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Veterans Day ceremony focuses on Korean War
WOONSOCKET — It’s been called “The Forgotten War.” But there was no forgetting the veterans who served in the Korean War of 1950-1952 by the 150 or so city residents who came out Tuesday for a Veterans Day ceremony at the Museum of Work and Culture.
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Physicist reproduces microscopic Vermeer painting
TORONTO - When Johannes Vermeer painted "Girl With a Pearl Earring" more than 300 years ago, he couldn't have foreseen how his iconic portrait would one day be reproduced - or just how tiny that portrait could be.
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Auction prices plummet for contemporary art stars
Sotheby's bowed to economic realities and slashed estimates for much-hyped contemporary art works at an auction where almost a third of lots failed to sell.
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Taylor Leads UCF to Exhibition Win Over Flagler
Getting a game-high 31 points from senior Jermaine Taylor (Tavares, Fla.), the UCF men's basketball team pulled away to a 76-56 win over visiting Flagler Tuesday night in an exhibition tune-up at UCF Arena.
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Lehman seeks to sell its art collection
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc is planning to sell at least $8 million (5 million pounds) worth of an art collection that once decorated the offices of the 150-year-old investment bank.
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ARTS 12:20 p.m. — View Kie Suscuico's photo synthesis work at the Bank of Guam
12:20 p.m., Nov. 12 — The Bank of Guam and the Chamorro Artists Association, in collaboration with The Guam Gallery of Art at the Chamorro Village, will hold a one-artist photographic exhibit of Kie Susuico at the bank's Hagåtña branch headquarters, on the second floor.
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Events
This month's Art Concern exhibition in City Hall, sponsored by City Council, features works by members of the Worthington Art League.
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CowParade 2009
MARGARET River is set to host international public art event CowParade next year, Augusta Margaret River Tourism Association chief executive officer Francine Errico announced last Friday.
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New photo competition confronts S Akld stereotype
Manukau Libraries have launched a new youth photographic competition called All Eyes on Manukau aimed at confronting the ‘South Auckland’ stereotype and celebrating the diversity of the city.
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‘Leave It to Beaver’ actor to show at the Louvre
LOS ANGELES • Eat your heart out, Eddie Haskell. Tony Dow, best known as the actor who portrayed The Beav's big brother, Wally, in the 1950s TV series "Leave It to Beaver," will have one of his abstract sculptures on display at the Louvre.
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Red Cross
The American Red Cross and the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio are seeking entries for the third annual American Red Cross Heroes Art Contest.
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ISU Welcomes Pulitzer Prize Winner
Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, Don Bartletti, gave a lecture to ISU students and faculty on Monday, Nov. 3. He went into detail about some of his most noted photographs, which are currently on display in the Transitions Art Gallery in the Pond Student Union Building.
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Craft Museum's holiday exhibition opens Sunday
The Ohio Craft Museum's ninth annual holiday exhibition and gift sale will open Sunday.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-11-12 01:42 Lehman seeks to sell its art collection
NEW YORK, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc is planning to sell at least $8 million worth of an art collection that once decorated the offices of the 150-year-old investment bank. The company filed court papers on Monday seeking authority to pay fees to art handlers who provided warehousing and framing services prior to the bankruptcy. Lehman said it needed to pay the fees ...
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Toy soldier exhibit at history museum shows bit of history
WESTFIELD - The toy soldier exhibit will be a success if custodians have to clean smudgy nose prints left on the glass display cases, organizers said Tuesday at the Connecticut Valley Historical Museum.
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Painting it Red
The cooler November temperatures may have inspired early thoughts of snowmen for one Alexander City group. The Dixie Dolls chapter of the Red Hat Society spent part of the day Tuesday learning how to paint the frozen friends with the help of The Loft gallery owner Bonnie Luckie at a paint party.
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Lehman seeks to sell its art collection
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc is planning to sell at least $8 million (5 million pounds) worth of an art collection that once decorated the offices of the 150-year-old investment bank.
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Lehman seeks to sell its art collection
Bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc is planning to sell at least $8 million (5 million pounds) worth of an art collection that once decorated the offices of the 150-year-old investment bank.
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Painting will travel to Virginia
FREEHOLD — The famous Emanuel Leutze painting "Washington at the Battle of Monmouth," the most notable work of art in the Monmouth County Historical Association's collection, will be on loan to George Washington's Mount Vernon in Virginia from December 2008 until January 2010.
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Lehman seeks to sell its art collection
NEW YORK, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc is planning to sell at least $8 million worth of an art collection that once decorated the offices of the 150-year-old investment bank.
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50th Anniversary of Kim Il Sung's Visit to Vietnam Observed
Pyongyang, November 11 (KCNA) -- An opening ceremony of photo exhibition and an art performance were held at the Friendship Hall in Hanoi and a friendly meeting at a textile mill on Nov. 4 to mark the 50th anniversary of President Kim Il Sung's visit to Vietnam and the 1st anniversary of the meeting between leader Kim Jong Il and Nong Duc Manh, general secretary of the Central Committee of the ...
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Arts groups paint portrait gallery's delay as short-sighted
Alberta arts groups are lashing out at the federal government's decision to ice the Portrait Gallery of Canada, saying the move is further proof the Conservatives only care about culture when it's convenient.
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Mall showcase for four artists
THE work of four artists will be exhibited at the Art Lounge from November 27 at its new extension in the Al A'ali shopping complex. The third series of Art Lounge (Art Lounge 3) will be held from 7pm until December 6.
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Cultural focus on Karnataka
The Chief Minister of the southern Indian state of Karnataka B S Yeddyurappa is set to arrive in Bahrain today as a special guest at the annual Kannada Sangha Bahrain festival, organisers have confirmed.
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WWII: Md. town reflects on the lives of war brides
CUMBERLAND — Grace McElfish’s signature, scratched into a mirror of the Lazarus store’s bridal gallery 66 years ago, starts tentatively. The “G” is wobbly; the “a” looks like an “o.”
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