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Street painting at Riverhead arts festival
For a dozen years, The East End Arts Council's Riverhead Community Mosaic Street Painting Festival has been an exciting kickoff to Long Island's outdoor-fun season, and this year promises to be even more spectacular.
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Bronze have more fun
This explanation of how Seward Johnson creates his sculptures on display in Bennington is reprinted from the artist's Web site, www.sewardjohnson.com: ... - Staff Report
The Barre Montpelier Times Argus |
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It's Sasquatch weekend -- Here are some previews
This weekend marks the seventh annual Sasquatch! Music Festival, a three-day affair full of indie rock's finest -- from big names to Northwest favorites and now even a whole roster of comedians -- performing on multiple stages at The Gorge Amphitheatre.
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Art Openings, Events and Museums
Admission is free unless otherwise noted. Idea Studio lecture: Susan Szenasy, editor-in-chief of Metropolis Magazine, joins a panel of architects, journalists and policy makers to discuss the vision and reality of Portland's urban development.
The Oregonian |
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Local & live
Friday. May 23, 2008 • ART RECEPTION, AWARDS CEREMONY: Fraley Lounge, Bair Student Center, Rocky Mountain College. 4-7 p.m. Juried art show, "Birds of the Big Sky Country."
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Troy holds art show
TROY — Becky Borek of Columbia Crossroads has been to the Troy Area School District’s elementary art show ever since it started three years ago.
The Daily & Sunday Review |
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Welcome to Portland!
Ah, Memorial Day. Time to stash the parka until next year. Coffeehouses prop open their doors, festivals descend on Portland's waterfront. And weekend visitors arrive at our doorsteps, determined to experience Oregon before the rain returns.
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In the area
The offices of Western New Mexico University, including the J. Cloyd Miller Library, WNMU Bookstore, WNMU Museum and swimming pool will be closed from today to Monday to commemorate the Memorial Day Holiday. Regular hours will resume for all closed offices on Tuesday.
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Musicians inspire charity artworks
The saying has it that a picture is worth a thousand words. In the case of the paintings in the Art of Music auction, the pictures interpret some of the country's best-loved songs, and they are worth a good deal to the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy charity.
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Bronze have more fun
This explanation of how Seward Johnson creates his sculptures on display in Bennington is reprinted from the artist's Web site, www.sewardjohnson.com: Seward Johnson uses a maquette, a small clay model, to fashion the gesture and pose of a figure which will take up to two years to reach completion. Once the pose is final and the age, narrative and facial expression are established, the artist ...
Rutland Herald |
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Shakespeare in Alabama? It might be worth the trip
With school out for the year throughout most of the midstate, this is the time when folks begin looking for trips that can be taken without busting the savings account. A favorite destination for those who enjoy theater is the Alabama Shakespeare Festival in Montgomery. Believe it or not, it's the seventh largest Shakespeare festival in the world.
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Fill your summer with song
Festivals, fairs and 8 Great Tuesdays are just the start of your outdoor music options this summer.
Erie Times-News |
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Painting in the high country
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK -- There's something about Yosemite Valley that can't be captured with the click of a camera. But for those willing to slow down and soak up a scene with more than passing interest, this elusive beauty often emerges through the strokes of a pen or paintbrush.
The Fresno Bee |
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Charges 'likely' over nude child photos
Police plan to lay indecency charges after seizing more than 20 photographs of naked adolescent girls and shutting down a Sydney exhibition.
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Artist with Macon ties sees work replace Warhol at Coke museum
When he was a small boy, Steve Penley often accompanied his grandfather when he delivered Coca-Cola in Chattanooga, Tenn.
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Fruit of artists' efforts to be displayed at National Orange Show Festival in San Bernardino
A fine arts show featuring artists from throughout Southern California will have a four-day run during the National Orange Show Festival, which opens today in San Bernardino.
The Press-Enterprise |
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New Carmel hotel puts visitors in lap of luxury
CARMEL, Ind. -- It's upscale groovy. The Renaissance Indianapolis North Hotel, a contemporary boutique hotel opening in Carmel May 30, has swirls on the carpet, orange, green and red walls, drum chandeliers, funky-shaped couches and geometric prints everywhere.
The Indianapolis Star |
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Smithsonian exhibit on space stops here
The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum will show the Smithsonian traveling exhibit "Beyond: Visions of Planetary Landscapes" starting Saturday.
Tucson Citizen |
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Hotel emphasizes details
It's groovy -- upscale groovy. The Renaissance Indianapolis North Hotel, a contemporary boutique hotel opening in Carmel next week, has swirls on the carpet, orange, green and red walls, drum chandeliers, funky-shaped couches and geometric prints everywhere.
The Indianapolis Star |
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SculptureWalk spinoff
The newest indoor public art exhibit at Avera McKennan Hospital also is a one-mile walk, if you follow the map to each of the 15 works in a spin-off of the 5-year-old downtown SculptureWalk.
The Argus Leader |
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Charlotte's Shain Gallery Celebrates 10 Years and Announces Launch of New Website
The Shain Gallery, one of the finest contemporary art providers in the Carolinas, celebrates its Tenth Anniversary and is proud to announce the launch of its website www.shaingallery.com. Shain Gallery represents a diverse group of artists with a wide variety of themes and colors.
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Feed the inner artist
The Downtown Denver Arts Festival is a great place to get art at reasonable prices.
Denver Post |
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May 23, 2008
Cynthia Hall, a former professional photographer, Nantucket resident and museum administrator in Washington, D.C., is the Osterville Historical Society and Museum’s new executive director.
The Barnstable Patriot |
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