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Tonight Author honor The 24th Annual Celebration of Black Writing Festival will honor Haki Madhubuti at 7:30 tonight with its 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award. Haki means justice, and Madhubuti means precise, accurate and dependable, according to the Art S
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Diploma, poster honor Carson
Eve Carson, the slain UNC-Chapel Hill student body president, was honored in a simple, private ceremony this month when university officials presented her parents with her diploma, a pewter model of the Old Well and a watercolor painting of her favo
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Kate Bright's works conjure alluring darkness.
Anyone who has ever trudged through the Wissahickon woods after a heavy snowstorm has seen Kate Bright's paintings. Never mind that Bright is British and lives in London, or that the paintings are based on photographs probably taken elsewhere (her catalog
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Events for the family
Special Events Philadelphia 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony Honoring recipient Haki Madhubuti. Part of the 2008 Celebration of Black Writing Festival. Church of the Advocate, 1801 West Diamond St.; 215-232-4485. www.artsanctuary.org. $20. 5/23 7:30 pm.
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Australia's Back to Back Theatre alters landscape of performance art
If you see clusters of people wandering around SAM's Olympic Sculpture Park next week, wearing headsets and scanning the area for a pair...
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Folklife director's picks
Among those going to this weekend's Northwest Folklife Festival for the first time is Folklife's new executive director, Robert Townsend...
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Australian police to lay charges over naked child exhibition
Australian police said on Friday they expect to lay charges after seizing more than 20 photographs from a controversial exhibition in Sydney that features images of naked 12- and 13-year-old girls. Rose Bay Local Area Commander Alla ...
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Chamber Arts Music Festival kicks off tonight
David Alpher, founder of the Chamber Arts Music Festival of Marbletown, is scheduled to perform a “Multimedia Extravaganza” on May 31 in Stone Ridge (Michael Gold photo).
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VANCOUVER - Paintings by several renowned Canadian artists sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars Thursday at the Heffel spring auction in Vancouver, trouncing previous records set by the painters' work.
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School mural aims to inspire
SPRINGFIELD - Amber G. Hakim displayed some of her paintings at yesterday's annual Central High School Spring Art Show, but perhaps her most touching work was not even part of the event.
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Exhibit shows another side of Jane Seymour
British actress Jane Seymour returns to Stone Harbor this weekend to display another side of her talent as an artist.
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Giddyup! Exploring interactions between horses and humans
"The Horse," now showing at the American Museum of Natural History, examines the powerful relationship between horses and humans -- and explores the origins of the horse family.
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Weekend Events
PORTSMOUTH- Tickets are expected to sell out shortly for 14th annual Taste of the Nation Portsmouth gala on Wednesday, June 18, at the Strawbery Banke Museum.
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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. (PRWeb May 23, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/05/prweb963204.htm
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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 that has provoked a row over when art becomes pornography.
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Each year, a lucky few view Djerassi Ranch sculptures
You don't have to dress to impress if you're among the lucky few to get reserve a spot on the "sculpture hike'' at Djerassi Ranch in Woodside, a 580-acre former cattle ranch overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
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Boxes form basis for show at the Main Gallery
Ceramics, paintings, photography are 'barely contained' in Redwood City exhibit
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Art Pick 'Voom Portraits' at the Bass Museum
Voom Portraits is, above all else, a fun art exhibit. Showing at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach alongside the museum's collection of classical portraits from the 15th to the 18th centuries, Voom combines the wild imagination of artist Robert Wilson and the technology of high-definition television in a series of video portraits.
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More music to our ears
This PopLife column is hereby declared a no-banjo zone. Washboards and faux flappers, you've been banned, too. It's nothing personal. You'll all get plenty of play at this weekend's Sacramento Jazz Jubilee. Singer Valerie V will perform this weekend at Jazz on the River, a modern-jazz festival featuring local musicians not playing at the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee.
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Summer starts when the festivals get here
Retailers can try to trick you into believing summer has arrived by strategically placing sunblock displays at the end of the isle, or having a sale on lawn mowers or patio furniture.
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Another side of Spira
Landscapes are not the style of painting that the Coast’s art public associates with Roberts Creek artist Maurice Spira. His work, which spans a 40-year career, is usually politically tinged or allegorical. His figurative work is realistic and often grotesque.
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Shows of note
John Buck It's somewhat of a haul, but it will surely be worth it. The Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture in Spokane just opened a 40-year survey of John Buck's career, "John Buck: Iconography."
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Poynter unveils Time Flies
A detailed mural entitled Time Flies by artist Jan Poynter, mounted on the upper wall of the Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives in Gibsons, was officially unveiled last Saturday on George and Charlotte Gibson Day.
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Diverse perspectives Fresh faces add distinctive flavor to Discover Jazz Fest's silver jubilee
For its 25th anniversary soirée, the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival landed not one but two giants of the genre: master pianist Dave Brubeck and sax explorer extraordinaire Ornette Coleman. But, true to the festival's longtime mission and accomplished history, the silver jubilee celebration will also be marked by the inclusion of some of the freshest faces on the modern jazz scene. ... - By ...
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Artworks to greet forest visitors
Visitors to a Cumbrian forest will see some eye-catching tree-top sculptures over the coming Bank Holiday.
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