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SFMOMA Announces 2008 SECA Art Award Winners
SAN FRANCISCO.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2008 SECA Art Award.
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Largest Hendrix Exhibition Ever Featuring Iconic Images by a Who's Who of World-Renowned Rock Photographers
LOS ANGELES.- "Hendrix Revealed: A Life Through The Lens" opens Thursday, May 29 at the Celebrity Vault gallery in Beverly Hills, and represents the largest exhibition of photographs of Jimi Hendrix ever shown in the Los Angeles area.
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Whitechapel Gallery's Major Programme of Artists' Commissions, The Street, Presents Bernd Krauss
LONDON.- From 22 May, artist Bernd Krauss’ new commission brings a live bird’s eye view of London’s ever-changing skyline to street level for the Whitechapel’s new project The Street.
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2008 Liverpool Cityscape: New Commission by Ben Johnson at the Walker Art Gallery
LIVERPOOL.- A vast painting of Liverpool is on display from 24 May to 2 November 2008 at the Walker Art Gallery. The exhibition, Ben Johnson’s Liverpool Cityscape 2008 and the World Panorama Series, will form part of the city’s celebrations as European Capital of Culture.
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The Disappeared, Exhibit Organized by North Dakota Museum of Art, Opens in Guatemala
Arturo Dulcos, Untitled. Untitled is constructed of 66 human femur bones screwed together to form a fragile Chilean flag. GUATEMALA CITY.-
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Three Million Euro for a New Digital Museum at Statens Museum for Kunst
View of the exterior of the museum. Phot SMK. COPENHAGEN.-
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First Retrospective to Span 40 Years of Creation by Yves Saint Laurent Opens at The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Yves Saint Laurent, Cocktail Dress Spring-Summer 1992. Gazar, wide brimmed sun hat with sequin emboidery. Ceramic pendant earrings. Crepe pumps. Fondation Pierre Berge - Yves Saint Laurent. Inv. 1992 PE 45. Photo: Alexandre Guirkinger.
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Vernissage 2008: San Francisco Art Institute MFA Graduate Exhibit
SAN FRANCISCO.- S.F. Art Institute Master of Fine Arts graduates took over the massive Herbst Pavillion at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, Ca., May 16th- 24th .
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Christie's Presents Most Valuable Latin American Sale in New York
Claudio Bravo (Chilean b. 1936), Annunciation. each panel signed and dated 'CLAUDIO BRAVO, MCMXCVIII' (lower right) oil on canvas, each panel 78¼ x 59 in. (199 x 150 cm.) overall 78¼ x 118 in. (199 x 300 cm.)
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Adult open class entry deadline nears for Winnebago County Fair
If youre an adult and can bake, sew or grow a corn stalk, the Winnebago County Fair may be just the place to showcase your talents. Open class entry forms for adults age 18 and older are due no later than July 1 for this years county fair Aug. 5 through 10 at the Sunnyview Exposition Center on County Trunk Y in Oshkosh. The list of open class exhibits is large and includes vegetables, ...
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First Photographs on Paper in Great-Britain (1840-1860) to Open at Musee D'Orsay
William Fox Talbot (1800-1877), La meule de foin (The Haystack) Avril 1844. Epreuve sur papier salé d'après un négatif papier. 16,2 x 21 cm. National Media Museum, Bradford, UK © The RPS Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford.
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University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology Offers 50,000 Reward
Bill Reid, Box. 1967. Made of Gold. Gold box with a sculptured, three dimensional eagle on top. The engraving on the lid portrays an engraving of a killer whale in which the eagle ismirrored.
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WestLicht Gallery Reconsiders Che Guevara in Photography Exhibit in Vienna
VIENNA.- WestLicht Gallery takes the anniversary of Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s birthday as an occasion to re-consider his photographic image in relation to the development of a mythos.
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Henson photo controversy hits Newcastle
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery is the latest NSW centre to be drawn into a police investigation looking at the works of controversial photographer Bill Henson.
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Doctor promotes college to Eastside students with essay, art contests; prize is laptop
RIVERSIDE - Doctor V. is at it again.
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Who better to lead Wyeth artwork tour than a member of the family?
It's clear this isn't the typical tour of a museum with major works of art when the guide sidles up to a painting and begins: "I'll never forget it. We're having cheeseburgers across the street at Hank's and he's telling me about this one." The guide with the...
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Everywhere, JPG - magazines for the future
In front of Mitchell Fox are two 100-plus-page magazines swollen with gorgeous photography and printed on thick, high-quality paper. Fox, the former publishing director of Condé Nast Publications, estimates it would cost his former employer millions to send...
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$50,000 reward for return of stolen art
UBC has put up a $50,000 reward for the return of 15 pieces of art stolen from its Museum of Anthropology over the weekend. Collectively, the works have an estimated total value as art objects of about ...
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12:10 p.m. - Coconut Jams, Art in the Park and Music Festival to be held Saturday
12:10 p.m., May 27 — U’Zeum, the Children’s Discovery Museum of Guam, and Guam’s first children’s discovery museum, will kick off the summer with a festival of art and music event – Coconut Jams, Art in the Park and Music Festival – from noon to 6 p.m. on Saturday at the Plaza de España in Hagåtña.
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Chinese Noble Monk's Floral Album Sells for HK$17.7 Million
May 27 (Bloomberg) -- An ink-and-color album of 10 leaves by 17th century aristocrat-turned-monk Shitao sold for HK$17.7 million ($2.27 million) in Hong Kong, the top lot in Christie's International 's sale of classical Chinese paintings.
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NEWS 'Elation of ideas' at philosophy festival - Feature
Hanover, Germany - Germany kicks off this Thursday its first philosophy festival where the idea is to bring lots of weighty topics out from cosy academe to be discussed in the real world. In the northern city of Hanover, big names will come out of th...
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In East Hampton, no wining allowed without a license
For decades, opening an art exhibit in East Hampton has been synonymous with uncorking a bottle of wine and sticking toothpicks into cheese squares.
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Jason Bourne Takes His Case to MoMA
Beginning Thursday, the Museum of Modern Art will celebrate its addition of the Jason Bourne trilogy (2002's "The Bourne Identity," 2004's "The Bourne Supremacy," and 2007's "The Bourne Ultimatum") to the museum's permanent collection with screenings of all three films. Then on Friday night, MoMA's Titus 1 theater will host a symposium featuring the producer, screenwriter, and film educator ...
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Police Raid, Confiscate Art In Sydney Gallery
"Police raided the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in Paddington, in inner-city Sydney, on Friday after a complaint from a member of the public, seizing 20 of Henson's photographs, some of which include naked images of a girl and boy aged 13 and 12. They have said they will seek prosecution under state and commonwealth laws, alleging the photographs depicted 'a child under the age of 16 years of age in a ...
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New Henson police target
Newcastle art gallery is the latest to be drawn into a police investigation into photographer Bill Henson.
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