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School hits back over gates design
TEACHERS and governers at a Bromsgrove school have slammed the controversy over their new school gates, defending the artwork of the children who contributed to the design and labelling the criticism ‘hurtful’ and ‘damaging’.
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29th Annual Roanoke City Art Show kicks off Friday
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'No sale' for Elton brooch
An art deco clip brooch once owned by Sir Elton John has failed to sell at auction.
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In focus: The best new photography books
Liz Jobey begins her series on the best new photography books. This week she puts Stephen Shore's personal record of 70s Americana, A Road Trip Journal, in the frame
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Elton John brooch unsold at auction
An art deco sapphire and diamond clip brooch once owned by pop rocker Sir Elton John failed to sell at auction.
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FAIRFIELD: Oriental rugs at gift festival
Fairfield Mennonite Church is hosting its International Gift Festival Nov. 4 and 6-8, featuring oriental rugs from Ten Thousand Villages in Ephrata.
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Remarketing Associates, Inc. Announces Auction of Major Burbank Studio Prop Collection
In just a few days, collectors of movie relics and memorabilia, as well as auction addicts, antique lovers and others, will gather online and in person to review an extensive trove of "silver screen" treasures.
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Auctions International Inc. Announces First Transaction at AutoBidLive.com Dealer Website
Auctions International Inc., a technology company that owns and markets proprietary software that enables real time online auctions of virtually any commodity in the wholesale market, announced today that the first sale was registered and completed at wwwAutoBidLive.com on August 18, 2008.
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What's Playing at CIFF
The 44th edition of the Chicago International Film Festival (we're gonna be lazy and use the acronym from here on out), which runs October 16-29, might be the most ambitious yet: more than 175 films from at least 45 countries. The schedule won't be online until next week (and a printed schedule will be in the October 1 issue of the Reader ), but we have the full listings in front of us. ...
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Your Community: Upcoming Events
By Signal Staff Posted: Sept. 20, 2008 9:14 p.m. Submissions sought for mag The College of the Canyons literary magazine is seeking contributions of poetry, visual art, photography, fiction and creative non-ficton from COC students for its fall publication "cul-de-sac."
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Artist gouache-on-paper narratives on display at Pappajohn
Amy Cutler's work may be small, but her prestige is not. The native New Yorker's gouache-on-paper narratives are displayed in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, span the pages of Artforum, have been compared with the works of Henry Darger, and were included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial.
The Daily Iowan |
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Inspired Frenzy: Enmascarados, An Homage to Lucha Libre opens at Pump Project [Art Preview]
Image from Pump Project, painting by Jose Rodriquez Enmascarados: an Homage to Lucha Libre at Pump Project On view Thursday, September 25 - Saturday, September 27 Pump Project Art Complex ( 702 Shady Lane ) Opening reception, Thursday, September 25, 5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. [ info ] Two hundred pesos is all it took to purchase our very own Lucha Libre mask at an open air market in ...
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Warhol (on politics)
Heaven knows the Sixties are dead. Andy Warhol and his Marilyn Monroes and gunslinging Elvises, their faces blanched of wrinkles and blemishes, silk-screened onto garish backgrounds and mass-produced, are yesterday's celebs, all long gone. Larger than life then, they're quaint relics now.
Concord Monitor |
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Warhol exhibit details
What - Andy Warhol: Pop Politics.
Concord Monitor |
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Dedicated follower of fashion
Edward Steichen's decision in 1923 to go to work for Condé Nast as principal photographer for Vanity Fair and Vogue was one of the most controversial and long-debated in the history of photography.
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3 TO TRY
Plugged in Start the weekend with an appropriate dose of sensory overload during Automaton '08 on Friday at the Bar of Modern Art, 583 E. Broad St. The event, presented by the Fuse Factory Electronic and Digital Arts Lab, will combine "interactive technology, dance, performance art and video" from 7 to 11 p.m. Double Vision from San Francisco will headline the show. Also performing: Anna and the ...
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London News and Reviews
It’s impossible to pin down where exactly is the coolest place to see contemporary art in the capital because the cutting edge of the London art scene is constantly on the move.
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Schafer School art teacher receives award-online art gallery recognized
For the second consecutive year, Schafer School art teacher Laura Allan has received a Leadership Award from Artsonia, the world's largest online kid's art museum.
Lombardian |
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Indelible ink
For an unprecedented display, the exhaustive exhibition “20th-Century Masters of Chinese Brush Painting” brings out all of the works belonging to the National Gallery in Prague, a collection boasting all the seminal masters of 20th-century brush and ink paintings.
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Picture music
The forthcoming Music on Film, Film on Music Festival (MOFFOM) in October is an excellent way to examine the intersection between cinema and music.
The Prague Post |
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Inspirational music for anarchists
The Third Free Jazz Festival in Prague returns with some first-rate, daring improvisation for two evenings this weekend at Divadlo U Hasicu.
The Prague Post |
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Party at the MFA
Tonight from 6 p.m. to midnight, the Museum of Fine Arts will be hosting its fourth annual College Night.
The Daily Free Press |
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10 hurt at Bosnia's first gay festival
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Police say hooligans attacked the opening of Bosnia's first gay festival, injuring 10 people, including two journalists and a policeman.
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‘The sale of my lifetime'
Realtor Linda Dator searched the globe to find a buyer for Bergen County's jewel — the 75-room wood and stone masterpiece known as the Crocker Mansion in Mahwah — before finding one right in town.
The Record |
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Photrade Launches First of Its Kind Photo Contest Platform
Photrade.com today introduced a new photo contest platform, where anyone can create and run a customized photo contest with just a few clicks.
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