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A MOVIE filmed in Salford by staff and graduates of the University of Salford is set to make its debut at the Salford Film Festival.
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From our bookshelves, iPods and laptops to your Thursday morning breakfast table, here are our recommendations for the best of recent culture. Obama Art Report (www.obamaartreport.com) This blog bills itself as a "daily reporting on the world of Barack Obama artwork, prints and auctions.
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Art Imitates Life for Lehman CEO
Sale of artwork by embattled CEO gets millions less than expected.
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Metallica drummer's Basquiat painting sells for $13.5M at NYC auction; Bacon work doesn't sell
NEW YORK - A painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat has been sold for $13.5 million at an auction in New York City. The 1982 painting, "Untitled (Boxer)," was consigned to Christie's auction house by Lars Ulrich, drummer for Metallica. Christie's didn't identify the buyer.
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New Cleveland landmark to be unveiled
CLEVELAND -- Along with marking the entrance of the Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, a sculpture by artist Hector Vega will commemorate the life of a Cleveland woman.
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'Oncology on Canvas' turns dealing with cancer into art
All of the pieces that come with the traveling worldwide art exhibit, "Oncology on Canvas," on display at the Richard G. Laube Cancer Center at ACMH Hospital, tell a personal story that cancer patients can relate to in their own lives.
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Oil Refineries Comments on Updated Credit Rating By Standard & Poor's Maalot
Oil Refineries Ltd. , Israel's largest oil refiner, announced today that on November 12, 2008 Standard and Poor's Maalot downgraded the Company's debentures from AA/Stable to A/Negative.
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Drawing on a lifetime of art
DEWSBURY Museum is hosting an exhibition celebrating the artistic career of a local man. (13/11/2008)
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Heysen masters go on show
THE Art Gallery of South Australia's new Hans Heysen exhibition has been unveiled - catching the artist's great-great grandson by surprise.
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Francis Bacon Self-Portrait Fails to Sell at N.Y. Auction
A Francis Bacon self-portrait failed to sell at auction in New York Wednesday, in another sign the souring economy is having a crushing effect on fall season art sales.
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'Top Chef' recap: These are the people in your neighborhood
By Kate Ward After what seems like a simple challenge that sends one chef home immediately, the other new contestants have to make dishes that represent New York neighborhoods, and we see their different styles and levels of ability
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Parents get a peek at Ramay Junior High students? art class
From making sculptures out of old shoes to simple drawings, parents of Ramay Junior High School art students got to see what their children were learning in class during Family Art Night Wednesday. (Northwest Arkansas Times)
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'Kaiser: Art and Artist'
'Vitus J. Kaiser: The Art and the Artist" opens Sunday with a reception from 3-6 p.m. at Gannon University's Schuster Gallery, located on the third floor of the Nash Library, 619 Sassafras St.
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Christina Aguilera Discusses Her New New Look And Sound
Christina Aguilera sat down with us to talk about her new look and new direction, which she described as an homage to Nico, Blondie and the works of pop artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
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Vivid photography captures spirit of the islands
Photographer Shokyu Otsuka knows Okinawa from north to south, east to west, and has captured the brilliance of the islands’ culture and beauty in a newly published pictorial book.
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Tech Museum Awards honor low-tech solutions to big problems
Change-the-world technology '” the flashy and expensive kind '” is the lifeblood of Silicon Valley. But every year, many of the region's leaders pause to spotlight a different type of innovation '” the low-tech kind. The Tech Awards
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Los Angeles Comedy Festival
What flavor do you like your funny? The Los Angeles Comedy Festival is a veritable ice cream counter of tastes. The comics and troupes are the frosty, delicious scoops, and the jokes are the toppings,...
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London News and Reviews
The Jerwood Photography Awards exist to recognise promising recent photography graduates; the reward to the five winners on show here will be follow-up commitment to their burgeoning careers. Quietly surprising, the Jerwoods always encapsulate new trends at photography’s border with fine art.
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Biblical Arts Center, destroyed in '05 fire, hopes to repoen with new focus 6:49 AM CT
More than three years after it was all but destroyed by fire, the Biblical Arts Center in North Dallas is announcing new plans and a new name today. Rebranding itself as the Museum of Biblical Art, the institution, officials say, is adapting its old mission to a new structure.
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US Synthetic Names Rob Galloway as Chief Operating Officer
OREM, Utah----US Synthetic Corporation, an operating company within the Energy platform of Dover Corporation’s Fluid Management segment and the leading provider of polycrystalline diamond cutters for oil and gas exploration, announced today the appointment of Rob Galloway as Chief Operating Officer of the company.
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Tarfest 2008 Opens
When you're organizing a film festival slash concert slash run slash art show and you call it Tarfest, there's really only one location to hold it: Hancock Park, home of the La Brea Tar Pits. We're guessing...
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Artfest International, Inc. Launches Artfest Galleries in Moscow
Artfest International, Inc. announced the launch of its new Gallery in Moscow, Russia. www.artchannelgalleries.com
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Lace Up Your Skates
National Art Gallery welcomes winter with their ice-skating rink and opening weekend free hot chocolate.
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First look inside new University of Michigan Art Museum as work continues toward spring opening
James Steward, director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art, leads a tour in the nearly complete addition on Wednesday afternoon. The museum is slated to reopen sometime next spring when the nearly $42 million expansion and renovation project is completed. (Eliyahu Gurfinkel The Ann Arbor News) • Read the story
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San Francisco Fashion Shows Are Fabulous!
Fashion is coming. Fashion is coming. Fabulous! The Arts of Fashion 2008 will bring an international collection of fashion, art, ideas and talents to San Francisco on Oct. 25 through Oct. 29 at the Museum...
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