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Tiki fetches $165,000 in New York
A greenstone tiki sold at an auction in New York today for US$92,000 ($165,290) - more than US$40,000 above its estimated price. The 16cm-tall tiki was one of five rare Maori artefacts to go under the hammer at an auction of African and Oceanic art at Sotheby's.
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Weekend Festivals
Music Man Festival, SouthPas Art Fest, Air Force Week and more!
LA.com |
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November 18
• Wood-working Workshop “Veneering, Laminating, Carving, and Finishing Furniture” sponsored by the Rappahannock Art League (RAL) Art Academy at the home studio of Andy Pitts in Heathsville from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Call RAL at 436-9309 for more information.
Southside Sentinel |
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Heritage Hall photo exhibition highlights the old and the new
A new exhibition at Heritage Hall shows the evolution of Hamilton's landmarks by comparing sites of now-demolished buildings with whatever vista replaced it.
The Hamilton Journal News |
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Photography In A Whole New Light
A burst of creative combustion and his unique perspectives on everyday art and life have always propelled Pipo Nguyen-duy's career as a professional photographer, and he brought them with him to campus when he addressed a packed house on October 30. By taking popular art and infusing his own creativity, Nguyen-duy captures his imagination while presenting themes of immigration, assimilation, ...
The Mass Media |
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Kickn It Preschool
Miss the days of finger-painting, Play-Dough, and sing-a-longs? Under the direction of CPCS Professor Joan Arches, with support and generous funding from the University of Massachusetts and president Jack Wilson, students are able to get involved in such artistic tasks.
The Mass Media |
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Ableauctions Announces Financial Results for Q3 2008
Ableauctions.com Inc. (AMEX:AAC) (the "Company") announced today the results of operations for the third quarter ended September 30, 2008.
Centre Daily Times |
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Government could sell planes, trains, museums to cover deficit
Forget shopping online or tuning in to The Shopping Channel, the government of Canada may have just what you're looking for - office space, housing, planes, boats or if you're on the hunt for more unusual items including dinosaur bones and Harlequin romance novels, you may be in luck.
Regina Leader-Post |
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Tiki fetches $165,000 in New York
A greenstone tiki sold at an auction in New York today for $US92,000 ($NZ165,290) -- more than $US40,000 above its estimated price.
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Artists to be featured in exhibit
This year’s Ada Artists Association Fall Art Exhibit is next week at Ada’s Hugh Warren Public Library on the corner of 12th Street and Rennie.
Ada Evening News |
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Roseville art gallery will kick off playful exhibit
The Blue Line Gallery, a nonprofit community arts center in Roseville, on Saturday will open an exhibit of works by 26 Northern California artists. The gallery invites the public to a free reception from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Saturday featuring desserts, wine tasting and live music. The exhibit, titled "Eccentric Imagery," presents a collection of images of humans and animals in mixed media, ranging ...
The Sacramento Bee |
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Michael Levy photographs of Cleveland's black churches go on view in a moving new exhibition
Michael Stephen LevyMichael Levy's photographs of worshippers in Cleveland's black churches vary from a spirit of literal documentation to the near abstraction of "Red Hat.'' One of the joys of writing for a newspaper is watching a gifted staff photographer...
The Cleveland Plain Dealer |
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Ableauctions Announces Financial Results for Q3 2008
Ableauctions.com Inc. (AMEX:AAC) (the "Company") announced today the results of operations
wallstreet:online AG |
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Businesses donate art, frame for Chamber
SHELBY - Cleveland County Chamber offices in Shelby and Kings Mountain each have a photographed and custom-framed image of the historic 1907 Cleveland County Courthouse.Lem Lynch, owner of Lem Lynch Photography, and Janet Berry, owner of Frame Masters Gallery & Gifts, collaborated on this project.For the past year, Chamber members Steve Padgett, Mark Hudson, Sandy Smith, Wes Westmoreland, Janet ...
The Shelby Star |
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Prague: A classical city takes a contemporary turn
New galleries and rejuvenated ones put Czech contemporary art on the map.
The Christian Science Monitor |
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Milk Premieres Tonight, Wendy and Lucy Tomorrow. Which One Should You See?
This is the weekend the Northwest Film and Video Festival officially turns into an embarrassment of riches: Gus Van Sant’s Milk premieres tonight at the Albert Schnitzer Concert Hall, while Kelly Reichardt’s Wendy and Lucy makes its local debut tomorrow night in the Portland Art Museum’s Whitsell Auditorium. As a cinephile, [...]
Willamette Week |
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Tiki price through the roof at Sotheby's auction
A greenstone tiki sold at an auction in New York today for $US92,000 ($NZ165,290) – more than $US40,000 above its estimated price.
Stuff |
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Around and About: Art show opens at college
More than 100 people attended the opening night reception Tuesday of Barstow Community College's annual display of the work of students in all art mediums in the LRC lobby.
Desert Dispatch Online |
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Unmasking art's dazzling pleasures – and its dirty secrets, too
The Globe's visual-arts critic gets an early look at the resdesigned Art Gallery of Ontario and comes away impressed. Director Matthew Teitelbaum and the curators, she writes, have taken the AGO off auto-pilot, and the gamble has paid off.
The Globe and Mail |
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New downtown theater will be home to performances, exhibitions and educational events
DAYTON — Monzithor is moving.
Dayton Daily News |
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Students recreate Cuban morality folk tale during Hispanic Heritage Festival
Using hand-made, larger-than-life papier-mâché puppets of a mosquito, spider and the head of a lion, Royal Palm Academy sixth- and seventh-grade students learned about humility. During the school’s annual Hispanic Heritage Festival, all eyes were on the students as they performed the story of an old Cuban morality folk tale, “El León y El Mosquito” (The Lion and the Mosquito).
Naples Daily News |
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Customer Service
NEW YORK - The sagging demand for high-end art at the fall auctions could signal a return to saner prices in the fine art market after the frenzied buying of the last few years.
Brandon Sun |
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North Scottsdale has a Heard mentality
“We’re right across from the gas station.” Not a phrase you’d expect to hear in reference to the Heard Museum. If you’ve lived in Arizona more than 15 minutes, you know the Heard as a stately, 79-year-old institution founded by Dwight and Maie Bartlett Heard to educate the world on Native American cultures.
East Valley Tribune |
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Ahead with sculpture for the masses
An ivory bust of Sir John Nicholl, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in 1834, is to be auctioned by Duke’s. The bust holds significance in the art world as it was mechanically scaled down – to just 5in high – in 1836 using a machine designed by Benjamin Cheverton as a way of making sculpture affordable to the masses.
Times Online |
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Britain ‘should be ashamed of art gift law’
Britain should be “shamed” into revising laws that make it easier for American collectors to donate art to our museums and galleries than Britons, the director of the British Museum says today.
Times Online |
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