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Collection of Susquehanna River art sought for York County
YORK, Pa. (AP) - A Wrightsville artist and a cultural organization want to create a permanent collection of Susquehanna River art in York County. Artist Rob Evans curated a 2006 exhibition called "Visions of the Susquehanna: 250 years of Paintings by American Masters."
WFMJ Youngstown |
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Opera, circus and Bach: only at Spoleto
17-day festival has carefully developed a formula for success that translates into a healthy dose of the mixed arts
The Globe and Mail |
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Last Call film festival gets 'The Gits'
The Last Call Film Festival, organized by Louisville musician-singer Andy Schanie, opens Thursday with the screening of a documentary about the Seattle-based rock group The Gits.
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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Pizarro: Tech Museum gets virtual life - and real, global publicity
A virtual world needs virtual museums, and San Jose's Tech Museum of Innovation has jumped on board the Second Life bandwagon.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Events for Monday in New York
Nine-time Grammy-award winning artist Norah Jones performs along with jazz musicians Ravi Coltrane and Seamus Blake tonight at the LeFrak Theater at the American Museum of Natural History.
New York Daily News |
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Nic will start charging entrance fees
The Nicolaysen Art Museum will begin charging entrance fees beginning July 1, executive director Holly Turner said.
Casper Star-Tribune |
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Monday, June 2, 2008
ART EXHIBIT
The Morning Call |
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Nude boys in art protest
A MELBOURNE artist will exhibit a series of nude photographs of 11-year-old children to protest against the recent censorship of the work of photographer Bill Henson.
Adelaide Now |
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Crazy Horse Memorial turns 60 with no end in sight
Mon, Jun 2, 2008 (1:07 a.m.) Sixty years after the first blast signaled work had begun on the world's largest mountain carving, the project is far from finished.
Las Vegas Sun |
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Tunisia: Local Artist On Exhibit in Paris
Abderrazak Sahli, 67 is an iconoclast artist, whose imagination shapes and transforms casual objects into works of art. For Sahli a simple 'sakhane' or traditional wooden heater, becomes endowed with an artistic life of its own, yet always playful and imbued with tolerance, peace and love.
AllAfrica.com |
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Tunisia: Coastal Town of Ghar El Melh to Host 6th Edition of International Photographic Encounters
The 6 th edition of the international photographic encounters will take place in the coastal town of Ghar el Melh, north of Tunisia, from June 26 to 29, 2008.
AllAfrica.com |
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Take 5 with Kathy Holcomb, owner, Absolute Gallery
Depending on the perspective, Kathy Holcomb's Absolute Gallery in Old Town is either a hometown art hot spot or a gallery with a global reach. The gallery, at 307 E. Grand River Ave., features the works of several local painters, photographers and other artists. But it also promotes artists from far-flung places, such as Argentina and Germany. While most customers who walk through the door are ...
Lansing State Journal |
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South Dakota mountain carving honoring warrior Crazy Horse marks 60 years with no end in sight
CRAZY HORSE, S.D. - Sixty years after the first blast signaled work had begun on the world's largest mountain carving, the project is far from finished.
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune |
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Synthia Saint James' Circle of Promise to be Unveiled (2008-06-06 - 2008-06-06)
Synthia SAINT JAMES will unveil her 40x30” original acrylic on canvas painting “Circle of Promise” at a very special luncheon to be held at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. on Friday, June 6, 2008. The painting was commissioned by Susan G. Komen for the Cure in celebration of Circle of Promise, the Cure program dedicated to re-writing the story on breast cancer in the African American community. ...
Absolutearts.com |
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SHAMAN'S QUEST - The Masks of NED BEAR (2008-05-30 - 2008-06-22)
Gallery 78 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, presents "SHAMAN'S QUEST - The Masks of NED BEAR" from May 30 through June 22, 2008. In 2006 Ned Bear won first prize at the prestigious Face the Nation competition based at the UC Davis Design Museum. Recently he was shortlisted for the Strathbutler award here in New Brunswick. Ned was significantly honoured with a Smithsonian Institute Fellowship in ...
Absolutearts.com |
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ADAM VACKAR: Economy of Silence (2008-05-29 - 2008-08-02)
From May 29 through August 8, 2008, Gandy Gallery in Bratislava show ADAM VACKAR: Economy of Silence. Altered Reality - Even if Adam Vackar has recently developed his own work that has led him to take part in a number of respectable exhibitions, even if this work remains wide open to variation, evolution, metamorphosis, which for the moment keep their future profile, their identity, largely ...
Absolutearts.com |
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Artist to exhibit nude photos in protest
A Melbourne artist will exhibit a series of nude photographs of 11-year-old children to protest against the recent censorship of the work of photographer Bill Henson.
The West Australian |
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Crazy Horse Memorial turns 60 with no end in sight
Sixty years after the first blast signaled work had begun on the world's largest mountain carving, the project is far from finished. The carved face of Crazy Horse has been completed and a welcome center and museum are open, but the carving of the Lakota warrior's body, his horse, and a planned university and medical training center for American Indian students are still years away. Ruth ...
The Charlotte Observer |
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Students offer best in design
The annual exhibition by students in the Ohio State University Design Department will open Tuesday and continue through June 13 in the OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St.
The Columbus Dispatch |
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Crazy Horse Memorial turns 60 with no end in sight
Sixty years after the first blast signaled work had begun on the world's largest mountain carving, the project is far from finished.
AP via Yahoo! News |
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Wedding package to help fund cancer cure
It may be every girl's dream: a big, fabulous wedding. This week a group of vendors is auctioning one off, complete with couture wedding gown, to honor another girl's dream: to cure cancer with lemonade.
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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Upside-down church 'a big win for Calgary'
Not wanted in Vancouver, a controversial sculpture will have a new home in Alberta
The Globe and Mail |
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Sculptor makes angelic 'pop art'
THE term “pop art” took on a new meaning yesterday when a mini Angel of the North made from 10,000 recycled cans of Coke was unveiled yesterday in the shadow of its big brother.
The Journal |
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'Welcome to Macintosh' Documentary Gets Innovative, Goes to Germany
"Welcome to Macintosh -- The documentary for the rest of us" has been officially selected to present at the 2008 IngenuityFest: Cleveland as well as the 4th Globians Documentary Film Festival in Potsdam, Germany. The documentary made its US premiere earlier this year at the Wisconsin Film Festival in April. (PRWeb Jun 2, 2008) Read the full story at ...
PRWeb |
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Chicago museum mounts first major U.S. show of Jeff Koons' kitschy art in 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. Celebratory, kitschy and sometimes explicit, they're the works of Jeff Koons, considered one of the most...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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