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The Art of Fish > A Fish e-Business
Natural history paintings by a somewhat forgotten yet iconic New Zealand artist are being officially offered from today on a new online gallery. Fish Art Gallery, www.fishart.co.nz , launches on the 28th of November and has as its inaugural exhibition ‘Heath Remastered’ , the New Zealand marine life paintings of Eric Heath, former editorial cartoonist at Wellingtons Dominion (Dompost) newspaper.
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Celebrate climate action at Waitangi Park - 6 Dec
Waitangi Park will be a-buzz this Saturday (6 December), with activities including “a ‘super shopper sprint’ and ‘350 frocks on bikes, games, live music, and more than 30 interactive and food stalls – all part of the Climate Action Festival.
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‘Sisters of Rethymnon’
By admin Thursday, 27 November 2008 - 5:53pm. Brenda Jones admired “Sisters of Rethymnon,” one of the dozens of works that were unveiled during the opening of local artist Connie Cuthbertson’s new exhibit, “‘The Awakening’—Memories of Greece,” yesterday evening at the Fort Frances Museum.
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Art gallery turns focus to online
The tough economic times are forcing a well known Christchurch art gallery to close its doors. Fisher Gallery has been operating for 138 years but art director Simon Fisher says the economic situation has put pressure on the way they operate.
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Photo curators call on Canadians who've been 'Karshed'
Curators working on an upcoming celebration of Canadian portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh are calling on the public for help to create their exhibition Karsh the Storyteller.
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Theatre
Babu-Kolkatar Mancha-Gaan at Odeon Theatre Festival in association with t2 at GD Birla Sabhagar, 7pm.
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LaFontaine festival committee to host holiday home tour
LAFONTAINE - The LaFontaine Summer Festival Committee is sponsoring a Christmas Tour of Homes on Dec. 6. Six LaFontaine homes will be open to the community to tour from 2 to 7 p.m.
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Art on a Jumbotron
The Yalta home in which Anton Chekhov spent his last years is filled with treasures but has lately fallen into a dire state. The Garage Center sets up an outdoor video exhibition.
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Scottish Museum Colleagues Visit New Zealand
The cultural world is about to get a little better connected with an exciting upcoming visit from staff of Museums Galleries Scotland.
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ROMANTIC NIGHT IN THE VALLEY
After the huge success in the past two years, the acoustic winter festival is back for the third time to present 25 full-scale concerts by a host of favourite singers and bands on the same night.
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ZooLights Set To Roll Rain Or Shine
The 17th annual ZooLights at the Phoenix Zoo is set to roll Thursday evening with 2.5 million lights and more than 400 light sculptures.
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'ONE OF HIS MOST BEAUTIFUL WORKS': Mondrian's Last Chrysanthemum: Scared, by Colin McCahon. Before shelling out $350,000 for a Colin McCahon painting, Te Papa art director Jonathan Mane-Wheoki asked one question: "Is this something the national museum must have?"
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Kurosawa's 'Rashomon' revisited
Akira Kurosawa's 1950 masterpiece "Rashomon" has undergone a makeover. Digitally restored for the first time by a U.S.-Japan research team who spent six months repairing the movie's 120,000 frames one by one, the new version featuring enhanced audiovisuals will be playing at Shinjuku's Kadokawa Cinema from Saturday. Read the full story
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Exhibit: Colourful African art in Durban
Congolese artist Bisimwa Muheme, who lives in Durban, has paintings on exhibit at Durban’s Fresh Paint Gallery. The exhibition, ‘A Celebration of African Art’, also includes Zambian brothers Jeff and Jim Lungu and Cameroonians Salifou Lindou, Blaise Bang and ‘DKZ’ Simon.
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Brushstrokes make gallery debut
The Brushstrokes art group is a tight-knit bunch of painters. The five members have been meeting once a week for the past several years to paint at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Streetsville.
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Christmas Schedule: Events kick off Monday with Festival of Trees
ELKO - It's that time of year - the air is cooler, windows are frosty and local churches and organizations are planning events to celebrate Christmas.
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NIIT ties up with Adobe
CHENNAI: NIIT together with Adobe, on Thursday announced the launch of state-of-the-art NIIT e-GURU web and multimedia curriculum for school children based on world-class Adobe creative suite of products, says a release. — Corporate ...
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Art Center Pushkinskaya 10
Galleries open from 3 p.m. through 7 p.m. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays. Entrance at 53 Ligovsky Prospekt. ■ Navicula Artis gallery Tel. 764-5371, Wednesday-Sunday, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
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HOLIDAY GETAWAYS: Festival of Lights, James Island County Park
The term “winter wonderland” may be a bit overused these days, but there’s really no other way to describe the Festival of Lights at James Island County Park.
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Matiushin House Museum Of The St. Petersburg Avant Garde
10 Professora Popova Ul. M. Petrogradskaya. Daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Wednesday NEW! A new exhibit marking 100 years of the St. Petersburg avant garde.
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Winners honoured
WINNERS of the "Enriching Women" art competition were awarded prizes at a colourful ceremony held at the Gallery Delta in Harare yesterday.
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Travel Guides
A weekend in a city whose original name was Florentia, meaning "may she flourish." Florence, Italy, still has the ability to surprise, with modern art, specialty shops and trendy bars. And with breathtaking gardens overlooking it all, not only is the city flourishing, it’s in full bloom.
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Matisse looted by Nazis turned over to British charity
A Henri Matisse painting once seized by the Nazis has been relinquished by the Pompidou Museum so it can be sold to raise money for Israeli ambulances.
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Jurors in Alta. trial grimace over grisly scene photos
Jurors cringed and knit their brows Thursday morning as a blood stain expert took them on yet another photographic tour of a southern Alberta home where three members of a family were stabbed to death on 2006.
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France Gives Matisse Painting Seized by Nazis to Charity
The Henri Matisse painting "Le Mur Rose," once seized by Nazis, was given to a charity that supports Israeli ambulances.
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