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Painting Family: The De Brays, Masterpainters of the Dutch 17th Century - The Art Newspaper
The Dutch painting dynasty of the de Brays comprised father Salomon, and sons Dirck, Joseph and Jan, who worked in 17th-century Haarlem.
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Sunny Side Of Creative Destruction
Expensive oil and gas give rise to new products like roof tiles that double as sources of power.
Forbes |
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U2's Basquiat art makes over £5m
A piece of art owned by rock band U2 has sold for more than £5m at an auction held in London.
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McKenzie's Freedom Festival is Friday
The 18th annual Festival of Freedom kicks off Friday in McKenzie with events throughout the day. The day's activities kick off with the annual VFW Freedom Fest Breakfast. For $6.00, participants can feast on country ham, sausage, gravy, biscuits, eggs, coffee and juice.
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15th-century sculpture falls, suffers some damage at NY Metropolitan Museum
NEW YORK - A 15th-century sculpture at The Metropolitan Museum of Art was damaged after it came loose from its moorings and fell to the floor. The museum says the damaged piece is a terra-cotta sculpture of Saint Michael the Archangel by Andrea della Robbia.
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Rochester's New Library Reading Garden Memorializes Resident
Visitors to the Joseph H. Plumb Memorial Library in Rochester will now have the chance to enjoy a good read while sitting outdoors in a lovely garden setting. Library staff and trustees welcomed the public to their new "Reading Garden," a sculpture garden and sitting area that was a gift of the family and friends in the memory of Steven Santos at a dedication held on Saturday morning, June 28. ...
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£5m art collection highlights on show
A FREE look at an art collection expected to reach £5million at auction is on show at Kelmarsh Hall on Wednesday and Thursday. (01/07/2008)
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The exhibition Aesthetics of the Nude at MNAR
The Drawings and Etchings Cabinet of the National Art Museum of Romania (MNAR) will host, until the end of September 2008, the temporary exhibition “Aesthetics of the Nude,” opened for visiting at the Gallery of Romanian Modern Art, in the halls dedicated to graphic arts exhibitions.
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Lil’ Wayne Brings The Magic to N.O.’s Voodoo Experience
Lil' Wayne is headed back to his hometown of New Orleans to headline the "Voodoo Experience" festival this fall.
SOHH |
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Gallery Welcomes Two Millionth Visitor
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu welcomed its two millionth visitor today - just five years after opening in the heart of the city’s cultural precinct.
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Oil & Gas
Ecuador's state oil company Petroecuador and its Argentine counterpart Enarsa will not advance plans to develop the Oglán oilfield in the former country, Ecuador's mines and oil ministry said in a statement.
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First edition Potter books go for £17,800
A signed set of first edition Harry Potter books went under the hammer for £17,800 yesterday. The set of seven hardbacks published by Bloomsbury went on sale in one lot at Cameo Fine Art Auctioneers in Berkshire.
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Ex-Swim Coach Pleads Guilty To Sex With Students
An art teacher and former swim and water polo coach at Escondido High School pleaded guilty Tuesday to having unlawful sex with two underage female students.
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Going after Brand makes sense for Heat
Here is your new core nucleus, Heat fans, the triumvirate to make this rebuilding process happen with the speed of time-lapse photography:
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Miami Art Museum waives fees for public-school groups
The Miami Art Museum is giving South Florida schools a helping hand with Miami-Dade public schools' impending $272 billion budget shortfall, by eliminating the cost to bring public school student groups to the museum.
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Escondido Art Teacher Pleads Guilty to Unlawful Sex with 2 Minors
An art teacher and former swim and water polo coach at Escondido High School pleaded guilty to having unlawful sex with two underage female students.
FOX 6 News San Diego |
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Sculpture Diary: A journey through Benhura’s mind
Delving into the mind and dreams of one of Zimbabwe’s best sculptors, Dominic Benhura’s is now possible with a new book.
The Herald |
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Bacon's portrait of lover fetches $28.5m
A RARE painting by English painter Francis Bacon fetched ?13.7 million ($28.5 million) in an auction in London today.
Perth Now |
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art Till July 3 at Kanvas Art Gallery, 53 Syed Amir Ali Avenue, Shivam Chamber, 2nd floor, #98318 21507; 3 pm - 7 pm:
Colorscapes — magical brushstrokes by Sanjib Roy. Till July 5 at CIMA Gallery, Sunny Towers, 43 Ashutosh Chowdhury Avenue, #2485 8717/8509; Mondays: 3 pm - 7 pm, Tuesdays - Saturdays: 2 pm - 7 pm: Summer Show featuring works by Jayasri Burman, Rashmi Bagchi Sarkar, Rameshwar Broota, Jogen Chowdhury, Rini Dhumal, Ramendra Nath Kastha, Paresh Maity, Uday Mondal, Santosh More, Rm. Palaniappan, Manu ...
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Man gets prison for burning Burning Man
Saturday, June 28 RENO, Nev. (AP) -- A San Francisco performance artist was sentenced Friday to as many as four years in prison and ordered to pay restitution for the early torching last summer of the signature effigy of the counterculture Burning Man festival.
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NC governor defends wife's taxpayer-funded trips
Gov. Mike Easley on Tuesday defended overseas cultural exchange trips led by his wife that cost taxpayers $109,000, saying such visits can reap exponentially larger monetary rewards for the state with art exhibits.
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Bacon's portrait of lover fetches 13.7 million pounds at auction
A rare painting by Irish-born English painter Francis Bacon fetched 13.7 million pounds (17.3 million euros, 26.3 million dollars) in an auction in London Tuesday.
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Bacon's portrait of lover fetches 13.7 million pounds at auction
A rare painting by Irish-born English painter Francis Bacon fetched 13.7 million pounds (17.3 million euros, 26.3 million dollars) in an auction in London Tuesday.
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Potter first editions fetch £17K
A signed set of first edition Harry Potter books fetch £17,800 at an auction in Berkshire.
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MARKET SNAPSHOT: U.S. Stocks Turn Higher As GM Posts Sales, Oil Off Highs
U.S. stocks rebounded from steep losses to end in positive territory on Tuesday, after General Motors Corp.'s June sales came in not as bad as expected, while oil prices came off earlier highs.
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