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'Bang' row settled out of court
The team behind Manchester's troubled B of the Bang sculpture pays the city council £1.7m in an out-of-court settlement.
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Artist's 50-year career honoured
The work of one of Ireland's most productive painters is to be marked with a three-month exhibition.
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TRIUMPHS: 1 man's vision preserves history
If Douglas Crawford were in the museum business to make money, he would have closed the Curtis Museum long ago. Attendance is, well, almost zero. Customers are "very few," he laments. "We're a secret."
Detroit Free Press |
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Social Scene: Judges' Reception, Kid smArt party and 'In the Company of Heroes'
Two sets of socializers made tracks to the Vieux Carre, while another one hobnobbed with "Heroes" at the National World War II Museum. In each case purpose and party fused. Daniel Erath / The Times-PicayuneJUDGES' RECEPTION: Judges Stanwood Duval, Pete...
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Legacy Trail is an online history trek
RICHARD STEVEN STREET Farmworker advocate Dolores Huerta during a strike in 1986. The Web savvy will be able to experience California history with a few clicks of the mouse starting today. The California Museum will launch the first of its "legacy trails" – online versions of a tour through history like Boston's Freedom Trail. This trail on remarkable women will feature 15 Californians ...
The Sacramento Bee |
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Little Common art exhibition
Little Common artist Douglas Fawkener held an exhibition of his work at Espresso coffee bar in Cooden Sea Road. (17/11/2008 15:18:26)
Bexhill Today |
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Writer/Director Bobby E. Goins Completes Principal Photography on "the Barbershop Chronicles"
New Jersey filmmaker Bobby E. Goins has completed principal photography on his feature film "The Barbershop Chronicles ("TBC")." A dramedy about friends and foes in an insular New Jersey neighborhood Mr. Goins has mined his experience as a barber and barbershop owner to tell the story of honorable men and women, hilarious hijinks and high stakes in the 'hood.’ [PR.com - November 18, 2008]
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Art program, others should be reviewed as the city looks at cutting its expenses
First, let us stress that we support public art. The arts are what distinguish us humans from the rest of the mammals. It is what makes our city more attractive, that gives us something to look at when we are stuck at a stop light.
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Village hosts art exhibition
A competition run by Buckingham Art for All has attracted more than 80 entries. (17/11/2008 16:18:26)
Buckingham Today |
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Truckee town planners OK three-story hotel
Ward and Young Architecture and Planning An artist's rendering shows the planned Hotel Avery A three-story hotel near Truckee's downtown bridge has been approved by the town's Planning Commission. Hotel Avery's 47,299 square feet will include 40 condominium-hotel units, a restaurant/bar and Truckee's first underground valet parking. Bike trail and sidewalk connections and a small ...
The Sacramento Bee |
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DALLAS AUSTIN AND ALAN S. CLARKE HONORED: Producer & attorney feted by Georgia Lawyers for the Arts.
*Nashville, TN - At its 33rd annual gala, held on November 7 at the Mason-Murer Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia Lawyers for the Arts (GLA) presented prominent entertainment attorney Alan S. Clarke with the Ben White Distinguished Service Award.
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Using Lasers for Topography Mapping
Canaan Valley Institute is using high-tech lasers and digital photography to collect topography data that can be used in land surveys, real estate development and flood mitigation.
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Soul of LeWitt Art in retrospective
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Sol LeWitt once said: “When artists make art, they shouldn’t question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.” But the artists who created Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art’s new retrospective of his work questioned their moves during each step of the creative process.
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Soul of LeWitt Intern Elis make art
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Sanding, duct-taping and painting walls sound more like home improvement than artistry. But last summer, 10 Yale students performed such tedious tasks to carry out the conceptual visions of Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings.
Yale Daily News |
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Greenway will be a gallery for art
Walkers and bikers along a proposed greenway encircling downtown Greensboro will get art with their exercise.
The News & Observer |
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Therese Conte, right, talks with attendees of her art exhibit Friday. Conte’s painting, “Vice,” is “about young kids putting on the pretense of adulthood,” said the artist. The student and mother said she used her teenage daughter as inspiration for her paintings. “I am a mother...
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Heatwole Canes To Hit Auction Block
MOUNT CRAWFORD - Items from the collection of the late artist and historian John Heatwole will go on the auction block Friday in Mount Crawford. The pieces include four intricately detailed canes carved by Heatwole, who died two years ago of cancer. "This is really the first
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£1.7m deal reached on troubled sculpture
Council chiefs announced today that a £1.7m out-of-court settlement has been reached over the troubled B of the Bang steel sculpture. (18/11/2008 07:08:39)
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Bluebird Festival exposes Columbians to diverse music
Several business hosted artwork by local artists.
Maneater |
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From fashion to sculptures, admirers had a chance to see all art at their leisure. Mickey Mouse gone mad. The unholy convergence of metal, art and fashion had the walls of the Congregation of the Forgotten Saints on Melrose oozing with evil and glamour last weekend.
Daily Sundial |
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Hugh Hefner's $2 Million Signing with Victoria Fuller and Jonathan Baker Makes Art History
With Only Four Originals Paintings and thirty "Hef-signed" geeclay hand embellished prints, Pop Artist Victoria Fuller and Jonathan Baker Launches Historical Playboy Collection called HEF. One day they could be worth $2 million.
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Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter, Dies
Ms. Hartigan was a second-generation Abstract Expressionist whose gestural, intensely colored paintings often incorporated images drawn from popular culture.
New York Times |
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AMD bails out IT
There's a good deal that's special about AMD's new Shanghai server CPU. It's fabulous science, fun for those of us who get dewy-eyed over the prospect of a 25 percent faster world switch time and immersion lithography.
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Hawks preparing for No. 1 Saints
Carroll College is the No. 1 ranked team in NAIA football. Interestingly, that's part of the reason why Dickinson State isn't dreading their eight-hour road trip to Helena, Mont., to face the unbeaten Saints in the first round of the NAIA playoffs. Advertisement: BIG E AUCTION SERVICE November 23rd, 2008 ~ Art & Violette Dobler Estate Real Estate Auction November 23rd, 2008 ~ Art & ...
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Museum event anything but quiet, sedate
Fresno Metropolitan Museum officials declared the museum's reopening a huge success, despite a post-midnight dance event Sunday that grew too crowded and caused minor problems.
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