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Spirits flow at inaugural festival
Spirits and laughter filled the Merchants Building of the Harrison County Fairgrounds in Corydon Saturday as approximately 1,500 people visited the first Southern Indiana Uncorked festival.
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Artist Beryl Cook dies aged 81
Beryl Cook, the painter who achieved fame for her exaggerated, cartoon-like portrayals of ordinary people, has died aged 81, her gallery representative said today.
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Iowa Student Shows Film At Cannes
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- A University of Iowa cinema major said he was able to show his five-minute film at the Cannes Short Film Festival in France. Producer Bob Zegler traveled to the renowned festival this month with writer and director Brad Bischoff.
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Artist Beryl Cook dies aged 81
LONDON (Reuters) - Artist Beryl Cook, famed for her comical paintings of bulky ladies, has died aged 81, her spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
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Bonnaroo Selects KickApps for Online Community and Rich Media Management : New Website Gives Festival Fans and ...
Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival has selected KickApps, the leading on demand social media platform, to power the online community and media management system for its recently re-launched website, Bonnaroo.com. The community allows people from around the World to meet fellow Bonnaroo fans and attendees, share stories about their experiences at the festival, upload videos, photos and audio files, ...
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Artist Beryl Cook dies aged 81
Beryl Cook, the painter who achieved fame for her rounded, cartoon-like portrayals of generously proportioned ordinary people, has died aged 81, her gallery representative said today
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Dover, start your engines with fun NASCAR events
Friday, Saturday and Sunday Strolling entertainment is planned in the Victory Plaza and FanZone area. Entertainers include stilt walkers, a juggling unicyclist, a fire eater/contortionist, chainsaw carving demonstrations, motorsports artist David Arrigo and a sand sculpturist.
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Prison film "Hunger" offers little food for thought
CANNES - Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen brings the key tenets required to win Britain's top honor for modern art to directing his first film, and so it is trite, grim and feebly provocative.
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Television - Entertainment
A man who served in the US Navy has made it his mission to bring local artwork from Baghdad to his home in New York.
Scoop.co.nz |
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Brown meets with oil bosses
Gordon Brown meets oil industry bosses in Aberdeen in a bid to ease the pressure on fuel prices.
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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver Reveal the California Museum's California Hall of Fame ...
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver today announced the 2008 inductees to The California Museum's California Hall of Fame. Dina Eastwood, Board Chair of The California Museum and wife of 2006 inductee, Clint Eastwood, revealed the names in a video posted on The California Museum's web site, http://www.CaliforniaMuseum.org.
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Enhanced Oil Resources, Inc. Announces Producing Oilfield Acquisition with Substantial CO(2)-EOR Potential
Enhanced Oil Resources, Inc. today announced the signing of a binding Purchase and Sales Agreement to purchase a producing oil field in New Mexico for $4.5 million. The acquisition is expected to close on or before June 15, 2008 and will be immediately accretive to cash flow.
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Bonnaroo Selects KickApps for Online Community and Rich Media Management
NEW YORK----Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival has selected KickApps, the leading on demand social media platform, to power the online community and media management system for its recently re-launched website, Bonnaroo.com.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Canon U.S.A. Color imageRUNNER C5185 Solutions Achieves Five Star-Rating from BERTL, Inc.
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y.----Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leading provider of office imaging systems, inkjet technology and digital photography equipment, today announced its Color imageRUNNER C5185, a digital multi-functional device , received an overall rating of five stars from BERTL, Inc., an independent analyst firm.
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
The MFA Boston appears to have quite the flimsy case in a new Holocaust-era claims suit, says the Boston Globe's Geoff Edgers.
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Oslo city plans to build new Munch Museum and city library
Oslo - The city of Oslo was slated to expand its collection of cultural buildings including a new museum to host works by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, officials said Wednesday. Pending approval by parliament, the new Munch Museum would be completed...
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Aspen Art Museum debuts free admission
ASPEN Heading to the Aspen Art Museum sometime in the next decade? Don't forget to leave your wallet at home.
The Aspen Times |
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Cool careers: Doctors, tattoo artists, movie stars among winning stamp designs
Students in Trinity Conception submitted some "very well executed" designs to this year's Stamp Design Contest, according to Peter Laracy one of the judges.
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Modern art's kudos and glamor lure Russia's rich
MOSCOW (Reuters Life!) - Wealthy Russians who can't spare millions to buy headline art from Europe and the United States are snapping up cheaper contemporary works in Russia to add a twist of transcendent glamour to their homes.
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Photographers show works at Blackstone
Photographers Ruyijie and Camille Lenore are exhibiting at the Blackstone Gallery through June 20. Both are also divers who capture life under the sea with their lenses.
The Salinas Californian |
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2nd Thomson painting in a week sells for 7 digits
Updated: Wed May. 28 2008 8:36:58 AM The Canadian Press
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2nd Thomson painting in a week sells for 7 digits
Another prized painting by Tom Thomson went for seven figures at auction in Toronto on Tuesday night.
CTV.ca |
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Photography contest at Bagby
George T. Bagby State Park and Lodge is sponsoring a nature photography contest.
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Sigur Rós Releases New Album
It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. The Eurovision Song Contest just got cutthroat. more Click on the picture to view an audio slideshow of photo exhibition “The Lodgers” by young German artist Anne Kathrin Greiner, comprised of photographs taken in the formal US Naval Air Station in Keflavík in June 2007. When the US Military abandoned the station in September 2006, the Icelandic ...
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Studio Milou, CPG Consultants to build new National Art Gallery
SINGAPORE: The winning design for the new National Art Gallery of Singapore has been unveiled. Studio Milou Architecture and CPG Consultants Pte Ltd have been chosen to design and build the art gallery.
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