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LAist Festival Watch Continues
We want to make sure you pack your schedule with as many cool events as possible this October…so here's a few festival picks for this weekend. PasadenART Head down the 134 and cultcha yourself at this cleverly named event…you get to see Pasadena + Art . The three-day event kicks off this Friday with ‘Art Night’ where 11 museums in the area open their doors after hours, free to the ...
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Photo contest catches light in Downtown Eastside
Hundreds of residents in Canada's poorest neighbourhood participate in the annual 'Hope in Shadows' Downtown Eastside photo contest. The prize-winning entries will be used to create a calendar that showcases the hope, spirit and courage of area residents.
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How to buy art
"I know very little about contemporary art but have £1,000 to invest. Any advice?" When Charles Saatchi was asked this in an interview in 'The Independent', he responded: "Premium bonds. Art is no investment unless you get very, very lucky, and can beat the professionals at their game. Buy something you really like that will give you a thousand pounds' worth of pleasure over the years. And ...
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Harvest Festival
Clockwise: Alex Mazzucca holds onto Lucy Weber, 3, of Fair Haven, while she makes some spin art during Fair Haven's annual Harvest Festival held at Knollwood Elementary School on Saturday. Robert Carroll performs for youngsters. Festivalgoers enjoy the activities and displays as they make the rounds at the festival.
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Opening of the Week: Saatchi rolls out the red carpet
The party queue began at the impressive Georgian front of Saatchi's new gallery and snaked on to the King's Road in Chelsea.
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All the fun of the fairs: the art world gathers for Frieze
If all is doom and gloom in the financial sector, then nobody seems to have told the art world. Hot on the heels of Damien Hirst's historic auction of his own work last month – which raised £111.5m – comes Frieze week, a chance to see the global art market in all its brash, pulsating and devastatingly healthy glory. The opening of the sixth Frieze Art Fair in Regent's Park on Wednesday will see ...
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Thomas Sutcliffe: Fictional art does no credit to anyone
Something rather odd happens when you encounter a work of art nested inside a work of art. What I have in mind is a fictional creation inside a fiction – rather than an allusion to an artwork that has an independent life of its own – and I've encountered two examples just recently. The first was in Alan Rickman's new production of Strindberg's Creditors at the Donmar Warehouse – in which one of ...
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Capital performance: The London Film Festival
The London Film Festival, which runs from 15 to 30 October, is framed by celebration and commiseration this year. The 2008 event marks the 75th anniversary of the BFI, which organises the festival, but it's also the year in which its greatest champion, Anthony Minghella, passed away.
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Asbury Antique and Art Show Oct. 11, 12
The second annual Asbury Park Fall Antique and Art Show will be 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Oct. 11, and 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Oct. 12 at Convention Hall. Admission is free. Coordinator is Kathleen Banks, owner of Trillium, Asbury Park.
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Beyond expectations
I would like people to look beyond those initial ideas they have and see how people benefit from the social housing system in the most extraordinary way,’ photographic artist Tim Wainwright tells Inside Housing.
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Royal National Mod gets under way
A week-long festival celebrating Gaelic language, art and culture is due to get under way in Falkirk.
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View of delft (1660) By Johannes Vermeer
There are works in which a single detail steals the show. Leonardo's Mona Lisa is famous for that smile. Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam is famous for those hands. And Vermeer's View of Delft – well, not quite so famous. But among readers of Proust, at least, the painting can't be recalled without a mention of one particular bit.
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Deep waters
John Waters is always on. During a fast-paced phone interview about his upcoming exhibition and self-described "vaudeville act" in St. Louis, Waters drops bon mots, aphorisms and outright laugh-bombs, all perfectly expressed, one after another.
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Polished crooks shine in Guy Ritchie's 'RocknRolla'
In " RocknRolla," director Guy Ritchie masters the art of making thugs funny. Not by rendering them dumb as rocks, but by giving them the golden, ironic touch of class and highbrow tastes.
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Polished crooks shine in Guy Ritchie's 'RocknRolla'
In "RocknRolla," director Guy Ritchie masters the art of making thugs funny. Not by rendering them dumb as rocks, but by giving them the golden, ironic touch of class and highbrow tastes.
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Con Mi Gente: Museum Adds Legacy Park
Sculpture also unveiled
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Elizabeth Peyton finds her place at the New Museum
When Elizabeth Peyton started painting in the early 1990s, figurative work, especially portraiture, was seen as laughably quaint. Fortunately Peyton tuned out the ridicule to do her own thing.
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Taim Bilong Melanesia
Taim Bilong Melanesia ‘…a rare exhibition of some 60 Melanesian contemporary visual art works from Papua New Guinea, Fiji, New Caledonia and the Solomon Islands is described as ‘being beyond categorization and of very high quality – and well priced, with cutting edge works new to this part of the world’ by Ted Dowling Art Critic.
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Experience the Beauty of These Wonderful Images -- New Picture Book Showcases Author's Photography and Description of ...
BRANFORD, Conn., Oct. 9, 2008 -- There is always beauty that graces the things and people we see. Having realized this, author Catharine Shakespeare took time capturing the wonderful moments of different places and things with her camera.
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TGS 08: Chrono Trigger Art Gallery
One of the coolest parts of Square Enix's Tokyo Game Show booth was an art gallery featuring many of the original illustrations Akira Toriyama did for Chrono Trigger . For any fan, this was an incredible opportunity to see these pieces of art up close, and the pictures immediately brought back memories of why the game was so good. In any case, here are some photos we took of the exhibit, ...
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Spy Photos: 2010 Nissan 370Z Spotted in Germany
Distinctive new headlights are one of this Z's most unique features. (Photo by KGP Photography) Flat roof and redesigned rear quarter window give this Z a much different look than the current model.
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Alternative Process photography show opens Saturday
Winne Bagley and Heidi Hopkins have a new photography show, Alternative Process, opening Saturday at Silke's Old World Breads, Bakery & Cafe.
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Looking at Pictures: Terracotta lekythos
Many years ago I wrote a college thesis analyzing the painting and glazing techniques used to create the beautiful white-ground lekythos produced in Attica, Greece, in the fifth century B.C. These vases served as funerary offering vessels and were often placed in tombs alongside the deceased.
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Straightforward Furniture Style Stars In Exhibit
An ad about Gustav Stickley in 1900 touted "new furniture" that was "a departure from all established styles, a casting off of the shackles of the past." Stickley then went on to become the leading American champion of the Arts and Crafts movement.
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Flea Market Find Scores A Home Run At Auction
Flea markets still offer exciting finds and great bargains.
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