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Atlanta's Showtyme Jazz Duo at Howard Alan Events' Art Festivals
Atlanta's Showtyme Jazz Duo, Cliff and Sei deMarks, will be performing this art festival season at a number of Howard Alan Events' art festivals. Howard Alan Events, of Plantation, Florida, is a premier producer of fine art and craft shows around the country.
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Art and law meet in this office
TACLOBAN CITY – Visitors who enter lawyer Eric de Veyra’s office in Tacloban City may think they have stepped into an art gallery. They may be partly right since the room also displays the works of his artist-friend Mario Ortiz.
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Remarks by the First Lady in Recognition of the 2008 IMLS Grant Awards
Ogden Museum of Southern Art 10:35 A.M. CDT MRS. BUSH: Thank you very much, Jessie.
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Che photos go on display in Austria
A collection of vintage Ernesto “Che” Guevara photographs show diverse sides of the revolutionary who still has cult status 40 years after his death. The iconic March 1960 portrait by Cuban photographer Alberto Korda showing Guevara wearing a starred beret – frequently featured on T-shirts and posters – is among the roughly 150 prints on exhibit at Vienna's WestLicht gallery. Other images ...
The Charlotte Observer |
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‘The Black Male' in his many facets
The image in Hale Woodruff's print “By Parties Unknown” shocks: the crumpled body of a lynched black man on the steps of a church, the noose still around his neck. The subject of Tommie Robinson's painting “Product,” done about 40 years later in 1983, is something else. A black man stands in front of the uptown library, the shadow from his straw hat turning his hospital scrubs into African ...
The Charlotte Observer |
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Jeff Koons opens first major US exhibit after 15 years
A gigantic balloon-animal dog painted metallic orange watches over paintings of Popeye, a sculpture of Michael Jackson and portraits of an ex-porn star.
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Remarks by the First Lady in Recognition of the 2008 IMLS Grant Awards
NEW ORLEANS----Ogden Museum of Southern Art 10:35 A.M. CDT
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Kodak to Lift Prices as Much as 20% on Material Costs (Update2)
May 30 (Bloomberg) -- Eastman Kodak Co. , the photography company reshaping itself in the digital age, said it will raise prices as much as 20 percent on products including paper, film and printing plates to counter higher raw material costs.
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Church erects eye-catching sculpture
GREENSBORO -- There is a new towering sculpture that may catch your eye riding through downtown Greensboro. West Market United Methodist Church erected the art work Friday that weighed some 4,000 pounds. A crane had to be brought just to put it in place. It rises 28 feet in the air.
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WOODSTOCK: Museum, no mud
It's been years since Duke Devlin traded the hog he rode into Bethel for the electric golf cart that gets his creaky body around the world's most famous alfalfa field. Devlin, his thick arms adorned with Harley-Davidson tattoos, his once blond beard and ponytail now snow white, looks out across the verdant, rolling hills of New York's Sullivan County on a cloudless May afternoon and ...
The Charlotte Observer |
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Grizzlies Host Christian Fellowship Day on Sunday
FRESNO, CA - The Fresno Grizzlies will host Christian Fellowship Day, presented by Fresno Pacific University, at Chukchansi Park on Sunday, June 1, 2008. The Grizzlies are scheduled to take on the Tucson Sidewinders beginning at 2:05pm, and a special post-game concert featuring nationally recognized Christian artists will follow the contest.
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Artist’s watercolor in two national exhibits
Marilyn York, a watercolor artist from Olathe, recently had her work in two national art shows. The one pictured with York is called "The one with the most lures wins."
The Olathe News |
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Idyllic not natural for Murphy
Lauri Lynnxe Murphy has never been one to dabble in landscapes, but she does - though not in a standard way - in the show, Unnatural, opening today at Plus Gallery.
Rocky Mountain News |
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Washington DC
HAMPTON, Va. ( Map ) - HAMPTON, Va. , May 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 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.
The San Francisco Examiner |
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Nerman Museum on cover of AT&T Real Yellow Pages
The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College just won big in the visibility stakes.
The Kansas City Star |
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Bocuse d'or Europe
Placed under the sign of excellence, the contest jury will be composed of prestigious Chefs of international repute.
Gourmet Report |
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Inness at the Met
While the American Wing galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art are under wraps for renovation, the ground floor galleries in the Robert Lehman octagonal wing are hosting "American Landscapes," a chance to show nine large landscapes by American painters in a new setting.
The Star-Ledger |
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Eroticism as a means of development
Several months ago, at an exhibition titled "Matsuri," I purchased a print by American photographer Vincent Morris. The shot, of men carrying mikoshi in Tokyo's shitamachi area Monzen-nakacho, as viewed through a shower of water thrown by spectators to cool them down, is titled "Purification," and its refreshing beauty continues to soothe and mystify. Read the full story ...
The Japan Times |
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Art forgers facing unlikely nemesis: the atomic bomb
A new and not very subtle weapon is helping art collectors in the battle against forgers: the bomb.
Times Online |
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Controversial William Etty painting on display after 150 years
A painting that outraged many Victorian critics because of its nude figures has been restored, thanks to six years of work by Manchester Art Gallery. It was more than 150 years since William Etty's T he Sirens and Ulysses was put into storage, too damaged to display.
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Auction benefits Relay for Life
Ann's Avengers, a Relay for Life team, will hold an auction Monday to benefit cancer research. The auction will be held at noon at the Toomey Auction Center in Hellam.
The York Dispatch |
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Optimus Popularis gets first prototype view
Art Lebedev Studio's founder on Friday revealed an early 3D prototype of his Optimus Popularis keyboard that sheds new light on the device. Despite saying that the keyboard won't use the OLED displays of the Maximus, Lebedev's rendering confirms that the keyboard will still have at least some keys whose symbols will change based on the relevant ap...
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art Till May 31 at Akar Prakar, P 238 Hindustan Park, #2464 2617; 2 pm - 7 pm:
Summer Show of works by Suhas Roy, Samir Roy and Samit Dey. Till May 31 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery, 55 Gariahat Road, #2475 2275; 3 pm - 8 pm: Chitrakoot presents works by Shyam Sharma.
The Telegraph |
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MTV Unveils Summer, Fall Lineup
MTV hopes to build on the ratings gold it’s found with “celebreality” shows such as The Hills and America’s Best Dance Crew with a new crop of reality dramas and contests its rolling out this summer and fall for the lucrative 12- to 34-year-old demographic.
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Lunar Art
NASA recently invited college and high school students to submit artwork for a contest on the theme "Life and Work on the Moon." NASA encouraged students to form inter-disciplinary teams, so that art and humanities students could collaborate with science and engineering students, "to produce the most well-informed art work possible." NASA [...]
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