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Buffalo Gap Pottery on TV
The next episode of “Texas Country Reporter” will feature a segment on George Holland making horsehair Raku pottery at his place, Buffalo Gap Pottery & Gallery. The show, starring Bob Phillips, airs at 6:30 p.m. Saturday on KTXS.
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Great inspirations in unexpected locations
Students may have noticed expressive artwork scattered about residence hall lobbies and lounges. Running through Nov. 24, the exhibit Great Inspirations includes various mediums, ranging from digital drawings to sculptures. "If you had any affiliation with CMU, you could submit an entry," said Darell Armentrout, Kulhavi Hall Director and event organizer.
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Church hosts benefit art auction
Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church and Healing Art Missions will hold a silent auction of original Haitian art 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday at the church, 789 Merrimon Ave. A preview reception will be held from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Saturday.
Asheville Citizen-Times |
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Hirst Flops at `Brutal' New York Art Auction as Slump Persists
Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- A Damien Hirst painting of four skulls that was tipped to fetch at least $3 million at Phillips de Pury & Co.'s New York auction didn't sell, the biggest upset at a contemporary-works sale that attested to art-market gloom.
Bloomberg |
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Street-art smarts gloriously realized in 'LittleBigPlanet'
Game Dork The first time I played "LittleBigPlanet," I got the same feeling I had when I first saw "Beetle Juice," "Amelie" and "Pushing Daisies." With each of those, I thought: Wow, this is truly fresh ? a fantasy artwork that looks like it's for kids, but adults will eat it up.You play as "Sackboy" or "Sackgirl," a tiny boy or tiny girl made of sackcloth. They resemble the gingerbread man. ...
Albany Times Union |
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Grand Jury Decides Not to Indict Man Charged With Possession of Child Pornography
David Lee Oliver was charged with possession or promotion of child pornography and improper photography or visual recording back in July. Burkburnett police say they were contacted by a local business about some film a customer had brought in to be developed.
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YSL exhibit displays the art of fashion
SAN FRANCISCO -- What makes a frock rock? Taffeta and tulle will take you only so far, say organizers of a new exhibit celebrating the work of visionary designer Yves Saint Laurent. ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
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Art season in full swing as galleries open new exhibits
The art season is definitely here. Not only are museums filled with new exhibits, but some of the area's top-notch galleries are kicking off their exhibit schedules.
The Palm Beach Post |
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Davis’ honest lyrics are getting noticed
HONEST TO GOODNESS: Patrick Davis , the Camden native who will perform Saturday in the Wood Auditorium at the Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County, wrote “Where I’m From” with Camden on his mind. On Monday, Jason Michael Carroll released the song as the first single for his untitled new album, to be released early next year by Arista Nashville. “Where I’m From” is about country life “where ...
The State |
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Passport to Art
The Columbia Museum of Art’s Passport to Art Saturday isn’t the typical craft session for kids. No macaroni and cotton ball collages here. Just a free open studio where children can explore more sophisticated forms of art. Museum staff theme the projects around traveling and permanent exhibits. Last month, Passport patrons tried their hand at gyotaku, the Japanese art of fish printing. The ...
The State |
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Latest Additions
It has been said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That statement is called to mind sharply when viewing the images in a new exhibit at Cape Cod Community College’s Higgins Art Gallery.
The Barnstable Patriot |
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Eclectic Electric Sheep
ART lovers in Esperance will have a chance to check out something fresh and unique this weekend, when Curtin VTEC graphic design students unveil their annual art exhibition, titled Electric Sheep.
Esperance Express |
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the art of sacrifice
Lynchburg College is exhibiting work of Harlem Renaissance artist Jacob Lawrence, who told the legend of abolitionist John Brown in pictures.
The News & Advance |
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MNR group ties up with Sogefi to make auto filters
Bangalore, Nov 13 : City-based MNR Filters today entered into a tie up with Italy based Sogefi SPA, a world leader in automobile fuel, oil and air filtration products, to expand their product portfolio to utilise existing and new opportunities in India and abroad.
New Kerala |
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Underground Railroad museum delayed
Plans to build a state-of-the-art museum inside a Brooklyn rowhouse believed to be part of the Underground Railroad are in jeopardy, the Daily News has learned.
New York Daily News |
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Ukraine Unlikely To Return Paintings Taken In War
"Ukraine is unlikely to return more than a dozen paintings by Western European artists brought here from a German museum as Soviet war trophies during World War II, an official said Thursday… Ukrainian law prohibits the return of World War II trophy art, she noted, adding that many Ukrainian paintings seized during the war have been exhibited in Germany but 'nobody is returning them to us.'"
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Newsflash: Opera In America Is Not Dying From "High School Night" in San Francisco to the city-wide
Ring festival in L.A. to the Met's HD moviecasts to the fact that "Nearly every opera company in the country has a new work somewhere in its schedule" (per the chairman of Opera America), the art form is in good health, despite the financial crisis.
Arts Journal |
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JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む
An array of Japanese fine art pieces, including prints, paintings, ceramics and sculptures, has bucked the world economic downturn, attracting considerable interest and respectable prices at a London auction Wednesday.
Japan Today |
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Local Calendar
Friday, Nov. 14 • Exhibit of two-dimensional work of Amy Sacksteder, Mabee Art Gallery, Culver-Stockton College, Canton. Information, (573) 288-6413. • Noted quilt appraiser Hallye Bone, at the Hickory Stick, downtown Hannibal. Information, Ellen A. O’Bryan, 221-7282.
The Hannibal Courier-Post |
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Valdy reflects on music, culture, literacy, and life
By Lawrence Powell The Spectator NovaNewsNow.com Valdy, the Ottawa-born folkster whose spent much of his life on the West Coast, has always had a thing about the east -- as far back as the early 1970s when he headlined Brooks Diamond's famous Atlantic Folk Festivals in Hardwoodlands in West Hants...
The Annapolis County Spectator |
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In brief: Coloring contest open to area children
In preparation for Ebensburg’s “Dickens of a Christmas” to be held Dec. 5-7, a coloring contest is being conducted for children ages 12 and under.
The Tribune-Democrat |
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Children in artwork rules 'too restrictive'
Artists are warning that something as simple as street photography could die out under the Australia Council's proposed protocols for photographing children.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
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The agony and the ecstasy, or why bad art really is a pain
The power of art to heal emotional wounds is well known, but could contemplating a beautiful painting have the same effect on physical pain?
The Kansas City Star |
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Press Quotes
”Your music was hauntingly beautiful.” Meriam Lobel, Director - Folk Arts Program, Park Performing Arts Center, NJ “As an ensemble you are one of my favorite to listen to ... You created a special environment and took me to a mythical world quite unique.”
All About Jazz |
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An outpouring of art in Moorpark
CORNUCOPIA OF CREATIVITY— Art lovers view some of the entries in the Moorpark Council PTA Reflections Program gallery exhibit on display last Thursday at Mesa Verde Middle School. Students from nine Moorpark schools submitted more than 500 entries in visual arts, photography, literature, musical composition, dance choreography, and film/video production.
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