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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich., March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- In Michigan, design students search to experience real world opportunities to explore their craft. A mentoring program created by co-set designers Leslie Ann Pilling of Presence II Productions in Bloomfield Hills and Chris Steinmayer gave four metro
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PHILADELPHIA, March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Through April 13, residents of Beantown can take advantage of Southwest Airlines' introductory rate of $59 (one-way fare) to Philadelphia for flights booked for June 27 through August 13, 2010. And since new, only-in-Philly and must-see events pack the region's
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LOS ANGELES, March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- 138 acres surrounding the Hollywood Sign are for sale for $12.5 million. Purchasing the Cahuenga Peak will prevent development from destroying one of L.A.'s most amazing views of the Hollywood Sign. SkyTag's offer will give the City of Los Angeles th
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SEATTLE, March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The extensive array of upscale public areas aboard the new Holland America Line Signature-class ship ms Nieuw Amsterdam reflects the brand's enhanced premium-class facilities and amenities, highlighted by decor honoring the historic glamour of New York City, known a
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Ten Revolutionary Works of Art Make Debut as Postage Stamps
BUFFALO, N.Y., March 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Postal Service today honored the artistic innovations and achievements of a group of artists who moved the United States to the forefront of the international art scene with the re
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SEATTLE, March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- In support of the arts, PONCHO has announced plans for the wine event of the year: Italia! Vino Arte, the 19th Annual International Wine Auction for the Arts, to be held May 22, 2010 at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel. Ferdinando Frescobaldi, president of Frescobaldi win
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SOUTHFIELD, Mich., March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Vehicle interiors that double as environmentally friendly gardens and seats that slide in virtually any configuration to meet passenger needs might be just around the corner. At least, that's the future seen through the eyes of students participating
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EASTON, Pa., March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Parents, students, group leaders and fans, rejoice! You will have to find something else to do with your Sunday night because you (and your favorite procrastinator) will not be struggling with last minute poster projects anymore. ArtSkills, the leadi
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LAS VEGAS, March 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Wynn LVNV, the residential design store at Wynn Las Vegas, has been reinvented and will launch its new concept on March 11, 2010. Wynn LVNV offers the unique opportunity for guests and visitors to appreciate and acquire the style of Wynn.
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PHILADELPHIA, March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The Philadelphia Cultural Fund (PCF) is proud to announce an exciting new grants program -- Youth Arts Engagement Grants -- created to support projects and programs that use the arts to enrich the lives of young people in and out of school. The money for t
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Biomedical Pioneer Alexander Varshavsky and Culinary Innovator Jose Andres Honored for Lifetime Achievement; Harmit Malik and Varin Keokitvon Recognized for Demonstrating Creative Promise
NEW YORK, March 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Vilcek Foundation is pleased to announce the 2010 winners of it
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DULUTH, Ga., March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- In March, Youth Art Month, ChildCare Education Institute (CCEI) offers child care professionals the opportunity to discover the benefits of art in the classroom by completing CCEI690:Rainbows and Rembrandts - Embracing Art in the Preschool Classroom, at
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Few American artists can capture the attention of millions the way Dale Chihuly can, and Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, one of the nation's most significant sculpture and botanic experiences, will celebrate the masterwork of Chihuly with a
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NEW YORK, March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber is reaching out to readers to encourage their participation in KNIT1, BLESS2, a Mother's Day initiative benefitting three national charities that provide handmade garments and blankets to infants and children in n
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NEW YORK, March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- In an ongoing demonstration of its commitment to the 10 generation-strong company and family motto – ancestry, prestige and tradition – Jose Cuervo International, the world's leading Tequila company, today unveils the 2010 edition of Reserva de la Famili
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SWANSEA, Wales, March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- David Gill, archaeologist, reflects on the recent return of antiquities from the U.S. to Iraq.
At the end of February a number of antiquities and other pieces of cultural property were handed over to Iraqi authorities. The objects had all been recovered by U.S
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PHILADELPHIA, March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) at 315 Chestnut Street in Old City kicks off the spring of 2010 with a host of new programs, including the First Friday opening of its third temporary exhibit, Marvels and Ciphers, as well as a visit from celebrated British
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MIAMI, March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The Red Bull Art of Can exhibit debuted in Miami last night with a private gala that captured the energy of South Beach despite the unseasonable chill in the air. Traffic came to a standstill as the fabulous Elaine Lancaster made her grand entrance into the venue
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IRVINE, Calif., March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- With the final performance of Cirque du Soleil's KOOZA production February 14th, Orange County's newest event venue successfully completed its debut with breathtaking acrobatics, bold slapstick humor and creative musical delight. More than 100,000 people
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ORLANDO, Fla., March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Seeking to reinforce its position as the leading innovator in large scale A/V media systems and content production, Technomedia Solutions has expanded its visual systems design and integration business unit in response to increased demand for large scale projec
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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...
