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New Triassic exhibit hall opens this week
The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science opens its new Triassic Exhibit Hall on May 17.
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Art Beat
Portland Community College President Preston Pulliams (right) helps Art Beat featured artist Harry Widman unveil his featured art work at the festival’s Art Beat kick-off ceremony at the college’s Southeast Center, 2305 SE 82nd and Division.
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National Museum of the Marine Corps Celebrates Memorial Day with Family Activities
The National Museum of the Marine Corps will host a series of activities for the entire family to commemorate this Memorial Day. An art exhibition, custom-designed Marine Corps motorcycles, children's workshops and newly installed artifacts from Iraq and Afghanistan will be on display at the state-of-the-art Museum near Quantico, Virginia.
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Plan Commission draws 100s to Children’s Museum hearing
(Crain’s) — An overflow crowd packed council chambers at City Hall Thursday for the Chicago Plan Commission meeting, as a controversial proposal to relocate the Chicago Children’s Museum to Grant Park drew hundreds hoping to sway the panel’s vote. Still, the prevailing feeling is that ...
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Exploring Mapplethorpe's use of Polaroids
A placard in the lobby warns, "Some of the works in this exhibition may not be suitable for all audiences."
AM New York |
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Casa de las Americas exhibition by Guatemalan painter Abel López
THE exhibition Zona de Asalto , (Assault Zone) by the Guatemalan visual artist Abel López, has been warmly received at the Casa de las Americas Latin American Gallery.
Granma Internacional |
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Exploring Mapplethorpe's use of Polaroids
A Whitney exhibit -- a gallery of small-scale but stunning Polaroid photos -- focuses on the artist's work from 1970-75.
AM New York |
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Universal Display to Showcase OLED Technology Advances and Universal PHOLED Materials at The SID 2008 International ...
EWING, N.J.----Universal Display Corporation , an innovator behind today's and tomorrow's displays and lighting through its Universal PHOLED™ phosphorescent OLED technology, announced today that it will exhibit and present advances on the Company's highly-efficient PHOLED materials and other OLED technologies at the 2008 Society for Information Display International Symposium, Seminar & ...
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Bellbrook Jamboree Bluegrass festival starts May 17
BY DON THRASHER
Dayton Daily News |
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'Captain Skyro,' 'Earth Defense' and 'Nebulosa Realms' Take Top Prizes in Flash Game Developer Contest Sponsored by ...
Mochi Media and Gaia Online announced today the winners of their "Become a Rock Star" Flash game contest. The contest was launched in January and received more than 200 game entries from Flash game developers during the four-month contest period.
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Commons construction to begin May 27
Before the end of the month, the Sharon Commons project – long existing only in architectural and site plans, artist’s renderings, and the minds’ eyes of its developers and town residents – will begin the initial reshaping of the 59-acre parcel of land on which it will sit.
Sharon Advocate |
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SAN MARCOS: Palomar College opens online auction
SAN MARCOS ---- In the market for a used industrial sewing machine? How about art deco theater seating from the 1960s? For the next two weeks, Palomar College is hosting its own version of a yard sale ---- only this bazar is a digital one ... as in o
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Celtic Festival to be held at West Mountain this year
QUEENSBURY — Two Irish rock bands, Black 47 and Hair of the Dog, have been chosen as the headline acts for the fourth annual Celtic Festival, which for the first time is being held in the summer and outdoors.
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"Idol's" Syesha "ready to take on the world"
LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - Ousted "American Idol" contestant Syesha Mercado said on Thursday she was "ready to take on the world" after reaching her goal of making it to the final three of the popular television talent show.
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Digital Premiere showcases Ukiah High School ROP photography projects
The Daily Journal Ukiah Players Theatre will host the Digital Premiere of work created by Suzette Mankin's Ukiah High School ROP photography students at the Ukiah Playhouse on Wednesday, May 21 from 7 to 9 p.
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Jennerstown woman’s creation oversees wedding of president's daughter
A 20-foot-tall Somerset County lady became a VIP at Jenna Bush’s wedding in Crawford, Texas, last weekend.Freedom’s Angel of Steadfast Love, one of four such steel angel sculptures, was crafted and delivered by Jennerstown artist Lei Hennessy-Owen in October 2004.
The Tribune-Democrat |
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Museum Pays Tribute To Lost Art Of Ventriloquism
The variety show era was the ventriloquist glory day.
WLWT-TV Cincinnati |
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The Bone Collector
Maureen DaRos has a very cool job–like, really cool. She is an anthropologist at the Yale Peabody museum helping curate its extensive collection of artifacts as head of the anthropology department.
Guilford Courier |
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The Fashion Center Exhibits Window Display by LIM Students
The Fashion Center, headquarters of the Fashion Center Business Improvement District (BID), the not-for-profit corporation that promotes New York's apparel industry, unveiled its new window display titled "Street Smarts--New York." The Fashion Center Space for Public Art and Design window was designed by visual merchandising students from LIM--The College for the Business of Fashion, and will be ...
Display & Design Ideas |
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Notice of Product Availability: Mount St. Helens Action Footage Available
B-roll footage documenting the continuous eruption of Mount St. Helens from September 2006 through February 2008 is now available from the U.S. Geological Survey. The 29-minutes of footage shows recent Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) thermal imaging, animated time-lapse photography of Mount St. Helens dome growth, and USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory (USGS CVO) scientists at work inside the ...
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Electric Chair, Prison Artifacts On Display At New Museum
An electric chair, J. Edgar Hoover's badge and John Dillinger's car are on display at a new museum dedicated to crime fighting in America.
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Belleville Public Square closed for art show
The Public Square is closed as workers set up for the weekend Art on the Square event.
Belleville News-Democrat |
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Court throws out suit to stop Barnes move
A Montgomery County judge has dismissed a suit by the Friends of the Barnes Foundation seeking to hold hearings on the famed museum's planned move to Philadelphia.
Philly.com |
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Desmond Mason joins MIAD board
Milwaukee Bucks player Desmond Mason, who recently had an exhibit of his paintings at the Milwaukee Art Museum, has joined the board of the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, the art and design college said Thursday.
The Business Journal of Milwaukee |
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Sotheby's shares jump as Bacon artwork sells for record price
BANGALORE (Reuters) - Shares of global auction house Sotheby's rose more than 9 percent Thursday, a day after a Francis Bacon painting was snapped up for a record-breaking $86 million at its New York post-war art auction, soothing concerns about a slowdown in the art market.
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