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TORONTO - Almost 52,000 people took advantage of free admission on the weekend to visit the Art Gallery of Ontario and see its transformation by star architect Frank Gehry, the gallery said.
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Scrapped project a 'missed chance'
THE operators of a planned $180 million exhibition centre at Homebush Bay said the State Government's decision to scrap the project was a "missed opportunity" for Sydney's tourism industry, but they would lobby hard to have the project reinstated.
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Documentary on widows inspired by Mehta's Water
Dilip Mehta, brother of Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta and producer of her film Water, has created a documentary about the widows of India that will screen at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA) this November.
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Gormley's Maquette Isn't Actually An Antique, But ... "Anthony Gormley's design model for his Angel of the North sculpture has become the first £1m object to be valued on BBC One's Antiques Roadshow.
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RPTA student to show nature photos at Horn Lodge
Western Illinois University senior Greg Rolf has big outdoor plans just after he graduates next May. A recreation, park and tourism administration (RPTA) major and a photographic media minor (offered through Western's instructional design and technology department), Rolf plans to hike the Appalachian Trail, a 2,100 mile long stretch -- meandering through 14 states from Georgia to Maine -- and ...
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Faculty featured in art exhibit
Creativity is flourishing in the third floor gallery of the Hermann Fine Arts Center after the opening of their fall art exhibition Reorder/Represent on Oct. 24. Reorder/Represent is a cross media exhibition intended to expose and highlight systems of order and modes of creative representation.
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Popular arts festival folds
A WA arts festival has collapsed because of insufficient public funding and its organisers have run out of puff trying to drum up more corporate support. The peak WA artists’ organisation, Artsource
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Fun and games are over; next time the game counts
University of Missouri-St. Louis men's basketball coach Chris Pilz freely admits, he and his team have had a lot of fun during the exhibition season. Not many Division II teams get to enjoy the kind of preseason training camp the Tritons had this year. First, the Tritons traveled to one of the country's true basketball meccas, Rupp Arena in Lexington, Ky.
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Carsten Höller stretches the definition of art with The Double Club
His twisting slides at Tate Modern delighted millions and he has just turned a section of the Guggenheim Museum in New York into a hotel room, available for hire.
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Painter creates dream job out of passion for art
Owning her own custom painting company at age 25 is a dream Clarendon Hills resident Cathy Murray can't believe she's living. From creating murals of superheroes and trains in kids' rooms to custom artwork, Murray now works full time as a painter.
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The Taubman Museum of Art is open. Now the former home of Roanoke's fine arts museum is embarking on a major renovation of its own. City council took action that should jump start a $25 million makeover at Center in the Square. Council agreed to kick in $1.5 million over five years.
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Humana Festival announces 2009 line-up
The Actors Theatre of Louisville has announced the plays being produced for the 33rd annual Humana Festival of New American Plays, scheduled for March 1-April 11.
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Spotlight on MacDougall -- and rarely seen aspects of his art
Waves lap at a simple shoreline as a snow topped mountain disappears into the fluffy clouds above. The six-by-seven-inch painting may seem childishly out of [...]
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Painter creates dream job out of passion for art
Owning her own custom painting company at age 25 is a dream Clarendon Hills resident Cathy Murray can't believe she's living.
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VCE artists to shine
ARARAT - Aspiring young visual artists can experience the thrill of exhibiting in a professional public gallery environment when the Ararat Regional Art Gallery hosts its VCE graduate art exhibition next year.
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Future of towers from portrait gallery bid hangs over Centretown
A federal competition for the Portrait Gallery of Canada may have been cancelled, but it continues to cast a long shadow in the form of two downtown Ottawa condominium towers approved as part of the city's bid.
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Pearl-Qatar to host show on supercars for the rich and famous
By Bonnie James THE Pearl-Qatar, being promoted as the most glamorous address in the Middle East, is gearing up to host Qatar’s first-ever exhibition of luxury and supercars on November 21 and 22.
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Canadian auction houses cautiously optimistic amid recent slow sales
Amid global economic turmoil, as well as lower prices and unsold lots at auctions abroad over the past few weeks, Canada's top auction houses remain cautiously optimistic about their forthcoming fall sales of Canadian artwork.
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Warialda artist to showcase his works
Local artist, Kerry Cannon of Warialda, has been selected to exhibit at the Toyota Community Spirit Gallery’s fourth annual indoor-outdoor sculpture exhibition, Cryptozoology, in Search of the Missing Link, in Port Melbourne.
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Art blast in Wanganui
Art lovers are invited to a fresh blast of new art, with three graduate exhibition openings in Wanganui.
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‘Larger picture’ of Armenian, Byzantium cultures analyzed
Dr. Helen Evans, Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator for Byzantine Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, presented an illustrated lecture entitled “Armenia and Byzantium: The Larger Picture” on Oct. 30, at the NAASR Center.
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Yankees to play first-ever exhibition games at New Yankee Stadium on April 3 and 4 against the Chicago Cubs
Yankees to play Cubs at new Stadium
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Outhouses are in on Elk Falls tour
The way Steve Fry tells it, folks in Elk Falls are flush with excitement. The 13th annual outhouse tour is scheduled next weekend and includes a display from the town's planned outhouse museum. The tour has been featured in Midwest Living magazine. In 2001, it was chosen as the "Greatest Event on Earth" by Festival Media Corp., which operates Festivals.com. And last year, Elk Falls' ...
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Coney Island Gets Re-Imagined
The Municipal Art Society (MAS) had their intense redesign Coney Island workshop at the end of last week, and as promised they've released their ideas to the public today. The concept and design is portrayed in the renderings above (so many robots and clowns!), and MAS says "The concept, which would include a variety of indoor and outdoor facilities, can be implemented immediately (Summer ...
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