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Hot Picks: Things to do around the valley
CHOREOGRAPHY FEST: If your partner sits at home each night watching TV shows like “Dancing With the Stars,” the 11th Annual Dance Under The Stars Choreography Festival might be just the excuse to get him or her out of the house and into the McCallum Theatre.
The Desert Sun |
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Got Art? fundraiser benefits local artists
The Art League of Hilton Head is holding its 2008 Got Art? fundraiser from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday at The Mall at Shelter Cove. Tickets to the fundraiser will be $100, and only 100 will be sold. The artwork will be available for viewing at the mall from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. today and just before the drawing and selection Sunday.
Island Packet |
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Cuyahoga Valley Art Center Members Show
Exhibit of works by 2008 life member Harriet Elson. Through Nov. 27, Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., reception: Nov. 16, 3-5 p.m.free Cuyahoga Valley Art Center (330) 928-8092
West Side Leader & South Side News Leader |
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SAMA hosts annual Holiday Home Tour
The auxiliary of the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Ligonier Valley will present its fifth annual Holiday Home Tour on Dec. 6.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
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Contemporary Artists Display Traveling Exhibit In New Orleans
More than 80 artists are traveling the globe as part of Prospect One, including New Orleans among its stops.
WDSU New Orleans |
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Children's book illus.
The illustrations for Judy Andres’ children’s book, “Froggy’s Christmas Tree Concert,” were created by Liesa Stienmetz, a Reedsburg artist who also works at the Kalahari doing portraits.
Portage Daily Register |
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Hooked on Rugs
An exhibit in Shelburne celebrates the talents of fiber artists.
WCAX-TV Vermont |
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Student art featured in Leon Valley event
The Leon Valley Conference and Community Center will host the 13th Annual Los Leones Student Arts Festival from 8:30 a.m.- 2 p.m. today.
San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5 |
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A merger of worlds
COMMENT ON THIS ! Your Views! This is not just any exhibition of photographs — it’s Samar S Jodha’s recreation of an experience with light, sound and pictures, still ones and a video loop, almost like an installation.
Hindustan Times |
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Art so bad it's good
At a new Seattle museum, the best art is the worst art. Jim Dever has the story.
KING5 Seattle |
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Unique Glass Auction Brings a Crowd to the GoggleWorks
var nopreviewimage = "1"; if (nopreviewimage == ""){ document.write(' '); document.write(' '); document.write(' '); } There are all sorts of things people like to get fresh, fresh food, fresh air and even, fresh glass. WFMZ's Melissa Batulis takes us to a place where you could get it while it's hot.
WFMZ Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey |
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Building Consensus for an ‘Art Town'
With more funding anticipated in 2009 for public art projects, the Bainbridge Island Arts & Humanities Council is asking residents to help plan the scope and nature of art around the city.
Bainbridge Islander |
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Paper lanterns join lights
For more than 20 years, Owen Sound’s Festival of Northern Lights has celebrated late autumn with a big splash of more than 300 exhibits [...]
Owen Sound Sun Times |
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Lee Rosenbaum's cultural commentary
If I've been blogging lite since the big auctions, it's because I've been on desperate deadline for an article in the "Weekend" section of tomorrow's Wall Street Journal . It concerns an auction-related pet peeve of mine, already quite familiar to CultureGrrl readers.
Arts Journal |
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See how far downtown Winter Garden has come in photography exhibit
Twenty black-and-white contemporary photographs of Winter Garden are being paired with vintage photos in a new exhibit presented by the Winter Garden Heritage Foundation.
West Orange Times |
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Artist donates painting of Lincoln and friend to museum
PETERSBURG — A California artist with ties to Menard County has donated his painting of Abraham Lincoln and friend Coleman Smoot to the Menard County Historical Society Museum in downtown Petersburg.
The State Journal-Register |
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Many learn about and enjoy the age of knights by recreating it in groups and at renaissance fairs
Many enjoy the age of knights by recreating it in groups and at fairs DAVIE Sir Jaraslov swings his steel ax with both hands in a downward motion at Lord Wright's skull. Lord Wright blocks the attack with his ax handle and counters with a swipe at the knight's midsection, their armor clanking with their movements.
Sun-Sentinel |
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Portland to install a new public restroom on Northwest Glisan near Fifth Avenue
It looks like a gigantic, high-tech tin can, all gleaming stainless steel, with a translucent skylight, a solar panel and louvers at the bottom and the top. But it's actually a low-tech public toilet -- not a new exhibit at...
The Oregonian |
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BUSINESS IN BRIEF 15/11
A Vietnamese company has exported 1000 sand paintings to America this month. Nguyen Huy Duy, director of the Van Tien Sa Panting Company, said that the paintings were priced at US$15- $60 per painting.
Vietnam Net |
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Portrait disappears from Purdue building
Two paintings in a shared frame of Purdue graduates and donors are missing.
WLFI Lafayette |
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Prix Marcel Duchamp Winner Laurent Grasso's "Infinite Light" on view at Hunter College
NEW YORK.- A major outdoor work by French artist Laurent Grasso, who has just won the prestigious Prix Marcel Duchamp (awarded yearly to a contemporary artist based in France), is currently on display at New York’s Hunter College.
Art Daily |
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Iranian Artist Mania Akbari at Xerxes Fine Arts
Mania Akbari, Mania Devastation. © Mania Akbari, Courtesy Xerxes Fine Arts. LONDON.- Xerxes Fine Arts holds the first solo show, outside of the Persian Gulf, of the renowned Iranian film maker, actress and artist Mania Akbari.
Art Daily |
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Emily Jacir Named Winner of Seventh Biennial Hugo Boss Prize
Emily Jacir, Material for a film, 2005-ongoing [detail], Multimedia installation, Dimensions variable, Installation view, Think with the Senses—Feel with the Mind: Art in the Present Tense, 52nd International Art Exhibition, Venice, 2007. Photo by Giorgio Zucchiatti, courtesy the artist and Alexander and Bonin, New York.
Art Daily |
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Deutscher and Hackett to Offer Important Colin McCahon at Auction
Colin McCahon, Mondrian’s Last Chrysanthemum: Scared (Scared series), 1976, Acrylic on Steinbach paper mounted on hardboard, Titled ‘Mondrian’s Last Chrysanthemum: Scared’ lower left; signed with initials ‘C.McC’ and dated ‘76’ lower left, 73 x 109.5 cm. TCMDAIL No. 001460.
Art Daily |
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Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Receives $1.2 Million Mellon Foundation Challenge Grant to Establish Position of Director
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar, designed by Cesar Pelli. Photo: Scott Frances / Esto Photographics. POUGHKEEPSIE, NY.-
Art Daily |
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