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Kennesaw holds senior art show
Patricia Quilichini's sculpture, "El Oleaje," represents a wave crashing on the shore and the tide going back out. As one of the artworks displayed in the Kennesaw State University senior exhibition, "El Oleaje" also reflects the artist's passion to be heard. "Visual artists don't get the publicity that football players get," said Quilichini, one of 16 seniors exhibiting their work. "For those ...
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Hey, Dalí-Face!
Did anyone ever say you looked kind of like....... If you're known for your twirly mustache, longish hair, bugged-out eyes and flamboyant fashion sense, chances are you've already been informed that you bear a similarity to a certain deceased Surrealist. But even if you don't match the above description, that shouldn't prevent you from entering "Double Takes: The Dalí Look-Alike Contest." ...
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Ninth Annual Wildlife & Western Visions Art Show
See the best of Western art at Raymond James... By Leilani Polk.Fredrick Remington and Charles M. Russell were pioneers of a new art movement in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, a naturalistic and occasionally impressionistic style of artistic creation that focused on the Wild West, from cowboys and Indians to vast frontier landscapes to herds of galloping horses and buffalo. More than ...
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Say It Ain't So: Joe's Café Has Closed Down
Bill Christman's art studio near Washington University looks like it could play host to one fine party. Out front a hulking sculpture of a rooster stands next to a broken cigarette machine, and through the wood fence and into a forested garden, towering monkey bars and cartoon-style rockets are visi ...
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Art: Ninth Annual Wildlife & Western Visions Art Show
Sunday, April 27... By Leilani Polk.Fredrick Remington and Charles M. Russell were pioneers of a new art movement in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, a naturalistic and occasionally impressionistic style of artistic creation that focused on the Wild West, from cowboys and Indians to vast frontier landscapes to herds of galloping horses and buffalo. More than 100 years later, the tradition ...
Creative Loafing Tampa |
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Clint Eastwood's `Changeling' leads Cannes Film Festival
American directors Clint Eastwood and Steven Soderbergh will headline the streamlined competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival, which features fewer big-name directors and more emerging voices from across the globe.
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LVAC to host Akey exhibit
The Liberty Village Art Center and Gallery in Chester, Montana will host "North Light", an exhibition of new and recent oil paintings by Montana artist Rob Akey. Akey's works are as varied as the Montana landscape they portray.
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First lady
On weekends, Julia Taylor’s grandchildren phone her for a trip to any one of Milwaukee’s museums. Weekdays, Taylor gets phone calls from a group of CEOs and presidents of foundations and universities scattered across the seven-county region surrounding Milwaukee.
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Clint Eastwood's `Changeling' leads Cannes Film Festival
PARIS - American directors Clint Eastwood and Steven Soderbergh are to headline the streamlined competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival, which features fewer big-name directors and more emerging voices from across the globe.
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From the table to the wall
Using an unconventional canvas, local artists have turned a staple of function into a celebration of form by painting, printing and photographing napkins. “The Napkin Show” is the latest exhibition by the Lansing Artery Project collaborative at Basement 414.
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Taking the long view Painter donates work to museum, hopes it will stay
The painting tells a story, he said. Tucson artist Allan Mardon’s work, a sprawling tableau of vibrant colors on a 6-by-6-foot canvas, has but a singular aim.
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The art and soul of hip-hop
The urban art exhibition Art, Beats + Lyrics hopes to inject new life into a troubled art form... By Carlton Hargro.Hip-hop music sucks these days. Surely you've noticed the lack of quality that plagues the rap game; tune your radio to 96.1 The Beat or Power 98 on any given day, and you'll hear an unrelenting stream of wackness. And when you grab the clicker and flip over to MTV or BET, rest ...
Creative Loafing Charlotte |
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Maja Godlewska: Anticyclone
By Charity Frederick.Exhibit: Maja Godlewska: Anticyclone Run Dates: Now through May 14 Location: Joie Lassiter Gallery, 1440 S. Tryon St., Ste. 104 Info: 704-373-1464 or www.lassitergallery.com In this collection, Charlotte native and internationally acclaimed artist Maja Godlewska explores the fine lines that exist between form and formlessness, order and chaos, and permanence and decay. Her ...
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Thumbs up: Green museum
The Indianapolis Museum of Art is the first art museum to achieve an Energy Star certification. Energy Star is a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy that recognizes energy efficient products and practices.
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Students learn disrespecting teachers goes unpunished
A different kind of education... By Nsenga Burton.Jolita Berry, a high school art teacher at Reginald F. Lewis High School in Baltimore, was recently attacked by a female student. After asking the girl to sit down, she was confronted by the girl, who said that she was going to "bang" her. Berry told the girl that she was in violation of her personal space, and if she crossed the line, she would ...
Creative Loafing Charlotte |
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Open weekend of Open Studio and Gallery Art Tour draws crowds
The Kern River Valley Art Association sponsored the first half of its annual 'Open Studio and Gallery Tour' last weekend, April 19-20. This year the self-guided tour was expanded to take place over the span of two full weekends.
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'Multicultural extravaganza' hits Charlotte
By Chey Scott.Serve your senses at the Art, Beats + Lyrics urban art exhibition April 25 at CenterStage@NoDa. The "multicultural extravaganza" will combine various forms of art: graffiti, photography, paintings, break dancing ... and you can't forget good ol' whiskey, since Jack Daniel's is sponsoring the event. Founder and co-producer Jabari Graham says the event will bring together lovers of ...
Creative Loafing Charlotte |
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The Laugher Curve
Every standup comic knows that the hardest thing in the world is to tell someone that you're going to make them laugh out loud, and then do it. But last week's Laugh Out Loud Festival from Pacific Northwest Ballet met the challenge, in part by poking fun at the ballet world itself.
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Eclectic Tribeca bounces from comedy to horror
New York's Tribeca Film Festival opens Wednesday with a comedy, Tina Fey's Baby Mama, but the lineup ranges from political films, to documentaries, to a martial arts film directed by David Mamet.
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Art Gallery
When it comes to titles, artists can have an uncanny knack for understatement. (See Cai Guo-Qiang's Inopportune: Stage One at SAM.) Naming their restaurant Joule after the scientific unit of energy, chef-owners Rachel Yang and Seif Chirchi have actually undersold the way their dynamic dishes light up their little 40-seat gallery on 45th Street.
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Event showcases South Carolina artists
On Tuesday, April 29th, the 2001 Nightclub will turn into an art gallery for the second annual “What’s Your Cultural Vision” art show. The show runs from 7 to 10 pm and is sponsored by The Global Awareness Project.
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Harman Seeks Spectrum-Auction Answers from Martin
Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) gave FCC chairman Kevin Martin a lot to think about as he plans for the reauctioning of the D block of spectrum that failed to sell the first time around.
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South Dakota: Opponents of Hyperion refinery hold rally
(AP:ELK POINT, S.D.) Opponents of the Hyperion oil refinery used Earth Day as the catalyst for a sidewalk protest outlining their concerns about environmental fallout from the $10 billion project.
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Egoyan's 'Adoration' to compete at Cannes
PARIS - Atom Egoyan's "Adoration" will compete next month at this year's streamlined Cannes Film Festival, as will Clint Eastwood's "Changeling" and Wim Wenders' "Palermo Shooting."
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Outstanding artists go seperate ways - Graduation
At the annual Student Art Exhibition award ceremony, five students were named outstanding visual art graduates. Each student was taken aback when receiving the award.
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