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DISPATCH FROM LOS ANGELES "Acne," "Dream" Lead AFI Fest Winners
"What a week this has been," AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival Artistic Director Rose Kuo said as the introduced Sunday's festival awards presentation at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood.
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A DAY IN THE PARK
Four award-winning artists met in Shannon Springs Park earlier this week to take advantage of the fall colors and do a little painting.
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Paparazzo 'has no regrets'
A Hollywood paparazzo is unapologetic about the guerrilla celebrity photography culture he helped pioneer.
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NOMA opens new Russian art exhibit
The New Orleans Museum of Art opened a new collection of work from the man most famous for his Easter eggs. The collection called "Object of Desire: Faberge' from the Hodges Family Collection" features over 100 works by Russian artist-jeweler, Peter Carl Faberge'.
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Insights from the official tailor to the theocracy
Ultimately, it comes down to the films. Several exceptional documentaries emerged from Cinema Verite, the Iran International Documentary Film Festival, whose second edition ran in Tehran over October 15-19. By the end of the festival's award ceremony, three or four Iranian titles had emerged as jury favorites - in both the national and international competitions.
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Monday, November 10, 2008
The composing of the photographs is immaculate, the classic takes cultured and the technique skillful, still ones senses a persistent dj vu. Hybrid togetherness V G Andani's exhibition, coming after some years (CKP, November 7 to 11), is titled the Soul of my World, and, indeed, offers a glimpse into the source of his art and the relationship between its different elements.
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Wait just a Minotaur…what’s this bull doing here?
The day after Halloween in Tompkins Square Park, curious neighborhood kids examined an “interactive art exhibit”: A blue-headed Minotaur lay on the ground, held by a chain around his ankle by a heavily made-up geisha sitting by the base of a tree.
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Loot! Chicago at center of battle between archeologists, collectors
A 4,000-year-old artifact turns up at O'Hare. Stolen property or museum piece? On April 11, 2003, three days after American tanks rumbled into Baghdad and the day after looters swarmed the Iraq National Museum like a plague of locusts, Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon press corps enjoyed a little laugh at the expense of Iraq's catastrophe. "The images you are seeing on television you are ...
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Indian film-makers suggest academy to foster good cinema
Festival showcases Indian films alongside UAE products
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Veterans Day schedule and events
1. The N.C.Museum of Art will be closed. The Ackland Art Museum will be closed. 2. The town of Cary will pick up trash for Tuesday, Nov. 11, on Monday, Nov. 10. The town of Smithfield will collect garbage for Tuesday, Nov. 11, on Wednesday, Nov. 12.
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Painting life's journey
Cynthia Packard's paintings are all about emotion. Her florid mix of reality and abstraction are immediately accessible and move with contrasting textures: thick, thin, loose, tight, careful, crazy. Her colors shift and flow, creating moody, fluid atmospheres.
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Construction continues on Don Gibson Theatre
Destination Cleveland County is doing more than converting the old Flick theater into the Don Gibson Theatre, an already massive undertaking.The group's also gearing up for the same facility to host a Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit "New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music" late in 2010.Cleveland County was among six sites selected statewide.
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Book Review
Robyn Scott (2008) illustrations by Lulu Scott
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Hamilton venue to host Holiday Lights on the Hill
Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park will host its annual drive-through display, this year called "Holiday Lights on the Hill," from Nov. 21 through Jan. 1, 2009. Last winter, the display included more than 2 million lights.
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Harper Gov't Nixes Canadian Portrait Gallery
"The government has cancelled plans to build a permanent home for the Portrait Gallery of Canada, a move that is likely to anger members of the arts community who slammed the federal Tories during the recent election campaign over cuts to cultural programs...
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Anish The Anti-Sculptor
Sculptor Anish Kapoor "is very interested in negative space, in spaces filled with a nothingness that is, paradoxically, deeply present... 'On one level you might say it's not art, it's a silly game. But I think there's something in that little edge which is interesting and problematic.
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Critics: Tate hanging Rothkos sideways
Two famous modern works by American artist Mark Rothko have been displayed incorrectly on their sides for years in a British museum, art historians say. The pieces from Rothko's Black and Maroon series, like many of his popular and valuable works from the 1950s and 1960s, consist solely of colored stripes. London's Tate Modern museum has hung them vertically, but evidence from the artist -- who ...
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Get Out: Sunday
SUSTAINABLE SUNDAYS: EAT IT UP Learn how you can be "Eating Greener" via a 40 minute lecture, 20 minute cooking demo and 15 minute Q &A with Eco-Chef Aaron French . It's part of Sustainable Sundays , a new program at the Natural History Museum, which allows visitors the opportunity to learn from museum scientists and guest researchers about international conservation issues. The ...
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Critics: Tate hanging Rothkos sideways
LONDON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Two famous modern works by American artist Mark Rothko have been displayed incorrectly on their sides for years in a British museum, art historians say.
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Hollywood paparazzo pioneer says he has no regrets
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Hollywood paparazzo famous for being sued by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and getting his teeth knocked out by Marlon Brando is unapologetic about the guerrilla celebrity photography culture he helped pioneer.
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Easing the pain
VietNamNet Bridge - Ha Hung first started sketching as a hobby but his current exhibition is proof that he is one of Vietnam’s finest emerging artists, says.
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Artists Cast A Critical Eye On The New AGO
"For months, a chorus of voices has enthused about Friday's Art Gallery of Ontario reopening... Curiously silent have been the artists who, as one might naively imagine, are what an art gallery is all about.
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Kenyan exhibitors arrive for London expo
Kenya's participants to the World Travel Market which begins on Monday 10th in the United Kingdom began arriving in London Saturday in preparation for the event.
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New collection at MU shows process behind Warhol's work
COLUMBIA — MU's Museum of Art and Archeology was recently chosen by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to be the recipient of more than 150 "working" photographs from its collection. The foundation's "interest isn’t just to get Warhol seen but to try and explore more of his legacy," museum director Alex Barker said. Barker wanted to make sure people understood exactly what the ...
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MGM MIRAGE sells three paintings for $10.7 million
Fri, Nov 10, 2000 (11:43 a.m.) Las Vegas-based MGM MIRAGE sold three of the four paintings it put up for auction Thursday in New York, one at a record price. Thursday's auctions grossed $10.7 million for MGM MIRAGE, funds that will be used to reduce company debt.
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