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French art thief sentenced to more than 5 years in jail
A French art thief who admitted stealing and trying to sell valuable Claude Monet and other paintings will serve more than five years in U.S. prison.
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Lawmakers Fight WWI Museum In Washington
Missouri's congressional delegation is opposing an effort to establish a World War I Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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Modeling The Master
EVEN AS a scale model of about 6 feet in height, the rock-slinging siege engine known as the trebuchet looks like it could do some serious damage to the walls of San Jose's Tech Museum.
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Fla. judge: Monet thief receives 62-month sentence
Associated Press - September 24, 2008 2:23 PM ET MIAMI (AP) - A French art thief who admitted stealing and trying to sell paintings by Claude Monet and other famous artists will serve more than...
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Fla. judge: Monet thief receives 62-month sentence
MIAMI (AP) - A French art thief who admitted stealing and trying to sell paintings by Claude Monet and other famous artists will serve more than five years in U.S. prison.
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Education news
Artwork by two St. Francis DeSales High School students is being recognized and is on display in a state building this month.
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French art thief gets 62 months in prison
A French art thief who lived quietly in a Cooper City neighborhood and admitted stealing and trying to sell valuable Claude Monet and other paintings will serve more than five years in U.S. prison.
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Doctor at Sea
NICHOLAS SPARKS' novels celebrate craftsmanship: the smack of hammers, the carving of wood, the boat building of Kevin Costner in Message in a Bottle . And yet the plot of Nights in Rodanthe is sheer prefab, a retread of 1940s weepers.
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"Drifting Away"
Someone once said, "All art is political." That's apparent in photographer Erika Diettes's "Drifting Away." Her moving exhibit of life-size images, which are printed onto clear glass and then stood upright for display, takes the harsh, ugly truth of her Colombian homeland's disappeared and manages t ...
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The 12th Annual Houston Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival
Sir John Gielgud, Tab Hunter and Liberace all on the big screen together - where else but Q-Fest, the 12th Annual Houston Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival? Today's opening-night feature is Save Me, with Chad Allen as a man struggling with drug addiction. When his family places him in a Chr ...
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KC & the Sunshine Band & Wade Bowen To Perform at the 2008 Lubbock Music Festival
Aside from two headliner concerts, attendees can enjoy live music performed each night in different venues throughout the Depot Entertainment District from 6:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.
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"Art and Power in the Central African Savannah"
The African savannah, as nearly everyone who's ever seen a nature documentary knows, is loaded with amazing wildlife. But it's also home to some fascinating human cultures, among them the various African tribes who created the sculptures now on display at The Menil Collection's "Art and Power in the ...
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"The Sounds I See: Photographs of Musicians"
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is hosting some of history's greatest performers in concert...in pictures. "The Sounds I See: Photographs of Musicians" is a collection of notable singers, songwriters, guitarists, drummers and others captured on stage by notable lens-snappers such as Ralph Gibson, E ...
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Area artists invited to enter Myersart Fair
HICKORY GROVE - The Myersart and Friends Art Fair is looking for a few more artists to participate in the second annual art fair Nov 28-29 in Hickory Grove. The fair is a high-quality show with 20 exhibiting artists and craftsmen from the surrounding area. The event is held in the recreation building of Hickory Grove Methodist Church.
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Greece Gets Back Piece of Elgin Marbles
Italy gets back one foot, small fragement of dozens of sculptures taken by British diplomat out of Parthenon in early 19th century.
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Sony 4K SXRD Projectors Tell Story of Ocean Life Through HD Video at New Smithsonian Sant Ocean Hall
WASHINGTON , Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The newest exhibition hall at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History here in the nation's capital is dedicated to the ocean's history and its importance in contemporary society.
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Visual art: Cutting Fine, Cutting Deep
Tues., Sept. 30... By Cinque Hicks Apparently there's more coming out of Switzerland than just secure banking, chocolate and the Helvetica font. The Swiss tradition of Scherenschnitt – scissor-cut paper art – makes an appearance in CUTTING FINE, CUTTING DEEP at Georgia Tech's Robert C. Williams Paper Museum, continuing Tues., SEPT. 30. Curator Julie Püttgen combines work from cut-paper artists ...
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Tagger leaves ID at scene of crime
Note to taggers: Don’t leave your bag behind after you’ve signed your work. That’s the lesson a 16-year-old Dundas ‘artist’ is learning to swallow after a curious police officer found him painting ‘Danny’ on the underside of the CN Rail overpass on Sydenham Road after dinner Tuesday.
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Wa-Ke Hatchee hosts first photo contest
Take a photo from within any of Lee County's Parks & enter the first ever Wa-Ke Hatchee Recreation Center photo contest.
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Neighbors in the news
Three prints created by Jim Schwarz, of Jim Schwarz Photographers in Canal Winchester, have recently been accepted into the General Collection of the 117th International Exhibition of Professional Photography.
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New additions to historic Kern photo collection on display at BC
A special exhibit of 18 recently discovered historic photographs that were part of the Leo J. Pierucci collection are on display at the Wylie and May Louise Jones Gallery at Bakersfield College through Oct. 2. The photos are part of a larger collection that Pierucci and his wife, Janet, donated to the Grace Van Dyke Bird Library at Bakersfield College in 1996, which is on display on the ...
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Good first year for art gallery-driving range
The perfect golf swing: some say it is unattainable. Others say it is a work of art. There is one local business that not only helps you find your golf swing, but works of art.
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REGIONAL BRIEFS
Proceeds from a soup luncheon, silent auction and bake sale will benefit Kolden Linner, the now-18-month-old who suffered a brain injury after falling.
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Middletown to Philly
If you happen to be in the Philadelphia area anytime between now and Nov. 7, you may want to stop by the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art/Congregation Rodeph Shalom to see the fascinating exhibit “Visionary Biblical Sculpture: Found Object Constructions,” by the artist Howard Lerner.
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New York film fest highlighted by `Che,' Eastwood
NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Film Festival defines itself as an annual chance to take account of the state of film as art. Last year's story line was obvious enough: American filmmakers, from Julian Schnabel to Wes Anderson, were making - and finding ways to distribute - some excellent movies.
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