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Student’s artwork finds permanent home at college library
From the green mailbox that sits in the left foreground of the painting, to the pitch of the roof of the home that sits across the street from Wal-Mart, if you’ve lived here any length of time at all, when you see this painting, you immediately know it is from Sterling.
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Two in one show
The work of fine art photographers Dave Aharonian and Susan Huber is featured at Dale’s Gallery in Chinatown this month. The show, titled, My Home, My Land, features the Saltspring Island subjects of Huber, who lives there, and the Vancouver Island-wide scenes of Aharonian.
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Painter’s work stolen, but show must go on
For some painters, having their art stolen is a sign of prestige. Picasso, Van Gogh, da Vinci – they’ve all had their work stolen, paintings that could be sold on the black market for millions of dollars.
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
No strings. (In a related story, $626-0. MAN's readers are already demonstrating commitment. Maybe we should have put out the word we were failing too?)
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December 2008
Dan Merkel: Ahead of the Wave How the pioneering artist changed surf photography, and how he continues to profit from his innovative work. Baseball’s Glory Days Legendary sports photographer Neil Leifer has sifted through his archive of images of baseball’s great moments for a new book.
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Well-known local identity dies
THE community of Tamworth lost a true gentleman with the passing of Brian George Neill earlier this week. Brian was a much-loved Tamworth identity who touched so many lives either professionally or personally. He worked as a teacher at Tamworth High school, Calrossy and Farrer for about 25 years. However photography, particularly black and white photography, was his passion.
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Art Basel Floating 'wet foot/dry foot' artwork sunk by Coast Guard
A day after ordering an artist in South Florida for Art Basel to remove a floating display from the coastal waters off Miami Beach, the U.S. Coast Guard issued a statement Wednesday defending its order and insisting the artist still has a chance to get his work back on the water.
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Giambattista Tiepolo's Old Master beats credit crunch
Credit crunch - what credit crunch? Mandrake can report that a painting by Giambattista Tiepolo has sold for almost £3 million at a Christie's Old Masters auction having been valued at less than £1 million.
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National Gallery defends right to stage Picasso: Challenging the Past
In February the new director of the National Gallery signalled a move away from blockbuster art exhibitions, saying that major institutions should “show people something they haven’t seen before”.
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Rock, Brosnan, Sarandon Line Up For Sundance
Films featuring Chris Rock, Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon, Paul Giamatti and Emily Watson are among those competing for top honors at January's Sundance Film Festival. Rock appears in the documentary "Good Hair," director Jeff Stilson's examination of African-American hairstyles, which was among 64 films announced Wednesday in Sundance's four competitions for U.S. and world cinema.
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Sundance Film Festival unveils competition films
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Sundance Film Festival, the premiere event for U.S. independent movies, on Wednesday unveiled a wide-ranging list of more than 60 movies that will compete for awards at its 25th anniversary event in January.
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Vatican Treasures on Display in New York
NEW YORK, DEC. 3, 2008 ( Zenit.org ).- Today is the opening day for an exposition of a body of works compiled in the Vatican Secret Archives, the Vatican Apostolic Library and the Vatican Museums.
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An artistic cover-up? Not at Sagamore
Call it a tempest in a bikini top. When Olaf Breuning's sand sculpture of a reclining woman was first proposed for Art Basel's Art Projects series in September, Miami Beach officials were so concerned by the depiction of her ample and amply revealed upper body that they asked that she be covered up. With a bikini top.
Miami Herald |
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Edible Art
Approximately 700 years ago in Sukothai, the capital of the Tai people, in what is now the north of central Thailand is where the story of fruit and vegetable carving began, but that art has been passed to foreign people and is now being practiced around the world.
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Whimsical West wants you to interact with his art
Franz West is an acclaimed contemporary artist, his work sold at top-tier international galleries and admired at major European museums. But when a curator approached him about his first U.S. retrospective, he was apprehensive.
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Designs of Life
UT graduate students Hilary Williams and Jacob Stanley aren’t leaving much up to chance. In an ambitious and highly collaborative exhibition aptly titled Lighting Shadows: Designed Objects in Space , the two artists have transformed the 1010 Gallery on Gay Street into a modernist haven in which the worlds of art and design converge delectably.
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City, The Potpourri sponsor statue contest
In efforts to promote the unveiling of the Thomas Henry Ball statue, the City of Tomball and The Potpourri have created a contest for readers.
The Potpourri |
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Amtrak's "Name The Train" Contest
Amtrak and the Department of Transportation (MoDot) want you to enter a contest to name the passenger train service that passes through Kirkwood between St.
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Sundance announces competition films
Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions for the 25th Sundance Film Festival. In addition to the four Competition categories, the Festival presents films in five out-of-competition sections to be announced tomorrow. The 2009 Sundance Film Festival runs January 15-25 in Park City, Salt Lake City, ...
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Massive glass Christmas tree will come to life in warehouse district
BLOOMINGTON -- Christmas will arrive early in Bloomington's old warehouse district beginning Friday as a massive glass Christmas tree sculpture comes to life. Glass artists from the Mack Glass Co. have built a steel armature and will begin ladling molten glass to form the branches and needles outside their studio at 400 S. Madison St. about noon. VIDEO: Glass blowers turn beer bottles into art
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Slow but steady opening for VIPs at Art Basel
The seventh Art Basel Miami Beach opened Wednesday to VIP collectors eager to view but slow to buy, art dealers with lower expectations than they had in previous bull years, and art themed around global lamentations on the state of money, love and politics.
Miami Herald |
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Sundance Film Festival unveils competition films
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Sundance Film Festival, the premiere event for U.S. independent movies, Wednesday unveiled a wide-ranging list of more than 60 movies that will compete for awards at its 25th anniversary event in January.
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Long Beach Arts’ Exhibit Hits Highlights
Long Beach Arts’ latest group show, “2008 National Open Exhibition,” is both delightful and disappointing at the same time. First of all, this year’s show — open to artists from across the country — features the usual media such as paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture and mixed media.
gazettes.com |
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Arts Organizations Need Community Support, Patronage
Be afraid. Be very afraid. With all of the economic turmoil in the world today, I’m pretty concerned about the year ahead when it comes to our arts organizations.
gazettes.com |
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Three to bid at Lehman's Neuberger auction: Lawyer
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc has received three bids for its prized asset management unit Neuberger Berman, a bankruptcy lawyer for the company said on Wednesday.
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