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Fifty Irish films screened for the 10th annual Magners Irish Film Festival
Think of Ireland and you’re likely to imagine its pristine countryside, struggle against the British, and economic surge. "That’s the prism we view Ireland through, but it’s a lot more complex than that,'' said Dublin native and Emerson College film instructor Peter Flynn.
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Aesop Rock Crafts New Song With El-P for Art Show
Photo by Sanchez and Kitahara Should you swing by San Francisco art gallery Fifty 24SF on the evening of December 4, you might leave with a new print for your wall and a new Aesop Rock song firmly lodged in your head. According to a MySpace blog post , the MC has contributed a tune called "Tomorrow Morning" to Bay Area artist Jeremy Fish 's "Ghosts of the Barbary Coast" ...
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Biblically-themed museum reopening after burning to the ground
A Dallas museum that had most of its biblically-themed artwork destroyed in a 2005 fire plans to reopen in September.
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Cairo bemused and troubled by German art stunt
A man hanging from wall in Cairo sparks a brief emergency, before rescuers find it its just a German art exhibit.
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Bacon passed in at $48.7m
A Francis Bacon self-portrait failed to sell at auction in New York yesterday, in another sign the souring economy is having a crushing effect on autumn art sales.
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Paintings turn out to be genuine article
Two paintings which were thought to be copies of the originals have been verified as genuine works by the Italian artist Caravaggio.
Scotland Today |
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MIA gets $750K grant to target ‘next generation’
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) has received a $750,000 grant that will fund an effort to attract more young museum-goers.
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News from Ridge View High School
•Ridge View High School JROTC, student activities, athletic teams, faculty, staff and students hosted a number of events to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). Male faculty members also participated in the Miss Understood Pageant. The contestant with the largest amount of money raised was crowned Miss Understood.
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Sprinkle girls win national ad contest
Savanna, Makayla and Elizabeth Sprinkle were watching "America's Got Talent" last July when a commercial caught their eye. Kraft Crackers was looking for entries from the public for homemade commercials to promote their new cheese product.
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Columbia Museum of Art exhibition reveals culture of ancient Chinese
The Columbia Museum of Art will show, for the first time, a major gift to the museum of Chinese art in the exhibition, Eye to the East: The Turner Collection of Chinese Art. The exhibition opens on December 19, 2008, and will be on view through May 10, 2009.
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It's happening right here in your community
-ART The Columbia Museum of Art Museum Shop will host the Holiday Artisans' Fair and Sale November 14, 5 pm- 8 pm. 343-2159. -BAZAAR St. David Episcopal Church's annual fall bazaar will be November 15, 9 am- 2 pm, at 605 Polo Rd. 736-0866.
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Metallica art fetches fortune
A painting owned by Metallica 's Lars Ulrich has been sold at auction for over $10 million in New York.
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Police circulate sketch of suspect in attempted bus stop abduction
Police say a Marietta middle-schooler fought off a man who tried to abduct her while she waited for a morning school bus -- and today an artists rendering was released to try to catch the suspect.
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Boone County artist works with Project AWARE
David Williamson, of rural Boone County, works with Project AWARE and has a number of titles. He is a poet, a metal sculptor and he even travels coast to coast working as a speaker.
Mid-Iowa News |
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Four Shows Debut at the Museum of Neon Art
MONA -- that's the Museum of Neon Art -- has a new home and four new exhibits spotlighting -- or setting gently aglow? -- the wonders of neon lighting. The museum is still downtown -- which makes...
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"Hearst the Collector" Exhibit Coming to LACMA
Some of the finest things William Randolph Hearst's money could buy will go on exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Nov. 9.
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LACMA Muse Costume Ball
Now celebrating its fifth birthday, the LACMA Muse Costume Ball, held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, manages to be swanky without being stuffy. Don't let the name throw you -- it isn't a...
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Eight video artists make some noise
The new art exhibition "Sonic Youth" takes its name from the alt-rock band that hit its stride as the eight video artists in the show were coming of age in the early '80s. Musical themes in the SUNY College at Old Westbury's Amelie Wallace Gallery exhibit are best explored with the aid of headphones scattered about. They block out competing sonic expressions.
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MercuryNews: Low-tech solutions
Tech Museum Awards honor low-tech solutions to big problems
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BASKETBALL '08 SUPPLEMENT: Picking up the Pieces
Coach Tommy Amaker could not solve the Ivy puzzle last year, losing 11 of Harvard’s 14 league contests. With an overhauled lineup, Amaker just might have found the key
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A stitch in time wins prize and honours a mother
STITCHING her way to success, Warrnambool art student Sue Ferrari has won the top prize in a national competition for her work with textiles.
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Artists reveal their muses
THE Loft Gallery will welcome its new resident artist Julie Kent tonight as it opens an exhibition of her work. Paintings by the award-winning Casterton artist will feature alongside varied works of four other artists in the Expressions of Inspirational Art exhibition.
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Girl Scouts to hold art auction
If you think you've seen it all, come to Artrageous, a benefit auction for the Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa's Southwest Region. The silent auction will be held Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Omni Centre Atrium, 300 W. Broadway.
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Poetry festival set to take off
The fifth year of the Poetry Gabriola Festival doesn't need the return of performance art icon Laurie Anderson, with rock legend husband Lou Reed, to make a name for itself.
Nanaimo Daily News |
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The Whole Is Greater
Compagnie 111 and Scenes de la Terre presented "Les sept planches de la ruse" at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, November 5-8 as part of the 2008 Next Wave Festival.
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