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David Ashdown's sports picture diary: The Great North Run
David Ashdown was in Newcastle for The Great North Run this weekend - where he received a reminder that local knowledge is essential in the world of sport photography.
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Hollywood Blockbuster on Vikings Shot in Iceland
Tobias Munthe rolls up his sleeves and gets down and dirty at the Kling & Bang Gallery for Trommusólo/Drumsolo H42, the Lortur group’s biennale. more Click on the picture to watch an audio slideshow of the farmers’ market in Mosfellsdalur valley, which celebrated its tenth anniversary this summer.
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Fresh Ideas
Local filmmaker Gerard Elmore, who directed this year's Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival trailer, says HIFF stands out in the crowded worldwide festival lineup because of its "cutting edge" quality and ability to draw movies that "don't catch on until way later."
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INDIANOLA, Miss. - Translucent images of long ago, of black men and women, backs bent, picking cotton under an unforgiving sun, are artistically displayed on standing glass panels in a museum carved out of an old brick gin mill in the Mississippi Delta.
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Art Gallery starts hunt for curator
Art Gallery of Algoma's search for a new curator is about to start. A national effort to find Michael Burtch's successor will get under [...]
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Painting to be auctioned
A WATERCOLOUR by a North Tyneside artist is expected to fetch several hundred pounds when it goes under the hammer this coming Sunday, October 5, in aid of the Save Seaton Delaval Hall Appeal. (06/10/2008 12:02:00)
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Online auction of jewellery starts Tuesday
India is set to witness this October what Saffronart officials say is the first ever online auction of rare Indian jewellery and customised watches. Mumbai-based Saffronart, an auction house, will use the online platform for two days beginning Oct 7 to sell fine jewels and watches.
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South Bend greenspace approved by commission :Planning for East Bank Village Phase II to begin.
SOUTH BEND -- The Redevelopment Commission approved a $1 million plan to build a sculpture garden outside Century Center on St. Joseph Street, but at least one resident who lives nearby isn't happy.
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Preble display features nature scenes
EATON, Ohio -- Throughout October, the work of three Richmond photographers is being displayed at the Preble County Art Association gallery in Eaton, Ohio.
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Event of the Week: Dark Light
The exhibition departs from the notion that a house is a state of mind as well as a continuation of the human body. Dark light builds on multiple media, such as sound, ceramics, photographs as well as various hidden or overt domestic materials.
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Mansfield woman's art adorns Obama T-shirts, pickup
MANSFIELD -- Ellen Stiffler's latest artwork is being shown all over the state.
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City artist's portrait expected to fetch £250k
A SELF-PORTRAIT of Edinburgh-born artist Allan Ramsay is expected to fetch over a quarter of a million pounds at auction later this month.
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Photography: Next: Tiny OLED TV
OLED TVs are the promise of the future, offering a startlingly vivid picture while consuming little energy (but at the moment a lot of money). You can, however, have the same kind of technology (organic light-emitting diodes) in a pocket-size picture viewer right now without taking out a second mortgage.
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Online auction of jewellery starts Tuesday
Mumbai, Oct 6 : India is set to witness this October what Saffronart officials say is the first ever online auction of rare Indian jewellery and customised watches.
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Local art
Mack Beal and art students from Turkeyfoot Valley Area High School painted business windows in Confluence for PumpkinFest. They are, front row from left: Matt Gordian, Ben Hoover and Stan King; back row: Mack Beal, Chelsea Hoover Michelle Murphy, Brittany Garletts, Jessica Johnston, Katie Leonard and Emily Nace. (Photo by Linda Gary)
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Celebrating the wonder of words
A MINI festival dedicated to the way people use words will be held at the Pound Arts Centre in Corsham.
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Favorable weather helps bring success to Springs Folk Festival
SPRINGS - Good weather graced the 51st Springs Folk Festival even though it was a bit of a chilly start Friday. While other years may have brought in larger crowds, the two-day total of 9,400 this year was considered overall to be a success by the Springs Historical Society.
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Saatchi's Chinese starter
It is the most hotly anticipated gallery opening of 2008. Two-and-a-half years after Charles Saatchi left his last home at County Hall on the South Bank, he is unveiling his new gallery in Chelsea.
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Artwork wrought from burned cross is donated to Chicago church
Crucifix symbolizes triumph over Klan and other forces of segregation The charred cross donated to a Chicago church Sunday is a symbol of racial justice triumphing over racial hatred.
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Dooley’s Dachau
A haunting image inspired by a concentration camp near Munich in Germany, will take centre stage in an Arthur Dooley exhibition at Gallery Oldham next month.
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Etisalat promises spectacular show at Gitex 2008
Etisalat today announced its participation in the Gitex Technology Week (19th-23rd October), the most eagerly awaited technology event in the Middle East and one of world's biggest exhibition event.
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Sid Richardson steps up frontier exhibit
Two of Fort Worth’s cornerstone museums, the Amon Carter and the Sid Richardson, have defined the international standard for frontier art – both largely via their namesake founders’ shared interest in the work of Charles M. Russell and Frederic Remington.
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Good Over Evil
Hindu devotees, dressed as the monkey god Hanuman, participate in a religious procession to celebrate the Dussehra festival in Amritsar, India. An artist gives final touches to effigies of the demon King Ravana in New Delhi ahead of the Dussehra festival.
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Van Sant considers resurrecting Warhol movie
Film maker Gus Van Sant is hoping to resurrect a movie about legendary artist Andy Warhol - fifteen years after River Phoenix's death forced him to scrap it.
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Saatchi's New London Gallery Hails Britart, Chinese Revolution
Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Charles Saatchi is synonymous with the revival in British art in the 1990s. The collector introduced the world to Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst 's shark. His Saatchi-style is a recognizable genre: it's visceral, figurative, sometimes shocking.
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