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SWANSEA, Wales, United Kingdom, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- David Gill, archaeologist, reflects on the Athenian wine-mixing krater in the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA).
In 1983 the Minneapolis Institute of Art acquired an Athenian red-figured krater. The outside was painted with scenes showing Dion
PR Newswire: Art
PR Newswire: Art
NEW YORK, September 2, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- For the launch of the AW10
collection, REISS has collaborated with renowned photographer and filmmaker,
Jamie Morgan, to create an artistic short film that highlights the feel and
aesthetic of the upcoming collection.
"This season is a step forwar
PR Newswire: Art
NEW YORK, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The Wicks Group of Companies, L.L.C. ("The Wicks Group"), a New York-based private equity firm, today announced that an affiliate has completed the acquisition of Antenna Audio, Inc., Antenna Audio Limited, and their subsidiaries ("Antenna") from Discovery Communica
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Ticket Includes Admission to Chihuly Exhibition
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Advance timed tickets for The Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musee d'Orsay, opening Oct. 15, 2010, at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, are now on sale at www.fristcenter.org (addi
National Museum of American History Collects ECRI Institute's Prototype Medical Emergency Crash Cart
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Cart designed to save lives by enabling rapid medical action
PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History recently accepted the donation of a prototype medical emergency crash cart, referred to as MAX, from ECRI Institute, an indepen
PR Newswire: Art
PR Newswire: Art
PR Newswire: Art
LEAWOOD, Kan., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Last week, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the nation's economic recovery is weaker than expected. A new report from the Mortgage Bankers' Association also showed the number of people falling behind on their mortgage payments for the first time i
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DENVER, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- King Tut Package guests at The Westin Tabor Center and the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel receive an overnight stay plus two VIP tickets to the blockbuster King Tut Exhibit at the Denver Art Museum. VIP tickets allow guests immediate entry to the exhibition and an opp
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SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- The Seoul Metropolitan
Government has won the gold of IDEA/Brazil 2010 Awards, a coveted
international design competition in South America, in the category of design
strategy and environment for its design-related policy in recognition of Mayor
Oh
PR Newswire: Art
SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- The Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture (MAC), a Smithsonian Affiliate, and Charles J. Simon, founder of pioneering technology companies and nationally recognized software developer, announced today the innovative pilot project PassPort to Discovery™.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Dunkin' Donuts is celebrating its 60th Anniversary as America's all-day, every day stop for coffee and baked goods with its exciting Dunkin' Donuts "Donut Art" competition in the New York Tri-State area*. Nine finalist designs of original student art from New
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PR Newswire: Art
Program Helps Improve Muscle Memory and Improves Quality of Life for those Living with Parkinson's
HOUSTON, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Each Monday from 12:45 to 2 p.m. Houston Ballet and the Houston Area Parkinson Society (HAPS) offer a weekly dance class for people with Parkinson's at
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WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Smashbox Studios announces the new hire of David Radin as Senior Director of Studio Services. David will be overseeing the Smashbox photo equipment divisions both on-site and on-location. David comes to Smashbox with 30+ years of expertise in the photo
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PR Newswire: Art
YORK, England, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Superbreak, the theatre break specialist, has reported a sharp increase in the number of rail inclusive theatre breaks being booked, on the run up to the busiest theatre season of the year.
The Yorkshire based tour operator has secured a number of budget and t
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ELMWOOD PARK, N.J., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- The Craft & Hobby Association (CHA) is pleased to announce a new partnership with Association Health Programs (AHP) to extend a comprehensive suite of health, long-term care, life insurance and other benefits to CHA members in the United States at rate
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HOUSTON, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Hunting PLC, an international oil services company, has announced the call for entries for the 31st annual Hunting Art Prize, a competition in which established, emerging, and amateur artists throughout Texas vie for a $50,000 award.
Interested artists must be Texas
SFGate: Art
The "10 x 10 x 10" exhibition came about when the San Francisco Arts Commission and PhotoAlliance invited 10 local curators and artists each to choose one Bay Area photographer to be represented by 10 pictures. The thrillingly varied show of 100 images fills...
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Hugh Livingston presses a button and the sound of a High Sierra stream roars down Corte Madera Avenue in Mill Valley. Add the wind in Colorado aspens, birds at dawn, frogs at dusk and the chanting of Navajo bone rattlers, and the sonogarden is up and running...
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The Oakland Museum of California will close temporarily at 5 p.m. Sunday to complete its extensive renovation and expansion. It will reopen in May 2010, after a complete reinstallation of its art and history galleries. The National Endowment for the...
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A veteran of San Francisco's art gallery scene in Union Square who fashioned himself as an "authenticator of works" has been indicted by a federal grand jury on fraud charges for allegedly selling fake Joan Miró prints. Pasquale Iannetti, 69, who runs...
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Clarion is an alley connecting Valencia to Mission, between a cop shop and a crack market, with murals of devils and angels and a moving stairway to heaven. Close by is the Women's Building, a colorful paean to female heroes and goddesses, from Guatemalan...
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In November 2007, Abidin Travels opened for two months on 24th Street in San Francisco, specializing in Baghdad vacation arrangements. Careful observers surely wondered about the fighter jet that blazoned the establishment's logo. Perhaps a few savvy...
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Montana sculptor Deborah Butterfield produces good work so consistently that she almost makes me want to see her stumble, just to know whether I could catch her at it. The recent work at Paule Anglim continues Butterfield's endless fascination with horses as...
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Susan Hiller's "The J. Street Project" at the Contemporary Jewish Museum demonstrates the capacity of a good idea to draw alarming cumulative power from ostensibly matter-of-fact material. During an artist's residency in Berlin, Hiller, an American long based...
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In the days before you could get a cup of organic coffee, a reflexology massage and cuisine from half a dozen cultures in just a few blocks, Polk Street was home to a collection of souls that considered themselves a family. "People who didn't have much...
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Designing a museum figures nowadays as a rite of passage in the careers of many celebrity architects. New York's Bernard Tschumi faced an unusually stern test in this vein after winning a competition in 2001 to build the New Acropolis Museum. For starters,...
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At first glance, Thomas Cleary is an unlikely expert on war, weaponry and man's ability to destroy. The Oakland author and translator of some 80 spiritual texts is gentle and soft-spoken, perfectly suited for poring over ancient works in hushed libraries....
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"Wallworks," which opened over the weekend at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, marks the public debut of Betti-Sue Hertz as the center's director of visual arts. In a bold move, she elected to take possession of Fumihiko Maki's 1993 building symbolically by...
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New York artist Chris Gentile considers himself a photographer, but one could make a case for calling him a conceptualist or installation maker. Gentile's photographs at Gregory Lind document ephemeral projects done in his studio. One involved him wrapping...
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When one door closes, in the art world as anywhere else, another often opens. That's the principle that will bring a surfeit of 19th and early 20th century French paintings, including masterworks by Manet, Renoir, Degas, Vuillard, Bonnard, Monet, Cezanne and...
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Puzzles and fine art have lots in common. Both reflect the genius of their creators. Both incorporate painstaking visual and conceptual detail. Most important, both spark questions and contemplation long after the key riddle or message has been solved....
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"Conceptual art" suggests a bloodless, humorless exercise, and much of it comes across that way. But not when Alice Shaw practices it. Shaw seldom overworks an idea, never exaggerates her originality nor strives for depth when slyness and lightness will do....
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Everyone interested in 20th century photography has seen the one or two pictures by Kenneth Josephson that always make it into anthologies, and probably no more. So the Koch Gallery performs a great service in presenting a substantial show of his work....
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Renee Dreyfus fell under the spell of Egyptian art at the age of 3, when her parents took her to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Decades later, she's still enthralled by the power and mystery of those exquisitely carved statues and gilded...
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"Lords of the Samurai," which opened Friday at the Asian Art Museum, evokes a martial ethos completely antithetical to the remote-controlled carnage of today's high-tech warfare. The samurai of premodern Japan belonged to a social order in which the...