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Artist Submit Revised MLK Memorial Sculpture
MLK Memorial chief architect Ed Jackson Jr. said the civil rights leader's face has been softened at the brow and mouth but the design maintains his look of consternation with arms crossed despite complaints that it depicted him as confrontational.
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Art for FestivALL's sake (news photo)
Art for FestivALL’s sake Area artist and FestivALL volunteer Naomi Bays set up several paintings in downtown Charleston storefront windows on Thursday, including a work titled “Mikey” by West Virginia State University student Ashley White. The 10-day arts festival begins today.
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Philadelphia Arts Leader Remembered
Hundreds of people crowded the Front terrace of the Philadelphia Art Museum this evening for a tribute to the late Anne d'Harnoncourt.
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Panel considers revisions for Martin Luther King Jr., Memorial
WASHINGTON - Artists working on a Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial submitted changes Thursday to address concerns that a proposed rendering made him look confrontational and like a socialist leader.
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Art museums deal with spike in attendance
MILWAUKEE - In the Milwaukee Art Museum world, 2008 is seven years A.C. - or After Calatrava.
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Getting ready for Secret City Festival Friday and Saturday
Oak Ridge hosts two festivals this weekend — the Secret City Festival at A.K. Bissell Park outside the Oak Ridge Civic Center and the Lavender Festival at Jackson Square.
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Little King's Story Art Contest
Send in your best monster design, and you might see it in the game.
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FROM LEFT TO RIGHT
Rows of jars in different art styles are displayed on the museum's shelves. An extraordinary display of artifacts.
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Getting To Know History Behind Spray Painting
Bandar Seri Begawan - A conference on ‘Spray Painting: History of the movement and techniques' was held yesterday at the Senate Room of the Vice Chancellor Hall, UBD.
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TV2 KidsFest box office opens this Saturday
Tickets for TV2 KidsFest, New Zealand’s favourite festival for children, go on sale at the Town Hall box office and Ticketek outlets around the city this Saturday, 21 June at 10am.
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Strawberry Days start up in Glenwood Springs
The longest running festival west of the Mississippi kicks off in Glenwood Springs Friday. Strawberry Days is a 111 year tradition in the mountain town drawing in visitors from all corners of Colorado.
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French filmmaker Jean Delannoy dies at 100
Classic French filmmaker Jean Delannoy, who adapted novels by Victor Hugo and Andre Gide and won the Cannes Film Festival's top prize in 1946, has died at age 100, officials said Thursday. Delannoy died Wednesday at his home in Guainville, southwest of Paris, the local city hall said, without providing the cause of death. Many of Delannoy's films, starring actors including Jean Gabin, Jean ...
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The fine art of lakefront fests
The Lakefront Festival of Arts turns 46 this year, making it one of the oldest festivals of its kind in the country.
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Harvard's Three Art Museums Will Share One Name and One Roof
The students have packed up and left for the summer, and pretty soon Harvard's art museums will go on an extended hiatus, as well. After many years and many false starts, Harvard is finally launching a major expansion of its art museums. In the process, what have been three separate institutions — the Fogg Art Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum — will be ...
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First Night: Grace Jones, Meltdown Festival, Royal Festival Hall fivestar
"Pleased to meet you, your meat is sweet to me... you're my life support,you’re my life sport," booms Grace Jones’s 10ft-tall face from a white screen. Her face melts and stretches like the liquid metal cyborg from Terminator 2, as thumping tribal bass backs her android poetry.
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Local News
Tulalip Bay-area quilter Kathy McNeil recently was selected as a semifinalist for the 24th annual American Quilters Society Quilt Show and Contest for her quilt, "Much Ado About Nothing." The show was held in Paducah, Ky.
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Whitefish Stars in Anonymous Online Novel
An old man regales his grandchildren with tall tales from his days working on the railroad, before the influx of moneyed newcomers. A group of Realtors at an art show criticize the city’s Critical Areas Ordinance. An overworked young newspaper editor struggles to manage her office. Environmentalists sit around a table in the Railway District discussing how to rid the Flathead Valley of unsightly ...
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St. Martin's students show art work at Circle Gallery
The Circle Gallery opened its doors to St. Martin of Tours' school in Amityville for a showing of the student drawings, paintings, collages and whimsical kites. No one in the Amityville Artists Circle (AAC) anticipated the large number of parents, relatives and young artists who turned out for it. Excited children rushed in to find their skillfully mounted work.
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Art show opens tonight.
Members of the Parkes Painting Group have issued a general invitation to shire residents to attend this weekend’s annual art exhibition in the Coventry Room of the Parkes Shire Library and Cultural Centre.
Parkes Champion-Post |
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'Rembrandt Laughing' is self-portrait
The auction house thought the portrait was a 17th century Rembrandt knockoff, and valued it at just $3,100. But the British buyer who paid about 1,500 times more than that apparently knew what he was doing.
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Experts say Rembrandt bargain is the real deal
The auction house thought the portrait was a 17th century Rembrandt knockoff, and valued it at just $3,100. But the British buyer who paid about 1,500 times more than that apparently knew what he was doing. Experts have confirmed "Rembrandt Laughing" - bought...
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TORONTO - A French inventor who claimed last fall to have revealed secrets about the "Mona Lisa" now says his technology has led to the authentication of a Leonardo da Vinci colour drawing owned by a Swiss art collector.
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Celebrate Freedom moves to Frisco
After more than 10 years at Southfork Ranch in Parker, Celebrate Freedom is moving up the road to Frisco’s Pizza Hut Park. The event on June 27 and 28 is the largest, free, all-day Christian festival in the nation, and will feature multiple musical guests as well as evangelist and author Luis Palau.
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