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Culture, art on display at book fair
China Daily Global
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Visitors learn about an intangible cultural heritage-themed book presented at the Beijing International Book Fair, which opened on Wednesday. CHENG GONG/FOR CHINA DAILY The 31st edition of the Beijing International Book Fair, one of the most...
Juneteenth celebrations start today with Triad Cultural Arts
WXII 12 - North Carolina
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June 19, 2025
The 160th anniversary of the local Juneteenth Festival will be commemorated by a series of events with Triad Cultural Arts. The public is invited to enjoy the rich African-American cultural traditions and celebrate the heritage and freedom with...
Student art added to Lewisville sculpture scavenger hunt
The Clemmons Courier - North Carolina
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June 19, 2025
Published 12:10 am Thursday, June 19, 2025 1/2 Swipe or click to see more Mackenzie Doolittle, center, with fellow artists Carlin Burton, right, and Lana Hardy pose with their new addition to the Lewisville sculpture tour. - Elizabeth Miller 2/2...
Artist Preserves Childhood Memories With Handmade Miniature Models of Historic Architecture
My Modern Met - California
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June 18, 2025
@adu.miniature.model Lost architecture reimagined in miniature. Let the past speak again!#miniaturemodel #model #miniature ♬ 原聲 – A Du Custom Miniature Models Miniature art has a unique way of capturing the imagination, transforming real-life...
Artist Autumn Breon’s Requiem for Reproductive Freedom: Honoring Adriana Smith Through Performance
Ms. Magazine
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June 19, 2025
Black Feminist in Public is a series of conversations between creative Black women and Janell Hobson, a Ms. scholar whose work focuses on the intersections of history, popular culture and representations of women of African descent. “You might...
Culture BitesJaws turns 50: which came first, the phobia or the film?
The National News
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In this episode of Culture Bites, hosts Enas Refaei and Farah Andrews are joined by The National’s arts and culture editor William Mullally to talk about Jaws to mark the film’s 50th anniversary. The iconic shark attack film had such a massive...
Interested in Abstract Art? These Amazing Online Art Classes Let You Make Your Own
My Modern Met - California
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June 17, 2025
Have you ever walked through a gallery showing abstract art and thought, “I could paint that?” Many of those artworks may be more complicated than meets the eye. Either way, if that thought has ever crossed your mind and made you wonder what you...
66 years of midwestern art on display at the Rourke in Moorhead
InForum - North Dakota
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June 19, 2025
MOORHEAD — The Rourke Art Gallery and Museum hosted a preview of its 66th annual “Midwestern” exhibit on Wednesday night, June 18, ahead of its public opening. The 2025 showcase features prairie-themed works from 114 regional artists, with...
Project WARP launches third cohort to boost local artists, underway until July 26
Apartment613
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June 18, 2025
Advertisement: Advertisement: In 2024, Debaser, The Framework, Produced By Youth, and The Moving Art Gallery all came together to create project WARP. The project would award Ottawa, Gatineau, and Kitigan Zibi creatives a $5,000 microgrant...
SXSW Sydney Add 60+ Artists To 2025 Live Music Programme
Scenestr
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South by Southwest Sydney's 2025 programme of live music showcases has been bolstered with the addition of 62 international and local artists. SXSW Sydney's international contingent includes buzzy global talent including Indian singer-songwriter...
Orono Arts Fest taking place this weekend
WABI - Maine
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June 18, 2025
ORONO, Maine (WABI) - The second annual Orono Arts Fest is taking place June 20-22. All Orono Arts Fest events are free to everyone this year. Some of the featured events include The Focus Group: Improv Comedy, “The Ghost Trap” film screening, and...
US returns smuggled Indonesian artifacts
Antara
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June 19, 2025
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Indonesia has received three valued cultural artifacts from the US State of New York that were confiscated in a smuggling case and are currently awaiting repatriation. The three cultural artifacts belonging to the Asmat, Dayak,...
Restoration Uncovers Stunning Art and Inscriptions of 2,000-Year-Old Egyptian Temple
My Modern Met - California
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June 17, 2025
The Great Hypostyle Hall, the Temple of Khnum (“The Esna Temple”), Esna, Egypt. (Photo: Elias Rovielo via Flickr, CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0) A 2,000-year-old temple in Egypt, buried under centuries of soot and forgotten history, has recently been revealed...
Jenny Saville at the National Portrait Gallery: 'mythic art of the flesh'
Evening Standard
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June 19, 2025
In a room of mother works, in charcoal and pastel as well as paint, Saville becomes interested in women’s bodies transforming dramatically in motherhood, where the bellies and boobs and thighs are crawled over – again the fleshscapes – by babies...
PM Modi gifts silver candlestand to Croatian counterpart Plenkovic, Pattachitra painting to President Milanovic
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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June 19, 2025
New Delhi [India], June 19 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi has gifted a silver candlestand to Croatia's Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic and a Pattachitra painting to Croatia's President Zoran Milanovic. This silver candle stand from Rajasthan...
Crosstalk: City Council Moves to Support Airport Art, PBS, and Govalle
The Austin Chronicle - Texas
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courtesy of Austin PBS Austin City Council has approved new contracts for artwork in the airport expansion after receiving initial pushback from ACME, the Office of Arts, Culture, Music, and Entertainment, over use of non-local artists for the...
Louvre hosts cultural treasure ‘Una Bulaquena’ of Philippines
Gulf Today
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June 19, 2025
Representative of the iron will of a people found in every corner of the world, an oil painting of a 16-year-old elitista provincial lass is now on display at the Louvre Abu Dhabi. This is the 185X87 centimetre rendition of Emiliana Yriarte...
Juneteenth: Celebrating Black literacy and artistic freedom
Public News Service
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A Pennsylvania literacy organization is commemorating the Juneteenth holiday by highlighting the history and contributions of Black people in the United States through literacy and artistic freedom. Vanesse Lloyd-Sgambati, founder of the African...
Soak up Vail’s art scene with the new Third Thursdays: Art Around the Block
Vail Daily - Colorado
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Several Vail Village art galleries are giving you a new fun way to see art, meet artists and gather for some cheer. Get ready for Third Thursdays: Art on the Block, an evening where the streets of Vail Village come alive with art, music and...
Filipino artists make waves in Tokyo exhibition ‘A Wild Sea’
Inquirer
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June 19, 2025
Currently running at Kobayashi Gallery in Tokyo’s Minato district, “A Wild Sea” brings together 18 contemporary Filipino artists that draws from the poet Matsuo Bashō’s haiku, “A Wild Sea”: A wild sea – In the distance over Sado The Milky Way...