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Where am I? > Until 25/06/2008 Working on your own plates, students can experiment with etchings using line, tone, colour and photographic techniques. Students work on their own zinc plates and learn a variety of methods for...
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Local Artist Showcase Their Work
Local artists displayed their work at an art show in Houston County this weekend.
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Bruce Anderson: Labour MPs thought that Brown was a lion. Now they are fearful that he is but a mouse
In Chequers, there is a painting by Snyders of a lion caught in hunters' nets, and there is a story attached to it. It is said that when Churchill was chatelain of the house during the war, he could not bear the sight of this magnificent beast ensnared and doomed, especially when the British lion was in mortal peril. So in the bottom right-hand corner he painted a mouse, gnawing away at the ...
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Professor George Hunter: Shakespeare scholar and the founding Professor of English Literature at Warwick University
G.K. Hunter was a Renaissance man. But while he was a brilliant champion of marginalised Elizabethan playwrights like Lyly and Marston, his commitment, as scholar, editor and teacher was very much to the present, as his continuous engagement with Shakespeare demonstrated. He was among those pioneering academics who, in the wake of the 1963 Robbins Report, were tasked with tackling elitism, ...
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Prelude to Earth Day
HACKETTSTOWN — Seton Hall University environmental studies professor Michael Taylor gets some quizzical looks from people driving behind him when he travels in his "Greasecar," a 20-year-old diesel-fueled Mercedes converted to run on used vegetable oil tossed out by local restaurants.
New Jersey Herald |
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May Fair planned for May 10
The 59th annual May Fair and Strawberry Festival will feature a little of the new and much of the tried and true this year. Rain or shine, it will be held from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, May 10, at St. Mark’s Church, 111 Oenoke Ridge.
New Canaan Advertiser |
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TATTY DEVINE GOES STATESIDE
CULT jeweller Tatty Devine has got together with the de Young gallery in San Francisco to create an exclusive new collection celebrating British artists Gilbert & George.
British Vogue |
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Tate Modern
Until 31/12/2008 Created in the year 2000 from a disused power station in the heart of London, Tate Modern displays the national collection of international modern art, defined as art since 1900. The collection...
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Local Dating
Where am I? > Until 31/12/2008 Drawing sessions based on the works on display.... more details Until 31/12/2008 The Imperial War Museum has collections covering all aspects of twentieth and twenty-first century conflict involving Britain and the Commonwealth.
My Village Southbank |
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Al Jazeera documentary film festival begins today
Staff Reporter THE 4th Al Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival begins today at the Doha Sheraton where 90 films of different types will be screened during the four-day event.
Gulf Times |
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Things to do 4.21.08
PAINTING, 9:30 a.m. Tuesdays, Kiwanis Senior Citizens Center, 119 Spaulding Blvd. Violet Blair will oversee the class. If you paint and would like help, come join the class. Information: 684-6310.
Muskogee Phoenix |
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Mixed bag of expos on cards
A variety of exhibitions will be showcased at this year’s Harare International Festival of the Arts slated for April 20 to May 4.
The Herald |
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Spiral Jetty threatened by oil project
Utah's Spiral Jetty land sculpture is at risk of being altered by a growing search for oil in the region, a foundation official says.
UPI |
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Spring festival blossoms in Fort Pierce
Kim Lyne ignored the trickle of blood running down her hand, cheerfully pulling a wagon-load of plants to her car.
The Palm Beach Post |
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A pageant for the third sex
Animation artist Sarnendu, alias Reema, saw his dream come true as he walked the ramp. Sujoy Debnath secretly borrowed his mother’s sari to participate in a beauty contest with a difference.
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art Till April 21 at Silpi Art Gallery, 32A Judges Court Road, #2479 2004; 1 pm - 8.30 pm:
Reflection of Reality and Beyond , an exhibition of paintings by Amiya Ranjan Sinha. Till April 21 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South Gallery B; 3 pm - 8 pm: Ultramarine-8 , an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by a group of young artists.
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Around Bartlett and Cordova
Ellendale United Methodist Church, 7217 Centralia Road, will have its 100th celebration charter service today with worship at 11 a.m., followed by a potluck and dessert auction. The perfect time to sit around and share old and new memories.
Memphis Commercial Appeal |
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Symphony ends season with a racing yet confident finish
For the Tacoma Symphony, it was a night of musical favorites, given the occasional twist and a couple of nervous moments amid a confident, enjoyable performance. The final concert in the TSO’s current season featured chestnuts like Ravel’s “Bolero,” Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, played with style by local soloist Maria Sampen.
Tacoma News Tribune |
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Four Bridges Art Festival Wraps Up In Chattanooga
This is the 8th year for the event, and more than 150 artists from across the country showcased their work. read more
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Market Matters
: Oil and Metals Shine as RTS Breaks 2,100 The RTS, the country's benchmark stock index, breached the 2,100 barrier for the first time this year, as oil and metal stocks pulled away from the field.
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What to Do: See Political Cartoons
21 April 2008 By Maria Antonova Tsaritsyno estate museum will exhibit works by Kukryniksy, a Soviet art group of the 1930s and '40s famous for their political cartoons and posters.
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Ongoing Nakba: London film festival commemorates 60 years of catastrophe
Palestine has been near the top of London's cultural agenda for two weeks running. Last week, the London Book Fair highlighted the Arab world, holding seminars by several well-known Palestinian writers and poets. Friday evening, Barbican Cinemas hosted the opening of the London Palestine Film Festival.
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The sparks and embers of cultural practices
The curtain may have fallen on the final performance, but Home Works IV has left a few glowing embers glittering in its wake. Scattered around the city, a clutch of venues continues to exhibit shows cut from the Home Works cloth. A particularly luminescent one currently resides at Karantina's Galerie Sfeir-Semler.
The Daily Star Lebannon |
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What you looking at? Gangster history museum opens in Hot Springs
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. -- The site of the new Gangster Museum of America has a history as sordid as its subjects.
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This Week's Arts Calendar
Art exhibition, quot Far from Home. quot Gallery hours 9 a.m. 5 p.m. Tuesday Saturday 10 a.m. 5 p.m. Sundays through July 13. Exhibition addresses the displacement of people in the global community as they relocate for economic, political, educational or familial reasons. North Carolina Museum of Art, 2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh, N.C. Free. Call...
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