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Damien Hirst Aims At Moving Out The Inventory
"Realising his British clientele can no longer soak up the quantity of art that he produces, Hirst is tapping the wider international market. He is putting 223 other works up for sale at Sotheby's next month in his first sale of newly produced art at a major auction house.
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Moscow's Tratyakov Wants To Build New Home For Modern Art
Russia's Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow's largest collection of Russian art, said it has begun talks with the city government to build a new space for its modern and contemporary art collection.
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In brief
Twelve members of the Abbey Theater Dublin Senior Players traveled to Baltimore in June to attend the Senior Theater USA Performance Festival.
This Week Dublin |
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Records expected at London art sales
Christie ’s and Sotheby ’s stand to make record profits for any auction in Europe from this week’s London sales of impressionist, modern and contemporary art.
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£100m race to keep Old Masters in National Gallery
Scotland's national art collection is under threat unless the National Galleries of Scotland can raise £100m in the next four years, after the Duke of Sutherland decided to sell 27 of the key paintings in the galleries on the open market.
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Missouri cave paintings give ancient insight
Missouri cave paintings give ancient insight
Columbia Missourian |
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DWTC records 40pc rise in visitors for first half of 2008
DUBAI - More than 500,000 visitors attended a record number of events at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre (DICEC) in the first six months of 2008 - an increase of 40 per cent over the same period last year.
Khaleej Times |
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Art fair could swell philanthropist’s empire
When rumours began surfacing last month that Louise MacBain was in talks to buy one of the world’s biggest art fairs, it was not the first round of buzz about the Canadian philanthropist and art collector.
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DNC BITS: In praise of J.Lo; Longoria, Bening and Dawson salute women; Democracy melts
It was tough not to trip over a celebrity Wednesday afternoon at the Denver Art Museum, but famous multi-tasker Jennifer Lopez was all business as she honored Marian Wright Edelman, founder of
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Art market is hotter than ever
When Picasso’s “Boy with a Pipe” fetched a record $104m (£53m, €79m) at a Sotheby’s New York auction in 2004, it was the talk of the town. Never before had an artwork commanded more than $100m and the deal made news outside the art world.
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Brad Pitt, George Clooney light up Venice red carpet
VENICE -- Hollywood megastars George Clooney and Brad Pitt helped kick off the 65th Venice film festival, taking to the red carpet along with their directors the Coen brothers in "Burn After Reading."
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Why curators stay at home
When I interviewed 28-year-old curator Shinya Watanabe a month ago, he surprised me when he said his dream was to curate Documenta, the massive exhibition of international contemporary art held once every five years in Kassel, Germany. He might as well have said all he wanted was to be the most famous curator in the world. In the last two decades, Japan's visual artists have become as prominent ...
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Casting Asia as a player
SINGAPORE - Asian contemporary art has seen its star rise markedly in recent years. Yet the region has yet to produce art fairs to rival those in the West like Art Basel in Switzerland, Frieze Art Fair in London, the Armory Show in New York and Art Basel Miami Beach.
Khaleej Times |
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Gallery shows off Obama-inspired street art
DENVER (AP) - In a scruffy gallery topped with the word "HOPE" sculpted out of bike wheels, some of the biggest names in street art are displaying work inspired by Barack Obama's presidential campaign.
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Indecisive moments
Henri Cartier-Bresson's legacy of the "decisive moment" had a profound impact on photography. As a cofounder of the photographic cooperative Magnum Photos in 1947, his philosophy influenced a whole generation of photojournalists, and, for decades, Magnum photographers were instrumental in constructing the popular impression of reality. They crafted a collective memory of history as a set of ...
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Contemplative in Gunma
The Hara Museum ARC in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, has just opened a revolutionary new space designed by world-renowned architect Arata Isozaki that interweaves motifs of Japanese traditional architecture and art with modern ones. Called the Kankai Pavilion, the exciting new exhibition space is being launched with "Beyond Time, Beyond Space," an exhibit running till Sept. 23. The Kankai ...
The Japan Times |
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Japanese Fall Festival scheduled Sept. 5-7
The Springfield Sister Cities Association will host its 12th annual Japanese Fall Festival Friday Sept. 5, through Sunday Sept. 7, at the Mizumoto Japanese Stroll Garden at Nathanael Greene/Close Memorial Park, 2400 S. Scenic Ave.
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Art Adventures trips planned for September and October
The Springfield Regional Arts Council's Sept. 27 Arts Adventure will take participants to Kansas City to see the 38,000-square-foot Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (designed by world-renowned architect Kyu Sung Woo).
The Springfield News-Leader |
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'Art for the Cure' opens Aug. 30 at Phoenix Art Museum
As if being the founder of Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure and Chief of Protocol of the United States weren’t enough, breast cancer survivor and advocate Nancy G. Brinker is also an art collector.
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Museum receives two Acee Blue Eagle originals
The Five Civilized Tribes Museum received two original paintings by Acee Blue Eagle from the Weaver family. The family donated “Buffalo Dance,” 1935, and the “Shield and Spear Dancer,” 1937, as an addition to the museum’s art collection.
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Play ball: Art and sports hit it off during second annual celebration
Tom Fedor/the Gazette Member Ron Roos takes a closer look as the Frederick Arts Council committee reduces the hundreds of entries down to a final 75 baseballs for Friday's Art in the Park auction at Harry Grove Stadium.
Gazette.Net |
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Bodies in Motion
Video, dance, painting and drawing combine at the UA to break down barriers between art forms
Tucson Weekly |
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Lost in Juarez
This true-crime book centering on a renowned forensic sculptor fails to enlighten
Tucson Weekly |
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Next Gen fest spotlights digital films
When Jaime Gonzalez's documentary short about American outsourcing won acceptance to festivals a few years ago, he was glad for the exposure. But he wasn't so sure about the projection.
The Sacramento Bee |
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Kate Moss Is Solid Gold Supermodel
Supermodel Kate Moss has been immortalised in solid gold in a £1.5m statue to go on show at the British Museum.
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