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U.S. Stocks End Up Sharply As Jobs Cheer Offsets Oil Surge
U.S. Stocks End Up Sharply As Jobs Cheer Offsets Oil Surge
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UBS To Pay $1 Mln Over Auction-rate Securities Sales
UBS To Pay $1 Mln Over Auction-rate Securities Sales
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U.S. Stocks Rally Back As Jobs Cheer Offsets Oil Surge
U.S. Stocks Rally Back As Jobs Cheer Offsets Oil Surge
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Scientists recreate hidden Van Gogh portrait
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A team of European scientists unveiled on Wednesday a new method for extracting images hidden under old masters’ paintings, recreating a color portrait of a woman’s face unseen since Vincent van Gogh painted over it in 1887.
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Digital arts age draws new visitors/vendors to Malibu Arts Festival
Malibu residents Dick Van Dyke and Suzanne Sommers, longtime supporters of the Malibu Arts Festival, show an original painting by Wesley Van Dyke (left), Dick's grandson and featured artist of the 37th annual arts festival, which took place this past weekend at the Civic Center in Malibu.
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NOTHING COMPARES
A few minutes after the Whitney Museum opened its doors for pay-what-you-will admission this past Friday, six half-naked, masked, paint-splattered men and women were checked smiling through museum security, elevatored to an upstairs gallery and allowed to writhe, pose and hand out flyers on the floor to unsuspecting culture tourists in the name of…nothing.
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Good News in Alzheimer's Awareness, Research
Coinciding with this week's International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease at McCormick Place, a new exhibit premiering last Saturday at the Chicago Cultural Center means to use art to visually demonstrate the progression of the disease. Portraits from the Mind: The Works of William Utermohlen, 1955-2000 chronicles the artist’s life before and after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in ...
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S-B bookstore has role in T-C Film Festival
Brilliant Books of Suttons Bay has been asked to provide the book stall for the Traverse City Film Festival this week. "This is a tremendous honor for our little store," owner Peter Makin said. "We've only been in business since December."
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North Carolina sculptor dies in fall at home
Ruffin Hobbs, a noted sculptor and metal worker whose art graces universities including UNC Chapel Hill and Princeton died in a fall at his home that police believe was an accident.
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Collins College Computer Graphics Instructor to Exhibit Sculpture at SIGGRAPH 2008
Steve Gompf, a game design and interactive art instructor at Collins College, has been selected to display his mixed-media sculpture entitled, "Televisor 1910 German," at SIGGRAPH 2008.
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Monkey Bidness
4:00 PM -- Art meets dairy. 9news of Colorado has the story: This year's butter sculpture at the Ohio state fair is made from one ton of butter and resembles Mount Rushmore.
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Country singer headlines Heritage Day concert
Country-rock singer JT Moore will headline this year’s Heritage Day Festival concert on Monday, Aug. 4 at Cochrane Ranche Historic Site from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
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Monkey 'from Mars' at US crime lab 31 Jul 2008, 0012 hrs IST,AP
DECATUR (GEORGIA): Other museums might have more or flashier items to display. But only the mini-museum of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation can boast of possessing such an other-world oddity as the monkey from Mars.
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TORONTO - James Fenwick Lansdowne, one of Canada's renowned wildlife artists whose works have been exhibited around the world, has died. He was 71.
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A team of European scientists unveiled on Wednesday a new method for extracting images hidden under Old Masters' paintings, recreating a colour portrait of a woman's face unseen since Vincent van Gogh painted over it in 1887.
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'Worth A Dam' Hosts Beaver Festival
MARTINEZ, Calif. -- The Martinez non-profit organization "Worth a Dam" will host a beaver festival Saturday to celebrate the Alhambra Creek beaver family, according to event organizer Linda Meza.
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WELCOME GUEST! Major shows of works by Pablo Picasso, Raoul Dufy and Italian Renaissance artist Mantegna are among the exhibitions scheduled to be held in Paris in the autumn, museums said Wednesday.
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The Black Ghosts @ Turntable Lab 7/27/08
Sunday night, The Black Ghosts had a late start at Turntable Lab for the release party for their new self-titled album. There was an amiable crowd hanging around in anticipation though, checking out the dj store's collection of street art and photography books, tee shirts and spinning equipment. They were also drinking free Sparks and pocketing free "mixtape" cds from the band. The Black ...
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David Miliband could be positioning to take over from Gordon Brown
With the prime minister on holiday, his foreign secretary has written a newspaper article setting out what Labour must do to win the next election. The article has been interpreted by some as a bid for the leadership, and Miliband has refused to rule himself out of a future contest.
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Noted NC Sculptor Dies In Fall At Home
BURLINGTON, N.C. - A noted sculptor and metal worker whose art graces universities including UNC-Chapel Hill and Princeton died in a fall at his home that police believe was an accident.
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The Lighter Side of Contact Center Management
Managing a contact center is serious business, but three talented people who come up with the best humorous one-liner about the experience will win fabulous prizes and the undying adulation of their amused peers in the ACCE 2008 Cartoon Caption Contest.
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National Museum of American History Will Open Nov. 21
Star-Spangled Banner Gallery, White House Copy of Lincolns Gettysburg Address Are Highlights of Opening Year Exhibitions
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Hidden Van Gogh Double-Painting Revealed
New X-ray tech reveals portrait hidden by Van Gogh beneath a landscape.
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Home is where the art is
For these couples, decorating isn't work — it's artwork.... By Megan Voeller HUGH T. WILLIAMS & CARRIE WAITE: Rocking their worldIf the guitars on display in his living room didn't tip you off that Hugh T. Williams loves rock 'n' roll, the paintings he makes — and often hangs in the home he shares with his wife, photographer Carrie Waite — would. There's the stoic portrait of Johnny Cash and the ...
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Noted NC sculptor dies in fall at home
A noted sculptor and metal worker whose art graces universities including UNC-Chapel Hill and Princeton died in a fall at his home that police believe was an accident.
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