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3 Views of the Same Scene
Line up three painters in front of a landscape vista and the result will almost assuredly be three very different paintings, with each zooming in on a different aspect of the view.
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LONDON - Three sketches by Goya presumed lost for 130 years have sold for a total of about $8 million. Christie's says the sketches first went up for auction in Paris in 1877 and were presumed lost until a private Swiss collector contacted the auction house about them.
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14 vie for title of Miss Mitchell County 2008
Story created Jul 08, 2008 - 10:38:51 CDT. The 2008 Miss Mitchell County Fair Queen contest will take place at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, July 9, at the Mitchell County Fairgrounds. Fourteen young ladies will be competing for the 2008 title.
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Rediscovered Goya sketches sell for millions at London auction
LONDON - Three sketches by Goya presumed lost for 130 years have sold for a total of about $8 million.
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Children's Museum in dire financial straits, may need to close its doors
Despite a more than 60 percent increase in donations so far this year, the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton may close its doors by the end of the summer because its operating costs are too high.
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Foodoir Photography: Chocolate Love at Green Pastures
Photo by presbypanda on flickr Hungry to share your most provocative Austin food photos? Send them here. Make sure to include your name, where the photo was taken and a complete description of the food.
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Lee Rosenbaum's cultural commentary
Although NYU's planned college on Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island is being billed as a "comprehensive liberal arts campus," it seems to have a distinct art-and-architecture vibe: Mariët Westermann , former director of NYU's Institute of Fine Arts, is vice chancellor in charge of NYU Abu Dhabi; Hilary Ballon , former professor of art history and archaeology at Columbia University, is its associate ...
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North Hills interpreted
By Carolyn Sloan Spectator NovaNewsNow.com Now entering its third year, Artifacts and Interiors is an opportunity for public to watch artists at work as they interpret the community treasure that is the North Hills Museum. On July 13, from 10 am to 5 pm, a group of artists, working a variety of mediums, will set up inside and outside the museum in Granville Ferry...
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Festival will be biggest ever
FINAL preparations are being made for this year's BomFest in Locke Park next weekend. Organisers say this year's event will be the biggest music and art festival ever held in Barnsley.
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SPORTS HEADLINES
More than 80 bands played the Rothbury festival; and while I only managed to catch 26 of them, I feel like I got a fairly decent amount of music in for four days.
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Mint Museum Exhibit Features Haute Couture
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The Mint Museum of Art is showing off a portion of one of its largest and least well-known collections -- haute couture. Haute couture refers to custom-made clothing.
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New Release Tuesday: Beck
Beck Modern Guilt (XL) It's Beck's birthday, and this future Austin City Limits festival headliner is celebrating with the release of his latest, Modern Guilt. Produced by Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley) and featuring none other than Chan Marshall (Cat Power), Guilt oozes pop noir. Squeaking in at just 30 minutes, the album is a slight addition to Beck's library, but it's a ...
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Morse Museum building new $6M to $7M wing
The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art announced plans to spend between $6 million and $7 million to build a 10,000-square-foot addition.
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David Koch: Painting With Technology
View more computer-aided paintings by David Koch, one of the artists featured in the September 2008 issue of American Artist. Breakfast Thoughts 2007, oil on linen, 20 x 16. Collection the artist.
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This Is Why You Don't Paint Sysadmins [Art]
In an attempt to paint the geekiest piece of artwork in the history of man, one artist painted his friend (a sysadmin) in a server room being assisted by Marvin the Paranoid Android (from The...
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ConocoPhillips, Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. to Develop Shah Gas Field
ConocoPhillips and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) have signed an Interim Agreement to develop the Shah Gas Field in Abu Dhabi.
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'I thought it was going to be a lot worse than it was'
ROTHBURY -- The last of ROTHBURY'S 40,000 fans trickled out of the festival grounds Monday afternoon, capping off a weekend that didn't produce the problems locally some had expected.
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Park in south Russia gets Amsterdam-inspired breast sculpture
ROSTOV-ON-DON, July 8 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian sculptor inspired by a visit to Amsterdam's notorious red-light district has created a bas-relief sculpture of a woman's breasts, now on display in a south Russian town, local authorities said.
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Today's top things to do in Fort Collins
Looking for something to do today? Consider these events. Art - reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow is an excellent exhibit at the Fort Collins Museum of Modern Art, 201 S. College Ave. The display ends Saturday.
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For Everyday Photography, Cell Phones are Growing As Camera of Choice
Online mobile phone retailer, Wirefly has published the results of its new behavioral survey on consumer camera phone usage, showing significant penetration of cell phones as the camera of choice for young adults in the USA.
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Recent sightings: Peterson demolition
The Peterson Office Building is transformed into a cutaway skeletal shell as deconstruction crews continue dismantling panels of the structure on June 25, 2008. The demolition of the building will make way for a planned addition to the nearby Chazen Museum of Art and redevelopment of the East Campus Gateway.
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PEOPLE students to perform new skills
For three weeks, almost 450 Wisconsin high school students have been living the college life: eating in Gordon Commons, sleeping in Witte Hall and taking everything from science to fine arts classes during the day.
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'Ship of Fools' in Alameda
Hannah BeadmanThis piece is called "Journey Under Lock and Key: Bear," the artwork by Hannah Beadman from Germany as part of Autobody Fine Art's new show, "Ship of Fools," which runs through Aug.
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ConocoPhillips Joins Abu Dhabi National Oil Company in the Development of the Shah Gas Field
ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) today signed an Interim Agreement to develop the Shah Gas Field in Abu Dhabi.
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IPRN Wins Global Assignment from World-Famous Art Collection
The International Public Relations Network, a global network of leading PR agencies, has been assigned with the global communications mandate of the Foundation E.G. Buehrle Collection, one of the most important twentieth-century private collections of European paintings.
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