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B of the Bang artist pays Manchester £1.7m in damages over disintegrating sculpture
Mancunians nicknamed it Kerplunk after the 1970s children’s game – an apt description for a £1.42 million sculpture with giant spikes that began falling off soon after it was completed.
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Billionaire Broad Proposes Art Museum, Offices in Beverly Hills
Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Eli Broad , the billionaire philanthropist and art collector, proposed building a public museum in Beverly Hills, California, to display art from his charitable foundation and personal collection.
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Art auctions: Will anyone pay these prices?
Six months ago, three tiny Tom Thomson sketches sold for over $1-million a piece. As the fall auction season kicks off, James Adams reports, there's a new million-dollar question out there
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Design Preis Schweiz (Swiss Design Award) Premieres on the West Coast
San Francisco exhibit showcases the best in Swiss design
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Art lovers meander on Main
Gazette photo by Scott Ertle Mike Hudziak (left) and Jennifer Urban check out some art at the Gallery 310 studio on Friday for the Art on Main event in downtown Stillwater.
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art November 18 - 23 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 3 pm - 8 pm:
Images — a group exhibition of paintings by Sameer Ray, Paramesh Pal, Anbirban Thakur Chowdhury, Samik De and Rintu Roy. Inauguration today at 5.30 pm.
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Damian Hirst Sees the Writing on the Gallery Wall
Now that he's worth an estimated $364 million, Damien Hirst is ready to admit that the art market, which has taken quite a dive in recent months, has been "over-priced." In an interview with the UK's Independent , Mr. Hirst said that he would be willing to lower his own--often exorbitant--prices, given the current economic situation: "If I want to sell new work, I'll price it lower. ...
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Artists hit altitude in the Strathbogies
Altitude Art, a group of established artists who have known each other as friends and respected each other’s work for close to a decade, is planning on holding an exhibition at The Packing Shed, “Allanvale”, in Upton Road near Avenel.
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Art on show at Strathbogie Summer Festival
Local residents will be pleased to hear that preparations are once again under way for the Strathbogie Tableland Summer Festival Art Exhibition, to be held in 2009 from 9 to 11 January.
Euroa Gazette |
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Moskva Reads: Famed Bookstore Turns 50
18 November 2008 By Jessica Lee / Special to The Moscow Times Fifty years after it first opened its doors, the Moskva bookstore celebrates its anniversary with an exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery.
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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
A world class collection of color woodblock prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, one of the last great masters of the ukiyo-e school of Japanese art, has been gifted to the American Friends of the British Museum in London by renowned U.S. legal scholar Arthur R Miller.
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'Dürer to Picasso' highlights additions to Cantor Arts Center collection
The works displayed '” by 50 European and American artists, including Goya, Rembrandt, Bruegel, Tiffany, Munch, Audubon, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso and Kandinsky '” are indeed outstanding. They are also diverse, including many works on paper and in silver, several oil paintings, sculpture, glass and photography.
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Portrait Project: Calderon
Sarah Lazarovic—curator of the garage-based Montrose Portrait Gallery of Canada —is painting a portrait of a Torontonian every day. Each Monday, we'll feature one of those portraits here . Suggestions for subjects welcome.
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Russia returns stained glass to German church
FRANKFURT AN DER ODER, Germany (AP) -- Six medieval stained-glass windowpanes looted by the Red Army during World War II were returned to a German church Monday, where officials said they hoped to negotiate the return of other plundered artworks.
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The Chatham County Arts Gallery Displays Work Of Local Artists
Local Art work on display in Chatham County.
NBC 17 Raleigh |
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New-look Art Gallery of Ontario attracts 68,000 in short span
Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario, which reopened this weekend after undergoing a renovation by celebrity architect Frank Gehry, has already attracted 68,000 visitors.
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Blanton becomes nation's largest university museum
The Blanton Museum at the University of Texas has just become the largest university museum in the country, since the addition of the Edgar Smith building.
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AGO Citizenship Ceremony
Spacing editor Shawn Micallef is the Blogger-in-Residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Art Matters blog in anticipation of the grand re-opening of the new AGO. He will be cross-posting some of the entries here on Spacing Toronto. To comment on this post, click here and head over to Art Matters. When my father became a [...]
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Photo du Jour 273
Photo by Anna Fitch, via Laughing Squid . Photo/digital illustration of " Language of the Birds ," the sculpture installation at the NW corner of Broadway where Grant and Columbus Streets intersect. The unveiling happens on November 23rd, 2008, at nightfall.
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It's not urban blight
Ryan Mehigan believes graffiti, the ubiquitous art form often associated with urban decay, is a legitimate artistic media, on par with oil painting or sculpture.
The Beacon-Villager |
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Famed Powell's Books may get a facelift
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The famous bookstore an architect calls Oregon's second-largest retail attraction, behind the Tillamook Cheese Factory, is in for an artsy facelift -- the economy willing.
KGW NewsChannel 8 Portland |
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Blanton becomes nation's largest university museum
The Blanton Museum's latest addition makes it the largest university museum in the country.
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The National Day of Romania, celebrated in Venice
The National Day of Romania will be celebrated in Venice, by an exhibition of the Romanian Peasant’s Museum and by concerts of the Stavropoleos Monastery Choir in Bucharest, the Romanian Culture and Humanistic Research Institute (IRCCU) of the Italian city announces.
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Canon PowerShot SX10 IS gets reviewed
Filed under: Digital Cameras The folks at Photography Blog offered a few first impressions about Canon's PowerShot SX10 IS when they first got their hands on it a couple of months back but, as is their nature, they've now followed things up with a decidedly more thorough review of what they describe as a "sturdy plastic brick of a camera." Among other things, they were apparently ...
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Artist Dale Chihuly exhibits 'glass under glass'
The residents of Tacoma no longer drive their carriages through Wright Park on a pleasant Sunday, stopping at the Seymour Conservatory to pick a fresh banana or two. Like they once did.
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