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End of the road for ox caravans
SAN CARLOS CITY – An old, dilapidated ox cart with tambobong (thatched roof) lies in a corner of Mario Banaag’s yard in San Carlos City. Only a faded curtain covers the one foot by one foot window on its rear. Its wheels have been sold to art collectors.
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
Bill Eppridge. The Chaney family as they depart for the burial of James Chaney, Meridian, Mississippi, August 7, 1964. For introduction, click here. Election day IX was the previous entry in this blog.
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Another $800 Million Of Hard-To-Sell Mortgage Debt On Auction Block
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- New lists of assets for sale circulated credit markets Tuesday, with $800 million of mortgage bonds put on the auction block.
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Trash your wedding gown
A new trend with brides finds them choosing to "trash" their dresses, a movement in photography in which newly married women don their wedding duds days or weeks after the nuptials and have pictures taken in unexpected places.
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Stark art museum, house reopen doors in downtown Orange
Patsy Herrington heard sweet sounds Tuesday.
Orange County News |
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Museums both large and small begin preserving collections digitally
BUFFALO, N.Y. - The keepers of history aren't all about looking back in time.
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Made in D.M.: Paintings reflect life after war
Vanja Borcic, 29, will show at the Metro Arts Two Rivers Expo for the third time. Borcic and his family moved to Des Moines from Bosnia in 1996.
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DISPATCH FROM LOS ANGELES Despite a Dropout and an Election, AFI Fest Runs with it
Timing hasn't exactly been on the 2008 AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival 's side. Besides its first half coinciding with massive buildup to today's election, the Hollywood-centered festival also had to contend with the unfortunate last minute news that its opening night film, Joe Wright 's " The Soloist ," was dropping out of its lineup.
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Nightmare portrait wins award
A portrait inspired by a woman's nightmare of giving birth to quintuplets wins photographic prize.
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Malevich Painting Fetches Record Price at Auction in New York
Russian painter Kazimir Malevich’s geometric 1916 “Suprematist Composition” sold for a record $60 million on Monday at Sotheby’s in a disappointing start to New York’s year-end auction season.
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New Flemish Art Goes on Show
Since it opened in June 2007, the Ivan Slavinsky Gallery has launched a series of ambitious shows of works by contemporary artists — including by that of its owner, Ivan Slavinsky.
St. Petersburg Times |
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Central Naval Museum
4 Birzhevaya Pl.,M. Nevsky Pr., Vasileostravskaya, Sportivnaya. Tel. 328-2502. Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed last Thursday of the each month.
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DINING GUIDE
Cafe Idiot — Great Russian and vegetarian food served all day. Jazz, cappuccino, fresh juice, specialty teas. Happy hour from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Weekend brunch. Used English-language books and magazines, plus an art gallery. Open daily, 11 a.m. to 1 a.m.
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Lagging Heard West attendance sparks new ideas
Heard Museum West has had a rough summer and is looking to draw new visitors and stay out of the red.
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Montreal artist Françoise Sullivan wins $25,000 Iskowitz Prize
Françoise Sullivan, a Montreal painter, sculptor and photographer, has won the $25,000 Gershon Iskowitz Prize from the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Iskowitz Foundation.
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art November 5 at Gallery Sanskriti, 5C Alipore Park Road, #24484925/24497931; 6.30 pm:
Inauguration of Beyond the Dark — Recent works: Mixed Media and Sculptures by Shuvaprasanna. On view till November 29 (except Sunday), 11 am to 8 pm. Till November 5 at Artists Circle, 46 Circus Avenue, #2283 3176; 2 pm - 7 pm: Different Approach — an exhibition of Rita Rakshit’s works.
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Planet Earth
Measuring Our Planet, an exhibition at Birla Industrial and Technology Museum, 10am to 5.30pm. Interactive Session on Growth of Indian Steel Industry and Various Other opportunities in India at ICC Towers, 11am.
The Telegraph |
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Portland museum asks: Do you know this idol?
sculpture with little ownership history for international scrutiny by placing it on a Web site where Southeast Asian cultural organizations and governments can examine it and possibly make a claim for the work.
The World |
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
Ted Polumbaum. Student protestors are photographed by a policeman on Freedom Day in Greenwood, Mississippi in 1964. Collection of the Newseum. For introduction, click here.
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Afghan dish brings pumpkin out of its shell
When I heard about the Asian Art Museum's fall exhibition, "Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Exhibition," it got me thinking about another hidden treasure of this beleaguered country: its delicious food. Some of the most interesting Afghan...
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Margaret K. Williams Arts Award recipients to be honored Nov. 6
The 21st annual presentation of the Margaret K. Williams Arts Awards will take place Thurs., Nov. 6 at the Tacoma Art Museum. The reception will begin at 5:30 p.m., followed by the awards ceremony at 6:30.
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Opinion
Painting the town pink The color pink is showing up throughout Jackson County this month, and with it, thousands of dollars are being raised for breast cancer research.
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Winnie the Pooh art sells for big bucks
Tiggers might not like honey but collectors apparently do. A sketch by Winnie the Pooh illustrator E.H. Shepard titled “Tiggers Don’t Like Honey” brought nearly $50,000 at a London auction today.
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Local artist’s work will be displayed
Local artist Melissa Bonin will have an exhibition of paintings “Dances on Water” displayed Saturday in Lafayette from 6 to 8 p.m. in conjunction with the second Saturday Artwalk.
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Family research leads to surprises for Dover man
Dover native John Reardon has recently released his book, "Who's Ever Seen a Dead Calvaryman?" His book documents his findings on a collection of century-old Civil War documents and paintings that were given to him.
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