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Only Triassic Exhibit in North America to Open May 17th in Albuquerque
Dawn of the Dinosaurs: New Mexico's Triassic, the only Triassic Exhibit Hall in North America, opens its doors to the public at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science at 9:00 AM on May 17, 2008.
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Big Sue worth weight in gold: $35m
WHEN the plump, naked model for one of Lucian Freud's paintings remarked that the artist "got value for money" because he "got a lot of flesh", she may not have realised how prophetic her words would be.
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Cullen finds ugliness beneath
ADAM Cullen has a reputation for provocative artworks that show the ugly underbelly of Australia.
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Vision of the apocalypse, kicking Pandas: Cannes kicks off
CANNES, France -- Kicking kung-fu pandas and a chilling Brazilian drama evoking the apocalypse: the Cannes film festival kicks off Wednesday with its usual mix of philosophy and fun, not to mention glitz.
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The Globe & Mail (Canada) 05/14/08
Hollywood Playing Second Fiddle At Cannes? "Each year, headlines out of Cannes treat the event as an improbable David and Goliath showdown between art cinema and Hollywood, but increasingly the festival is bridging the gap...
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Indiana to crack whip at Cannes
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is set to provide the most excitement at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
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Cannes film festival kicks off with mix of serious films and antics
CANNES, France - It's indie movies vs. Indy's movie at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Carved in eternity
Meren Longkumer poses beside the wooden sculpture depicting the legendary lovers, Jina and Itiben in Mopungchuket, a native village in Nagaland.
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Jeff Koons - Lucian Freud Masterpiece Sets Auction Record
A life-size oil painting of a naked, overweight benefits worker by Lucian Freud has broken records at auction in New York.Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, painted in ...
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PUTTING A FOCUS ON FUN
Music, culture and crowds will converge on Mooresville this weekend for three extraordinary days of entertainment, beginning Thursday and reaching a crescendo with the annual Race City Festival on Saturday.
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Herbert tunes into the history of sound systems
THE Herbert Art Gallery explores the city's little known roots in reggae music with a special exhibition. Champion Sound: Celebrating The History Of Coventry Sound Systems was launched earlier this month and celebrates Coventry's history in the Jamaican sound system culture.
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Stars gear up for Cannes film festival
Kicking kung-fu pandas and a chilling Brazilian drama evoking the apocalypse: the Cannes film festival kicks off Wednesday with its usual mix of philosophy and fun, not to mention glitz.
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Red ribbon
Patterson Park was wrapped in red last weekend for the environmental art project “Park Life/City Movement,” a work to celebrate and raise awareness of the urban tree canopy, or tree coverage, in Baltimore. Volunteers did the setup and takedown of the artwork. Photo by Anna Santana
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New and old
Tom Donohue of South Baltimore painted a screen on a third-floor balcony of the American Visionary Art Museum, with the new Ritz-Carlton development in the background. AVAM hosted a weekend with screen painters, wood grainers, makers of tire planters and practioners of other uniquely Baltimore arts. Screen painters Dee Herget and Tom Lipka gave [...]
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Art work hits $30m record
A Lucien Freud painting scoops the world record for the highest price paid for a work by a living artist. Benefits Supervisor Sleeping went for a whopping $33.6 million at Christie's in New York, shattering the previous record by $10 million set last November.
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72 years after they were rejected, murals go up in Newark
Newark's federal courthouse has two new murals that are reproductions of paintings that were made in 1936. They were never hung because a judge found them too controversial. Artist Tanner Clark won a contest and painted two scenes: one of boys playing basketball, another of a boy injured in a factory accident. But U.S. District Judge Guy Fake argued jurors who saw them could be influenced by the ...
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Art on the Square hits downtown this year
One of the biggest art shows in the country is happening in downtown Belleville this weekend.
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Controversial Glass Tower Approved
The Museum of Modern Art is one step closer to having a 75-story neighbor. The Landmarks Preservation Commission has unanimously approved 2 applications from Pritzker Prize-winning architect Jean No....
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Children's Museum of Manhattan Premieres New 'Adventures with Dora and Diego' Interactive Exhibition on May 20 ...
On May 20, the Children's Museum of Manhattan opens the brand-new "Adventures with Dora and Diego" exhibit, the nation's only museum exhibition inspired by the popular characters from the award-winning Nickelodeon series, Go, Diego, Go! and Dora the Explorer.
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72 years after they were rejected, murals go up in Newark
NEWARK, N.J. - Newark's federal courthouse has two new murals that are reproductions of paintings that were made in 1936.
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Cannes festival kicks off with mix of serious films, antics by `Kung Fu Panda' star Jack Black
CANNES, France - It's indie movies versus Indy's movie at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Painting a portrait of Frank Scott
I remember Frank Scott simply as my Aunt Zenola's next-door neighbor. He seemed to be sitting on his front porch almost every time my family passed his house on our way to visit relatives on Summit Street.
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India to get first taste of German Fluxus art
New Delhi, May 14 : 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.
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It's indie movies vs. Indy's movie at Cannes fest
It's indie movies versus Indy's movie at the Cannes Film Festival.
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72 years after they were rejected, murals go up in Newark
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Newark's federal courthouse has two new murals that are reproductions of paintings that were made in 1936. They were never hung because a judge found them too controversial.
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