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Posted: July 15th, 2008, 12:52am CDT
Berlin hosts two special exhibitions exploring the art and culture of the Lucani tribe from ancient Italy and the Babylonians. Both detail the intricacies and complexities of two very advanced civilizations.
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Posted: July 14th, 2008, 10:32pm CDT
If a Lifetime Achievement Award is supposed to serve as a coronation, a finishing touch on one's career, someone forgot to tell Eric Bransby.
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Posted: July 13th, 2008, 10:19pm CDT
Berlin - Richly painted 2,500-year-old tombs unearthed in Paestum, south of Pompeii, since the late 19th century are a major current attraction in the German capital Berlin. For three months visitors the Martin Gropius Building will be able to view t...
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Posted: July 12th, 2008, 11:28pm CDT
A team of Blue Ridge Community College students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends won best film at the Asheville 48 Hour Film Project. It won for its comedic horror film spoof "Serial Love."
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Posted: July 12th, 2008, 6:14pm CDT
Ten hot, fast kilometres into our journey along the Cassia road to Siena, sun glinting off the windscreen and a warm Tuscan wind rushing through what little hair I possess, I pinched myself.
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Posted: July 11th, 2008, 6:08am CDT
Janice Nall carefully opens a credit-card-sized packet discovered recently behind the lining of an old trunk at the Bok Kai Temple. Oil stains and bits of a black substance within, she says, may prove to be opium, smuggled long ago from China.
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Posted: July 11th, 2008, 4:14am CDT
ART
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Posted: July 9th, 2008, 11:21pm CDT
A list of things to do this weekend.
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Posted: July 6th, 2008, 4:16am CDT
Seattle-bound portrait painter Sergio Ostroverhy paints hyper-realist, oversized portraits, and his students get into good art schools.
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Posted: July 5th, 2008, 5:40am CDT
Flag-waving, yes. Face-painting, sure. Fireworks, you bet. But when, the mom on the phone wants to know, did having sex in public become a Canada Day tradition in Victoria?
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 4:38pm CDT
For the 20th summer since 1989, students in Florence School District 1’s Horizons Gifted and Talented Art Summer Program have gathered at Briggs Elementary School to put their artistic skills to the test by creating everything from drawings and paintings to sculptures and books.
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Posted: June 26th, 2008, 4:37am CDT
Don't know where to celebrate Canada Day this year? We do! It would be a travesty if Canada's 141st birthday weren't celebrated in appropriate and diverse ways. Fortunately, if there's one thing that 'Peg City knows how to do, it's party!
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Posted: June 25th, 2008, 11:29pm CDT
A list of things to do this weekend and beyond.
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Posted: June 24th, 2008, 3:26am CDT
We haven’t exactly had much sitting-on-the-grass, music-under-the-stars kind of weather lately. But summer is here and the Puget Sound area will soon be full of art, music, dance, theater and film in the great outdoors. While some can’t-miss events are out of town, most are right here in Pierce County, including new offerings at Chambers Creek, Puyallup, Tacoma Community College and more. So ...
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Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 4:22am CDT
In the 1980s, when the Sistine Chapel paintings underwent a major restoration, I was lucky enough to be sent there for a BBC programme. The lift transporting everyone from the chapel floor to the vaults had broken down, so I had to clamber up a series of ancient ladders.
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Posted: June 22nd, 2008, 8:42pm CDT
Michelangelo hid a secret code in the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel comprising mystical Jewish symbols and insults aimed at the Pope, according to a new book.
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Posted: June 22nd, 2008, 4:18pm CDT
MANILA, Philippines - A flurry of white shingles suspended in midair leads visitors’ eyes skyward and onward to Ayala Museum’s photo exhibit on the ceiling murals of Bohol churches.
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Posted: June 21st, 2008, 2:19pm CDT
LONDON: A new book says that the frescoes created by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel contained a secret code made up of mystical Jewish symbols, and insults aimed at the pope.
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Posted: June 21st, 2008, 9:09am CDT
ROME -- Michelangelo hid a secret code in the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel made up of mystical Jewish symbols and insults aimed at the pope, according to a new book.
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Posted: June 21st, 2008, 1:32am CDT
Weekend Picks published in The Daily News:
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Posted: June 20th, 2008, 1:10am CDT
From designing mosaics and crafting terra cotta sculptures to drawing portraits and painting frescoes, visitors to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art can partake in various hands-on activities with "Roman Art from the Louvre.” "I think all of us got so excited by the exhibit ... so there was a great deal of creativity coming out of the staff in making these plans,” Oklahoma City Museum of Art ...
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 11:54pm CDT
What's on Western Pennsylvania's weekend calendar:
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 11:28pm CDT
If you plan to visit the Three Rivers Arts Festival on Friday night, then you might want to stop by the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild's satellite Downtown gallery, MCG@800 Penn Avenue.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 4:19pm CDT
Major Stars, Justin Townes Earle, Repo Man , Williams and Clark Expedition, Missy Raines and the New Hip, Notes on Origin and more
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Posted: June 7th, 2008, 11:31pm CDT
The Associated Artists of Butler County will hold its juried art show and exhibition, Futuristic Art, from Friday through July 11 in the main Rittelmann Gallery at The Art Center, ...
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Posted: June 6th, 2008, 2:15pm CDT
A marriage of convenience: Something as simple as a samba could help unite two of Syracuse’s major downtown festivals. As the soft syncopation of LuBossa punctuated the
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Posted: June 6th, 2008, 5:36am CDT
Yesterday was a strange day for staff at York Art Gallery. For much of the morning, concerned members of the public approached the front desk informing them that a priceless-looking painting had been hung on a wall in the city centre overnight. Did they have a painting missing, they were asked? Was it being displayed in the open air on purpose or was it the work of pranksters?
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Posted: June 5th, 2008, 2:14pm CDT
Something as simple as a samba could help unite two of Syracuse’s major downtown festivals. As the soft syncopation of LuBossa punctuated the proclamations of PR flacks,
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Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 7:02pm CDT
Avant-garde fashion designer Christian Lacroix made headlines when he infused oversized graphics throughout the interiors of his first hotel, the Petit Moulin in Paris. Now he's done it again, this time with Le Bellechasse, located in the heart of the city's Left Bank.
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Posted: May 28th, 2008, 11:29pm CDT
Decor a bit much, but food and service are excellent overall.
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Posted: May 24th, 2008, 6:51pm CDT
Bollywood has found a new foreign locale in this charming American city listed as one of the Top 3 best places to live. Roopa Rao comes back impressed.
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Posted: May 23rd, 2008, 2:52am CDT
Top Regional Attractions Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences 1900 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy.; 215-299-1000. www.ansp.org. Includes Dinosaur Hall, Egyptian mummies, interactive, live animals, educational exhibits for children & more. North by Degree - Fe
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Posted: May 21st, 2008, 6:29pm CDT
The sunny season means the return of the Festival of Arts, Pageant of the Masters, Sawdust Art Festival, Art-A-Fair and other events.
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Posted: May 17th, 2008, 1:32am CDT
Janice Nall carefully opens a credit-card-sized packet discovered recently behind the lining of an old trunk at the Bok Kai Temple. Oil stains and bits of a black substance within, she says, may prove to be opium, smuggled long ago from China.
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Posted: May 17th, 2008, 1:32am CDT
Janice Nall carefully opens a credit-card-sized packet discovered recently behind the lining of an old trunk at the Bok Kai Temple. Oil stains and bits of a black substance within, she says, may prove to be opium, smuggled long ago from China.
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 12:26pm CDT
If you yearn for the days when jazz was played on the streets of New Orleans for free, and all you had to do to join the second line was to get with it and dance to the beat, you will not want to miss hearing the top-rated artists who will be performing al fresco and without charge at the 12th annual Jazz on Fourth Street Festival this Sunday.
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 12:06am CDT
Fresco Fords, classy Chevys and tacky Toyotas will roll down the street Saturday as part of the annual Art Tougeau Parade.
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Posted: May 13th, 2008, 11:29pm CDT
What does summer sound like? It depends on who you ask. For schoolchildren, it’s the sound of kid-friendly entertainers singing wacky songs they can sing along to. For parents, it’s family-friendly entertainment that doesn’t cost a cent.
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Posted: May 13th, 2008, 9:40am CDT
OU head coach shares prespective of team's European tour. Sherri Coale will pen a daily journal of her team's European tour. Read below to get the head women's basketball coach's perspective on the 10-day visit to Italy and Greece.
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 12:11pm CDT
MANILA, Philippines—Umu, a new posh Japanese restaurant, opened at the world-renowned, classy Dusit Thani Manila a few weeks ago. Recently, it has been named a finalist in the Hotel World Global Hospitality and Design Awards held in Las Vegas, no less, palanggas.
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 4:09am CDT
His masterpiece has been on display for decades in a place no one wants to visit, admired by a rough crowd of critics who study its beauty and nuance for years on end — or until the parole board lets them out.
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Posted: May 11th, 2008, 2:29am CDT
``And the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell upon his face to the earth.'' And that was the end of Goliath, according to Samuel.
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Posted: May 10th, 2008, 3:54pm CDT
With achievements ranging from the design of the mighty dome of St Peters to the painting of the vast fresco cycle in the Sistine Chapel, not to mention the beautiful, homoerotic statue of David, it seems fair to describe Michelangelo as one of the greatest artists the world has ever known.
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Posted: May 10th, 2008, 2:17pm CDT
Want to throw a grown-up country-house party? Stanley Stewart has the best rental options available
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Posted: May 10th, 2008, 4:35am CDT
This month conductor David Robertson returns to the New York Philharmonic for two weeks that reflect his unique approach to programming.
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 7:27pm CDT
Hard Rock Hotel Pattaya, Chon Buri offers "May Special" package priced at 9,200 baht net for two persons and available throughout this month. Benefits include two nights stay in a superior room, breakfast, admission to the Foam Party and a voucher worth 700 baht.
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Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 3:16pm CDT
Charles (Chaz) P. Wilmot, Jr. --- graduate of Columbia University, son of renowned painter C. P. Wilmot, Sr., husband, father, drug user --- has a troubling past, and he wants to tell someone about it. He attends a party thrown by a Columbia alumnus.
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Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 11:13am CDT
Would you roast 40 chickens to find a simple, foolproof method that results in perfectly cooked meat and beautifully browned skin every time?
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Posted: May 1st, 2008, 6:15pm CDT
THIRTY-SOMETHING Jane Margaux is a lonely, insecure woman, who, as a child, was largely neglected by her powerful and successful mother. Jane’s one comfort when she was little was an imaginary friend – a handsome, funny man named Michael. However, he disappeared when she turned nine.
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Posted: May 1st, 2008, 3:19pm CDT
Mother's Day, Father's Day, not to mention spring fever on a Sunday morning: this is the right time of year for brunch.