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Tlingit warrior helmet sells at auction for nearly $2.2 million
JUNEAU -- A private collector recently purchased a rare Tlingit warrior's helmet for more than $2 million at an East Coast auction house.
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JVC Jazz Festival New York Debuts at the Concert Hall at the New York Society for Ethical Culture
Nine Concerts Include Performances by Billy Taylor, Charles Lloyd, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Cecil Taylor, George Cables, Ravi Coltrane, Geri Allen, Bad Plus 1 with Kurt Rosenwinkel.
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Coca-Cola Celebrates Essence Music Festival at the Apollo - Thursday, June 5th
On Thursday, June 5th, music fans will be treated to a special insider's concert, which will kick off Black Music Month while also serving as a precursor of what is to come at this year's Essence Music Festival. At Coca-Cola Celebrates Essence Music Festival @ The Apollo, some of today's most popular R&B and neo-soul artists will perform on the Apollo's legendary stage in celebration of Black ...
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1st Annual Angel City Jazz Festival Launches in Hollywood on Labor Day
Angel City Jazz Festival will launch its inaugural year this Labor Day, September 1st, 2008, at Barnsdall Art Park in Hollywood.
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Impressionist art by women at San Francisco museum
Impressionist paintings by four women will be the focus of an exhibition at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco this summer.
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Coca-Cola Celebrates Essence Music Festival at the Apollo - Thursday, June 5th
NEW YORK----On Thursday, June 5th, music fans will be treated to a special insider's concert, which will kick off Black Music Month while also serving as a precursor of what is to come at this year's Essence Music Festival.
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Wainscott School
The Wainscott School budget was passed, Thanks to the community for your support. The second and fourth grade math classes have enjoyed working on making geometric 3 dimensional models. They saw some extraordinary origami work and the Parish Art Museum last week with Terri Doyle, the art teacher.
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Town Square Forum
Yes, we need a fountain. I hope the funds are identified because the fountain adds an important element that a sculpture does not. The current fountain is very soothing.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art CEO Anne d'Harnoncourt dies at 64
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Anne d'Harnoncourt, the longtime chief executive of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and one of the art world's most influential women, has died. She was 64.
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Best Bets for today, Tuesday
bToday/b A Stories in Art exhibition started its run today at the Marathon County Public Library, 300 N. First St., Wausau. Stories in Art consists of unique fiber art panels created by students in the Wausau and D.C. Everest school districts. The project was coordinated by VSA Arts of Wisconsin, a group that promotes the creative power of people with disabilities. Both students with and without ...
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Festival teaches students about Louisiana cultures
Long after most everyone retired to their classrooms, A'Leya Chatman continued to hold a carrot in her hand for the doe camped out at Lowery Elementary School Tuesday evening.
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NM CulturePass covers 14 museums, monuments
The state of New Mexico's Department of Cultural Affairs and Tourism has partnered with Travelocity to produce the New Mexico CulturePass.
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PHILADELPHIA - The longtime chief executive of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and one of the art world's most influential women has died. Anne d'Harnoncourt was 64. Museum spokesman Norman Keyes said d'Harnoncourt died at home in Philadelphia on Monday morning of natural causes.
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Flag Day Fun for the Entire Family
Flag Day, Saturday, June 14, is Family Day at the National Museum of the Marine Corps with outdoor activities along with the dedications of a new, interactive children's playground and two historical markers interpreting the colonial era King's Highway. The playground and historical marker dedication will take place at 10:30a.m. with officials of the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation and National ...
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7 Days
The Society meets today at 2 p.m. at DeLavy House Museum on Highway 550 between Coronado State Monument and the Santa Ana Star Casino. Don Bullis will present “Author’s Day.” And will introduce local artists who will discuss their recent works. Their books will be available for sale.
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An expanded USGA Museum reopens in NJ
FAR HILLS, N.J. - A museum aspiring to be "the Cooperstown of golf" reopens Tuesday after a nearly $20 million expansion. The USGA Museum has spent the past three...
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Husband of Minneapolis artist pleads guilty in her killing
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The husband of a Minneapolis art student has pleaded guilty to killing his wife in their Minneapolis apartment. Matthew Gretz's plea came Monday, the same day jury selection was to begin for his trial in the death of 32-year-old Kira Simonian.
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Inverted church sculpture moves from Vancouver to Calgary
A controversial sculpture rejected by Vancouver's parks committee is to go on display in front of Calgary's Glenbow Museum.
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Former art museum curator's art featured in local show
An art exhibit featuring oil paintings by Jim Beasley, former curator of collections and exhibitions for the Springfield Art Museum, opens Friday at Good Girl Art Gallery, 215 W. Olive St. Beasley's work will be on display until July 30. Good Girl Art Gallery will be open from 6-10 p.m. Friday for First Friday Art Walk.
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City launches mural contest
BARRIE - Emerging artists being sought by the city's Department of Culture to submit ideas for a mural to be installed on the west side of the new Collier Street parking structure this fall. “The Collier Street Parkade mural project is a chance to bring attention and recognition to [...]
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Flag Day Fun for the Entire Family
TRIANGLE, Va.----Flag Day, Saturday, June 14, is Family Day at the National Museum of the Marine Corps with outdoor activities along with the dedications of a new, interactive children's playground and two historical markers interpreting the colonial era King's Highway.
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''Odor Limits'' Art-in-Science Scent Exhibit -- Exclusive Showing in Philadelphia
"Odor Limits," an interactive multimedia exhibit that explores the contribution of smell to artistic experience, runs through June 28, 2008 at the University City Science Center's Esther M. Klein Art Gallery and is presented through a collaboration between the Science Center and the Monell Center.
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Crazy Horse Memorial turns 60 with no end in sight
NEW 12:15 p.m. 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.
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Storytellers practice and perfect their art
Shivers ran down spines. Shaky "oohs" echoed to the high ceiling of the two-story great room of the High Plains Museum as a McCook man told about a house in Indianola haunted by the spirit of a railroad man killed in a train derailment more than 100 years ago.
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''Odor Limits'' Art-in-Science Scent Exhibit -- Exclusive Showing in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA----"Odor Limits," an interactive multimedia exhibit that explores the contribution of smell to artistic experience, runs through June 28, 2008 at the University City Science Center's Esther M.
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