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Photo of the Week
Check out the top-ranked image from this week's It's A Snap travel photo contest.
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Entertainment for the whole family in Las Vegas
Las Vegas for ... families? Yes, the Strip overflows with live entertainment, roller coasters, exotic animal displays, diverse museums and over-the-top swimming pools. It all adds up to a great trip, and we’ll show you where to take the whole family for fun in the Vegas sun.
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Berlin museum shows off antique gods
Return of the Gods is the largest exhibit the museum has mounted using pieces solely from its own collection...
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Film documentary "Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer"
In the 1950s, Anita O'Day was such a big name in jazz that she rated a mention in Jack Kerouac's "On the Road." She was the first artist recorded by Norman Granz for his fledgling Verve jazz label, and with her unforgettable performance at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, she stepped into legend as a...
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At the National Gallery of Art, Leo Villareal's 'Multiverse' Is Light on Gravity
Holiday tradition suggests it should have come a week later, but on Monday the National Gallery of Art switched on the city's largest, finest display of Christmas lights.
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Gather Around for Story Time, But Leave the Little Ones at Home
This weekend, the two-for-one musical "Cautionary Tales for Adults and the Many Adventures of Trixie Tickles," a highlight of the 2007 Capital Fringe Festival, is reprised at Round House Theatre. If you're looking for an antidote to crass commercialism and faked joy, you'll find it in this $15 show.
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First Thursday will feature Gypsy gallery, winter window stroll and more
December's First Thursday in Downtown Boise brings out the holiday spirit in every artist. Highlights:
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Innovative artist's work inhabits the Boise Art Museum
Jun Kaneko - ceramics master, innovator, painter and sculptor - is surprisingly casual about his work.
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Four Final Friday shows
Almost three dozen galleries and other venues around Wichita will host Final Friday events tonight, displaying art for sale and, in many cases, offering free refreshments. Here are four to consider including in your itinerary: 1) Sculptor Russell Bellamy will show his work at Fisch Haus Studios , 524 S. Commerce, which will host a reception from 7 to 10 p.m. Bellamy is an adjunct professor ...
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Hot tickets
Dec. 5-6: The Tallahassee Ballet presents "The Nutcracker" as part of this year's Winter Festival, with performances held at the Civic Center. Tickets are $47.75. $31.50 and $21.50 for the regular performances, $37.75, $26.50 and $14.75 for the abbreviated children's performance.
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Exhibits calendar
City Hall Art Gallery: "19th Annual Winter Festival Youth Art Exhibition," 83 pieces by area students (kindergarten-high school) that address an environmental issue or is made from recycled or natural materials.
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ART GALLERIES, MUSEUMS
Today Final Friday, gallery crawl, noon-6 p.m., at Reuben Saunders' Artworks, Piccadilly Square, 7724 E. Central, Suite 300 (open house and Scott Hartley reception); 1-4 p.m. at ChiART, 1007 W. Douglas (Delano Black Friday Open House); 4-9 p.m. at Bella Luz, 7825 Maple (Salvador Estrada and other artists); 5-8 p.m. at Springpark Gallery, Clifton Square, 3700 E. Douglas, No. 60 ...
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India Announces the 2nd Edition of its International Art Fair India Art Summit to be Held on 19th-22nd August 2009
India Art Summit 2009 will showcase the most diverse range of paintings, sculptures, contemporary photography, concept, installation and digital art by established and emerging artists. Over 60 top galleries will participate from India and the larger Asian region, alongside western galleries.
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Rudy Sarzo and Kompoz.com Announce "Off The Rails" Songwriting Competition
To celebrate his new book, "Off the Rails: Aboard the Crazy Train in the Blizzard of Ozz" -- a first hand account of his friendship on and off the road with Randy Rhoads & Ozzy Osbourne -- legendary rock bassist Rudy Sarzo (Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake, Quiet Riot, DIO, Blue Oyster Cult) is launching songwriting contest on Kompoz.com.
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Portraits a dynamic show REVIEW
Let’s talk about subject matter. There are five major genres of painting: landscape, still life, figure composition, abstraction and portraiture. Quibble if you must, but while these five genres can have blurry borders, they are as a group the simplest way to list subject matter in two-dimensional art.
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Be the first to own original artwork from the next great Pet-casso
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Wake County will sell original artwork created by puppies and kittens during an art show Dec. 5 to raise money for the shelter.
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Seagrove's dueling pottery shows both declare success
Organizers of competing pottery festivals in Seagrove say attendance was strong at the weekend events despite discord among the artisans.
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Exhibition of Lennon artwork opening in Chicago
CHICAGO Before he was a rock star, John Lennon was an artist.
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Grant to help choral festival sound bigger
The largest grant ever received by Missoula's International Choral Festival has organizers bouncing off the walls - literally.
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Frank Cieciorka, Designer for the Left, Is Dead at 69
Mr. Cieciorka was a graphic artist, art director and watercolorist whose woodcut rendering of a clenched-fist salute was the model for the New Left?s most ubiquitous emblem.
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Artwork featured at shops tonight
CROWN POINT The final 4th Friday Arts for 2008 will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. today featuring a scavenger hunt with all of the participating businesses in the historic downtown district..
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Art in Review
Andreas Gursky at Matthew Marks, Al Held at Paul Kasmin Gallery, Neil Jenney at Barbara Mathes and more.
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Gifts Worth Buying a Coffee Table For
The best of the year?s art and photography books, as well as those unclassifiable volumes we call ?gift books.?
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Words Worth a Thousand Paintings
The Times art and architecture critics? pick their year-end favorite books.
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Antiques calendar
sharedstory SHOWS & AUCTIONS TODAY-SUNDAY: More than 175 tables with dealers selling sports and nonsports cards and collectibles will be at the Thanksgiving Baseball Card Show.
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