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Museum to tell story of Woodstock
When the Museum at Bethel Woods opens this week in Bethel, N.Y., it will tell the story of the famous Woodstock music festival, a museum official says.Museum senior director Michael Egan said the venue will allow those intrigued by the Woodstock Music and Art Fair to fully encapsulate what it would have been like to be at the 1969 outdoor festival, the New York Daily News reported Sunday.Egan, ...
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Museum to tell story of Woodstock
ALBANY, N.Y., June 1 (UPI) -- When the Museum at Bethel Woods opens this week in Bethel, N.Y., it will tell the story of the famous Woodstock music festival, a museum official says.
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French film icon calls off visit to Israeli festival
Celebrated French-Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard will not attend Tel Aviv's 12th International Student Film Festival (ISFF), one of the organizers said over the weekend. The bi-yearly ISFF touts itself one of the largest festivals in the world for student films and among the most important.
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Jeff Koons retrospective explodes with color, life, form
CHICAGO (AFP) - With just hours to go before the opening of his first major retrospective, Jeff Koons is pacing purposefully through the main gallery of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Follow the quilt barn trails
Quilt barn paintings make public art accessible to rural communities – and tourists.
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The museum-quality show will feature original lithographs, etchings, oils, bronzes and drypoints by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edouard Manet, Camille Pissarro, Jean-Francois Raffaelli, James Whistler, and other famous master Impressionists.
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The Hidden Costs Of Free Art
London's museums are famously free to the public, and the scrapping of admission fees has resulted in waves of new visitors.
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Artists interpret scene in 'Swamp Spirits 2008'
ST. MARTINVILLE, La. -- The concept of the Swamp Spirits exhibit is straightforward: Take one swamp scene and have 10 artists paint what they see.
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Looking Back At A Seminal Moment In BritArt
It was 20 years ago this summer that "an art show was staged in London's Docklands that has entered modern art history as a cataclysmic happening." It was the beginning of Damien Hirst's BritArt movement, and it changed the UK's art scene irrevocably, even if few realized it at the time.
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Let's Go NZ : New year goes local
Matariki down south Southland's Matariki Festival incorporates music, drama, black light theatre and fire performance that will enchant the whole family.
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Art/Culture Review
As part of a move to involve locals in the management of national monuments, the Botswana National Museum has introduced Adopt-a-Monument programme.
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Art/Culture Review
Adopt-a-monument in pictures at the National Museum As part of a move to involve locals in the management of national monuments, the Botswana National Museum has introduced Adopt-a-Monument programme.
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Poplar Bluff High School theater group to perform at festival in Europe
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — Kilts will not be on the checklist of things to pack for a group of Poplar Bluff High School theater students heading to Scotland next year. They will, however, fill their suitcases with attire from past performances.
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Public Art, Public Space
MOMA and PS1 prepare the public for later this month. See the scaffolding pictures under the Brooklyn bridge from May 26. From the Bay Area and Boston emerge artworks that are mainly science projects overlaid with pretty colors so they can be called "art".
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Minnesota Town Opts-Out Of Google StreetView
I got a chuckle out of this one. It seems that Google sent their cars that do StreetView photography for Google Maps into a private neighborhood in Minnesota. That neighborhood, North Oaks, demanded that Google remove all the images. As the roads are private, Google potentially trespassed to take the pictures. Google's complied. From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune article about the case: ...
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Bourne films viewed as art — and science
One of New York's Museum of Modern Art's latest film acquisitions isn't an art-house experiment by Andy Warhol or Michelangelo Antonioni. It's the spy-action blockbuster The Bourne Identity and its sequels.
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Shop talk
By Erin White Gap gets art-Tee Gap is helping New York's Whitney Museum of Art celebrate its biennial with a line of T-shirts designed by 13 popular artists such as Chuck Close (a hip collage) and Marilyn Minter (splattered with artfully draped paint). Get the tees, which have various fit styles, for $28-$38 at Gap stores at NorthPark Center and the Galleria in Dallas or at www.gap.com . ...
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Library has community gallery space
The Maynard Public Library is proud to announce community gallery space in the Roosevelt Room on the first floor.
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In Coocoo's Den, portrait of an 'outsider' in Pakistan
By Manish Chand, Lahore, June 1 : Statuettes of Shiva-Parvati and the Buddha jostle for space with paintings of pensive prostitutes in the eclectic studio of maverick painter Iqbal Hussain housed in Coocoo's Den, the famous restaurant founded by him in the heart of Lahore's red light district.
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Border Artists
"Painting Across Borders," a new exhibit by the group The Border Artists, will open June 5 at the Mexican Consulate General, 910 E. San Antonio.
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Poly alums ante up for art
Everything from a small drawing that appeared in The New Yorker to a bigger than life blown-glass bra will be up for grabs next Sunday during the 30th annual fund-raising auction at Cal Poly. One size fits all for ticket holders to the event. For $150 participants may take home a work of art, or for $250 have dibs on a specific piece. Tickets are on sale Monday through Friday, 9 a. m. to 4 p. ...
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Art Briefs
Paso Robles Oil, watercolor and acrylic paintings by husband and wife Jim Carlisle and Pat Cairns are on display all month at the Paso Robles Library, 1000 Spring St. The paintings are inspired by the couple’s recent cruise around South America. Library hours are 10 a. m. to 8 p. m. Monday through Friday and 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. on Saturday. 466-5997. “Art in the Courtyard,” landscapes and ...
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A truly golden landmark
Since Hearst Castle opened to public tours June 2, 1958, the media mogul’s private Shangri-La has morphed into a world-renowned, accredited art-and-lifestyle museum and a driving force behind the growth of San Luis Obispo County’s tourism economy. Hearst Corp. gave William Randolph Hearst’s elaborate San Simeon hilltop compound and 120 acres of ranchland to the state in 1957. Now, about 625,000 ...
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Arts and culture groups hold Capitol exhibit
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO -- The Arts, Culture and Tourism Office (Acto) of the province, in cooperation with various Kapampangan artistic and cultural organizations, came up with Kalalangan: Celebratin Kapampangan Heritage, an exhibit of the Kapampangan's talent and lush culture last Sunday at the provincial capitol lobby recently.
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Boothbay Region Art Foundation opens new season with the "Fruits of Winter"
Opening its 43rd season with over 100 local and regional artists, the Boothbay Region Art Foundation's gallery at One Townsend Avenue has an exhibit that answers the question, "What do you do here in the winter?"
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