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Linda McLaren Art Show
May 10, 11, 17, 18 & 19, 2008 Third Annual Show and Sale of Original Watercolour, Ink & Acrylic by Linda McLaren “A celebration of country life at artist’s farm/studio.” Refreshments. Door prizes. Draw. North from Orangeville or south from Shelburne to 20 Sideroad, Amaranth.
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Lawsuit aims to stop new law on sexually explicit material
The Indianapolis Museum of Art is teaming with bookstores, publishers and the ACLU of Indiana to challenge a new law that will...
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Queer Up North: All Tickets On Sale
Manchester’s queer arts festival (9-25 May) kicks off with a world premiere from Sandra Bernhard and ends with a UK premiere with specially-commissioned music from Rufus Wainwright and Fischerspooner.
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The Mount Airy May Fest will hit downtown Main Street, rain or shine, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on May 17 and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on May 18. The street festival features food and craft vendors, games and live entertainment.
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Coachella rocks Indio again
Two weekends. More than 150 bands. Nearly 300,000 people. More than 700 news reports around the world. Here's a recap of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and Stagecoach Country Music Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio:
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Since its announcement of the ‘‘Art’s A Ball!” public art project on April 16, the Frederick Arts Council has been getting interest from artists of all skill levels from the region and beyond.
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The eighth annual Flower and Artisans festival returns from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday along Sykesville’s Main Street. The Sykesville Business Association in cooperation with the Town of Sykesville sponsors the rain or shine event.
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UN exhibits aim to foster attitude change toward environment
Images of oversized cockroaches, a hunting lifestyle in the Arctic and a feminine figure immersed into a flowery background ... these are part of a collection of artworks at a UN exhibition opened Wednesday. They are supposed to ser ...
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Jennifer Widbur Memorial Tournament
1st Annual Jennifer Widbur Memorial Tournament SPONSORS Husbands for putting up with us Honeywood Moms while all of this event was being put together Alliston Zellers Alliston Swiss Chalet Alliston Dollarama First Student Bus Lines Kim Fraser Ken Halis Movie Gallery Bruce & Donna Hunking Honeywood Hockey Moms Canadian Tire Collingwood Keith & Suzy Stapleton Shallow Lake Ladies Melancthon ...
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Leger painting auctioned for more than $39 million in NYC
Associated Press - May 7, 2008 9:25 PM ET NEW YORK (AP) - Sotheby's auction house says a cubist oil painting by 20th-century French artist Fernand Leger (Luh-ZHAY') has been sold in New York...
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Russia To Spend $177 Million To Restore Pushkin Museum
The Russian government says it will spend more than $177 million US to restore the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow's largest museum of European art.
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St John's awarded Forbes Medal
St John’s Anglican Church has been awarded the Forbes Medal for 2008 having restored the only remaining Vocalion Reed Organ in Australia. The presentation of the award topped off a successful evening as hundreds gathered in the Forbes Town Hall to celebrate the 28th Forbes Heritage Festival.
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800 artworks revealed as fakes
Russia’s booming art market is facing the worst crisis of confidence in the post-Soviet era as hundreds of paintings have been identified as fakes. About 800 works, most still in private collections, are listed in The Catalog of Fraudulent Art Works now on its fourth volume.
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Festival set to start despite chaos
At a time when the Niagara Folk Arts Festival should be celebrating 40 years of highlighting multiculturalism, the organizer says he’s just glad to see the annual two-week event get off the ground. “Let’s just say things were in disarray,” said interim festival producer David Paquet, who started the [...]
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Expo Well Ensconced in Addressing Migrant Needs
An estimated 10,000 strong crowd is expected to flock to 11th Migrant Expo and the Migrant Job Fair, a series of exhibitions and fairs for migrants, overseas students and job seekers organised by Migrant News at the Alexandra Park Function Centre Greenlane from 10-11 May 2008.
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FETCH! Challenge Lab, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. every Saturday. Try activities that you've seen on PBS's FETCH! Highlands Museum and Discovery Center, 1620 Winchester Ave., Ashland. Free with regular admission.
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A Hectic Romp
The art of theater is fleeting. You can’t hang it on a gallery wall, and even that musty box of old playbills is at best poor mementos from long-struck shows. Every production occupies a brief moment in time, eliciting the joy unique to things that will soon be gone.
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'Vernacular' architecture' draws artist
Paul Whiting began his photographic career in elementary school with a Donald Duck camera. The original disappeared somewhere in childhood,...
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Five Finalists For Oversized Sculpture Project Chosen
"Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger is among internationally-acclaimed artists shortlisted for the Ebbsfleet Landmark. He is proposing a white horse, 33 times life-size, which would look out over the Ebbsfleet Valley and mark the new Ebbsfleet International station."
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Community Calendar
ONGOINGINow through May 30Hayward Arts Council presents the "Unusual Connections" Group 95 exhibit from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays at the John O'Lague Gallery in the City Hall Rotunda, 777 B St.
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Arts tour showcases Tri-City culture
The "Tri-Cities" of eastern Monmouth County - Asbury Park, Long Branch and Red Bank- will showcase the depth and vitality of the local arts scene June 6-8 with The Tri-CityArts Tour, a three-day living exhibition highlighting galleries, theater, film festivals, major outdoor events and the legendary homegrown music scene in the Garden State.
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The Independent (UK) 05/08/08
Have We Lost Our Sense For Good New Painting? "The art world is in a terrific fizz about painting at the moment. It has suddenly decided that painting is not dead any more but very much alive. And like somebody startled from sleep, it can't quite tell the difference between anything."
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Using Art To Inspire Action On The Environment
7 May 2008 - Art can be a catalyst for environmental action - that's the message today from a United Nations seminar and exhibit which are bringing together artists from around the world.
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New York welcomes first museum to celebrate pro sports
NEW YORK -- World-renowned for its art museums and galleries, New York on Wednesday launches a museum heralding artistry of the sort that happens on the pitcher's mound or the tennis court.
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Jam, Y’all
Jackson’s biggest music and art street festival kicks into high gear Friday, June 13. This year marks the 21st time that Capitol Street downtown will transform into a rockin’, dancin’, jumpin’ good time, with Jubilee!JAM 2008.
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