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Edie Sedgwick
What? Much like the real Edie Sedgwick -- who once wooed Bob Dylan and acted as Andy Warhol's speed-fueled muse -- Justin Moyer, provocateur of the band called Edie Sedgwick, likes to surround himself with stars...through his lyrics. On Things Are Getting Sinister and Sinisterer , the sonic rabble-rousers' just-released new album (vinyl and MP3 only), Moyer plays gossip guy, dishing ...
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Thursday Happenings
Movies with a Brogue -- The 10th annual Magner's Irish Film Festival kicks off tonight with the Boston premiere of Eden , a story of quiet desperation in a small-town marriage. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge, 7:30 p.m. Sold out. ( More information about the Irish Film Festival .) Lights -- Earlier this year, young and promising video artist Paul Chan rocked Bostonist's ...
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East Lansing gets grant for arts festival
EAST LANSING — The city has won a grant to help fund the 2009 East Lansing Art Festival. The State of Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs awarded the art festival a $12,000 grant.
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Celebrating Jewish rockers
n Photo exhibit highlights work of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame lenssmith
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Tech Museum Awards honor low-tech solutions to big problems
Change-the-world technology -- the flashy and expensive kind -- is the lifeblood of Silicon Valley. But every year, many of the region's leaders pause to spotlight a different type of innovation -- the low-tech kind. The Tech Awards
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Arts notes --- Nov. 13
Walnut CreekAnnual 'Artful Giving' reception Nov. 21The public is invited to the preview reception for Valley Art Gallery's 43rd annual collection for "Artful Giving.
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Design Miami Satellite Exhibitions Touch Down December 3
The satellite exhibitions will feature work from design and art heavyweights including Asymptote, Tord Boontje, Takashi Murakami's KaiKai Kiki, and Yvés Behar.
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what's going on
The Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art welcomes the holiday season with two exhibitions "The Merry Teapot" and "Light & Form: Paintings by the Ohr-O'Keefe Painting Group." Both exhibitions open today and run through Dec. 31. The opening reception will be 6-8 p.m. today and is free.
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Vallejo park to hold first green festival
This weekend, Six Flags Discovery Kingdom will host its first-ever Earth Fest 2008 event as part of its "green initiative," a park official said Wednesday.Park personnel created an earth-friendly art centerpiece for the event to illustrate the message, "This is our planet,
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SFMOMA's 'Art of Participation' features art that can be touched
San Francisco exhibition features a daily tribute to composer John Cage's groundbreaking work as well as eBay auctions, film screenings and a photo booth.
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Basquiat Painting Sells For $13.5 Million
A painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat has been sold for $13.5 million at an auction in New York City.
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Arts center sets date for free holiday festival
A free holiday festival, including a bake sale, a crafts sale, a teddy bear tea and a visit by Santa Claus, is set for Dec.
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Pomona College Museum of Art receives grant
CLAREMONT - The Pomona College Museum of Art has received a $190,000 Getty grant for the future exhibit "Pomona College 1969-1973." Officials said the grant is one of 15 totaling nearly $2.8million to start a series of concurrent exhibitions at museums in Southern California.
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San Rafael planners OK rock 'n' roll exhibit
An exhibit to honor Marin's rock royalty moved closer to reality Wednesday as the San Rafael Planning Commission signed off on the project.
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Vandals Deface SF Holocaust Memorial
Vandals have defaced a Holocaust memorial outside San Francisco’s Legion of Honor museum, painting swastikas inside a Star of David and on a granite plaque, authorities said.
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Get Out: San Mateo Harvest Festival
Highlighting an outdoor event the week of Nov. 13-19.
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Nature--and a Woodbury Artist's International Prism
WOODBURY-Known as a painter of nature, Woodbury artist Marija Pavlovich McCarthy will be exhibiting her watercolors and oils at Woodbury Antiques & Fine Arts beginning Nov. 22, with an opening reception from 4 to 6 p.m.
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Basquiat painting sells for $13.5M at NYC auction
(AP:NEW YORK) A painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat has been sold for $13.5 million at an auction in New York City. The 1982 painting, "Untitled (Boxer)," was consigned to Christie's auction house by Lars Ulrich, drummer for Metallica. Christie's didn't identify the buyer.
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Sol LeWitt retrospective opens at MASS MoCA
Related exhibit opening at Williams College Museum of Art You might think that conceptual art ? the art of ideas ? wouldn't require much physical space. So it seems ironic that Sol LeWitt, the founding father of conceptual art, would be honored with the massive, monumental retrospective that opens at MASS MoCA on Sunday.The North Adams, Mass. contemporary art museum is expanding its already ...
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Vase bought for £1 at a car boot sale nets £32,450 at auction
A vase bought for £1 at a car boot sale in Dumfries makes a huge profit at auction.
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Metallica drummer sells Basquiat painting for £9m
A painting of a boxer by Jean-Michel Basquiat - owned by Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich - is sold at auction for $13.5m (£9.12m).
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X-rated art sent to adults-only room
A STATE gallery will display a set of sexually explicit drawings so powerful they have been relegated to an adults-only room.
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Arts around the Mid-coast; Nov. 13, 2008
Artists sought for church's Advent exhibit in Bath BATH — Grace Episcopal Church is observing the four weeks of Advent though a celebration of the visual arts as they relate to the subjects of the Annunciation (the Angel Gabriel's visit to Mary), John the Baptist, and the birth of Jesus.
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Mt. Vernon resident chosen as winner of RLC Holiday Card Design Contest
MT. VERNON — A personal touch evokes warmth and friendship, especially during holidays.
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Duo hold Divali tea for charity
Every year, Divali brings families and friends together in celebration. This time around, two Mississauga women are taking the Festival of Lights beyond the Hindu community.
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