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Posted: July 27th, 2008, 12:08pm CDT
There's no better way to learn about a culture than to listen to its stories -- and who better than the people themselves to tell those stories? At key historic sites throughout this southern Alberta loop route, that's exactly what aboriginal people are doing.
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Posted: July 26th, 2008, 9:57pm CDT
Sebastiano del Piombo, Tod des Adonis ca. 1505. Öl auf Holz, 40 x 48,5 cm. La Spezia, Museo Civico „Amedeo Lia“. BERLIN.- Sebastiano Luciani, later named del Piombo, is one of the lesser known, but no less outstanding artists of the Italian Renaissance.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 5:23am CDT
Correggio, an Italian Renaissance artist known for depicting humanity with freshness and sympathy, is the subject of an unprecedented gathering of more than 50 paintings and drawings at the Galleria Borghese in Rome.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 3:12am 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. Tiny Tot Explorers -
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Posted: July 24th, 2008, 10:36am CDT
At 81, Mexican muralist Diego Rosales, whose works are on exhibit in South Miami, remembers with matter-of-fact clarity the day a fortuitous encounter changed his life forever.
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Posted: July 23rd, 2008, 11:54pm CDT
A list of things to do this weekend.
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Posted: July 23rd, 2008, 11:04pm CDT
Commissioned by a personal friend to illustrate Psalm 23, internationally known artist Ben Long has brought the ancient art of the fresco to the Hospice Center in Mount Pleasant. According to Long's assistant, a large portion of the work already is complete in the Peace Chapel at the center, which is part of Hospice of Charleston. Long and several of his apprentices have been planning and ...
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Posted: July 18th, 2008, 6:17pm CDT
Why not 'art cities'?
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Posted: July 17th, 2008, 5:59pm CDT
Trompe l'oeil and other wall coverings trump plain paint and wallpaper.
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Posted: July 16th, 2008, 10:45pm CDT
Mounting of the Exhibition © Bucerius Kunst Forum, Photo: Ulrich Perrey. BERLIN.-
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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?