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Lehman's Doom Spooks Hong Kong Art Sale; Two Thirds Goes Unsold
Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Gloom prevailed at the second day of Asia's biggest art auction in Hong Kong since the U.S. credit crisis began with about two-thirds of the Chinese paintings and sculptures offered, many by masters, unsold.
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Moon Festival
The 29th-Annual Moon Festival in Hanford's China Alley kicked off with lion dancing and the pound of taiko drums beating on Saturday afternoon. Dozens of guests arrived at China Alley, once the epicenter of California's third largest Chinese community in the first-half of the 20th century, to celebrate the autumn harvest, otherwise known as the moon festival. Traditionally, families gave food, ...
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Entertainment
Gloom prevailed at the second day of Asia's biggest art auction in Hong Kong since the US credit crisis began with about two-thirds of the Chinese paintings and sculptures offered, many by masters, unsold.
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Arkansas River is next canvas for Christo project
New York-based artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude -- known for outdoor pieces combining elements of landscapes, architecture and sculpture -- conceived the idea of suspending huge swathes of fabric over a river back in 1992. The artists scouted dozens of Western locations before settling on a mountainous stretch of the Arkansas River, a Southern Colorado playground for whitewater rafters in view ...
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WARNER'S MAN IN JAPAN
A 16-year tenure in the same territory is reason enough to get respect and recognition from your peers in global exhibition and distribution.
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Lafayette exhibits its favorites from shows, artists
For 24 years Lafayette College's Williams Center Gallery has been a hothouse for art that happens. Visitors have watched eerie video of McMansion rituals, listened to a machine shoot ice pellets like pinballs, watched and listened to a musician saw a cello of ice with a barbed-wire bow.
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Doom and gloom shroud Asian art auction
Gloom prevailed at the second day of Asia's biggest art auction in Hong Kong since the US credit crisis began with about two-thirds of the Chinese paintings and sculptures offered, many by masters, un
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Wine Tasting & Photography Exhibit at 222 Main St. Annapolis
Annapolis convenience store, Main St. Mini Mart, is offering a wine tasting on Friday, October 10th 6-9 p.m. to coincide with the opening of the US Sailboat Show. (PRWeb Oct 5, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/10/prweb1425174.htm
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Texas & Neighbors: Salado celebrates chocolate, art and more
A new chocolate festival is joining Gallery Night in October and Christmas in October to create an event-packed weekend Friday through Oct. 12 in Salado.
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Victims still processing emotions months after floods
Mel Andringa poured out more than he intended when he was asked a simple question.The June floods took away access to Legion Arts, 1103 Third St. SE, where Andringa, 65, is producing director.Floodwaters also displaced him from his home and decimated decades of his artwork and supplies stored in a temporary studio.So when a crisis counselor visited cleanup workers and asked how he was doing, ...
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Baghdad museum treasures still locked from view
In Iraq's national museum a frieze shows Assyrian King Sargon II, who ruled an empire from what is now northern Iraq, storming a rampart as soldiers pile decapitated heads before him.
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Boulders with faces enliven landscape of Miami estate
Beneath a lush canopy of exotic palm trees, standing guard before Harvey Oxenberg's designer home in Coconut Grove, are the whimsical sculptures of Joseph Wheelwright. Carved from stones and boulders, these sculptures usually spark a double take. So subtle is the artistry that a casual glance might make it seem the faces created on the stones are merely a figment, a momentary apparition.
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The artist paints, and he also multiplies
W hat makes an artist assemble 193,000 toothpicks?" Pete Hilsee , spokesman for the American Visionary Art Museum, mused the other day.
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'Fidelio,' through the eyes of a sculptor
Over the last 200 years, Beethoven's Fidelio has been the bearer - however haphazardly - of some of the most monumental music heard in the opera house. But perhaps only with its new Opera Company of Philadelphia production will it also become a living, breathing, singing piece of sculpture.
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Community Events
11th Annual Arts & Olive Festival Olive-curing demonstrations, olive products, local artists, musicians and entertainment. Sun., Oct. 5, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. For more information, call Julie Mooney at 650-306-3428 or e-mail olivefest@smccd.edu or visit www.olivefest.org . 11th Annual Arts & Olive Festival, 4200 Farm Hill Blvd., Redwood City
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On the Cover
The illustration is a painting by Benoit van Innis, whose work has appeared frequently on the covers and inside pages of the New Yorker. The Belgian artist recently created murals for a Metro station in Brussels, a soccer stadium in Bruges and a design center in Antwerp. His paintings have also been...
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Beware the Kraken Smithsonian exhibit at Cal. U. sheds light on the giant squid, the legendary monster of the deep
By Brad Hundt, Staff Writer
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Museum in the South features art of the West
CARTERSVILLE, Ga. -- An elegant museum in Cartersville's modest downtown has become a surprising sanctuary for Western art collectors. The Booth Western Art Museum is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a display of 37 pieces of Western art called "Western American Art South of the Sweet Tea Line II," on display until Nov. 30.
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Baghdad museum treasures still locked from view
The map will replace this text. If any users do not have Flash Player 8 (or above), they'll see this message. In Iraq's national museum a frieze shows Assyrian King Sargon II, who ruled an empire from what is now northern Iraq, storming a rampart as soldiers pile decapitated heads before him.
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Las Vegas gets its own mob museum
Have a cold one in new Orlando bar At IceBar Orlando, patrons don't need to order drinks on the rocks. "You have a vodka in the rocks," said co-owner Patz Turner. Make a reservation, pay $35, don an insulated cape and gloves and you can have a vodka drink in...
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Fallbrook community briefs for Sunday, Oct. 5
Fallbrook Art Association plans meeting FALLBROOK ---- The Fallbrook Art Association will meet at 7 p.m. Oct. 13 at Hilltop Center, 331 E. Elder St. for a painting demonstration by award-winning artist Richard Stergulz. An informal Eat â€n' Critique session will be from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Bring one or two paintings in progress and a snack or box dinner to eat during the session. Stergulz has ...
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Visionary Arts museum returns to its inspired roots
When the American Visionary Art Museum opened in 1995, founder and director Rebecca Hoffberger sought to provide a new kind of institution for Baltimore and beyond.
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Letters to Sunday Datebook
Defending the Exploratorium Editor - My experience at the Exploratorium is at odds with Neil Davis' (Letters, Sept. 7). I've found the museum's Explainers (student volunteers from the Bay Area and around the world) to be interested and helpful in elevating...
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Unique US war painting gets epic restoration
Tourist look at French painter Paul Philippoteaux's newly restored panorama painting "The Battle of Gettysburg," on September 27, at the new Gettysburg Museum in Pennsylvania.
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The World Of Li Chi-Mao's Ink Paintings In Town Till Oct 12
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 5 (Bernama) -- Internationally renowned artist of ink and wash painting, Prof Li Chi-Mao, is holding a solo exhibition here entitled "The World of Li Chi Mao's Ink Paintings" from Sunday till Oct 12.
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