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Hirst to sell direct at auction
A monumental new sculpture by Damien Hirst of a bull in formaldehyde whose hooves and horns are cast in 18-carat solid gold is to be offered for sale directly at auction by Sotheby’s in September.
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Sunshine, rainbows, James Spader?
The stars of ABC's "Boston Legal" are taking a break from the lives of their oversexed, ego-driven characters to channel sunshine and rainbows. William Shatner, James Spader and Candice Bergen are among the celebrities and artists who've agreed to design some new versions of My Little Pony, the plastic toy that has captivated girls since the 1980s. Pawtucket-based Hasbro Inc. will auction the ...
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medici.tv Launches Major Live Webcast Season: A Chat with Director Hervé Boissière
Medici.tv - the new home on the web for free classical music webcasts and archived streaming performances - launches its summer season June 20 with ten live webcasts from the Aspen Musical Festival. Marin Alsop, Joshua Bell, and the Emerson String Quartet are just a few of the names visitors can expect to see in the opening leg of an expansive and varied multimedia venture.
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Dreams that are not so wild
An exhibition of 20 traditional style, black-and-white wood prints titled Wild Dream are on display at Himiko Visual Cafe, in Phan Dang Luu Street, Binh Thanh in HCM City until next Tuesday.
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Art show and sale set for Saturday
Central Connection, a group of established and emerging Toronto artists who have been painting together since about 1990, is set to host its annual group exhibition this Saturday at Withrow Park's clu...
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Legends may be among the crowd at 'Icon Show' 06/20/08
Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol, Albert Einstein — you never know who will pop up at River's Edge Gallery today. A celebrity look-alike contest will highlight a meet-the-artist night from 6 to 11 p.m. for "The Icon Show" running at the gallery through July 5.
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Arts panel considers revisions for King Memorial
WASHINGTON (AP) — Artists working on a Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial submitted changes Thursday to address concerns that a proposed rendering made him look confrontational and like a socialist leader.
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MET art camp offers creativity, self-expression
Summer is a time of possibility. For children attending the Museum of East Texas' 11th annual Art Camp, it is a time to explore that possibility through creativity and self-expression.
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The best of Bonnaroo
What did I agree to? I'm not a camper. A Holiday Inn with shag that hasn't been replaced since its heyday in the '70s is the closest I've come to roughing it in a long while. Yet, last week I found myself en route to Bonnaroo, a four-day outdoor camping festival held in a 700-acre field in Manchester, Tenn.
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Eritrea: Sculpture Show Being Staged in Asmara in Connection With Martyrs Day
A sculpture show portraying the enemy's barbaric atrocities and the steadfastness and resistance of the Eritrean people opened yesterday in front of the Ministry of Education here in the capital.
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Writing from San Francisco on June 9, The New York Times’s Edward Rothstein reviewed that city’s new Contemporary Jewish Museum, which has recently opened its doors to the public. “The jagged lights on [its] sloping lobby wall,” he wrote, “form four Hebrew letters that spell ‘pardes.’
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Bard-foot in the Park
Other than the finest in free professional theater, what does the 22nd season of the Nebraska Shakespeare Festival offer? As always, something old and something new.
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Summer music festivals for everyone
Music festivals and summer go together like burgers and fries. Some people spend their vacations traveling from one festival to another. Here's a lineup of travel-worthy music festivals this summer.
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Fallen Earth: Alpha Milestone Achieved
Fallen Earth team announced today their Alpha-status milestone achievement, which labels this post-apocalyptic MMO as "feature complete" with all the major processes in place. The new and improved features include: upgraded graphics and models, special effects, new vehicles and combat system, mail and auction houses, expanded PvP and social tools: The core functionality players expect ...
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Authenticity Confirmed for Disputed Rembrandt
The Gloucestershire auction house Moore Allen & Innocent thought the portrait was a 17th-century Rembrandt knockoff, and valued it at just $3,100 before a sale last October. But the British buyer who won a speculative bidding war and paid about 1,500 times more than that apparently knew what he was doing. Experts have confirmed "Rembrandt Laughing" — bought for a bargain price of $4.5 million at ...
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Young artists pick up pen and paper again.
'The Drawing Narrative" at Jenny Jaskey Gallery should be your next stop if you've wondered why narrative, representational drawing - an all-but-lost art a few decades ago - has become the medium of choice among young artists.
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Henry Darger art becomes permanent exhibit
A new permanent exhibit that opened at Chicago's Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art (www.art.org) takes a look at the art and life of Henry Darger. Roughly 35 years since his death in 1973 at age 81, Darger has gone from obscure recluse to mysterious outsider art rock star.
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Go get your fill of goetta at festival
The Goettafest & River Raid Renaissance Festival is devoted to all things goetta, with goetta pizza, goetta hoagies, goetta Reubens, goetta omelets, and more. (For the uninitiated, the uniquely Cincinnati meat product is a combination of steel-cut pinhead oatmeal, pork, beef and seasonings.) There's live music, too, with performances by a half-dozen local bands. Goettafest takes place at ...
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Thought-Provoking Exhibit Reflects on American Funeral Customs
The Museum of Funeral Customs in Springfield, IL, takes to the road this month with its educational mobile exhibit: Reflections: The American Funeral.
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'Green Eggs and Ham' heading for Naperville
Naperville will be doubling its dose of Dr. Seuss next year. The city council has approved a "Green Eggs and Ham" theme for the 2009 Century Walk sculpture that likely will be installed at the 95th Street Library.
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Gallery bucks trend
BENDIGO Art Gallery is bucking the trend of declining tourist numbers and smashing attendance records with its Archibald Prize 08 exhibition.
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LONDON - Pilar Ordovas of Christie's inspects Jeff Koons' stainless steel work of art 'Balloon Flower (Magenta), 1995-2000' from the Rachofsky Collection, is exhibited in Saint James' Square on June 19, 2008 in London, England.
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Parents Upset About State Cuts To Local School Budgets
State cuts to local school budgets had Alachua County parents coming out to Kanapaha Middle School on Thursday evening looking for answers. According to the Alachua County School Board, art teachers, music teachers and media specialists are now on the chopping block.
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Cherry Hill SummerFest hopes to attract nonresidents
COLUMBIA — The Village of Cherry Hill will host its second annual SummerFest and Art Show on Saturday, but people don’t have to live there to attend.
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