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VISTA: RBV students prepare for annual ArtSplash
VISTA ---- Smiles and colorful chalk dust were on the faces of about 160 Rancho Buena Vista High School students Tuesday as they created large drawings for the campus's annual ArtSplash festival. Throughout the day, 41 teams of students and one group
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Landmarks Panel OKs Plan for Tower Near MoMA
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Jean Nouvel came a step closer Tuesday to building a 75-story skyscraper next to the Museum of Modern Art.
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Seniors' talents on display at Freehold Twp. art show
FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP- Works of art created by local senior citizens took center state at the Freehold Township Senior Center, Jackson Mills Road, on May 6. The senior center hosted the sixth annual Senior Art Show, featuring work by students who have been taking instruction from artist Susan Winter. A total of 63 entries were part of this year's competition.
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Veteran's Home Celebrates One Year
The Amarillo Texas State Veteran's Home is celebrating their one year anniversary. A patriotic reception was held to commemorate the day. Local artist, Pam Wolff, unveiled a painting she's donating to the home of Betsy Ross sewing the American flag.
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Cannes braces for American invasion
'Indiana Jones' and the U.S. presence loom large at the festival. IN CASE you had any doubts -- and maybe you didn't -- it's now official: The Festival de Cannes is a very big event.
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Art exhibit is a family affair
The Monmouth Museum is presenting a unique exhibition featuring works by three Waldman family artists: brothers Neil and Bruce and their aunt, Jean Morris. The Waldman Family Exhibition will run through June 22 at the museum, which is located on the campus of Brookdale Community College off Newman Springs Road in Lincroft.
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Promoting Museum of Islamic Art in Paris
Doha • Chairperson of Board of Trustees of the Qatar Museums Authority H E Sheikha Mayassa bint Hamad Al Thani is to lead a delegation to Paris along with the Vice-Chairman Sheikh Hassan bin Mohammed Al Thani, Chief Executive Officer and President of the Museum of Islamic Art Abdulla Al Najjar, to brief the French media and cultural influencers on the opening of the Museum of Islamic Art planned ...
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Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008: He 'worked in the gap between art and life'
Rauschenberg died Monday of heart failure at 82, it was announced Tuesday by Jennifer Joy, his representative at PaceWildenstein gallery in New York. His use of odd and everyday articles earned him regard as a pioneer in pop art, first gaining fame in the 1950s.
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
If you read this story in the Los Angeles Times and you're looking for Getty CEO James Wood's March memo, it's here. Find recent content on the main index or look in the archives to find all content.
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Local artist's artwork on exhibit at Rutgers
Metuchen's own Joan Arbeiter is displaying her "Lives and Works: Talks With Women Artists" portrait series at the Rutgers Art Library, Voorhees Hall, 71 Hamilton St., New Brunswick, until June 13.
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Quality entries for annual college exhibition
This week sees Robb College proudly presenting its 21st Annual Art and Craft Exhibition.
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Open Window opens out Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
Visible from the street and accessible anytime, the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery’s front window space is the site of a new series of contemporary art projects.
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Summer starts in Golden Valley, some say
Golden Valley looks to be the first city out of the blocks as festival season starts.
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Architecture: Redesigning a Building to Preserve Peace in the Neighborhood
Should the plan for the Parke-Bernet Gallery building be approved, it would only underscore the bizarre thinking behind decisions governing historic landmark cases today.
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Dummies, loos, The Simpsons – it's Turner Prize time again
A FEMALE shop mannequin perched on a toilet helped Glasgow contemporary artist Cathy Wilkes on to the shortlist for the Turner Prize yesterday.
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The cheese can stand alone, but a plate is nice
Say cheese. Then wait two days. There will be plenty to keep the smile on your face at the fourth annual Seattle Cheese Festival.
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Block party: Broad Contemporary Art Museum
The location is Los Angeles – Wilshire Boulevard, to be exact. The occasion is the opening of a major new museum, the Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM). And the architect is the Italian Renzo Piano who, with a recent string of commissions, seems to have supplanted local star Frank Gehry in America as museum designer of choice.
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Preview: Charleston Festival, Charleston nr Lewes
It's hard to imagine a more apt setting for a literary festival than the gardens of Charleston farmhouse. The former home of Virginia Woolf's elder sister, the artist Vanessa Bell, it served as a countryside retreat for the Bloomsbury Group, and now survives as an example of their creative output in the form of murals, decorated furniture, ceramics, paintings and textiles.
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'Terrific Treehouse' Exhibit Brings New Beauty To Arboretum
There's an unusual and creative exhibit at a Delaware County park normally known for its beautiful plants and flowers.
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InsideOut Gallery features on the wall art
Vandalism or art? Rooted in urban despair, graffiti has evolved over the decades into an art form that has renowned practitioners, a technical vocabulary and an enthusiastic subculture.
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Rauschenberg, champion of junk art, dies aged 82
Robert Rauschenberg, the most versatile, inventive and iconoclastic American artist of the past 50 years, who would use anything from canvas to a stuffed goat or household junk for his creations, has died in Florida after a long illness, his gallery representative said. He was 82.
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Gallery curator faces incitement charges for 'forbidden' art show
A Russian court has laid charges against the director of an art gallery, accusing him of inciting hatred with an exhibition last year that satirised the Orthodox Church and the Russian Army. It is the latest twist in an ongoing battle between Yury Samodurov, the director of the Sakharov Museum in Moscow, and Orthodox groups and conservative politicians It has led to criticisms that freedom of ...
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Movie festival begins
FAR Eastern movie buffs will have a chance to enjoy popular Asian films at the Tiger Eye movie festival that begins tonight at the Palace hotel, Adliya.
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CNN - Overweight Nude To Set Art World Record
A Picture Of An Overweight Woman Lying Naked On A Couch, Painted By The British Artist Lucian Freud, Is Expected To Set A Record For Any Work By A Living Artist When It Goes Up For Auction Tuesday Night.
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French media to be briefed on Islamic art museum
Staff Reporter A HIGH-POWERED delegation from the Qatar Museums Authority, comprising the board of Trustees’ chairperson HE Sheikha Mayassa bint Hamad al-Thani, vice-chairman HE Sheikh Hassan bin Mohamed al-Thani and chief executive officer and president of the Museum of Islamic Art Abdulla al-Najjar, will visit Paris to brief French media and cultural groups on the opening of the Qatar Museum ...
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