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Latin America memory lens
Concurring photography exhibits Cornell Capa: Concerned Photographer and Susan Meiselas: In History, both at the ICP, offer a rare and moving portrait of Latin Americas turmoil since the 1950s.
New York Daily News |
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'The innercity hasn't seen political freedom'
Members of the Johannesburg Inner-City Residents Association gathered at the Joubert Park Art Gallery on Wednesday, in preparation for a protest march against evictions.
Pretoria News |
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In pictures: 'Lewis the Gas' show
A museum rounds off its centenary with an exhibition of landscapes by a renowned amateur artist
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Public art sent back to drawing board by Desert Hot Springs council
Several dozen Desert Hot Springs residents implored the City Council on Tuesday to approve the city's first art in public places program, without changes the city manager says will reduce the program's funding.
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Google gives online life to Life mag's photos
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google Inc. has opened an online photo gallery that will feature millions of images from Life magazine's archives that have never been seen by the public before.
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In pictures
Amateur artist's work marks museum centenary
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Tamayo artwork sells for nearly $7M at NYC auction
NEW YORK (AP) - A mural by Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo - one of five exhibited in the United States still in private hands - was sold Tuesday for nearly $7 million at a Manhattan auction of Latin American art.
Valley Morning Star |
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Upcounty potter welcomes artists and musicians to rural studio
Julianna Phillips, 9, of Laytonsville gets her face painted by Laurie Niswander of Damascus during a Harvest Festival at Something Earthy Pottery Studio on Sunday.
Montgomery Village Gazette |
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Wednesday Photography exhibition: Havana's mausoleums
HAVANA'S MAUSOLEUMS In the exhibit Necropolis Cristobal Colon, photographs by Raul L. Rodriguez focus on the mausoleums at the Havana cemetery, which represent a wide range of 19th and 20th century architectural styles.
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Wednesday Hands-on art for kids
HANDS-ON CREATIONS The Museum of Contemporary Art sends its Art Pixie to Aventura Mall, where she'll guide pre-schoolers in hands-on activities inspired by the collages of the late Romare Bearden.
Miami Herald |
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Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit names director
The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit has found its first permanent director -- at a New York museum devoted to Latin American and Caribbean art and culture.
Detroit Free Press |
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SLC children's museum gets charitable grant
Discovery Gateway at The Gateway shopping center in Salt Lake City has been given a big boost to its mission of enlightening and encouraging Utah's children.
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Diversions Articles
Loyola exhibit sets art out of frames and up with tacks. The posters people pass every morning at the el stop advertising Sharpie-mustachioed celebrities and graffitied solutions to credit card debt are rarely considered great works of art.
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Gallery 308 to auction more than 80 pieces of art
MUNCIE -- More than 80 pieces of art will go to the highest bidders at Gallery 308's sixth annual Wine Dinner and Art Auction.
The Star Press |
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Hobby Helps Man Stop Smoking
Myron Sandlin of Buckhorn says wood carving helped him stop smoking.
WYMT Mountain News |
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Artists' group looking for new members
WOODBURY A newly-formed local artists' group is holding a gallery event this week to attract new members. Art connoisseurs and amateurs alike are invited to attend the Greater Woodbury Arts Council's "Meet the Artists Night" this Friday.
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Cumberland gallery features Baggarly's work
LEBANON — A new exhibit featuring the sculpture and paintings of Michael Baggarly will be on display in Cumberland University's Adams Gallery through Dec. 7. The gallery, in the Heydel Fine Arts Center, is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.
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Community connections: Charity fund-raiser is at Pewabic Pottery
Pewabic Pottery is the host of this week's Third Thursday: Community Connect sponsored by Detroit Synergy. The event is to start at 7:15 p.m. and include beer, wine, a gallery tour and a chance to win a Pewabic Pottery gift certificate.
Detroit Free Press |
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Festival attracts musical talents
The Sacramento Festival of New American Music hosted by Sacramento State combined all genres of music and incorporated a new instrument: the computer.
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Spartanburg Chamber honors quiet heroes
Published: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 1:06 a.m. The Spartanburg Area Chamber of Commerce named its 2008 Economic Champions on Tuesday during a luncheon at the Spartanburg Marriott at Renaissance Park.
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Frye's Robin Held honored
Frye Art Museum curator Robin Held has been selected for one of 10 fellowships at New York's Center for Curatorial Leadership in 2009.
Seattle Times |
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A painting playmaker
Phoebus linebacker LoVante' Battle is a talented artist on the canvas and the football field, where he picks his spots. LoVante' Battle was so excited about his first presidential election that he spent five minutes in the voting booth, just to make sure he got it right. And when history was made later that night, he looked at the painting he had just completed with an added sense of pride. ...
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Aspen Art Museum pulls out of master planning process
ASPEN - The Aspen Art Museum, sensing that it has more public support than other parts of the troubled ZG Master Plan, announced Tuesday that it is pulling out of the master planning process and moving ahead on its own with plans to relocate.
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PRESS: Famous Polish paintings stolen from Warsaw auction house
WARSAW. NOVEMBER 19. INTERFAX CENTRAL EUROPE - Two works by famous Polish painters were stolen from a Warsaw auction house in the early hours of Tuesday morning, Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza wrote Wednesday.
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Lackluster auction results raise worries for Art Basel
Has the art market bubble finally burst? Collectors and dealers have warned for years that too much modern and contemporary art was being sold, and that the prices were too rich.
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