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ART created from unsold lots at a Cockermouth auction house is on show now. For the past month, artist Kevin O'Connor has selected unwanted goods from Mitchells’ weekly sales and created the installation, which is the size of a small room.
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Could This Be Obama's Puppy?
BILBAO, Spain--Steel covered with flowering plants, that's this Jeff Koons sculpture, titled simply Puppy, on the plaza of Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum. Sure Seattle's got a Gehry museum of its own, the EMP; sure, Seattle's got Richard Sera and Louise Bourgeois sculptures, too. But the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, as it's officially known, gave this industrial and financial center a new ...
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Tenn. professor sues Germany for Nazi art seizure
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An 82-year-old Holocaust survivor and his family are suing the German government over an extensive art collection, including paintings by El Greco and Peter Paul Rubens, seized by the Nazis and sold at auction during World War II.
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Tenn. professor sues Germany for Nazi art seizure
(AP) NASHVILLE, Tenn. - An 82-year-old Holocaust survivor and his family are suing the German government over an extensive art collection, including paintings by El Greco and Peter Paul Rubens, seized by the Nazis and sold at auction during World War II.
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Tenn. professor sues Germany for Nazi art seizure
(AP:NASHVILLE, Tenn.) An 82-year-old Holocaust survivor and his family are suing the German government over an extensive art collection, including paintings by El Greco and Peter Paul Rubens, seized by the Nazis and sold at auction during World War II.
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Downtown Santa Cruz leader dies
John Lisher, the owner of Artisans Gallery on Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz who helped small business owners ruined by the 1989 earthquake recover, died Tuesday. He was 76.
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Art Museum delays groundbreaking
The St. Louis Art Museum has decided to delay the groundbreaking of its $125 million expansion. The museum’s Board of Commissioners cited the current financial markets for the move.
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OCEANSIDE: Surf Film Festival honors legend Bruce Brown
OCEANSIDE ---- The inaugural FUEL TV California Surf Film Festival runs Friday afternoon through Sunday afternoon at the historical Crest Theater (now home of Grace Chapel) at 102 Freeman St. in Oceanside.
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Dreamstime.com Celebrates 1 Million Buyer/4 Million Image Mark
Dreamstime, distinguished as a platinum-selling, global photo community and a worldwide leader in the stock photography industry, celebrates a two-fold unparalleled achievement. In keeping with its ingenuity and the progressive momentum the agency has become known for, Dreamstime has reached another monumental platform to establish an intercontinental customer base of more than 1 Million ...
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Architect Elena Manferdini's muse is a dress
The founder of Atelier Manferdini is exhibiting her work at the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles. When Elena Manferdini spies an intricate ball gown or a flowing lace skirt, her mind wanders to skyscrapers, towers and federal buildings. The Italian architect -- and founder of L.A. design studio Atelier Manferdini -- uses the drape and texture of fabric as inspiration for the ...
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Students mixing politics, artwork
Merrimack High School students Lindsey Hauck, left, Carolyn Chakuroff, back right, Hayley Smith, middle, and Zac Dech put the finishing touches on a custom screen-printed T-shirt.
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Tenn. professor sues Germany for Nazi art seizure
An 82-year-old Holocaust survivor and his family are suing the German government over an extensive art collection, including paintings by El Greco and Peter Paul Rubens, seized by the Nazis and sold at auction during World War II.
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Retired Tenn. professor sues Germany for damages for family art collection seized by Nazis
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - An 82-year-old Holocaust survivor and his family are suing the German government over an extensive art collection, including paintings by El Greco and Peter Paul Rubens, seized by the Nazis and sold at auction during World War II.
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Swiss to return stolen antiquities to Italy
Switzerland is returning 4,400 ancient artifacts stolen from archaeological sites in Italy, including ceramics, figurines and bronze daggers dating as far back as 2,000 B.C., prosecutors said Thursday. The transfer will require three tractor-trailers and all but end a seven-year legal battle over the antiquities. They were seized in 2001 in storage rooms belonging to two Basel-based art dealers ...
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THINGS TO DO: 7 day and 7 Nights
THU.NOV.6 GALLERY Art We Can Believe In Politics and art? As impossible a mix as oil and water? Hardly. Has there ever been a more powerful anti-war message than Picasso's "Guernica"? 2008 has proven that Americans want to engage in politics again.
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VARIETY
ARTS & CRAFTS: Art collectors on bargain hunt in depressed market Emami Chisel Art upbeat on outcome of auction later this week.
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Rock band Status Quo have hosted a charity auction which raised £100,000.
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BC Place renovations aim to improve soccer experience
VANCOUVER, BC - BC Pavilion Corporation (PavCo) and Vancouver Whitecaps FC have released a preliminary rendering depicting how BC Place's proposed new retractable roof might be configured, in order to best accommodate soccer events at the refurbished stadium.
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Hasina returns home, to form alliance to contest polls
DHAKA: Amid a rapturous welcome from thousands of party activists and leaders, Awami League president Sheikh Hasina retuned home on Thursday after receiving treatment abroad.
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Dreamstime.com Celebrates 1 Million Buyer/4 Million Image Mark
NASHVILLE, Tenn.----Dreamstime, distinguished as a platinum-selling, global photo community and a worldwide leader in the stock photography industry, celebrates a two-fold unparalleled achievement.
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Sculpture finds home on Gorock
He’s been sitting on that rock for nearly a month, only seeming to move once every other week. He sometimes looks a little sad, but always thoughtful. However, this isn’t a real person.
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Children's Trust Heart Gallery - Christina
As part of CBS4 's series on some very special children hoping to be adopted - Erika Von Tiehl would like you to meet Christina from the Children's Trust Miami Heart Gallery.
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Tenn. professor sues Germany for Nazi art seizure
(By JUANITA COUSINS, Associated Press Writer) An 82-year-old Holocaust survivor and his family are suing the German government over an extensive art collection, including paintings by El Greco and Peter Paul Rubens, seized by the Nazis and sold at auction during World War II. The lawsuit is unusual because it is seeking damages for lost art rather than the return of items that once belonged to ...
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Economic turmoil delays Saint Louis Art Museum expansion
In response to the ongoing economic turmoil, the Saint Louis Art Museum has decided to delay the start date of its $125 million expansion in Forest Park, originally intended for late 2008.
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Today's top things to do in Fort Collins
Check these events out if you're looking for something to do today. Art - An International Photo Exhibit continues at CSU's 1st Bank gallery in the Morgan Library. The exhibit, which is on display through Dec. 2, showcases 219 photos from 91 countries that have students at Colorado State University.
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