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Joint mixer at Maritime Museum
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Heffel auction hints at state of Canada's art market
A drip painting by late Montreal artist Jean-Paul Riopelle drew a winning bid of $1.4 million at the Heffel Fine Art sale on Wednesday, the third-highest price paid at auction for a work by the artist.
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Festival of Trees features Larson in concert
The Baby Fold's annual fundraiser, the Festival of Trees, will hold a "Concert Among the Trees" event featuring Bloomington native, recording artist Matt Larson on Nov. 22 from 7p.m. to 9 p.m. The not-for-profit child and family support group specializes in holistic healing for children and their families.
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Festival of Lights saluting freedom
Members of the U.S. military will get special recognition at this year's Festival of Lights. The 24th annual event, which covers a good portion of East Peoria in dazzling, colorful lights, will feature a new attraction called Folepi's Freedom Park.
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Festival of Lights among top 100 events
Every so often, you hear that the Festival of Lights is designated a top 100 event by the American Bus Association.
Peoria Journal Star |
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Court rules painting was 'stolen' by Nazis
A federal appeals panel ruled yesterday that a painting owned by a German baroness that long hung on her walls in Rhode Island had, in effect, been stolen from a Jewish art collector during the Holocaust.
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DTH Archives
On Sunday afternoon filmmakers who have “breathed the good air of Orange County” will showcase their work at the third annual Carrboro Film Festival.
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'American Idol’ rocker David Cook lets his vulnerability shine through
By PRESTON JONES If David Cook, American Idol ’s seventh-season champion, seems a bit circumspect about his post- Idol career, it’s understandable. This is, after all, a televised singing competition that for every Kelly Clarkson turns out a Ruben Studdard or a Taylor Hicks. Nevertheless, the first full-blown rock dude to win the contest — Idol ’s other high-profile rocker, Chris ...
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Jamaican wins online graphic design contest
David Sykes had no idea he would beat hundreds of graphic artists worldwide to win round one of www.crestock.com's Photoshop Contest.
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Co-workers remember Figge's curator, who died of brain cancer
Co-workers at Davenport’s Figge Art Museum are spending the week remembering the institution’s curator, who many say helped shape the downtown landmark that opened in 2005.
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"Treasures of Dunhuang" exhibit in Paris
Visitors watch the ectype of No. 275 cave of the Mogao Cave in the Chinese Culture Center of Paris, France, Nov. 18, 2008. An exhibition named "Treasures of Dunhuang--One Thousand Years of Buddhist art--from 4th to 14th Century" held by China's Gansu provincial government, Chinese Culture Center and Guimet Museum, opens to media on Wednesday.
China Economic Net |
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Dutch painter’s exhibition on Vietnam urban to open in Hanoi
VietNamNet Bridge – An exhibition on Vietnam’s urban drawn by Dutch painter Wessel Huisman will be showcased in Hanoi from November 21 to December 5.
Vietnam Net |
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Google offers new glimpses of Life
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc. has opened an online photo gallery that will include millions of images from Life magazine's archives that have never been seen by the public before.
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2008/11/20
KUALA LUMPUR: The ball is in Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil's court. Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz will only reveal her move after her deputy in Wanita Umno decides whether to contest the No 1 or No 2 post in the movement.
The New Straits Times |
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Image makeover
In one corner, the official logo of Greater Montreal, crafted by marketing experts for $487,000, and in the other, the (free) drawings by high school students about their city’s essence. The contest? Priceless.
Montreal Gazette |
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Exhibits and Openings
The Mississippi Story Jan 1 – Dec 31. An exhibition of a selection of works from the museum's permanent collection of over 4000 pieces. This first exhibition of works from the permanent collection in the new museum space focuses on the state's rich artistic heritage.
Jackson Free Press |
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Commenter Of The Day: Władysław Podkowiński Edition [Commenter Of The Day]
When people think of Impressionist painting they tend to think of French dudes like Monet and Cezanne whose portraits and landscapes cover the walls of the Chicago Institute of Art. Though the French...
Jalopnik |
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Artist donates work for Freedom House silent auction
N. Dana Collins of Princeton can paint a picture with words just as eloquently as she can with a brush, and because of these broad strokes, she has made waves literally and figuratively in and for the domestic violence movement.
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Alfardan to provide fleet of BMWs for inauguration
DOHA: Alfardan Automobiles, one of Qatar’s leading business groups and sole BMW agents in Qatar, will be ‘Official Premium Car Sponsor’ for the inauguration ceremony of the Qatar Museums Authority’s (QMA) flagship project, the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA).
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Qtel to be communication partner
DOHA: Qatar’s iconic Museum of Islamic Art, set to be one of the world’s foremost collections, will have the support of a highly innovative telecommunications partnership. Qtel has signed an agreement with MIA through which it will bring cultural insights and artefacts to widest possible audience.
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A place for discovery and experience
DOHA: The much awaited Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) opening ceremony will be a simple, yet unique event according to officials of Qatar Museum Authority. The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani will inaugurate the museum on Saturday, November 22.
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Lots of bargains but few buyers in store
"Half and Half" from contemporary artist Wang Huaiqing. Base price, 4 million yuan ($585,700). Who will start me off?" Not a single bid was forthcoming, a scenario repeated many times at China Guardian's Grand Fall Auction, a key event in the art world.
China Daily |
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Riopelle sells for $1.4-million
Heffel auction first indicator of state of Canada's art market
The Globe and Mail |
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Herod may have been buried among lavish artwork
King Herod may have been buried in a crypt with lavish Roman-style wall paintings of a kind previously unseen in the Middle East, Israeli archaeologists said Wednesday. The scientists found such paintings and signs of a regal two-story mausoleum, bolstering their conviction that the ancient Jewish monarch was buried there.
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ARTS 11:55 a.m — Kie Suscuico photo synthesis exhibit at Bank of Guam
11:55 a.m., Nov. 20 — The Bank of Guam and the Chamorro Artists Association, in collaboration with The Guam Gallery of Art at the Chamorro Village, and in culmination with Arts and Humanities Month, will hold its one-artist photographic synthesis exhibit of Kie Susuico at the bank's Hagåtña branch headquarters.
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