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Her first A'Fair
Nancy Potts took up painting six years ago to cope with the death of her husband of 30 years, Robert M. Potts, from Lou Gehrig's Disease.
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Datebook
FRI., MAY 16 Oil Paint Artist Simi Valley Art Association meets 7 p.m., Simi Valley Library Community Room, 2969 Tapo Canyon Road, Simi Valley. Anne Cannata demonstrates oil painting. $7 donation. Students free with paying adult. Michelle Adler, (805) 526-4599.
Moorpark Acorn |
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Boy offered trip to Walt Disney World from Make-A-Wish program
Isaiah Travers strolled through the Bailey Station Elementary hallways, gazing at the Disney-themed artwork. When he arrived in the gymnasium, he was greeted by more than 800 students and faculty as they presented Isaiah his Make-A-Wish request -- a trip to Walt Disney World.
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Events
Askew Hargraves Harcourt & Associates (A2H) will host the opening reception for two exhibits by glasswork artist Teresa White and painter John Gra....
The Memphis Daily News |
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Fur flies at 'Kung Fu Panda' Cannes premiere
Fur might be a politically incorrect fashion statement on the red carpet at the world's most-prestigious film festival. Not when you're the star of a movie called "Kung Fu Panda," though.
The Standard-Times |
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Sarasota's Arts Day becomes casualty of slumping economy
Sarasota's popular Arts Day festival, which attracts more than 20,000 art lovers annually, has been cancelled next year, falling prey to a struggling economy.
Bradenton Herald |
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Museum Director Is Found Dead
An American director of a museum in Thailand who was indicted in a federal investigation into looted antiquities was found dead in a detention center in Seattle, The Associated Press reported.
New York Times |
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Rights Groups React to Russian Charges
Rights organizations have accused the Russian government of persecuting the Sakharov Museum in Moscow by charging its director, Yuri Samodurov, above, with inciting ?religious hatred? and ?offending human dignity? when he mounted a 2007 exhibition, ?Forbidden Art,? which outraged some members of the Orthodox Church, Agence France-Presse reported.
New York Times |
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Art in Review
The New York Photo Festival in Dumbo, Brooklyn, Elizabeth Peyton at Gavin Brown?s Enterprise and Josephine Meckseper at Elizabeth Dee Gallery.
New York Times |
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Club News: Flowers and fashion in bloom this weekend in Salem
Whatever plans you have for the weekend, be sure they include a trip to Salem, where lots of fun events are in store tomorrow. The Art in Bloom Flower Show is at Old Town Hall in Salem from noon to 1 p.m., followed by a fashion show staged by Signatures at the Peabody Essex Museum at 1 p.m.
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Bacon?s ?Dyer? Expected to Attract Big Numbers
At Sotheby?s contemporary-art auction in London, one of the star paintings will be a portrait of George Dyer, Francis Bacon?s companion, who committed suicide in 1971.
New York Times |
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Spontaneity Was the Medium and the Message
The beloved instant photograph could not have hoped for a better sendoff than the Whitney Museum?s exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe?s Polaroids.
New York Times |
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Tribal Arts
An installation view of the Joel Cooner Gallery. Benjamin Genocchio writes: All art fairs are messy, but the New York International Tribal & Textile Arts Show is messier than most. It assembles a ridiculously broad range of tribal art from Africa, Oceania, Asia, and North and South America.
New York Times |
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Museum Foundation auction, dinner May 31
BY RUTH JUSTIS/Staff Reporter Tickets are going fast for the 8th annual China Lake Museum Foundation Auction Dinner on May 31. The last day to purchase tickets is May 22.
The Ridgecrest Daily Independent |
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Man?s Best Friend, Hoofed Department
Without horses, where would we be? The answer is revealed in a sprawling, charming and illuminating exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History.
New York Times |
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When Artworks Collide
?Who?s Afraid of Jasper Johns?,? a group show at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in Chelsea, is the latest proof that you don?t have to be a museum to shake things up.
New York Times |
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My Account
A new exhibit will be opening at the Two Rivers Art Gallery next Friday. Judith DesBrisay is one of two artists who will be displaying artwork at the gallery over the summer. Her exhibit, "Geographies," officially opens May 23.
Prince George Citizen Online |
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Dickinson Press claims 72 individual awards and Sweepstakes Award at 2008 NDNA
The Dickinson Press garnered 72 overall individual awards en route to reclaiming the overall Sweepstakes Award for small daily newspapers during the North Dakota Newspaper Association's 2007 Better Newspaper Contest.
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Pirates of the carrot reading
BELLWOOD - Pirates invaded Myers Elementary School Thursday. Actually, they were buccaneer bunnies, singing ''Yo ho ho, nibble your greens'' as the illustrations of children's book artist John Manders came to life.
Altoona Mirror |
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Patton's artwork makes it way back to North Shore Arc
HAMILTON and mdash; George S. Patton Jr. sometimes has trouble making his point. He usually gets it across, but it can take some time. Patton is developmentally disabled, and the words just don't form as easily as they do for most people.
The Salem News |
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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DES MOINES — Gov. Chet Culver says the state will spend $1 million of Vision Iowa grant money to support the John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Garden in downtown Des Moines.
Marshalltown Times-Republican |
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5 Artist Center talents represent RP in the 3rd Asian Supermodel Contest
Five Artist Center talents will fly to Guangxi, China to represent the Philippines in the 3rd Asia Supermodel Contest to be held from May 16 to 25.
GMA News |
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Summer Times '08: Art
Carnegie Museum of Art will offer a vibrant array of programming throughout the summer to complement the 2008 Carnegie International, including events that take advantage of the museum's lovely ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
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Blue Crab Fest still growing
Originally a small waterfront festival designed to showcase the area's restaurants and accommodations, Little River's Blue Crab Festival has swelled to an event that may attract up to 50,000 attendees this year. Now in its 27th year, the festival offers seafood, entertainment, arts and crafts, children's activities and a chance to get acquainted with the small-town charm of Little River. This ...
The Myrtle Beach Sun News |
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Commerce meets art at Cannes fest
1/83/8 "The climate is so odd," Clint Eastwood once wrote about the world's most famous and influential film festival. He wasn't referring to the breezes coming off the Mediterranean. Rather, Eastwood was describing one hand of the Festival de Cannes, the commerce hand ("the whorehouse of selling," he called it), with the other hand, "the intense cinemania, of searching for the gem, the one ...
The Myrtle Beach Sun News |
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