Annual Juried Art Competition and Exhibition with a reception on Friday at The Centre, Rolla’s Health and Recreation Complex.
Rolla Daily News |
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Peter Schjeldahl: William Eggleston at the Whitney.
You can always tell a William Eggleston photograph. It’s the one in color that hits you in the face and leaves you confused and happy, and perhaps convinces you that you don’t understand photography nearly as well as you thought you did. To view “William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and . . .
The New Yorker |
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Goings on About Town: Above and Beyond
JOSEPH MITCHELL CENTENNIAL In the fall of 2005, the Fulton Fish Market moved upstream from its historic East River location to a new home in the Bronx. For the past three years, Naima Rauam, an artist who spent more than two decades painting watercolors of the venders and their surrounding . . .
The New Yorker |
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Laurie Lashbrook and The University of Akron’s Paragon Brass Quintet
Hour-long Tuesday Musical Association program with refreshments and special tours. Nov. 11, 1 p.m.; free Akron Art Museum (330) 376-9185
West Side Leader & South Side News Leader |
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Arts Council seeking wreaths for festival
Carroll Arts Center Executive Director Sandy Oxx said she always looks forward to seeing the unique creations of those who contribute annually to the Festival of Wreaths.
Carroll County Times |
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Attendance strong at birding festival despite sour economy
HARLINGEN - The 15th version of the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival proved that birders are resilient. Festival attendance weathered two Texas hurricanes, a tropical hurricane -central/before-the- storm /">storm and a struggling economy.
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Arlington's Putt-Putt Golf and Games ends an era with an auction
ARLINGTON – Susan Stephenson kept eyeballing the 10-foot-tall fiberglass giraffe she wanted to take home, trying to spot any competitors who might try to outbid her.
Dallas Morning News |
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Soundbites
Q-Tip "The Renaissance" Universal Motown Oh Q-Tip, how hip-hop fans have missed you so. The Abstract Poet is back with his second released solo effort, "The Renaissance," and it could not have dropped at a better time. The album is a rush of originality in a ringtone rap world, taking hip-hop back to its soulful, jazz origins.
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Karol Wolf, Best Arab Singer that performs in English
Karol Wolf received an award for ‘best Arab rising singer’ from MTV Arabia at an award celebration held at the ‘Press Club’ in Dubai. Karol had received the award at the European Music Festival which is organized by the television music station every year.
Al Bawaba |
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Paintings of Ohio Marines moving to Cincinnati
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Life-size paintings of 23 Marines and service members killed in Iraq are about to be taken down from display at the Statehouse after a five-month run.
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