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Stolen Renoir Found After 33 Years
Last week Italy's Carabinieri recovered the painting of a nude woman which had been stolen from a private collector in Milan back in 1975. (And who tipped off the police? An art critic.)
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Local Teacher Wins Walmart Teacher of the Year Award
POCATELLO - Grace Lutheran Art teacher is surprised with Walmart Teacher of the Year Award and cash prize.
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If I only had a brain
The straw was flying as construction was under way Saturday on the square at Carrollton for the annual scarecrow building contest.
The Times-Reporter |
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Helping build the new face of Belfast
Dan George's sculpture is the first in a series of public art projects to be commissioned for the Northern Ireland Department of Social Development’s “Belfast: Streets Ahead” program and was chosen over two other concepts by public vote, said Ronan Corrigan, project sponsor with the department.
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US artist Carroll Dunham on display at Sweden's Millesgarden
Stockholm - Millesgarden, the museum home and studio of the late Swedish sculptor Carl Milles on the outskirts of Stockholm, is celebrating its centenary and is hosting an exhibition of works by US artist Carroll Dunham. The exhibition features paint...
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Tacoma Art Museum Announces the 9th Northwest Biennial Participants
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Miyako Ishiuchi - Photographs 1976 - 2005 at FOAM Fotografiemuseum
AMSTERDAM.- Foam presents, in cooperation with Dutch photographer and curator Machiel Botman, the first European retrospective of Japanese photographer Miyako Ishiuchi (b. 1947).
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Treasures from the British Museum Going to Royal BC Museum
VICTORIA, BC.- A visit to the Royal BC Museum (RBCM) in the spring and summer of 2009 will be a journey through the evolution of civilization across hundreds of thousands of years and all parts of the globe.
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Danish Filmmaker Jesper Just has U.S. Premiere at Brooklyn Museum
Jesper Just, The Lonely Villa, 2004. Super 16 mm transferred to video. Duration: 5 minutes 30 seconds. Image courtesy of the artist and Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York.
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SBMA Celebrates Decade of Photography Acquisitions
David Maisel, Lake Project #9802-4, n.d. Chromogenic development print, ed. 1/10. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Museum purchase with funds provided by PhotoFutures.
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Christie's to Offer an Exceptional Auction of International Modern and Contemporary Art in Dubai
Tim Noble & Sue Webster (British, b.1966 & b.1967), Happy, signed with the artists' initials, numbered and dated '© T.N. + S.W. 1999 3/3' (on the reverse) Foamex, aerosol paint, 298 lightbulbs, fittings, colored UFO reflector caps, electronic sequencer 40 x 80 x 4in. (101.6 x 203.2 x 10.2cm.)
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Important November Russian Art Auction Announced at Gene Shapiro Auctions LLC
Vasily Sitnikov (Russian 1915-1987), USSR 1975, oil on canvas 75 x 140 cm. (29 1/2 x 55 1/8 in.) signed and dated on the verso. Estimate $500,000 - 700,000.
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Still Life Exhibition From the Prado Museum Opens at Caja Inmaculada in Zaragoza
The Spanish Still Life in the Prado features 60 paintings by the leading artists working in this genre in Spain, including Van der Hamen, Arellano, Meléndez and Goya. Photo: EFE / Javier Cebollada.
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Guangzhou Triennial Is One China Art Festival Too Many: Review
Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) -- ``The first thing I want to do when I get to Guangzhou, is leave,'' said Norman Ford, curator for the Hong Kong pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale, after visiting the southern Chinese city's biggest art festival.
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The Telfair: Endowment among top in the nation
The Telfair Museum of Art is working on a five-year plan for the future. But as with any plan, it will take cash to implement.
Savannah Morning News |
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Telfair's High equally comfortable with fine art, spreadsheet
Wanted: A leader whose command of a spreadsheet equals his knowledge of fine art, coupled with a sense of a museum's role in the community.
Savannah Morning News |
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Arts exec turnover continues with Kennedy exit
The city's three largest arts organizations have now experienced changes at the top in less than a year.
Dayton Daily News |
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Dutch Artists Bring New Life To Christchurch
The work, named Darwin, is one of 25 by 15 different national and international artists being exhibited around the city for six weeks in the SCAPE 2008 Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space.
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TVA documentary to be aired
The Documentary Channel presents ''Built for the People -- The story of TVA'' at the Tennessee Theatre at 7 p.m. today, and at the Knoxville Museum of Art at 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
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New York Anime Festival Reports 18,399 Total Attendees
New York Anime Festival Vice President Lance Fensterman reports that the unofficial attendance number for this past weekend's convention stands at 18,399. This preliminary tally includes regular attendees, professionals, press, and exhibitors, but not some of the tickets sold by retailers.
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Television - Entertainment
Big Day Out organiser Campbell Smith says he is very happy with the variety of acts announced today for the 2009 music festival.
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Billionaire Pinchuk Buys Hirst Works, Names New Museum Director
Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Steel billionaire Victor Pinchuk said he was one of the buyers of Damien Hirst 's works at a Sotheby's auction in London earlier this month.
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Ending on a high note: Fair’s final act brings home the good times
Country music singers Tracy Lawrence and Bucky Covington rocked the Grandstand Saturday night to 2,360 cheering fans during their concert at the Hillsdale County Fair. With an energetic opening, former American Idol contestant Covington revved up crowds during his 45-minute show.
The Hillsdale Daily News |
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DTH Archives
Coloring on a CD or chucking it at a trash can doesn’t seem like something Information Technology Services would encourage. But the Tar Heel Tech Fair, which began Monday in the Pit, featured a CD art contest and CD toss as ways to raise awareness of the technology services available on campus.
The Daily Tar Heel |
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City Council to mull public art ordinance
Creation of a public-art ordinance to guide the creation and funding of artworks into both public- and private-development projects will occupy a special study session of the Sonoma City Council on Wednesday.
Sonoma Index-Tribune |
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