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The Public Catalogue Foundation Launches its Nottinghamshire Catalogue
Over 1,500 oil paintings from public collections in Nottinghamshire are presented for the first time in a stunning new catalogue published by The Public Catalogue Foundation today. This is the 23rd volume in The Public Catalogue Foundation's acclaimed series of photographic catalogues recording all publicly-owned oil paintings in the UK.
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Finch kicks off Oil Drum Food Drive
BRIDGEPORT — Mayor Bill Finch will help kick off the Adopt-an-Oil Drum Holiday Food Drive today at City Hall Annex at 3:30 p.m. The idea here is to position the artistically painted drums
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Green Village designer wins a top fashion contest
BIG IDEAS -- Chatham native Elayne Mayes won $10,000 for her pill pack design in the YAZ: Step Up & Go Beyond contest.CHATHAM -- Sometimes you do hit a jackpot - and that's what happened to Chatham native Elayne Mayes...
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TORONTO - An Arctic sketch by Group of Seven artist Lawren Harris sold for $1.8 million, far beyond its pre-sale estimate of $300,000 to $500,000, at the Sotheby's Canada auction on Monday.
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Denver Center launching new-play fest that's all about musicals
John Moore's column: Big news is forthcoming from the Denver Center Theatre Company's Colorado New Play Summit: The announcement of a twin annual festival dedicated exclusively to the creation of new American musicals. Online extra: See video from Bas Bleu's "The 1940s Radio Christmas Carol" in Fort Collins.
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KRIKORIAN: One special jewel of a museum
I have been to so many museums across the years that, upon reflection, it would be difficult for me to say one is clearly superior to another although the collection of paintings at the Louvre in Paris, especially the French and Italian ones, always leaves me in a rapturously enlightened state.
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Lee Rosenbaum's cultural commentary
The fight over the St. Louis Art Museum's "Mummy Mask of the Lady Ka-nefer-nefer" continues, with the stakes raised higher by the recent appointment of the museum's director, Brent Benjamin , to the U.S. State Department's Cultural Property Advisory Committee, which considers (and usually grants) source countries' requests for heritage protection.
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Bigfork Puts on Her Holiday Finest
Following a day of decorating and Bigfork's annual Holdiay Art Walk is the tree lighting. A 28' tree procured by Ken Bjorge stands up outside his gallery. After the well known "Twas the Night Before Christmas" reading, and "Silent Night", the tree was lit.
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"Our" Old Masters?
We go to our American art museums and dutifully pass the Old Masters paintings, nonchalant about them being on display here rather than in Italy, Spain, Germany, England, France, the Netherlands or the other European countries where those great painters lived centuries ago.
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Annual exhibition opens at the Burton
THE annual open exhibition has begun at the Burton Art Gallery and Museum in Bideford. It is one of the highlights in the gallery's programme and offers local artists - amateurs and professionals - the opportunity to show off their work.
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Art museum to close temporarily; seeks new home
Associated Press The Minnesota Museum of American Art has found itself without a home and without a leader. It's St.
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NY's Tribeca to launch film festival in Qatar
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's Tribeca Film Festival, founded by actor Robert De Niro after the September 11 attacks, plans to stage a new festival in the Gulf Arab state of Qatar next year.
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Round two for the tiki Tuesday
The tiki may get a second chance. The Capitola City Council will reconsider Tuesday night whether to accept a controversial tiki as a gift of public art.
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Chatham's Ogden Church holds holiday craft sale
CHATHAM -- Ogden Memorial Presbyterian Church, at the corner of Main Street and Elmwood Avenue, will hold its second annual Holiday Craft Sale, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 6. More than 25 crafters will exhibit and sell...
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Huge sales for city designer in Japan
An almost 400% increase in sales of her clothes in an exclusive gallery in Yokohama, and the possibility of selling to shops in Tokyo and beyond, has excited Dunedin fashion designer Donna Tulloch, of Mild Red.
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NY's Tribeca to launch film festival in Qatar
New York's Tribeca Film Festival, founded by actor Robert De Niro after the September 11 attacks, plans to stage a new festival in the Gulf Arab state of Qatar next year.
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His hobby: photography himself with the stars
Some hobbyists collect baseball cards, hunt for rare antiques, crochet, or work on old cars. But 27-year-old Joe Doll has found his own unique hobby niche: He likes to brush with fame.
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Your community at a glance
Organizers of the 2010 International Participatory Dragon Boat Festival are holding their first meeting to kick off planning for the Peterborough-hosted event.
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Mt. SAC hosts art show
The Mt. San Antonio College Art Gallery will feature the work of Mt. SAC faculty in a group exhibit called "Frag-ments," which runs through Dec.
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Art museum to close temporarily; seeks new home
The Minnesota Museum of American Art has found itself without a home and without a leader. It's St. Paul's only fine arts museum, nd it's losing
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Iran's 100-Second Film Festival to become international event
A number of foreign films have been slated to compete in the two-day event, which will commence on February 19, 2009. The motto of this year's festival is "Interrogative Cinema", the secretariat of the festival Fazel Nazari mentioned during a press conference on Sunday.
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Introducing Iranian Art Gallery Mamak
"We are proud to say we are the first online gallery from Iran to provide you with artwork and full length articles that offer quality information on Iranian artists and art community in English. On our pages you will find works of art by numerous contemporary Iranian artists."
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Nonprofit news roundup for Nov. 24, 2008
After the battered Los Angeles-based Museum of Contemporary Art announced it was considering mergers with other organizations, the Broad Art Foundation offered to invest $30 million to save the museum if others agree to pitch in, said billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad in an opinion column in The Los Angeles Times Nov. 21 (see museum column ). Broad, who was the founding chairman of the museum ...
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Words take wing in North Beach artwork
At first glance, the new public art project unveiled Sunday in San Francisco's North Beach appears to be a flock of birds taking off from a traffic island at Columbus Avenue and Broadway. A closer look reveals that the "birds" are actually 23 illuminated...
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Artists urged to submit works for gallery shows
The Mill Valley Art Commission is seeking artist submissions for gallery shows over the next couple years at Mill Valley City Hall and the city's community center.
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