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Commonwealth wins six APME awards
JACKSON — The Greenwood Commonwealth won six reporting, writing and photography awards Friday, including one first-place award, during the 2008 Louisiana-Mississippi Associated Press Managing Editors meeting held at the Hilton Hotel in Jackson.
The Greenwood Commonwealth |
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Downtown statues hit streets this week
The life-size bronze sculptures that decorated downtown Dayton last year will be set up for public view this week. Crews will install 20 statues on Tuesday and Wednesday throughout key areas of downtown.
Dayton Business Journal |
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One woman art show
AJAX-- Experience bright and colourful art. Ajax artist Joan Bontje is having a one-woman show as part of Art in Public Places, a PineRidge Arts Council initiative. Bontje discovered her...
The Pickering News Advertiser |
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Hanoian painter brings traditional lacquer to Saigon
VietNamNet Bridge - With 34 paintings selected from his nearly 1,000 works, Ngo Thanh Nhan’s “Vietnam’s landscapes” exhibition brings the smart beauty of traditional lacquer to HCM City audiences.
Vietnam Net |
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ICA exceeds capital campaign goal
The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston announced Monday it has raised $75 million in its capital campaign -- exceeding its $50 million goal.
Boston Business Journal |
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WCYF RESULTS
CREATIVE ARTS WINNERS Senior (Ages 14-18) Art Paintings-Oil and Acrylics: Most Outstanding, Shaina Lowe. Drawings-Pastels, Pencil Colors, Chalk and Crayons: Most Outstanding, Samuel Cantu; and Runner up, Samuel Cantu. Black & White Drawings-Pen & Ink, Pencil and Charcoal: Most Outstanding, S...
El Campo Leader-News |
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Duveneck art show coming Sunday
COVINGTON – The 40th Annual Duveneck Memorial Art Show has been rescheduled to Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. at the George Rogers Clark Park on Riverside Drive in Covington (overlooking the Ohio River and the Cincinnati skyline).
The Cincinnati Enquirer |
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Lover of African art displays treasures
Susan Rochfort has yet to travel to Africa, but the art collector feels close to its rich culture. She owns hundreds of pieces of African art, some of which date back 300 years, she says. Rochfort and her husband, William, own a new exhibit at Hudgens Center for the Arts at Gwinnett Center, "Gifts from Africa: Bronzes, Art and Artifacts."
Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
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Beautiful By Cristie Photography Celebrates Opening In Southside
Festivities celebrating the opening of a new photography studio, Beautiful by Cristie, will take place on May 14.
The Chattanoogan |
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Vineyard plans artist event
OWENTON - Elk Creek Vineyards will host an artists' reception for its Garden Sculpture Exhibit and Gallery Exhibition Saturday.
The Cincinnati Enquirer |
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Arts Connection Minute for May 12-18
The Arts Connection Minute lists arts events across Central Florida - it's heard weekdays at 3:04pm To find more cultural events, visit The Red Chair Project , Central Florida's official guide to arts and culture. Monday, 5/12 The Orlando Cabaret Festival continues tomorrow at Noon with HEAR MY SONG - the music of Jason Robert Brown, and Wednesday at Noon with ANYTHING ...
WMFE Orlando |
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St. John's portraitist Helen Parsons Shepherd dies at 85
Helen Parsons Shepherd, a Newfoundland artist known for her commissioned portraits and meticulous still life paintings, has died. She was 85.
CBC Newfoundland and Labrador |
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La Grange gallery featuring wildlife exhibit
Gallery 104 in La Grange is inviting art lovers to get a little wild this month.
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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R.I. groups reap five N.E. Emmy Awards
Fox affiliate WPRI Channel 12 won two regional Emmy Awards, both for “Street Stories: Backyard Wiffleball”; NBC affiliate WJAR Channel 10 won best documentary honors for Laurel Hill Films LLC’s “Buddy: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Notorious Mayor”; and the Rhode Island International Film Festival and WJAR took PSA honors for the two-ad “No Excuses” campaign.
Providence Business News |
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Aztec arts
A painting begins as a blank canvas. A sculpture begins as a lump of clay. A song begins as a tune humming in the background of your mind. But even when it's finished, that painting is really still a blank canvas, the sculpture still a lump of clay. Art is, at its most existential, a chance for viewers to project their own thoughts onto the work.
Daily Aztec |
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Walter Cotten
Art 407A is a small office once filled with all sorts of clutter. Books about art and photography lined the shelves from floor to ceiling. There were at least a dozen cameras too, and flashes, lenses and filters - everything a good photographer needed. There were also boxes containing an endless number of photographs, so many that they were spilling out the door. It's all gone now; boxed up ...
Daily Aztec |
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City Parks Foundation Announces Largest Lineup Ever of Free Concerts, Dance, & Theater Citywide
City Parks Foundation is proud to announce the 2008 schedules for its free citywide performing arts festivals -- CityParks Concerts presented by Verizon, CityParks Theater presented by Time Warner, CityParks Dance, and the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival -- promising a summer of extraordinary outdoor entertainment in the city.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Mourners gather at Art Car Museum to remember curator killed in crash
Friends and fellow Houstonians almost immediately began a makeshift memorial at the site of the accident. Police have charged Dustin Poe, 23, with intoxication manslaughter in Tom Jones' death.
11 News Houston |
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briefly
The Brushettes Art Group are presenting "Spring Beauties" Art show. The show is open from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, May 9, through Friday, July 4.
Community Press & Recorder |
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Speed museum gets long-term-loan of Archdiocese painting
The Archdiocese of Louisville today marked its bicentennial with the presentation of the Baroque painting of "William of Aquitaine Converted by Saint Bernard" to the Speed Art Museum as a long-term loan.
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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Driven to deliver: Scion xB dressed up for My Secret Garden, Gift Gallery
If you've driven through Hagåtña on the island's main artery, chances are you've done a double-take when passing by a peculiar-looking green vehicle.
Pacific Daily News |
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Animas Museum awarded prestigious grant
Durango Thanks to a $150,000 grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the Animas Museum will launch the 'Home for History' project, furnishing its new collections curation facility and moving 35,000 items from...
Greeley Tribune |
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Artists gather for a night of 'MAYHEM'
The sculpture pictured here, created by William Warcham, is made of polychrome pre-used steel. The piece was displayed at the opening of the Yreka Liberty Arts Gallery on Friday night at the opening show, entitled 'MAYHEM.' The gallery, a partnership with the city of Yreka and local artists, will display art in all forms, and will serve as a venue for exhibitions, demonstrations, educational ...
Siskiyou Daily News |
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Mother appeals for help to find missing artist
The distraught mother of a Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) worker who went missing day before he was due to open an exhibition on his life in Battersea has postponed going back to Brazil to help look for her son.
Wandsworth Guardian |
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Red balloons to lift this year's Ingenuity Festival roster of acts
Red balloons that project video images to the ground. A tech center abounding in robotics, space images and other state-of-the-art interactive exhibitions. And music of many stripes.
The Plain Dealer |
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