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Close-up: Rungwe Kingdon & Claude Koenig
Rungwe Kingdon and Claude Koenig are responsible for some of the world's greatest works of art – sculptures that tour the most prestigious galleries and fetch dizzying sums in the auction houses of London and New York – yet outside the whitewashed walls of the art world, their names are seldom heard. "That's because we're not artists," says Kingdon. "We are founders."
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City Slicker: St Petersburg
Why visit? The nights are drawing in, so make the most of them. That's the thinking behind the White Days festival (whitedays.com), which starts this month.
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Sisley in England and Wales, National Gallery, London
In 1874, Alfred Sisley, French born and bred and rising 35, spent six months in Hampton Court. Apart from a spell in London in his late teens, this was the artist's first visit to the land of his fathers. There were to be two more, both brief. Otherwise, Sisley's 59 years were spent in and around Paris, where he picked up a faint accent, and French Impressionism.
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The show goes on
Three years after hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is mounting America's biggest-ever biennial of modern art. Teri Grenert reports on a project that is helping to restore tourism to this unique city
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Roadshow sees first £1m object
experts have valued their first £1 million item. The identity of the record-breaking item will remain a closely guarded secret until the show is broadcast tonight. It was valued by art dealer Philip Mould, who is an authority on antique portrait paintings.
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Film crew will follow Howson as he creates epic religious work
Ambitious painting will be placed in Glasgow’s St Andrew’s Cathedral. painter Peter Howson is a star in his own picture. The controversial artist - who has battled against drink and drugs - is to be the subject of a major documentary, planned to be shown across the entire BBC network.
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Boy wonder: A revealing view of Bruce Chatwin's early years at Sotheby's
On a crisp winter morning 50 years ago Bruce Chatwin stepped off New Bond Street and into the galleries of Sotheby's for the first time. He was an 18-year-old, dough-faced boy straight from Marlborough College. The following eight years spent at the auction house were to prove pivotal. They would inform his unique prose style, introduce key themes to his work, provide him with a wife and ...
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Special Memorial To Lima Company Unveiled
The lives of five fallen Tri-State Marines were honored at a special memorial unveiling at the Cincinnati Museum Center.
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Changing Direction Through Poetry WBNG-TV Binghamton, NY Local Top Stories
Young people in Binghamton are sharing their struggles through art. The Youth Emotions program hosted two art exhibitions this weekend. This one took place at the KNOW Theater on Carroll Street.
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Works by animals, local artist raise money for SPCA
AIKEN --- Despite the soggy day, the Helter Skelter Shelter Art and Auction Party had a large turnout Friday night. More than 100 people showed up to the event, taking place for the second year, in the hopes of placing a winning bid on one of the 20 paintings created by animals.
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N.Korea reports Kim appearance
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, who has been the subject of reports of poor health outside his reclusive country, attended an art festival given by soldiers, the state-controlled news agency KCNA said on Saturday.
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Tazewell County Museum seeks funds, space
Times staff writer PEKIN - The Tazewell County Museum & Educational Center has a lot to offer its visitors, said President and Director Christal Dagit.
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Exercise helps brittle bones, so I go once a week to Tiffany's and lift diamonds ... Joan Rivers joins battle against ...
The outrageous comedienne reveals why she's backing a new exhibition that highlights osteoporosis.
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John Rockwell on the arts
Went to hear Patti Smith at the Metropolitan Museum of Art last weekend -- her fifth appearance there, and hence a long way from St. Mark's Church and CBGB's.
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Rotary auction hits airwaves next weekend
You might think only viewers of late-night info-mercials would ever order a vacuum cleaner over the phone. But every year, hundreds of Niagara Falls residents [...]
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Archaeology
Archaeologists in Guatemala have unearthed pieces of a sculpture that they believe could shed light on the period between the Olmec culture – which existed between 1,200 and 400 BC – and the later Mayan era.
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U.K. city axes controversial Gehry development
While Toronto-born architect Frank Gehry basked in the international spotlight at Friday’s unveiling of his remodelled Art Gallery of Ontario, the world-renowned building designer was still digesting news that another of his dream projects — a $650-million residential and recreation complex overlooking the English Channel — had been scuttled over financial concerns after a fierce debate in ...
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For the children
AWARD-winning Maida Stewart is one of the Australian aboriginal artists whose paintings are currently on display in the Beyond the Dots exhibition at Pace Gallery.
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From rock to canvas
MY fascination with contemporary Australian aboriginal art – in particular the dot paintings – began at an art exhibition in Singapore.
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JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む
Leandro Erlich’s “Swimming Pool,” an art installation at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanagawa.
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Participants Find Success At IH/M&RS Despite Economic Uncertainty
Exhibitors at the recent International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show® (IH/M&RS) reported a market experience that far exceeded expectations given uncertainty within the hospitality industry and the economy. Held November 8-11, 2008, at New York City's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, the 93rd annual IH/M&RS attracted 34,050 registrants, and saw especially significant participation from ...
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Holiday art show
Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 5:00 p.m. MARQUETTE -- The parking lot of the Peter White Public Library was jammed with cars Saturday morning, and it wasn't because of looming due dates on borrowed books.
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£1m record for Antiques Roadshow with Angel of the Council Office
The Antiques Roadshow has made its first seven-figure valuation, putting a £1m tag on a model made by the sculptor Antony Gormley of his gigantic Angel of the North.
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60th anniversary of India-Switzerland friendship treaty
Exhibitions, debates, screening of documentry films and other cultural programmes are part of the 6-day celebration.
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Human anatomy never ceases to inspire me
Nawaz Modi Singhania is better known for her fitness centres. The better half of industrialist, Gautam Singhania, she steps into art with her debut solo exhibition...
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