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ARTS NOTES: Airport unveils expanded exhibit
ASHEVILLE – The expanded “Art in the Airport” exhibit at Asheville Regional Airport, which runs through March 3, showcases the work of eight artists from Buncombe, Mitchell, Rutherford and Yancey counties.
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Exhibit reunites reknown botanical prints
The works of Pancrace Bessa, a regular exhibitor at the Paris Salons between 1806 and 1831, are on display at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Here and there
Didactic ArtWorks of the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design faculty, including this photograph by Scott McMahon, will be on display Monday, Nov. 24, through Jan. 9 during the Faculty Biennial exhibit. The show features artwork of more than two dozen instructors. For more information, visit www.pca.
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Architectural Magnets
Build It (Boldly) And They Will Come In the larger world, the catchphrase “Build it and they will come” has morphed into the newer “The Bilbao Effect.” Stunning, unconventional-looking new buildings are being erected in communities not necessarily on the beaten path. The Guggenheim Art Museum in the Spanish coastal city of Bilbao is an extraordinary titanium steel-clad structure, designed by ...
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Taste of Italiano
The banner hanging above the State Museum plaza touts an exhibit open through Jan. 4: “Leonardo da Vinci: Machines in Motion.” Walking through the parking lot, though, a young man mistook the artist’s name for that of a famous actor. “Did you just say Leonardo DiCaprio?” one of his friends incredulously asked. At least he was going to the museum, which was hosting an Italian street fair ...
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Norton Museum celebrates gift that keeps on giving: Jeane von Oppenheim photo collection
In 1998, Jeane von Oppenheim, a part-time Palm Beacher, the wife of a German baron and a longtime collector of serious art photography, decided to bequeath about 684 images to the Norton Museum of Art.
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Festivals
Friday, Dec. 5 A RURAL CHRISTMAS WEEKEND IN MATHEWS. 4-8 p.m. Hot cider, cookies, surprise gifts and card making for the troops overseas. Santa will be at the visitor center starting at 6 p.m. for free photos with the kids. Tree-lighting ceremony at 7:30 p.m. on Main Street with music and songs. 725-4BAY or www.visitmathews.com.
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Learn about paintings in and around Hobe Sound
The Hobe Sound Project, which will be on exhibit in April 2009 at Molly's House in Stuart, has been under way since August.
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Festival brings Christmas spirit early
Looking to get in the holiday spirit a little early this year? Look no further than Memorial Medical Center Foundation’s Festival of Trees’ displays of more than 150 wreaths, trees and centerpieces at the Orr Building at the Illinois State Fairgrounds.
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Indian River County Community Connection for Nov 23
TODAY Arts/Crafts Painting: Beginners, advanced. Indian River County Main Library, 1600 21st St., Vero Beach, 1 p.m. Free. (772) 770-5060 ext. 4121. Children/Families Children's Choir: Learn basic music skills and more. King's Baptist Church, 3235 58th Ave., Vero Beach, 5 p.m. every Sunday. 1st-6th grade. Free. (772) 567-5850; kingsbaptist.org. Dance Argentine Tango Practica: An informal get ...
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Elemental exhibiton at 2CarGarage
Painter Elena Madden's professional fascination with water began with a ripple in a Carolina lake.
Savannah Morning News |
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Gaillard hosts 'Great Big Paintings'
Six years ago, Fletcher Crossman was an established artist in England when the British Council sponsored his artwork at the New York Art Expo. It was then that Crossman, living in Exeter in southwestern England, began thinking of moving to the United States. He and his wife chose Charleston after she read a guidebook about America and thought Charleston "sounded like a cool town." But it was a ...
The Post and Courier |
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Holiday gifts highlight Holly Berry Festival
HUNTINGTON -- The fourth annual Holly Berry Festival, held in the Marshall University Memorial Student Center on Saturday, gave gift-givers plenty of choices for handmade arts and crafts.
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Fort Pierce museum-goers 'imagine' Seminoles
Exhibits of authentic clothing and artifacts gave Saturday's patrons a rich history of Florida's first people — the Seminole and Ais Indians.
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Art exhibit Dylan Mortimer's ‘Ble$$ed'
After 17 years of Catholic schooling, I wasn’t sure how I would respond to Dylan Mortimer’s exhibit “Ble$$ed,” which deals openly with religion and hip-hop culture. A giant crucifix? A mural-size crown of thorns with lights? Heads of Jesus and the apostles with spinning halos?
The Kansas City Star |
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Spencer Museum is one of 50 to receive 50 artworks from Vogel collection
The Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas learned last week that it will receive 50 works of contemporary art from New York collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel.
The Kansas City Star |
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Could be fresh start for Presidio museum
They weren't this blunt, but Presidio Trust officials made it clear last week that Don Fisher won't be allowed to plant a 100,000-square-foot museum in the heart of the Main Post of the Army base turned national park. But they also indicated that if the Gap...
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Sale of paintings to benefit gallery
For years, members of the Beckley Art Group have met and turned out many of their creative ventures in the basement of a building on Johnstown Road.
The Register-Herald |
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Pabst Theater Foundation venues step into the limelight
Six years after businessman and philanthropist Michael Cudahy set up a nonprofit foundation to buy the Pabst Theater for $1 from the City of Milwaukee, the Pabst has become one of the dominant arts organizations in the region.
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Artist B.E. Taylor coming to Johnstown
Adult contemporary artist B.E. Taylor will be on stage next month in Johnstown. Taylor will perform his Christmas concert at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 12 at the Cambria County War Memorial Arena. Tickets are $29 or $37 for VIP tickets.
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Howard Mandel's freelance Urban Improvisation
The jazziest scene at the second night of Jazz at Lincoln Center's Monk Festival was in the fifth floor atrium, during intermission of simultaneous concerts by pianist Danilo Perez's trio (reprising his cd Panamonk , in the Allen Room) and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra performing members' arrangements of Monk's music in big band settings led by Wynton Marsalis, with featured pianist Marcus ...
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Walker receives grant to assist impaired visitors
MINNEAPOLIS - Getting around the Walker Art Center is about to get easier for impaired visitors. The Minneapolis museum will receive a $50,000 grant to develop programs for visitors who have Alzheimer's disease or are visually impaired.
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Campbell stars in photography exhibition
Naomi Campbell is hosting a photography exhibition. The British supermodel will travel to Miami to appear at the In Fashion Photo show - organised by Art Photo Expo Miami - where more than 50 pictu
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Entertainment
Naomi Campbell is hosting a photography exhibition. The British supermodel will travel to Miami to appear at the In Fashion Photo show - organised by Art Photo Expo Miami - where more than 50 pictures of her will be on display.
The West Australian |
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Middle Eastern luxury, circa the second millennium B.C.
A detail of "Kneeling Worshipper," Bronze, gold, silver, currently part of the exhibit "Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C." The Metropolitan Museum of Art has assembled another spectacular examination of Middle Eastern history, this one...
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