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Celebration of Talent show highlights seniors' artwork
From ages 55 to 95, these seniors all shared and displayed a similar passion. Senior artists mostly from Coral Gables showcased their artwork last Friday and Saturday in the second annual Celebration of Talent art show and competition, sponsored by Miami-based Palace Senior Communities.
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Tina Scott is November artist of the month
Tina Scott, November artist of the month for the Willcox Art League, has paintings on display at the Northern Cochise Community Hospital lobby, between the nursing home and the hospital.
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Grove exhibit celebrates dogs' lives
Think of it this way: It truly is a dog's world. CocoWalk's ArtWay66 Gallery and Photo Studio proves this with its latest exhibit, which features portraits, paintings and sculptures of some of the most popular dogs in Coconut Grove.
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Close to Home : One with nature and sculpture
The idyllic gardens of Waitakaruru Arboretum near Hamilton are enhanced by its sculpture park, an exhibition of sculptures set along a 2km trail. Exhibitions change regularly, with the next one scheduled for November 22 to February 28.
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Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Goya’s Book of Dreams: Sharp as the Point of an Etching Needle
Francisco Goya’s series of 80 etchings, Los Caprichos ( The Caprices ), has haunted, inspired, and repelled (instructively or otherwise) two centuries of writers and artists, composers, philosophers, and museumgoers, including the “simple artistic soul” Baudelaire likes to imagine coming to these “often terrifying” prints cold, with “no notion of the historical facts.”
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Mel B., Monaco to appear in 'Peepshow'
LAS VEGAS, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Former "Dancing with the Stars" contestants Mel B. and Kelly Monaco have agreed to headline a modern burlesque show in Las Vegas, Base Entertainment said.
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GOVT SHOULD CONSIDER VIEWS OF ART EXPERTS
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 19 (Bernama) -- The government needs to consider the views of local art experts and specialists when including artists in its trade and investment missions abroad, says an art gallery director, Raja Ahmad Aminullah.
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Works Of Art Shed New Light On Climate Change
Paintings, watercolors and prints can be used by those who manage Britain's coastlines to look back in time and better understand the threat of rising sea levels and climate change.
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World famous wildlife photography display in Luton
Touring exhibition at Stockwood Discovery Centre until January 4
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Amnesty weaves festival around death penalty, displacement
New Delhi, Nov 19: Death penalty, dictatorship, displacement... such issues will be highlighted through an array of mediums at a weeklong festival to be organised by human rights watchdog Amnesty International India in December.
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U.K. Campaign to Buy Titian Gets $15 Million Boost (Update1)
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Britain's campaign to buy a 50 million pound ($75 million) Titian painting got a boost as the National Heritage Memorial Fund announced that it is giving 10 million pounds toward the purchase.
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LA's MOCA In Deep Trouble
"Los Angeles' prestigious but chronically underfunded Museum of Contemporary Art has fallen into crisis... The museum has burned through $20 million in unrestricted funds and borrowed $7.5 million from other accounts. Cash from donors is being sought. A merger has not been ruled out."
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Top Articles Summer Guide
Brooklyn International Film Festival May 30-June 8 Brooklyn Lyceum, Brooklyn Heights Cinema, Brooklyn Central Library, Lumenhouse, East Coast Aliens (Greenpoint), and Studio B. www.wbff.org/events/2008/festival.asp Brooklyn celebrates independent filmmakers, beginning with the U.S. premiere of director Paul Krik’s Able Danger, a feature about 9/11 conspiracy theorists (Krik will be fielding ...
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Not political, but it’s all about change
The exhibition entitled “Synthetic Experiments” is a two-person show by Chad Curtis and Greg Stewart. It is a mixed-media show, involving some, but not much clay that purports to examine both the notions of “mutation” and “synthesis.”
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Artists should have same tax deductions as collectors when donating works of art
Art museums large and small depend on donations from art collectors to build and sustain their collections.
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Small eBay, Online Merchants See Sales Drop for October
The majority of AuctionBytes readers responding to a recent survey reported lower October sales compared to a year ago, consistent with other published surveys of online retailers for the month.
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Amnesty International sponsors photo exhibition addressing the death penalty
Amnesty International is sponsoring a photography exhibition that focuses on the death penalty, a topic the group considers high on its priority list. The exhibition features the work of photographer Scott Langley and runs until Nov. 21 in Belk and Gray Academic Pavilions.
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
LATer Mike Boehm has your must-read of the day on the financial problems at MOCA. I'll be back later today with some thoughts.
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Eli Broad To Build His Own Museum
"Less than a year after the Los Angeles County Museum of Art opened a $56 million museum for contemporary art named for Eli Broad, the billionaire philanthropist who is its largest benefactor, Mr. Broad has decided to build his own museum and is considering a site just down the street."
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Toronto Star 11/19/08
Canadian Auctions Start Tonight; More Carnage Ahead? Canada's art auction houses are bracing for the worst in the wake of disappointing fall auction sales in the US and Europe. "Artprice predicts values will drop 40 per cent by year's end."
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“I never thought there would be an audience for my work”
Widely considered to be one of the most significant figures in contemporary sculpture, Richard Serra has caused both commercial galleries and museums across the world to scale and reinforce their spaces to accommodate his enormous steel sculptures.
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TOLERANCE in the heart of Abu Dhabi
UAE capital first permanent, public sculpture unveiled – gifted to the nation Abu Dhabi Crown Prince.
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Disney working on 'Beast' 3-D re-do
The Walt Disney Studios said Wednesday it has begun re-rendering its animated classic Beauty and the Beast for its Disney Digital 3-D debut in 2010.The announcement was made by Mark Zoradi, president of the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Group, in Singapore at the 3DX: 3D Film and Entertainment Technology Festival, the industry's first conference and exhibition devoted to the latest ...
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UN Unveils New Painting
"An intricate ceiling painting worth 18m euros [$23m] has been unveiled at the United Nations offices in Geneva. The coloured dome took Spanish artist Miquel Barcelo more than a year to produce, using 100 tons of paint with pigments from all over the world...
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Geophysical Specialists in UK Work to Document Key Direct Hydrocarbon Indicators for Hyperdynamics
HOUSTON----Hyperdynamics Corporation announced today that in the last few weeks, the oil and gas exploration sub-contractor, Seismic Image Processing based in Guildford, England, has initiated specialized analytical procedures in search of additional key Direct Hydrocarbon Indicators associated with prospects delineated from 2-D seismic that Hyperdynamics acquired last spring.
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