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McNay Art Museum closes out on successful fund-raising campaign
The McNay Art Museum has successfully reached its goal of raising $50.8 million in its capital campaign. (T) (VLO)
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Best of I Madonnari
Ray takes a look at the best of the I Madonnari 2008 chalk art paintings, among which several stand out.
Santa Barbara Independent |
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Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “Tokyo Sonata” was awarded the Jury Prize Saturday in the 2008 Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard category that focuses on singular, original films.
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Book Review: The Photograph - Composition & Color Design by Harald Mante
Mante's book - translated from German - is a colorful explanation of the theory of photographic composition. Harald Mante's The Photograph (Rocky Nook, 2008) - translated from German by Thomas C Campbell III is my first text on picture composition and design. I've read books about the technologies involved with photography and books that explain why a particular photograph really works, but ...
Blogcritics.org |
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For all the world to see
Cell 18, the recently hived off production services business unit of the Network 18 media behemoth, announced its birth with Gulberg: The Museum of Resistance, a 10-minute film built around Teesta Setalvad's idea of preserving Gulberg Society in Ahmedabad — the scene of one of the bloodiest carnages of the 2002 Gujarat riots — as a museum, a kind of cautionary shrine to how much atrocity man can ...
Business Standard India |
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LIVE: Mutek Festival's First Days Fill Montreal With Strange Sounds
Coming to Mutek feels like leaving the planet. Or at least North America. For four days here, experimental electronic music — that buzzing, throbbing, piercing, sensible-level-of-bass-shattering sound — isn't related to the fringes, it's celebrated across the city.
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Einstein and the search for alien life subjects of new exhibits at the Great Lakes Science Center and Cleveland Museum ...
There's a horrific danger in watching too many made-for-summer Hollywood flicks. They have a way of wearing down brain cells until the phrase "not the sharpest tool in the shed" applies too close to home. "Kung Fu Panda," anyone?
The Plain Dealer |
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Neuroscientist: Poetry Comes From Synesthesia, Tree-Climbing
A prominent neuroscientist told a crowd at the World Science Festival that the curious phenomenon of synesthesia -- in which some people "taste" colors or "hear" smells -- is simply a consequence of the aptitude humans evolved for abstraction.
Wired News |
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Performance art turns park visit into drama
Back to Back Theatre stages its performance-art piece "small metal objects" in Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park, May 29-June 1, 2008; review by Misha Berson, The Seattle Times.
Seattle Times |
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Solon: Chagrin artist's City Hall sculptures turned down
SOLON -- A local artist's hope of having his own sculpture in front of Solon City Hall is hitting a concrete barrier. On Wednesday (May 28), City Council's Safety and Public Properties didn't endorse any of Dale Slavin's three proposed...
Solon Herald Sun |
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New downtown mural dedicated Friday
Downtown has a new piece of public art.
Tucson Citizen |
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Nordic Windpower to Host Renowned Artist Esref Armagan, Blind From Birth, and an Exhibit of His Paintings at WINDPOWER ...
Nordic Windpower, Ltd., a leading global company manufacturing and selling utility-scale wind turbines based on proven and innovative Swedish Technology, will host renowned Turkish painter Esref Armagan, blind from birth, and an exhibit of his work at the forthcoming WINDPOWER 2008 Conference in Houston.
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NASA Lunar Art Contest Winners Announced
A fanciful vision of a lunar traffic jam took first place.
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Mark Bradford inaugurates Nerman Lecture Series
Red-hot Los Angeles artist Mark Bradford comes to Kansas City this month to be the inaugural speaker for the Jerome Nerman Lecture Series at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College.
The Kansas City Star |
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Neurologist, NYC Choir Explore Music Healing Power
Noted neurologist Oliver Sacks has found common ground with the pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church: Both men believe in the healing power of music. Sacks, the best-selling author of "Awakenings" and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," will share the church stage Saturday with the famed gospel choir as part of the inaugural World Science Festival, a five-day celebration of science ...
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Graphics Art Student Earns Prestigious Award
You could say her talent runs in the family. Growing up around the printing and graphics industry, it is no wonder that Victoria Gunnin has won one of the state’s top graphic communications awards
The Fayette Citizen |
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Sounds of success
John Fraser performs the song that won him first place at the Ontario Open Country Music Contest. Read the story here. Aftermath of car driving through window of Willow West Mall store Thursday afternoon.
Guelph Mercury |
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Weekend EVENTS
The Ellis County Art Association will host its annual Paint Historic Waxahachie event from May 30-June 8. More than 30 landscape artists will paint on location for the 10-day period. Artists compete for prizes. An exhibition and sale are held June 7-8.
Waxahachie Daily Light |
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Brian McKnight, Michelle Branch to highlight River Days
Suave R&B man Brian McKnight and pop-rocker Michelle Branch will join a Michigan-heavy bill of performers at the second annual River Days festival, organizers announced today.
Detroit Free Press |
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NASA Lunar Art Contest Winners Announced
A fanciful vision of a lunar traffic jam won the first annual NASA Lunar Art Contest sponsored by NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.
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Krieghoff bought for $1 sells at auction for $68,470
A painting bought for just 50 pence ($1 Cdn) in Glasgow in the 1970s has turned out to be a Cornelius Krieghoff and sold Thursday for $68,470.
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President's Committee recognizes Kemper Museum
The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art has been singled out for its ArtReach children's program by the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
The Kansas City Star |
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Dayton Art Institute names new chief curator
The Dayton Art Institute announced Friday the appointment of Will South as the museum's chief curator. South has been Curator of Collections for the Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro since 2000. Prior to that, he was a curator at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Utah.
Dayton Business Journal |
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Author Richard Florida to Headline Greenlight Greater Portland's Economic Summit
PORTLAND, Ore.----Richard Florida, international best-selling author of Who's Your City and The Rise of the Creative Class will address 500 business and community leaders on Wednesday, June 4, at the Portland Art Museum.
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Music on the Hill is reborn
During a trip home last spring to his native Rhode Island, bass player John Mark Pellegrino had a brainstorm: put together a chamber music festival that would bring back Rhode Island-bred musicians who have left the state to take jobs around the nation.
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