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3D Systems Launches Its iPro(TM) 8000 SLA® Precision Center
New, High-productivity, Mid-range Format Stereolithography Precision Center ROCK HILL, S.C., Oct. 20, 2008 -- 3D Systems Corporation (Nasdaq:TDSC), a leading provider of 3-D Printing, Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing solutions, announced today the launch and immediate availability of the iPro 8000 SLA® Center, a new, high-productivity, mid-range system that offers all the performance ...
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Art auctions struggle amid financial downturn
Works of Impressionist and Modern art struggle again at auction in New York, with nearly half of pieces in one sale going unsold.
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MedFilm Festival: Turkish director takes a stand for human rights
MedFilm Festival: Turkish director takes a stand for human rights (AKI) - Turkey must do more to protect the human rights of ethnic minorities and students before it joins the European Union, according to one of the country's top young film directors. Ozcan Alper spoke to Adnkronos International (AKI) as his debut feature film 'Sonbahar' opened the 14th annual Mediterranean Film ...
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Community developer Bill Strickland speaks of hope, resources to conquer poverty
The Pittsburgh native, who says he was saved from the streets by a public school art teacher, has spent the past 40 years trying to surround poor people with the best the world has to offer.
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'David Brumbach Unbound:' Bringing together a scattered chapter in an artist's life
Artist David Brumbach was known for his photo-realistic paintings of downtown Lancaster, his images of the countryside and the Star Barn outside Harrisburg, his gorgeous sunflowers and florals, his playfully whimsical series of cats, dogs, bicycles and unicycles and his strikingly colorful abstracts...
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Shining stars: Company's restored stoves find homes in kitchens next door, on Hollywood sets
Tom Lawson showed off his latest masterpiece with the pride of a fine craftsman.
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Northwest Arkansas Academy of Fine Arts continues to grow
ROGERS — The Northwest Arkansas Academy of Fine Arts began its second year in August with 206 students in grades nine through 12. The charter school is growing, superintendent Barbara Padgett said. (Benton County Daily Record)
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Sale of French calendars will benefit Pavillion Renaissance
Normand Beaudry has a lot of faith in his students. "We're going to sell them all," said Beaudry. He was talking about the roughly 2,000 [...]
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Sony Ericsson Claims 20MP Photography, HD Video Recording in 2012 Phones [Cell Phones]
At the behest of Sony Ericsson, the newest, dumbest megapixel war is officially upon us — and this time it's in cell phones. In an ambitious presentation about the future of handset technology,...
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Hot Market For Asian Art Cools Substantially In London
"Buyers were reluctant to make expensive purchases at this week's Asian Art in London promotion, dealers said, after a 2.5 million-pound ($3.95 million) Buddha was withdrawn on the morning of Sotheby's Nov. 5 auction of Chinese works of art."
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Citing Economy, St. Louis Art Museum Delays Expansion
"The St. Louis Art Museum has decided to delay the groundbreaking of its $125 million expansion. The museum's Board of Commissioners cited the current financial markets for the move."
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Jim McMurtry is splendid as anguished Willie Loman
When I first learned that Tallahassee Little Theatre was mounting a production of Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece "Death of a Salesman," I jotted this note on a printout of the TLT season schedule: "Pray Jim McM. is playing Willie Loman."
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Some items still missing from flood
The UI ceramics program is working to recover more than $70,000 worth of artwork lost after the flood, but university officials have been unable to determine whether the items were misplaced or stolen. The ceramics department lost a piece by Rudy Autio worth roughly $50,000, a $20,000 platter by James Leedy, and a large pitcher by David Shaner valued at $120-$150, ceramics program Director ...
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Exhibitionist: What to see this week
Duck into an art gallery and take in ghostly buildings, glittering viruses and cosmic explosions. Laura McLean-Ferris picks the best exhibitions around the country this week
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Larger than life but eerily, spottily real
QUEENSLAND Art Gallery director Tony Ellwood admits one of the gallery's newest works, an enormous hyper-realistic sculpture of a middle-aged woman in bed, might give some visitors goosebumps.
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The Face: Cressida Campbell
I AM sitting in a sunlit artist's studio in the eastern Sydney suburb of Bronte, where woodblock painter Cressida Campbell is putting the finishing touches on a final piece for a coming exhibition.
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At Fall Auctions, Things Aren't Looking Any Better
"French billionaire Francois Pinault attended his company Christie's International's New York auction of impressionist and modern art last night, and watched from a sky box as almost half the lots failed to sell. Buyers passed on 44 percent of the 82 pieces offered.
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Kandinsky's painting fetches $17 mln in New York auction
NEW YORK, November 7 (RIA Novosti) - A painting by the Russian avant-garde artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) has been sold for $16.8 million at Christie's in New York, the auction house said on Friday.
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Friday, 10.24.08
The weather for the first day of Voodoo was perfect. As we approached City Park, we were greeted by the funky sounds and deep fried smells of a New Orleans festival.
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citizenM hotels wins The European Hotel Design Award of the Year!
The European Hotel Design Awards, presented by Sleeper Magazine on Thursday, 6 November 2008, is the premier celebration of outstanding innovations in the hospitality industry and hotel design in Europe. "This was perhaps the most hotly contested decision I have seen the judging panel have to make in the six years I have been involved in these awards. But I think it is fair to say that the ...
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Media Advisory: His Excellency Jean-Daniel Lafond Chosen as Patron of the Escales documentaires Festival international ...
At the invitation of Mr. Maxime Bono, deputy-mayor of La Rochelle, and by the Escales documentaires festival international du documentaire de creation in La Rochelle, His Excellency Jean-Daniel Lafond will be the patron of the Festival which takes place from November 7 to 11, 2008.
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Sundance-winning film to be screened in Bossone
Filmmaker Lance Hammer will hold an exclusive sneak peak screening of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival Dramatic Directing Award-winner "Ballast" for Drexel students, staff and faculty in the Bossone Research Center Nov. 13 at 8 p.m. "Ballast" is set in the present-day Mississippi Delta and follows the lives of three impoverished counterparts living in the rural Deep South.
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Art show
Preservation Lampasas Inc. will hold an art exhibit and auction Nov. 15 at First United Methodist Church's Wesley Fellowship Hall. The exhibit is at 5:30 p.m., followed by the auction at 6:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served. Proceeds benefit Lampasas Colored School restoration.
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Buddha Statue Withdrawn From London Art Sale as Buyers Balk
Nov. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Buyers were reluctant to make expensive purchases at this week's Asian Art in London promotion, dealers said, after a 2.5 million-pound ($3.95 million) Buddha was withdrawn on the morning of Sotheby's Nov. 5 auction of Chinese works of art.
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The furnishings of local history :Historic pieces anchor costume exhibition
SOUTH BEND -- The two white-haired brothers, David and George Coquillard, stood before their ancestors' vignette at the Center for History.
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