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Teacher to take on Eddy
Hoquiam High School art teacher and former wrestling coach Russ Skolrood has thrown his hat into the ring in hopes of unseating PUD Commissioner Jim Eddy.
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Ooty's Madame Tussads headed for melt down ?
It has been the poor man's Madame Tussads for years but the private wax museum, a star tourist puller in the hill resort town of Udhagamandalam (Ooty), is on the verge of melting down following lack of patronage and 'indifferent' attitude of local authorities.
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Paintings at Verdala Palace restored
The vault painting in the Main Hall of Verdala Palace depicts eight mythological figures and two virtues, all framed within a fictive architectural and vegetal decoration. The painting is traditionally dated to the late 16th century and attributed to the Florentine artist Filippo Paladini. This attribution, however, still awaits confirmation through documentary evidence. ...
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Festival Latino adds admission
This year's Festival Latino will be in a smaller venue with reduced hours and, for the first time, an admission price.
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Summer Street Music Series launches on June’s First Friday
PHOENIXVILLE — The First Friday of June had the downtown hopping, with exhibits by artists, a business anniversary, and the kickoff of Molly Maguire’s Summer Street Music Series, as well as the inaugural First Friday Fright Night at the Colonial Theatre.
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Mesquite community calendar
GUITAR COMPETITION: Eastfield College Collegiate Classical Guitar Competition & Festival, through Sunday at the college, 3737 Motley Drive. www.eastfieldcollege.com or 972-860-7113; for competition information, enric.madriguera@utdallas.edu or 972-860-7124.
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REVIEW: 'Carved in Stone' offers history lesson, a few laughs
Part theater, part history lesson, part cultural snapshot, "Dreams Carved in Stone" intertwines the lives of revered Lakota leader Crazy Horse and the persistent Polish sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski.
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Nepal king's 'crown' auctioned in UK?
KATHMANDU: More than a month before Nepal's new lawmakers formally abolished the country's 239-year-old monarchy, a priceless crown went under the hammer at an auction in London's Bond Street.
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On the horizon: Upcoming events
When the book "Sybil" came out in 1973, it sparked instant controversy. There had been stories of people with two or three personalities, but here was a Columbia University art student who reportedly had 16. Two were male, many were timid, some were brash and bold.
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STERLING HEIGHTS EXHIBIT: Sculptures to be on display for 2 years
Bursts of red and orange colors, the shine of aluminum and glistening stained glass pop into view at Sterling Heights' newest and largest edition of its biennial outdoor public art exhibition.
Detroit Free Press |
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Saturday on the go
Take a stroll in Detroit's Cultural Center this weekend and you're liable to bump into a giant praying mantis or a demonstration of hair resculpturing on a gonzo scale. It's the Detroit Festival of the Arts.
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Lowry’s bleak sea view makes £313,000
DESPITE there not being a matchstick in sight, a painting by artist LS Lowry, thought to have been inspired by his childhood holidays in Wales, sold for £313,250 at auction yesterday.
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A New Public Art Sculpture by Angel Orensanz in Zaragoza
The new public art sculpture piece of Angel Orensanz "Sphere of the World" was moved to its permanent location to the WTC Zaragoza:"... the likeness of world preserves its basic roundness but is not massive and uniformed. It portrays an exploding cauldron of diverging directions and processes." (PRWeb Jun 7, 2008) Read the full story at ...
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Art or graffiti: Artists find refuge in Las Vegas tunnels
Sat, Jun 7, 2008 (12:17 a.m.) The city's most intriguing art gallery lies beneath Las Vegas Boulevard. It's dark and it's dirty. There are no formal openings. No curator. No reviews. No selling of the works.
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New Contemporary Jewish Museum opening in San Francisco
Architect Daniel Libeskind adds a big blue cube and angled walls to historic industrial building south of Market Street
Contra Costa Times |
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A National Geographic Assignment - For Life
WorldNomads.com announces 2008 Travel Photography Scholarship in conjunction with the National Geographic Channel. (PRWeb Jun 7, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/WorldNomads/PhotographyScholarship/prweb1004104.htm
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Art thou a woman?
This past month saw a whole range of exhibitions of paintings by leading women artists of India. While some explored traditional art like warli or tankha in new avatars, some others broke free and made their own mould.
Hindustan Times |
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Police plan to return stolen bronze sculpture
Police plan to return a 100-pound bronze sculpture that was stolen from a lawn in Hopewell Township in May.
Courier-Post |
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Works stolen from South Boston outdoor public art project
Hub pols and artists living in South Boston's Fort Point neighborhood are pleading for the return of t'Window' pain: Artists seek return of artworkfeaturing...
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Another Wooden masterpiece unveiled
DEDICATION: Legendary UCLA coach honored with mural at namesake school.
Los Angeles Daily News |
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Sunday Swap seeks to foster cultural activity downtown
Who says there's nothing to do in downtown Lancaster on a SundayBuilding Character, a downtown Lancaster antique gallery, wil
Lancaster Online |
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Quick takes: Days of wine festivals and roses
Greater Rochester Rose Society hosts show; wildflowers bloom at Montezuma; sailors said goodbye in Pultneyville.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |
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Turkish Art and Folk Festival coming your way
Turkish Art and Folk Festival starts Friday in Chili.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |
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Museum crowd pays tribute to vets as WWII exhibit hangar opens
Even in the sweltering heat, Wayne Carley chose to wear his grandfather's woolen, World War II Army uniform. To pay honor, he said, to a man who lost his left leg during the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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Focus on triumph, not tragedy
If the name, Contemporary Jewish Museum, or the building, with its two blue steel geometric-shaped extensions to a PG&E power station built in 1909, don't convince you that this is not your bubbe's Jewish museum, the first show in the 7,000-square-foot...
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