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Lawyer: Museum guard 'snapped'
PITTSBURGH - A former Carnegie Museum of Art guard charged with vandalizing a $1.2 million painting simply "snapped" because of life's normal pressures, including impending fatherhood, his attorney said.
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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An arresting display of crime and punishment
New D.C. museum delves into the law America's fascination with crime has taken a new turn with the opening of the National Museum of Crime and Punishment.
Baltimore Sun |
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Weekly entertainment calendar
The Raconteurs: With the Black Lips, 6 p.m. The Fillmore Detroit, 2115 Woodward, Detroit. 313-961-5450. $35. 22nd Annual Detroit Festival of the Arts: With a fine arts and crafts market, multiple stages of entertainment and a children's fair, noon-9 p.m. Cultural District, Woodward & Warren, Detroit. 313-577-5088. Free.
Detroit Free Press |
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Council paints over street artist Banksy's graffiti murals - worth millions!
They are coveted pieces of modern art which fetch up to £1million in auction and are owned by Hollywood royalty. But to one council, murals by the reclusive street artist Banksy appear to be little more than worthless graffiti.
Evening Standard |
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Museum to open in famed slugger's former home in Greenville's West End
The red-brick, two-bedroom home of the man some baseball fans glorify and others vilify will open soon as a museum and baseball library.
Spartanburg Herald-Journal |
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Arts community thrives in Edmonds
In the years Larry Jeffers owned Semantics, a gems, minerals and fossils gallery in Pioneer Square, he had hundreds of people in his gallery...
Seattle Times |
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A day (and night) on the town in Edmonds
Galleries Aria Studio Gallery: Joan Archer created a light, airy gallery and studio for teaching art and exhibiting her work, which includes...
Seattle Times |
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Art stolen from the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology
Fifteen gold artworks valued at $2 million were stolen from the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology in May, 12 of them...
Seattle Times |
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Art: Witness to a long and lustrous leadership
Anne d'Harnoncourt settled into her new job as director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art on July 1, 1982, two months before I arrived in town to address the formidable challenge of writing about art for this newspaper. I had never set foot in the Art Museum. Nor had I ever heard of the woman who would become the cultural conscience of the city and its distinguished ambassador to the rest of the ...
Philly.com |
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DETROIT: Festival of the Arts brings Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to town -- in the sand
It began as a hulking heap of plain old sand, left overnight to compact in construction molds. Fifty tons of sand. That's seven school buses. Or six male African elephants. Or 15 Hummers.
Detroit Free Press |
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Jessica Simpson commits to country
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The Tennessean |
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Sculptures grab attention in Missouri Botanical Garden
An exhibit at the famous St. Louis garden showcases the whimsical mosaic sculptures created by French artist Niki de Saint Phalle.
Contra Costa Times |
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Haitian 'painter of dreams' captures vivid images on canvas
The tree holds special significance in the paintings of Nashville resident Camille Torchon, and for good reason. A native of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, he has witnessed the dramatic deforestation of his homeland over the past two decades. Where once stood an island nation covered in trees, today there is a barren wasteland ravaged by poverty, violence, corruption and escalating environmental ...
The Tennessean |
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Autumn Hill Artworks Launches Website Featuring Ceramics, Pottery and Other Handmade Fine Art by New England Artisans
Autumn Hill Artworks ( www.AutumnHillArtworks.com ) is a premier online gallery recently launched to showcase, market and sell ceramics, pottery and other handmade fine art by New England artisans. (PRWeb Jun 8, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/handmade/fine_art/prweb1007824.htm
PRWeb |
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Booths offer fans a little extra
The truTV Fan Fair Hall inside the Nashville Convention Center is the last remnant of CMA Music Festival bearing the event's original name.
The Tennessean |
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The Rymer Gallery galvanizes downtown arts explosion
Only a few weeks ago, as the last remaining chill of spring evaporated in the afternoon sun, the first floor of 233 Fifth Ave. N. stood empty. The walls and floors were completely bare, a vision of white — not a pallid, lackluster shade, but a white so luminous that the entire room seemed to glow. As Jeff Rymer, owner of The Rymer Gallery, surveyed the scene, he looked on with a sense of ...
The Tennessean |
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Ethnic Dance Festival brings global rhythms to S.F. stage
More than 30 area groups part of a whirlwind tour of global dance
Contra Costa Times |
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Luxury Hotel in New Orleans Hosting Charity Event
JW Marriott Hotel New Orleans to host silent auction to benefit The Children's Miracle Network. (PRWeb Jun 8, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/06/prweb1005914.htm
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Exhibit shows changing environment
The Fresno Art Museum's summer exhibitions will include a local influence -- the watercolor legacy of The Tuesday Group.
The Fresno Bee |
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06/08/08 Yakima People
A boy from Selah is one of the top two winners in a statewide art contest -- and his win is landing his artwork on a billboard near Interstate 90 in Ellensburg.
Yakima Herald-Republic |
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Gray Daylily Festival increases in crowds, vendors and fun
Dayton Scoggins circles a stump of wood with a roaring chain saw in his hand.
Macon Telegraph |
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Melrose festival to feature 120 craftsmen
The Melrose Arts & Crafts Festival will celebrate its 34th annual event Saturday and June 15 at historic Melrose Plantation.
The Shreveport Times |
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Blasters of Paris
PARIS -- There's something slightly surreal about sitting in a darkened theatre in Paris' world-famous Louvre Museum, a stone's throw from priceless and enduring works of art like the Mona Lisa, and watching a video of a virtual Eiffel Tower being consumed by a nuclear blast.
winnipegsun.com |
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Exhibit explores effects of cancer through the arts
When Jean Tansey became an intern at the Oncology Support Program at Benedictine Hospital in Kingston last September, she knew she wanted to do an arts-related event.
Poughkeepsie Journal |
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Autumn Hill Artworks Launches Website Featuring Ceramics, Pottery and Other Handmade Fine Art by New England Artisans
Autumn Hill Artworks (www.AutumnHillArtworks.com) is a premier online gallery recently launched to showcase, market and sell ceramics, pottery and other handmade fine art by New England artisans.
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