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Museum, Russian church dispute moving icon
MOSCOW, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- A Moscow museum refused a request by the Russian Orthodox Church to allow a historic icon to be moved to a monastery 50 miles away for a religious celebration.
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A holly, jolly good show in Taylors Falls
Every year after Thanksgiving, thousands descend upon the tiny town's annual Lighting Festival.
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Rare Lucrezia Borgia portrait found in Australian gallery
A rare portrait of Italian Renaissance noblewoman and femme fatale Lucrezia Borgia has been uncovered in an Australian gallery bringing to an end 43 years of mystery surrounding the artwork.
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500-year mystery finally solved as gallery reveals lady in its masterpiece is femme fatal Lucrezia Borgia
Her name has gone down in history as a byword for murder and debauchery. But Lucrezia Borgia’s face has always remained shrouded in myth and mystery but an art historian has claimed to have solved the puzzle.
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His and Hers: Fire and Water
Fire and water; clay and photography; hard form and pure illusion — as a pair, these connote art's continuum. Both of these art forms and several others will be on view at the Brookdale Community College CVA Gallery as the works of husband/ wife artists Erik Johanson and Sandy Johanson come together in their first joint retrospective.
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A passion for photography
Scott Woodward had a charmed career in Asia as a senior marketer. He’d worked for corporate giants such as Coca-Cola and American Express. For the [...]
St. Catharines Standard |
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Sony, Olympus SLRs await Adobe camera profiles
Adobe is bringing camera profiles to Photoshop and Lightroom--but not yet for all cameras that can produce raw images.
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Gallery, crafts refresh old home
Lots of people ride through the small borough of Englishtown on a daily basis. Some stop at the local businesses, churches or homes situated along the main corridor in the town. Others stop at Sanford Park for an outing; and some stop for meetings or sightseeing at the historic Village Inn (even George Washington stopped there during the Revolutionary War).
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Surfing Room
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ALLEN PARK: Festival of Trees comes Downriver
ALLEN PARK — The 24th annual Festival of Trees kicked off Sunday in the municipal auditorium at City Hall, 16850 Southfield Road.
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Baum, Saltzman donations bolster Norton Museum's contemporary art commitment
The Norton Museum has received two donations totaling $1.5 million designed to step up the museum's commitment to contemporary art.
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Stanford Prizes
WITH A THEME as elastic as recent acquisitions, "Dürer to Picasso" at the Cantor Arts Center encourages fruitful browsing across centuries, media and genres. The exhibit of more than 100 works ranges from silverware and glass to paintings, sculptures, photographs and prints.
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Best DVDs for Holiday Gift Giving, 2008
Film fans have thousands of DVDs to choose from, making holiday gift-giving a difficult, frustrating exercise. Here are a dozen or so of our favorite recent releases that we recommend you check out, ranging from the lowbrow to the ultra-artsy.
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Miniature Art Show
The MonDak Heritage Center proudly presents one of its most beloved and attended shows: The 18th Annual Miniature Art Show now through Dec. 31. Be sure to take in this spectacular show of over 100 miniature art pieces on display. The center has works from the states of New York, Tennessee, Nevada, Texas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Washington, Virginia, Idaho, Florida, Utah, Kansas and Montana. ...
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COOPERSTOWN _ Need a wreath for the holidays? Join the Cooperstown Art Association for the Adorn-a-Door Wreath ...
COOPERSTOWN _ Need a wreath for the holidays? Join the Cooperstown Art Association for the Adorn-a-Door Wreath Festival held on Saturday, Nov. 29, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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Bellevue gallery bookkeeper arrested in theft of paintings and money
A bookkeeper has been arrested in connection with the theft of nearly $100,000 worth of paintings and money from an art gallery over the past several years.
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Clever storage: Tidy up in style
We use 20 per cent of our possessions 80 per cent of the time. Which means that our houses could be an awful lot tidier if we could just put that other 80 per cent of stuff away. These days what we're recycling takes up most of the space in the kitchen, the children's artwork consumes a whole lot more – and that's before we've tackled the cleaning gear and those clothes, most of which we ...
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2 schools of thought
They were the pillars of the community when they were built at the turn of the 20th century – a unique offering of stately Renaissance Revival architecture brought to a young city of Billings.
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GMFA Receives Phot Prize Money
To mark the 21st anniversary of providing HIV treatment, GlaxoSmithKline has been supporting the HIV community to celebrate HIV positive lives through its ‘HIV: Positive about the Future’ photography competition.
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Lucrezia Borgia unmasked... in Australia
She was history's most notorious femme fatale, with three husbands, numerous lovers, and a rumoured penchant for poisoning men of whom she grew tired. Yet not a single portrait survives of Lucrezia Borgia, the infamous Italian Renaissance noblewoman – or so it was believed until now.
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375th kick-off party nets $3,750
"This is a big, big deal," said Rep. Brad Hill. "Ipswich is what everyone is going to talk about once we get the information out to the other North Shore Communities." 375th Anniversary Fundraiser Auction
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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Brighton Centre, Brighton
The last time I saw Nick Cave he was shopping for groceries in Marks & Spencer. It's not a sight you expect to see – the latter-day harbinger of the apocalypse clutching a wire basket and scanning the ready-meal section. Sure, he was looking suitably spooky with his raven-black hair and pallbearer's suit but it was an unsettling experience, like spotting the Pope at a pop festival.
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The camera rolls on life of UQ sculptor
From moulding clay taken from the banks of the Brisbane River at a very young age, to more than 300 carved artworks around the sandstone cloisters of The University of Queensland’s Great Court, UQ sculptor Dr Rhyl Hinwood has had a dynamic career.
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Out to Ando Sunday
THIS Sunday, November 30 there will simply be no time for a sleep-in and leisurely brunch, with those who are heading out to the Ando Art and Craft Exhibition and Sale being well advised to get there early.
Bombala Times |
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In the holiday spirit... St. Andrew's Church hosts Christmas bazaar in Kent
Photography by Trish Haldin
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