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£40,000 for table tipped in skip
A RARE table that was “thrown” onto a skip by a Welsh family fetched £40,000 at auction yesterday.
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Mahopac library to unveil mural, host author
- A mural created by fifth-grade students who graduated from Lakeview Elementary School in June 2007 has been installed in the Young Arts Gallery at the Mahopac Public Library.
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Garrison Art Center to host photography contest
The Garrison Art Center, 23 Garrison's Landing, invites the community to participate in a photography contest celebrating the outdoor sculpture exhibit "CURRENT: A Sculpture Tour," which will open May 31 with a preview tour and party to benefit the centers' scholarship fund.
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More News
A note from Frog: Remember readers and callers, the opening for the “News in Art” photographic art exhibition of “The News-Item” photographers is tonight from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Northumberland County Career and Arts Center-Fine Art Gallery, Eighth and Arch streets, Shamokin. It’s open to the public and all are welcome. I’ll have your neighbor’s incessantly barking dogs chained outside the ...
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Memorial Day weekend celebration set at Cooperstown museums
This year's Memorial Day weekend celebration marks the second anniversary of The Empire State Carousel in its new and permanent home -- The Farmers' Museum in Cooperstown. Being unveiled is the newest carving by the carousel's creator and head carver, Gerry Holzman.
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Students' art on display at Holocast Museum
Holocaust Museum Study Center Visual Arts Competition: Rockland Country Day School students participated in the Holocaust Museum's Siegelbaum Literary and Visual Arts Competition and will have their artwork displayed at the museum in Spring Valley now through June 17. The students are seventh-graders Katherine Geber, Noah Lesko-Kanowitz, Jamie Pohs and Alorah Saffran; eighth-graders Nina Heller, ...
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Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville: Day 2 - May 16, 2008
Outside, as it is, of the conventional summer festival season, one might think the highly unconventional Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville would have even more challenges than other festivals when it comes to programming.
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Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville: Day 1 - May 15, 2008
Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville, held in May each year in the rather unlikely location of Victoriaville, Canada, has built a reputation for cutting-edge music and premiere presentations so distinctive that fans return year after year from locations around the globe.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 24th Oct 2007 22:05 UTC
The Gimp 2.4 was released today and it includes a number of new features, like scalable brushes, align tool, new selection tools, color Management and soft-proofing, Red Eye removal and much more . Unfortunately, there is still no 16bit per pixel support, which is useful for digital photography editing.
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Lumberjack competition comes to Thanksgiving Point
Thanksgiving Point will host the first round of STIHL Timbersports Series June 6 and 7 as part of its Wild Outdoor Festival. Timbersports will bring together professional athletes from around the world to compete in eight traditional lumberjack disciplines, including single buck, stock and hot saw,
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SCHOOL CALENDAR
Elementary schools Beech Elementary sculpture dedication, 2 p.m. today, 1830 S. Cypress. Students will unveil a sculpture that fifth-graders have been working on with Arts Partners. It will be a permanent addition to the school. D.A.R.E. graduations, for students to mark the completion of a drug resistance education program and celebrate their commitment to a drug-free life: OK ...
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Hyannis landmark stuck in litigation
HYANNIS — The long-empty brick building at Main Street and Ocean Street narrowly avoided being auctioned at foreclosure yesterday, when Hibel Realty Trust, the entity that owns the property, filed for bankruptcy.
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Art that tells 'The Story' on view at FSU
Quincy-born artist Dean Mitchell is a major American realist and painter whose name is often mentioned in the same breath as Andrew and Jamie Wyeth. Several of Mitchell's masterful paintings are included in Florida State's new "The Story" exhibition.
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Time to explore 'Our Body'
THE EXHIBIT, WHICH FEATURES CADAVERS ON DISPLAY, OPENS SATURDAY AT EXPLORATION PLACE It's controversial, compelling and probably not for the weak of stomach (or for those who don't want to know what their stomachs actually look like). The anticipated traveling exhibit "Our Body: The Universe Within" opens Saturday at Exploration Place, 300 N. McLean Blvd. The exhibit features 17 human ...
The Wichita Eagle |
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Artist irate after Las Cruces Museum of Art removes his collages
LAS CRUCES — Manuel Peña's unique "coming of age" photo collage series helped him get into the master's degree photography program at the prestigious Rochester (N.Y.) Institute of Technology.
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Bluegrass festival ready to 'pick off'
For more coverage on things to do and places to go in Las Cruces and southern New Mexico, visit Pulse. Luna County is far from the rolling mountains of Appalachia, but that isn't stopping the Friends of Rockhound State Park from bringing the tunes of five bluegrass bands to the Florida Mountains.
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Riverfest to draw thousands
FARMINGTON — Get ready for some roaring rapids fun this weekend along the Animas River as the area's premier river festival of the year kicks off at 7 p.m. Friday with a free concert and art show.
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Home and Garden Briefs
OUT AND ABOUT Art, music Paintings, pottery, jewelry, sculpture and wearable art by 75 artists wi
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19th century painting found in raid
HYANNIS — The quest to identify a mysterious painting has unearthed yet another connection between a fired building inspector and a notorious criminal — and it has prompted questions about whether the work of art could be one of the county's...
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'In and Around Town' with Rebecca Pearl
THURMONT -- The Rebecca Pearl Gallery could almost pass for an extravagant living room, full of framed fine art and warmed by throw rugs and a couch at its center. Classical music plays and people sometimes bring their dogs.
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Oranges are back
SAN BERNARDINO - After a long hiatus, local oranges are back in the National Orange Show Festival. "When I used to come to the Orange Show, there were three buildings full (of citrus) at this place," Orange Show general manager Dan Jimenez said. Photo Gallery: Orange Show citrus
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Logan Lecture Series: Bjorn Melhus -- 05/22/08 at Denver Art Museum
Logan Lecture Series: Bjorn Melhus -- 05/22/08 at Denver Art Museum
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Norman Community Events
TODAY FredFilm: "Infernal Affairs,” 7 p.m., Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at University of Oklah
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Shawnee mummy travels to Idabel museum exhibit
SHAWNEE — Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art officials are loaning a 2,300-year-old mummy they keep on dis
The Oklahoman |
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The great raid on Framingham
Peter Harvell, director of veterans services for Sudbury, oversees an impressive collection of artifacts from World War I, including propaganda posters, artwork made from battlefield debris, battle prints, and authentic weaponry. Much of the collection will be on display Monday as part of a Memorial Day show at the town's Hosmer House property.
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