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Mown a Lisa
An art-obsessed gardener has had the Mona Lisa mown into her lawn. Tania Ledger, from Croydon, employed a 3D art expert who reconstructed the famous painting for the The Da Vinci Code film to do the same in her garden.
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Andy Warhol’s $28m “Athletes” in Chinese capital for the Games
LONDON. A complete set of Andy Warhol’s silkscreen and acrylic paint “Athletes” series will go on show at the Faurschou gallery in Beijing on 26 July in an exhibition timed to coincide with the Olympics.
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Carver creates artwork from logs
Ben Schlitz is proof that you can never have enough tools. Schlitz, 27, an artist in Chicago's Beverly community, has about 20 chain saws in his workshop. Yes, chain saws. He carves his artwork from logs, trees and other pieces of wood, and is often hired by folks in the neighborhood to decorate their yards.
SouthtownStar |
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Classical festival takes over the city
In olden days they used to bombard European cities with huge javelins, balls of fire and disease-ridden dead animals. Fast forward several hundred years and siege combat has swapped its machines of war for those of music.
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Pie-tasting contest not a piece of cake thanks to unsavory flashbacks
One autopsy, 27 pies, and a baker's dozen of unappetizing flashbacks. That pretty much sums up my work day last Wednesday. On Pie Day at the Porter County Fair, I found myself on a small stage inside the Expo East building.
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Art center to close after one more show
Downtown Brighton's Art on Main will close its doors Aug. 17 after its final exhibit.
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Art shows utility in urban zone
Strip malls, fast food chains, closed businesses and cracked parking lots line the half-mile stretch of East Tropicana Avenue.
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EXHIBITIONISTS
BIRDS do it, bees do it . . . and bono bos probably overdo it. Nor are those promiscuous primates alone. Apparently, camels shag themselves silly in the sand, dolphins are into water sports - and kangaroos go down under. On themselves. Darwin be...
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Much more than soup cans: welcome to Warhol according to Warhol
Think of Warhol, and images of Campbell's Soup Cans and Marilyn spring to mind. But the artistic output of Andy Warhol was so rich and varied, and encompassed so many media, that it is almost impossible to grasp.
Guardian Unlimited |
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Jason Heller
Specialize in underwater and travel photography. Provide ad agencies and magazines with solutions to conceptual imagery needs. Established editorial and advertising photographer.
FashionGates.com |
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Western artworks sell for more than $9 million in Reno
RENO, Nev. — Two iconic pieces by Charles M. Russell — a painting depicting a stagecoach holdup and a bronze sculpture of two American Indians on a buffalo hunt — have sold at an auction for more than $9 million.
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NEW B'KLYN PARK A HIT
A tiny taste of one of the state's most highly contested projects -- Brooklyn Bridge Park -- has quietly become one of New York City's biggest summer attractions. Since popping up with little fanfare June 26 in Brooklyn Heights on a sliver of the...
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Our Towns
OCEAN CITY -- The Art League of Ocean City will host a judged photography exhibit running from Aug. 1 through Aug. 30.
The Daily Times |
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Kanye West wows
Reaction to the rapper's festival set
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Westhaven blackberry festival comes to fruition
WESTHAVEN -- With the coastal fog rolling over Pilot Rock, through the forest crowns and down car-lined 6th Avenue, the weather may not have been perfect in the eyes of the crowd gathered Sunday at the Westhaven Volunteer Fire Department,
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Needle work
For an art form that’s been around since prehistoric times, tattooing is still pretty controversial. Depending on whom you ask, it’s art, craft, personal statement, a unique mode of artistic exhibition or just plain out there.
Tacoma News Tribune |
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'Toxic' infighting tarnishes Canada's National Gallery
Several leading arts administrators and gallery curators say they are deeply concerned about seeing a Crown corporation that draws 400,000 visitors each year racked with turmoil
The Globe and Mail |
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Casper briefs
"King John" comes to art museum Tickets are on sale now for Friday's performance of William Shakespeare's "King John" by the Wyoming Shakespeare Festival Company at the Nicolaysen Art Museum & Discovery Center. The production begins at 7 p.m. and is directed by Diane Springford.
Casper Star-Tribune |
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A gallery of one's own
There are three women on this year's Turner prize shortlist, and female gallerists dominate the art world. So what's the point of a museum of art by women, asks Joanna Moorhead
Guardian Unlimited |
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Russell art sells for more than $9 million in Reno
RENO, Nev. -- Two iconic pieces of artwork by Charles M. Russell -- a painting depicting a stagecoach holdup and a bronze sculpture of two Native Americans on a buffalo hunt -- have sold for more than $9 million at auction.
Casper Star-Tribune |
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Cinema Diverse a success
Cinema Diverse: The 2008 Gay & Lesbian Film Festival wrapped Sunday, and organizers said the inaugural event drew enough crowds to The Camelot Theatres that it would return next year.
The Desert Sun |
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Art Museum offers free admission
The Palm Springs Art Museum is offering free admission through the end of August.
The Desert Sun |
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Food and Wine Fest discounts available
Palm Desert residents are eligible for a 10 percent discount on selected event tickets for the 2008 Art of Food and Wine festival, Nov. 6-9.
The Desert Sun |
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MCOT Public Company Limited.2008
BEIJING, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Thirty special exhibits that showcase China's intangible cultural heritage will be open to many visitors free from Aug.9-Sept.17, during the Beijing Olympics and Paralympics, local media reported on Monday.
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DOCKING STATION: Danh Vo – Package Tour (2008-07-25 - 2008-08-30)
This summer, Docking Station, the project space of Stedelijk Museum CS presents: Package Tour, an installation by Danish/Vietnamese artist Danh Vo. It is an exhibition that centres on paradoxes, associations, facts and fictions, confronting the viewer with notions of ‘otherness’ and with a vision of identity as a construct. The installation consists of three recent works and a work specially ...
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