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U.K. National Galleries Seek 50 Million Pounds for Titian Work
Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- London's National Gallery and the National Galleries of Scotland seek to buy a Titian painting for 50 million pounds ($92 million) as part of a plan that would allow the U.K. to continue showing the most important private collection of Old Masters on loan to the nation.
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Fiddle contest fair for all ages
Kicking off the Sandwich Fair Fiddle Contest at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 3 on the AgLand Stage will be bluegrass recording artist, Ashley Lewis and Ashton Gap in concert.
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Official opening of Petrofac operated training centre in Dubai
Petrofac, the international oil & gas facilities service provider, has today announced the official opening of a new state-of-the-art training centre in Dubai.
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Owner lowers price on Titian for British galleries
Associated Press - August 28, 2008 5:23 AM ET LONDON (AP) - An aristocrat wants to sell a masterpiece of Renaissance painting to British public galleries if they can meet his $92 million asking...
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New summer festival to debut this Saturday at Blackberry Farm
AURORA -- A celebration of food, entertainment and family fun will come to life Saturday with the first annual Celetastity at Blackberry Farm.
The Beacon News |
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Local vendors add hometown flair to annual festival
Yorkville's 16th annual Hometown Days Festival kicks off Friday.
The Beacon News |
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CENTRAL NEW YORK NEWS
About a million people will go to the New York State Fair this year, viewing more than 375 acres of animals, displays and exhibits. But for teenagers like me, it's all about the midway.
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Check Out Auction
The Hotel Syracuse, the venerable downtown landmark that's been closed since 2004, is "resetting the plate." The owners are selling most of the contents of the "old hotel" at the South Warren Street historic building Saturday, beginning at 11 a.m.
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Gallery shows 'Memorable Journey'
The Gallery at Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired will feature artist Steve Stahl's "The Memorable Journey - Mixed media sculptures by a visually impaired artist" Friday, Sept. 26 - Friday, Oct. 24.
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Claire Wiest, 78, loves to teach drawing, painting
MUNSTER -- Claire Wiest remembers her first painting very well, and she still has it.
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Double bill for ceramics show at CLC
A two-person show of ceramic art is now on display at the College of Lake County's Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art. The show features pieces by Ted Neal and Charity Davis-Woodard.
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South D.M. church serves up sweet corn
One of summer’s most anticipated crops was ripe for the picking Saturday afternoon as Christ the King Church and Parish School on Des Moines’ south side held its second annual sweet corn festival. The event featured games, music, bingo and - a signature highlight - free sweet corn.
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Take your best shot and submit it to The Union
The Union seeks your best sports photography for publication in the paper's "Sideline Shots" feature.
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RIC to display photos and prints by Andy Warhol
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - 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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Intermission: A weekend of chaos, great music: Radiohead delivers memorable opening night to San Francisco’s Outside ...
The highly anticipated San Francisco summer music festival Outside Lands was a mixed success and was very much a production of its host city.
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A BRONZE sculpture designed to celebrate the millennium may at last be put up.
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Japanese sculptor's works on display starting Saturday
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts director Mark M. Johnson has been a fan of artist Jun Kaneko's work for years.
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Hirst's Dealer Denies `Mountain' of Unsold Works Before Auction
Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Damien Hirst 's London dealer White Cube has denied it has a ``mountain'' of unsold works before a Sotheby's sale which previews today in the Hamptons and New Delhi.
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'Whimsical, yet sophisticated'
REHOBOTH BEACH -- Gallery 50 owner Jay Pastore is slated to present Susan Finsen's solo show, 'Circling Summer,' at Gallery 50 in Rehoboth Beach from Aug. 21 through Sept. 17.
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People, Places and Things
VENICE, Italy - The Venice Film Festival opened last 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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Filmmaker Smith makes a 'Porno'
LOS ANGELES - Kevin Smith likes to watch porn online, not to get his jollies but to marvel at how extreme the art of exhibitionist sex can be.
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More than 100 artists at Detroit Jazz Festival
DETROIT — With more than 100 artists scheduled to perform free shows on six downtown stages, the Detroit Jazz Festival is one of the largest free music gatherings in North America. The festival, which starts tomorrow evening and runs through Monday, is expected to attract more than 750,000 people to the downtown riverfront site, which features music that ranges from jazz and blues to rock and ...
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Galleries launch appeal to keep Titian in Britain
Thu, Aug 28, 2008 (1:27 a.m.) A British aristocrat wants to sell a masterpiece of Renaissance painting to British public galleries if they can meet his $92 million asking price.
Las Vegas Sun |
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Gallery shows off campaign 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.
Reno Gazette-Journal |
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College loses valuable painting
WELLESLEY - 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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