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Berkeley Sculpture Honors History Of Protests
A giant sculpture celebrating Berkeley's history of protest will be dedicated this weekend.
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Austin Massage Therapist Faces Charges Friday
Jason Thompson, former employee of Avant Spa, faces three new charges for having images of more than 100 women on his computer and cell phone without their knowledge. Thompson has been charged of four counts of improper photography but police believe there may be more victims.
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Giant Berkeley Sculpture Celebrates Protests
BERKELEY, Calif. -- A giant sculpture celebrating Berkeley's history of protest will be dedicated this weekend. The 30-foot tall fiberglass sculpture includes fist-waving demonstrators and is visible from about a mile away. It sits on a pedestrian and bicycle bridge over Interstate 80.
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John Houston: Painter and teacher whose greatest subject was the Scottish landscape
The artist John Houston contributed greatly to the cultural life of Scotland over the last half-century, through his bold, expressionistic painting and his long commitment as a teacher to several generations of students at Edinburgh College of Art.
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Talk of the town: We are living in an age in which art galleries are more popular than theme parks
The biggest back story surrounding the opening of Charles Saatchi's brilliant new gallery space in Chelsea (see also In the Frame, page 10) was whether or not Sotheby's were ever going to take it. They had been looking for another venue to show contemporary work in London but apparently dithered so much that the 70,000sqft site was eventually suggested to Saatchi by property consultants Pilcher ...
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Box of tricks: Meet the bold face of make-up artistry
The first time I meet the make-up artist Alex Box, over a year ago, on a shoot, she's painstakingly painting an elaborate fluorescent design on to a model's razor sharp cheekbones. She's got a peroxide blonde bob, traffic light bright ruby red lips and her tiny frame is clad in a black body-con wool dress – it looks very stern and very Alaia.
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Berkeley to dedicate giant sculpture celebrating its history of protests
The 30-foot tall fiberglass sculpture includes fist-waving demonstrators and is visible from about a mile away. It sits on a pedestrian and bicycle bridge over Interstate 80.
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Sam Taylor-Wood: 'It has been an insane year'
Sam Taylor-Wood is sitting on a yellow sofa in her Clerkenwell studio, fidgeting. She fidgets quite a lot. "You'll see next month in The South Bank Show," she says, referring to the programme that has made her its latest subject. "I get very fidgety and very twitchy, both physically and in my more general life. One week I'll be doing an exhibition and then a film and then something else. I get ...
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Sotheby's London auction falls short of pre-sale hopes
LONDON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - A London auction of contemporary art fell well short of pre-sale expectations on Friday, the clearest signal yet that the financial crisis is affecting a market which hitherto defied growing economic gloom.
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Giant Berkeley sculpture celebrates protests
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - A giant sculpture celebrating Berkeley's history of protest will be dedicated this weekend. The 30-foot tall fiberglass sculpture includes fist-waving demonstrators and is visible from about a mile away. It sits on a pedestrian and bicycle bridge over Interstate 80.
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Linux Digital Photography Studio
OK then, let's get back on track, which is Linux as a high-quality digital photography platform even if Adobe weren't a gang of Constitution-trampling thugs. The FOSS world offers an abundance of excellent digital image-editing applications.
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'I was there'
From Roger Fenton's prints of the Crimea to mobile-phone images of Baghdad, every era of war photography has been marked by new technology. But what has always mattered more than technical brilliance, argues Geoff Dyer, is getting close enough to the epicentre of history
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Giant Berkeley sculpture celebrates protests
A giant sculpture celebrating Berkeley's history of protest will be dedicated this weekend. Read comments
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Arts headlines
Dayton Convention Center Gallery: Leesa Haapapuro is presenting an installation, "Memento/mementos," from Nov. 10 through Dec. 31 on the second floor mezzanine, 22 E. Fifth St. Open studios from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in November. Hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. Call Terry Hitt at (937) 426-6168, or e-mail haapapuro@hotmail.com.
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Masseur under new charges
AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) -- Police are finding more victims in a case of an Austin massage therapist accused of taking pictures of nude women at his home and at the Avant Salon and Spa. Jason Charles Thompson, 34, is charged with three counts of improper photography or visual recording.
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$10m-plus for Warhol skulls
AN Andy Warhol painting has sold for $10.8 million at auction, auctioneer Sotheby's said in London today.
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Gallery Website Pirated By Porn Industry
Someone was putting porn where pictures of art should've been.
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Warhol's 'Skulls' fetches 7.5 mln dollars at auction
LONDON (AFP) - An Andy Warhol painting sold for more than 7.
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Warhol's 'Skulls' fetches 7.5 mln dollars at auction
An Andy Warhol painting sold for more than 7.5 million dollars at auction on Friday, auctioneer Sotheby's said.
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From running to walking to carving pumpkins, the calendar is crowded
Walkers, runners, skiers, skateboarders, football players, pumpkin carvers and funny-looking race cars will converge on San Francisco and surrounding environs this weekend, making it something of a challenge for anyone else to get anyplace. On Saturday...
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Ever opens store on Melrose
The L.A.-based label is known to take casual sportswear for a spin. Also, sales and events in the southland. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA is considered the birthplace of casual sportswear, and brands like Ever represent the next generation of that tradition, taking basics such as board shorts and hoodies and rendering them in vintage prints and high-end fabrics.
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Outlook is sunny for Kentuck
Although rain fell Friday, the outlook was sunny for this weekend's Kentuck Festival of the Arts.
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5:24 p.m.- Sculpture In The Rivermarket Kicks Off
Who do you think will win the football game between Arkansas and Kentucky? Half Off = Super Savings!
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Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Birmingham will be the first city in the world outside Beijing to host the groundbreaking contemporary art and architecture exhibition ‘Beijing Map Games’ that will be open to the public from the 18th October 2008 to the 4th January 2009.
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More claim to be victims of improper photography
Jason Thompson, 34, worked at a Northwest Austin spa, where police say he secretly recorded more than 100 female clients nude without their consent.
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