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Painting trains: Full steam ahead
The motorcar had little impact on 20th-century art. There are a handful of good car-paintings, and they're all oddities. Somehow, painters couldn't make the automobile work for them. The aeroplane didn't fare much better. (Yet think how cinema has adored both cars and planes.) But the train – surely that's another story? Paintings have loved trains. Was it simply all that steam?
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The first step to combating gang activity: Report it
MORGANTON - Police have issued warrants for two men for painting graffiti on buildings in downtown Morganton. Investigator David Curry with the Morganton Department of Public Safety said the two males, a 19- and a 20-year-old, are responsible for "graffiti tagging," an artistic form of graffiti that is usually not gang related, but is still a crime. Curry said there have been cases of gang ...
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The 5-minute Interview: Simon Patterson, Artist
Patterson, 41, is best known for his 'Great Bear' – a reworking of the London Tube map. In 1996, he was shortlisted for the Turner Prize. His 'Undersea World and Other Stories' exhibition opens at the National Maritime Museum tomorrow
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Rome's chattering classes fear new Mayor may axe film festival
Some of Italy's cultural stars are already bemoaning the end of a golden age following the election of the rightist candidate Gianni Alemanno as Mayor of Rome, which has placed a question mark over the future of the city's lavish film festival.
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All Events for 1 May 2008
Until 04 May 2008 Mixed media arts.... more details Until 31 Dec 2008 Housed in three canalside warehouses in East London the museum contains a collection of objects telling the story of life in the East End, past and present. ...
My Tower Hamlets |
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Revue to light stage at Kingsport center
KINGSPORT — The Red Hot and Blue Revue comes to the Kingsport Renaissance Center on Saturday, offering four different regional acts with a distinct Americana flavor.
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UNIQLO ART
TO CELEBRATE this year's UT Project, Uniqlo 's annual T-shirt collaboration with some of the world's top creatives, the label is unveiling The UT Gallery: a one-off exhibition space filled with portraits showcasing the collection.
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Amoruso: torn between two lovers
He is unmistakeably Italian. The hair is long, sleek and black. The skin is tanned. Lorenzo Amoruso may not be the epitome of Renaissance man, but he would have made the ideal subject for a Michelangelo sculpture.
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All Events for 1 May 2008
Until 31 Dec 2008 The Bramah Museum is in two sections, one telling the story of tea over four hundred years, the other telling the story of coffee. Both sections display a collection of ceramics, metalwork and...
My Village Southbank |
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Grand Theft Auto 4 hits the streets
NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES - Grand Theft Auto 4 went on sale on Tuesday, with fans lining up to grab the first copies of the criminal action game hailed as a brutal and satirical masterpiece equal to films like The Godfather.
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The Loupe comes to Hifa
A play titled The Loupe by Edzai Isu will make its world premiere at this year’s Harare International Festival of the Arts at The Standard Theatre.
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Fashion designers set to exhibit their garments
THE country’s most progressive designers will have their garments exhibited at the ongoing Harare International Festival of the Arts.
The Herald |
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State Supreme Court overturns decision on Bair trust
The Board of Advisors for the Charles M. Bair Family Trust breached its duty when it closed the Bair family museum at Martinsdale six years ago, the Montana Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
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Zhou Peaches Vie With Overseas Art as Beijing Fair Goes Global
April 30 (Bloomberg) -- Budi Kustarto , showing his work for the first time in China, had barely finished hanging his oil paintings last week at the country's premier art fair when a group of Indonesian collectors snapped them up.
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Pen pals' letters to Africa featured in art exhibit
With the help of a Beloit College alumna, seven Stateline Area high school students are connecting with children in Senegal, Africa, but their handwritten letters - written in French - were on display before they reached their pen pals.
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Romance of the THREE KINGDOMS
For the second season running, the same three English clubs are contesting the Champions League semi-finals. Only Barcelona stand in the way of Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool as they attempt to capture Europe's biggest prize.
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MT Supreme Court reverses ruling on Bair museum
Reverses a decision that allowed a board of advisers to close the museum
KRTV Great Falls |
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Quick Bites
Kelly Anderson of Smithson Valley High School has been named Cutest Vegetarian Alive. The contest sponsored by PETA2, the youth arm of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, attracted more than 1,700 entries this year in the women's division.
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Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation Hosts Second Annual Connoisseur's Dinner
The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF), in partnership with Sotheby's, is hosting its second annual Connoisseur's Dinner on Thursday, May 1, 2008. The event will feature an extraordinary wine tasting and auction to benefit Alzheimer's drug discovery research, and is taking place at Sotheby's 10th floor galleries, 1334 York Avenue at 72nd Street, in New York City.
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Death
from Rupert Cefai's blog Apr 27, 2008 - 5:33:00 PM CET German artist Gregor Schneider is planning the ultimate performance piece: showing a person dying as part of an exhibition. “I want to display a person dying naturally in the piece or somebody who has just died,” he told The Art Newspaper . “My aim is to show the beauty of death.” [ Read ...
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Artistic lice-nse: Germans' living exhibit features heads full of cooties
"Art is no longer just a painting on the wall. Art is life, life is art." That's how the chief curator of the Museum of Bat Yam, near Tel Aviv, describes a controversial exhibition of seven young Germans. In this...
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3 share Brevard Idol first-place recognition
Brevard County is too big for just one Idol. At Saturday’s Melbourne Art Festival, a discrepancy was made in the announcement of the Brevard Idol winners. The three finalists survived three rounds of voting, surpassing a pool of 131 other sing ers.
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Sneak Peek: Nissan Exposes Future Z Car
When Mazda did it in the 1980s at its North American design studio in Irvine, the joke was that the sculpture was really a life-size copy of the hood and driver-side fender of a top-secret car sports car that everyone was speculating about.
Edmunds.com |
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Making a good impression: Nanoimprint lithography tests at NIST
In what should be good news for integrated circuit manufacturers, recent studies by the National Institute of Standards and Technology have helped resolve two important questions about an emerging microcircuit manufacturing technology called nanoimprint lithography—yes, it can accurately stamp delicate insulating structures on advanced microchips, and, no, it doesn`t damage them, in fact it ...
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Floating pig missing from Coachella music festival found ... in pieces
The missing floating pig has been found -- At least part of it anyway. Pieces of the white, spray painted pig were found dropped over two homes in a gated community in La Quinta on Monday.
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