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Brushing aside the sadness
Puan Sri Catherina Lee clinched the title of ‘The longest Chinese landscape painting’ in Malaysia with a work entitled Forever Green . Now she is eyeing the world record.
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Dallas Video Festival rolls in for 21st year
The 21st annual Dallas Video Festival lands next week, celebrating all sorts of video, from commercials, video art and documentaries to animation, features and shorts. Some of the more notable titles include Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation (made by three 12-year-olds who remade the classic); the London Advertising Awards (best commercials from around the world); Mr. Bill (the ...
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In Pictures: Art At New York's November Auctions
Watch these pieces as they come up for auction this November in New York.
Forbes |
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Humane Society to hold concert
The Morehouse Humane Society and Diversified Music group will host an Animal Rock Festival between 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8 at the Bastrop/Morehouse Fairgrounds.
Bastrop Daily Enterprise |
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A Pretty Face Can Make A Difference In Whom You Vote For
It's not surprising that everyone is talking about the great looks of Sarah Palin. The decision to play up the looks of the former beauty queen is a winning strategy. A perception of competence is not enough to give women the winning edge in political contests. For both male and female voters, female political candidates needed to be seen as attractive as well as competent to get their votes.
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Scary Sculptures At Children's Home Society
Some scary sculptures adorned the Children's Home Society in Sioux Falls Friday.
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Painting Kandinsky’s absolute abstraction 30/10 19:45 CET
Russian painter Kandinsky’s abstract works are under the spotlight in Germany. The Lenbachaus in Munich is holding an exhibition of paintings from many different eras of the artist’s life, including pieces from his later years in Paris, before his death in 1944.
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Come Crowd Around Dan Deacon
At major music festivals such as Coachella, Pitchfork and Virgin fest, kids will wait, bored and glassy-eyed, for Dan Deacon and his table of wires and gadgets to arrive -- not onstage but in the middle of the crowd itself.
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Jupiter Quartet Renders Russian Works Fit for Gods
As you'd expect from a group that's named itself after the king of the gods, the Jupiter String Quartet doesn't lack for confidence. This gifted and youngish foursome presented an ambitious program Wednesday at the Freer Gallery of Art that showcased two challenging, rarely heard works from Russia...
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Images of Erasmus - The Art Newspaper
This exhibition celebrates the quincentenary of Erasmus's best known work, The Praise of Folly, written in 1509, by bringing together paintings of, and inspired by, the Dutch theologian. The worksare on loan from international collections, and many have never been seen in public before.
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Festival Brings Arts Downtown
This weekend Downtown Memphis it's all about art. From visual to performing, hundreds of art enthusiasts and performers will be in the Bluff City for RiverArtsFest 2008 and the best part is, it's free.
FOX 13 Memphis |
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Anniversary of Opening of DPRK-Romania Diplomatic Ties Observed
Pyongyang, October 31 (KCNA) -- A friendly meeting and Korean photo, fine art work and handicraft exhibitions were held in Bucharest and Tirgoviste city, Dimbovita County in the period from Oct. 15 to 27 to mark the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the DPRK and Romania.
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United Methodist Church features artists at art show
On Friday evening, Nov. 7 and Sat., Nov. 8 , the First United Methodist Church, Amityville will host its annual Fine Arts Exhibition and Sale, featuring works by Long Island artists. The show was initiated in 2002 in conjunction with the church's celebration of its 210th anniversary and has grown in popularity each successive year.
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NUS students win design contest on facility to house Berlin Wall
SINGAPORE : Portions of the Berlin Wall that will soon be making their way to the Bedok Reservoir Park, and NUS architecture students have won the contest for designing the best home for the wall.
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A good year and a goodbye for the MCA
The 200-plus who squeezed into MCA/Denver's Whole Room on Sept. 3 included the heart of the region's contemporary art scene.
Rocky Mountain News |
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CELEBRATING the urban arts: Show features street art, tattoos, music and more
Hard hitting dance moves, artistic tattooing and hip new clothing had people heading out to the Urban Art Show last month.
Pacific Daily News |
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Music mix: Mike Pinto and the Mashers perform at Urban Art Show
There's something about the music of Mike Pinto that you just can't put your finger on. As you stand watching Pinto and his band, the Mashers, pour emotion onto the stage it's hard to figure out what's on the tip of your tongue.
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Indicted Art Dealer Becomes Fugitive?
A reader close to the case has written in to tell us that it appears indicted Northbrook art dealer James Kennedy is on the run from Johnny Law. Kennedy was originally indicted for art forgery and threatening a federal witness in the case and it seems Kennedy didn't show up for his bond hearing in Federal court on Wednesday. It was later discovered he also tried to flee the country into ...
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Dia de los Muertos Family Festival in Canoga Park
Featuring music, a puppet show, altars to honor the dead, art workshops and refreshments
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Green Community Festival held in Peapack-Gladstone's Liberty Park
COURTSEY OF THE PEAPACK-GLADSTONE GREEN FESTIVALMichael George of AERC Recycling Solutions, a local electronics recycling company, is one of over 50 exhibitors that will be at the Peapack-Gladstone Green Festival from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sat., Nov. 1...
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Monsters and more tonight at the Alternative Cafe's Halloween art show
From 6 to 9 p.m. tonight, the Alternative Café at 1230 Fremont Blvd., Seaside, will showcase the work of four extraordinary artists as part of a Halloween adventure.
The Salinas Californian |
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St. Louis man gets 25 months for racist graffiti
A St. Louis man was sentenced to 25 months in prison today for spray-painting racial slurs and threats on a home in State Park Place, near Collinsville, the U.S. attorney's office said.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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Two portraits declared real Van Goghs
The Van Gogh Museum confirmed Friday that two portraits suspected of being fakes are authentic.
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Liam's List - October 31, 2008
Boo - it's Halloween. Much going on this weekend of the hallowed souls. Yes Madonna is in the Bay but she needs no promotion so instead we've ten other great things to do around the Bay. From the San Francisco Jazz Festival to a great cheap eat in Alameda, there is much to enjoy aside from your Halloween costumes this weekend.
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Local artists push painting, sculpture to the edge in inaugural exhibit at art center
Michael Frassinelli arrived with the keyboards, frames and strings of eight pianos in his pickup truck and then proceeded to assemble the parallel world he has imagined in a second-floor gallery at Amazing Things Art Center. Video: Learn about the Pianistas
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