Visual Arts
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Artist puts real moms in Crystal Bridges MuseumOct 10, 2014 6:00 am - BENTONVILLE, Ark. - The first thing you encounter at a new contemporary art show at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is the "Mom Booth," where a woman in an apron ...
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Students use vibrant fall leaf colors to create artworkOct 07, 2014 1:01 am - Fall colors were in full bloom Tuesday at the Fremont Public Library's "Autumn Leaves: A Painting Workshop" given by art teacher Christine Thornton of Mount Prospect. T...
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London exhibit charts chilling allure of gothicOct 05, 2014 5:30 am - LONDON - There's a part of us that loves to be scared. How else to explain the popularity of stories featuring haunted castles, lurking monsters and restless ghosts? Col...
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'Uncommon Threads' fashion-art show returns to St. CharlesOct 04, 2014 11:00 pm - Tickets are now on sale for "Uncommon Threads," the annual One-of-a-Kind Wearable Art Show and Luncheon, presented by Fine Line Creative Arts Center in St. Charles. Wea...
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Nature museum offers with free Sunday admissionOct 03, 2014 11:00 pm - CHICAGO - Chicago's Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum is celebrating its 15th anniversary by offering free admission on Sundays during October. The museum opened its doors i...
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Film academy hosts 1st exhibit in new museum siteOct 03, 2014 5:45 am - LOS ANGELES - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is holding its first exhibit in the space that will become Hollywood's premier museum devoted to the movies...
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Oakton women's art exhibition examines how gender influences desireSep 29, 2014 11:00 pm - From food to the erotic, desire takes many different forms, and gender is implicated in the process, which raises a host of provocative questions. How do gender and sex...
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NYC photo show looks back at Debbie Harry's careerSep 26, 2014 6:00 am - NEW YORK - Forty-one years after Blondie hit the music scene, frontwoman Debbie Harry is looking back - but not through her music. Instead, band co-founder Chris Stein ...
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Get a peek at the creative process at Geneva Art Studio TourSep 25, 2014 6:00 am - For artists, a studio space is a refuge, an inspiration, a place for creative focus, creative frustration, new energy, fresh ideas, accomplishment and maybe even magic. ...
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Sculpture of end-of-WWII kiss lands in NormandySep 24, 2014 6:00 am - CAEN, France - A sculpture honoring a photograph of a kiss in Times Square that captured New York's celebration as World War II ended has gone up in Normandy for a one-y...