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The Independent (UK) 10/24/08
You Mean It Has a Collection? "The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao… is reported to have paid well over the odds for art to fill Frank Gehry's swooping titanium masterpiece."
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Stand-in proves to be a standout at Modern Art Museum concert
By PUNCH SHAW FORT WORTH — The pinch hitter stepped up to the plate and knocked one out of the park. No, we’re not talking about Thursday’s World Series game. This player off the bench was carrying a classical guitar, not a bat. And the event was the Fort Worth Classic Guitar Society’s concert Thursday at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Denis Azabagic came to the rescue in a dazzling ...
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A Russell roundup
A unique example of Western art gets a showcase starting today at the Sid Richardson Museum, where two of Charles M. Russell’s oil paintings ( Counting Coup and When Blackfeet and Sioux Meet ), one of his bronze sculptures ( Counting Coup ), and a rarely viewed letter explaining the pieces will be on display. The exhibit also features nine other bronze sculptures by Russell, including The ...
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South DATEBOOK for 10/24
TEMECULA A Halloween family carnival sponsored by Temecula is set from 5 to 9 p.m. today at the Ronald Reagan Sports Park roller hockey arena. There will be a costume contest, games, face painting, tattoo artist and food vendors. Cost is $5.
The Press-Enterprise |
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Church plans tour, party, sale
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church at 67 Anson St. is sponsoring an auction, house tour and garden party 2:30-6:30 p.m. Sunday in an effort to raise money for its outreach efforts.
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"Waterfalls" Trickle-Down Theory: Did Eliasson Really Generate $69 Million for the City?
The New York City government's number crunchers are at it again, trying to quantify the "economic impact" of a public art project whose chief value was not monetary but aesthetic and experiential--- Olafur Eliasson's "Waterfalls."
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Sotheby's Says It Lost $15 Million on Art Auction Guarantees
Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Disappointing art auctions in London and Hong Kong this month cost Sotheby's $15 million in losses on guarantees it provided sellers.
Bloomberg |
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LOLcats Get Their Own Gallery Show
"LOLcats, the crazy cat photos with goofball sayings that swept onto the web a few years ago, are rapidly becoming more than just an internet meme… Works by nearly 30 artists influenced by the pidgin-speaking-cat meme will be auctioned off Thursday during a sold-out art show in San Francisco - with proceeds going to benefit an adult-literacy program."
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Ex-BofA chief finds reward in art, not stocks
Ex-BofA chief gets more out of art than stocks These days, says Hugh McColl Jr., "my art collection is holding up better than my stocks." McColl, you may remember, broke San Francisco's heart 10 years ago when he merged Bank of America with his East Coast...
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EVENT 2:30 p.m. — "Orange Night, Spondylus Night" shell, jewelry event tonight
2:30 p.m., Oct. 24 —The Guam Gallery of Art and the Chamorro Artists Association present their fourth Orange Night, Spondylus Night, from 6 to 10 p.m. tonight 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.
Pacific Daily News |
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The New Rascals to play NMB
Charlie Souza played Rascals tunes in the 1960s as part of a Tampa Bay-based band, the Tropics. He's still playing their music, but since 2006, as bass guitarist in a group including two Rascals founding members, Gene Cornish and Dino Danelli. Renamed the New Rascals, they will headline the North Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce's Endless Summer Festival Saturday afternoon.
The Myrtle Beach Sun News |
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De Montebello, Visionary Met Director, Gets Own Retrospective
Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) -- If the Mad Hatter suddenly acquired taste and culture, he might hang a Jackson Pollock drip painting with a watercolor of a fruit bat and call the match inspired instead of weird.
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On the trail of the quagga and the Xam
The map will replace this text. If any users do not have Flash Player 8 (or above), they'll see this message. Under a large overhang, near a 30m waterfall in a giant horseshoe, are paintings of a rain animal (a sort of distorted hippo) and a few shamans.
Mail and Guardian |
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Charity puts goats on the auction block
Fifteen artfully decorated, lifesize goat sculptures will be displayed and auctioned Saturday in front of the Henderson County Courthouse on Main Street to benefit local charities.
Asheville Citizen-Times |
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Last of 3 auctions for the Machmer collection of Pennsylvania German folk art today and Saturday (WITH VIDEO)
A century ago, to wile away the hours in Berks County Prison, inmates would carve wooden figurines. They whittled miniature hobos, cops on the beat and even depictions of Amish families and gave them as gifts to loved ones.
Reading Eagle |
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Flames lick close to valuable art collection
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A wildfire burned 100 acres of brush and grass near the world-famous Getty art museum before it was doused early Thursday without causing any damage or injuries, fire officials said.
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Gallery: Computer Kittehs Pounce on Art World
: LOLcats are invading the art scene. Thirty artists took inspiration from the syntactically challenged kitties (or is that kittehs?) to create sculptures, digital paintings and pen-and-ink sketches for a sold-out art show in San Francisco. The artwork — including a tribute to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (pictured), a digitally rendered painting created from thousands of ...
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WELSCH: Ambient music CD created for airports
Many, many things are music. The primal screams of Yoko Ono are music. The disoriented and painful feedback of Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music" is music. The unwritten masterpiece of John Cage's "4'33"" is music. What makes music music?
Daily Nebraskan |
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An El Greco for Athens
An oil painting by El Greco once owned by the ousted Philippine president Ferdinand E. Marcos and his wife, Imelda, has been acquired by the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation.
New York Times |
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Shadows of Yaddo
The artists? colony Yaddo, which is the subject of an absorbing new exhibition at the New York Public Library, has always had an unreal, Gatsbylike quality.
New York Times |
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Museum and Gallery Listings
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New York Times |
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Pompeii Style, B.C.E. (Before Catastrophic Eruption)
There are some eerie parallels between Pompeii?s frozen-in-time culture of excess and our own staggering economy as evidenced in a show at the National Gallery.
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A Banquet of World Art, 30 Years in the Making
?The Philippe de Montebello Years? at the Metropolitan Museum, a tribute to the museum?s director at the end of his tenure, catches a monumental institution at a moment of major change.
New York Times |
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Designers for the Rich and Famous Meet Again
At the Cleveland Museum of Art, extravagant examples of the use of flora and fauna in the designs of brooches, cigarette cases, silver centerpieces and clocks are on display.
New York Times |
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Unabashedly Joyful Paintings That Look Fun and Easy, but Don?t Be Fooled
There?s a charming sloppiness about Mary Heilmann?s paintings, which are on display in an exhilarating retrospective at the New Museum.
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