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Artists builds four temporary sites along the East River
New York Daily News Jun 26, 08 7:30 PM CDT
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New Yorkers can feast their eyes on an unusual site over the next four months—waterfalls. Four manmade falls, each about 100 feet high, came to life yesterday at different sites along the East River, the Daily News reports. City officials hope the structures—the work of artist Olafur Eliasson—will bring in loads of tourists before they come down in October.
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Art gallery closes
in disgust
Milwaukee Business Journal Jan 25, 08 2:15 PM CST
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Milwaukee’s about to get way cooler. Thanks to private donations and teenagers who bought “Bronze the Fonz” T-shirts, the tourist bureau has raised $85,000 to erect a permanent bronze tribute to Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli, the leather-jacketed biker in the Milwaukee-set '70s hit sitcom “Happy Days.” But the the local art community isn't impressed; one gallery is even said to be closing in protest.
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School balking over statue of ex-student
Los Angeles Times Dec 27, 07 6:27 PM CST
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University of Washington students are petitioning for the right to build a statue of Bruce Lee, the film icon who studied at the university for three years and offered martial arts classes at the student union. Students argue the statue would be step toward better artistic representation of the school's student body, 25% of which is Asian.
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