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Living sculpture to grace plinth in London
More than 2000 people will take turns to occupy a vacant plinth on Londons Trafalgar Square as part of a living sculpture project
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Blend Images Names James Doherty as Senior Editor
Blend Images, the world's leading multiethnic stock photography agency, today announced that James Doherty has been appointed to the position of Senior Editor.
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Roots and Rhythm festival makes blues gospel
HONESDALE- “When the king has gathered around him all the savants and artists,” once wrote poet Ezra Pound, “all his riches will be fully employed.” On Saturday morning, as all the artists and vendors were setting up for the 3rd annual Roots and Rhythm Festival at Central Park in Honesdale, artist Dane Tilghman had an artistic revelation, an epiphany of sorts, pondering this ...
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McEnroe Set To Sell Warhol Portrait
Former tennis star John McEnroe is selling a portrait Andy Warhol made of him and his ex-wife Tatum O'Neal at Sotheby's in London next week, the auction house said Monday in an e-mailed statement. Warhol's acrylic and silk-screen portrait of the celebrity couple is expected to fetch up to $687,000. Proceeds will benefit Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit Christian organization that provides ...
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High-End Sales Drove Recent Auctions
Billionaires such as Roman Abramovich are propping up the top end of the world's Contemporary art market, while some cheaper pieces worth less than $500,000 are struggling to sell, according to a survey published today. "Recession-proof" buyers such as Mr. Abramovich and the Al-Thani family of Qatar are making the market for the highest-quality items priced at $1 million and more, the ...
The New York Sun |
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NASA Announces Smithsonian Folklife Festival Activities
In honor of NASA's 50th anniversary, the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and NASA are partnering on this year's Folklife Festival.
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Blend Images Names James Doherty as Senior Editor
SEATTLE----Blend Images, the world’s leading multiethnic stock photography agency, today announced that James Doherty has been appointed to the position of Senior Editor.
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Australian architect makes homes that coexist with their surroundings
In 2006 it was the Australia-Japan Year of Exchange. This year, it would seem, is the Australia-Roppongi Year of Exchange. Not only is a huge exhibition of the late Aboriginal artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye being held in Roppongi at the National Art Center until July 28, but Gallery Ma, the specialist architecture forum run by bathroom- fixtures-maker Toto, is hosting an exhibition of Australia's ...
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Art museums deal with attendance issues after expansions
Santiago Calatrava's addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum has helped pull the museum out of debt and increased attendance. Now, with the novelty wearing off, the museum must determine a new path.
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PHS students win Coca-Cola contest
Ranked among the top 12 finalists in the Houston area, Pearland High School art students Anh Tran and Gabe Miller took top awards June 3 in Coca-Cola’s 12th annual “Art of Harmony: Eco-Project” contest....
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News: Bon Iver Extends Tour Into the Fall
Photo by Shannon McClean Following the completion of a fairly extensive North American tour (including a stop at the Pitchfork Music Festival ), it's back to Europe for Justin Vernon and the boys of Bon Iver . They'll take to the continent for just about a month of shows that kick off in early September. The winsome Wisconsinites, still touring in support of that ...
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Mayor reveals battle of Trafalgar victors
It has been the subject of a fierce debate among the British public: should the fourth plinth of Trafalgar Square be reserved for works of contemporary art, or should it be dedicated to the memory of a war hero who masterminded victory in the Battle of Britain?
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LONDON - Former tennis player John McEnroe poses next to a 'Portrait of John McEnroe and Tatum O'Neal 1986' by Andy Warhol at Sotheby's on June 23, 2008 in London, England.
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Norman Rockwell Festival To Include Sea Dogs
Kennebunk (NEWS CENTER) -- Norman Rockwell's paintings of everyday life graced the covers of the Saturday Evening Post for than forty years and became some of the most recognized art in America. This August, there will be a Norman Rockwell festival in Kennebunk.
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
When I visited the Norton Simon Museum yesterday, I was stunned to find Sam Francis' magnificent (and underrated) Basel Mural I away from its usual place at the end of one of the Norton Simon's gallery-hallways.
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NASA Announces Smithsonian Folklife Festival Activities
In honor of NASA's 50th anniversary, the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and NASA are partnering on this year's Folklife Festival. The festival will be held Wednesday, June 25 through Sunday, June 29, and Wednesday, July 2 through Sunday, July 6, outdoors on the National Mall between Seventh and 14th Streets. Festival hours are from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. EDT ...
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Snapping up awards
REDLANDS - White-gloved men carried the delicate artwork to be placed under a spotlight in front of three people who would judge whether it was worthy to be called excellent art.
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142nd Richest Man In World Doesn't Do Coffee Tables, Parks Mercedes SLR in Living Room [Novelties]
If you're Eike Batista, the Brazilian steel, gold and oil tycoon gunning for Bill Gates' spot on the world's richest list, do you just drop some kind of fancy art or an Aston Martin love seat in your...
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
A visit to Manjusha museum in Dharmasthala makes Akshatha M believe that the present is clearly an extension of the past. Though we live in the 21st century, our thirst to learn more about our rich cultural heritage remains unquenched.
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Rob Schenck to Give Pro-Life Message to Thousands of Youth at Creation '08
MEDIA ADVISORY, June 23 / Christian Newswire / -- Nationally known pro-life spokesman and missionary to top government officials in Washington, DC, Rev. Rob Schenck, will speak this week to thousands of young people at the huge Creation music festival at the Agape Farm outside Mount Union, Pennsylvania.
Christian News Wire |
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Music and lyrics: Bands rock out in Harvard Square
The tunes came fast and furious Saturday in Harvard Square, where an estimated 100 bands from across the Bay State played outdoor sets in the Make Music Cambridge festival as part of an international street music celebration.
Cambridge Chronicle & Cambridge Tab |
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CITY CENTRE: Duplex mural defaced
A recently-painted mural in Duplex Parkette was vandalized over the weekend, with vandals painting obscenities and other graffiti over the picture of a deer. The mural, which depicted a deer in natu...
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CITY CENTRE: Duplex mural defaced
A recently-painted mural in Duplex Parkette was vandalized over the weekend, with vandals painting obscenities and other graffiti over the picture of a deer.
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OU alumnus wins Pulitzer for photography
Last year's Colorado forest fires often bring to mind the image of a firefighter walking across an orange haze. That image, taken by Ohio University alumnus Steven G. Smith, is the lead photo in an essay that recently was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography.
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Painter’s work comes home
The Needham Public Library has acquired the painting “The Stone Bridge in East Bridgewater” by Giovanni Castano.
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