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Broadmeadows artists show off ability
ART overcomes divides of race and ability in a new collaborative exhibition, which features students from Broadmeadows.
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Christmas in Christmas: Places with holiday names
The Santa Claus House in North Pole, Alaska, includes a gift shop, Santa and real reindeer. One of the town's big draws is an ice festival and sculpting competition.
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The Crisis
: Bad Time For Some, Others Cash In Investment banks are laying employees off by the hundreds, developers are freezing projects and oil firms are lining up to receive government aid. At some companies, however, business has never been better.
The Moscow Times |
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County at odds with Ketchum gun sculpture
The 20-foot-tall gun-metal-black rifles each pointing skyward are connected by a rope. On the rope are various military uniforms from around the world.
KBCI Boise |
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Fresh air and talking busts – the Estonian Art Museum
TALLINN - Imagine an ideal Saturday, late in the morning with fresh coffee, a light breakfast and snow flakes twinkling in the sun light. The winter has officially arrived. It is not too cold yet, but it is incredibly beautiful outside. This is the perfect time to head out for a walk.
Baltic Times |
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Adolph Kiefer & Associates to Exhibit at 2008 Athletic Business Conference & Expo
With Olympic swimming victory in Beijing still fresh on the minds of the nation, Adolph Kiefer & Associates gets set to make a splash at the 27th annual Athletic Business Conference & Expo, this December 4-6, in San Antonio. (PRWeb Nov 26, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/adolph_kiefer/swim_equipment/prweb1675214.htm
PRWeb |
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Representing the Holocaust
RIGA - The Jewish Museum is an important site of memory in Latvia that should not be missed by anyone who wants to fully understand the history of the country.
Baltic Times |
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Artworks enrich children's medical visits
A vibrant blue heron soars amidst cattails and dragonflies, tufts of milkweed blow in the wind and colorful paper airplanes sway overhead.
Dayton Daily News |
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Art Auction to Support Vt. Foodbank
The Vermont Foodbank in Barre is about to get a big boost from art.
WCAX-TV Vermont |
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St. Anthony statue comes together
Tacoma-based Bronze Works welder Justin Hahn tack welds the baby’s portion of the sculpture created by Gig Harbor artist Mardie Rees for St. Anthony Hospital, which is scheduled to open next spring.
Peninsula Gateway |
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Carving a name for himself
Classic rock blares above the buzz of the woodturner as Dan Tilden, sporting a backward baseball cap and low-slung jeans, whittles a chunk of oak into a salad bowl.
Ashland Daily Tidings |
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No plans to totally hand over IFFI to Goa
PANAJI - The director of film festivals, Mr S M Khan made it categorically clear on Wednesday that the directorate of film festivals (DFF) neither has the plan to hand over the International Film Festival of India to Goa for its total organisation from 2009 onwards, nor there is any commitment to make Goa a permanent venue for the IFFI.
Navhind Times |
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MTA Offers Up New Shirts
Forget about that tired, old, tourist coveted F Train t-shirt, AnimalNY reports that the MTA has some brand spankin' new tees that are much more aesthetically pleasing; an "edgy line of t-shirts featuring the photography of Travis Ruse , a well known, photo documenting commuter," (will more local photobloggers be getting some MTA love in the future?). There are three styles, titled: ...
Gothamist |
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Science City welcomes Arizona-Sonora Desert Muesum
A kestrel bird, desert tortoise and gopher snake from the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum kept kids excited, squirmy and interested at the Science City program Nov. 15 at the Safford City Library. Julie Strom, an education specialist from the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, led a presentation and craft on desert life. Children ages kindergarten through second grade learned why cacti survive ...
Eastern Arizona Courier |
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North Beach Elementary teacher opens exhibit at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Center
The Marjory Stoneman Douglas Biscayne Nature Center in Key Biscayne became the place to go on Saturday for those who love art and the environment.
Miami Herald |
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Paintings by William Kurelek, Tom Thomson exceed estimates at Joyner auction
TORONTO — Paintings by William Kurelek and Tom Thomson exceeded expectations Tuesday at Joyner Waddington’s fall auction of important Canadian art, selling for thousands of dollars more than pre-sale estimates.
Central Plains Herald-Leader |
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Artist in need of more space for large RSPB project
AWARD winning professional artist Anna Kirk-Smith has a big problem after gaining a painting project for a new RSPB centre. (27/11/2008)
Bridlington Today |
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Splendor of Rural Russia on Show at Tretyakov
27 November 2008 Even as the frost and winds of winter begin to swirl into the city, inside the Tretyakov Gallery all is blue sky and sunbeams.
The Moscow Times |
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'Gorey' shopping event supports Shakespeare NJ
MADISON -- From 4 to 7 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 7, at Mead Hall on the Drew University campus, The Shakespeare Theatre of NJ presents A Very Gorey Christmas, a shopping and silent auction event inspired by the work of...
Independent Press |
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Arts of enlightenment
The exhibition "National Treasures of Miidera Temple," presently at Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, tells a fractured story of the famed Tendai Buddhist temple that spread its influence across the regional temples of western Japan, from the establishment of a core of sacred imagery, staturary and mandalas in its Heian Period (794-1185) infancy, to the aesthetic appreciation of its treasures by an ...
The Japan Times |
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Asian art 'madness' a la mode
"Sometimes I think they're all too young to remember what it was like 20 years ago," said Australian curator-turned- academic Caroline Turner at the 3rd Asian Art Museum Directors' Forum, held in Tokyo last week. In fact, 20 years ago almost the only Asian art you'd find in Western museums was from before the 20th century. In the late 1980s, when Turner and others started working on what would ...
The Japan Times |
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Crocker's one step closer to major expansion
Steel work is hoisted onto the expansion of the Crocker Art Museum, November 26, 2008. The expansion is due to be completed in 2010. There are still 14 months of construction and fundraising ahead, but the crowd cheered as a giant crane placed a beam on the exoskeleton of the the Crocker Art Museum's new 125,000 square-foot building. It was, of course, no ordinary beam. Signed by ...
The Sacramento Bee |
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Arts Agenda
Naturally, it's going to be a bit slow around the galleries this weekend, partly due to the holiday, and partly because everyone is scrambling to get their exhibits ready for the annual Art Basel Miami (and the many events leapfrogging off it nearby) next weekend, generally regarded as the most prestigious art fair in the country. Instead, let's catch up on some art news this week. Don't ...
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Registration open for holiday arts camp
ASHEVILLE – Give yourself and your kids a break with the Asheville Art Museum’s “holiday arts extravaganza camp" Dec. 29-31.
Asheville Citizen-Times |
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At Gizmodo Gallery: Draganflyer X6 UAV [Gizmodo Gallery]
Do you know what we are going to do while we are not playing with the Lego Death Star, waiting for the laser-etching machiine to tattoo one your gadgets for free and listening to our original Sony...
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