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Spain outraged at cost of art for UN
Spain is embroiled in a furious row over a wildly expensive artwork at the United Nations' headquarters in Geneva for which the Spanish taxpayer has contributed millions of euros, including a sizeable tranche taken from the overseas aid budget.
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Creation Festival: Chart-topping bands Kutless, Pillar, Thousand Foot Krutch a big draw
Submitted photo - Christian rock bands Kutless and Thousand Foot Krutch, shown, will perform Monday at the Creation Festival: The Tour held at the Mid-America Center.
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Forward.com
Museums are hit and miss with young kids. Josie, at 6, was enthralled by the Superheroes exhibit at the Met last summer, but Maxine, 3, was less enchanted.
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Air Force Week Free Film Festivals Feature Celebrities, Heroes
Star Trek Star Michael Dorn Joins Movie Director at Nov. 14 Festival
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Arden Courts Art Show
Arden Courts of Westlake, an Alzheimer's Assisted Living center, will host an art show from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Nov. 18. Displayed artwork by residents and pieces donated by the community will be for sale. All the proceeds...
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Hot bidding on Champlain's map of early Canada
A map of Eastern Canada drawn by French explorer Samuel de Champlain has sold at auction for $286,570 Cdn, three times its estimated price.
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Things to do
FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES MUSEUM MASTERS ART SHOW, Sunday to Nov. 30. All art is for sale. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today, Five Civilized Tribes Museum. Admission: $3, adults; $2, seniors 65 and older; $1.50, students; and free, children under 6. Group rates for 10 or more are available.
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Cochise College artists to host exhibit, sale
Students in the Cochise College Art Department will exhibit and sell their work Nov. 17, 18 and 19 at the Douglas and Sierra Vista Campuses. The exhibit and sale are open to the general public.
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Spot the artist — the answer’s on a postcard
London Artists including Yoko Ono, Anish Kapoor and Tracey Emin have taken part in a “secret postcard” fundraising exhibition. In the yearly Royal College of Art (RCA) event all postcards, each featuring an original design, are bought in a one-day sale to the public, with each card costing £40 each.
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Art boom over as auctions fail to bring home Bacon
When a Francis Bacon triptych became the most expensive contemporary artwork sold at auction earlier this year it fuelled hopes that the art market might be credit-crunch proof.
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Plunge in prices will sort the genuine innovators from the mere copycats
We have got so used to watching the prices of paintings soaring through the stratosphere that we seem to have forgotten that, in reality, the art world moves rather more like a car driven by a little old lady than like a space rocket.
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Tough auction season so far
Only two people bid on this Jean-Michel Basquiat painting that sold for $13.5 million The New York Times' Carol Vogel reports today on contemporary art sales at the auction house Christie's. Seems like one-third of the 75 works failed to...
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Emporia State art faculty showcase work in annual exhibition
Each year, current and past faculty members of Emporia State’s art department display their works in the galleries of King Hall. “I think it’s a really good show,” said assistant professor Eric Conrad. “We have such a talented and distinguished group of faculty here.
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Recent Posts
We don’t need Chicken Little to tell us that prices are falling in the art and design markets. Recent results at the Phillips de Pury & Company , Sotheby’s and Christie’s art auctions, and the Wright and Sollo/Rago design auctions, will suffice.
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Film from Spain highlighted at festival
Northwest Film Forum presents the weeklong "Festival of New Cinema from Spain," a collection of Spanish movies completed from 2007 to 2008. It begins Friday with Félix Viscarret's surprisingly engrossing "Under the Stars."
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Sip, Nibble and Shop
Starting Nov. 18, Gallery Calaveras will host its "Affordable Gifts of Art Show and Sale." Forty local artists have come together to make your holiday brighter during this 16th annual showing of arts and crafts.
Calaveras Enterprise |
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SFist Tonight
PHOTO EXHIBIT : Hey, come check out WhatImSeeing' s Plug1 for a showing of his most stellar snaps tonight at " Everyday Distractions ". He will be showing prints at a hair salon/art gallery at Public Barber Salon, 571 Geary (at Jones). Plug1's stuff, which you should check out here, will be on display for some time, but we highly recommend you checking out tonight's opening reception. ...
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Ukraine unlikely to return German paintings
Thu, Nov 13, 2008 (2:06 p.m.) Ukraine is unlikely to return more than a dozen paintings by Western European artists brought here from a German museum as Soviet war trophies during World War II, an official said Thursday.
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The Greenville Adcoate
Mark your calendars for Friday and Saturday, November 22 and 23. That's when the Greenville Area Fine Arts League brings a bevy of local talent on display.
Greenville Advocate |
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Burlington's Grannis Gallery to close, owners retiring
After a decade in business, the Grannis Gallery is closing. But it's not because of the slowing economy. Co-owners Susan Hurd and Timothy Grannis are retiring from retail.
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Metropolitan Museum:‘Two Men Contemplating the Moon’
The Met is showcasing one of the most recognizable works by the most important German painter of the 19th Century-- “Two Men Contemplating the Moon”-- the third version of one of Caspar David Friedrich’s most famous paintings. Watch a video about the exhibition.
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A light that dimmed during the war years
UNDER WAY at the University of the Philippines Jorge B. Vargas Museum until Nov. 16 are exhibits of the paintings and works of Fernando Amorsolo during the war years, from the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1941 to the liberation of Manila in 1945.
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Customer Service
TORONTO - The revamped Art Gallery of Ontario opens to the public on Friday and its designer, world-renowned architect and Toronto native Frank Gehry, is confident it will make Canada proud.
Brandon Sun |
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Ukraine unlikely to return German paintings
Ukraine is unlikely to return more than a dozen paintings by Western European artists brought here from a German museum as Soviet war trophies during World War II, an official said Thursday. The German Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that it wants to negotiate the return of the works, which are on exhibit at the Simferopol Art Museum in Crimea. The Suermondt-Ludwig Museum in Aachen, Germany, ...
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
Three great posts from Richard Lacayo this week: Visiting Sol Lewitt part one , part two ; and visiting Paul Rudolph. Great images too. Veterans Day and underrated Western landscape painter William Wendt: LACMA's Unframed starts a meme, Christopher Knight finishes it.
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