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Longtime director of Hickory Museum of Art dies
HICKORY, N.C. (AP) - The woman who led the Hickory Museum of Art for almost 40 years after her husband served as the first director has died. The funeral and burial for 93-year-old Mildred McKinney Whitener Coe were scheduled Tuesday afternoon in Hickory.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s items will be auctioned off
DALLAS—President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s trademark fedora, the last check he ever signed, and watercolor sketches for the unfinished portrait he sat for on the day he died are among hundreds of historic artifacts and documents headed for the auction block.
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Wyeth granddaughter gives one-of-a-kind tours
It's clear this isn't the typical tour of a museum with major works of art when the guide sidles up to a painting and begins: "I'll never forget it. We're having cheeseburgers across the street at Hank's and he's telling me about this one."
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New York - Robert Moses Freeway Express: Queens, BQE, Coney Island (Part III)
BQE to Flushing Meadows We drove an old blue tank of a Volvo on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to Flushing Meadows park in Queens to see the Queens Museum of Art. The BQE is a crazy, crazy road. Narrow, fast, elevated, old and in New York City — it’s horrific and awesome at once. The lanes [...]
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Chinese painting depicting communist youth sets record
A modern Chinese painting featuring eight masked characters wearing the red scarves of China's communist youth organization sold for a record $9.7 million at a Christie's auction.
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Ceremony honors last U.S.-born WWI vet - Army News, opinions, editorials, news from Iraq, photos, reports - Army Times
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As the last known living American-born veteran of World War I, Frank Woodruff Buckles is upgrading his place in the history books. The 107-year-old veteran was an honored guest at the Liberty Memorial this weekend where he toured the National World War I Museum for the first time.
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Longtime director of Hickory Museum of Art dies
HICKORY The woman who led the Hickory Museum of Art for almost 40 years after her husband served as the first director has died.
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Astronaut from tiny Minn. town will soon be in space
If the tiny town of Vining, population 69, is known for anything, it's probably the odd collection of giant sculptures, which includes a levitating coffee cup, a severed foot with a sore toe, a giant pliers squishing a bug and an elephant made out of lawn mower blades.
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Rediscovered Goya sketches set for London auction
LONDON (Reuters) - Three sketches by Spanish master Goya that have been missing for 130 years will go on sale in London in July for an expected price of up to 3 million pounds.
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Louise scores with her paintings
A RETIRED teacher is exhibiting her paintings of footballers in action at a local mortgage company in Eastbourne. (26/05/2008 09:40:01)
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Historic FDR artifacts up for auction in Texas
DALLAS - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's trademark fedora and watercolor sketches for the unfinished portrait he sat for on the day he died are among hundreds of historic artifacts and documents headed for the auction block.
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Rediscovered Goya sketches set for London auction
LONDON (Reuters) - Three sketches by Spanish master Goya that have been missing for 130 years will go on sale in London in July for an expected price of up to 3 million pounds ($6 million).
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Arts Festival relying on A&P funding
Organizers of the Fayetteville Arts Festival are hoping to receive $35,000 from the Advertising & Promotion Commission in order to salvage the two-weekend event held in the fall. (Northwest Arkansas Times)
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Rare Billy Taylor Recording with Charles Mingus Debuts on Web
JazzTimescolumnist Nat Hentoff, then a staff announcer a WMEX, regularly hosted remote broadcasts from two Boston clubs, the Savoy, and Storyville run by impresario George Wein in the early ’50s, before Wein founded the Newport Jazz Festival.
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Rediscovered Goya sketches set for London auction
LONDON - Three sketches by Spanish master Goya that have been missing for 130 years will go on sale in London in July for an expected price of up to 3 million pounds ($6 million).
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Newark Museum and WBGO-Jazz Presents Master Classes
The Newark Museum and WBGO-Jazz 88 will offer free master classes for aspiring jazz musicians, age 13 and older, on June 19 with saxophonist David Murray and July 17 with percussionist Bobby Sanabria, following their performances at The Museum's Jazz in the Garden Summer Concert Series performances.
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Mobile Pet Portrait Studio Revolutionizes Pet Photography in USA
If you're tired of barking up the wrong tree trying to find a professional pet photographer, the innovative new company Petclix may soon have you purring with satisfaction.
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Sand sculpture for zoo visitors
A sand sculpture at a Bedfordshire zoo depicts a cheetah wild cat pouncing on its prey.
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
Favorite line of the week from a Washington Post story headlined , "Ducklings Die in Pool Drain at American Indian Museum: "'Nobody wants to see any sort of wildlife killed,' spokeswoman [NMAI] Leonda Levchuk said.
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Emirates women fashion captured by camera lens
Abu Dhabi hosts photography exhibition by Cibely Dohle on Emirates women fashion.
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Thomson sketch goes for record $2M
A vibrant oil sketch by Tom Thomson has sold for nearly $2 million at auction, a record price for the iconic Canadian painter that has art watchers closely watching the fate of another Thomson coming up for sale today.
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French 'Class' wins top honors at Cannes
The French film The Class, a frank tale about classroom life using real students and teachers at a junior high school, won top honors Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Museum posts reward for stolen art
The University of British Columbia's Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver has posted a $50,000 reward for the return of 15 stolen pieces of art.The pieces worth $2 million were taken between Friday night and Saturday morning, CTV News reported Tuesday.Three of the pieces were Mexican jewelry, while the rest were works in gold by the nationally renowned Haida Indian artist Bill Reid. Some of his ...
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Museum posts reward for stolen art
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 27 (UPI) -- The University of British Columbia's Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver has posted a $50,000 reward for the return of 15 stolen pieces of art.
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Duffy gives a fitting finale to Evolution
MOTHER Nature may have had mercy on tens of thousands of festival-goers on Tyneside yesterday, but it was really just Mercy from Duffy that the audience cared about.
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