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Linda Rose held up one of her four young children and asked her in a soft voice what she could see through the magnifying glass. Behind her, Ball State University Museum of Art docent Kimberly Bortnem asked the group, ranging from toddlers to grandmothers, questions to stimulate their thinking.
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Lewisburg Elementary earns designation as SMART Showcase School
When Lewisburg Elementary opened four years ago, the school district provided it with five mobile SMART Board interactive white boards.
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Russian Senator's Exhibition of Scythian Gold Draws Viscount Linley and Other VIP Guests
TUVA.- Russian senator Sergei Pugachev helped unveil a unique exhibition of artefacts from the Scythian epoch on Sunday, November 2, in the city of Tuva, Siberia, and Christie's board chairman Viscount Linley was among several VIP guests in attendance.
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COMING UP
COMBAT PHOTOGRAPHER: 7 p.m., Center for Photography, 654 King St. In honor of Veterans Day, the Charleston Center for Photography will host a Free Monday Night Lecture Series featuring decorated combat veteran Master Sgt. Andy Dunaway.
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Museums preserving items through digital collections
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The keepers of history aren’t all 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 storeroom 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 ...
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Photograph contest
Myriad Botanical Gardens holding photography contest Local shutterbugs, focus your cameras on the Myriad Botanical Gardens’ first photography competition and exhibition, "Gardens in Focus.” Photographers of all ages and skill levels will compete in categories for youths younger than 12, youths ages 12-17, and amateur and professional adults. Adult categories include indoor garden collection, ...
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Norman community gathers for art exhibit
Wine and cheese, a jazz band and an array of Russian photography brought members of the Norman and OU community together Friday night at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art for the Museum Art Association’s 2009 membership party.
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Today’s best bets 11.10.08
ATALOA LODGE MUSEUM, 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m., next to Bacone College Chapel. Exhibits show history and culture of tribes and collections of American Indian artifacts in the United States, including Choctaw, Navajo, Apache baskets and Maria Martinez black pottery. Information: 781-7283.
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Heather James Fine Art Announces New Director Kimberly Nichols
PALM DESERT, CA.- Heather James Fine Art is pleased to announce the appointment of Kimberly Nichols as the new director of the gallery.
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Turner Exhibition Set to Open in Russia
LONDON.- A major exhibition of Turner works from the Tate Collection will open at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow on 17 November 2008. In advance of the exhibition opening in Russia, its sole sponsor, Alisher Usmanov, will be in London to see the Turner Bequest at Tate Britain.
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Canada Cancels Plans for Portrait Gallery
The Canadian government has announced that it will abandon a plan to build an $84 million national portrait gallery.
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Princeton University Art Museum's Recently-opened Exhibition Focuses on the Body as Art
Wangechi Mutu, Kenyan, active in the United States, born 1972. Chorus Line, 2008. Watercolor and collage on paper; eight parts, 36.2 x 27.9 cm. each. Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund (2008-72 a-h).
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The Museum of Latin American Art Inaugurates The Lexus Gallery
The Museum of Latin American Art will inaugurate The Lexus Gallery. LONG BEACH, CA.- The Museum of Latin American Art will inaugurate The Lexus Gallery with Photoshopping and More: MOLAA Collects Photo-Based Art, an exhibition of 20 photo-based media works from the MOLAA Permanent Collection.
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Berlinische Galerie Opens Panoramic Photographs of Berlin, 1949 - 1952 Exhibition
Pariser Platz, 1951, photographer named Tiedemann, reconstructed by Arwed Messmer 2008, 1,25 x 5,84 meters. BERLIN.- After WW 2, rubble clearance had made considerable progress and rebuild had begun, a remarable photographic inventory was done in East Berlin.
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First Brussels Biennial Opens with Sixty Artists Participating
Koen Theys, Patria, 2008. BRUSSELS.- The first Brussels Biennial presents a harmonious concurrence of eight exhibitions by contemporary art institutions, merging contributions of sixty international artists.
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Role of Public Galleries and Museums Comes under Scrutiny
Logo of the symposium. DUBLIN.- The future role and function of public galleries and museums will come under the spotlight in Museum21, a major symposium at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 November.
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William Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelite Vision on View at Manchester Art Gallery
William Holman Hunt, The Triumph of the Innocents, 1883-4. 15.19 x 9.16 inches. © Tate, London 2008. MANCHESTER.- This autumn Manchester Art Gallery stages the first international exhibition in over 40 years dedicated to the life and work of Pre-Raphaelite master William Holman Hunt.
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Oklahoma City Museum of Art Hosts American Impressionism from The Phillips Collection
Theodore Robinson, Giverny. Ca. 1889. Oil on canvas 16 x 22 in. The Phillips Collection, acquired 1920. OKLAHOMA CITY.-
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Gemeentemuseum Fills Two Floors With Modern and Contemporary Art for the First Time
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938), Czardas dancers 1907-1920, oil on canvas 149.9 x 199.5 cm. THE HAGUE.- For the first time in its history, the Gemeentemuseum presents a vast display of modern and contemporary art filling two whole floors of its main building.
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Filmed Choreography Conjures Kelly (in the Rain) and Astaire (Head to Toe)
Films shown at the New Museum on Friday and Saturday as part of a Dance on Camera presentation illustrate what filmed dance can say that staged dance cannot.
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November 10, 2008
Has music ever been a more direct source for your painting, in a way that looking at a master has informed your painting? Not directly, but music is often essential background while I work.
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Transforming Public Spaces/changebangkok.com now until 1 dec 08
Only 3 weeks to go to submit photos and vote for your 'favourite'! The British Council, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Bangkok Design Festival and ThaiPBS present Transforming Public Spaces, t
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Nashville Man Makes Obama Sand Sculpture
It's a saying that won't be easily forgotten, and one man in Nashville wrote it in sand. A man built a sand sculpture of Barack Obama along Clarksville Highway with the words "Yes We Did."
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Brazoswood graduate wins Family Fitness 5K
LAKE JACKSON — Hurricane Ike spoiled the originally scheduled Family Fitness 5K Run/Walk on Sept. 13, but runners took advantage of the almost perfect weather Saturday to wipe out three of the four records set in the last running of the contest in 2005. Brazoswood graduate Weston Caceres, a sophomore on the Texas A&M cross country team, posted a record-breaking pace that put him 2:18 ahead of ...
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Russian Artists Storm N.Y.C. With Beavers, Soldiers: Hot Art
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- On a windy October night, a Russian television crew and boisterous gallery-goers flocked to three Manhattan openings. They featured four artists with very different sensibilities but a common heritage: they all came of age in the former Soviet Union and now live abroad.
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