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Duong Quoc Dinh’s photographic arts
VietNamNet Bridge – Duong Quoc Dinh is known not only for his nude photos but also his huge number of international prizes. Though the photographer has not given any solo exhibition, in the photographic world, he is seen as a master of nude photos.
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Harbour inspires Queens High artist
Her work has been sent all over New Zealand and has been exhibited at the Flanders Field Museum in Belgium, but it was the Otago Harbour which inspired Gemma Baldock to create her latest winning masterpiece.
Otago Daily Times |
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Gordon's whimsies on display
Gordon Aimers lived a reclusive lifestyle in his later years in Alexandra, but behind his property's tree-lined facade he was busy working on his metal sculptures, which he spread around his garden.
Otago Daily Times |
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Design Trust for Public Space Holds Art and Design Auction in New York
Items on the auction block range from furnishings, to design objects, to art.
Interior Design |
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CONFERENCE: Thirty Years On: The Social and Cultural Impacts of the Iranian Revolution
A conference focusing on the developments in the social and cultural lives of Iranians since the revolution. -- Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS, London
Payvand Iran News |
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Friendship brings Britto's art to Miami Shores center
Drivers who regularly cruise down Biscayne Boulevard through Miami Shores are likely to notice a new work of art on the grassy area between the Miami Shores Country Club and the village's Aquatic Center at 10200 Biscayne Blvd: a round, multicolored sculpture representing a beach ball created by world-renowned local artist Romero Britto.
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An artist unveils $23 million ceiling at UN
A $23M ceiling painting featuring dangling icicles has been criticized for its price tag.
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MOW celebrates National Philanthropy Day
Meals-on-Wheels of Johnson and Ellis Counties celebrated National Philanthropy Day on Nov. 6 by honoring The Joe Barton Family Foundation at a luncheon held at the Renaissance Worthington Hotel in Fort Worth.
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Boise Weekly Raises Nearly $13K at Cover Art Auction
Last week's seventh annual Cover Art auction netted nearly $13,000, which brings the total bringing the total to date raised by the auction to more than $78,000. At the event, the Weekly auctions off a year's worth of cover art, and then gives the money back to the local arts community. The proceeds from this year's auction have yet to be determined, but in the past the paper has funded things ...
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Oil Refineries Changes Time of Earnings Call to Discuss Third Quarter 2008 Results
Oil Refineries Ltd. , Israel's largest oil refiner, announced today that it will be hosting a conference call to discuss its financial results for the third quarter and nine months 2008 at 10:00 am ET on Monday, November 24, 2008, and not as previously announced.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Culinary Art Festival will gather confectioners and cooks from five countries in Chisinau
A festival for confectioners and cooks from Moldova, Ukraine, Romania, Russia and Azerbaijan will be held at the Chisinau restaurant “Lebada Alba” (“White Swan”) on December 3-4. Sixteen representatives from Moldova and by 4-5 from other countries will take part in the Culinary Art Festival. Eight young cooks will participate in the Young Cooks Championship. They will prepare food in the ...
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Holiday auction helps children
A few of the many Christ-mas trees are on display at the second-annual Christmas Tree and Art Auction held at Branson Mill Craft Village on Friday. BDN photo by Tonyi Crandell
Branson Daily News |
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Public art is like planting trees, council told
A new cultural vision for Red Deer suggests having an indoor public market in the old bus barns and adding new public art each year.
Red Deer Advocate |
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Manchester Gets £1.7M In Settlement Over Failed Sculpture
"Mancunians nicknamed it Kerplunk after the well-known 1970s children's game -- an apt description for a £1.42 million sculpture of giant spikes that began to fall off soon after it was completed.
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Young artist honored for painting of ducks
Ashley Matters, 18, of Lebanon won best in show at the 2008 Pennsylvania Junior Duck Stamp Program’s art contest.
Lebanon Daily News |
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Experience local art at the Old Stone Inn
Explore Niagara’s artist talent at the Old Stone Inn. The Robinson Street hotel will host its first Niagara Artist Exhibit on Nov. 23 from noon [...]
Niagara Falls Review |
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Targeting the polluters in Bangladesh - Caroline Gluck
Oxfam GB - UK Outside a community centre in Jessore district, south-western Bangladesh, a team of art students are feverishly at work, determined to complete five large canvases. Before the morning is over, each panel will colourfully depict some of the weather-related problems that Bangladesh is currently facing, from waterlogged areas to flooding, cyclones and river erosion. Inside the ...
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Events Calendar the week of Nov. 19, 2008
Altars of the Invisible: Sculptural Book-works, is on exhibit in the Tomasulo Gallery, on the first floor of MacKay Library, Union County College, Cranford, to Dec. 20. Multimedia book artist Miriam Schaer uses garments like girdles, bustiers, brassieres, gloves,...
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World-Renowned Antiques Dealers Exhibit at the Original Miami Beach Antique Show Jan. 22-26, 2009
MIAMI----World-renowned antique dealers will exhibit at the Original Miami Beach Antique Show on January 22-26, 2009, at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach.
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Danish oil ship briefly seized off Nigeria
A Danish shipping group says one of its vessels has been released after being hijacked for nearly 30 hours in Nigeria's southern oil region. Thor Shipping executive Thomas Mikkelsen says the crew aboard the Thor Galaxy was not harmed. He says the ship was...
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Art Basel Miami Beach on the horizon
Art Basel Miami Beach, the United States' most prestigious art show, comes to town Dec. 4-7. This year's show brings more than 220 leading galleries from around the world exhibiting the works of over 2,000 artists -- plus a multitude of special exhibitions, parties and crossover events featuring music, film, architecture and design.
Miami Herald |
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Artist Barcelo unveils $23 million ceiling at UN
(AP:GENEVA) A $23 million ceiling painting featuring hundreds of dangling icicle shapes that has been criticized for its hefty price tag was unveiled Tuesday at the United Nations.
INO News |
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It's auction stations for Spike's personal goods
It sounds like one of the jokey stories he would tell in a poem or novel. When a wrecking ball sliced a nearby Victorian block of flats in two, Spike Milligan spotted a grand piano left in a disused apartment.
The New Zealand Herald |
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A coming of age
With the opening of the Sol LeWitt retrospective over the weekend -- the first semi-permanent exhibit in an extensive, eccentric cornucopia of creations -- the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art has entered a whole new world.
North Adams Transcript |
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The paradoxical life of hijiras
As part of the Amsterdam India Festival a group of hijiras, India's third sex or transgender community, has been brought out of India for the first time. Hear more about their lives.
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