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Festival of lights to open at Blue Spruce this week
ERNEST — Santa Claus will be off on safari when the electrical extension cords are plugged in Thanksgiving evening to kick off the 17th annual Festival of Lights at Blue Spruce Park.
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Ghost town reborn
I arrived in eerie, old Mineral de Pozos, Mexico, in the middle of a half-sunny afternoon, with cotton-candy cloud shadows creeping all over the adobe rubble, the reclaimed ruins, the cactus thickets and the little-trod cobblestone streets.
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Entrepreneurs have built big Dallas auction house
By JOHN AUSTIN DALLAS — They were small change in the beginning. Now, Steve Ivy and Jim Halperin are solid gold. They are co-chairmen of Heritage Auction Galleries, a Dallas-based auction house with sales of more than $700 million this year. Ivy is a Fort Worth lawyer’s son who graduated from Arlington Heights High. Halperin is an East Coast transplant who, like his business partner, left ...
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PIONEER DAYS PLEASES PUBLIC
A Western-style Wild West town sprang up around the Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas on Saturday. The town was created to kick off the opening of “Frederic Remington Makes Tracks,” an exhibit that runs through Jan. 24 at the center.
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Modern Art Museum offers free admission Sundays
Visit the Modern for free on Sundays Starting Nov. 30 and through the beginning of the year, it’s going to cost a lot less to visit the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth — on Sundays, anyway. That’s when the museum begins offering free admission on Sundays during the holiday season. The last free Sunday is Jan. 4. The Modern already charges no admission on Wednesdays year round. The museum’s ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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Entrepreneurs have built big Dallas auction house
Three guys, one auction house and $700 million in sales this year.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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Conservatives have no need to despair
Every few years there’s an effort to pronounce the conservative movement dead. The American left would like to bury alive its opposition, or at least demoralize it into surrendering.After the elections, liberal pundits such as The Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne quickly pronounced "a definitive end to a conservative era.” Pushing America’s many millions of conservatives toward despair is a ...
The Oklahoman |
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CV art teacher awarded BAA grant
Caney Valley Schools has a celebrity in their midst. The Bartlesville Art Association recently awarded Brian Ball, Caney Valley Art Teacher, with a $400 grant to support art education in the public schools. The funds are to be used to purchase supplies for Caney Valley art classes.
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Aubrey Beardsley Illustration Sets New World Record at Skinner's Fine Books & Manuscripts Auction
BOLTON, MA.- Skinner, Inc., one of the nation's leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, today announced it has set a new world record for a rare illustration by Aubrey Beardsley.
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Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Steps Up with a Community Enrichment Project
BOULDER, CO.- In a new community outreach program, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA) has partnered with the Family Learning Center and the Colorado I Have a Dream Foundation to provide arts educational opportunities for Boulder at-risk youth and their families.
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Delaware Art Museum Announces 24th Annual Holiday House Tour
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National Portrait Gallery will Display Martin Amis and Friends Early Next Year
LONDON.- At the start of the year in which Martin Amis celebrates his sixtieth birthday, the National Portrait Gallery will display previously unseen photographs taken by his friend, the photographer Angela Gorgas.
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A Host of New Group Visits Launched by the Royal Collection
LONDON.- The Royal Collection will be at World Travel Market as part of the Heritage in Britain group to launch next year’s special exhibitions and an exciting new programme of group visits to the Official Residences of The Queen.
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Bloomsbury Auctions Presents a Sale to Suit all Budgets this Holiday Gift-giving Season December 17, 2008
NEW YORK, NY.- On December 17th Bloomsbury Auctions will hold a 20th Century Arts auction that features an eclectic selection of livre d'artistes, monographs, photographs, photobooks and iconic prints from the Modern, Contemporary and Pop periods.
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Great Women Artists: Feminist Art from the Permanent Collection at Neuberger Museum of Art
Jenny Holzer, In Your Self Interest. 1983-1985. Marble 17 x 23 x 16 inches. Promised gift of the Vance-Waddell Collection, Cincinnati, Ohio. PURCHASE, NY.-
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Royal College of Physicians' Gains Museum Accreditation
Cornelius Johnson, 17th century portrait of a physician. LONDON.- The Royal College of Physicians’ Museum in Regent’s Park, London has been officially Accredited by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA).
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Irish born Artist Duncan Campbell Presents Film Bernadette at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
Bernadette is composed of a combination of elements including archival material, new footage, animation and scripted voiceover. GATESHEAD.-
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Charity Gives Falmouth Gallery Print Collection Starring Marilyn Monroe
Seven Photogravures, Marilyn Monroe – Photogravure by Hugh Stoneman, Photograph by Eve Arnold. Photo: Eve Arnold / Magnum Photos. LONDON.-
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Kunstmuseum Basel Announces Exhibition Featuring 70 Landscapes Made by Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh, Le jardin de Daubigny, 1890, Sammlung Rudolf Staechelin, Depositum im Kunstmuseum Basel. BASEL.-
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Ron Arad Talks to Marie-Laure Jousset on his Exhibition at Centre Pompidou
Ron Arad, Oh Void 2, armchair, 2004. Corian ® red 116 x 197 x 46 cm. Editor The Gallery Mourmans, Maastricht. Stedelijk Museum Collection, Amsterdam © Ron Arad Associates. Photo Tom Vack.
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The Master of Flémalle and Rogier van der Weyden on View at Stadel Museum
Master of Flémalle, Christ Blessing with Virgin at Prayer. Oak panel, 28,6 x 45,5 cm. Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Photo: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Graydon Wood.
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Lakeview debuts exhibit filled with pieces by Picasso, Chagall, Matisse
Eighty-eight original graphic pieces by three 20th century avant-garde masters went on display this weekend at Lakeview Museum.
Peoria Journal Star |
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Holiday Planner
Check Out Holiday Events Around The Region ABINGDON STAR MUSEUM: Abingdon, E. Main St., Nov. 28-29, half-price admission from noon-4 p.m. Thanksgiving with Liz & Dick Burton, showcasing items from the twice-married couple. (276) 628-2962 or . CHRISTMAS EVENTS: 205 Oak Hill St., Washington County Public Library, first two weeks of December, holiday-themed storytimes and crafts for children. ...
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Wickwire celebrates the holidays
HENDERSONVILLE – The fine art and folk art gallery Wickwire is participating in two events to celebrate the holidays with its 350 established and emerging artists. The first is the annual Holiday Sparkle Sale of artworks.
Asheville Citizen-Times |
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Crafting the season
Two weekends before Thanksgiving, angels were flying on sleighs in a storefront at The Market Common. Kimberly Dawn Clayton of Myrtle Beach painted some purple background on the front of her sleigh to make an angel with radiant yellow hair stand out even more. Clayton, the owner of Graphic Blend Studio in Conway, was painting one of the six Signature Sleighs that will premiere Tuesday morning ...
The Myrtle Beach Sun News |
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