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Newport International Film Festival films for All Ages
Newly restored and available for the first time in almost a decade, Albert Lamorisse's THE RED BALLOON remains one of the most beloved children's films of all time. In this deceptively simple, nearly wordless tale, a young boy discovers a stray balloon that seems to have a mind of its own.
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Castor still fighting Barnes move
NORRISTOWN — Montgomery County Commissioner Bruce L. Castor Jr. Monday called on his fellow commissioners not to abandon the legal battle to keep the renowned Barnes art collection in Lower Merion.
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Museum Hosts Summer Program for Kids
Children learned about ancient cultures Tuesday morning as they participated in the Museum of Peoples and Cultures' 'Mornings at the Museum' program--an event held bi-weekly during the summer months.
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Danish art group ridicules Myanmar military rulers
Copenhagen - A website ridiculing the military rulers of Myanmar has been set up by satirical Danish art group Surrend, known for staging provocative exhibitions, reports said Wednesday. The group tweaked the semi-official website www.myanmar.com by ...
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Woodcarver among exhibitors at Summer Art Fair
James Durow’s hand-carved birds are so lifelike, you expect them to spread their wings and fly. Durow, of Marysville, has his own company, which can be found at woodenfeathercarvingstudio.com. He works full time creating life-size birds of many kinds.
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Native groups celebrate at cultural festival in Juneau
Associated Press - June 4, 2008 11:54 AM ET JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Thousands of Alaska Natives from southeast Alaska are in Juneau for a 3-day cultural festival.
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Landscape art gets complicated
In this country, the most prominent landscape artists are the Group of Seven. Even if people can't rattle off individual names such as Lawren Harris, A.Y. Jackson or J.E.H Macdonald, most people have heard the name Group of Seven and know their paintings are somehow significantly Canadian.
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Art exhibit has baseball theme
The Cleveland County Arts Council is sponsoring a juried exhibit with a baseball theme as a tie in with the 2008 American Legion World Series in Shelby Aug. 13-26. Art work submitted by the public must pertain to or depict baseball. The world series will be held in Veterans Field at Keeter Stadium on the Shelby High School campus. The American Legion Baseball Commission will sponsor a $500 ...
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Local folk artists are uncasing their fiddles and tuning their guitars for a free musical event this summer. Calliope, Pittsburgh's Folk Music Society, will host Rootz: The Green City Festival at Mellon Arena July 12 for folk fanatics and other curious summer fest-goers.
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Museum a Place of Beauty, Passion
The Springville Museum of Art, which opened its doors in 1903, houses more than 1,500 different pieces. Currently, the museum has two summer exhibits on display: the Thiebaud exhibit and the Annual Spring Salon exhibit.
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Making an effort to use my Pitt student ID, I stirred up the initiative to traipse through the "Life on Mars" exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Art. While attempting the duty-bound circuit between the portraits, films and installations, I was astonished at how much they baited my mind.
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Bypass will bring new life to Rhondda
An exhibition outlining work over the next two years to build the long-awaited Church Village Bypass will go on show this month.
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Case, Bird, Deerhoof, Destroyer Play New Pornos' Fest
Please join us in welcoming to this year's festival fold the first ever Stanley Park Singing Exhibition , two days of music at the Malkin Bowl in Vancouver, British Columbia's Stanley Park-- as selected by hometown crew the New Pornographers ! SPSE attendees will be treated to "a host of bands lovingly picked" by the Pornos, bands which, as the Pornos put it, collectively "represent a small ...
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Yard help for seniors
The John Howard Society is offering free household help to seniors and persons with disabilities through their summer maintenance crew program. Members of the maintenance crew can assist with yard chores, light painting and indoor work. The supplies required for household jobs must be provided by the client. [...]
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Gallery Hop
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Library, United receive grant to display classic American artwork
United North Elementary School and the Warren County Public Library will soon be home to nationally recognized pieces of American artwork.
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Graue Mill fine arts festival set for Sunday
The seventh annual fine arts festival will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, June 8 on the lawn of Graue Mill and Museum, 3800 S. York Road.
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In pictures: RA Summer Exhibition
English artist Tracey Emin stands in front of her artwork Ruined, an acrylic, oil pastel and pencil on canvas that features in the gallery she has curated for the Royal Academy of Arts' Summer Exhibition.
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Museum showing 2008 Carnegie International art exhibition
It's a contemporary art exhibition uniquely rooted in the past, with a history that stretches back more than a century and a tradition fostered by a Gilded Age industrialist.
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Music Menu
CL previews upcoming shows... WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4 Ana Lola Roman N.Y.C.-based avant-garde performer Roman weaves abstract lyrics into obtuse keyboards and percussion-caressed performance rock. It takes a while to warm up to her Lori Anderson-inspired adventurism, but Roman has the musical knack to keep it from becoming artsy-fartsy shtick. Whether performing in art galleries or saloons, Roman is ...
Creative Loafing Charlotte |
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Austin Daily Herald
Twelve Austin High School Art Club students were invited to build a sculpture out of cans and boxes of food donated by General Mills in Rice Park outside the Ordway Theatre. Last year, Hormel donated the food for the sculptures.)
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Spirited away
Hard work celebrated in stellar exhibit Quiet Spirit, Skillful Hand ... By Scott Lucas.Clare Leighton is everyman's artist, an idealist, a naturalist, and a champion of manual labor. Those are a few reasons you've never heard of her. In an age where logo trumps name, personality supplants character, and idol worship rules the common man, the soft spoken message of hard work, the value of manual ...
Creative Loafing Charlotte |
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Scene in America
By Charity Fredrick.Exhibit: Scene in America: A Contemporary Look at the Black Male Image Dates: Showing now through Nov. 2 Location: Mint Museum of Art, 2730 Randolph Rd. Info: 704-337-2000 or www.mintmuseum.org What is it to be a black man today? Is it having a certain swagger? Is it wearing the right clothes? Is it profound intelligence and dignity? Or is it just a black face? This current ...
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Art/Culture Review
The real competition has now started in the M-Net Idols talent show and contestants are trying their best as the chances of being the ultimate winner of the show are increasing, with one person being evicted every week.
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Art collection's value rises 33%
A growth in the interest in Scottish art sees the value of a collection in Dumfries rise sharply.
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