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Hirst auction kicks off with pickled shark and calf
An unprecedented auction of works by British artist Damien Hirst was headed for the record books today, making more than $A95 million in the first 90 minutes. Sotheby’s auction house said after the s
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Mexican folk art displayed at McLean County Arts Center
"Yo vine por amore" reads a sign above an old black and white photo collage of stone-faced Mexican-Americans. "I came because of love." The Huellas Fotographias span horizontally across three vast, white walls at the Exhibition of Mexican Folk Arts and Photographs at the McLean County Arts Center in downtown Bloomington.
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Hirst auction begins with sale of pickled shark
LONDON (AP) - Sotheby's auction house has sold a pickled shark by British art provocateur Damien Hirst for 9.6 million pounds (US$17 million).
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Artist Damien Hirst's London sale breaks records
Damien Hirst smashed the record for an auction dedicated to a single artist, selling 54 new works on Monday for 70.55 million pounds ($127 million) in a sale that underlined the resilience of the high-end art market.
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Damien Hirst Auction Rakes In The Dough
"Sotheby's in London sold £70.5 million ($127 million) worth of his pickled animals and polka-dotted canvases. The evening sale, which surpassed its £62.3 million ($112 million) high estimate, underscored the resilience of the art market despite woes in the broader financial markets."
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Food As The First Art Form
Food and eating is probably the oldest aspect of human culture. Food was the first sculpture. It would certainly be strange if artists did not turn their attention to this most basic and profound aspect of life. How far can you go?
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Hirst?s Art Auction Attracts Plenty of Bidders, Despite Financial Turmoil
In the first session of his auction at Sotheby?s, the British artist Damien Hirst sold his works for a total of $127.2 million.
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Artist Damien Hirst's London sale breaks records
LONDON (Reuters) - Damien Hirst smashed the record for an auction dedicated to a single artist, selling 54 new works on Monday for 70.55 million pounds ($127 million) in a sale that underlined the resilience of the high-end art market.
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Wine festival parade crashers become marshals
Natasha Pedros remembers ushering Niagara Wine Festival parade revellers off the official downtown St. Catharines route to watch a group of Brock University theatre students [...]
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Artist Damien Hirst's London sale breaks records
LONDON (Reuters) - Damien Hirst smashed the record for an auction dedicated to a single artist, selling 54 new works on Monday for 70.55 million pounds ($127 million) in a sale that underlined the resilience of the high-end art market.
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Writers festival boss welcomes Frey controversy
The organiser of this year's Brisbane Writers Festival has defended his decision to include controversial author James Frey in the line-up.
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Hirst's $157m art sale breaks records
DAMIEN Hirst has smashed the record for an auction dedicated to a single artist, selling 54 new works for ?70.55 million pounds ($157.3 million) in a sale that underlined the resilience of the high-end art market.
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Gameheads, web experts help Smithsonian go digital
WASHINGTON - The Smithsonian Institution will work to digitise its collections to make science, history and cultural artefacts accessible online and dramatically expand its outreach to schools, the museum complex's new chief said today.
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14 local people enter Hockey Night in Canada songwriting contest
It’s a face-off between more than 11,000 players and 14 local contenders are on the line waiting for the puck to drop.
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Hirst sets sale record of £70m
AN AUCTION of artworks by Damien Hirst set a new record for a sale dedicated to one artist – with a second day still to go – the auction house Sotheby's said last night.
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Pickled shark sells for $26 million
LONDON - Sotheby's auction house has sold a pickled shark by British art provocateur Damien Hirst for 9.6 million pounds ($26.2 million). Monday's sale kicked off a two-day auction of the artist's work that is expected to generate more than 65 million pounds ($178 million).
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Lachlan digs up memories for ambitious art project
A KEMPSEY student has dug up an imaginative artwork on his family’s farm as he bids to fly high in the art world.
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BC BREAKING NEWS:
Victoria artist Maurice Turcotte will be featured in an exhibition of leather work running Friday and Saturday Sept. 26-27 at Intrepid Theatre Club, #2-1609 Blanshard St.
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The art of love: Rembrandt
Nobody knows who this couple are, in fiction or in reality. Rembrandt's painting, traditionally titled "The Jewish Bride", is now thought to depict a pair of Bible figures from the Old Testament, although there aren't enough clues to identify them. And they're presumably based on a pair of actual 17th century Dutch sitters, posed in the studio, who are equally unknown.
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Photographer's Heirs Sue N.Y. Gallery Over Lost Art
Relatives of one of the world's most famous portrait photographers have sued a Manhattan gallery, saying it lost valuable photographs created with Spanish surrealist master Salvador Dali
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Ignite, Royal Opera House, London
With Deloitte Ignite, Wayne McGregor managed to create a festival where the queue for art/sound installations was as long as the one for free chocolate. Mixing arts and sciences, the three-day programme had free performances and events throughout a crowded opera house. True, the Green & Blacks tasting led to a polite stampede; but the queue for Ray Lee's sound work stretched through the foyer ...
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A formaldehyde frenzy as buyers snap up Hirst works
Damien Hirst's audacious plot to take his creations straight to auction paid off last night as he set a new personal record of £10.3m for one artwork in the first part of a two-part sale. The astounding £70.5m total raised at Sotheby's in London exceeded all expectations. The previous auction record for a work by Hirst was £9.7m.
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George Zarnecki: Former deputy director of the Courtauld Institute of Art and leading scholar of Romanesque sculpture
George Zarnecki was a leading scholar of medieval art whose authority in the field of English Romanesque sculpture has remained unchallenged over half a century. In his role as deputy director of the Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of London, he was revered by generations of students.
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First phase of Hirst auction makes 70.5 million pounds
An unprecedented auction of works by artist Damien Hirst was headed for the record books Monday, making 70.5 million pounds with more than 150 lots to go.
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First phase of Hirst auction makes 70.5 million pounds
LONDON (AFP) - An unprecedented auction of works by artist Damien Hirst was headed for the record books Monday, making 70.5 million pounds with more than 150 lots to go.
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