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Illuminating the Dark Ages
The Metropolitan Museum unveils its newly renovated medieval gallery and, in the adjacent sculpture hall, ?Choirs of Angels,? a sumptuous little holiday show.
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A 'Surreal Human Sculpture' Of Violinists Among The Waves
"Here's a great photo that Getty photographer Paul Kane snapped at Perth's North Cottesloe Beach earlier this week. The performance features musicians from the West Australian Symphony Orchestra playing their own instruments in the surf.
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Australia Opens A National Portrait Gallery
"Although a national portrait collection was begun 20 years ago, it was housed inadequately at Old Parliament House and has only now found a home built for the job.
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Decision time for artist leads to gallery showing
COLUMBIANA- Carolyn Roble has been a crafter for 22 years, but her work with ceramics has earned her an exhibition this weekend at Roberta's Gallery of Fine Arts.
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Posted: 05-12-2008 , 05:18 GMT
Lebanese artist Samarah finished filming a new video clip with the director Ghazi Wakim. The clip is an adaptation of the talent show “Hizy Ya Nawaem” (a show for belly dancers contestants). Samarah plays the role of a belly dancer that performs in front of a judging committee and wins a prize.
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Posted: 05-12-2008 , 05:21 GMT
Tunisian artist Saber Al Ribai glowed in Morocco, especially at the “Rawafed Azwan-Al Oyoun” music festival, drawing an estimated 90,000 fans. According to the London daily Elaph, everyone there cheered Saber on and sang along with his greatest songs.
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Dorothea Rabkin, 87, Collector, Dies
Ms. Rabkin and her husband built a collection of American folk art noted for the whirligigs and other sculptures made by anonymous carvers in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
New York Times |
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British Museum announces Indian garden exhibition
In the bleak midwinter, the British Museum yesterday announced a blaze of colour and perfume to come: an Indian garden blooming in paint on its exhibition walls, and in reality in a scented garden around a fountain and lotus pool which will be created in its rather grim Bloomsbury forecourt. "In some magical way I can't quite get my head around, the garden will also cover a geographical ...
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Gallery: Gizmodo Shows Off Gadget Prototypes From the Past
: Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired.com NEW YORK – Popular technology blog Gizmodo has set up shop in a Manhattan art gallery to showcase some of the rarest and most intriguing gadgets from the past hundred years or so, including never-released Apple prototypes, the first Sony Walkman, a flying aerial surveillance camera and more. The Gizmodo Gallery opened Thursday at the Reed Annex (151 ...
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Beyonce to perform at Essence Fest in New Orleans
Beyonce is the first artist lined up for next year’s Essence Music Festival in New Orleans. Organizers of the festival announced Tuesday the singer has confirmed her participation.
The New Sabah Times |
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Groups protest drilling-lease auction in Utah
Conservation groups filed formal protests Thursday against what they call a "fire sale" of oil-and-gas drilling leases in Utah being conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. The Sierra Club, The Wilderness Society and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance filed their objections to drilling in 100,000 acres of wild land in eastern Utah. The BLM has already pulled nearly 100,000 acres from ...
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Alumna displays a piece depicting her German-Hispanic heritage
A university alumna used tortillas to transform a lifetime of memories into a work of art. Art photographer Hannah Frieser has an exhibition on display at Texas Woman’s University that celebrates Latino family tradition through the eyes of a person with a cross-cultural background.
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Tech News
Even before she got her digital SLR camera last December, a Canon EOS 400D, fifteen-year old Yna Risma already showed a great love for digital photography. “It’s really my passion,” she said. She used to take photos using a compact camera.
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Area students at tree lighting
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Three Shepherd University photography students were able to get hands-on experience at a national event Thursday night, when they traveled to Washington, D.C. for the annual Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony.
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UNCA holds holiday ceramics, art sale
ASHEVILLE – UNC Asheville's Art Department will hold its annual Holiday Ceramics and Art Sale 4-7 p.m. today and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday at the school's S. Tucker Cooke Gallery, located on the first floor of Owen Hall. The sale is open to the public.
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Winter shades: Delhi's tryst with art from around globe
By Madhusree Chatterjee, New Delhi, Dec 5 : Each winter Delhi is on a roll. The spotlight this time is on the second edition of the 23-day Delhi International Arts Festival that comprises art, music, dance, film and theatre.
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Olafur Eliasson 'Take your time' exhibit in Dallas
DALLAS -- With Olafur Eliasson's exhibit "Take your time," the idea is to do just that: Slow down and let the works wash over your senses. ...
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Yard Critters
The Creative Arts Guild’s monthly First Friday event will feature the exhibit “Yard Critters” in Gallery 111 today from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and will showcase the works of students who attend the Catoosa County Performance Learning Center.
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THE STROLLING REPORTER: A mommy-and-me idea
Decorating the Christmas tree is a family tradition. Draw inspiration from the 25 trees decorated by area designers on display at the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens during the "Festival of Trees: Books Come Alive" event.
The Palm Beach Post |
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Center Stage: This week’s best bets
Friday Dec. 5 The time has come to deck the halls, and the Cayce Historical Museum has invited everyone to see the decorations for Christmas Traditions from 6:30-9 p.m. Music will be provided by The Black Bottom Biscuits. Free; www.cityofcayce-sc.gov You probably won’t “shoot your eye out” but you might laugh a lot at Village Square Theatre’s performance of the classic “A Christmas ...
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This week in the arts
MUSIC The Columbia Baroque Soloists present holiday music from the Renaissance and Baroque periods at 7:30 tonight. Pre-concert talk 7 p.m. Player Hall, Shandon United Methodist Church, 3407 Devine St. $10, $8 for students and seniors; (803) 256-8383, ext. 113. “Music of Lord Middleton’s England” will include works of Handel, Mozart and other 18th-century composers performed by Mary ...
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A photographic exhibition is part of a project to broaden care leavers' horizons
A photographic exhibition is part of an ongoing project to broaden care leavers' horizons and help ease their transition to adult life. By Rachel Pugh
Guardian Unlimited |
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DePaul show exhibits results of Italian photo workshop
A sudden rain and wind storm might ruin the experience of a Venice flea market for your average tourist.But not for K.K. DePaul and her crew of intrepid photographers. While other people fumbled for their raincoats and umbrellas or ran for shelter, DePaul's group grabbed their cameras and braved...
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Folk art meets tragic history
Christian Herr has a story to tell — in fact, he has a history to put down in pen, ink and paint.The Lancaster resident has started to blend his fine art background with elements of folk art and historical symbols in his first solo exhibit, "New Strings," at the Parlor gallery.Herr has taken s...
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Christmas events
Downtown Holiday Display — Through Dec. 31. Students from the Texas School for the Deaf have created a display with student photography, graphic arts and video technology art projects. Scarbrough Building, 101 W.Sixth Street. www.tsd.state.tx.us/news/scarbrough2008.html.
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