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Lucian Freud nude sets new world record at auction
"Benefits Supervisor Sleeping," a nude by artist Lucian Freud, sold for more than 34 million dollars (22 million euros) in New York Tuesday, becoming the most expensive work ever by a living artist.
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Kaufmann House sells for $15 million
A Palm Springs home known as a masterpiece of modernism sold Tuesday for $15 million. Not as real estate, but as a piece of art.
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Naked supervisor painting sells for record £17m
A life-size Lucian Freud painting of a naked Jobcentre supervisor sleeping broke the world auction record for a work by a living artist when it sold for more than £17m, Christie's said today.
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St Pauls art project to challenge modern Britain on spirituality
Public artist Martin Firrell is to challenge modern Britain with an innovative art project at one of Londons most famous landmarks
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Pinoys in NY condemn stealing of Filipino saint"s statue
The remaining piece of the bronze sculpture of Lorenzo Ruiz in Queens, New York is now covered in cloth so that it would not appear offensive to the Filipino community that reveres the first Filipino Saint.
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India to get first taste of German Fluxus art
Take a sheet of paper. Shake it, rumple it and tear it. Place the act in the context of creative art, installations, short texts and theatre. You get a free-flowing genre of inter-disciplinary art called Fluxus art, an exhibition of which will be held here this month.
Calcutta News |
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Newsmakers: Folk artists to be honored by governor
Delsie Hoyt Eaton of Fairlee and Mark Sustic of Fletcher are the Governor's Heritage Award winners
The Burlington Free Press |
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Arts Festival returns to Pentucket
WEST NEWBURY and mdash; It's time once again for Pentucket Regional High School's annual Arts Festival and mdash; a chance for the district to showcase the creativity of its students, the talent of its staff and the importance of its sequential arts program.
The Daily News of Newburyport |
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Old Town’s Creole Gallery set to reopen on June 1
Starting June 1, the Creole Gallery in Old Town will start holding monthly art exhibitions again.
Lansing State Journal |
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Lucian Freud nude sets new world record at auction
NEW YORK (AFP) - "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping," a nude by British artist Lucian Freud, sold for more than 34 million dollars (22 million euros) in New York Tuesday, becoming the most expensive work ever by a living artist.
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Lucian Freud nude sets new world record at auction
"Benefits Supervisor Sleeping," a nude by British artist Lucian Freud, sold for more than 34 million dollars (22 million euros) in New York Tuesday, becoming the most expensive work ever by a living artist.
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Pop-art pioneer spanned mediums
TAMPA, Fla. -- Robert Rauschenberg -- whose use of odd and everyday items earned him a reputation as a pioneer in pop art but whose talents spanned the worlds of painting, sculpture and dance -- died Monday, his gallery representative said yesterday. He was 82.
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ARTSY SLIME-DUNK
Brooklynites see the Gowanus Canal as a grimy, smelly waterway that has served as an industrial dumping ground for more than 100 years. But this local artist sees it as paint. David Eustace creates his masterpieces by allowing acrylic spray-painted canvases to sit in the murky water for a month at a time. "I see this as a play on the classic man-vs.-nature story," Eustace said. "Except in this ...
New York Post |
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Sculpture issue to come before park board
People who love sculpture in public places, including controversial pieces, are gearing to present their opinions to the park board next week as part of the debate over the upside-down church.
Vancouver Sun |
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Colourful banners to light up city
VANCOUVER I The city's gloomy skyline is about to receive a shot of colour as hundreds of dazzling artworks are strung up for the 50th annual street banners display.
Vancouver Sun |
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TRAILBLAZER OF POP ART DIES
TAMPA, Fla. - Robert Rauschenberg, whose use of odd and everyday articles earned him a reputation as a pioneer in pop art, has died at 82. Rauschenberg died Monday, Jennifer Joy, his representative at PaceWildenstein gallery in Manhattan, said yesterday. Rauschenberg, who first gained fame in the 1950s, didn't mine pop culture wholesale, as Andy Warhol did with Campbell's soup cans and Roy ...
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Visual history of Siler City on display
The Chatham Camera Club will look at Siler City from 1895 through the 1960s beginning at 6 p.m. Friday during the Third Friday Art Walk. The club's gallery is at 117 N. Chatham Ave.
The News & Observer |
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26 Indian artworks to be featured at Christie's auction
Tagged with hefty sums, the paintings of a host of Indian artists would be auctioned in Hong Kong on May 24-25.
The Times of India |
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Seattle International Children's Festival: A world of diversity in our backyard
This is not an act you're likely to see under a big top, but it gets children oohing and giggling nonetheless. It consists of a muscular...
Seattle Times |
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Surfing Apparel Brand The Ryde Is Raising Support for Boarding for Breast Cancer
Surfing apparel brand The Ryde announces the winners of its design contest "CharitTees" for B4BC - Boarders For Breast Cancer. T-shirts with the winning designs are available for sale at www.theryde.com . $5 dollars will be donated to B4BC for every shirt purchased from the ChariTees contest. (PRWeb May 14, 2008) Read the full story at ...
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Superhero Fantasy is Brought to Life with Atair's EXO-Wing, the World's Smallest Human-Piloted Jet
Atair Aerospace (Atair) was chosen by the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art to display two of its real-world innovations alongside high-profile superhero collections from Hollywood and the fashion industry. The Met exhibit includes Atair's EXO-Wing™, the world's smallest human-piloted jet airplane. (PRWeb May 14, 2008) Read the full story at ...
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Police search for link in art gallery thefts
Police in Salt Lake City and Kaysville are looking into whether a number of gallery thefts of expensive artwork by a popular local painter are connected.
The Salt Lake Tribune |
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Home events
A La Carte & Art Festival Arts and crafts, fine food, wine and microbrews, a farmers' market, cooking demonstrations, children's activities, live entertainment, more. 10 a.m.- 6 p.m. Sat. and Sun. Castro Street, between Church St. and Evelyn Ave., Mountain...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Old Home Day art contest in full swing
The Gilford Old Home Day Committee is currently accepting submissions for the Old Home Day Art Contest. The annual contest will again be sponsored by the Laconia Savings Bank and Trust with the top three entries receiving savings bonds.
The Citizen of Laconia |
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Men at work
INSPIRED BY the ‘mixed’ emotional ambience at the construction sites of Tameer Properties, the twelve amazing digital compositions of artist Jalal Luqman at the ongoing Cityscape Abu Dhabi 2008 exhibition play up both the ‘salient’ and ‘silent’ builders of towering structures of society.
Khaleej Times |
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