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Blackberry Farm's Pioneer Village: Pioneer Village is a living history museum on 54 acres. Admission includes unlimited rides on the train, hay wagon, carousel and ponies. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekends and holidays.
The Beacon News |
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Fine Arts Show offers visual, tactile pieces
Greg Cunningham of Bear Paws Glass Works, Crystal Lake, is called "hot glass," also known as "lampworking." In addition, Greg has developed his own process sequences to create his tiny works of art. No molds are used, and virtually no tools are used in creating each pendant.
The Beacon News |
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Celebrate ESU Athletics This Weekend
Festivities will start on Friday when nearly 90 items will be available for bid at the annual ESU Athletics Auction at Bruff's Bar & Grill in northwest Emporia.
WIBW Topeka |
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Arlo Guthrie highlights music festival lineup
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir will be performing at the Collingwood Music Festival on Sat., July 5 as part of the festival's summer season.
Simcoe.com |
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Launch of Interactive Physics Website Prompts Online Astro-Photo Contest
Focus on the universe through your camera lens. June 30 marks the launch of OurUndiscoveredUniverse.com and the website is celebrating by announcing an astro-photo contest for amateur photographers. The contest is tentatively set to begin in July shortly after the launch of the new website. Submissions can be of galaxies, stars, meteors, or any other subject associated with the universe. This is ...
Centre Daily Times |
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Police arrest Carnegie Museum of Art security guard for vandalism
An on-duty guard at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Oakland has been charged with vandalizing a piece of artwork. On May 16, Timur Serebrykov, 27, was caught on surveillance video defacing the artwork
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
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Jazz Fest announced Camp
The Monterey Jazz Festival is pleased to announce its two-week Summer Jazz Camp for middle and high school students, taking place at Monterey Peninsula College, June 16 - 27, 2008.
The Monterey County Herald |
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Artist with local ties questioned over assassination exhibit
Yazmany Arboleda is a New York artist with South Florida ties who has achieved a big goal at the age of 27: everyone is talking about his work.
Sun-Sentinel |
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'80s band Parachute Club kicks off Luminato
New material from '80s world-beat band Parachute Club and a performance by reclusive songstress Mary Margaret O'Hara will be featured at a music celebration set to kick off the 10-day Luminato arts festival this weekend.
Toronto Star |
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Get Me to the Museum on Time
"Almost there," I reassured Pajarito, hurrying through the noonday crush of midtown, stepping alongside planters lined with yellow tulips. "I stuck in a meeting," said Pajarito. "Be there in an hour."
Gay City News |
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“Aggressive competition” hits Sotheby’s profits
LONDON. Increased competition from Christie’s, particularly in the fields of impressionist, modern and contemporary art, contributed to an $18.1m (or 12%) fall in turnover at Sotheby’s for the first three months of 2008, compared with the same period last year.
Art Newspaper |
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Kremlin Buys Russian Art Collection
The Art Newspaper can reveal that a private foundation with close ties to the Kremlin purchased the London-based Nikita and Nina Lobanov-Rostovsky Collecton of Russian theatre art.
Art Newspaper |
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Eagle hosts first Friday Art Walk
EAGLE, Colorado — Robin Gustlin throws paint. At canvases, that is. The Eagle resident creates very detailed architectural illustrations for a living so when she’s painting, she tries to “get really loose,” she said.
Vail Daily |
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New: Reward offered for return of stolen sculpture
ST. CHARLES — Police hope that whoever stole a sculpture from Mount Saint Mary Park last month did so because of its artistic value and not for its value as scrap metal.
The St. Charles Sun |
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Spooner keeps pushing on
Jason Spooner has won, placed, or shown in more music-driven competitions than four or five "American Idol" contestants.
San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5 |
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Dramatic exposure :Lighthouses photos catch color in real-life context.
ST. JOSEPH, Mich. -- Gary Martin saw a great deal of lighthouse photography while living in North Carolina.
South Bend Tribune |
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Juno-nominated children's performer visits Bobcaygeon
Young music lovers won't want to miss out on the chance to catch Juno-nominated children's performer Jake Differ in action. The musician and author is stopping by the Boyd Heritage Museum on Saturday, June 7 for a dynamic and exciting show guaranteed to get little toes tapping.
myKawartha.com |
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Sweet 16 for Queens Pride
A small portion of the 25,000 revelers who turned out in Jackson Heights Sunday for the annual Queens LGBT Pride Parade and Festival.
Gay City News |
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Do we really want the freer circulation of cultural goods?
A few years ago, I received a grant from the Getty Foundation for a project on museums in South Asia. I was just about to send 12 researchers to around 100 museums all over India, to get a sense of what place museums occupy in the social landscape of the country today.
Art Newspaper |
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Column: At its best, art serves higher purpose
Recently a couple of news items from the artistic community have caught my eye. One reported that a group of young artists from Germany had set up a living space in a museum near Tel Aviv, Israel. Their art form: lice in their hair.
The Jackson Sun |
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Event Calendar
June 1 A “Stomp” is performing at the Morrison Center. Tickets are $27-$44.50. The show begins at 2 p.m. June 2 C 29th Annual Idaho Watercolor Society Juried Exhibition presented in the Student Union Gallery. There is no cost to view the exhibition.
The Arbiter |
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Wired.com's ASCII Art Contest: Enter to Win
Let your creative spirit run wild. Using only the symbols on your keyboard, create an ASCII masterpiece and enter our contest on Underwire. Details inside.
Wired News |
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Looking forward to Wisconsin Farm Technology Days
Wisconsin Farm Technology Days, Wisconsin's biggest outdoor farm show, will take place July 15-17 in Brown County just south of Green Bay. This 55th edition of the show that began in 1954 in Waupaca County as an effort to bring farmers and agricultural technology together will be held at Country Aire Farms at Greenleaf. A 65-acre tent city -- featuring commercial and educational exhibits, 300 ...
The Capital Times |
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Nurmet paintings on display in Dixon
Several paintings by artist Harry Nurmet, formerly of Oregon, are on display at The Next Picture Show, 113 W. First St., Dixon. Executive Director Bonnie Kime said the 34 art pieces are on loan from the estate of the late George Noone of Oregon.
SaukValley.com |
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Henry Hillman, Jr. at Elizabeth Leach Gallery
To some, Henry Hillman Jr . is a renaissance man whose interest in robotics, railroads, gadgetry, philanthropy and art represent almost Citizen Kane-like appetites.
The Oregonian |
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