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The cover photo, which had been on public exhibition in Australia for some time, was taken in 2003 by Melbourne photographer Polixeni Papapetrou and depicted her own daughter, Olympia Nelson, now aged 11.
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A Constellation of Stars Light up the Screen at the Ninth Annual New York International Latino Film Festival
The New York International Latino Film Festival , presented by HBO, returns for its Ninth Annual Edition from July 22-27 and is proud to announce its biggest line-up yet with over 100 national and international films, documentaries and shorts.
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Titanic memorabilia auctions still find loyalists
After Christie's got $119,000 for a Titanic life jacket at an auction in London last year, Gregg Dietrich was not surprised that his phone kept ringing with offers of other items from the ill-fated ship. "When we sell one ... more seem to come out of the woodwork," said Dietrich.
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POWER-GEN Asia announces Preliminary Conference Programme
POWER-GEN Asia, the premier conference and exhibition for the power generation and transmission and distribution industries, has announced the preliminary programme to the region’s leading power indus
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A taste of China
Buppha Tongtae demonstrates the art of fruit carving as Harewood House hosted a Chinese culture day yesterday. (07/07/2008 09:28:11)
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Falling in love with the AGO (really)
The late Ken Thomson was intrigued by model ships as an art form, but you could hardly say the Art Gallery of Ontario has experienced smooth sailing since deciding eight years ago to accept Thomson's offer to help reinvent the gallery.
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Embedded in a 40-voice choir
In the soaring gallery, the walls are bare, gray. There’s nothing to look at, except for a circle of 40 loudspeakers standing primly like watchful guards. Yet through the space, a landscape of sound moves like a wave of ever-shifting color, haunting and serene.
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GSIS Museum presents "13:52 Gawa" art exhibit
The GSIS Museum Lower Gallery presents "13:52 GAWA", an exhibit that features a series of varied format-sized artworks in oils, acrylics, watercolors, and sculptures.
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Animal art
Art, craft and animal lovers are being invited to a new exhibition in Beverley. The A is for Art exhibition opened on Saturday and includes work by Scarborough-based sculptor Karen Trower and "rag-ruggers" Lewis and Louisa Creed from York. (07/07/2008 09:17:57)
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Sixty Plus: Mozart festival combines beautiful music and scenery
Vermont might be a little off the beaten path, but it holds some gifted musicians and some strong music enthusiasts who have taken this idea of a European-inspired music festival designed by artistic director Mel Kaplan and made it an annual tradition.
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Historic political printing plates up for auction by N.J. company
CONCORD, N.H. -- As Americans watch history being made in this year's presidential race, researchers in New Hampshire have been examining a one-of-a-kind treasure of printing plates that gave earlier generations a front-row seat to political history.
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First Minister (Wales) Opens Exhibition To Mark 60th Anniversary Of National Health Service
On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the National Health Service, First Minister Rhodri Morgan paid a visit to Tredegar, the birthplace of its founder, Aneurin Bevan - and call for a new covenant between the public and the NHS. "Everyone can rest assured that the NHS will always be there for them when it's needed," said the First Minister.
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Potter John at crafts display
LOCAL potter John Warren will join the throng of world-renowned guest exhibitors at a crafts show at Michelham Priory next month. (01/07/2008 10:42:42)
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Namedropper
Scranhattan Festival a downtown delight
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Oppikoppi's monster line-up
The OppiKoppi music festival has confirmed its return once again with a WildCard August Festival at Northam.
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Queen Mother gin letter sells at auction for £16k
A note in which the Queen Mother asked her aide to pack gin and Dubonnet has sold for £16,000.
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What to watch
Today on TV Being compared to van Gogh is an impressive start for a young artist, and it was the welcome that greeted neo-expressionist Chuck Connelly when he joined the art scene in New York in the 1980s. Connelly sold $1 million-plus of his work and was represented by a top art dealer. But the story lacks a fairy-tale ending, at least so far, according to The Art of Failure: Chuck Connelly ...
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Special: Jatin Kampani's amazing images
Jatin Kampani 's tryst with photography began when he was in Class VI. Inspired by his father Vasant, an uncle and some of his school teachers, he graduated to become a professional photographer in 1996.
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Drawing: not a lost art for architects
Even in an age when most architectural design work is carried out on computers, many architects still draw by hand at least part of the time. As a precursor to the city's annual Artscape festival later this month, the Baltimore Architecture Foundation is presenting four exhibits on Sunday to display the range of work architects produce when they aren't sitting in front of a computer terminal. ...
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Festivals to have a green ambience downriver
Two Downriver summer festivals to be held this week will be more eco-friendly this year.
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Spencer's restored work on display in Canastota
CANASTOTA - As Joe DiGiorgio, president of the Canastota Canal Town Corporation's board of directors, put it, 2007 was a pretty good year for the Canal Town Museum, capped with the corporation's securing of funding to conserve four paintings-two oil-on-canvas portraits and two oil-on-board ovals-by mid-19th century upstate New York landscape painter and portraitist Frederick R. Spencer.
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First place: Modern art elicits emotions, insights from exhibit visitors
SAN FRANCISCO - Picture yourself surrounded by a mass of ice in a place where the temperature barely rises to 18 degrees Fahrenheit. Your only source of warmth is coming from a thin blanket.
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Rothbury: How the fans judged it
Nearly all who attended this year's Rothbury festival gave it high praise --- here's a selection of what they had to say.
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PHOTO: Eagle eyes
The secret to carving a bald eagle from a piece of white pine is to whittle away everything that doesn't look like an eagle. Artist Rich Kranz of Adams puts the finishing touches on his sculpture Saturday at Art on the Farm, held at the Jake and Pam Hines farm near Oxford. Pam Hines, a watercolor artist, said the event was held in conjunction with Oxford's sesquicentennial, but she hopes to ...
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MOCA tackling contemporary art world changes
Andy Warhol, though dead for 21 years, has left a mark on the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson in the past year, especially so in recent weeks for Executive Director Anne-Marie Russell.
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