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Guernica Undergoes its Last Thorough Exam in Madrid
Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937. Photo: Courtesy of Reina Sofia Museum. MADRID.- A painting is a living being. And Guernica, also, has privileges. That is why it is treated, it is cared for and it is examined constantly. It is permanently looked after.
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Sorolla's Vision of Spain Arrives at the Centro de Arte Contemporaneo in Malaga
View of the painting "Castilla: La fiesta del pan" from the exhibition "Sorolla. Visión de España", which was inaugurated this past week at the Centro de Arte de Contemporáneo de Málaga. Photo: EFE / López Perujo.
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Film shows fight over El Paso conquistador statue
DALLAS -- When a renowned artist proposed creating the largest bronze equestrian sculpture ever made, El Paso leaders thought the project would help beautify the border city while honoring a founding father.
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Legendary t'nalak weaver featured in photo exhibit
KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato (MindaNews/20 July) – A photo exhibit on Lang Dulay, a legendary weaver of T’nalak opened on July 16 to raise public awareness of her existence and to pay tribute this lone National Living Artist from South Cotabato.
Minda News |
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Dancers make winning video
Dawn's Dance Studio has been notified as the winner of an Internet contest to receive $500 and opportunity to be in a video with Kidd Skilly featuring Akon "Ni Sohniye" (pretty girl).
The Yuma Sun |
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Museum Board Recommends Selling L.P. Davis House
LOWELL -- The two-story white house was imagined as the future home of the Lowell Historical Museum.
The Morning News |
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The Museum of the Moving Image Hits the Road
Anyone who's visited the Museum of the Moving Image in recent months — particularly during the last two weeks, since the museum reopened some of its temporarily closed galleries — is already well-aware that the institution is in the middle of an immense, $65 million renovation and expansion. By the time the new-and-improved museum opens in late 2009 (or early 2010), visitors will be greeted by a ...
The New York Sun |
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Seattle's Greg Lundgren Sells "The Artistic Death"
"What if 30 people got together to buy themselves space in a Jeff Koons? Cemeteries are among the last urban green spaces. They need to be sculpture parks.
Arts Journal |
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Hiawatha offers more than music
The Hiawatha Music Fest features a variety of activities for all ages. Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 10:05 p.m. MARQUETTE -- Thousands of traditional music lovers from across the mid-west gathered in Tourist Park this weekend for the 30th Annual Hiawatha Music Festival.
WLUC Marquette |
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Television - National
Josh helps celebrate Maori Language Week by visiting the fantastic exhibitions at the Auckland Museum.
Scoop.co.nz |
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Reviews: Sara Daneshpour at Mannes College and Steven Beck at Bargemusic
If a performer begins and ends well, few will remember what he or she did in the middle. Unfortunately, the opposite also holds true. At the International Keyboard Institute and Festival on Thursday at Mannes College, the fine pianism of Sara Daneshpour more than compensated for a hesitant start and a timid conclusion. Ms. Daneshpour is a graduate of the Curtis Institute, where she studied with ...
The New York Sun |
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Artistic Recycling
Altering books--taking a used book and turning it into a piece of art by cutting, slicing, stamping and painting--has a growing following in the craft and art worlds.
WestportNow |
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Tangram 3DS wins animation award
PORTSMOUTH and#8212; Tangram 3DS, a firm specializing in visualization and computer animation, announces that its animation for architect Johann Lettner in Vienna, Austria, took Best of Interactive at the N.H. Creative Club's 20th annual exhibition. The...
Portsmouth Herald |
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The Sopranos - Sopranos Actor Sells Highest-earning Show Memorabilia
An actor on hit U.S. TV series THE SOPRANOS has sold the most expensive piece of memorabilia related to the show - an original painting of the series' stars TONY and ...
ContactMusic |
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Famicase Exhibition Fuses Yesterday's Famicom Cartridges With Today's Curious Artistic Minds [Famicom Art]
Rounding out our Nintendo news trifecta today is the annual Famicase art exhibition. It's like many other art exhibitions from around the world, made infinitely cooler by the fact that the artwork is...
Gizmodo |
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Musician’s hobby that changed the landscape of photography
He was a Glasgow piano salesman, musician and businessman who in his spare time was the first man to document Scotland's beautiful landscapes in photographic form.
The Herald |
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Legendary T’nalak weaver featured in photo exhibit
KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato (MindaNews) – A photo exhibit on Lang Dulay, a legendary weaver of T’nalak opened on July 16 to raise public awareness of her existence and to pay tribute this lone National Living Artist from South Cotabato.
Mindanao Times |
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Chit Chat at the Gallery - Pecha Kucha
The amazing Pecha Kucha (ペチャクチャ), Japanese for chit chat, is coming to City Gallery Wellington, Wednesday, 30 July. Taking the “lecture” out of a lecture series, Pecha Kucha is a presentation format in which 10 or more outspoken-creative-types are limited to the 20X20 Pecha Kucha rule.
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Wellington zine artist makes home-made history
Don’t move house, be sure to feed hungry ghosts and keep your sugar bowl full next month. August is the month of the Ghost Festival (15 August) or ‘Chinese Halloween’ - the time when spirits of the dead visit the living.
Scoop.co.nz |
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Love on canvas
THE art exhibition “Painted Stories, Conditional Love” by Anurendra Jegadeva is the artist’s first solo exhibition since his return from Australia in 2005.
The New Straits Times |
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RBTL supports Renaissance Square project
In an effort to pump up support for the Renaissance Square project, the Rochester Broadway Theatre League is appealing to its member-base for support.
WROC Rochester |
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Arab artists in creative display
Art Centre. Focusing on the theme 'Souq Waqif', the artists have started working on the first of their two masterpieces, which will automatically enter the competition.
The Peninsula |
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Hitler drawings raise survivors' ire
Drawings of Adolf Hitler took center stage at a student exhibit at the Bezalel Institute of Art in Jerusalem, raising the ire of the Center for Holocaust Survivor Organizations in Israel.
Haaretz Daily |
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This Weeks Events
Until 03 Aug 2008 Leeway: Photographs of Hackney Wick by James Robertshaw.... more details Until 31 Dec 2008 The museum was established in 1986 and houses art displays, an education room and object stores relating to the history of Hackney and the worldwide roots of its people....
My Village Stokenewington |
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You write the reviews: Hugh Lane 100 Years, Dublin City Gallery, the Hugh Lane, Dublin
I don't need an excuse to visit my favourite gallery in Dublin, but this centenary exhibition provided one. For those unfamiliar with the Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane, an introduction may be necessary. The collector and dealer Hugh Lane was the driving force behind the establishment of what is claimed to be the world's oldest modern art gallery.
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