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Embalmed sheep exhibit alarms museum
LOS ANGELES, June 4 (UPI) -- An embalmed sheep is at the center of a growing controversy in Los Angeles after being given its own armed guard in an art gallery.
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University offers reward for artworks
The University of British Columbia is offering a $50,000 reward for the safe return of 15 gold objects recently stolen from its Museum of Anthropology (MOA).
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'G-Men and Journalists: Top News Stories of the FBI’s First Century' Opens June 20 at the Newseum
Exhibit Press Preview Tuesday, June 17
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Community Briefs
Library conducting youth poster contest
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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. Celebration 2008 is expected to fill Juneau's downtown with crowds in colorful regalia sharing dances, songs, art and indigenous foods.
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Art project ends up a cash cow
Tommy Hirsch of Wheaton, a senior at Glenbard South High School, has won honorable mention and $1,000 for the cow sculpture he entered in the Lucerne Art of Dairy contest.
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Needham's Second Annual Springs Arts Festival gets a space of its own
It was a feast for both the eyes and ears during the second annual Spring Arts Festival, held May 31 on the green of the Town Common.
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Oil Critique: "Memories"
This is quite an accomplishment for a beginner oil painter. The objects in the foreground are the strongest part of the painting. The artist may want to consider using part of the flag or a solid neutral color for the background instead of the sky.
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VICE to Zune: Music Sounds Better With You
The best things in life, everyone knows, aren't free. The best things in life are things other people have to pay for, and you get for free. Like the 1,000 bottles of beer at the latest of Toronto's legendary VICE parties, if you were early or lucky or special enough to get into the Deleon White Gallery on Friday night.
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Madrid's PhotoEspana festival opens
Spain's international photography festival PhotoEspana opened in Madrid Wednesday, with 70 exhibitions on the theme of the physical space that surrounds human activities.
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Gilley throws big-time party
When Ronnie Gilley throws a party, he really throws a party. And he’s inviting everyone to come. Billy Graham of Ronnie Gilley Properties Inc., said Gilley hopes to see everyone in the Wiregrass at the picturesque setting where the first-ever Bama Jam Music Festival will kick off Thursday.
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French police recover stolen art
Two paintings by French impressionists Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley and two others by Flemish artist Jan Brueghel, stolen last year, have been found and 10 people arrested.
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Artistic kids
Both Wissahickon and Upper Dublin School Districts held art exhibitions last month to to show off the talents of their young artists.
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Our Picks for the Week of 6/6-6/11
First Friday Art Walk friday 6 Supposedly, it’s almost summer, which means it’s a great time to wander the streets during the warm nights and what better reason to wander than for the art walk. There’s a delight of different exhibits (and free wine, nudge nudge, wink wink, drink drink) to be found so get on out there! Downtown Bend. Andre Nickatina friday 6 California rap veteran Nickatina ...
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National News
Innovative Museum Opens in S.F.
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War brides photos earn international prize for Toronto woman
A photo essay about Canadian war brides has earned Toronto-based photographer Arantxa Cedillo an international photography prize.
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First portrait of P.E.I Acadian on display in Charlottetown
The first known portrait of an Acadian born on Prince Edward Island is now on display at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown.
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Anime Expo to Host Character Designer Akemi Takada
Takada regularly holds art exhibitions in Tokyo and other cities in Japan. She attended Anime Expo Tokyo in 2004, but she has not appeared in a North American anime convention since California's Anime America in 1994.
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Sites bring nature, culture to kids' backyard
More than 50 museums, historical sites and nature centers in DuPage and Kane Counties are taking part in this summer's Passport to Adventure program, and many of these are a hop, skip and a jump from home.
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Shelby Lynne cancels Arts Festival show
Alt-country singer Shelby Lynne has canceled the June leg of her tour, including her planned Three Rivers Arts Festival show on June 20. The Arts Festival is currently looking for an artist to replace her
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Classic examples of Ethiopian cuisine are prepared with wit and skill at this cheerful, attractive restaurant/art gallery/nightspot.
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Art Opening This Week
1212 Gallery Opening June 22 through July 27. Gallery hosts “The Human Form.” Local artists Joelle Francht and Mike Keeling join New York’s Nancy Fairchild and Cleveland’s Nancy McEntee to interpret The Human Form. The exhibition starts Sunday, June 22, with an artists’ reception that afternoon from 2-5 pm. 12 E. 12th St. 233-9957.
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Art Basel _ world's largest art fair _ opens in Switzerland
The largest international contemporary art fair opened Wednesday, closely watched for trends in the world market at a time of financial turbulence. About 60,000 artists, collectors, galleries and art enthusiasts are expected to attend the annual four-day Art Basel fair, with the moneyed set coming to Basel in private jets. Record prices at recent auctions indicate the market is still resilient ...
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Art Basel _ world's largest art fair _ opens in Switzerland
The largest international contemporary art fair opened Wednesday, closely watched for trends in the world market at a time of financial turbulence.
Belleville News-Democrat |
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Hindu freedom fighter to be India's 'Statue of Liberty'
Intent on outdoing the monuments left behind by the British, India is to build its answer to the Statue of Liberty — a new 309 feet tall sculpture of a sword-wielding warrior king that will rise out of the Arabian Sea off the coast of Bombay.
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