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British artist Mark Leckey wins Turner Prize
British artist Mark Leckey has been named the winner of this year's Turner Prize, contemporary art's most prestigious award, with a film that included cartoon characters such as Homer Simpson.
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Paulson Bucks Paulson as His Hedge Funds Score $1 Billion Gain
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- There’s not a lot of light in Paulson & Co.’s 28th-floor headquarters on a drizzly November afternoon. The Alexander Calder sculpture and multicolored prints have been shipped to the firm’s new offices six blocks south. Darkness envelops the New York skyline.
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TODAY New exhibit: Urban Nature: Works by University of Scranton Photography Club members, on display at Hope Horn Gallery, University of Scranton.
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Gulf Craft Inc largest exhibitor at inaugural Emirates Boat Show International
Gulf Craft Inc, a leading player in the global boat and yacht manufacturing industry, has announced its participation at the inaugural Emirates Boat Show International, in Abu Dhabi.
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Park hosts winter art exhibition
Artworks inspired by fairy tales are to go on display at a Gateshead park as part of a winter festival.
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Reopened National Museum of American History Draws Large Thanksgiving Weekend Crowds
People thronged to the newly reopened National Museum of American History, while the number of visitors to the National Air and Space Museum fell during the four-day holiday weekend, which traditionally is one of the busiest museum-going times of the year.
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LaMair shows decades of sculpture
"It's the most wonderful time of the year," Andy Williams sings, and for all you arts patrons who love good sculpture, those words ring true -- not just because it's Christmastime, but also because there's a show at Hyde Gallery that's sure to warm your wintry hearts.
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What I'm Into: Jim Sardonis: Sculptor, environmentalist, musician
Jim Sardonis of Randolph is a sculptor who created the whale tails off the side of Interstate 89.
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Qatar: Museum opens doors to public
02 December 2008 Doha - The Museum of Islamic Art, Doha's most important cultural landmark, opened its doors to the public yesterday. The 382,000 square feet, five-storey building has a treasured collection of more than 800 priceless exhibits that represent the full scope of Islamic art.
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Own A Piece of Hendrix at Woodstock History!
A Jimi Hendrix original guitar strap used at The Woodstock Music and Art Festival in 1969 will be put up for sale on December 11, 2008
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Job fair gives hope of jobs to people with disabilities
VietNamNet Bridge – The middle-aged woman feels no weariness in her hands as she steers her wheelchair around the Van Ho Exhibition Centre to commemorate the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
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Social Scene: Boy Scouts, N.O. Bar Association and Beaujolais Festival
Bring on the B's. And, all on the same night, they came in as the Boy Scouts, Bar Association and Beaujolais. Daniel Erath / The Times-PicayuneBOY SCOUTS AWARD DINNER: Bill Oliver, Jonathan Stuart, honoree Gov. Bobby Jindal, Tom Benson. Tunes...
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Beneath one roof at last – treasures of the North
DETAILS were revealed yesterday of a dozen major attractions which will welcome visitors to the new £26m Great North Museum.
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WHERE TO SEE IT
Tika Subedi was painting a picture of a house. It was outlined in blue, with four sides and a slanted roof. Tika's creation looked like a house any middle school student might paint.
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BLACK FRIDAY ONLINE
Sandy Cheropovich, owner of Sandy's Art Works in Meadville, said it's been a fall she won't soon forget. "In the month of November, when everything crashed, our world literally stopped in fine arts," said Cheropovich, whose store specializes in jewelry and framing.
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First tree at American Indian Museum
WASHINGTON — In 1864, America’s Civil War and the practice of slavery were in their final chapter.
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Paintings, computers stolen from Montana Club
Burglars made off with nearly $40,000 worth of goods, including art works by Charlie Russell and Marcel Duchamp, from the Montana Club over the weekend.
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Bellevue-born author/photographer goes to the birds
Paul Bannick's tramps through the Eastside woods stoked a passion for the natural world that has achieved its apotheosis in his splendid new photography book, "The Owl and the Woodpecker: Encounters with North America's Most Iconic Birds." foreword by Tony Angell, audio birdcall recordings by Martyn Stewart (Mountaineers, 198 pp., $24.95).
Seattle Times |
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Chinese International Photography Competition Receives Deluge of Entries
The tens of thousands of entries submitted to the Chinese International Photography Competition were narrowed down to 120 outstanding photos during the preliminary round.
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CRITIC'S CHOICE
Crazy After All These Years Six teachers at Richmond's National Institute of Art & Disabilities -- Barbara Bradlee, Andres Cisneros-Galindo, Janet Moore, Tomoko Murakami, Brian Stechshulte, and Carol J. Stewart -- explore the human condition in artworks at the State of California Office Building gallery.
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CSUCI art professor to visit monastery for research, lecture
A local art history professor plans to travel to St. Catherine's on Mount Sinai this month to lecture on the assumption of the Virgin Mary and study the monastery's icons. St. Catherine's, one of the oldest Christian monasteries in the world, became well known after The Getty museum in Los Angeles displayed some of its icons in a popular exhibit last year.
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Kareena Kapoor: Global Goddess!
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A closer look at the ancient fine print
Megavision, a small firm near Santa Barbara, has a growing reputation for the kind of specialized digital imaging sought by museums, archives, research institutes and elite collectors. Researchers gathered recently in a small darkened lab near Santa Barbara, nervously pacing as a digital camera snapped hundreds of images of a shard of pottery resting a few feet below the lens.
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Meet the Artists
One of the oddities, and pleasures, of living in an artistically driven town is that it spills over into every aspect of life, including the government. The Santa Cruz County Government Center will exhibit a multi-story, multi-medium art exhibit, complete with pastels, photography, acrylic paint and bead work highlighting landscapes, foliage, vineyards and graphic symbolism. A public ...
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Prized sculpture destroyed on trip to Miami
Carole Feuerman's Survival of Serena is a haunting, vivid sculpture of a woman clinging for dear life to an inner tube. But the artwork, which has been exhibited in China and Venice, did not survive a trip to Miami.
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