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CHEMNITZ, Germany – An exhibition of a unique collection of artworks by Bob Dylan, including variations of previously published drawings and sketches, has opened at a museum in this eastern German city.
LONDON – A copy of J.K. Rowling’s first Harry Potter novel sold at auction Thursday for almost $41,000.
Ben Stein, the monotonous teacher from “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” will lecture at 7 p.m. Nov. 6 at the IU Auditorium.
NEW YORK – Barry H. Landau, a presidential collector and connoisseur, is the kind of guy one may not notice in the pictures with celebrities. He is 59 and has been in the company of presidents for nearly 50 years. He is tall and bearded, with a home full of history and a head crammed with names, like boxes in an overstuffed closet ready to tumble out.
LONDON – A painting by Winston Churchill, which President Truman called one of his “most valued possessions” after receiving it as a gift from the British prime minister in 1951, will be sold at Sotheby’s, the auction house said Saturday.
Outstanding artists, performers and supporters of the arts from across the state were honored Thursday night at the 2007 Indiana Governor’s Arts Awards.
NEW YORK – Carrie Underwood, Beyonce and Elton John will be among the performers at the first-ever Movies Rock concert celebrating the relationship between music and film.
In 2006 alone, more than 680 films were released, and that’s only counting those produced by major U.S. studios, according to the Web site www.Movieweb.com.
Brian Buch, an IU alumnus, started writing music for his friends in fifth grade, and by his senior year of high school he had already composed his first major classical work. Last year, Buch was a finalist for the 2007 Queen Elisabeth Composition Competition in Brussels, Belgium.
The second of four scheduled high-profile hip hop shows at the Bluebird, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, will perform Friday night, with Texas rapper Devin the Dude opening for him.
This Friday, the cold tower sitting in the front lawn of the IU Art Museum will transform into a glowing 70-foot beacon for the arts.
From renowned musicians and educators to a city of about 12,000, this year’s six Governor’s Arts Awards recipients have one thing in common: an outstanding passion for the arts. The prestigious awards will be presented at 6:30 p.m. tonight at the Musical Arts Center followed by a celebratory dinner at 8 p.m. at the Bloomington Convention Center.
BANGKOK, Thailand – David Copperfield canceled upcoming shows in Southeast Asia following an FBI search of his Las Vegas warehouse and a casino theater where he regularly performs.
WEST POINT, N.Y. – The Dave Matthews Band will play for Army football next month at two free shows.
Tuesday night, the Monroe County Civic Theater’s production of “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” premiered at The Cinemat, 123 S. Walnut St. Although the rain might have prevented more people from coming out to see the play, it went on without a hitch, and was a wonderfully produced tale of what happens when the dual personalities of a person fight for power.
Octubafest When: 7 to 9 p.m. today Where: Ford-Crawford Hall, Jacobs School of Music More information: This free concert features performances by tuba performance majors in the IU Jacobs School of Music.
The first time I heard those enchanting lyrics, “Watch me crank dat Soulja Boy, then Superman dat ho,” I was drawn to an obvious conclusion that a lot of us see about modern rap – that it is self-righteous, nihilistic and misogynistic. But for a reason I couldn’t explain at the time the song was first released, I downloaded the song and couldn’t stop listening to it, often closing the curtains in order to perfect the moves that go along with Soulja Boy’s smash hit.
A band of six Scandinavian-looking women and two Scandinavian men all dressed in white linen embroidered with pansies, goldfish and birds is not what people expect to see on Tuesday night at Jake’s Nightclub.
NEW YORK – Just when fans had made peace with “The Sopranos” finale and moved on with their lives, David Chase has stirred things up again.
