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Manolo Valdes Presents 17 Sculptures in the Streets of Barcelona
View of one of the seventeen sculptures made by Manolo Valdes which have been placed along the streets of Barcelona. Photo: EFE / XAVIER BERTRAL. BARCELONA.-
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Bulgarian folk group locks pitch in perfect harmony
Folk art at its finest filled the Pabst Theater on Friday evening when the women of Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares presented a lively program of uniquely Bulgarian vocal music.
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Treasure Chest Community Charity Sale
This fund raiser for the Coalition for Citizens with Disabilities and the Mississippi Parent Training and Information Center will feature clothes, an old fashion bake sale, collectibles, art, books, door prizes and face-painting.
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The toast of Cannes at just 18 - but British film-maker Jake Scott is too broke to go there
Jake Scott is a movie sensation: at the age of 18 he has become the youngest film-maker ever to have his work accepted for a premiere at the Cannes Festival. But when the curtain goes up on his creation this week, he'll be home alone and broke in his tiny flat because he can't afford to make the trip to Cannes
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Will Elder, Cartoonist of Satiric Gifts and Overpopulated Scenes, Dies at 86
Mr. Elder?s frantic, gag-filled illustrations helped to define the comic identity of Mad magazine and was a creator of the Playboy cartoon serial ?Little Annie Fanny.?
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Hall selling wedding dress at discount
Model Jerry Hall is auctioning off the wedding gown she wore when she married British rocker Mick Jagger at a discount price, a fashion specialist says.Fashion specialist Kerry Taylor said her auction house was auctioning off the notable wedding dress at a pre-specified price of between $600 and $1,000 as part of a nearly 70-item auction by the former model with all proceeds going to charity, ...
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10 a.m. - Guma’ Mami “Creative Spirits” art exhibit set for May 30
10 a.m., May 18 — Guma’ Mami Inc. presents its ninth art exhibit – “Creative Spirits” from 6 to 9 p.m. on May 30 at the CarsPlus showrooms in Maite. Featured will be art by people with disabilities, and a silent auction of art donated by Guam’s local artists.
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PHOTOS: Fine Arts Festival
Hannah Smith, 9, of Adrian is shown how to play the cello by Calvin Howard, 16, at the Instrument Petting Zoo during the Fine Arts Festival at Adrian High School on Saturday.
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Groups For & Against Hyperion: 'Get The Facts'
In just two and a half weeks voters will go to the polls in Union County South Dakota to decide whether they want Hyperion Energy's 10-billion dollar oil refinery to set up shop. Those on both sides of the issue are using the remaining time to persuade voters in their favor.
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Odissi extravaganza
One of the biggest festivals celebrating the classical Indian dance form of Odissi is set to take off in Malaysia on Wednesday.
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Rhapsody in blue
Arts & entertainment: Reality show runner-up, festival virgin and suddenly Britain's bestselling star - but don't go thinking Duffy isn't tough. She talks to Sarah Boden
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Roman Abramovich sets record art transfer
They cost as much as football players but are likely to be a far wiser investment. In the week that saw two record-breaking sales of paintings by Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon , a new collector has been revealed.
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Minn. company under fire after allegedly altering yearbook photos
Besides the head and body switching, some necks were stretched, and some outfits were altered by a Minnesota-based national photography company...
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Neil Spencer travels to Addis Ababa to meet the survivors from the 'Ethiopiques' project
Could the surprise stars of the festival season be a group of Ethiopians whose haunting records were made 40 years ago? Neil Spencer travels to Addis Ababa to learn the strange secrets of the Elvis impersonators and political survivors from the 'Ethiopiques' project
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Cannes Film Festival in review
It usually takes a few days before a strong theme emerges from the Cannes Film Festival. But this year the programmers are putting their cards on the table. Pessimistic critics sometimes feel that embarking on a new festival is like being sent down for two weeks in the slammer – and sure enough, this year's selection has started with a crop of films about incarceration.
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Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Lie Down in the Light (Domino)
If you're unsure of how important Will (Bonnie "Prince" Billy) Oldham is to a generation of lo-fi folk artists, check out Jeffrey Lewis's song "Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror", a twisted tale that paints Oldham as the modern-day inheritor of Bob Dylan.
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Jan Fabre: L'Ange de la métamorphose, The Louvre, Paris Figuration Narrative: Paris 1960-72, Grand Palais, Paris
As a rule, interpolating contemporary artworks into Old Master collections strikes me as a bad idea, the outcome suggesting either that classicism needs justifying by its modernity or vice versa.
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Aussie director shows film at Cannes
When Australian filmmaker Julius Avery learnt his short movie Jerrycan was picked to compete at the prestigious Cannes International Film Festival, he walked into his backyard and started yelling at the top of his voice.
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Baroque meets punk rock
Beautiful embroidery and painstaking craftsmanship are the hallmarks of Chanel’s Métiers D’Art collection, which, this year, is presented as the Paris-Londres collection.
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Grant Marshall and Robert Del Naja pick 10 nights to catch at this year's Meltdown
For two weeks in June, Massive Attack take over the Southbank Centre in London for the Meltdown Festival. Grant Marshall and Robert Del Naja pick 10 nights to catch
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Duffy speaks to Sarah Boden
Reality show runner-up, festival virgin and suddenly Britain's bestselling star - but don't go thinking Duffy isn't tough. Sarah Boden catches up with her in California
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Secret ingredients abound in the Wis-Kino 2008 Spring Kabaret
With a year of operations under its belt, Sundance Cinemas at Hilldale is showing increased support for the Madison filmmaking community, playing host to the Spring Kabaret held back in April by Wis-Kino back in April, a big departure from its regular monthly home at Escape Java Joint. Twice a year, this group focused on short films holds a festival in which participating filmmakers are ...
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Open Forum facilitates discussion and debate
The discussion "P&H, Sidewalk Sperm, and Public Art" held Monday, May 12 in the coffeehouse was the first open forum in a long while to address issues bubbling under the surface of the relationship between students and administrators.
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Woody Allen banks on three beauties to woo critics at Cannes
Woody Allen's recently tarnished reputation as a film-maker regained some of its sparkle in Cannes this weekend. After three indifferently received films shot in Britain, Allen's much-publicised new film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, played at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday to a response that, if not quite rapturous, was at least a collective sigh of relief.
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Robert Rauschenberg, Art World's Tender Titan
Boundary-breaking pop artist Robert Rauschenberg died May 12 at the age of 82. Bettina Wiesenthal-Birch, who works at NPR's West Coast production facility, had known him since 1970, when she went to work for his lithographer — and says his fearlessness helped change her life.
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