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Everson has new director
The Everson Museum of Art has named Steven Kern its new director. The appointment was approved at the museum's board of trustees meeting Monday. Currently, Kern is director of the William Benton Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut in Storrs.
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SAM's Party in the Park
The Seattle Art Museum's 75th birthday was celebrated with a party in the Olympic Sculpture Park. Friday's event featured a performance of Glenn Branca's Hallucination Symphony. All photos by Damien Jones.
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Soft economy has tourist attractions working harder for visitors
WASHINGTON — It seemed like a can't-miss tourist attraction that would pull in visitors to the nation's capital: a new Madame Tussauds wax museum. But since opening last fall, the attraction featuring likenesses of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton — among many others — hasn't been a big enough draw. Crowds dwindled after the opening, and Madame Tussauds is cutting prices. Adult tickets, ...
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Louis Vuitton to sue t-shirt designer
DANISH art student Nadia Plesner, who is being sued by the fashion house Louis Vuitton for depicting its handbag on a T-shirt, says her design has got more people talking about the Darfur conflict than she ever thought.
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Apostle of surrealism has last laugh over €1m auction
André Breton, the apostle of surrealism, would probably have been amused rather than annoyed. Art historians and critics are puzzled and angry.
Independent |
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Franklin Exhibit Explores Artful Mechanics
If heavy equipment operation, household vacuum cleaners and power drills don't strike you as artful expression, the Franklin Institute's latest exhibition 'Amazing Machine!' might just change your mind.
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Focus Features acquires epic 'Agora'
Focus Features International announced at the Cannes Film Festival that it has acquired sales and distribution rights to Agora, a historical epic.The movie is the latest from The Sea Inside filmmaker Alejandro Amenabar. It stars British actress Rachel Weisz, who won an Oscar for her work in Focus' The Constant Gardener.In the new film, she will play the real-life Hypatia of Alexandria, who was ...
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The Chelsea Flower Show: pick of the bunch
How will climate change affect us? Will it be colder, or warmer, or wetter or drier? In South Africa, judging by this exhibit, which demonstrates the early warning signs of the impact of global warming on what should be a lush landscape, one thing is for sure. It's going to be pricklier.
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Depictions of the drought
Hume Community Rural Outreach worker, Ivan Lister, presented an exhibition of his art works at theicly display their own art work in their own communities. Many people took the time at the weekend to view the exhibition, which proved to be very popular....
Euroa Gazette |
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Bonnaroo Will Be Televised
Fuse, the national music television network, has signed a three-year agreement with the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, to become the exclusive television partner of the Festival
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Max Gimblett gifts his art work to Gallery
Senior New Zealand artist Max Gimblett and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett are gifting a major collection of the artist’s works on paper to the Auckland Art Gallery Foundation in support of the gallery’s development project – at a special event held at ...
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Eliasson's New York City Waterfalls
Loews Regency Hotel is offering a "Traditional Luxury Meets Modern Art" package … Sheraton Universal is offering a special VIP package to mark the opening of the new Simpsons Ride at Universal Studios … and more.
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Hope memorabilia up for auction
A 30cm-high cowboy hat from the movie Paleface. An autographed photo of Lucille Ball with some teeth blackened out. A money clip from Jack Benny. These were a few of comedian Bob Hope’s favorite things.
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Educational Plans for Lincoln Painting
Future plans for the Abraham Lincoln bicentennial painting were unveiled Monday and more than 1000 school children got to be there. The "Life of Abraham Lincoln" painting was created by Thomas Kennedy of Spencer County in honor of the President's 200th birthday.
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Lifetime Networks, CosmoGIRL! and Declare Yourself Launch the Future Frontrunners Contest to Search for Tomorrow's ...
- Young Women Across America Can Win a Chance to Attend the Democratic National Convention or the Republican National Convention by Answering the Question: 'What Would You Do If You Were President...
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Three Binghamton-area businesses to close
Three businesses that have operated for decades -- a photography business in Vestal, a restaurant in Binghamton, and a gift shop in Johnson City -- will close as early as the end of the month, their owners said.
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Frank Lloyd Wright works exhibited in museum he inspired
Will Bruder likes to think that Frank Lloyd Wright would feel at home in the Nevada Museum of Art.
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Rohm and Haas Recognizes Four Local Art Students for Outstanding Achievement
Rohm and Haas Company recently recognized four student artists, for outstanding work through its 29th
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Fayette County Student Gets Recognition For Artwork
Her work will be on display at the Chamber of Commerce.
The Charleston State Journal |
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Rohm and Haas Recognizes Four Local Art Students for Outstanding Achievement
Rohm and Haas Company recently recognized four student artists, for outstanding work through its 29th Annual Fine Arts Achievement Awards. Each piece of award-winning art becomes part of the company's extensive art collection on display primarily in Rohm and Haas offices in the Delaware Valley.
Centre Daily Times |
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The beauty of ‘No’
MANILA, Philippines—The human body is such a marvelous thing to look at. Once, my aunt who teaches at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts brought me to a nude painting session.
Philippine Daily Inquirer |
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Rohm and Haas Recognizes Four Local Art Students for Outstanding Achievement
Rohm and Haas Company recently recognized four student artists, for outstanding work through its 29th Annual Fine Arts Achievement Awards. Each piece of award-winning art becomes part of the company’s extensive art collection ...
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Rohm and Haas Recognizes Four Local Art Students for Outstanding Achievement
PHILADELPHIA----Rohm and Haas Company recently recognized four student artists, for outstanding work through its 29th Annual Fine Arts Achievement Awards. Each piece of award-winning art becomes part of the company's extensive art collection on display primarily in Rohm and Haas offices in the Delaware Valley.
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Cincinnati Public Schools' Art Collection Under Scrutiny
Millions of dollars are potentially available to help Cincinnati schools, but it would come at a serious cost to the community, the schools say.
WLWT-TV Cincinnati |
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art Till May 20 at The Art Shoppé Gallery, Unnayan #Uns-71, Bengal Ambuja Commercial Complex, 1050/1 Survey Park; 11 ...
Oh! Calcutta... , an exhibition of paintings by Swaroop Mukerji, Apurba Mazumder, Manik Saha, Dilip Chaudhury, Jayanta Chakraborty and Anindya Mukharjee.
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