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National Gallery cancels art exhibits in Chrétien's hometown
The National Gallery of Canada will no longer be putting on big art exhibitions for a gallery in Shawinigan, Que., the hometown of former prime minister Jean Chrétien.
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Three Rivers Arts Festival Details Released
The annual Three Rivers Arts Festival runs from June 6 through June 22 in downtown Pittsburgh.
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Foreign Diplomats, Ohio Officials Open Azerbaijani Cultural Garden in Cleveland
Amid rave reviews, Cleveland residents got their first look at the new, iconic sculpture that forms the centerpiece of the Azerbaijani Cultural Garden in the city's famed Cultural Gardens.
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A.I. Corporation and Insyde Software Team Up at ESEC
A.I. Corporation and Insyde Software today announce their continued commitment to the embedded market with demonstrations of UEFI firmware solutions which include Menlow and other Intel chipsets at the Tokyo International Exhibition Center (Tokyo Big Sight) at the Embedded Systems Expo Show from May 14th through May 16th 2008.
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Ultratech Wins New Customer With Laser Spike Anneal System Order
Ultratech, Inc. , a leading supplier of lithography and laser-processing systems used to manufacture semiconductor devices, today announced it has received an order from a major foundry in Asia for its LSA100A Laser Spike Anneal system.
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Art in Kayenta
The Art in Kayenta festival runs Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 16 and 17, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Kayenta community on the west side of Ivins. About 100 visiting artists in addition to dozens of artists features in the gallery have their work on display.
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The tale of a broken pot
Today I am a broken pot stored away in a museum. But, about eighteen hundred years ago, I was a shining new kalayam . My proud owner was a toddy-tapper named Naakan. He lived in a small hamlet at the edge of the forest (near ...
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Copper prices prompting wave of thefts
The soaring price of copper has triggered a rash of copper thefts in the United States, authorities, art dealers and utility companies say.Copper prices have jumped from about 83 cents per pound to between $3 and $4 a pound since 2000, prompting thieves to make off with everything from sculptures to spools of electric wire to gravestone plaques, The Washington Post reported.In Moberly, Mo., a ...
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A.I. Corporation and Insyde Software Team Up at ESEC
TOKYO----A.I. Corporation and Insyde Software today announce their continued commitment to the embedded market with demonstrations of UEFI firmware solutions which include Menlow and other Intel chipsets at the Tokyo International Exhibition Center at the Embedded Systems Expo Show from May 14th through May 16th 2008.
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Thai museum head charged in U.S. tax scam
A U.S. grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted a museum director from Thailand on charges related to an alleged tax scam involving donated Asian antiquities.Roxanna Brown, 62, is the director of the Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum at Bangkok University was charged with allowing two Los Angeles art dealers to use her electronic signature on appraisal forms that accompanied donations made to U.S. ...
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Putin calls for using art to strengthen Russian state
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin unveiled an exhibit of a renowned art collection Monday at a ceremony which underlined his dominance of Russia's political scene even after stepping down as president.
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Fire at Saskatoon art gallery causes estimated $100K in damage
Artists who used an isolated riverbank studio until it burned Monday say the space is irreplaceable. The fire Monday caused an estimated $100,000 damage to the Techni-Crude studio in a two-storey building near Leisureland in the RM of Corman Park. Saskatoon firefighters responded to a call at 7 a.m. and quickly brought the fire south of the city under control.
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Thai museum head charged in U.S. tax scam
LOS ANGELES, May 12 (UPI) -- A U.S. grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted a museum director from Thailand on charges related to an alleged tax scam involving donated Asian antiquities.
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Richter art exhibition announced
Acclaimed German artist Gerhard Richter is to feature in a major exhibition in Edinburgh in November.
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North Plains Systems Unveils TeleScope OnDemand Hosted DAM Solution
North Plains Systems Corp. launched TeleScopeTM OnDemand, a hosted DAM solution. ebizQ received the following: North Plains will unveil TeleScope OnDemand today at the Henry Stewart Show, New York -- the premier event for DAM users. TeleScope ...
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DISPATCH FROM KOREA Jeonju Fest: Eyeing Korean Film, and Some Major Talent
This year's Jeonju International Film Festival , the 9th, boasted ten world premieres of features and feature-length documentaries. There was a retrospective dedicated to Bela Tarr , and another to Alexander Kluge . There were works by James Benning and Nina Menkes and sidebars dedicated to Vietnamese and Central Asian cinema.
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Copper prices prompting wave of thefts
WASHINGTON, May 12 (UPI) -- The soaring price of copper has triggered a rash of copper thefts in the United States, authorities, art dealers and utility companies say.
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State Records: Suspect in Art Car Curator Death Had Previous DWI
State records obtained by FOX 26 News show a man charged in the death of the Houston Art Car Museum's curator has a previous DWI conviction.
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Gordon Sander '72 views CU then and now in photo exhibit
Capturing Cornell moments, from the silly to the sublime, over the past 40 years is the focus of "The Cornell Zone: 1968-2008," a photography exhibition by Gordon F. Sander '72, which opens with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, May 16, in Cornell's Sibley Dome.
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Astronomy Day Prompts OurUndiscoveredUniverse.com Website to Announce Astro-Photo Contest
Today, thousands of astronomers are looking to the skies. May 12, 2008 is National Astronomy Day and OurUndiscoveredUniverse.com is marking the celebration by announcing an astro-photo contest for photographers.
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Busch exhibiting greatness; Junior great in exhibitions
1. A streak? Or something more? To say or write that Kyle Busch is merely on a hot streak no longer does what he is accomplishing justice. The kid, like it or not, is proving that he might just be the next great Sprint Cup driver out there.
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
I'm a sucker for museum construction webcams, so when I read the Chicago Tribune's Blair Kamin say that a Renzo Piano-designed bridge between the Art Institute of Chicago's Modern Wing and Millenium Park was going in over the weekend, I looked forward to daylight and checking out the AIC's webcam.
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'That '70s Show' star Wilmer Valderrama to pay tribute to Desi Arnaz
JAMESTOWN, N.Y. - "That '70s Show" star Wilmer Valderrama will pay tribute to Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball as part of a festival devoted to the comedy legends.
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Russian museum director faces charge of inciting religious hatred
The charges against the director of the Sakharov Museum in Moscow stem from an investigation of a display of pornography-infused art works, some mocking the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Battle over art is battle over history
The Cleveland Museum of Art continues to negotiate Italy's demand that it return 16 antiquities in its collection. If the Cleveland museum reaches an agreement, it will be one of about a half-dozen top-rung U.S. institutions rethinking their collections and the rightful place of ancient pottery, statues and works of art and culture. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports.
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