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Warhol Prints Add To UAM Collection
Two new exhibitions opened last week at the University Art Museum (UAM) at California State University, Long Beach: “Warhol: 15 mins/24 fps,” and “Maya Schindler: Present Progressive.”
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Qatar University to host Annual Education Week
Doha: Qatar University’s College of Education will host its 5th Annual Educational Week from March 28 to April 1, 2009. The event will be marked by a series of activities including a two-day Conference, Career Day, Art Exhibition, and the Early Childhood Festival.
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Billionaire Broad Says Museum Is Needed to Show Art Collection
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire art collector and philanthropist Eli Broad said he wants to build a Beverly Hills gallery for his artwork so the collection of contemporary photos paintings and sculptures doesn’t wind up in a “museum basement.”
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The week in photos: Parker, Warren, pies and a state champion cross country team
Just another crazy week in Newton. Setti Warren and Ken Parker officially jumped in the race for mayor. A new local bakery showed off their pies to get us in the mood for Thanksgiving. And the Newton South High School girls cross country took home a state title. Click on the story to see the photos from the week that was. And if you want to talk photography, join us on the blog .
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Dance and technology meld at DiverseWorks
Houstonist has always been fascinated by cyborgs. From The Bionic Man to Data, we've often wondered about the possibilities of combining human intelligence with technology. So we're intrigued by this description of this weekend's upcoming DiverseWorks performance The Invention of Minus One : Jonah Bokaer's The Invention of Minus One infuses technology into an exhibition that propels ...
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Sapphire sets record but many lots fail: Christie's
GENEVA (Reuters) - A large Kashmir sapphire ring set a world record at auction on Thursday night, fetching nearly $3.5 million, but half of the jewels on offer failed to sell in a market shaken by the financial crisis, Christie's said.
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Updated 11/20: Gallery devastated with owner's death
The sudden death on Tuesday, Nov. 18 of Northfield resident William V. Hork has left the employees of the Billy Hork Gallery, 3033 N. Clark St., in Chicago reeling.
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Sapphire sets record but many lots fail: Christie's
GENEVA (Reuters) - A large Kashmir sapphire ring set a world record at auction on Thursday night, fetching nearly $3.5 million, but half of the jewels on offer failed to sell in a market shaken by the financial crisis, Christie's said.
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Home for the holidays coloring contest
As the saying goes, there’s no place like home for the holidays. However, some homes could use some holiday spirit. Get out the markers, crayons, scissors, fabric, paper and glitter and give this cozy cottage a brand-new look. We’ll print our favorites in the Dec. 21 issue of Central Coast Living.
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Wiregrass Museum Received Grant
A new art project is underway after the Wiregrass Museum of Art earns a $40,000 grant.
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Cracker Barrel presents gift to National Civil Rights Museum
A gift was presented Thursday to the National Civil Rights Museum from Cracker Barrel, a restaurant sued in the past for discrimination.
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Go Look!
More art in store for y'all -- see Tuesday's Go Look! installment for additional choices (but don't get option paralysis): 65Grand presents Daniel Johnson's Sweet Dreams and Garbage , which runs from Friday, November 21 through December 20. Johnson's first solo show with the gallery is comprised of a dozen color photographs; frequent subjects are the discarded stuff of the ...
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Exhibit in aid of the 'Give Me a Chance' Children's Foundation
World-renowned landscape artist Strijdom van der Merwe will reveal his latest initiative this week in aid of the 'Give Me a Chance' Children's Foundation.
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Sapphire sets record but many lots fail: Christie's
GENEVA (Reuters) - A large Kashmir sapphire ring set a world record at auction on Thursday night, fetching nearly $3.5 million, but half of the jewels on offer failed to sell in a market shaken by the financial crisis, Christie's said.
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Sapphire sets record but many lots fail: Christie's
A large Kashmir sapphire ring set a world record at auction on Thursday night, fetching nearly $3.5 million, but half of the jewels on offer failed to sell in a market shaken by the financial crisis, Christie's said.
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AM Doha Time
QATAR’S hotel capacity is set to increase from the current 4,300 rooms to over 29,000 by 2012, Grand Hyatt Doha said quoting Qatar Tourism and Exhibitions Authority (QTEA).
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Fashion show: 21 & up
Photography by MinhA model in last year's Explode la Mode show taken from the Explode la Mode site You want something fun to do this Saturday. Several new releases have hit the bit screen, but going to a movie feels...
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Second Gallopalooza takes off
The first 30 life-sized white fiberglass horses have arrived, ready for painting in Louisville's second Gallopalooza "sidewalk derby."
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Children's museum planners go right to the source
The ideas flew by, one after another. It was like a roomful of creative geniuses tasked to find the answer to a nagging business question. In this case, it paid to go right to the source.
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Miami photo exhibit to showcase Naomi Campbell
No stranger to being the centre of attention, supermodel Naomi Campbell will be the focus of a photo exhibition next month in Miami during the city's Art Basel international art fair.
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Tarrant County education notes
L.D. Bell High School will hold a craft fair from 9 to 5 p.m. Dec. 6. The school is at 1601 Brown Trail Road in Hurst. 817-282-2551. The Carroll ISD Art Show Bookfair will run from Nov. 22 through Nov. 30 at Barnes & Noble at Southlake Town Square.
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Museum's Festival of Trees opens tonight
MUSKEGON: The Muskegon Museum of Art will host its Festival of Trees fundraising event Nov. 20-30.
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300-Year-Old Lost Painting by Italian Artist Doesn't Sell
The economy is likely to blame for the lack of bids on "The Vision of St. Bruno," said Edmund Pillsbury, chairman of fine arts at Heritage Auction Galleries.
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Here are 10 superb jazz downloads that I plucked from the digital masses recently. (For links to my earlier lists, go ...
Gil Fuller-- Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra (2008).
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A feast for all the senses
The curtains at the second Singapore Sun Festival closed beautifully with more than 30,000 visitors from all over the world attending some of the hundred or so activities of the 10-day fest.
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