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'Muse' will make you think
NICEVILLE - The completion of a year's worth of labor and love is bittersweet for Richard Bauer.Bauer stood under his 16-foot sculpture Thursday as he sprayed it with water from Choctawhatchee Bay.
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Freud portrait of Bacon sold for $9M
LONDON -- An oil painting of artist Francis Bacon by his close friend Lucian Freud, one of only two of its kind, was sold on Sunday for more than $9 million, auction house Christie's said.
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Date Lines: News from the Bay Area arts scene
Chanticleer festival The men's chorus Chanticleer will sponsor its eighth annual Youth Choral Festival on Friday at the First Unitarian Universalist Church in San Francisco. The daylong event involves about 200 students from Northern California high schools...
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ARTS 11:30 a.m. — Spondylus shell, jewelry event Friday
11:30 a.m., Oct. 20 — The Guam Gallery of Art and the Chamorro Artists Association present their fourth Orange Night, Spondylus Night, from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday at The Guam Gallery of Art at the Chamorro Village in Hagåtña, during Arts and Humanities Month, in celebration of the Chamorro culture and in remembrance of their ancestors.
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President Gul Attends Luncheon Hosted By Estonian Prime Minister
TALLINN - Turkish President Abdullah Gul attended a luncheon hosted by the Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip in his honor in Tallinn on Friday. The luncheon took place at the Kadriorg Art Museum and was closed to the press.
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Mirrored impressions
Sixth-grade shop class wasn't going well for John Melchior, so he came upon an idea to endear himself a bit with the teacher. He stayed after school for photography classes.
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No Jail for Marijuana Possession in Austin
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...
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Plague Artist, Renaissance Worthies Look Sharp in Virtuoso Show
Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Between 1523 and 1525, Jacopo Pontormo took refuge from the plague in the monastery at Galluzzo outside Florence. One day, he drew himself wearing nothing but his early 16th-century underpants.
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Crisis Burns Art Market: Warhol, Fontana Fail to Save Auctions
Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Andy Warhol , Lucio Fontana and Lucian Freud works that sold in three days of London contemporary-art auctions were not enough to raise the weekend total much above a half of presale estimates as dealers and collectors delayed purchases in the worst financial crisis since the Depression.
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Bacon up for auction in London
An unfinished portrait of Francis Bacon by Lucian Freud has sold at auction in the UK for 5.4 million pounds.
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Veterans saddened at change of heart
World War II bomber command veterans are devastated a memorial is no longer allowed at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
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Television - Entertainment
Andrew Lloyd Webber has been brought in to help England with next year's Eurovision song contest.
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Andrew Lloyd-Webber is asked to solve a problem like Eurovision
For ten years Britain has languished a long way from glory in the Eurovision Song Contest, a victim of both tactical bloc-voting and the dross put forward on the nation's behalf. But Andrew Lloyd-Webber hopes to reverse a decade of failure, after announcing he is to pen Britain's entry next year.
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Freud portrait of Bacon sells for $13m
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, has sold for 5.4 million pounds ($13.5 million), British auction house Christie's said.
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Growing signs of art slump as Freud's portrait of Bacon fails to fetch £7m
An economic chill blew through the art world yesterday when a rare painting of Francis Bacon by Lucian Freud sold for £1.6 million less than expected.
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Creativity rewarded
QUALITY is better than quantity. That was the message from art critic Jill O’Sullivan, who was “blown away” by the standard of artwork at Isa Art’s 2008 Exhibition on Saturday night.
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Entertainment
One of only two portraits of painter Francis Bacon by his friend and fellow British artist Lucian Freud sold at auction for more than $11 million. The other painting, made in 1952, was stolen from an art gallery in Berlin in 1988 and has never been recovered.
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Freud portrait tops $A11m
One of only two portraits of painter Francis Bacon by his friend and fellow British artist Lucian Freud sold at auction for more than $11 million. Auctioneer Christie’s said the painting, the only on
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High 'Water' at Hamptons
Erik Poppe's ex-con drama "Troubled Water" and Megumi Sasaki's art collector documentary "Herb and Dorothy" each snagged two top feature prizes from jurors and audiences at the Hamptons International Film Festival this weekend.
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Pastor glad he finally answered call
Johnnie Sloan has worn many hats. The Riverbank resident, 35, has been a custodian, financial adviser and painter. He reads Greek, writes and plays his own music and loves photography. Sloan juggles duties as a pastor, husband, father of three, student, comedian, graphic artist and statistician.
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Mid-American Insider: Zips' victims tired of being 'Akroned'
Jeff Harwell/Zips Sports Photography.Akron's Dennis Kennedy rushed for 277 yards in the Zips' 42-35 victory over Eastern Michigan on Saturday.Akron used a late-game break to turn around what looked to be a loss for the Zips at Eastern Michigan into...
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Home Inspirations gallery
Some of us want our space to ooze with personality, filling every corner of the bedroom with trinkets, and covering the walls of the living room with our favourite art, others prefer a clear space that allows you to breathe and regroup.
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Frocks and fantasy: The photographs of Sarah Moon
The clichés of modern fashion photography are manifold. If an overriding principle unites them all, however, then it is an unswerving belief in the power of seduction. Sex sells, or so the story goes. And perhaps for that reason, the vast majority of big-name fashion photographers today are heterosexual men, engaged in a series of encounters with young female models.
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Look on the bright side: Optimistic Art
While the world stares recession in the face, a group of young artists and curators in a warehouse in Peckham, south London are hard at work looking on the bright side of life. On a chilly October afternoon, the timber store-turned-gallery on a run-down industrial estate is a hive of activity. Nails are being hammered into the concrete walls and enormous canvases heaved into place. One artist, ...
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Freud's intimate portrait of his friend Bacon sold for £5.4m
A rarely seen oil portrait of the artist Francis Bacon, painted by his friend Lucian Freud, has been sold for £5.4m. The work, which offers an intimate glimpse into the collaborative friendship of two giants of post-war art, is one of only two oil portraits of Bacon painted by Freud and the last remaining: the second was stolen from an exhibition in Berlin in 1988.
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