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Senior art shows begin today at Austin Peay
Austin Peay State University announced today that its series of senior art shows begins today.
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Walid Tawfiq awarded at the Damascus Cinema Festival
The Damascus 16th Cinema Festival invited the great Lebanese artist Walid Tawfiq where he was given an award at the festival for his musical journey of 35 years.
Al Bawaba |
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Woodcraft Wellington 2008 Exhibition and Sale
The Guild of Woodworkers Wellington Presents . . . Woodcraft Wellington 2008 Exhibition and Sale Fourteen of Wellington's leading wood artists converge on Shed 11 to show case and sell their exquisite woodwork.
Scoop.co.nz |
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Payout agreed for B of the Bang flaws
B of the Bang, a giant sculpture symbolising Manchester’s explosive renaissance, has blown up in its designers’ faces after they agreed on Monday to pay £1.7m ($2.6m) compensation for its flaws.
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Thomasville Cultural Center set for wildlife arts festival
THOMASVILLE — The Thomasville Cultural Center building and grounds will be teeming with wildlife art and activities this weekend. Fifty-nine wildlife artists and wildlife demonstrators will be part of Plantation Wildlife Arts Festival at the cultural center on East Jackson Street.
Thomasville Times-Enterprise |
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Kulik Photos Seized As Porn In Paris
"French police seized a number of works by the Ukrainian performance artist Oleg Kulik on the stand of Moscow's XL gallery during Fiac (Foire international d'art contemporain)....
Arts Journal |
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Eight years of work to build this masterpiece
HL By TONY RICCIUTO Review Staff Writer It’s an impressive work of art on wheels. It took eight years to [...]
Niagara Falls Review |
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Kapoor Sculpture May Fetch $2.6 Million at Bonhams Dubai Sale
Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- A sculpture by Anglo-Indian artist Anish Kapoor may fetch up to $2.6 million at the second Bonhams auction of Arab, Iranian, Indian and Pakistani art in Dubai, to be held on Nov. 24.
Bloomberg |
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Adobe soups up Photoshop with Pixel Bender
Photoshop now has a high-performance new special effects technology, Pixel Bender. Adobe showed an online version as well.
CNET |
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Ready for the music at Mullum fest
Mullum Music Festival director Glenn Wright (hitching) and local artists Jez Mead and Sara Tindley are hoping they’ll get past the gateway of the biggest little town in Australia and make it to the festival on time. Glenn’s bomb did actually break down, right on cue for the photo shoot, so if you see him holding out his thumb again please pick him up – we wouldn’t want him to miss his own ...
Byron Shire Echo |
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Artist From Austin in Town to Paint Murals at Southern Hills and Scotland Park
A nationally known educational artist from Austin has left his mark on the walls at both facilities. Brian Joseph has been painting for more than 20 years.
KFDX Wichita Falls |
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UB picks Ayers/Saint/Gross and German firm for new law school building
The University of Baltimore’s planned law school building will be marked by a glass facade, with the exterior arranged as a group of multi-patterned, transparent blocks, as envisioned by the winner of a design contest for the facility announced Monday.
The Daily Record |
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Pictured tunes
A music album can get picked up based on its artwork, and the converse holds true as well. Thankfully, Tapa knows how to work the former .
The Star |
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Sarawak through the eyes of Bidayuh duo
LOOK carefully at Raphael Scott Ahbeng’s paintings and one notices that red is used in all of them — whether all over or just a dash.
The Star |
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The painter who altered Obama's life
What can a painting do? Try this. Here's the Rev Jeremiah Wright, in Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago, 20 years ago. He's preaching about a picture. It's an image of a woman, who's sitting on the world, bent over, blindfolded, holding up a harp – "bruised and bloodied, dressed in tattered rags, the harp reduced to a single frayed string... and yet consider once again the painting before ...
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Hit & Run: Lost in music
It's tempting to hope that The Beatles' fabled 14-minute track "Carnival of Light", which Paul McCartney wants to release 41 years after its recording, will be a magnificent avant-garde assemblage of noise. But the truth is that just because it was John, Paul, George and Ringo wandering around the studio banging things and shouting "Barcelona!" doesn't mean the result will be a masterpiece, no ...
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Auction reveals the secret life of Spike Milligan
It sounds like one of the jokey stories he would tell in a poem or novel. When a wrecking ball sliced a nearby Victorian block of flats in two, Spike Milligan spotted a grand piano left in a disused apartment. Approaching the foreman of the building site, he bribed him with a fiver to hand over the instrument.
Independent |
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Blinkers & Spurs
When Blinkers was first performed during this year's Wellington Fringe Festival it caused a sensation - immediately being hailed by audiences and critics as the most irresistible devised work to emerge in years.
Scoop.co.nz |
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'Art Underneath' offers plenty of skin
Film festival fundraiser raises the heat in Newport Beach.
Orange County Register |
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Presidio Trust considers changes to museum plan
When officials at the Presidio announced in August 2007 that Gap founder Don Fisher wanted to build a 100,000-square-foot modern art museum at the head of the park's historic Main Post, many critics saw it as a done deal. But the federal agency that runs the...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Local resident wins children’s category for zoo photography contest
A passion for photography prompted a Brookfield girl to snap a few frames at the Brookfield Zoo. Her talent landed her first place in Brookfield Zoo’s photo contest.
Brookfield Suburban Life |
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Salmond presents a copy of royal death warrant to museum
A rare copy of the death warrant of Mary Queen of Scots was yesterday handed over to a museum by First Minister Alex Salmond. The warrant will be housed in Blairs, the Scottish Roman Catholic heritage museum, alongside a portrait of Mary.
The Herald |
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Creative Arts Festival at Staples This Weekend
The Westport Young Women’s League presents its 33rd annual Creative Arts Festival Saturday and Sunday at Staples High School.
WestportNow |
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Billionaire Broad Proposes Beverly Hills Art Museum (Update1)
Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Eli Broad , the billionaire art collector and philanthropist, wants to build a public museum in Beverly Hills, California, almost a year after he decided not to give his collection to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Bloomberg |
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Ancient Hue culture in spotlight at heritage festival
VietNamNet Bridge – The former imperial city of Hue will be the central theme of the Vietnam Cultural Heritage Festival, scheduled to take place in Hanoi from November 21-25.
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