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Local attorney appointed to nonprofit board
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Social networking has given birth to a genre of portraits
The camera doesn’t love me. It doesn’t quite loathe me, either. Occasionally, it warms up to my crooked nose and zigzag smile. But based on the law of averages, I can safely predict that I’d rather see most shots taken of me disappear into the vast digital universe where they came from.
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Arts notes — Walnut Creek Journal/Lamorinda Sun, July 22
“Unbound: A National Exhibition of Book Art,” which opened July 11 at the Bedford Gallery downtown, features 65 artists who tear, paint, puncture and sew the pages, covers, and spines of books to create new two- and three-dimensional works of art.
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Exhibition at Museum of Fine Arts Features Acclaimed Series, The Brown Sisters
Nicholas Nixon, Bebe, Cambridge, 1980. BOSTON, MA.- Themes such as the passage of time and the enduring nature of close family relationships are brought into focus in the exhibition Nicholas Nixon: Family Album at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). The show, on view from July 28, 2010, through May 1, 2011, in the MFA’s Herb Ritts Gallery, features more than 70 black and white portrait …
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