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Monet water lily painting sells for $81 million
LONDON -- A Monet water lily painting sold for the equivalent of $81 million on Tuesday, doubling the previous auction record for the artist and ensuring London's key art market season got off to a flying start. Le Bassin aux Nympheas had been expected to fetch about half that.
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Tax refund provides a Kodak moment
Shares of Eastman Kodak Co. rose nearly 17 per cent yesterday after the photography company said it had been awarded a $581 million (U.S.) tax refund and would repurchase up to $1 billion of its stock.
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Mary Magdalene painting the work of Titian
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Monet Painting Fetches $80 Million
Monet water lily painting fetches $80 million at high rolling London art auction
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Kingman Museum gets facelift, new planetarium
In a few months, the stars will shine in Kingman Museum's planetarium like never before.
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Redrawing the map of Hub galleries
The boxes, rolls of duct tape, and odd pieces of art scattered around the Allston Skirt Gallery might be mistaken for a witty conceptual art installation. But they're not. Owners Beth Kantrowitz and Randi Hopkins, in business nine years, are packing up their Harrison Avenue space for good.
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Oil Refineries Approves Agreement to Acquire Balance of Shares in Carmel Olefins From Israel Petrochemical Enterprises
Oil Refineries Ltd. , Israel's largest oil refiner, announced today that, following its announcement of May 21, 2008, the Company's Board of Directors approved yesterday the agreement with Israel Petrochemical Enterprises Ltd. under which ORL will acquire IPE's share in Carmel Olefins .
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Stressful pre-session course pays off in exhibit
While you were lazing around the pool this summer, the students in Nathan Abel's Alternative Methods to Printmaking pre-session course were busy making art. "Underpressuretwentythreefiftythree" is the long name for the small exhibit of artwork that was cranked out during the three-week pre-session.
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YP Expo expected to bring hundreds to Museum of Art
More than 350 young professionals have registered for Thursday's YP Expo, sponsored by the Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce, and organizers expect that number to reach 650.
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Monet painting fetches $80 million at London auction
LONDON, 06/25 - A water lily painting by Claude Monet sold for more than $80 million Tuesday, breaking the auction record for the French impressionist artist, Christie`s said.
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The past: a work in progress
A new art exhibit reveals that hindsight may not be 20/20 after all. Feeling her age, Sarah Milroy takes a walk down memory lane
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Shanghai film fest a far cry from Cannes
Compared to the sophisticated Cannes, Berlin and Venice film festivals, the Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) resembles a young boy entitled to spoiled behavior nolonger, yet far from having the maturity level to face its adversit ...
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Monet water-lilies painting fetches record $80.5 mln
A Monet painting of water lilies on Tuesday fetched 80.5 million U.S. dollars, almost twice as much as the previous record for a Monet masterpiece. "Le Bassin aux Nympheas" had been expected to bring 35.4 million dollars to 47.3 mill ...
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Artist's record-breaking toaster
An art student has set a world record by creating a toaster that pops toast 8ft 6ins high into the air.
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DATEBOOK
Northeast Photography Club: meetings, first Wednesday of every month, 7 p.m., Suite No. 6, 5 Morgan Highway. Lackawanna County CareerLink: resume writing, Wednesdays, 1:30 p.m.; Internet job search, Thursdays, 3 p.m.; career decision making, Fridays, 10 a.m. 135 Franklin Ave.
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Briefly... CITY/REGION
10G reward in artwork theft The FBI yesterday posted a $10,000 reward for information that will lead to a pricey piece of 19th-century art recently stolen from the Philadelphia Park Systems office in Center City.
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Who's Blogging
LAURA BUSH is a former teacher and librarian, so you just know she loves books. Her office in the East Wing of the White House is filled with children's books (also paintings of Barney and Miss Beazley, the Bush family's Scottish terriers).
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NYU KICK IN THE PICASSO
Pablo Picasso's pal is giving NYU the brushoff. Sylvette David, who posed for the Spanish artist more than 50 years ago and was the model for a sculpture that stands in the plaza of the university's Silver Towers complex, yesterday tried to block...
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$80M A WHOLE LOT OF MONET
LONDON - A Monet water-lily painting sold for $80.5 million yesterday, doubling the previous auction record for the artist as London's art-market season got off to a flying start. "Le Bassin aux Nympheas" from 1919 had been expected to fetch $35...
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RCCC hopes to offer associate degree in fine arts
Rowan-Cabarrus Community College plans to offer an associate degree program in fine arts, pending approval of the N.C. Community College System and th ...
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Monet painting fetches $80 million at London auction
Wed, Jun 25, 2008 (12:21 a.m.) A water lily painting by Claude Monet sold for more than $80 million Tuesday, breaking the auction record for the French impressionist artist, Christie's said.
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Park office painting gone
A 19th-century painting worth up to $75,000 has disappeared from the Philadelphia park system's office, prompting the FBI to offer a reward for its return.
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A dream comes true
POUND RIDGE, N.Y. - It is quite an interesting, unique masterpiece of a golf course that renowned designer Pete Dye and his son Perry Dye teamed up with Mother Nature to create at Pound Ridge Golf Club.
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$40,000 painting left at Goodwill
Alert employees note something special in Cortes street scene amid donations Had it not been for the discerning eyes of Goodwill store employees, the research skills of the store manager and the help of a few art historians, the Parisian street scene painted by Impressionist Edouard-Leon Cortes might well be hanging today in a college dorm room, over a bed in some cheap Highway 50 motel, or ...
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Dieter Thomas: French Paste
The lovely Dieter Thomas stars in the London revival of French Paste in association with the London Pride Festival. Written by Richard Gallagher, it is a hilarious and touching celebration of human relationships and how far society has moved since the late eighties.
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