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Baytown art gallery getting into holiday spirit
The Art League of Baytown will hold open house for its 2008 holiday gift gallery from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 29 at its new location, 110 W. Texas Avenue.
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Christmas Movieland in Broadview Heights is all about the holiday
Lynn Ischay / The Plain DealerAn anime angel Christmas ornament, sculpted by Mark Klaus, is available at the Hollywood Christmas Movieland exhibit as well as on qvc.com. PREVIEW Christmas Movieland When: 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday; noon-10 p.m. Friday, Saturday and...
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In an Argentinian frame of mind
A picture is worth a thousand words, but when Spanish is translated into English, some of those words can sometimes get a little muddled. So in the case of the latest show on display at Alley Fine Art/Framing in Springboro, one painting might be the equivalent of 1,001.
Dayton Daily News |
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UPDATE: Oil spill in Bridgetown
As reported in last week's Crime Report, first thing Thursday November 20th an oil spill on Bridgetown public property was reported to the RCMP...
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Tickets available for EDA Festival of Trees and Silver Bells Gala
ELLENSBURG — The Ellensburg Downtown Association’s 2nd Annual Kelleher Motor Company’s Festival of Trees and Silver Bells Gala, a Benefit for our Downtown, runs today through Dec. 6.
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Dubai Creek to Have Dh50 Billion First Modern Art Museum in ME
DUBAI — Dubai Creek will have the region’s first Museum of Middle East Modern Art (MOMEMA) by 2011. A Dh50 billion Dubai Properties’ landmark project will cover an area of 25,000 sqm and serve as a hub of multicultural understanding and a tourist destination.
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Friends, artists display work
The Rock School Arts Foundation will present a solo exhibition of paintings by Hickory native Josephine Moretz Shipley Lauerman.
The Morganton News Herald |
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A new kind of shark board
If you say shark board in KZN, you’d be referring to the guys who man the shark nets off the province’s beaches. However, a national art exhibition that aims to bring together two sworn enemies — sharks and surfers — all in the name of conservation has changed that.
The Natal Witness Group |
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Slow London auctions suggest Russian art frenzy is over
LONDON (AFP) - A disappointing week of Russian art sales here appears to have marked the end of a frenzied buying spree by collectors from the former Soviet Union , whose fortunes have diminished with the stock markets.
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As food prices climb, food-service industry looks at waste problems
Food waste has been a chronic problem for restaurants and grocery stores -- with millions of tons being lost along the way as crops are hauled hundreds of miles, stored for weeks in refrigerators and prepared on hectic restaurant assembly lines. But the historically high price of commodities is making it an even bigger drag on the bottom line. Related stories • Oil costs may fall, but 'sticky' ...
The Kalamazoo Gazette |
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FIU To Unveil Art Museum
Florida International University is slated to open its new Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum.
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Sights and sounds should suit all tastes
RISING Tavistock rock stars The Rumble Strips will be one of the big attractions at this year’s Tavistock Sings festival. The Tavistock music and arts festival will feature music ranging from opera, classical, jazz and choral to rock.
Tavistock Times Gazette |
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Lee Rosenbaum's cultural commentary
The Italian museum system has no money, save what they receive for the foreign loans of their collection. Italy is proof that under socialism there is barely money left for government programs, and the arts are left to forage for themselves.
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Seniors To Be Honored During Final Home Volleyball Contest
Seniors Justine Stremick and Mallorie Croal will lead the Notre Dame volleyball team into its final home contest this season with a Nov. 28 (Friday) match against Xavier at the Joyce Center. The two have steered Notre Dame to a 79-45 overall record since joining the team in 2005 and a 40-14 mark at home.
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Feeling moody? Maybe it's the color of your room
Would you consider painting your kitchen cabinets bright purple with lime green accents, your media room sunflower yellow or your bathroom cherry-blossom red?
St. Cloud Times |
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Last Chance: Tickets to Little Joy Saturday
Back away from the leftovers and get your yayas on over to the Parish Room for an evening of music headlined by Little Joy . The band is a side project for Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti who is joined in this endeavor by Los Hermanos singer/guitarist Rodrigo Amarante, and Bikini Shapiro. Moretti and Amarante have been tight since the pair hit it off at a festival in Lisbon last year. ...
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Music-inspired art
Through March 7, Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, will host "The B Sides," an exhibition exploring the relationship between house music and contemporary art, featuring works by 28 artists and art collectives. Painting, photography, performance art and more are...
The Star-Ledger |
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Archive
Marisol Da Silva, a freelance photographer from Australia, is currently finalizing Honours in documentary photography at Griffith University in Brisbane. Marisol was awarded several scholarships to support research in documentary photography.
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Gallery show recalls Kaplan
More than 300 people flowed into the Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery over the House of Books in Kent Saturday afternoon to pay tribute to the late art dealer and gallery owner Jacques Kaplan, the man largely credited with making Kent an art destination over the past 25 years.
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Mexico’s drug war, painfully preserved and hidden
At their best, museums are glorious cultural repositories, reflecting the highest flowering of human creativity, ingenuity and art. But not everything in every culture is glorious, and there are museums for those aspects, too, which is why, hidden from the public, there is an institution here devoted to Mexico’s dark side, the Museum of Drugs.
Miami Herald |
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Festivale celebrates - Northern event wins major State tourism award
FESTIVALE won a major award at the 2008 Tasmanian Tourism Awards at Hobart's Wrest Point Casino last night. The three-day Launceston food and wine extravaganza won the award for best festival and event in the State.
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Houstonist Flickr Photo of the Day - Phonebooth Break
Phonebooth Break by BrandonW Sometimes we all just need a phone booth break. The problem most of the time is finding a phone booth. ________________________________________________________________ If you have a passion for Houston and photography, consider joining a whole bunch of Houston's best photographers in the Houstonist Flickr Photo Group . Each day, Houstonist chooses ...
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Grant Funds LBMA Video Art Retrospective
Museums, even art museums, by definition look at and preserve the past. Now a major grant and collaboration will allow the Long Beach Museum of Art to look at its own past as the center of video art creation in the 1970s and ’80s.
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Anatomy Of Art
Fitness expert and wife of industrialist Gautam Singhania, Nawaz Modi turns on her artistic streak at her maiden exhibition Body Art. Having sculpted bodies extensively, the anatomy obviously tops as inspiration. Even Nita and Mukesh Ambani acknowledge the new artist’s arrival.
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A Black Friday Alternative: Vermeer and Duchamp at the Norton Simon
Shopping in crowded stores not your thing today? Here’s a stress-free suggestion: Stop by Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum for a closer look at a new Vermeer on loan from the National Gallery of Art in Washington and catch the Marcel Duchamp installation before it closes next week. A Lady Writing is a rare painting from 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer , who might better known ...
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