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Painting may fetch $60M+
Sotheby's said it will sell a painting by leading Russian avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich that may fetch "in excess of $60 million" at a sale in New York on Nov. 3.
Windsor Star |
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Raising a very unlikely outcome
The Beaverbrook Art Gallery could end up keeping the valuable paintings at the heart of its $100-million ownership dispute, despite losing one of the grounds of appeal filed by the Beaverbrook U.K. Foundation.
Telegraph-Journal |
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Harvest Homecoming kicks off today
Thelma Bertrand remembers New Albany's first Harvest Homecoming festival 41 years ago. She said it was a humble beginning by residents who "put a few card tables on Pearl Street" as "a little experiment so people could mingle."
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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hotelVetro to host ’Museum Party!’
The Members Council of the University of Iowa Museum of Art will host the fifth annual 'Museum Party!' from 8 to 11 p.m. Oct. 11 at hotelVetro, 201 S. Linn St. in Iowa City.
The Iowa City Press-Citizen |
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Old festival, new downtown
Begun in the early 1980s, the Frog Level Festival meant fun, games and fellowship in this rural, West Alabama town.
The Tuscaloosa News |
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Exhibition of wartime art opens in Hanoi
VietNamNet Bridge – An exhibition entitled “Artworks in wartime”, showing 46 graphic works by the famous Spanish painter Francisco de Goya and 37 wood and bronze carvings by Vietnamese painters, opened in Hanoi on Oct. 3.
Vietnam Net |
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Talelight Films celebrates three-movie deal
SHINE AHEAD: Tail lights traditionally fade into the distance. But not for Jeff Richards and James Upton's ever-brighter Talelight Films. Those invited to the city-based duo's wall-to-wall film-festival party Thursday needed headlights, fog lights and a determined press on the throttle to negotiate the Opus hotel's street-level lounges and a second-floor room where Heineken beer was offered ...
Vancouver Sun |
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Local Beat 10/4/08
Oct. 4Corsicana Art League-sponsored “Paint Historic Corsicana” paintings will be taken to The Art Spot at 3:30 p.m.
Corsicana Daily Sun |
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CCM Storytelling Festival features four performers
RANDOLPH - County College of Morris has gathered three popular storytellers and a musician to perform and teach at a Storytelling Festival on Nov. 2 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Student Community Center.
Daily Record |
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Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum Announce First Gas in Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Dana Gas Dana Gas PJSC, the Middle East's first regional private-sector natural gas company, and its partner Crescent Petroleum Crescent Petroleum , the Middle East's oldest private oil and gas company, have today announced the start-up of natural gas production, processing and transportation by pipeline in their major joint project in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Zawya |
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Treat Ice House as special case
For years, the Ice House in Woodmont Orchards has been a Hollis icon, the subject of photographs and paintings and a prominent piece of history in this very history-minded community.
Hollis Brookline Journal |
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Dateline Wharton
Boling High School Student Council would like to invite everyone to their cake auction at the Lion's Club Carnival today at Boling High School. The auction will be at 7:30 p.m. in front of the announcer stand. If you have any questions, contact Patti Hubenak at 657-2506.
Wharton Journal-Spectator |
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History unboxed: Exhibition of forgotten freedom photos
New Delhi, Oct 4 : A rare photograph of Jinnah and Gandhi among a treasure trove of other unpublished photos capturing iconic personalties in action unearthed from the forgotten archives of press photographer Kulwant Roy is currently on exhibit in the capital.
Chennai Online |
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Day is full of festivities
C.J. Johnson had it right. On a Friday night when the weather is perfect, the music is good and the food is a longtime favorite, the Second Street Festival in Jackson Ward is a good place to be.
Richmond Times-Dispatch |
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The real monsters inc.: Discovery museum exhibit reveals the world of animatronics
Some moviegoers don't care how monsters are made to look authentic.
Republican-American |
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Local and live
Saturday, October 4, 2008 • MODEL CONTEST & SHOW: Al Bedoo Shrine Auditorium, 1125 Broadwater Ave. 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Fifth annual show by Rimrock Plastic Modelers.
Billings Gazette |
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THE SATURDAY LIST: Free Press critics' picks for this weekend
"Masterpiece: The Last Enemy," Sunday, 9 p.m., WTVS-TV, Channel 56, PBS. Two brothers grew up as opposites. Stephen, worried and withdrawn, became a math genius. Michael, open and zestful, aided refugees in Afghanistan. Now, hearing that his brother was killed, Stephen returns from years in China. He finds London filled with paranoia.
Detroit Free Press |
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Galleries defy the economy
Despite the gloomy news on the economy, art galleries continue to set up shop in Miami's art districts. Wolfgang Roth & Partners Fine Art opens Saturday in the Miami Design District with the inaugural exhibition The Red Couch by German fine-art photographer Horst Wackerbarth, who will interview prominent Miamians and local characters as part of a video and photography project. Among the ...
Miami Herald |
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Charles Arnoldi's paintings at Modernism
Walking into Los Angeles painter Charles Arnoldi's show at Modernism feels a little the way it did to enter Andre Emmerich's or Lawrence Rubin's Manhattan galleries in the heyday of color field painting. Arnoldi's paintings appear exuberantly self-involved,...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Entertainment
Controversial artist Bill Henson has yet again come under fire from the nation's “outraged” and “revolted“ politicians, this time following revelations he went to a primary school to search for suitable subjects for his artwork.
The West Australian |
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Millbrae Japanese festival celebrates culture
Ikimasho! Let’s go! Tell your family and friends that it is time to head to the City of Millbrae’s Third Annual Japanese Culture Festival on Sunday, Oct. 5.
San Mateo Daily Journal |
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PV High School students are exhibit curators
CHICO -- Students from Pleasant Valley High School showed they know more about art than how to create it, by curating the current exhibit at the Janet Turner Print Museum in Chico State University's Laxson Auditorium.
Chico Enterprise-Record |
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Boise museum displays fishing photo exhibit
Artist Charles Lindsay is fascinated by moments - a fish breaking water, the light playing on water the way it will do only once, the intimate connection between prey and pursuit, the shock of a tug on the line.
The Olympian |
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Refurbished Russell exhibit opens
Four Charlie Russell paintings not previously displayed in the Montana Historical Society’s premier Russell exhibit are in the museum’s newly refurbished gallery, which opens today.
Helena Independent Record |
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First-ever National Bonsai Exhibition sets its roots
The inaugural national bonsai exhibition in the United States will be held in Rochester.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |
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