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Weather can't hold off short flight
Festival-goers watch balloons begin to billow up from the ground Saturday night at the Logan County Airport.
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India Art Summit ends on mixed note in the capital
New Delhi, Aug 24 : The curtain came down on the India Art Summit 2008 in the capital on a mixed note as a pall of gloom descended on the participants and the organisers alike with the news that M.F. Husain's exhibition was ransacked here.
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Texas museums offer teachers summer art refresher
DALLAS (AP) - A group of teachers gathered at the Nasher Sculpture Center recently to stay abreast of the contemporary and modern art on display at North Dallas museums.
KXAN 36 Austin |
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Hirst auctioning off his art
Artist Damien Hirst says he hopes to reduce his art backlog by placing hundreds of pieces up for auction with the British auction house Sotheby's.The artist, known for works such as The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, said in addition to 34 butterfly paintings he created, he will auction off 223 other pieces at the London auction house next month, The Sunday Times ...
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Husain exhibition vandalized
New Delhi, Aug 24 : A protest exhibition organized in support of painter M.F. Husain, whose portrayal of Hindu goddesses has invited the wrath of Hindu activists, ran into rough weather here Sunday as some people vandalised his paintings.
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American licks the competition in air guitar contest
It was a rockin' performance by American Craig Billmeier - nickname Hot Lixx Hulahan - who triumphed at the annual world air guitar championships in Finland this year.
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Hirst auctioning off his art
LONDON, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Artist Damien Hirst says he hopes to reduce his art backlog by placing hundreds of pieces up for auction with the British auction house Sotheby's.
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Texas museums offer teachers summer art refresher
Associated Press - August 24, 2008 1:05 PM ET DALLAS (AP) - A group of teachers gathered at the Nasher Sculpture Center recently to stay abreast of the contemporary and modern art on display at...
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Jazz and jam reunite at the Midwest Gypsy Swing Fest in Fitchburg
The fifth annual Midwest Gypsy Swing Fest, held on Friday and Saturday at a farm in Fitchburg, felt more like a family picnic of talented jazz musicians than a festival. They played at Art in the Barn, with plastic chairs and bales of hay set up for seating. There were no aggressive sponsors, and the bathroom was located through the horse stall, next to a horse named Ringo.
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Ready-made Rockefeller linked to missing couple?
In the understated town of Cornish, N.H., where it is considered bad form to exhibit your wealth, the man calling himself Clark Rockefeller was driven around in an armored black Cadillac with bulletproof windows. He affected silk ascots and bragged that when it came to acquiring property, he could outbid anyone. He said that Helmut Kohl and Britney Spears were coming to dinner.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
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Death Race: Worth a Test Drive
The movie's a geeky machine masterpiece but can't quite match the vision of the original Death Race 2000
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Hollywood in support role at Venice film festival
The Venice film festival opens on Wednesday with Hollywood A-listers George Clooney and Brad Pitt on the red carpet for the Coen brothers' eagerly awaited "Burn After Reading," but from then on Tinseltown takes a back seat.
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Hollywood in support role at Venice film festival
By Mike Collett-White
Reuters via Yahoo! Philippines News |
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Sunday the 24th of August 2008
There are some incredibly striking works on display as part of Meta House's " Art of Survival " exhibition. I can hardly believe that I've been to the gallery several times for screenings recently and haven't stopped to look at the works on display.
Phnom Penh Post |
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The shock of the new and the old
The two most shockingly physical, viscerally wounding works of art on view in current exhibitions in London are Damien Hirst’s bisected shark, “Death Explained” (2007), at White Cube, and Rembrandt’s “The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp” (1632) at the National Gallery’s superb new Dutch Portraits show.
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Hirst’s cow and calf creation springs leak
He is lauded as one of the few contemporary artists whose work will have a lasting impact – but the trouble is, some of the work itself is not lasting too well.
Financial Times |
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Events Guides: Dogs at the mill, forrestation session, city walk, and more…
WHAT: Come! Sit! Stay! Dog Days of Summer at Todmorden Mills WHEN: August 24, 12 pm - 4 pm WHERE: Todmorden Mills ( 67 Pottery Rd.) Todmorden Mills Heritage Museum and Arts Centre will once again be going to the dogs Sunday when owners and their pets are invited to spend the afternoon participating in events and activities [...]
Spacing Wire |
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Vietnamese paintings displayed in China
VietNamNet Bridge - Three Vietnamese paintings are on show at an art exhibition which opened on August 21 as part of the Beijing Olympics.
Vietnam Net |
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Other nature: Moose Hill photo exhibit all about perspective
Like an alchemist, Fernando "Fred" Martins merges natural and man-made objects to create singular photographs that jar and mystify viewers' eyes and imaginations.
The MetroWest Daily News |
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Husain's paintings at 'parallel' exhibition vandalised 24 Aug 2008, 2107 hrs IST,PTI
NEW DELHI: A group of activists today destroyed frames of some paintings of M F Husain displayed at a 'symbolic protest exhibition' of the painter's work here.
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Vail seeking art for temporary outdoor display
"Water," by Jane DeDecker. Six outdoor sites are available in Vail for sculptures. Applications are due no later than Sept. 3.
Vail Daily |
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Phila. museum seeks chemical attraction
For anyone whose last foray into chemistry was being forced to memorize the periodic table of elements in high school, the Chemical Heritage Foundation wants you to take another look at a subject you may have vowed never to revisit after final exams.
WPVI-TV Philadelphia |
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Outside Lands '08 Video: Devendra Banhart
Outside Lands has proven a unique entry into the festival circuit in many ways, with chilly, misty temperatures not least among them. But Devendra Banhart was determined to bring as much summertime flair to his Saturday set as humanly possible, employing one of SPIN's favorite festival fixtures, the Ice Cream Man , to feed the fans with handfuls of creamy (albeit weather inappropriate) ...
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Husain's paintings at 'parallel' exhibition vandalised
A group of activists today destroyed frames of some paintings of M F Husain displayed at a exhibition of the painter's work here in New Delhi.
The Times of India |
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Husain's paintings at 'parallel' exhibition vandalised
A group of activists today destroyed frames of some paintings of M F Husain displayed at a 'symbolic protest exhibition' of the painter's work here.
The Economic Times |
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