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£10m art gallery plan takes shape
A funding landmark for an art project in southern Scotland could be reached early next year.
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Holiday art show
Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 5:00 p.m. A downstate family takes a risk on a U.P. business. The owner was unable to be reached for comment.
WLUC Marquette |
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U.S. to hold land auction
The view of Delicate Arch natural bridge an unspoiled landmark so iconic it's on Utah's license plates could one day include a drilling platform under a proposal that environmentalists call a Bush administration "fire sale" for the oil and gas industry.
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Tubman Museum's Wall of Spirits
Some people look at a wall and see brick or cement, but an artist native to Georgia see something more. Larry Walker's art exhibit is titled Wall Spirits and it can be seen here at the Tubman African American Museum until January 10th.
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Titian Masterwork Is National Gallery's Best: Martin Gayford
Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- There is an important visitor in town. Until Nov. 20, Titian's ``Diana and Actaeon'' is on view in Room 1 at London's National Gallery as part of the campaign to buy the painting and its companion, ``Diana and Callisto'' for Britain.
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Antiques Roadshow unveils its first ever £1million artwork (only trouble is, it's no antique)
Viewers have waited almost 30 years for the big moment. But when the first work of art to be given a £1million valuation on the Antiques Roadshow turned up it proved to be something of an anti-climax.
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New Exhibit Peeks Into Famous Artists Letters
Two new exhibits are premiering this weekend at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum. One of them is called More Than Words, showing off hand written letters of some of our most famous artists over the past century.
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Ozarks Gallery Celebrates 25 Years
(Bolivar, MO) -- When you think of art museums, you might typically think of one in a larger city. Yet here in the Ozarks, one museum in Bolivar celebrated 25 years of art Sunday.
KOLR - KSFX Ozarks |
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Art's too expensive, says Hirst (worth £200m)
Damien Hirst has become the nation's biggest art export, transforming the global market with multimillion-pound works and earning his place as one of the world's most expensive living artists at auction. But now, just months after the success of a ground-breaking sale at Sotheby's that brought him nearly £100m, Hirst has described the art market as over-priced, and welcomed the prospect of ...
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Art talent under threat from £50m bid
The future security of Britain's most talented arts students is under threat because the arts world is distracted by the high-profile campaign to save two Titian paintings from export, it was claimed yesterday.
The Herald |
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Annette’s Place visit many countries
Children and teachers from Annette’s Place visited Studio One on Tuesday taking the opportunity to get up close and personal with a range of specially selected artworks from around the globe in the ‘Wolfensohn gift’ suitcase exhibition, now on in the gallery.
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Celebration of fine art in Estero
Artists from across the country and Canada are in southwest Florida this weekend sold their masterpieces.
ABC 7 Gulfshore News |
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Financial Times overhauls its FT.com site
The Financial Times revealed the first stage in an overhaul of its website today, painting its five international homepages with the trademark pink tint of its print editions and simplifying the design. New features include a clearer main column for the top ten must-read stories, comment pieces and multimedia projects, simplified horizontal navigation and use of drop-down menus to ...
Guardian Unlimited |
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Portland's famed Powell's Books may get a new artsy look
Portland architect Ernest Munch is designing a three-level building of 28,000 square feet to replace the structure that provides the main entrance to Powell's Books in downtown Portland's tony Pearl District.
KATU Portland |
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Antiques Roadshow finds £1m Angel of the North artwork
The BBC’s Antiques Roadshow unearthed its first £1 million item yesterday – a scale model of Anthony Gormley’s artwork, The Angel of the North.
Times Online |
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art November 17 - 20 at Gallery Upstairs, 16 Loudon Street, #98319 08133; 3 pm - 7 pm:
Paintings by Rabin Mandal, Veena Bhargava, Prokash Karmakar, Jogen Chowdhury, Niranjan Pradhan, Shipra Bhattacharya, Dwijen Gupta, Wasim Kapoor, Sukti Subhra Pradhan, B.R. Panesar, Shakila and others.
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College carnival
IIAS presents Jashn ’08 in association with t2 at Swabhumi, 11.30am. Concluding dinner of the 14th Calcutta Film Festival at ITC Hotel, The Sonar Calcutta, 7.30pm.
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Businesses support Women’s Health fundraiser
WONS Nursing Education and Health Promotion Services has been overwhelmed by the support businesses have given to their fundraising charity online auction.
Scoop.co.nz |
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Exhibition on Netaji
Cuttack, Nov. 16: The Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Birthplace Museum exhibits have for the first time moved out of the galleries with a display of rare photographs on the life of the legendary freedom fighter in this year’s Baliyatra on the banks of the Mahanadi.
The Telegraph |
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Life lit up is the essence of photography
With infinite patience Sam Abell waited as the elements of a perfect photograph began to converge.
The Daily Progress |
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Rekha to be guest of honour at IFFI
Yesteryears leading lady Rekha is expected to be the guest of honour for the 39th International Film Festival of India.
The Times of India |
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Gallery expansion unearths old plan
The futuristic expansion of Maitland Regional Art Gallery has turned out to be a link to the city’s past.
The Maitland Mercury |
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Uproar over federal drilling leases next to parks
The view of Delicate Arch natural bridge — an unspoiled landmark so iconic it's on Utah's license plates — could one day include a drilling platform under a proposal that environmentalists call a Bush administration "fire sale" for the oil and gas industry.
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Auction of land in U.S. national parks for oil upsets environmentalists
On election day, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced an auction of more than 50,000 acres of oil and gas parcels alongside or near Arches National Park and two other national parks in Utah.
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Life-size characters from kiddie books
MANILA, Philippines - If you were at the Manila International Book Fair at SMEX recently, surely you would have bumped into Juan Tamad, Mariang Alimango, Butsiki, Pilo—or any of the 25 life-size sculptures of favorite book characters from contemporary Philippine children’s literature.
Philippine Daily Inquirer |
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