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Jensen sculpts the artist's economy with "Big, Big Bangs/ Small, Small Bucks"
This Friday, the Dean Jensen gallery opens "Big, Big Bangs/ Small, Small Bucks: An Exhibition for the Post-Bust Economy." Unlike any gallery showing Jensen has done before, this show combines over 100 works from nearly 40 artists. The show is the largest in the gallery's history and takes an old approach during new economic times to cut prices and pump up selection.
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Budget for OU art museum expansion on agenda
Associated Press - November 30, 2008 3:05 PM ET OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - University of Oklahoma regents plan to consider approving a $13 million budget for a proposed expansion of the Fred Jones...
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Budget for OU art museum expansion on agenda
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - University of Oklahoma regents plan to consider approving a $13 million budget for a proposed expansion of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.
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Opening the vault
There's a new exhibit at Twist & Shout, 2508 E. Colfax Ave., displaying photos and album covers from the Sony/BMG archives.
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Colleen McCubbin Stephanic is a figurative painter whose work explores the nature of vulnerability and the boundaries between revelation and concealment. She tackles this subject through the perspective of her own experience. Recent paintings deal directly with failures of the body.
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Monterey Museum of Art free to public in December
In gratitude for a year of unparalleled public attendance, new heights of community support and growing recognition for the Museum's programmatic achievements, the Monterey Museum of Art (MMA) welcomes the community to attend the exhibitions at both the Pacific Street and the La Mirada locations for
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Scene: Secret ArtWorks
Once again, the public was afforded the opportunity to purchase "secret" artwork by a local, national or international artist, whose identity remained a secret until the work was claimed, at the Secret ArtWorks event at the Westin Hotel Ballroom, downtown. The Ben Sloan Jazz Combo from University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music entertained, while more than 500 guests waited for the ...
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Scene: ArtWorks
Once again, the public was afforded the opportunity to purchase "secret" artwork by a local, national or international artist, whose identity remained a secret until the work was claimed, at the Secret ArtWorks event at the Westin Hotel Ballroom, downtown.
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Volunteers clean the scene at Atlanta's Cyclorama
Every year a team of volunteers arrives at the Cyclorama, Atlanta's monumental, in-the-round Civil War painting and diorama, to eat a chicken dinner, take a narrated tour of the painting, then roll their sleeves up and start cleaning. This year, on a chilly November Saturday, about 30 men and women (and a few children) brought plastic gloves, buckets, hand brooms, feather dusters, vacuum ...
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Trans-Siberian, Mannheim Steamroller have turned the holidays into cash
If you want to thank — or blame — a particular era for the bulk of the Christmas music that clogs the airwaves after Thanksgiving, look to the Renaissance.
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First 'body-music' festival takes flight
With dexterous hands, resonant thighs, supple fingers, fluent feet and a surfeit of concave and convex surfaces, the human body can be a wondrous musical and percussion instrument. To explore and demonstrate the possibilities, percussionist Keith Terry and others are launching the first International Body Music Festival in San Francisco and Oakland, Dec. 2-7.
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Rodolfo Razo
EL PASO -- What's an old-school painter like Rodolfo Razo showing in a hip space like the HusH Gallery?
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MadTracks -- 'Pompeii' by The German Art Students
"Civilization preserved for centuries in volcanic rock? Sounded like a natural indie-rock topic to us," says Randy Ballwahn, drummer for The German Art Students. The song brings together many of the elements that have won the band fans -- whom they affectionately refer to as GASbags -- over the years: A catchy surf-rock hook, echoed by a distorted, Pixies-style drum-and-guitar riff, plus a few ...
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Clips for Nov. 29
Join the Kimball Art Center for an exhibition reception on Thursday, Dec. 4 from 5 until 7 p.m. for the opening reception for Native Species,
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Gambling on a gallery in Black Rock
A woman willing to gamble that Wall Street's fluctuations will awaken interest in the value of art is opening a gallery in Black Rock.Eileen Walsh will open the doors to The Gallery at Black Rock,
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Museum pass program has unique options for day trips
GROTON -- Groton residents are fortunate not only to live in an area with an overabundance of museums, but to have a library with one of the most extensive catalogues of museum passes available in the area.
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Museum passes a real bargain
HARVARD -- There is no shortage of distinct museums and activities in and around Harvard. But with a tough economy and increases in ticket prices, individuals and families may think twice about venturing too far from home.
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Pacifica Open Studios 2008 present exhibition Dec. 5-7
The 2008 Pacifica Open Studios will be held the weekend of Dec. 5-7 in one large venue, Sanchez Art Center.
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Three Ayer students picked for Lions Club peace posters
AYER -- In 1988, a peace poster contest was created by the Lions Club to "give young people the opportunity to creatively express their feeling for world peace and to share their visions with the world.
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Web Site of the Week: Google's Life photo collection
Suddenly one of the great photography troves in history is available online, free -- and even ready for your download and manipulation. The Life magazine photos archive just went online, hosted by Google ( images.google.com/hosted/life ), chronicling the 20th Century in a breathtaking series of frozen moments.
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Chateau Latour Fetches Record HK$1.32 Million at Hong Kong Sale
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- A 12-bottle lot of 1961 Chateau Latour , prized for its complexity and graceful aging, sold for a record HK$1.32 million ($170,320) at Christie’s International first wine auction in Hong Kong in seven years, as the company’s billionaire owner Francois Pinault watched from the front row.
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Looking for something to do Visit the Alexander House
Visit the holiday exhibit at the Alexander House, 1131 Wisconsin River Drive in Port Edwards. The show features paintings, drawings and prints by Linda Stahoski Webster of Freeland, Wash., and raku pottery by Joe Clark of Port Edwards. Hours are 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday, and by appointment. The exhibit will continue through Jan. 6. For more information, call 887-3442 or go ...
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Pingry School, Martinsville, welcomes European artists
Jindra Vikova Pavel Banka MARTINSVILLE -- Award-winning sculptor/ceramicist Jindra Vikova and photographer Pavel Banka who live in Prague will visit The Pingry School Dec. 2-3 for master classes and demonstrations in the 3-D studio and photography lab. Their appearance is...
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Donated painting to help Wis. endangered species
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A Baraboo artist has donated 1 of her paintings to the state Department of Natural Resources to help raise money to protect endangered species.
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Donated painting to help Wis. endangered species
Associated Press - November 30, 2008 12:25 PM ET MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A Baraboo artist has donated 1 of her paintings to the state Department of Natural Resources to help raise money to protect...
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