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Top artists move to block dealers selling 'fakes'
Two prominent Australian artists take legal action against two Melbourne art dealers to stop them selling allegedly fake works.
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The Exhibition “Create Yourself”
17 November 2008 at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art an unusual exhibition was opened. This day the artists were children and their guests were adults.
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'Inner city hasn't seen political freedom'
Members of the Johannesburg inner city Residents Association gathered at the Joubert Park Art Gallery on Wednesday, in preparation for a protest march against evictions.
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Algoma Art Society annual Christmas event set for weekend
Rose Sundaram wants to put some face time in Sault Ste. Marie's visual arts scene. The owner of Rose's Art Gallery makes her first appearance [...]
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$13 Million Renovation Project Begins At Vizcaya
MIAMI -- A $13 million restoration project kicks off Wednesday at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens.
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What's On Wednesday, 12 November 2008
November 13 – 19 Cartoons: For diversity against discrimination An exhibition of cartoons at the Atrium, St James Cavalier, Valletta, showcasing 22 cartoons by nine artists who participated in the Cartoons competition held as part of the European Commission campaign ‘For Diversity Against Discrimination’.
Malta Today |
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Artist Barcelo unveils $23 million ceiling at UN
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 U.N. offices in Geneva.
Centre Daily Times |
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Fund donates £10m to save Titian's Diana and Actaeon
A £10 million donation to help keep Titian's Diana and Actaeon, described as one of the greatest privately-owned paintings on public view, was announced today.
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Google gives online life to Life mag's photos
(AP) -- Google Inc. has opened an online photo gallery that will feature millions of images from Life magazine's archives that have never been seen by the public before.
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Artist Barcelo unveils $23 million ceiling at UN
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 U.N. offices in Geneva. The 16,000-square-foot (1,500-square-meter) elliptical dome full of bright colors and torn aluminum took over a year to produce and it will grace the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room at the ...
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Emma Thompson - Thompson Sets Sights On New York For Harrowing Art Show
EMMA THOMPSON is on a mission to turn New York's Times Square into a mock detention centre for a hard-hitting protest about human trafficking. The British actress ...
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A Rocker's Renaissance NIN frontman keeps churning out quality tracks with rare, fans-first attitude
Next year marks the 20th anniversary of the first Nine Inch Nails album Pretty Hate Machine. In those twenty years, Trent Reznor (who is the sole permanent member and founder of the band) and the music he creates have gone through an epic evolution that's seen the music industry ebb, flow and eventu... By Josh Kline.
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Artists move to block sale of 'fakes'
Legal action taken against art dealers to stop them selling allegedly fake works.
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Local artists shine at home and abroad
Morehouse Parish is well represented at the annual University of Louisiana’s Faculty, Student and Alumni Art Sale Bastrop artists Wayne Horton and Betty Crouch have work on display and for sale at the show, which will run through Nov. 21 and on Nov. 24 and 25 at the Bry Hall Art Gallery.
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Trash Sculpture celebrates America Recycles
Winners at UCHS were: first place and best in show, Alison Manley and Ethan Greenwell (not pictured) for Military Tank; second place, Kotye Buckman for Candy Cone; and third place, Shelby Jackson for camera. The winners are pictured with UCHS judges Heather Kirton and Debbie Eubank.
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Museum gets big donation a house
COLUMBUS, Ind. (AP) - A Columbus family is donating a 1957 modernist-style home designed by famed architect Eero Saarinen to the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
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Unexpected honor
Wednesday, November 19 STOCKBRIDGE — After 22 years of working at a museum that honors an artist whose work could once be found in living
Berkshire Eagle |
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Babylon at the British Museum: 'The tower of Babel is not a myth'
northern architecture. tyne and wear. £42,000 to £45,000. national maritime museum. london. £21,000-£26,000.
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Unexpected honor
STOCKBRIDGE — After 22 years of working at a museum that honors an artist whose work could once be found in living rooms across the nation, Laurie Norton Moffatt felt like she had walked into the nation's living room on Monday.
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Plunging Oil Prices Ease Economic Pain in Asia
Oil prices are now more than 60 percent off their record highs in July. Although it still remains above $50 a barrel, in Asia, consumers and governments are benefitting from the decline. VOA's Kate Pound Dawson in Bangkok takes a look at what cheaper oil means for the region.
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Heritage fund gives its entire grant to protect masterpiece
THE campaign to save a Titian masterpiece was given a £10 million boost today. The National Heritage Memorial Fund, set up as Britain's fund of last resort for saving treasures at risk, made the award to help stop the potential loss of the painting of Diana And Actaeon overseas.
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Breakfast With Scot
Breakfast With Scot was one of the hits of this year's round of lesbian and gay film festivals. The movie is based on Michael Downing's novel of the same name, originally published in 1999, but the book tells a slightly different story.
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Addax Bank launches $35m 'Middle Eastern Fine Art Fund'
Leading Bahrain-based bank, Addax Bank, in partnership with the premier international art fund manager, The Fine Art Fund Group, announced the launch of a $35m 'Middle Eastern Fine Art Fund by Addax' in parallel with the largest fair for modern and contemporary art, ArtParis- Abu Dhabi.
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Turner exhibition's a prize for gallery
THE love affair between the artist JMW Turner and Italy is to be celebrated in a major new exhibition at the National Gallery of Scotland.
Edinburgh Evening News |
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'Top Model' duo gets a 'Fabulous' spinoff
Jay Manuel and J. Alexander plan their own show. In the pursuit of perfection, "America's Next Top Model" coaches Jay Manuel and J. Alexander have cut many girls down to size. "I'm seeing a carcass on a fence," Manuel, the show's creative director, once told a contestant while she posed during a photo shoot. Runway trainer Alexander doesn't sugarcoat his words either: "Your walk is as useless ...
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