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UK music festival defends Jay-Z decision
LONDON (AP) -- Organizers of one of Britain's best-known music festivals on Tuesday defended their decision to book Jay-Z as their headline act after Oasis songwriter Noel Gallagher blamed the rapper for disappointing ticket sales.
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Woodson Art Museum Offers Trip To Middle Ages with Armor Display
If you step into the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum this Spring, you may just think you've taken a step into the Middle Ages.
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City Life sculptures will come back to downtown
The life-like bronze sculptures created by Seward Johnson Jr. will be returning to the downtown cityscape this summer.
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Mary Wollstonecraft painting at National Portrait Gallery
A portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft painted during the time she was living in Southwark is on show at the National Portrait Gallery.
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No E-Bay Bids for Berwyn's Spindle
Berwyn's Spindle sculpture didn't get any nibbles on the internet auction site E-bay. The art piece was made famous in the movie "Wayne's World" and is also known as the “Car Kabob” and “The Eight Car Pile-Up.” It was offered on E-Bay starting last Monday for an opening bid of $50,000. The auction expired yesterday without a single bid. Berwyn Mayor Michael O'Conner says he doesn't think the ...
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Fulfilling the Vision of I.M. Pei
"Welcome to a work of art" is a phrase Dan Snyder says only occasionally but has often thought as he greets guests at his architectural masterpiece of a home in Cleveland Park.
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Mathews News: art show, reading celebration, Day in K, PTA carnival
Nixa — The Mathews art show will be from 4 to 6:30 p.m. April 28 — the same day as Day in K when kindergarteners get a taste of school. The Title I Reading Celebration will follow in the evening. The Mathews PTA carnival is scheduled for May 1. More information will be forthcoming.
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Greenberg Traurig Attorney Peter Zinober Re-Appointed to Tampa's Public Art Committee
Greenberg Traurig Shareholder Peter W. Zinober has been re-appointed to the City of Tampa Mayor's Public Art Committee. His term runs through 2012. Zinober had previously served on the Committee from 1991 to 1995.
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Yale: Student's art/abortion claim a hoax
HARTFORD — A Yale University art student's claim that she induced repeated abortions on herself and used the blood for her senior project is false, school officials said after her account was
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Graphing the ever-mutable image of Lebanon's Civil War
In the wake of the summer 2006 war, Beirutis were witness to a curious contest. All over town red-and-white billboards, in Arabic, French or English announced "I Love Life."Appearing early in the political wrangle that has riven Lebanon's citizens into two camps, the ad campaign seemed apolitical. Yet, as it implied the Other.
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Greenberg Traurig Attorney Peter Zinober Re-Appointed to Tampa´s Public Art Committee
Greenberg Traurig Shareholder Peter W. Zinober has been re-appointed to the City of Tampa Mayor´s
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Children's art on display this month
3D flowers made from recycled material. A young children's art exhibit is up in the children's and periodical sections of the Mt. Pleasant Public Library for the remainder of the month.
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Swiss show highlights Homer's impact
No, it does not symbolize the dreaded computer virus. Mounted outside the Basel Museum of Antiquities, the 30-foot-high wooden structure suggests what the mythical Trojan Horse may have looked like. It draws attention to a unique show on Homer, the Greek poet...
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Creekfest
When Creekfest started three years ago, it wasn’t intended to be an annual event, according to Sierra Club publicity chair Janet Watt. “When we started the event, it was just people having an opportunity to get together, share a meal and listen to music,” said Watt. “It was an enjoyable community event. We did a silent auction for arts and crafts donated by local artists and businesses ...
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Earth Day celebration set for this weekend
The 2008 Rogue Valley Earth Day Celebration will take place on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the grounds of the ScienceWorks Hands-on Museum.
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Greenberg Traurig Attorney Peter Zinober Re-Appointed to Tampa's Public Art Committee
TAMPA, Fla.----Greenberg Traurig Shareholder Peter W. Zinober has been re-appointed to the City of Tampa Mayor's Public Art Committee. His term runs through 2012. Zinober had previously served on the Committee from 1991 to 1995.
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Yale says student's abortion artwork a hoax, she says maybe not
A Yale University art student's claim that she induced repeated abortions on herself and used the blood for her senior project is false, school officials insisted, even after her first-person account was published Friday in the student newspaper.
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Immigrant Heritage Week at QMA
As part of the city-wide Immigrant Heritage Week, the Queens Museum of Art will be holding various special events through Sunday, April 20. The week was created in 2004 and offers programming to “build cross-cultural understanding between diverse New Yorkers.”
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Alpharetta & Roswell Briefs
Davis Idols wins Scholastic contest Davis Academy Middle School students hold a check presented to them from Scholastic Books for $1,000 for books for the school library.
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Yale: Student's Artwork Purporting To Show Abortion A Hoax
Yale University says a student's claim of using her own blood for an assignment by inducing her own abortions is a hoax, not a senior project.
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NMC student artwork on display
Posted: Friday, April 18, 2008 at 3:46 p.m. Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City is holding a multimedia art show in its Fine Arts Building.
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Lee Rosenbaum's cultural commentary
First, another hearty thanks to my fabulous, recidivist guest blogger, Martin Filler , who has upstaged me in my own production: Thanks to his delicious posts on the best and worst new museums of 2007, visitors flocked to CultureGrrl in record numbers this week. And the hits just keep on coming.
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Africa: Deox Flying High in the Apprentice Africa
Action ensues at The Apprentice Africa. The contestants were for the first time saved the intimidating presence of Mr Shobanjo. The C.E.O sent them a video message instead.
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Yale says student's abortion artwork a hoax, she says maybe not
HARTFORD, Conn. - A Yale University art student's claim that she induced repeated abortions on herself and used the blood for her senior project is false, school officials insisted, even after her first-person account was published Friday in the student newspaper.
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Fingerprints indicate Pollock may be fake
A fingerprint analyst says a purported Jackson Pollock found in a New York garage is a knockoff and alleged the man who authenticated it was a fraud.The authenticator, Peter Paul Biro, recently declared the artwork as a Pollock after saying fingerprints found on the painting matched prints found on a paint can stored in Pollack's East Hampton, N.Y., studio, the New York Post reported Friday. ...
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