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Artists’ festive bazaar
GET the festive season off to an arty start at the Woodend Artists Winter Art Bazaar and Exhibition. The event will be held on November 29 and 30 at Woodend Mill, Manchester Road, Mossley.
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Critics' Week at Cannes boasts Latin flavour
PARIS (Hollywood Reporter) - The International Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival will offer a taste of Latin America with a French twist, judging from Thursday’s unveiling of the sidebar’s lineup.
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Christkindl Markt
The 37th annual Christkindl Markt — a fine-arts and fine-crafts show and sale — is returning to the Canton Museum of Art today through Sunday. More than 100 juried exhibitors from throughout the country began setting up for the show Thursday.
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'Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs' Makes U.S. Debut November 15 for Seven-Month Run at the Atlanta ...
Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs," a new National Geographic exhibition featuring more than 130 ancient Egyptian treasures, premieres tomorrow at the Atlanta Civic Center, where it will be on view through May 25, 2009.
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Artist leaves 1000 free works on London streets
Artist Adam Neate will leave 1000 works of art on the streets of London tonight for anyone to pick up for free. Neate’s The London Show will see the individually numbered artworks distributed randomly around the capital under the cover of darkness.
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History in the flesh: Museum exhibits racy WWII plane art
The sometimes controversial inspiration for many American airmen during World War II is on display in Great Falls beginning today.
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At auctions, contemporary art shows its strength
At sales of contemporary art at Sotheby's and Christie's this week the divergence between the economy at large and the auction scene was striking.
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Studio shots offer glimpses of high society's best
Portrait photographs of the Asian elite from the late 1800s to early 1900s are being shown in the exhibition "Neither East Nor West: Asians in Monochrome" at the Asian Civilisation Museum in Singapore.
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Rang Rasiya captivate the audience at London
The forthcoming film Rang Rasiya which tells the life story of the legendry Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma was received with great appreciation after its screening at the 52nd London Film Festival.
IndiaGlitz |
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Chagall: The inflated stardom of a Russian artist
In an engaging, almost painting-by-painting biography, the writer Jackie Wullschlager backs up her dislike of Chagall (drawing on archival letters and memoirs), portraying the artist as a social climber and a prince of self-pity.
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Welcome back to Otterville
Great art, small town charm and cherished historic sites are all on the menu this weekend during the 12th annual studio tour. The self-directed art tour will feature the studios of photographers, acrylic and oil paintings, wood turners, stained glass and antiques.
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The Week[end]: November 14-16, 2008
Madison bands flex their muscles this weekend, with the slate of shows representing some of the best the scene has to offer. The complete live music calendar includes performances by Buckcherry, Graham Colton, The New Standards, Wisconsin Singers, Robert Fulghum, Rose Polenzani and Anne Heaton, Harmonious Wail, We the Living, German Art Students, Over the Rhine, The Crest, Matt ' Kim, Blueheels, ...
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Comment and Opinion
Judging by the deafening media hysteria over the Harper government's shelving plans for a new national portrait gallery, one would think the feds had just decreed the end of hockey and maple syrup in the same press release.
Woodstock Sentinel-Review |
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Medium's upcoming show ignites protest at Renaissance
MANSFIELD — Don Merritt said he would be troubled if even one person attends the Renaissance Theatre show on Nov. 23.
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Art inspires minds in Middletown
"Harvest," a free exhibit and a sale of work by instructors and child and adult students at Inspired Minds Fine Art School in Middletown, takes place from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the school, 517B Newman Springs Road (Route 520) in the Lincroft section. Ten percent of sales will go to the school scholarship fund. www.inspiredmindart.com or (732) 530-3444.
Asbury Park Press |
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Hirst Painting Flops at `Brutal' New York Art Auction (Update1)
Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) -- A Damien Hirst painting of four skulls that was tipped to fetch at least $3 million at Phillips de Pury & Co.'s New York auction didn't sell, the biggest upset of last night's auction that missed presale low estimates by more than half.
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By Iuliana Petre Killeen Daily Herald
While Angelique Hall's husband was deployed to Iraq, she created a painting that she calls "Wooden Goddess." The "Wooden Goddess" represents what Hall referred to as a woman's battle with her weight.
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Winning Asian cinema
Right on the heels of the AFI Project: 20/20 mini film festival at the Honolulu Academy of Arts is another festival with a strong international flavor, albeit more Asian. NETPAC, formed in 1991 as a collaborative effort between longtime Asian film journal Cinemaya and UNESCO, now has members in 21 countries.
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Namibia: Historical Artworks Exhibition Next Week
The National Art Gallery of Namibia will be hosting a presentation of historical artworks from the collection of Peter and Regina Strack entitled "Collected in Namibia" next Tuesday, it was announced in a press release.
AllAfrica.com |
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'I was meant to stop moments'
A high school football injury is what diverted Peter Turnley’s attention from sports to photography. Diverted Peter’s attention and, by extension, his twin brother David’s. Photo caption: Some of David and Peter Turnley’s earliest photos, of long-vanished McClellan Street in Fort Wayne, can be seen starting Saturday. Photo by Courtesy photos
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Namibia: Call to Submit Film Entries for Next Year
The Wild Cinema Film Festival Trust (WCFF Trust), organisers of the Windhoek International Film Festival, is once again looking forward to another exciting, bigger and better edition of the Wild Cinema Windhoek International Film Festival for 2009.
AllAfrica.com |
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Entries for big wave contest now open
The ninth annual Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards is under way.
Honolulu Advertiser |
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Celebrating 'one of best teams — ever'
Tomorrow's alumnae volleyball exhibition — which precedes the non-conference match between sixth-ranked Hawai'i and Utah Valley — provides an ideal backdrop to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Rainbow Wahine's most remarkable accomplishment.
Honolulu Advertiser |
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Namibia: Landscape Artists to Hold Joint Exhibition
Coastal artists Freya Rust and Glenda Gerhardt will have a joint exhibition of their most recent works at the Fine Art Gallery in Swakopmund next Saturday.
AllAfrica.com |
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Forget the castle, they'll take Capo Beach
MORNING READ: This French sculptor and his family have always felt love for the American version of red, white and blue.
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