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Fourth game drawn
BONN: The 400-seat auditorium of the Art and Exhibition Hall here had more chess aficionados than it was designed to take. Such an overwhelming response from the spectators on the first weekend of the World chess championship was only ...
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Richmond artist to participate in Bayou City Art Festival
Sculptor James Keller has developed a unique artistic spin that has captured the attention of several national art galleries and secured the Richmond artist an exclusive invite to the Bayou City Art Festival in Downtown Houston, noted as one of the premiere art festivals in the country.
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Princess Anne on South Bank for graduation ceremony
The Princess Royal, patron of the British School of Osteopathy, last week presented osteopathy degree certificates to 118 students at the Royal Festival Hall.
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Economic woes reach London art world
LONDON, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- An art auction that failed to meet expectations indicates the world's economic downturn may have reached the London art world, an expert says.
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Heidi Klum got milk
Heidi Klum unveiled the latest in Halloween haute cowture – her first-ever GOT MILK? milk mustache ad at Los Angeles’ Every Picture Tells A Story art gallery and bookstore. At the event, families enjoyed chocolate milk (the official drink of Halloween) and storytelling by Heidi. The ad copy reads: “Haute Cowture. Trick or treat? There’s no trick to it. The nine essential nutrients in milk make ...
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PHS fall choral concert is Monday
The Princeton High School Fine Arts Division will present the music department’s annual fall choral concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Sally Skinner Council Auditorium. Members of the mixed Chamber Choir and the Concert Choir will perform during the event. The fall art show will be on display in Rooms 104 and 1206 before and after the concert. Tickets are $4 for adults, $3 for students and ...
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Freud portrait sells for £5.4m
AN unfinished portrait of Francis Bacon by Lucian Freud, one of only two he ever painted of his friend and the only one whose whereabouts is known, sold for ?5.4 million pounds overnight, auction house Christie's said.
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Wife of Rev. Jerry Falwell to showcase art at Liberty University
LYNCHBURG, Va. - The Rev. Jerry Falwell’s wife is debuting her artwork in a new exhibit at the university her late husband founded. Macel Falwell’s “The Journey of a Hidden Artist” will be on display at The Visual Communication Art Gallery at Liberty University through Nov. 17.
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Macel Falwell to showcase art at Liberty
The Rev. Jerry Falwell's wife is debuting her artwork in a new exhibit at the university her late husband founded.
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Freud portrait of Bacon sells for £5.4 million
An unfinished portrait of Francis Bacon by Lucian Freud, one of only two he ever painted of his friend and the only one whose whereabouts is known, sold for £5.4 million today, auction house Christie's said.
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Cobden springs into action for annual festival
SPRING was in full swing at Cobden at the weekend with almost 3000 people converging on the town to celebrate the season. Inclement weather kept crowd numbers down yesterday but organisers were far...
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Creation Museum claims big crowds
Louisville, Ky. » The museum exhibits are taken from the Old Testament, but the special effects are pure Hollywood: a state-of-the-art planetarium, animatronics and a massive model of Noah's Ark, all intended to explain the origins of the universe from a biblical viewpoint.
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American art museum opens up to French paintings
In the lush countryside painted by Claude Monet lies an unusual gem: a museum of US art in the cradle of French Impressionism. Now after 16 years, it is shedding its American label to tell a wider story.
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American art museum opens up to French paintings
In the lush countryside painted by Claude Monet lies an unusual gem: a museum of US art in the cradle of French Impressionism.
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Freud portrait of Bacon sells for 5.4 million pounds
LONDON (Reuters) - An unfinished portrait of Francis Bacon by Lucian Freud, one of only two he ever painted of his friend and the only one whose whereabouts is known, sold for 5.4 million pounds on Sunday, auction house Christie's said.
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Freud portrait of Bacon sells for 5.4 million pounds
LONDON (Reuters) - An unfinished portrait of Francis Bacon by Lucian Freud, one of only two he ever painted of his friend and the only one whose whereabouts is known, sold for 5.4 million pounds on Sunday, auction house Christie's said.
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Bringing Back The Manifesto
London's Serpentine Gallery has invited a slew of artists to pen manifestos laying out their individual philosophies on life and art in the 21st century, in an effort to revive the written statement of artistic principles that played such an important role in the 20th century art world.
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Macel Falwell to showcase art at Liberty
LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) - The Rev. Jerry Falwell's wife is debuting her artwork in a new exhibit at the university her late husband founded. Macel Falwell's "The Journey of a Hidden Artist" will be on display at The Visual Communication Art Gallery at Liberty University through Nov. 17.
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Austin police planning 'cite and release' policy
Lawbreakers busted by police for small amounts of marijuana possession or for spray painting graffiti will likely be spared a trip to jail under a "cite and release" policy that Austin police plan to implement.
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Southern Illinois To Get Major Art Gift
"New Yorkers Herbert and Dorothy Vogel... working with the National Gallery of Art in Washington and federal arts agencies, chose the University Museum at Southern Illinois University to receive 50 pieces [of the Vogel collection.]
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Alabama To House Major African-American Collection
"Atlanta art collector Paul R. Jones has donated his 1,700-piece art collection to the University of Alabama. Valued at $4.8 million, the collection of 20th-century African-American art is the result of more than 40 years of collecting."
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Fontana Egg Picture Sells for 9 Million Pounds at Christie's
Oct. 19 (Bloomberg) -- A black egg-shaped painting by Lucio Fontana fetched 9 million pounds ($15.6 million) including fees at Christie's International in London tonight.
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Artist: 'What God does with his light is indescribable'
Born in 1905 to Austrian immigrant parents, Rotenberg got his formal training at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and taught painting as a young man. He traveled widely and painted in France and Israel. He still does light exercise a couple of times a week at the Crosby Wellness Center in Winter Park. He and his wife plan to celebrate their 39th anniversary on a cruise. He spoke recently to ...
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Optimism for art sales total
Art lovers opened their wallets wide at Friday night's second "Under the Hammer" art auction in Cromwell. Although the final total would depend on commissions paid, event co-ordinator Dean Comerford was sure there would be at least as much as the $6000 raised last year.
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Reel to real at film festival
The director of the controversial documentary about the 2005 National Party election campaign will introduce his film at the Queenstown International Film Festival later this month.
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