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Doc & Hot: Organizers reflect on another successful Blue Plum Festival
The 2008 Blue Plum Festival will probably be remembered something like this: “It was the year they had Doc Watson and it was about 100 degrees outside.”
Johnson City Press |
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Birthday bash for King David
JERUSALEM – It was a birthday bash fit for royalty. The King David Museum & Genealogy Center , a new interactive museum that officially opened its doors in March in the heart of Jerusalem's Old City, yesterday celebrated the 3048th birthday of King David, the second biblical king of Israel.
WorldNet Daily |
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Vatican Launches Drive To Attract Modern Art Masters
"Pope Benedict XVI has launched a campaign for a new era of religious art to rival the works of the Medicis.
Arts Journal |
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Supersized at Art Basel
BASEL, Switzerland — A 98-foot surveillance tower, a reassembled Chinese train wagon with political videos projected onto the windowpanes, a 16-foot chunky self-portrait sculpture, even a hotel with 15 rooms. All of these gigantic pieces were housed in the 130,000-square-foot hall devoted to Art Unlimited, a section of Art Basel dedicated to art that cannot be shown in the regular booths. "Nine ...
The New York Sun |
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Jennifer Lopez - Lopez Plans Exercise Clothing Line
Caption: Jennifer Lopez . 'Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy' Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Arrivals. New York City, USA - 05.05.08
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Art in the Park
WMBD/WYZZ - HANNA CITY -- Most people probably don't think about mixing mother nature with getting a history lesson. But, that's exactly what a new festival in the Peoria area is trying to do. It's a real life blast from the past.
WMBD - FOX 43 Peoria |
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Albee's 'Occupant': A Portrait of the Artist by an Old Friend
In their day, estimable portrait photographers such as Richard Avedon, Arnold Newman, and Robert Mapplethorpe all tried to capture the elusive Louise Nevelson on film. Now Edward Albee, a friend of Nevelson's for 25 years, takes his shot at immortalizing the late Expressionist sculptor in "Occupant," a 2001 play now belatedly receiving its world premiere production at the Signature Theatre ...
The New York Sun |
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Kids, Adults can enjoy Jazz in June
Jazz in June has long been a staple of summer life in Lincoln. Now in its 17th season, the music, food and cultural festival is sure to delight and entertain the thousands of people who will be in attendance on balmy Tuesday evenings outside the Sheldon Museum of Art.
Daily Nebraskan |
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Entertainment
Russian multibillionaire Roman Abramovich topped the list of collectors at the largest international fair of contemporary art in Switzerland overnight.
The West Australian |
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Far Out Man
Whoa dude, there's so many colors, and if you look at it long enough you can see a sailboat. OK, so the art exhibit that opened Friday at the Sheldon Museum of Art isn't exactly a scene out of "Mallrats," but there's destined to be some folks that turn out trying to find things in the art prints that may or may not actually be there.
Daily Nebraskan |
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Sculpture symposium’s final weekend
NASHUA – These were the dog days of sweat, muscle and machinery as five artists labored to free their vision from granite or metal at the midpoint of the city’s first sculpture symposium.
Merrimack Journal |
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The Beginning Of The Makings Of A Huge Difference
Bandar Seri Begawan - Appreciation for the arts in its many forms is far from being realised in Brunei Darussalam even though any one culture can be seen as an amalgamation of various art forms, such as patterns, the use of colours, singing, dancing and sculptures.
BruDirect.com |
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‘Art to Heart’ Exposes The Soul Of Artist
Bandar Seri Begawan - Art in Brunei Darussalam is rarely a visible form of self expression but yesterday's opening of the "Art to Heart" exhibition in the.
BruDirect.com |
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Miniature art opening at Rochester gallery draws a crowd
The art was miniature but the crowds were large at a Rochester Contemporary Art Center fundraiser featuring 3,500 images, each six inches square.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |
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Museum honours pioneer artists
KUCHING: It is hard to define the precise meaning of "art", which is commonly thought of as the expression of what is beautiful.
The New Straits Times |
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Museum?s Vision: West Coast Paradise
San Francisco?s new Contemporary Jewish Museum, designed by Daniel Libeskind, is dedicated to a hyphenated American identity.
New York Times |
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Appel Farm grows hospitable to Giants
When the Appel Farm Arts & Music Festival launched in 1989, no one would have predicted that They Might Be Giants would be playing it someday. The festival originally had a heavily acoustic, folky orientation: The '89 co-headliners were Don McLean, Tom Rush and Livingston Taylor.
The Star-Ledger |
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Art and Ethics
ROME, JUNE 8, 2008 ( Zenit.org ).- Artistic freedom and ethical standards are at the center of a debate in Australia after police recently confiscated photographs at an art exhibition.
Zenit News Agency |
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Art Exhibition By The Waterfront
Bandar Seri Begawan - Local and expatriate artists are exhibiting their works in 'Art to Heart' at the Museum Art Gallery, Old Custom building by the waterfront in the capital.
BruDirect.com |
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North Middle School Students’ Artwork On Display - 6/8/2008
Students at Lima's NorthMiddle School will have their artwork displayed for the next month in a very visible area. A billboard located in the bus stop at the corner of Union and Market Streets in downtown Lima is currently filled with the artistic creations of four Lima North Middle School students.
WLIO NBC Lima |
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Foundation Annual Reports
Period covered: Year ending October 31, 2006. Purpose and areas of support: The foundation was established in 1952 by Robert Sterling Clark (1877-1956), an art collector and horse breeder who was an heir to the Singer sewing-machine fortune.
Chronicle of Philanthropy |
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Thousands visit Gulgong
This year’s Henry Lawson Festival was a huge success drawing more than 3000 people to Gulgong for the largest historical event in the Mudgee region.
Mudgee Guardian |
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Mexican-born artists enrich, inspire Bay Area
The opening next week of a major San Francisco exhibit of the work of Frida Kahlo is a reminder that Mexican artists have found a home and inspiration in the Bay Area at least as far back as 1930, when Kahlo and her husband, Diego Rivera, spent a year working...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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S.F.'s visual reminders of Kahlo, Rivera
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera left their mark in the Bay Area in large ways and small, but few San Franciscans know that the well-worn lobby of their own public hospital is home to a pair of paintings by the Mexican artists. On two San Francisco sojourns,...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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New John Edgar sculpture unveiled
Red Cross, a brand new sculptural piece by renowned Karekare artist John Edgar, was officially unveiled outside Waitakere Central this week.
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