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Best Bets
Ongoing.Paintings and films. As its name suggests, the Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar never likes to do things the conventional way. Its latest round of offerings, which opened Thursday and runs through Aug. 31, consists of an unexpected pairing of rarely seen silent films with an exhibition titled "Bedroom Paintings." The Lab is at 404 S. Upham St. in the Belmar shopping district in ...
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New visitors center opens in Ninety Six
Ninety Six Primary and Elementary School students lead state Sen. John Drummond to a wall full of student artwork dedicated to the senator. Drummond was one of many in attendance for the open house of the Ninety Six Visitors Center on Thursday.
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Television - International
A controversial art exhibition in Sydney has been cancelled after police began investigating claims of child pornography.
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Festival kicks off tonight
SHAMOKIN — It was about three years ago when the Northumberland County Council for the Arts and Humanities and its director, Jeanne Shaffer, had the idea for a festival that would showcase the talents and history of the greater Shamokin area.
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Art Picks
In perhaps one of the most ambitious shows taken on at the Durham Art Guild in the past two decades, the Sally Bowen Prange Wainwright retrospective opened last week to a packed house of family, friends, fellow artists, gallery owners, curators and collectors from across the state. Curator Paul Hrusovsky traveled the state to create a selection documenting 60 years of the late ceramist's ...
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Support structure: Authentic tepee being designed, built in Seeley to honor Blackfeet heritage
Leonard and Audrey Weasel Traveller sketch the design to be painted on a tepee in the elementary school gym in Seeley Lake on Thursday. The 20-foot Blackfeet tepee will be erected next to the Seeley Lake Historical Society Museum on Friday evening.
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‘News in Art’
SHAMOKIN — The strokes of a paintbrush on canvas are typically what’s on display at the Northumberland County Career and Arts Center Fine Art Gallery.
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Terminator Salvation begins shooting
Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins , starring Christian Bale and Sam Worthington, began principal photography on May 5, 2008, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Commodified China
"I want to be plastic," Andy Warhol once said. This bizarre wish uttered by the ever-outlandish artist captures the essence of plastic—a malleable material with innumerable applications that can be shaped into just about any product.
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Naked child photo exhibit shut
A photographic exhibition in Sydney of naked 12 and 13-year-old children, closed by police only hours before its opening night, has sparked a heated debate over whether adolescent nudity is art or pornography.
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Contested heritage
Forty years ago this month protests against the status quo broke out worldwide, perhaps nowhere more so than in France where students were joined by trade unionists and even members of the middle classes in a month of sometimes violent strikes and protests that threatened to bring down the French government.
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Soderbergh challenges Cannes with epic Che tale
CANNES, France - Unless it is one of his "Ocean's Eleven" casino romps, Steven Soderbergh never makes things easy for an audience. With his epic film biography of Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, Soderbergh defiantly has made the story he wanted to see, one that will prove a very tough sell to some audiences.
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WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
ALL IS FAIR IN ART AND CULTUREART - May 23The 13th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts starts tonight at 6, with free theater, music, dance, puppetry, poetry and film for everyone inside and outside downtown's Theater for the New City. The...
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BAZ BAMIGBOYE IN CANNES: Sienna Miller, Penelope Cruz, Naomi Campbell and more...
The Cannes Film Festival hands out its prizes on Sunday and the top stars are preparing for an action-packed weekend. BAZ BAMIGBOYE has all the gossip from the French Riviera.
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Henson exhibition shut down
The opening night of an exhibition by the photographer Bill Henson was dramatically cancelled after police visited the Paddington gallery to investigate child pornography claims.
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Portrait of Queen Mother on display
A portrait of the Queen Mother and her two daughters will go on display, along with a letter she wrote to commission it. The painting, valued at £50,000, will be sold at auction at Lyon and Turnbull in Edinburgh on May 29.
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ENCINITAS: City to present first open call exhibition for artists
ENCINITAS ---- The city's Commission for the Arts is inviting artists to participate in an open call exhibition that will take place during the month of June at the Encinitas Library Community Room. The exhibition is free of charge and open to the pu
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Calendar -- Des Moines
New works by Nancy Purington. Through May 27. Hentschel Art Gallery, 835 42nd St. 277-3200; www.hentschelartgallery.com .
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Date Lines
Artists encouraged The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art today announced the 2008 winners of its SECA (Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art) awards, handed out every other year to promising Bay Area artists. The four chosen this year, out...
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Best Bets
Claw-hammer banjoist Mary Z. Cox (a confessed "banjoholic" and "dulcimaniac") and husband Bob Cox will be featured performers at this weekend's Florida Folk Festival in White Springs, along with Grammy Award-winning instrumentalist Charlie McCoy, singer/songwriter Amy Carol Webb, local troubadour Del Suggs (all playing Saturday night) and many, many more.
Tallahassee Democrat |
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Folk Festival lines up feast of favorite music, food
The annual Florida Folk Festival, held during Memorial Day weekend, returns to the Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park in White Springs today.
Tallahassee Democrat |
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Winners of water art contest awarded
A Hawthorne Elementary fifth-grader won the annual water conservation busboard contest. Lincoln fifth-graders participated in the art contest, sponsored by the Mayor’s Water Conservation Task Force.
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The simple life: Andrea Merrill puts her art on the line
Meet artist Andrea Merrell, a Boise artist with her first museum show now on exhibit at the Boise Art Museum.
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Some People Would Die To Wind Up at This Museum
You know the names: Jesse James, Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger . . .
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KANSAS CITY AREA
American Jazz Museum, with Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, 1616 E. 18th St., Kansas City, Mo. Showcase of all genres of jazz with interactive studio, working nightclub, sound library and personal effects of jazz greats. Hours 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat., noon-6 p.m. Sun. Jazz or baseball museum admission $6, $2.50 for children under 12 (combo tickets available). Information, 816-474-8463. Kemper ...
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