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Artworks by Tennessee artists with disabilities are on display at Nashville’s Frist Center
Three Chattanooga artists have work on display in “The Artist’s Voice,” an exhibition showcasing art created by Tennessee residents who have physical, cognitive or mental disabilities.
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Chattanooga State installs seven new sculptures
Chattanooga State Technical Community College’s permanent sculpture collection is composed of about 40 pieces located throughout the campus, both indoors and outdoors.
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Collection of Tiffany lamps on view in Nashville
A new exhibit at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville sheds some light on the inspiration behind the stained-glass artwork of Louis Comfort Tiffany.
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Nashville: Programs accompany 'Tiffany by Design'
If you plan to drive to Nashville to view the “Tiffany by Design” exhibit, you might want to time your visit to coincide with one of several related programs sponsored by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. All times given are Central.
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Cannes prepares for prizes in festival finale
Established Hollywood stars and filmmakers such as Clint Eastwood and Angelina Jolie were competing against movies from acclaimed international directors for the top honors at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday. Among critical favorites at the 12-day festival, which presented some solid entries though no obvious standouts, was Eastwood's "Changeling," starring Jolie in the true-life story of a ...
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Aletha Spang wins museum's essay contest
The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) recently honored Aletha Spang, a sixth-grade student at the Saltonstall School, for her award-winning essay “Glowing Lanterns.” Spang’s essay placed third in the category 1 division of the Peabody Essex Museum’s annual Yin Yu Tang student essay contest.
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Chattanooga: Shuptrine Fine Art Group showcases portrait artists
Michele Anderson, Maddin Corey, Dale Crawford, Curtis Jaunsen, Liz Lindstrom and Lane Brown Taylor are exhibiting their portraiture at Shuptrine Fine Art Group through June 6.
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Sites meet rise in cremations
Two years ago, sculptor Julia Burr created a 9-foot-tall figure from hollow steel tubes. She painted it red and filled it with her best friend's cremated remains. The sculpture, “The Indelible Mark,” towers over the flower garden in back of her Black Mountain home. She finds it a comforting memorial to her friend Mark, a performance artist with a colorful, outsize personality. Now, Burr ...
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Recent Original Stories
The second part of the extensive Linux Tips for Free Mandriva Linux 2006 review has been published, going into details about the state of Linux hardware support and compatibility, hardware configuration and software with a whole section on digital photography.
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Vietnam joins festival and fair in Netherlands
VietNamNet Bridge - A Vietnamese delegation is taking part in the Tong Tong Festival and Pasar Malam Besar fair that are running in the Netherlands’ city of The Hague.
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Local events: May 25
Children's Festival of Reading - "Starship Adventures," an out of this world experience; giant alien puppets, science lab, famous authors and illustrators, arts, interactive fountain, a trip up the Sunsphere, and more, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, May 31, World's Fair Park, 1060 World's Fair Park Drive. Info: 865-215-8783 or knoxlib.org.
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Collectors Club trip brings Lichtenstein print
After a recent trip to Chicago, the Clay Center's Collectors Club has made its annual purchase for its art museum: an abstract print 4 1/2 feet high by pop-art superstar Roy Lichtenstein, who died in 1997. The club paid $33,000.
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Tourism shaken in China quake zone
DUJIANGYAN, China - A sculpture proclaims Dujiangyan the "top tourist city in China." But at the ancient irrigation works, a World Heritage site, the ticket office is now a smashed reminder of a devastating earthquake.
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21st annual Hannibal river arts festival
By Bret Buganski Posted: Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 10:42 p.m. HANNIBAL, MO. -- Gus Macker wasn't the only annual Memorial Day event happening in the tri-states.
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Civil Rights Memorial previewed over Memorial Day Weekend
NEWBURGH -- The Virginia Civil Rights Memorial, a historic sculpture cast by Polich Tallix Fine Art Foundry is at the Newburgh Waterfront through Monday, May 27. A preview celebration was held Saturday.
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ART WORLD: Spike Lee blasts Clint Eastwood
It was all cool at the Cannes Film Festival last week until Spike Lee dumped on superstar Clint Eastwood.
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Three Eastern students win top art contest honors
An untitled poster-board construction of 71 miniature photos mounted on jagged pads of green, grey, black, pink and orange felt — like so many pieces of a jigsaw puzzle — won Rio’s Valerie Riggleman the grand prize in the 2008 Diversity College Art Contest at Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College.
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Local Newsmakers - May 25, 2008
Poster contest winners honored at arts center
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“Sparks!” exhibit shows how Nelson-Atkins has spent 9 million
It’s a shock to see big galleries of contemporary art with room to breathe at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
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Documentaries highlight gay film fest
Ask Not,” a documentary look at the American military’s don’t-ask-don’t-tell policy regarding homosexual service personnel, will open this year’s Kansas City Gay and Lesbian Film & Video Festival, scheduled for June 27-July 3 at the Tivoli Cinemas.
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VOOM PORTRAITS Robert Wilson at The Bass Museum of Art
Peter Stormare, Actor, 2004, Music by Michael Galasso Arranged by Peter Cerone, 65” plasma display panel with single unit stereo speaker and HD media player.
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Georgia O'Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle Opens at San Diego Museum of Art
Georgia O’Keeffe, Pink Tulip, 1926, oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches. The Baltimore Museum of Art, bequest of Mabel Garrison Siemonn, in memory of her husband George Siemonn. © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
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Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul at National Gallery of Art
Portrait, probably of the Gymnasiarch Strato (Aï Khanum, Gymnasium), 1st half of the 2nd century BC, limestone, National Museum of Afghanistan. ©Thierry Ollivier / Musée Guimet.
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At year mark, Capella reaches for more goals
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Several Bill Reid pieces stolen from UBC's Museum of Anthropology. VANCOUVER - Several pieces by Canadian artist Bill Reid have been stolen from the University of British Columbia's Museum of Anthropology.
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