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First Night Ada offers free admission
Those planning on attending this year’s First Night Ada can look forward to several new changes and additions to the event, including a talent show, an art exhibit, and, most notably, free admission.
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Holiday Fire & Ice Festival 2008
Get ready for an exciting 2008 Fire & Ice Holiday Festival happening Saturday December 6. The day offers traditional downtown events along with new activities to kick off the holiday season!
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University of Tampa alumni art showcased at Scarfone/Hartley Gallery
By Leilani Polk Scarfone/Hartley Gallery spotlights the work of three Tampa-based artists and University of Tampa alumni. The exhibition consists of "pop-surrealist" mixed-media works by Carl Cowden, small-scale paintings by Alexandra Fernandez and sculptures made of new, found, natural and manufactured woods, metals, bronze, stone and fiber by Michael Massaro. The exhibit kicks off with a ...
Creative Loafing Tampa |
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New Tampa Museum of Art celebrates contribution, completion of building frame
By Megan Voeller Pages are turning quickly on the Tampa Museum of Art's somewhat tumultuous recent history. Understandably eager to move onward and upward with their new building/new branding initiative -- and now, new executive director -- hardly a week passes without the TMA dropping a nugget of news that's indicative of the institution's determination to reclaim public enthusiasm. (See my ...
Creative Loafing Tampa |
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Flight of the Cranes
Celebrate the migration of Sandhill Cranes to Lodi-area wetlands with this weekend's annual Sandhill Crane Festival.
Lodi News-Sentinel |
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Roberson Sculpture Exhibit Open Through March
Terry Macdonald, of the Roberson Center, says this exhibition celebrates the life work of prolific Harpursville sculptor and potter Genevieve Karr Hamlin.
News Channel 34 Binghamton |
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AGR Subsea, Inc.'s latest major project undertaking is an exciting dual gradient deepwater offshore project partnering with one of the major oil companies, with state of the art technology in play. This project requires innovative, enthusiastic project personnel who can deliver an excellent outcome.
Rigzone |
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Street fair to coincide with Equestrian Games
Lexington will throw a 16-day street festival during the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in 2010. Spotlight Lexington will be Sept. 25, 2010, to Oct. 25, 2010, and will include a number of events held at the Courthouse Plaza, Cheapside Park and Triangle Park in downtown. Events include live entertainment, food vendors, an arts and crafts fair and live broadcasts of the events at ...
Lexington Herald-Leader |
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Pflugerville Residents Come to Sculpture to Celebrate Vets Day
In Pflugerville, veterans observed their special holiday by holding a re-dedication ceremony at the city's Fallen Warrior Memorial in Pfluger Park. The park has three life-sized sculptures of soldiers created by an Austin artist. Artist Cindy Burleson used her own grandfather and Pflugerville Marine Byron Norwood as inspiration.
FOX 7 News Austin |
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Dow will have sculpture on display at Louvre
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eat your heart out, Eddie Haskell.
The Globe Gazette |
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Turk's tapestry: Turning trash to treasure
Gavin Turk casts black bin bags filled with rubbish in bronze, and then he paints over them to make them look like black bin bags filled with rubbish. He takes an old polystyrene cup and casts it in metal, and then paints it to look like an old polystyrene cup. When Elton John asked him to design a bar that would be auctioned off for the singer's Aids charity last month, he made it out of ...
Independent |
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Malcolm Rogers: shaking up the museum world
Ever since the Tea Party of 1773, Boston has experienced ambivalent feelings towards the English. And never more so than towards Malcolm Rogers, expat director of its beloved Museum of Fine Arts since 1994. For more than a decade the press queued up to take potshots at him and his attempts to bring the museum into the 21st century, calling them "vulgar" and "low-brow".
Independent |
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Rex Allen Days art contest winners
Kindergarten and first grade winners: Back row, Rebecca Collins (1st place), Stephanie Edwards (2nd place) and Daisy Duran (3rd place); Front row, Irving Ramirez (1st place), Elaina Valle (2nd place), and Aubrey Jones (3rd place).
Arizona Range News |
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Helping Haiti Hurricane Victims
A Peoria Heights store has launched a creative way to assist Hurricane victims in Haiti. Global Village—a Fair Trade shop—is sponsoring a silent auction of two paintings by Haitian artists.
WEEK-TV Peoria |
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U-Wei’s art on art
U-Wei Saari’s unique films will be interpreted using various visual arts forms in an exhibition to open in 2010. HAFIDAH SAMAT finds out how and why this project came about.
The New Straits Times |
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Tajik Songs of Sky And Destiny at Fest
12 November 2008 By John Wendle / Staff Writer Over the next few days, the sounds of the deep south of Tajikistan, the plains of Mongolia and the mountains of Kyrgyzstan will be heard around Moscow as part of the Rozamira festival.
The Moscow Times |
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U-Wei’s art on art
U-Wei during the launch of U-Wei’s Cinema Through Visual Art at Finas recently. U-Wei Saari’s unique films will be interpreted using various visual arts forms in an exhibition to open in 2010. HAFIDAH SAMAT finds out how and why this project came about.
The New Straits Times |
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Dia de los Muertos @ Self Help Graphics
Sunday, November 3rd, Self Help Graphics in East LA held one of Los Angeles' most entertaining and visually exciting Dia de los Muertos festivals. It could even be argued that Self Help, which started out in 1970, was instrumental in reviving the once-obscure holiday of Dia de los Muertos. This year was their 35th annual festival. Self Help Graphics & Art began celebrating Day of the Dead ...
LAist |
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Book Review: Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Natural Affinities excels in tying these two leaders of the modern art movement in America together. Georgia O'Keeffe was an American artist born in Wisconsin in 1887. From the late 1920s, she spent much of her time in the desert southwest, particularly in New Mexico, where, through her paintings, she became one of the most celebrated women artists of the 20th century. Much of her work ...
Blogcritics.org |
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Italy investigates plump-figure artist Botero over tax issues
Fernando Botero, known for artworks featuring rotund, exaggerated human and animal figures, is being investigated by Italian authorities on suspicion of tax evasion.
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In search of the vanished whales
Everybody's happy about the new California Academy of Sciences, but I'd heard from a few sentimental readers asking about the whereabouts of the whale sculpture in the old Academy courtyard. It's covered by a tarp, sitting in a lot behind the Diego Rivera...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Festival of lights showcases Pittsburgh's rich architecture
Festival of lights showcases Pittsburgh's rich architecture Want to brighten your days with an incredible light show, before the usual holiday light shows begin? Consider a trip west to ''Pittsburgh 250 Festival of Lights, '' which is turning more than 20 of the city's most famous structures into large-scale works of art.
Baltimore Sun |
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'Leave It to Beaver' actor to show at the Louvre
LOS ANGELES -- Eat your heart out, Eddie Haskell. Tony Dow, best known as the actor who portrayed The Beav's big brother, Wally, in the '50s TV series "Leave It to Beaver," will have one of his abstract sculptures on display at the Louvre.
Richmond Times-Dispatch |
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Stunning Marine Corps Museum is an iconic destination
The Marine Corps was founded in a tavern, in Philadelphia, on Nov. 10, 1775. Gung ho lingo includes "Ooh-rah," a Marine greeting, and "Semper Fidelis," the Marine motto meaning "always faithful."
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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Exhibitions take a look at life through the eyes of artists
FOR a double dose of art, head to the Annexe Gallery at Central Market, Kuala Lumpur, for the In Sacred Spaces and City of Cats & Dogs exhibitions.
The Star |
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