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Museum closes for renovations
The traditional site of Launceston's main museum has closed for major renovations.
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World-class art close to home
Just a short drive away, you can find world-class art in an S.C. museum that is architecturally interesting in its own right – and which you can visit for free: the Greenville County Museum of Art. Distance From Charlotte, it is about a 90-minute drive (about 95 miles), one way. Getting there Take Interstate 85 South to Exit 51, then Interstate 385 North, which ...
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Go now: Regional travel events: May 25
CHARLESTON, S.C. Spoleto Festival USA - Music and dance performances blanket the city along with art shows, food events and street parties. More than 120 performances by well-established and emerging performers of opera, theater, music theater, dance, and chamber, symphonic, choral and jazz music. Visual arts are represented also. Through June 8. 843-579-3100, www.spoletousa.org.
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Music Fans To Be Jamin' In Coffee County
ENTERPRISE - Wearing a blue cap and white T-shirt, Ronnie Gilley shakes hands and shoots the breeze with family, friends and sponsors Friday night during a barbecue at the site of the BamaJam Music & Arts Festival.
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Beijing's art district 798 struggles against cultural demolition
BEIJING (AFP) - The gallery Tamsin Roberts ran for more than two years in Beijing's famous 798 art district has been bulldozed to make way for a six-storey car park.
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City ready to turn Blue this weekend
A music legend, two distinctly different nights of main-stage music, a new Jazz Stage and the usual array of food, kids’ activities, arts and crafts and a unique animation festival make up this year’s ninth annual Blue Plum Festival to be held downtown Friday and Saturday.
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Festival of fellowship
Though Jefferson's eclectic downtown shops make the town practically heaven on Earth for residents and tourists alike, Saturday's Agape Fest proved that the town is also attractive to Christian music fans.
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From the kooky to the inspired: San Jose's 01SJ digital arts festival
If Silicon Valley can rightfully call itself the breeding ground for technological innovation, shouldn't it also host the pre-eminent digital arts festival in North America? The organizers behind 01SJ, San Jose's technologically smitten five-day arts gathering that starts Wednesday,
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?60s Legacy, Personal Histories
An exhibition in Atlanta examines issues of racial identity, commodity culture and political action.
New York Times |
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Again, for the First Time
The Tony-nominated revivals of ?Rodgers & Hammerstein?s South Pacific,? ?Gypsy? and ?Sunday in the Park With George? are on this critic?s list of all-time favorite literary masterpieces.
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Heard exhibit showcases work of Tony Abeyta
It’s easy to get the wrong impression about “Underworlderness,” a collection of current work by Chicago-based artist Tony Abeyta, opening at the Heard Museum in Phoenix on Friday.
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Known for his abrasive style, Marlins President David Samson may help save baseball in South Florida
The next item in the Make-A-Wish Foundation auction was a weekend with the Florida Marlins in New York.
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Arts festival enlivens downtown Utica
A festival well-received by the community in 2007 came back for an encore this year, bringing merchants, music, vendors and community members together in the name of art. The second annual three-day Bagg’s Square Festival of the Arts began Friday and concludes Sunday.
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Surfrider Foundation holds fundraiser to protect the ocean
DEL MAR ---- The backdrop for the San Diego Chapter Surfrider Foundation's eighth annual art gala fundraiser looked like a scenic watercolor painting of the Pacific Ocean.
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Crafts fair planned for ‘Trail’
Although the tour of homes is most certainly the main attraction of Gingerbread Trail weekend, it is only one of numerous activities available. Like the Victorian home tour, the arts and crafts fair at Getzendaner Park is a fundraising event hosted by the Ellis County Museum.
Waxahachie Daily Light |
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Upcoming Events
Walton Arts Center Art Of Wine The annual Art of Wine Festival to benefit Walton Arts Center is slated for Thursday through Saturday. The festival will kick off with the Winemaker's Dinner at 6 p.m. Thursday at James at the Mill in Johnson. Tickets for the cocktail-attire event are $150.
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Away We Go:
“The Elkridge-Harford Hunt Crossing Atlanta Hall Meadow,” painted by Franklin B. Voss in 1944, is part of the exhibition, “The Voss Family: Artists of American Sporting Life.” It will be displayed at the Maryland Historical Society through July 27.
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Gallery:
"June is bustin' out all over!" and there's no better way to start the month than by grazing the works of art inspired by the season.
The Capital |
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New Wing Luke Museum offers layers of history
The grand opening Saturday of the $23.2 million Wing Luke Asian Museum celebrated layers of history and community and brought throngs of visitors to the event.
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John Weber, 75, Contemporary-Art Dealer Is Dead
Mr. Weber was an art dealer known for his early advocacy of Conceptual Art, Post-Minimalist sculpture and Italian Arte Povera.
New York Times |
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New Exibit at Bismarck Art & Galleries
Bismarck Art and Galleries Association is debuting a new exhibit. It`s a tribute to the works of the late Jeanne Kane Tamisiea who lived in Bismarck in the 1970s. She left behind at least 3- hundred finished works, thousands of slides, and more than a dozen sketchbooks.
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Oakland heralds artistry of youth
n Festival fosters self-expression for children living in a city with violence
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No nudes please
THE CANBERRA Centre has ordered the removal of an exhibition of students' life drawings, sparking further concern that art censorship is spiralling out of control.
Canberra Times |
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Global anti-smoking contest
GENEVA: In conjunction with World No Tobacco Day, which was celebrated yesterday, the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) is promoting a global competition for a universally recognisable symbol to identify places where children are free from environmental tobacco smoke.
The New Straits Times |
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Sun, sand, sea, scuba and videos
Several weeks ago, I was invited to an event that had everything right. There was sun, sand, sea and scuba diving. And best of all (no, not the pretty blonde in the teeny weeny bikini), there was underwater photography!
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