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I'll be your mirror
Already home to three pieces by the famed Pop artist, Kresge Art Museum’s Andy Warhol collection grew by 50 times this month with the arrival of a selection of Polaroids and gelatin silver prints donated by the Pittsburgh-based Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts’ Photographic Legacy Program.
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“The Old, Weird America”
“The Old, Weird America” harks back to the days of old — sort of. The exhibition blends traditional images and techniques of American folk art with the harsh realities of modern life. Using photography, sculpture, video installations and other mediums, 18 contemporary artists from ac ...
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Maryland Film Festival
While “Iron Man” ruled at the box office over the May 2-4 weekend, the Maryland Film Festival gave people an alternative to the metroplex. The festival has become a staple of the great events of the year in the area and this year was no exception.
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The Hindu Business Line : Private collection of Tina & Anil Ambani set for Christie’s action
New Delhi, May 7 With the private collection of Tina and Anil Ambani, curated by Christie’s London, set to open in the first week of June at Christie’s new premises in South Kensington, Indian contemporary art seems to have come of age.
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Arts & Entertainment Announcements
An exhibit of mixed-media work by artist Sandi Ritchie Miller will run tomorrow through June 15 in the Willow Gallery at Quiet Waters Park, 600 Quiet Waters Park Road in Annapolis.
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Young professionals tout Detroit living, business opportunities
“Positive attitudes will bring positive results” was how Ron Angelocci, senior vice president of Advance Strategies Group Inc., summed up the hour-plus panel discussion at Wednesday’s Business over Breakfast in the Renaissance Club.
Crain's Detroit Business |
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HC hosting National Musuem Day
The Horry County Museum is inviting the public to participate in their Annual Museum Day.
Florence Morning News |
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Monet fetches more than $41-million
Auction price 'Le Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil ' beats previous record for artist by almost $5-million
The Globe and Mail |
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Young At Arts Festival is Saturday
Building on the success of previous years, the Mexico Young At Arts Festival returns Saturday, providing a venue for children to participate in miscellaneous arts-related activities. The free event, now in its fourth season, will be conducted at Hardin Park from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and will include an arts tent where all crafting activities will be conducted.
The Mexico Ledger |
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NASA Rolls Out New Artifact Loan Program With Space Shuttle Tires
With the help of the space shuttle program, NASA kicks off a new artifact loan program for museums, planetariums, and other organizations. NASA's new Artifact Loan Opportunities Program will help organizations borrow NASA artifacts for education and outreach purposes.
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New museum represents sports on national level
NEW YORK — The elevator ride to the first exhibit at the new Sports Museum of America sets the tone.
The World |
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CineVegas '08 "Rocker," "Howard" and Debuts Crown 10th CineVegas Fest
The world premiere of Peter Cattaneo 's " The Rocker ," starring Rainn Wilson as a failed drunmmer who joins his nephew's high school band, will open the 10th annual CineVegas Film Festival , taking place in Las Vegas June 12 - 21. Among this year's debuts are seven world premieres the festival has packaged in its "Jackpot Premieres" section (listed below) in addition to the festival's ...
indieWIRE |
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NASA Rolls Out New Artifact Loan Program With Space Shuttle Tires
With the help of the space shuttle program, NASA kicks off a new artifact loan program for museums, planetariums, and other organizations.
NASA |
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Public Overwhelms Interior Department with Opposition to Latest Proposed Oil & Gas Project in Utah's Famed Nine Mile ...
SALT LAKE CITY (May 7, 2008) - Last week tens of thousands of Americans from across the nation called on the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to reject a Denver-based gas company's plans to drill more than 800 new natural gas wells in eastern Utah's Nine Mile Canyon region, an area world-renowned for its fragile rock art sites.
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Also: Brunches for Mom, Arts Commission Turns 40
WEDNESDAY 7 Lordy, lordy, look who’s 40! The South Carolina Arts Commission celebrates its 40th anniversary tonight at the Columbia Museum of Art; the festive celebration kicks off at 7 p.m. and features a live art auction of original works by 40 South Carolina visual artists in addition to food, drinks and live entertainment.
Free Times |
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A Moroccan-themed soiree brings diverse arts and culture together
I love the arts almost as much as I love to party. Classical music, dance, modern art - you name it. If it lives in a museum, I can't wait to see it.
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New home for Please Touch to open in Oct.
Philadelphia's popular Please Touch Museum will open in its new historic home in October.
Courier-Post |
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No Age Nouns
It's disingenuous to talk about Los Angeles' New Yorker -profiled, vegan-snacks-serving, book-lending, all-ages venue the Smell with the same high-art vocabulary you'd use to dissect other creative collectives, like Andy Warhol's Factory-- the Smell's constituency (L.A.'s optimistic experimental art pack) appears un-fixated on fame, self-aggrandizement, or furthering its nascent mythology.
Pitchfork |
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A Moroccan-themed soiree brings diverse arts and culture together
I love the arts almost as much as I love to party. Classical music, dance, modern art - you name it. If it lives in a museum, I can't wait to see it. So when my husband and I commissioned a work from a very talented artist - Madam DZOONG, who just happens to be a very good friend - we knew there had to be a big celebration. To honor her, we decided on a Moroccan theme - she and her husband had ...
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New home of Philadelphia children's museum to open in Oct.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Philadelphia's popular Please Touch Museum will open in its new historic home in October. The museum has outgrown its downtown location. It's moving to historic Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park, which has more than triple the space.
WFMJ Youngstown |
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The Royston Crow
THE MERIDIAN School's annual art exhibition has once more seen pupils produce an array of interesting pieces. The exhibition showcases art produced by students at the Royston school working towards GCSE and A-level exams.
Royston & Buntingford Crow |
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
I don't usually think of Vija Celmins' paintings as being particularly. Instead they're achingly beautiful, even delicate, and their starfields stick in the imagination like a pop tune. But in this year's Carnegie International, they are something else: Reminders.
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Things That Go Bump in Wynwood
Rickety skeletons, decapitated models, and a spacey radio science project dial up the heat Saturday at 7 p.m. during the Wynwood gallery crawl. At Albertini Arts (190 NW 36th St., Miami), “Decadence and Decay: A Group Exhibition for the Marrow Minded” turns the eye inward with a bony mixed ...
Miami New Times |
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New York welcomes first museum to celebrate pro sports
A display of Olympics-related material at the Sports Museum of America during a preview in New York City one day before the opening.
TODAYonline |
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Writers on the Storm
Since 1996, budding literati at local grade schools have collaborated on a yearly exhibit of 10 art tomes. The Wolfsonian’s One Page at a Time program presents the children’s views on hot-button topics in creative, thought-provoking form. This year the intrepid scribblers — from the f ...
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