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Art museums looking for leaders (City & Local News )

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:01:00 GMT

Good people are hard to come by. After Sunday's death of Philadelphia Museum of Art director and chief executive officer Anne d'Harnoncourt, the art world was sent reeling. It will be incredibly difficult to find a replacement for the 6-foot art icon, said friends and museum officials.

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Comcast Broadband Installation Tx (Cable TV Promotions)

Sat, 10 May 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Comcast Broadband Installation Tx Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Free admission. Site includes hours, museum history, information concerning programs and exhibits The complaints alleged blocking, but Comcast said it only delayed packets to . Martin: Expect Comcast Broadband Ruling Before July. Multichannel News, . Martin Expect Comcast Broadband Ruling Before July , Free...

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Phantom Sightings Exhibit Opens this Sunday at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (University of California Press Blog)

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:35:47 GMT

Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement—the companion exhibit to the recent UC Press book by Rita Gonzalez, Howard N. Fox, and Chon A. Noriega—opens its doors this Sunday, April 6, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)....

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THE STATE OF ART BY AFRICAN AMERICANS! (ISIAH CAREY'S 'INSITE')

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

THE HOUSTON MUSEUM TOUR AND PANEL DISCUSSION! Dozens of people turned out to the Museum of Fine Arts Tuesday night for an event put on by The Links Incorporated and 5-A! It was a panel discussion that began with a multiple museum tour. The night began at the Menil Collection then flowed to the Museum of Fine Arts and ended with champagne at the Contemporary...

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A week in Rome - Rome, Italy (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:09:05 GMT

... Simple and wonderful! Walked through the Forum and Capitoline Hill. Toured the Capotolini Museum. Colossus of Constintine in the courtyard, huge Meissan exhibit. Toured Palatine Hill Museum, it had great views to the Vatican. Walked with Brandon to the Trevi and Vittoirio Emanuel monument. Walked to Piazza Navona, bought a silver plated wine cup near the Via...

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Abu Dhabi hosts major Saadiyat Island update in Berlin (Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority (ADTA))

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:58:55 GMT

... world's largest single cluster of world-class cultural assets, including the Sheikh Zayed National Museum, concept designed by Lord Norman Foster, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi contemporary arts museum designed by Frank Gehry, the Louvre Abu Dhabi universal museum conceptualised by Jean Nouvel, a Performing Arts Centre designed by Zaha Hadid and a Maritime Museum...

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#9028 - Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos has created a... (NOTCOT.ORG)

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 06:03:18 GMT

Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos has created a stunning building for the Contemporary Arts Museum of Castilla y León. The building is made up of seemingly simple lines, but the building is, somehow, very inviting anyway.

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Tehran Municipality runs Int'l Gaza Caricature Contest (Irna)

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:13:57 GMT

Tehran Municipality on Sunday announced that it is to organize an international caricature contest on Gaza. Director of Iran Caricature House, affiliated to Tehran Municipality, Masood Shojai Tabatabaie told reporters on Sunday that Iran Caricature House in cooperation with Palestine Contemporary Arts Museum and in partnership with Syriacartoon website will jointly organize the...

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Two new Texan ID shows open (core77.com)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:16:04 GMT

Design goes south: Tomorrow Houston's Barbara Davis Gallery opens the Imperative Design exhibition (furniture and industrial design), while Houston's Contemporary Arts Museum launches the Design Life Now show as part of the Cooper-Hewitt's US National Design Triennial. Imperative Design will feature new furniture and product work by its curator, renowned designer Lauren Rottet,...

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Try wearing the fruit of her labor (HoustonChronicle.com)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:55:33 GMT

This jewelry looks good enough to eat, but don't try it. San Francisco artist Debbie Tuch designs bracelets, necklaces and pins using real fruit, which she dries and coats with glitter resin, creating what she calls "wearable jewels.'' (Why didn't we think of this') The lime necklace is pictured here. Glitterlimes, as the line is called, range from $26 to $70 at the Contemporary Arts...

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Flying to America by Donald Barthelme (HoustonChronicle.com)

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:59:48 GMT

Throughout much of the 1960s, '70s and '80s, Donald Barthelme's quirky, erudite short stories were at the cutting edge of American fiction. A former entertainment editor and critic for the Houston Post, one-time director of the Contemporary Arts Museum and longtime mainstay in the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program, Barthelme was so hip that in 1993, four years after...

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Could be worse - could be Austin (Off the Kuff)

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:03:38 GMT

... shop, once to explore a blossoming urban neighborhood, and then to prowl downtown. I begin at the Museum District, which some people tout for its culture (must be the dozen or more high-brow institutions clustered here) but which I unapologetically laud for its gift offerings. Shops at both the Museum of Fine Arts and the Contemporary Arts Museum offer...

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Daily-ist: Steel Lounge Underground at CAMH (Houstonist)

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:00:00 GMT

Calling all cool kids (or, just kids aiming to be cool at some point in the future...cool adults are fine, too...or, well, you know...)... Contemporary Arts Museum Houston brings us a Steel Lounge Underground Halloween Bash tonight with their friends at KTRU 91.7 Rice Radio . Come early for a special preview screening of the season premier of art:21 , focusing on contemporary...

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The First International Photography Biennial of the Islamic World (Recent Posts at Lightstalkers)

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:56:12 GMT

Just thought I would pass this along... "Damaso":http://www.theeuropeans.net ****** The Islamic Republic of Iran's Academy of Arts is about to hold The First International Biennial of Photography in the Islamic World, in line with its research and artistic programs for Contemporary Arts of Islamic World. Organizer The Islamic Republic of Iran's Academy of Arts Celebrators...

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Get Your Culture On (Houstonist)

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:00:00 GMT

Into art? How about dance? You like music? Theater? Have a thing for opera? Or maybe you just (pretend to) like “culture” in general to seem smart and hip and urban ? Want to impress a date while not knowing a damn thing about the previously mentioned subjects? Boy, does the Houstonist have a shindig for you. Tonight brings us Culture Collision II , hosted by a fleet of Museum and Theatre District...

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Tadao Ando Sketch : Contemporary Arts Museum, Venice (architecture.mnp)

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:01:47 GMT

A sketch by Tadao Ando of a new contemporary arts center he has designed in Venice for luxury goods tycoon François Pinault . :: more at dezeen ::

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Montrose artist's work honors teacher (HoustonChronicle.com -- Bellaire/River Oaks/West U)

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:21:38 GMT

RESOURCESABOUT THE SCULPTURE Name: Monica's World • Where: Memorial High School, 935 Echo Lane • Size: 8 1/2 feet tall • Material: Made of steel and glass • Sculpture: Created by Montrose artist Gertrude Barnstone, 82 • Cost: $5,700 • Funded: Students, staff, faculty, friends and family donated money to the project Monica Neubauer Monica Neubauer earned a degree in religion from Florida State...

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Istanbul: Istanbul Biennial Turns Ten (Gridskipper)

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:40:48 GMT

Contemporary art lovers who like to deconstruct globalization and who also want to get far off Istanbul's beaten path should not miss the 10th Istanbul Biennial , which opens September 8 and runs through November 4. San Francisco-based Hou Hanru (recently interviewed in the Wall Street Journal ), curated "Not Only Possible But Necessary: Optimism in the Age of Global Wars," which explores Istanbul's...

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Museum District Day set for Saturday (Houston Chronicle)

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:32:27 GMT

With free museum admission and special entertainment, the Houston Museum District Association's annual Museum District Day on Saturday may be the ideal last summertime event for area families before school begins on Aug. 27.

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Please God Let it Snow! (Houstonist)

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:40:00 GMT

It would if it were Christmas in July, right? Or at least the temps might climb down to a mild 75? See what the air is like at the Contemporary Arts Museum tonight, where ArtsHouston sponsors Steel Lounge Underground. Instead of carols, there will be DJs Majora y Minora in from Austin, spinning electro, disco, techno, house, and all other forms of I.B.M. (Intelligent Booty...

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