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Exclusive: Mystery painting by Jackson Pollock?
A few thousand miles away, hidden under lock and key, lies a painting that could change Joan Rodgers' life.
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His Majesty Graces Majlis Ilmu
Bandar Seri Begawan - The "Majlis Ilmu", or Knowledge Convention, exhibition made a comeback, showcasing interesting four-section showpieces.
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Wine tasting, auction benefit Cardiovascular Disease Foundation
CARLSBAD ---- The Carlsbad Seapoint Resort hosted the third annual Wine Tasting by the Sea & Silent Auction on June 6. The 100 supporters who gathered at this ocean-view location were able to put together $10,000 to benefit the Cardiovascular Disease Foundation.
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The Moore legacy
Culture: The only child of sculptor Henry Moore, Mary Moore gives an interview to Elizabeth Day on the eve of an exhibition of works never before seen in public
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How the Personal Genome Project Could Unlock the Mysteries of Life
George Church is dyslexic, narcoleptic, and a vegan. He is married with one daughter, weighs about 210 pounds, and has worn a pioneer-style bushy beard for decades. He has elevated levels of creatine kinase in his blood, the consequence of a heart attack. He enjoys waterskiing, photography, rock climbing, and singing in his church choir. His mother's maiden name is Strong. He was born on ...
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Nature Sketching: Arboretum offers the perfect studio, canvas and subjects for art students
PICAYUNE — The light dances across the pond, the reeds move ever so slightly in the almost non-existent wind, the insects create a cacophony of rhythmic accompaniment and the art students at the Crosby Arboretum sit quietly and sketch.
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Move with the times
A reader has an enquiry about a subject that’s fast becoming forgotten: black and white photography. I received another enquiry quite a while back regarding black and white photography.
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Stark Museum of Art to host special exhibit
In celebration of its upcoming thirtieth anniversary, the Stark Museum of Art will display a special exhibition, Thirtieth Anniversary Treasures, Tuesday, Aug. 19 through Wednesday, Oct. 29.
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The Second Annual Botkins Sculpture Invitational - 7/26/2008
The second annual Botkins sculpture invitational is off to a great start. People from all over the region are traveling to Botkins village park to view the large collection of fine art. The event features the sculptures and work of artists from all across the country.
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Teen stars make reading a ‘reality’ for kids
OVER A HUNDRED CHILDREN were treated to a mini-festival of well-loved stories by young reality TV stars at yesterday’s Inquirer Read-Along session, the 40th since the program was started in May last year.
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High-end restaurant damaged in massive fire owes thousands in back taxes
SPOKANE -- A year ago, Bill Alles opened Churchill’s Steakhouse, a high-end restaurant in the Joel Building. Investors spent $3 million to start the restaurant. A fire that investigators believe started in the basement of a photography studio in the same building severely damaged the steakhouse.
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Sunday -Your Day
San Guo Battle of Wits presents the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy exhibition at Prince Hotel And Residence Kuala Lumpur. The exhibition is a collaboration between Chinese and Indonesian artists. For details, call 012- 375 5522.
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Corning Art Festival
Organizers say you can check out the work of more than seventy new artists at this year's Corning Art Festival.
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Expressions of a Sunday painter
A huge career shift, but obviously handled with dexterity. 65-year old Amit Ambalal has come a long way, starting with a career in business and moving on to art. Renowned for the depiction of religious traditions in a satirical way, his current exhibition on at Gallery Espace is inspired from his trip to Bali last year.
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Richard Ingleby: Scotland prospers with growing appreciation of modern art
Richard Ingleby: We've seen a gradual eroding of prejudices that suggested Scottish collectors only support a certain type of 'traditional' Scottish art
Guardian Unlimited |
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This Weekends Events
Until 31 Dec 2008 Interactive tours where participants can have a look at, and try, a collection of toys, costume and furniture.... more details Until 31 Dec 2008 The Geffrye Museum houses furniture, textiles, paintings and decorative arts are displayed from 1600 to the present day....
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Hadrian, British Museum, London
A few words of scene-setting might be handy, especially for those who spent the periods devoted to post-Augustan Rome staring out of the classroom window. The Emperor Hadrian – more formally, Publius Aelius Hadrianus (born AD76; ruled from 117 until his death in AD138) – has had a pretty good press across the centuries, except from historians of the Jews, who remember his savage crushing of a ...
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Love, National Gallery, London
Love seems a theme more suitable to a poetry anthology than an art exhibition, so it's fitting that the first item on show is Tracey Emin's embroidered, partly illegible love poem, sprinkled with appliqué roses: "Those Who Suffer Love (I'm OK Now)". Heartfelt, skew-whiff, hand-made to the point of being rubbishy, it's disarming and directly tackles the theme. Round the corner, things get a bit ...
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The Portrait of a Lady, Theatre Royal, Bath Nocturne, Almeida, London Wink the Other Eye, Wilton's Music Hall, London
Has someone confused Henry James with Leonardo da Vinci? This is The Portrait of a Lady – the novelist's 1881 masterpiece about Americans on the Grand Tour – but it's as if Nicki Frei's new adaptation has been penned in mirror writing.
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All Events for 28 July 2008
Until 31 Jul 2008 This latest drama from Olivier Assayas observes the troubled fate of a priceless private art collection. Family members disagree as to its best use and whether they should preserve or sell, display...
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'Who's the greatest actor in the world?' Christian Bale's former assistant reveals how the star's father boosted his ...
Christian Bale's former assistant has spoken out about the star painting a portrait of him as a tortured soul, haunted by his parents’ divorce, prone to temper tantrums and plagued by insecurity.
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Syracuse Arts & Crafts Festival
Crafters and artists from 27 states are in Syracuse this weekend for the 38th annual Arts and Crafts Festival.
WSYR 9 Syracuse |
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Fake cops steal valuable Berni paintings in Argentina
BUENOS AIRES - THIEVES disguised as cops stopped a truck and made off with 15 paintings of Argentina's late Antonio Berni 'of great national value,' Culture Secretary Jose Nun said on Saturday.
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Metamora Honors Lincoln
While President Bush left Peoria Friday, eyes are now on a former president: Abraham Lincoln. A sculpture of Lincoln will soon be featured in Metamora square.
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Unfavorable 'Chihuly' review sparks emotions
My recent review of the exhibition "Chihuly at the de Young" polarized reader response as nothing else I have written for The Chronicle ever has. A torrent of angry e-mails followed, along with a trickle of approving ones. Because so many of them have points...
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