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Dog chews and Mao: Saatchi's art revolution
When Charles Saatchi closed his last art gallery after a row with the landlord, he famously sold off his prestigious collection of works by the YBAs, leaving the world wondering what he would "discover" next.
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Iconography exhibition at the Romanian National Art Museum
A Byzantine iconography exhibition entitled “From the Embodiment of the Word to the Deification of the Human Being: Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Icons from Greece,” was opened on Monday at the Romanian National Art Museum.
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SOMA NewArt Gallery presents a special evening with Stan Sperlak. Sperlak will discuss his artistic connection to Southern New Jersey and how it inspires his work.
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
In the paperwork that the University of Iowa Museum of Art filed with the University of Iowa regents that I quoted on Friday and again this morning , UIMA said that Sotheby's "proposed" to sell UIMA's Jackson Pollock, Mural.
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Young artists invited to take part in show at Watchung Arts Center
The Watchung Arts Center is announcing an open call for its Children's Juried Art Show for New Jersey children and teens ages 4-17. All media including sculpture will be accepted. Entries in crayons, markers or photography will not be accepted....
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Paris exhibit showcases Picasso's masters
When Velazquez painted a 17th century Spanish princess, he gave her wispy hair, pale skin and a cautious gaze. Three centuries later, Picasso turned the girl's face into a Cubist maze of green and purple, yet he captured her essence - that same mysterious gaze.
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Mesa's MACFest off to good start; set to go again Saturday
The debut of Arizona's longest-running arts and cultural festival painted a bright outlook about its future in downtown Mesa.
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Burglars target Santa Cruz museum, again
SANTA CRUZ - Burglars made off with almost $1,000 in cash and merchandise from the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History early Saturday, the fourth time in two years that one of the two city-run museums has been targeted by criminals.
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JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む
Commuters walk by the art project “shibuya 1000” at Shibuya Station in Tokyo. The project, which displays “1,000 faces of people in Shibuya,” is being held to mark the redevelopment of the station and changing face of Shibuya. The exhibit will run through Oct 13.
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'Brideshead Revisites' - a memorable study of romance in conflict with social-climbing ambition
The new film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s famous outsider novel Brideshead Revisited , long delayed in attaining a general release, is due Oct. 10-12 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. — no finer place to see such a classy big-screen treatment of a favorite literary exercise.
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Paris exhibit showcases Picasso's masters
When Velazquez painted a 17th century Spanish princess, he gave her wispy hair, pale skin and a cautious gaze.
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Glass artist Dale Chihuly opens Rhode Island school gallery
By Hilary Russ The Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. — In paint-encrusted boots and his trademark eye patch, renowned glass artist Dale Chihuly showed off the colorful, swirling designs that are part of a new $34 million expansion at the museum of the Rhode Island School of Design.
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Wachovia gives $2.5M for zoo renovation
Wachovia’s philanthropic arm plans to give the Saint Louis Zoo $2.5 million to overhaul the south entrance with a pedestrian bridge and improve aesthetics with animal sculptures.
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Garden Art Museum to host children’s festival
TEHRAN,Oct. 6 (MNA) -- The Children, Friendship and Art Festival will be held at Tehran’s Garden Art Museum.
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Iran HVAC 2008 kicks off in Tehran
TEHRAN, Oct. 6 (MNA) – The seventh international exhibition of heating and cooling, ventilation and air conditioning systems (Iran HVAC 2008) was inaugurated here on Monday at Tehran Permanent International Fairgrounds and will run to October 9.
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City of Sculpture reviews Journal Square ideas
HAMILTON — While Cincinnati sculptor Ray Miller's "Two Halves of a Whole" temporarily resides in the flower garden in Journal Square, City of Sculpture officials are looking for a permanent installation there.
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King Tut exhibit begins another run in the US
DALLAS—An exhibit showcasing items buried in the Egyptian tomb of King Tut is back in the United States. "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" opened over the weekend at the Dallas Museum of Art, the first of three museums to host the exhibit's encore tour.
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Thousands of Dollars of Art Stolen from Gallery
ST. AUGUSTINE, FL -- Police say it was an inside job. The artwork was stashed in a rented van that sat in a neighborhood for days.
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ngmoco and GDC Team Up to Offer $10,000 'Best iPhone Game' Prize at Independent Games Festival During Game Developers ...
Think Services, organizers of the Game Developers Conference and the Independent Games Festival, have entered a new partnership with high-profile iPhone game publisher ngmoco.
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A SNEAK PEEK AT BROCKY TRIBUTE
It will not be officially revealed until Thursday morning, but keen motorsport fans yesterday got the chance to be the first in the country to pose and snap off a few pictures in front of Bathurst’s new Peter Brock Memorial. Workers yesterday spent the morning putting the monument in place near the National Motor Racing Museum while artist Julie Squires made a final few touches to her massive ...
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MSHDA Applauds New Round of Sponsors Supporting the Creative Cities Summit 2.0
Michigan State Housing Development (MSHDA) Director Keith Molin today announced that scores of new visionary leaders and their organizations have joined other creative change agents to support the ground-breaking Creative Cities Summit 2.0 (CCS2) to be held Oct. 13-15, 2008 in Detroit at the Marriott at the Detroit Renaissance Center.
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St. Augustine Art Gallery at the center of a police investigation.
The man behind the heist is allegedly an employee of the gallery.
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Arts & Music Fest ‘bigger and better’
With crowds all around and music in the air, Lakeville Arts & Musical Festival Co-Chair Joanne Corrieri-Upham was all smiles as the fourth annual festival was coming to a close on Saturday. Corrieri-Upham said there were 10 percent more crafts this year in addition to a 20 percent increase in attendance.
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King Tut exhibit begins another run in the US
An exhibit showcasing items buried in the Egyptian tomb of King Tut is back in the United States.
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King Tut exhibit begins another run in the US
(AP:DALLAS) An exhibit showcasing items buried in the Egyptian tomb of King Tut is back in the United States. "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" opened over the weekend at the Dallas Museum of Art, the first of three museums to host the exhibit's encore tour.
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