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First Night: Burn After Reading, Venice Festival Opening Film
"Report back to me when it makes sense," the CIA boss tells an underling midway through the Coen brothers' deliriously confusing comedy thriller, which opened the Venice Festival last night. Infidelity, divorce, murder, online dating, personal fitness, spying and cosmetic surgery are the ingredients in a plot which pulls in many directions at once.
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English artist holding her first exhibition in Malaysia
EVER wanted to see how the conscious mind of an artist would look like? Then the Stream of Conscious-ness exhibition by artist Hannah Campion is the place to get a glimpse into the sense of awareness.
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Mid-autumn festival brings a selection of delicious mooncakes
In conjunction with the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Mid Valley Megamall is offering delicious mooncakes created by hotel chefs from around Kuala Lumpur.
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Photography exhibition an eye-opening experience for many
Four-year-old Nurina Najwa Hamdi could barely contain her excitement when she laid her eyes on the colourful photographs displayed at the Changing Malaysia 51st National Day photo exhibition recently.
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Galleries unite to save priceless Titians for Britain
Two of Britain's leading art institutions are to join forces to take advantage of a cut price offer to save for the nation two works by Italian Renaissance master Titian.
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Galleries unite to save priceless Titians for Britain
Two of Britain's leading art institutions are to join forces to take advantage of a cut price offer to save for the nation two works by Italian Renaissance master Titian.
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Four months to save £300m masterpieces by Renaissance master Titian
Two of the most important paintings in Britain could be lost to the nation unless £100 million is found to keep them. The paintings, by the Renaissance master Titian, are believed to be worth £300 million on the open market, but are offered at a discount to the nation by the Duke of Sutherland.
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A Day in the Life of Maxim.com Photo Editor Kelly Stuart
Kelly Stuart's job at Maxim.com is more of a mixed bag than that of most magazines' online photo editors. Having come from an art photography background and worked at the site for seven years, she has gradually assumed more and more roles.
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Galleries unite to save priceless Titians for Britain
Two leading art institutions are to join forces to take advantage of a cut price offer to save for the nation two works by Italian Renaissance master Titian.
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Contestants get ready for Miss Sweet 16
The Miss Sweet 16 contest is an annual event at the Old Threshers Reunion. Image courtesy Henderson Photography. This year's contestants for the Miss Sweet 16 contest were taken around the grounds Friday afternoon in a closed meeting.
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Exhibit highlights working artists
All included in show maintain jobs while finding time to create
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Bacon show for Zhukova and Abramovich
CCC Moscow, the new gallery set up by Daria Zhukova, girlfriend of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, will host a Francis Bacon exhibition in 2010.
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Nervous curators fear for art as duke calls in his loan
The moment that every museum chief most dreads came to John Leighton late last year.
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RIC to display pictures taken by Andy Warhol
Rhode Island College has received a new collection of pop art. The college has been given 159 photographs and prints taken by the late artist Andy Warhol.
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Big names light up the fall pop schedule
Festivals include mariachi (Los Tigres del Norte, Pepe Aguilar, El Chapo de Sinaloa, Ersi Arvizu, Linda Ronstadt, Lila Downs, Aida Cuevas), bluegrass and more (Robert Plant, Alison Krauss, T Bone Burnett, Emmylou Harris, Elvis Costello, Richard Thompson), blues (Johnny Winter, Hot Tuna, Buckwheat Zydeco, Denise LaSalle, Elvin Bishop, Honeyboy Edwards) and indie artists (Jack White's Raconteurs, ...
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City votes on art
Bringing the Archibald Prize exhibition to the Hunter is just one of the ideas to spring out the week-long series of conversations at the Maitland Regional Art Gallery.
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WELLESLEY, Mass. - Wellesley College has lost a 1921 painting by French cubist Fernand Leger that was likely worth millions of dollars, officials said.
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Las Vegas Sun
Bridge to Forgiveness art exhibit at Atomic Testing Museum (9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Atomic Testing Museum) The Atomic Testing Museum will feature an exhibit of collage ...
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Venice Film Festival opens
VENICE, Italy - The Venice Film Festival opened Wednesday night with the premiere of the Coen brothers' dark comedy "Burn After Reading," giving a flash of Hollywood glamour to a festival lineup with a definite art house feel.
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Shelter Valley Festival: more than music
As usual, the Shelter Valley Folk Festival (SVFF) Artists’ Village will be filled with an inspiring array of visual artists showing and selling their high-quality, original work.
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Professor of Fine Arts wins prestigious award
A quest to document the unique qualities of Antarctic light, space and atmospheric phenomena, has seen Professor of Fine Arts Anne Noble granted a United States National Science Foundation artists and writers award.
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Don't make short shrift of the potential gems at 1-Reel Film Festival
1-Reel Film Festival showcases great, short films at Bumbershoot.
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Curtain to rise on Sharonville arts center
There's no trace of the tree that was growing out of the floor of the gallery, and the theater simply lacks a curtain. The Sharonville Fine Arts Center is ready for business.
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For this Fil-Am artist, art is a diary
No formal introduction is necessary to know Filipina artist Toots Magsino. Her art is her personal story. Browsing through her paintings is like sifting through the pages of a memoir.
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art Till August 30 at Galerie La Mere, 3 Regent Park; 4 pm - 8 pm:
Freedom — an exhibition of the works of 33 eminent artists. Till August 30 at Chemould Art Gallery, 12F Park Street; 2 pm - 7 pm: Window of Mind , the third solo exhibition of paintings by Indrajit Ghosh.
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