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De Montebello Sells East Side Co-op for $2.1 M., But Stays in Met’s Neighborhood
The fact that imperial Metropolitan Museum of Art director Philippe de Montebello is ending his 31-year tenure in just a few months is bad enough for the Upper East Side’s delicate collective psyche. But what would happen to the neighborhood’s sense of nobility if the molasses-voiced descendent of Napoleonic aristocracy (and, on his mother’s side, of the Marquis de Sade) actually moved ...
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Street art
Brenda Haacke watches busker artist Ian Morris create Venus from the painting Birth of Venus originally done by Botticelli in 1485. Morris practises his craft on Government street.
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Hotline: Classic baseball flicks hit Hub's IMAX this season
Boston now has its own triple-play of baseball goodness this summer. In addition to the Red Sox and the Museum of Science's ace "Baseball as America"...
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Sotheby's summer sale record as art goes on rising
Sotheby's held its contemporary art auction on Tuesday, the last in a series of big London sales that raised more than $1 billion and underlined how the world's super-rich are paying up despite the gloomy economic outlook.
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VICON Film Festival announces winner
DMN Newswire--2008-7-1--VICON, developer of Academy Award®-winning motion capture systems and part of the Oxford Metrics Group, today announced Twisted Murder as the winner of its international VICON Film Festival.
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MAXON BODYPAINT 3D HELPS RHYTHM & HUES UNLEASH ITS CREATIVE POWER ON THE FEATURE FILM, "THE INCREDIBLE HULK"
DMN Newswire--2008-7-1-- MAXON Computer, a leading developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions, today announced that Rhythm & Hues (R&H), one of Hollywood's premier visual effects and animation powerhouses, turned to MAXON 's BodyPaint 3D , to address a myriad of complex texture painting challenges associated with the creation of central scenes and ...
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Painting by numbers
Arts & entertainment: Are focus groups in the arts a useful tool - or a death blow to creativity?
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Lucy Mangan: Last night's TV
Lucy Mangan on Bannatyne Takes On Tobacco True Stories: Our Year Without Oil (Recipes for Disaster)
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Customer Service
NEW YORK - A 15th-century sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was damaged after it came loose from its moorings and fell to the floor. The museum says the damaged piece is a terra-cotta sculpture of Saint Michael the Archangel by Andrea della Robbia.
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Parades and fireworks to put pop in Independence Day celebration
Craven and Pamlico county residents won't have to spend a lot of gasoline to find July 4th weekend festivities. Celebrations are scheduled Friday in New Bern, Oriental, Havelock and River Bend. In Oriental, the annual Croaker Festival continues with a parade and fireworks on Saturday.
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Datebook
• The Manalapan Arts Council is looking for artists, designers and crafters for its "Arts on the Arboretum 2008" art show and sale to be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 27. The event will be held in the municipal court parking lot in front of the Manalapan-Englishtown post office, Route 522. Details and applications: 732- 446-3200, ext. 4001, or www.twp.
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15th-century sculpture damaged at NYC's Met museum
NEW YORK - A 15th-century sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was damaged after it came loose from its moorings and fell to the floor.
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Art: The Met's Century of Photography: A striking, revealing lineup of giants from photography's first hundred years
A striking, revealing lineup of giants from photography's first hundred years (By Leslie Camhi)
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Artistically blonde
At 26, Maren Bargreen is one of the youngest business owners on Main Street. Never mind that her business is a fine art gallery.
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Preview: East Neuk Festival, various venues, East Neuk, Fife
Some festivals get all the limelight, others bloom unseen – but when they're as far off the beaten track as East Neuk in windswept Fife, this is a fate to which they must be resigned. Still, East Neuk is only an hour by road from Edinburgh, and the festival's venues are an unusual mix of churches, a medieval byre and a concrete aircraft hangar in RAF Leuchars.
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Greenaway's hi-tech gadgetry highlights Da Vinci for the laptop generation
Da Vinci's The Last Supper bursts into new life after Greenaway secures permission to reinvent masterpiece as sound and light show
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John Walsh: So he dashed it off. But that doesn't mean it's not art
Kinetic art has a perfectly respectable pedigree: it's defined as "art or sculpture in which movement (produced by air currents, or electricity, or sound, etc) plays an essential part". What's a little out of the ordinary at Tate Britain this week is that, in Martin Creed's new "Work No. 850", the movement is produced by having athletes run, hell-for-leather, past the spectators.
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It's positively green with no sign of envy
A COCO fibre sculpture of a woman created by a local artist went on display at the Bendigo Conservatory this week.
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New York museum admits third of its Coptic art is fake
A major New York museum has admitted that about one third of its collection of Coptic sculptures and reliefs from ancient Egypt are fakes. It plans to put them on public view in a highly unusual exhibition next year.
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Art students hang original work at district office
A three-year process created an original mosaic by Johnsonville art students that now hangs in the district office.
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Related Games
Mega Man Week continues with an exclusive announcement Thursday. Also, check out our Mega Man contest to win a heaping helping of Mega Man merch! Yesterday we dropped a massive Mega Man retrospective , packed with tons of information and custom art.
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Carving out time: Retirement provides opportunity for many club members to pick up woodcarving
Quietly they sit, knives moving expertly as the small chunk of wood in their hands undergoes a metamorphosis.
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It’s a festival of dancing skills
School children from across the region will kick up their heels and strap on their dancing boots when they take to the stage at the Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre today.
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Balloon Inflation: Sculpture Sells At Christie's For $26 Million
A Jeff Koons sculpture resembling a folded balloon has sold for a record $26 million at Christie's in London.
Hartford Courant |
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Andrew Stokes: Manchester Pride
Manchester Pride is the city’s annual ten-day festival celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender life that takes place from 17–27 August 2007 with the Big Weekend, a 78 hour of celebrations of all things queer, from 6pm Friday 24 right through until midnight on Monday 27 August - have you taken the Tuesday off work?!
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