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Pretty Picture
It might be only skin deep, but beauty does not fail to influence the value of a portrait. Consider two mid-17th-century paintings of English ladies up for auction at the Sotheby's Old Master sale today. The first, "Portrait of Elizabeth Capell, Countess of Carnarvon" by Sir Peter Lely, is the noted artist's best attempt to make a homely young woman look attractive. Sotheby's estimates it will ...
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Art Basel Awaits Sales
Basel, Switzerland — After 39 years in the business, Art Basel is the queen of Modern and Contemporary art fairs. Gallery owners, critics, art dealers, and artists — as well as the sales — confirm the title. This great bazaar opened yesterday, just as it has every spring since 1970 in the quaint but industrial city of Basel, Switzerland. More than 2,000 artists from 30 different countries are ...
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Rasmuson Foundation opens virtual art gallery in Second Life universe
The Rasmuson Foundation has a new gallery featuring Alaskan artists. But in the real world you won’t be able to check it out anytime soon. That’s because the gallery only exists in the 3-D virtual world called Second Life. The popular service allows residents — or avatars — to interact with each other, explore the [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Rasmuson Foundation opens virtual art gallery ...
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Bob Nuchow busted his way into the film industry by creating his own jobs. In the past year, he’s developed a formidable networking base — and a link to industry professionals — for filmmakers, producers and movie fans alike through the free screenings he curates at Beverly Hills’ Fine Arts Theatre.
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NV student's painting stirs social sensitivity debate
NEWARK VALLEY -- The picture paints more than a thousand words, even though there are only six shown. There is a woman standing with a sign: "God hates fags." Across the room a girl is sitting on the floor holding a sign of her own: "Turn or burn."
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Artworks inspired by Odissi
AFICIONADOS of the Odissi, a dance that originated from the state of Orissa in Eastern India and one of the eight recognised Indian classical dance styles, can feast their eyes on artworks which capture the grace, poise and energy of the dancers on canvas and other art mediums.
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Check out design students' works on display in Riverside
Photography and graphic design will join forces today at the UC Riverside California Museum of Photography. A new exhibit, Photo- graphic0.8, will be held in the Digital Studio and will showcase the works of design students from the Art Institute of California Inland Empire.
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Police arrest posh NY art gallery owner for selling booze
EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) - Police on Long Island have stoked the ire of the wine-and-cheese set after arresting the owner of an East Hampton art gallery for flouting state alcohol rules.
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Final First Friday At Fusion
BENTONVILLE - "First Friday" started as a gallery event when Fusion Fine Art Gallery opened in June 2005 in downtown Bentonville.
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Seeing Art In All The Faces
"Portraiture is all around us, at every stage in our lives... And yet in spite of its ubiquity, many take it for granted, or even treat it as the poor relation of other forms of painting." How many of us can even say that we really know how to look at, and judge, a portrait?
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France: Paintings Retrieved
Four paintings stolen from an art museum in Nice in August were recovered undamaged in a car in Marseille.
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Cookoff was a Centennial event this year
ELKTON - Jim and Tammy Deavers brought a friend's 18-foot-long barbecue that burns wood, gas and charcoal. Local artisan Jimmy Miller of Jem Stone brought his custom-designed Elkton Centennial Stones, and Virginia artist Lisa Geiman came with a selection of her paintings. Best of all, the tornado watch which lasted all a
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Hot Fashion Designer Claims 'Fierce' Williamsburg Loft
Fans of the Bravo reality TV series "Project Runway" will likely remember when contestant Christian Siriano took the show's host, Tim Gunn, on a tour of the tiny East Village apartment where he lived and worked. Now that Mr. Siriano has won the show, the designer has ditched his shared one-bedroom apartment in favor of a newly renovated 1,400-square-foot loft in Williamsburg. Mr. Siriano, 22, ...
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Scotland Yard Seizes Millions In Cash, Art
A British law enforcement raid on thousands of safe deposit boxes has yielded several important works of Renaissance art, part of a much larger trove of cash and valuables said to be tied to organized crime.
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Arkansas Arts
She's known as a dance icon in Arkansas-and her sudden death earlier this year has her former students and colleagues wanting to honor her memory. Fifty-five films from all over the world will be shown throughout the four-day event known as the Little Rock Film Festival.
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Charges In Brazen UK Home Invasion/Art Theft
"A man has been charged over the theft of a collection of Lowry paintings worth up to £1m from an art collector's home in Greater Manchester. Ivan Aird was tied up and his wife and two-year-old daughter threatened during the robbery in Cheadle Hulme last May."
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Museum celebrating the give and take
Co-curator Fred Wasserman pointed to one of the ancient Bibles on loan for the Contemporary Jewish Museum's "In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis" show, and noted that each page contains several lines of text and many lines of commentary. An item...
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A look at the new Jewish Museum in SF
A major new museum opens in San Francisco on Sunday.
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A Century of the World Distilled
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is not headlining its luminous exhibition "Framing a Century: Master Photographers, 1840-1940." There was no press preview or publication for the show, and no banner for the exhibit graces the Met's façade. But the enchanting gathering of more than 150 prints — 10 to 12 iconic works by each of 13 key photographers — a whirlwind tour of the medium's first 100 years, ...
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The National Academy Museum's Grab-Bag Anthology
With the work of 130 artists on display, "The 183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art" at the National Academy Museum is a bit of a grab bag. As compared with previous Annuals, this one proves a strong anthology, a pleasantly scented bouquet. But its relative vigor does nothing to mitigate the strangeness of walking among its multitudinous offerings. For, like cats ...
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Machine as Metaphor: Holli Schorno and Andy Graydon
The image of a machine in the landscape is a potent metaphor for the intersection of nature and culture, earth and artifice. Current exhibitions by Holli Schorno and Andy Graydon, artists of vastly different material means, consider technology's imprint on the environment, mindful of the impact of modern media on our sense of place. Neither would seem to be a Luddite; in fact, both exhibitions ...
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Artist questioned over assassination art exhibit
An artist was questioned by police and the Secret Service Wednesday after he tried to install a controversial exhibit titled "The Assassination of Hillary Clinton & The Assassination of Barack Obama" in a Midtown storefront window.
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BHS Art Projects
Binghamton High School AP History art students express themselves through their pieces in a visual art project.
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June arrives at the Art Alliance gallery
The June exhibit at the Art Alliance of Monmouth County gallery in Red Bank will open Saturday with a reception from 6-8 p.m. The show will comprise work by both members and nonmembers of the Art Alliance. The juried exhibit will run through June 24.
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From Bogan Gate to Paris
Bogan Gate artist Apolinario (Pol) Cruz jetted out for France yesterday to attend the opening of an exhibition at the La Gallerie Claire de Villaret in Paris where he will be the featured artist.
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