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Obituaries in the news
Perez Celis, an Argentine muralist, painter and sculptor, died Saturday. He was 69.
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Artist has serious message in prize-winning painting
By EMMA O'NEILL NOT many people could name more than a couple of breeds of chooks that scratch the earth.
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Indian culture takes center stage at Westchester festival
VALHALLA - The sights, melodies and aromas of Indian culture swept through the Kensico Dam Plaza today as Westchester County held its ninth annual Heritage of India Festival.
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Getting ready for the Burke County Fair
Just inside the exhibit hall at the Burke County Fairgrounds early Sunday afternoon, first-time competitor Lisa Fisher, right, and her mother, Mildred Walker, submit the cross-stitch work of art Fisher made as a gift for her dad. Emily Carswell, left, as a volunteer Ruritan member from George Hildebrand, helps in the process. The fair starts Tuesday.
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Music Review: Wild Sweet Orange - We Have Cause To Be Uneasy
Birmingham, Alabama indie band doesn't forget their southern roots in their full-length debut "We Have Cause To Be Uneasy." Hometown roots seem to always find their way into the music of its artists. It's natural and almost expected. This doesn't just apply to music, but every art form from literature to painting to sculpting. Who we are has a lot to do with where we come from.No other place in ...
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The “restaurant capital of New Jersey” will host the 12th annual Cape May Food & Wine Festival, presented by the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts (MAC). Some of the city’s premier restaurants, as well as the award-winning Cape May Winery, will present six days of food and wine activities from Sept. 20-25.
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Metro Watch
IN CONJUNCTION with World Breast-Feeding Week, Johor Specialist Hospital is organising a host of activities for mothers from August 1 to 7. There will be a breast-feeding poster exhibition from 8.30am and breast-feeding counselling from 10am to 5pm. For more information, call 019-710 8225.
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Sec. Rice w/ Aspen Institute CEO Walter Isaacson
PRESIDENT FLETCHER: Good afternoon. I'm Alan Fletcher. I'm President and CEO of the Aspen Music Festival and school. It is my great pleasure and honor to welcome you to 2008's Words and Music collaboration with the Aspen Institute.
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A Textbook Example of Ranking Artworks
The economist David Galenson is convinced that the type of economic analysis that explains the $4-plus gas at the pump can also explain the greatest artists of the last 100 or so years.
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Van Gogh's secret revealed
A team of European scientists have unveiled a new method of extracting images hidden under old masters' paintings without harming them, recreating a colour portrait of a woman's face unseen since Vincent van Gogh painted over it in 1887.
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Artwork donated to N. Idaho youth center
An anonymous donor in northern Idaho has given two oil paintings likely from the mid-1800s to the Filling Station Youth Center.
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The Tiger Beer Singapore Chilli Crab Festival
Tiger Beer Singapore Crab Festival may be a mouthful to pronounce, but it will certainly be in portion. Held in the trendy quarters of Brick Lane, the infamous, Truman Brewery will become home to the authentic Singaporean experience.
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Berlusconi makes a clean breast of it with cover-up of artist's masterpiece
CONTROVERSIAL Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has touched up a copy of an Italian masterpiece painting because too much breast was exposed, it emerged yesterday.
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Artwork donated to N. Idaho youth center
Associated Press - August 3, 2008 7:34 PM ET CLARK FORK, Idaho (AP) - An anonymous donor in northern Idaho has given two oil paintings likely from the mid-1800s to the Filling Station Youth...
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Serious swordplay in Colorado Shakespeare Festival's 'Three Muskateers'
Do you love Trashy Classics? Not the serious crap you’re supposed to appreciate. I mean the overwrought stuff that inflames your cheaper emotions. My favorite Trashy Classic moment came during Buntport Theater’s “Titus Andronicus!
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Buddhist centre organises durian fest to foster ties
A Durian Festival organised by the Chempaka Buddhist Lodge in Taman SEA, Petaling Jaya, attracted more than 1,000 people recently.
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Berlusconi accused of nudity cover-up
Venetian master Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's painting is retouched by aides to conceal nipple
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Tom Daley: The boy in the bubbles
Tom Daley is not the youngest person ever to contest an Olympic Games for Britain. When one newspaper suggested that he was, a chap called Ken Lester got in touch to point out, somewhat apologetically, that he had been 13 years and 144 days when he coxed for a rowing pair at the 1960 Olympics in Rome. When Daley competes in Beijing he will be 14 years and 81 days. But there is a more beguiling ...
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Tracy Emin's work crude and self-centred? That's missing the point
So much of Tracey Emin, and her techniques – paintings, sculptures, film, neon, installations, texts, embroidery, the list is endless – is contained in Tracey Emin: 20 Years that she confesses to having had a mini-crisis during the 10-day installation period. "I couldn't bear to look at myself in the mirror; couldn't stand the sound of my voice. I just couldn't take Tracey Emin any more. I just ...
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Hamfatter, Proud Gallery, Camden, London
During the day, the Proud Gallery in Camden is exhibiting a series of photographs of Sid Vicious, whose Sex Pistols did a remarkably effective job of hiding the commercial forces behind their music. Hamfatter, playing the same venue by night, will forever be known as the band backed (to the tune of £75,000) by businessman Peter Jones on BBC2's Dragons' Den. The relationship between their art ...
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The truth about love, Barbican, London
"Tell Me the Truth About Love": Zoë Wanamaker made the request on behalf of WH Auden at the start of this lively "journey through Mozart's operas" in the Barbican's Mostly Mozart festival. The responses were many and varied. The Auden, for instance, was met with anxious questions from Cherubino, the oversexed page-boy from The Marriage of Figaro. And speaking of raging hormones, Simon Russell ...
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Molly Fox's Birthday, By Deirdre Madden
Deirdre Madden's fiction is getting better and better. This seventh novel is, like its predecessor, Authenticity, shaped around an art form. With Authenticity, it was painting; this time it's acting. Molly Fox's profession is central to the theme of identity. The novel's three main characters are at odds with their background and upbringing, and each has managed to forge a more appropriate ...
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Caribana Cools Down On Olympic Island
The festival’s last main event brought thousands for music, food, and fun.
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A fabulous century for a day
TANYA Fane, daughter of the late June Webster, admires the portrait of her mother, a recipient of a 2008 International Women’s Day award, as part of a special photographic exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of the day.
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Cover-up ordered for the nude behind Berlusconi
The airbrushing of a bared female nipple in a priceless painting by the Baroque master Giambattista Tiepolo, hand picked by Silvio Berlusconi as the backdrop for ministerial press conferences, has caused more than a titter in Italy.
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