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Final day of CONTACT
It’s your last chance to check out this year’s CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival as most of the exhibits wrap up today. The theme this year was “Between Memory and History,” which led many photographers to focus on historic sites and spaces that hold meaning to them. Here are a couple you shouldn’t miss. Angela Del Buono’s [...]
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Liberals link in child nudes row
PHOTOGRAPHS of naked children are for sale through a Melbourne art gallery in a building owned and shared by the Liberal Party.
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and #8216;More access' drives art museum expansion
As early as this summer, changes will be afoot at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art.
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Students Cook Up a Career
Chicken with sauteed potatoes and dessert crepes with pastry cream and chocolate sauce could translate to scholarships and education for two aspiring chefs from the Harbor Area. » PHOTO GALLERY
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Local festivals beef up security to keep visitors safe
From drunken brawls in beer gardens to gunfire just yards from the midway, violence can really put a damper on a summer party.
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Design for fire station art project OK'd by council
A mock-up of a public artwork that will stand in front of the city's first fire station was unanimously approved recently by the Surprise City Council.
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TO DO DAY
Ace Cannon Festival CALHOUN CITY – The Calhoun City Chamber of Commerce will sponsor the second annual Ace Cannon Festival today. At 7 p.m., The Bollinger Family will open for Ace Cannon on the Calhoun City football field. Tickets are $10. Arts, crafts, concessions, more. (662) 628-6990.
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Dallas museum exhibit features life of stylish couple
DALLAS -- For Sara and Gerald Murphy, art and life melded easily. Surrounded by friends like Pablo Picasso, Cole Porter and Ernest Hemingway, the stylish Murphys raised their...
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Neurologist Oliver Sacks, NYC choir explore healing power of music for science festival
NEW YORK - 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.
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Bob Szajner at All About Jazz
Biography Bon Szajner was born on September 12, 1938, he grew up listening to talented relatives playing various instruments. His mother taught him the basics of music and how to play piano at a very early age. In 1948, he won first prize in the Frankie Carle Piano Contest.
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Indian pioneer bags sand art award in Moscow
Sudersan Pattnaik's sculpture on global warming has won the 'People's Choice' prize at a sand sculpture championship.
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Indian pioneer bags sand art award in Moscow
MOSCOW: Renowned sand artiste Sudersan Pattnaik's sculpture on global warming has won the 'People's Choice' prize at the International Sand Sculpture Championship that ended here on Saturday.
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Your thoughts on parks and gateways
Folks are still complaining about a proposed art museum in Festival Park. The bus system is getting support. Murchison Road as a city gateway — complete with a traffic circle — has a reader up in arms, and Renate Blanton and friends are taking on Lou Gehrig’s disease.
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New exhibit will showcase coastal scenes
By MARY STARRThe Brunswick News What better time to celebrate the coastal environment than spring, when the kaleidoscope of colors that abound here seem a little more crisp?That's exactly what was on the minds of the powers-that-be at the Glynn Art Association, which opens its "By the Sea" exhibit Thursday at the association's gallery at 319 Mallery St., St. Simons Island.Ann Marie Dalis, ...
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Koons exhibit opens at Contemporary Art Museum
Artist Jeff Koons, 53, is arguably the ultimate realist.
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JP Morgan Chase Latino Cultural Festival: July 23 - August 3, 2008
International icons. New Voices. Wry twists on tradition. Bold new statements. The 12th Chase Latino Cultural Festival (July 23-August 3) at the indoor Queens Theatre in the Park showcases the veteran performers who started it all side by side with performers striking out in new directions.
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Dedication canvases for Sichuan victims turned into artworks
SINGAPORE: Seven canvases on which Singaporeans penned their well-wishes for the Sichuan earthquake victims have been turned into Chinese contemporary artworks by renowned artist, Feng Zhengjie.
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Baltimore is sizzling with hot summer festivals
With everything from ethnic foods and wine tastings to jazz concerts and live cultural music, Baltimore's summer festivals are guaranteed to be hot.
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'Lamp Lady,' 83, among first Midland Antique Festival vendors
"The Lamp Lady" is what some people at the Midland Antique and Collectibles Festival call Davison resident Mary Boyd, 83.
Midland Daily News |
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SBRMA opens exhibits and 'Perform/Install 2'
SOUTH BEND -- The South Bend Regional Museum of Art will kick off its summer season with three simultaneous events on June 6.
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Codoleezza Rice Visits Iceland
One of my personal favorite spots in Reykjavík is towards the end of Aegisída. 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 state took over its ...
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Cedar art professors get grant
CEDAR CITY - Cedar City residents and professors of art at Southern Utah Univer-sity, Susan Harris and Brian Hoover, were both awarded grants for their artwork by the Utah Arts Council through the Individual Artist Services Grants program.
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Renaissance in bridge's shadow
Barrio Logan is fast shedding its image as a ghetto. The heavily Latino neighborhood shadowed by the Coronado Bridge is booming with new affordable-housing complexes and an upscale townhome development. Two ambitious retail projects in and around the barrio are also being planned.
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Want to bring a cold case back to life? Call this guy
Hinds said he realized his interest in drawing could be useful in solving crimes in the late '80s, as he grew frustrated with a boilerplate kit used by law enforcement for constructing suspect descriptions into drawings. Identi-Kit — a tool now seldom used in law enforcement — uses foil overlays of different facial features, such as eyes, ears, noses and mouths, to create a rendering of a ...
The Olympian |
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Colors of a country
The artist's paintings will be on display at the Florida Natural Museum of History.
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