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Musical celebration of Vietnam-Japan cultural ties
VietNamNet Bridge – The upcoming Vietnam-Japan Music Festival will mark a breakthrough in cultural relations between the two nations, Japan-Vietnam Special Ambassador Sugi Ryotaro said on May 23.
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NOW SHOWING
Camps & camping, homes & gardens, dining & drinking, fairs & festivals. Noise Pop celebrates its sweet sixteen with expanded coverage of art, film, comedy, and a whole lot of noise. A look at how the music fests's indie empire has grown.
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Pizarro: Downtown RFK memorial is central to 01SJ art project
Another piece of the 01SJ digital arts festival (formerly known as Zero One) is coming together, and this one has a strong tie to San Jose history.
San Jose Mercury News |
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The Medieval Imagination
An exhibition of manuscripts reveals how religious faith was a shining light in a harsh and superstitious age.
Sydney Morning Herald |
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Pioneer photojournalist Cornell Capa dies at 90
NEW YORK - Pioneer photojournalist Cornell Capa, who founded the International Center of Photography and illuminated social and political topics from the campaigns of the...
Boston Herald |
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Art therapy: Rowan hosts student event
GLASSBORO Bubbles and children's laughter filled the air outside Wilson Hall at Rowan University Friday morning, as more than 800 students from schools around South Jersey came to the college to experience the Very Special Arts Festival.
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PLAN YOUR WEEK AHEAD
Afternoon tea on the lawn of Stoney Creek's Erland Lee Museum, the Christie Antique Show, the annual Cancer Society Great Ride 'n' Stride and a book sale are some of the events that will keep you busy.
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Halliburton in a bidding contest
LONDON In the hot energy sector, a rapid-fire bidding contest broke out Friday between a London-led private equity consortium and Halliburton - both coveting the same European oil field contractor.Shares of Expro International Group PLC, now clearly the prize, soared 5.5 percent to 1,626 pence ($32.13).
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Stocks fall as oil prices stir worries
NEW YORK Wall Street ended a week of big losses with more selling Friday as rising oil prices again raised worries that strained consumers will cut back spending and hurt the overall economy.The Dow Jones industrials fell nearly 150 points in the final session before the three-day holiday weekend.
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Our Towns
LEWES -- 17th century life in Delaware will be the focus of attention at the Zwaanendael Museum's ninth annual Archaeology Festival that will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. today and from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday.
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What's art ... and what's not?
Artsy-fartsy Councillor Sandra Bussin says one of these pieces shows 'thought and creativity' while the other should be destroyed. Can you tell the difference?
Toronto Sun |
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Exhibit of art by blind, visually impaired in Denville
DENVILLE -- The N.J. Foundation for the Blind's Second Annual Founders' Day Art Exhibition will be held at Diamond Spring Lodge starting next Saturday.
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A Polish auteur -- and Mike Tyson! -- stage comebacks at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.
Call them the comeback kids: In its early days, the 2008 Cannes Film Festival has served as a staging ground for a number of unlikely returns, beginning with that of Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski, who's been absent from movie screens (except as an occasional actor) for nearly as long as Indiana ...
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DATEBOOK
Le Cercle Francais French Conversation Club: monthly meeting, 2 p.m., food court of The Mall at Steamtown. 346-4043. Children’s Art Making Corner: Saturdays, noon to 2 p.m., STAR Gallery, The Mall at Steamtown. $5, 344-3048 or 969-2537.
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Record entries in photo contest
A total of 734 works, a record, have been submitted by 93 participants for the 43rd Open Annual Exhibition and Competition of Photographic Art 2008. A spokesman for the Malta Photographic Society said 253 photographs were chosen to be displayed at the exhibition.
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Junior livestock auction is today at Silver Dollar Fair
CHICO -- The junior livestock auction will be held today at the Silver Dollar Fair. Admission to the fair is $7 for those ages 13-64, $5 for those 65 and older, $3 for those 6-12, and free for those 6 and younger.
Chico Enterprise-Record |
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Museums consider new ways to raise funds
MIAMI -- A large green and orange Keith Haring sculpture looms in the foyer of dermatologist Frederic Brandt's townhouse.
The News Journal |
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Free art show offered at State Theatre starting today
OROVILLE -- People are invited to attend a free art show today and next week at the State Theatre, featuring the whimsical and expressionistic works of artists Michael "Stetta" and Deborah Smith.
Oroville Mercury-Register |
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SIFF Update
A highlight of Day Two of the Seattle International Film Festival: local filmmaker Lynn Shelton's "My Effortless Brilliance," a well-cast...
Seattle Times |
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Ad Club gives Russell Museum $400,000
GREAT FALLS (AP) — The Great Falls Ad Club has made a record donation of just over $400,000 to the C.M. Russell Museum.
Helena Independent Record |
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New artwork for 'grotspot'
They may be poles apart in age and interests, but generations of Prestonians have joined together to turn a piece of wasteland into this towering work of art. (24/05/2008 07:59:29)
prestontoday.net |
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Christo exhibit to celebrate man of the cloth
Twenty-five years ago, the conceptual German artist Christo wrapped the islands of Biscayne Bay in pink fabric. The installation Surrounded Islands drew scorn from environmentalists, but put Miami on the radar of the international contemporary art scene.
Miami Herald |
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Divine, if not delicate, flowers that enchant
Botanical photography is far from predictable in the new book "Flower" (Artisan; $35; 168 pages), a compilation of the works of Christopher Beane with text by Anthony Janson. From the colorful tulip images that grace the cover to the stark image "Unfolded...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Thursday 'Sympathy for the Devil'
SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL -- ART AND ROCK AND ROLL SINCE 1967: Museum of Contemporary Art, 770 NE 125th St., North Miami; 305-893-6211 or www.mocanomi.org; $10.
Miami Herald |
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After 30 years, Ashkenazy conducts DSO
Modest Mussorgsky wrote his famous "Pictures at an Exhibition" for solo piano in 1874, but the piece became a beloved symphonic warhorse thanks to Maurice Ravel's prismatic 1922 arrangement.
Detroit Free Press |
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