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Kids, adults can enjoy Jazz in June
Jazz in June has long been a staple of summer life in Lincoln. Now in its 17th season, the music, food and cultural festival is sure to delight and entertain the thousands of people who will be in attendance on the balmy evenings outside the Sheldon Museum of Art.
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“African American Battlefields of the Civil War: Contemporary Photography by William Earle Williams”
After President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, more than 180,000 African-American soldiers fought in the Union Army, in regiments and battalions that often, unsurprisingly, drew the most thankless and unpleasant assignments, with little to no credit or recognition. They get so ...
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Far Out Man
Whoa dude, there's so many colors, and if you look at it long enough you can see a sailboat. OK, so the art exhibit opening Friday at the Sheldon Museum of Art isn't exactly a scene out of "Mallrats," but there's destined to be some folks that turn out trying to find things in the art prints that may or may not actually be there.
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John Alexander, the Mediocre
John Alexander is one of those iconic Texans. He's irreverent, opinionated, proud of his Gulf Coast roots and, as evidenced by the work in "John Alexander: A Retrospective" at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, a mediocre painter. Alexander grew up in Beaumont. He got his BFA from Lamar University an ...
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Capsule Art Reviews: "Drawing in Space"
"Drawing in Space" For his drawing/performance, Marker Head Marker at Lawndale Art Center, Daniel Adame encased his head in a giant chunk of plaster shaped like a huge piece of chalk. He then made a drawing on a blackboard hung on the gallery wall. The piece is a part of this group exhibition by J H ...
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Enter your sports photos in our contest
Comments ( No comments posted. ) The Beaches Leader is happy to launch its first-ever summer sports photo contest. This is your opportunity to showcase camera skills, compete for prizes and get your work published in the paper.
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£14m seized in deposit box search
Police searching safety deposit boxes believed to have been used by Britain's master criminals have found up to £14 million in cash. Officers have also uncovered several works of Renaissance art, a huge haul of valuable jewellery and a gun.
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Minneapolis MOSAIC celebrates area’s rich cultural diversity
Summer in Minnesota is synonymous with festivals. There’s the Pan African Festival, the Irish Fair, and BBQ & Blues Fest. The Twin Cities metro area hosts entertaining events that focus on bluegrass music, dogs, Emancipation and saving the earth.
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Telling stories through documenting
One thing that keeps artists satisfied with their work is the privilege to tell stories and discover something new. Point and Shoot like a Pro! The first leg of travel photography workshop series recently held in Batanes was a huge success.
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A (new) Genre Landscape: Artsy parksy
Public art finds funds again in Atlanta... By Cinque Hicks.Local photographer and conceptual artist Michael Reese wants to make pigs fly. Literally. Beginning June 7, Reese will set himself up in Grant Park and invite visitors to write down impossible dreams, attach them to Frisbees imprinted with the image of a pig, and send them off into the park. "When Pigs Fly: A Socially Interactive Dream ...
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Fahamu Pecou
Something Like a Fahamenon set for Vaknin Gallery... By Cinque Hicks.Fahamu Pecou's neo-pop expressionist self-portraits are familiar to any Atlantan who's been paying attention to local art over the last half dozen or so years. Formerly represented by Ty Stokes Gallery, Pecou's latest junket, Something Like a Fahamenon, opens at Midtown's Vaknin Gallery on June 7. What is Fahamenon? Fahamenon ...
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Visual art: New Perspectives
Mon., June 9... By Cinque Hicks.In NEW PERSPECTIVES, Ernesto Cuevas and Cullen Washington Jr. serve up a double dose of politically charged painting and mixed-media work at the Rialto Center for the Arts, continuing Mon., JUNE 9. Cuevas continues to mine the history of his family of migrant farm workers, while Washington calls to account evolving categories of race, gender and class in his ...
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Visual art: Fun and Games
Tues., June 10... By Amanda Peterson.Who knew a Ouija board could be more than a comical component of game night? In his exhibit FUN AND GAMES, continuing Tues., JUNE 10, Ben Goldman uses all his fingers and none of the lighthearted nature of questioning the Ouija to create works of art such as "Sweet Dreams," a piece done in ink, directly on familiar game boards. Through July 25. Free. ...
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Upcoming: Short List
Party with a Purpose, Va-Hi Summerfest and more... June 6 Friday As much as Atlantans love to eat, drink and mingle, most of us also possess a charitable heart. PARTY WITH A PURPOSE (right) gives us the opportunity to combine our need for a good time with our obligation to enact good deeds. Taking place at Django, this second annual event hosts an art show, music provided by DJ Legacy, DJ Rasta ...
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Native groups celebrate at cultural festival in Juneau
Thousands of Alaska Natives from southeast Alaska are in Juneau for a three-day cultural festival.
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School to present student art show
Isaac Newton Magnet School will present the MasterWorks Art Show at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Newport Middle School. Student artwork reflecting the masters Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Rosa Bonheur will appear in a gallery setting.
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Minden firm helps design Olympic art in Beijing park
A Minden-based landscape architecture firm has lent a helping hand in the construction of a 4-mile mural project in the International Sculpture Park in Beijing, China for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
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New Traveling Exhibit Draws 'A Line In The Sand,' Raises Awareness of Domestic Violence
Photographic Exhibit Conceived and Organized By House Of Ruth Maryland, On View Across Maryland from June 2008 to Summer 2009
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Thumbs up: IMA gets Weegee
The Indianapolis Museum of Art has just announced a major score: acquisition of 210 photographs by the artist know as Weegee (Arthur Felig, 1899-1968).
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Pandora launches a new beta of its desktop music app
The Music Genome Project has released a beta of its music-recommending internet radio service Pandora as a gadget that works independently of browsers, based upon Adobe AIR.
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Minnesota Zoo Announces Opening of Russia's Grizzly Coast Exhibit
On Saturday, June 7, 2008, the Minnesota Zoo will open a landmark multi-million dollar exhibit that is both unique in scope and is the largest in its history: Russia's Grizzly Coast.
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Photography club gets $9,500 grant from province
The Sarnia Photographic Club got a $9,500 boost for its annual awards banquet from the Ontario government. The club used to money from an Ontario Trillium Foundation grant to purchase a digital projector, projector screen, slide scanner and laptop for Tuesday night’s celebration. “This grant has helped our [...]
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The power of positive thinking, Exhibit A: Tayla Kelley
A Canandaigua girl wants to show the world that being sick doesn’t have to hold you back.
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Wood Gallery is now Inscapes Gallery of Living Spaces
The Wood Gallery in Newport becomes “Inscapes Gallery of Living Spaces” as new co-owners Cris Torp and Julie Massinger move things around a bit. It will remain at the same building, located at 818 S.W. Bay Blvd., on the Historic Bayfront.
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Eugene W. Smith Exhibit More Real than Reality on View at PHotoEspaña 2008
W. Eugene Smith, Guardia Civil, Spain 1950. Center for Creative Photography, © W. Eugene Smith Archive The Heirs of W. Eugene Smith. MADRID.-
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