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Actor News
Now in its ninth year, the festival will present its Maverick Award to Pierce Brosnan.
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Going With the Grain To Convey Her Vision
Alison Elizabeth Taylor, a 35-year-old artist who grew up in Las Vegas, uses the ancient craft of wood inlay, known as marquetry, to explore contemporary subjects. Her latest show at James Cohan Gallery in New York, where she now lives, includes scenes of disaffected youth bicycling, swimming or...
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Who's Blogging
WHEN: June 11-Sept. 7. WHERE: National Geographic Museum, 1145 17th Street Northwest.
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Color & Meaning Knit Together in An Abstract Yarn
A lovely two-artist show that opened last week at the tiny Transformer gallery near Logan Circle looks into one of the main ideas of 20th-century art: that abstract beauty could be distilled from everyday objects. And it shows how, despite that distillation, the gorgeous art that results always k...
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From the Arctic to Africa, Voices Carry
Ten evenings, 16 acts and 5,000 to 6,000 listeners don't begin to summarize the variety and pleasures of what went on over this past week-and-a-half at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage A Cappella festival.
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Auctions: Unusual offerings at sales in suburbs
Spearheaded by Alderfer Auction & Appraisal's three-day catalog sale of fine and decorative arts, suburban auction houses will offer an abundance of unusual treasures over the next week - including a landscape by a comparatively early Pennsylvania impressionist.
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Art as investment catching on in southern India: auction house
CHENNAI: A rare M F Husain for just $35,000? Or a 1991 Souza for $35,000 and a 1948 Souza for $50,000 or a recent Raza for $17,500? Yes, and that too, in Chennai and Bangalore.
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Downtown festival offers a journey back to Lincoln's Decatur
DECATUR - Local sculptor and former history teacher John McClarey is doing more than creating bronze sculptures of Abraham Lincoln for the Shadows of Lincoln festival. He's continuing to teach through his art about Lincoln's legacy, a legacy McClarey believes still is relevant today.
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SATURDAY'S CALENDAR
NOMA Rodrigue Exhibition Closing Events New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park. The museum remains open all night through 5 p.m. Sun. with ongoing activities, including Cajun dance lessons, at 4, music by the Lafourche Cajun Band, 5, Big Sam's Funky Nation, 9 and DJ Beverly Skillz, midnight.
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Motorcycle exhibit rolls into Davenport's Putnam Museum
History, according to the Putnam Museum, can be found on two wheels, revving its motor and riding through the streets of the Quad-Cities.
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BULLETIN BOARD
Art Show And Celebration El Campo Art Association hosts its 50th Annual Art Show and Celebration today from 2-6 p.m. and Sunday, June 8 from 1-5 p.m. A reception will be held Sunday, June 8 from 1-3 p.m. and everyone is invited.
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Looking Back
As members of the El Campo Art Association gather for their annual art show Athis this weekend, they are also observing their golden year. It was 50 years ago the group first formed. In March of 1958, a group of Wharton County amateur artists organized the El Campo Art League. These artists were ...
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Painting a picture of hope for children with autism
ENID — A diagnosis of Asperger syndrome five years ago spurred an Oklahoma girl to raise awareness about autism. Now Amanda LaMunyon has been named the 2008 Outstanding Individual with Autism by the Autism Society of America because of the inspiration she has been to others living with the disorder. Amanda's parents enrolled her in art lessons when she was 7 because she was having trouble ...
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Sites unseen: Outdoor sculpture exhibit adds new dimension to familiar locations
The scenery in downtown Lawrence has changed once again. The street-corner artwork that is part of the Lawrence Outdoor Downtown Sculpture Exhibition has been swapped out for a new crop of entries as the Lawrence Arts Commission celebrates its 21st year of organizing the show.
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Chief curator leaving MAM
The Milwaukee Art Museum's chief curator, Joseph D. Ketner II, will resign his post, according to a statement from Daniel Keegan, the museum's new director, to staff and the board of trustees.
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Now in its 22nd year, festival has nurtured friendships
Wearing traditional regalia resplendent with feathers, bells and beads, hundreds of dancers paraded at the 22nd annual Red Earth Native American Cultural Festival to a colorful start Friday morning. But this year's downtown parade featured more than the customary American Indian dancers, drum groups and tribal princesses. Tigers and lions from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, ...
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Steve Reich Claps, Drums as Ojai Closes This Weekend: Interview
June 7 (Bloomberg) -- Steve Reich will spend part of Sunday clapping and drumming at the annual Ojai Music Festival , about 75 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
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At last, art's in the air on the Ave
A permanent public art project took almost half a decade to complete, but the Greater University Chamber of Commerce hung the final sculptures this week.
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La Bella Vita : Middleton miscellany
Luckily for Madisonians, the search for La Bella Vita needn't go any further than a less-than-a-gallon schlep to Middleton and the boutique and gallery of the same name.
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Photographer Cleared in Australia
The Australian police have dropped their investigation into the work of Bill Henson, whose photographs of naked children caused controversy after the authorities shut down an exhibition in Sydney last month, Bloomberg News reported. The New South Wales state police said in a statement on Friday that ?there is no reasonable prospect for a successful conviction.? Mr. Henson?s images captured ...
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What Paintings?
Vladimir Voronin, the president of Moldova, made a wonderful announcement on Friday, saying that two paintings stolen from the State Hermitage Museum in Russia had been found in Moldova and would soon be returned, The Associated Press reported. There?s just one problem: He did not say what the works were, and the Hermitage?s press office said it had no idea what paintings he was talking about. ...
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Child porn OK'd for public exhibit
Photographs of nude 13-year-olds confiscated by police from a Sydney, Australia, gallery have been returned following a flurry of objections from artists – including movie starlet Cate Blanchett – and a decision that successful prosecution under child porn laws was unlikely.
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Chinese Buddhist Treasures, Written in Stone
?Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture From the Sackler Collections at Columbia University? is an eye-opening show,
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For Movement Research, a Time to Cast a Wide Net Over Disciplines and Countries
The spring festival of Movement Research gives those in the New York dance world a chance to stop complaining about the lack of discourse and do something about it.
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Arts notes
Fest lineup growsNew Jersey's biggest summer-of-'08 rock festival just got a little bigger. Seven acts, including former Phish frontman Trey Anastasio, have been added to the All Points West Music & Arts Festival, taking place at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, Aug. 8-10.
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