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Restaurant opening: Mua in Oakland
Soizic owners Hi-Suk Dong and his wife, Sanju, opened Mua in Oakland last Tuesday, converting Hi-Suk's painting studio into a casual, lofty hangout. Dong designed the restaurant's interior but tried to retain as much of the Art Deco building's original...
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Royal Academy's Byzantine show still waiting for treasures
The Royal Academy of Arts' promise to display the world's largest collection of treasures from the Byzantine empire is being frustrated by Egypt and Russia just days before the exhibition is to open.
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DAZ 3D Introduces Michael 4, The Most Versatile and Accurate 3D Male Yet
DMN Newswire--2008-10-21--Worthy of a double-take, the newest version of DAZ 3D's popular 3D male figure Michael 4 allows for final renderings that are nearly indistinguishable from photography.
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Cildo Meireles, Tate Modern, London
Some kind of altercation is going on at the entrance to the gallery which houses an installation called Volatile. The gallery attendant, perched on a high stool like a budgie on a perch, is telling an irascible young man with wild hair what he has to do before he can see the art next door. Pull on paper mask. Remove shoes. Replace with Wellington boots.
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First Night: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, London Film Festival
So all Woody Allen needed was some Spanish sun to show he is still capable of producing an amusing comedy centred on the conundrums of those unlucky, or incapable, in love. Even his bet that Scarlett Johansson would turn out to be a modern Mia Farrow or Diane Keaton, which seemed laughable to anyone who saw his disastrous recent trio of London-set films, finally pays some sort of dividend.
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Paintings and graphic works by Vasile Celmare, at ICR
“The Image of Imagination,” an exhibition of paintings and graphics authored by the prestigious visual artist Vasile Celmare will be opened on Thursday at the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR). Born in 1931 in Breaza de Sus, Vasile Celmare is one of the most original and powerful voices of the twentieth century Romanian art, as the painter attended most exhibition of this genre from 1975 to the ...
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Exhibition celebrating 200 years since the birth of Napoleon III at MNAR
The exhibition will include portraits, documents, rare pictures, sculptures, paintings, lithographs, furniture and other art works from the collections owned by MNAR and the Castle of Compiegne.
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Merry Maids A-Milking! Did Madonna Have More Than Moo on Her Mind?
At the Whitney Museum Gala on Monday, Oct. 20, gallerist Mary Boone told the Transom she has been through three economic downturns: the first when she opened her gallery in 1977; another in the late ’80s; and finally a third directly following 9/11. And so the petite Ms. Boone, whose 5-foot-1-inch frame and tame, pitch-black hair make her seem deceptively mousy, is not particularly ...
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On Dining: Taste masters the art of using local crops
On Dining: The Seattle Art Museum's Taste restaurant gets it right when it comes to offering local-sustainable food.
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SNPA recognizes work JDN photographers
ATLANTA -Two Daily News photographers have been recognized for their work by the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association. The annual SNPA photo contest recognizes and rewards excellence in photography at newspapers throughout the South. In its seventh year, the contest attracted nearly 500 photos.
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Recent and Upcoming Releases from Academic Presses
a short life of trouble : forty years in the new york art world New Museum founder Marcia Tucker died in 2006, not long before her creation opened its new space, a series of stacked gift boxes overlooking the Bowery. In this autobiography, edited by artist Liza Lou, Tu...
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Little helpers make a big difference
Molly Jager, a seventh grader at Ecker Hill International School, started volunteering at the Park City Museum about two years ago.
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The Universe of Keith Haring
Equally a portrait of the artist and a portrait of a decade, this celebratory documentary makes the short, accelerated life of Keith Haring (1958–1990) inseparable from that short, accelerated period we know as '80s New York. Haring arrived there, like his idol Andy Warhol, a small-town boy...
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In Brief
A WEEK of slowing sales and sagging prices suggests the global financial meltdown has finally ended the art-market boom that saw paintings and sculptures become must-have commodities for the world's elite.
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Tucson joins national ranks making a difference Saturday
If it were up to Lauffer Middle School eighth-grader Thanh Gip, he'd make a difference by painting the whole world - or at least designs on the school's roof.
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One Person's Trash is Everyone's Treasure
There's a fine line between genius and OCD. The newest exhibit at the Institute for Contemporary Art is by sculptor Tara Donovan and represents her work from the last decade. Tara Donovan uses common items in large quantities to create incredible, visually-engaging installations. Her pieces look like alien landscapes, undersea corrals, and cells under a microscope. The amount of time put into ...
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A traffic stopper
It began as a simple mural to jazz up a wall and is now described as a landmark for Cowra. Well known artist Glenn Morton is currently working on his giant sized wall painting above Australiana Corner.
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World class stone sculpture exhibition at Sileni
The vines at one of this country’s best known wineries will be sharing attention with one of the world’s most collected sculpture forms during summer.
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Kapiti Mayor Asserts Her Identity
Paekakariki’s past gets in conversation with its present in a rather extraordinary exhibition set to take place on Paekakariki’s railway platform in the Rail and Heritage Museum and recently restored signal box, during this year’s Kapiti Arts Trail, November 8-9.
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Kenneth Bi's The Drummer to open Toronto's Reel Asian festival
Toronto's Reel Asian International Film Festival, which focuses on East Asian moviemakers, opens this year with The Drummer, a film by Hong Kong director Kenneth Bi.
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Hawaii's 5 most fabulous hula festivals
"Hula is the language of the heart, therefore the heartbeat of the Hawaiian people," said King David Kalakaua, who helped resurrect Hawaii's storytelling dance in the late 19th century, after years of missionary repression. And to the delight of visitors &...
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Paris exhibition traces Picasso's influences
When Velazquez painted a 17th century Spanish princess, he gave her wispy hair, pale skin and a cautious gaze. Three centuries later, Picasso turned the girl's face into a Cubist maze of green and purple, yet he captured her essence - that same mysterious...
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Insiders' views of China's art
Uli Sigg, businessman and former Swiss ambassador to China, has assembled the world's largest collection of contemporary art made in China. "Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art From the Sigg Collection" fills the entire Berkeley Art Museum, yet comprises only a...
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King Tut to make triumphal return to S.F.
Thirty years to the month after King Tut first took San Francisco by storm, antiquity's most famous monarch will attempt to reprise the feat. The San Francisco Fine Arts Museums are announcing today that the touring exhibit "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of...
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Exhibition documents documentarian Meiselas
In a culture that seemingly suffers from attention deficit disorder, photographer Susan Meiselas stands out for her insistent desire to go back and revisit the people and places she has shot. Meiselas, 60, is best known for the work she did documenting the...
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