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Norwegian art dealer leaves fortune to MSF charity
A Norwegian art dealer has left a fortune worth around 20 million pounds ($39.4 million), including art works by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, to French medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
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Police raid party at Detroit art gallery, ticket 130 people
DETROIT -- Detroit police have raided a party at the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, ticketing 130 people for loitering. Police said Saturday's raid targeted illegal after-hours alcohol sales.
The Ann Arbor News |
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Vision Festival's Patricia Nicholson Parker Interviewed at AAJ
Patricia Nicholson Parker has been an indefatigable organizing spirit in New York City's artistic community centered on the Lower East Side since 1981, when she directed and helped to organize “A Thousand Cranes Peace Opera," for the opening of the UN Special Sessions on Disarmament.
All About Jazz |
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Gallery 'delayed and over budget'
A new visual arts centre for Essex is over budget and already delayed, a council says.
BBC News |
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June 3, 2008
Hirschfeld's caricature was published in the New York Times in April of 1941. The original, I learned the other day, is being auctioned off later this month by Swann Galleries . I was fascinated to read the names of the members pictured therein: Rosamund Gilder, Joseph Wood Krutch, Richard Watts, Jr., John Mason Brown, Walter Winchell, George Jean Nathan, Sidney Whipple, Brooks Atkinson, Arthur ...
Arts Journal |
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June 3, 2008
• MONDAY, MAY 26 I had a nightmare about The Letter , the first time I've ever dreamed about it. In my dream, Paul Moravec and I were about to lead a workshop performance of our opera at a summer festival that took place in a clearing in some unspecified forest.
Arts Journal |
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Children's museum opens today
Sandcastles Children’s Museum will feature “Outdoor World,” live animals brought in from Holland, Thursday, June 5. There will be reptiles, mammals and birds of Michigan. Each “Thrilling Thursday” will begin at 10 a.m. with a different presentation each week.
Ludington Daily News |
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Grammy Award-Winning Robin Eubanks Brings Commanding Flavor, Style to Idlewild
Much like the genre it celebrates, the 2008 Idlewild Jazz Festival embraces an array of eras, artists and melodic styles.
All About Jazz |
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Bay of Pigs mission to be honored
The 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion -- the CIA-backed effort to topple Fidel Castro -- proved to be a stunning failure. But now, an air attack mission staged during the heat of battle is being singled out for its success and honored with a painting depicting the bravery of those who took part in ``the Lobo Flight.''
Miami Herald |
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Police raid party at Detroit art gallery, ticket 130 people
Detroit police have raided a party at the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, ticketing 130 people for loitering.
FOX 2 News Detroit |
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No nudes is bad news for Egypt art school
CAIRO: One hundred years after it was founded, Cairo's School of Fine Arts seeks to train Egypt's artists but has to make do without nude "life" drawing classes so as not to offend Islam.
The Times of India |
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Tax-funded gallery charges public
An art gallery which was saved by taxpayers money will charge people almost £7 to enter its gallery.
BBC News |
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Newborn found
The body of a newborn girl has been found in bushes near the Horsens Art Museum. The infant had white skin, dark hair and was wrapped in a hand towel when she was found on Monday evening. The cause of death has not yet been established.
The Copenhagen Post |
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Students get blast from the past, advice at anniversary celebration
The College of Engineering hosted a celebration and fundraiser Friday to commemorate its 50th anniversary of hands-on learning. The celebration began with a VIP reception in the W. Keith and Janet Kellogg Art Gallery uniting current students and alumni with professionals from the engineering fields.
Poly Post |
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Kurtz plans exhibit on terror raid
After beating federal prosecutors and agents in the courtroom, Buffalo art professor Steven J. Kurtz is about to take them to task in an art exhibit.
The Buffalo News |
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5th Int’l Sculpture Camp closes in Hue
VietNamNet Bridge – After more than a month of working, 25 sculptors from 14 countries participating in the 5 th International Sculpture Camp of Festival Hue 2008 have presented 25 sculptural works.
Vietnam Net |
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Hue Festival 2008 opens tonight
VietNamNet Bridge – The event will open with a special art and music show at 8pm tonight, June 3, at Ngo Mon Square in Hue city. With the theme “Royal Palace Night Festival”, the opening show will be a mixture of traditional and modern items, of stage art, festival and unique firework performances.
Vietnam Net |
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Saint Laurent's work, life were iconic
The iconic French designer -- who died Sunday in Paris at age 71 after a long illness -- was "unquestionably the greatest designer'' from the 1950s to early 2000s, says Valerie Steele, director of the museum at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology.
Asbury Park Press |
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Secrets revealed
The Children's Museum of the Lowcountry will open a new exhibit, "Secrets of Circles," today.
The Post and Courier |
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Here comes the bride... please pass the wine
For all of planning that goes into a wedding -- invitations, reception halls, rehearsal dinners, rings, flowers, formal wear, photography, music -- it's easy to overlook an important element that can play a role in setting the mood for an event. The wine.
OnMilwaukee.com |
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BBC 'boobed' over Whitehouse pic
A major film about the life of Mary Whitehouse "boobed" by not showing Wigan artist James Lawrence Isherwood's original painting of her with five bosoms. (03/06/2008 11:07:22)
wigantoday.net |
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"Synecdoche" cut above the rest
The original cut of Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut "Synecdoche, New York" was just more than four hours long, and after a half-sized version was unveiled at the recent Cannes Film Festival to a five-minute standing ovation, a viewer could understand why.
Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Police raid party at Detroit art gallery, ticket 130 people
DETROIT -- Detroit police have raided a party at the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, ticketing 130 people for loitering. Police tell the Detroit Free Press that Saturday's...
WOOD TV 8 Grand Rapids |
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Seacoast Local Festival scheduled for Saturday
PORTSMOUTH — More than 20 Portsmouth and Kittery nonprofits will gather in Portsmouth's Market Square for a day of awareness and education during the third annual Seacoast Local Festival on Saturday. Area nonprofit organizations will line Pleasant...
Portsmouth Herald |
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Stuff 2 do
SHUTTERBUGS: The Teen Photography contest, held by the East Central Georgia Regional Library system, will accept entries until June 20. You must be a rising sixth- to 12th-grade student. To apply, bring up to three 5-by-7 inch photos to any library branch.
The Augusta Chronicle |
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