Event listings for Kenora, Ontario.
Announcement at Wawatay News.
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Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) article
about whether or not a portrait is a painting, based on the non-painting methods (as well as painting methods) used to create it. I, for one, would call it a painting, because paint went into it, somebody else is filing a legal challenge to its 'painting' status.
Why does that get my attention and why should it concern you?
The 'painting' won a portraiture contest worth $35 000 (Australian, presumably) and the legal challenge is being petitioned by a sore loser. Also; the article has a striking picture of the portrait (of Aboriginal actor; David Gulpilil) that you should see (I will send some emails to check on copyright/creative commons status. So... no pic, here, yet.).
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The striking depiction by Craig Ruddy, which won him the Archibald and the People's Choice awards in 2004, is at the centre of a legal fight on the definition of the word painting.
Tony Johansen, a Kings Cross artist and regular Archibald entrant, says the Art Gallery of NSW Trust should not have awarded the prize to Ruddy because his work is "not a painting but a drawing" and was thus ineligible because it breached the 1916 will of the late Jules Francois Archibald.
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June 21 is the Summer Solstice.
Here is a list of solstices and equinoxes until the year 2020.
No; they are not always on the same day and time.
Here is a "scientific" explanation of the solstice.
Here is a description of solstice festival at Stonehenge (No; the stones do not get up and fly at night. At least not when there are people around.).
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There's suppose to be a celebration in connection to this in Montreal at the First People's Festival. I'll try to check it out.
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