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Nigeria: Emenike Ogwo's Visual Feast of Colours At National Museum
SMARTING from an exhibition of painting, which he held at the Garforth Community College of Visual Arts in United Kingdom few months ago, Emenike Ogwo's 2nd solo exhibition, "Rhythm in Colour", which rounded off last Thursday at the National Museum, Onikan, after a one-week show by and large, could be said to have announced the artist's re-emergence in the nation's art terrain.
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A tale of two sculptures
Both were meant to tower over our cultural landscape - but the divergent fortunes of Angel of the North and B of the Bang came into sharp focus last week.
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Art-for-hire website spreads the gospel with a modern vision
A new website that gives Irish art lovers who can't afford to buy paintings the chance to rent them for a year is planning to use modern art as a way to promote the gospel.
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Kentucky Park Will Have Civil Rights Exhibits
The Courier-Journal reports that Gov. Steve Beshear and University of Louisville officials announced last week that just over $2 million has been secured to develop a civil rights park on...
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Well-attended concert brings Vivaldi Festival to a glorious close
The concluding concert of this year's Viva Vivaldi Festival, massively well-attended, was held Sunday at First Presbyterian Church on Symphony Circle.
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Tunisia: Musical Comedy Version of 'The Jungle Book' Enchants Tunis Municipal Theatre Audience
Kipling's masterpiece, "The Jungle Book" still looms large in the minds of millions of children throughout the world. The touching adventures of Mowgli and the panther Baguera have moved many of us as both children and adults.
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Kentucky Park Will Have Civil Rights Exhibits
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- The statue of a lone Confederate soldier has towered over the edge of the University of Louisville campus for 113 years. It will soon get some company with exhibits honoring the civil rights movement as part of a new Freedom Park.
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St. Louis museum proud of its ancient mask purchase, but Egypt calls it a steal
What happened to the Egyptian burial mask of Ka Nefer Nefer in Saqqara is a mystery. The mask ended up in the St. Louis Art Museum. Egypt wants it back.
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04:40 (BST), 24/11/2008 Mark and Mandi's Love Story Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ...
November 22, 2008 -- SpringBay Studio today released Mark and Mandi's Love Story, which is now available on several websites, including Pogo.com and iWin. It's a game with unique artwork and storyline, driven by the players solving various puzzles to advance the story.
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Create anaglyphic artwork
I got into this process because I wanted to sculpt but couldn’t afford the casting and physical space to sculpt, so I found 3D. It’s much like sculpture in the way I can manipulate my work in a 3D space – it’s just projected from a 2D surface. I can build stages, layers and objects.
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Former art professor leaves mark
MONMOUTH — In a small building adjacent to Campbell Hall on the Western Oregon University campus, the whine and dust from grinders cutting wood and stone and the heat and smoke of clay being fired are signs of art students' creativity at work.
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Film Fest emerges as a focused event
A return to a film-for-the-sake-of-film film festival marks the recent conclusion of Fort Worth’s Lone Star International Film Festival. If star power was conspicuously lacking in the mid-November event – well, then, all to the better.
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Event of the Week: The Making of a Nation
The National Museum’s permanent exhibition includes some 2,000 objects dating from the Settlement to the present day and includes multi-media displays, telephone connections with the past, fun and education, games, information folders, and more.
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Montserrat students tout food, not bombs
BEVERLY and mdash; It's a hard offer to pass up, especially in these difficult economic times. That's why a group of Montserrat College of Art students attracted quite a bit of attention Friday afternoon as they stood on downtown Cabot Street waving signs that read "Free Food."
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Designing duo: Figures and apparitions: The artwork of George Lloyd
Artwork and interior design go hand in hand. No matter how good a job one's done designing a space, it isn't finished until art has been selected and placed. A major piece of art can be taken into consideration when designing the room - although you don't want to pick your art to match your d cor.
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Rare works about Francis Bacon defy art auction gloom
Two paintings of Francis Bacon, by an Australian artist believed to have been his lover, were sold for well over their pre-auction price on Monday, offering good news in a market stunned by the financial crisis.
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/C O R R E C T I O N -- Oil Refineries Ltd/
In the news release, "Oil Refineries Announces Financial Results for Third
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Variety at center of Circle of Art
LAUGHLIN - Art and crafts of all shapes and colors came together at the Avi's River Garden Pavilion over the weekend during the 2nd Annual Circle of Art Show.
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NISHABD girl Jiah sings a new tune!
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International Mission Store supports free trade
VALPARAISO -- Vicki Carney clutched a small cup of hot chocolate in one hand and a stone sculpture, wrapped in paper, in the other.
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Sonia Rykiel: Designer for the independent woman
"Sonia Rykiel, Exhibition" at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs (until April 19) celebrates 40 years of the designer who was part of a generation that rejected the staid grandeur of haute couture and made prêt-à-porter for the newly emerging, dynamic woman of the 1960s.
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Three things to know today
Art with a dash of science… Watch science and art blend in this art exhibition by looking at what is accessible to the unaided human eye. Donation requested for admission. Arizona State Museum.
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Photography Books of 2008
The New Jersey Meadowlands, a vast, beautiful and once badly abused marshland that occupies the space between New York City and Newark Airport, is a place most people "pass through and forget on their way to someplace else," Joshua Lutz writes in the end note of this gorgeous book.
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The sneer factor: How punk permeates pop culture
As Christie's auction house holds the first major U.S. sale of memorabilia from the punk era Monday, Nov. 24, punk's legacy permeates pop culture.
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Kanye on lonely street
Although it's yielded several game contenders, hip-hop has yet to produce a dark-night-of-the-soul masterpiece or a brilliant, introspective musing on the fleeting nature of life to match rock classics such as Neil Young's "Tonight's the Night," Van Morrison's "Astral Weeks," the Flaming Lips' "The Soft Bulletin" or the third albums by Big Star and the Velvet Underground.
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