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A car and a masala grinder
Two artists trained in Santiniketan are holding their shows in the city. They are sculptor K.S. Radhakrishnan and Shrabani Roy, whose main medium is tapestry and applique clubbed with paintwork.
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Vishnupriya Sengupta
The Indian art market is awash with fakes. But the artists, whose works are being copied with impunity, are unable to do much to stop it, says Jatin Das is in despair. The art mart is under the scanner, and the artist is disgusted with the booming market in fake paintings.
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Band manager presses charges after WUMF cancelled
The organizers of the failed World United Music Fest now face criminal charges. Last weekend's festival in San Marcos was supposed to showcase 130 bands and raise money for military families last weekend.
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American History: Just Another Washington Museum?
The Washington Post's Marc Fisher writes an expansive review of the newly improved Smithsonian National Museum of American History, which opened just yesterday. Fisher sums up the questions that a lot of people, this writer included, had about the state of the museum post renovation: Will the history museum embrace a dumbed-down, rah-rah approach to telling the American story, or is there ...
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Polaroid: Awaiting development
The pioneer of instant photography struggles to reinvent itself in the wake of the Tom Petters fraud investigation.
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'Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil'
Sharp and shrewd was what J Paul Getty was known as when his investment in oil wells paid off. Using the lower valuations scenario during the Great Depression Getty acquired Pacific Western Oil Corporation...
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Bad news for Good Charlotte
Rockers Good Charlotte claim they have been blacklisted from Big Day Out. The US band, fronted by twins Joel and Benji Madden, have never played New Zealand's biggest music festival despite having a huge following both here and in Australia.
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Movie Review: 9 Songs
The content of this review is sexual in nature. Reader discretion is advised. (Note: Given the nature of the film, the content of this review is sexual in nature. Reader discretion is advised.) One could argue for ages whether 9 Songs is art, porn, or cinema. While the bulk of viewers could be convinced that perhaps it’s an amalgam, 9 Songs is neither artsy, sexy, nor cinematic. It's short on ...
Blogcritics.org |
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An Interview with Joseph Lappie
In addition to running a printing press, participating in the Allegoric Space collaborative project and earning his MFA in the Book and Paper Arts, Chicagoan Joseph Lappie also produces straight-up paintings and drawings. Tonight Lappie's Before There Was Us And Them There Was We , a solo show, opens at Bucktown's the Believe Inn (2043 N. Winchester) from 6 to 10 p.m. The show is a ...
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Brooklyn Museum Shows Notable "Black List"
Being on the "Black List" is now something to celebrate - especially when it means being in the company of athletes Serena Williams and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, comedian Chris Rock and former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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Fine dining and auctions featured at Bite of the Arts
GRAY - Fine food and wine along with an auction that offered more food and wine as prizes marked Friday's 12th annual Bite of the Arts gala.It is the main fundraising event for the John Folse Culinary Institute at Nicholls State University.
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Museums: Doha style
In the relative cool of the evening and to musical accompaniment - here was a long anticipated opening. The first of the new Gulf Museums - the first of what promises to a batch - all lavishly endowed and designed by a succession of star architects.
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20,000 expected at Eau Gallie ArtWorks festival
MELBOURNE -- More than 20,000 people are expected to attend the two-day ArtWorks of Eau Gallie Fine Art Festival, an outdoor event that both entertains and educates.
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Holiday Art Executed In Google Documents
CyberKnet writes "Some enterprising folks over at Google have collaborated via Google Documents to create holiday art using cells in a spreadsheet as the pixels. A time delay video was taken and is available over at YouTube and the result is pretty spectacular. More info on how they did this is available behind the scenes. They're inviting people to share their own masterpieces or post a video ...
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Walker receives grant to assist visitors with Alzheimer's disease
Getting around the Walker Art Center is about to get easier for impaired visitors. The Minneapolis museum will receive a $50,000
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Opera Review: Director steals the show in 'Pirates of Penzance'
Don Sherrill, left, plays the Pirate King, Matt Morgan is Frederic, center, and Edith Dowd plays Ruth in Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance." The photograph was taken at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. A gander at today's news is enough to see that Arthur Sullivan and W.S. Gilbert were on to something ageless with the operetta "Pirates of Penzance". That two act ...
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Museum of Islamic Arts opened in Qatar
Doha - An imposing new Museum of Islamic Arts was officially opened Saturday in Qatar by Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, amid an opulent fireworks display in the latest addition to the emirate's cultural scene. The museum, designed by the Chi...
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New York Times Returns for Another 36 Hours
They're baaaack, those clever writers from Noo Yawk, and this time they seem friendly. Last year's NY Times reporter--a year ago to the day--could only complain about Cascadia's miniburgers. This year, with Cascadia closed and a new awareness that, gee, you can use the Internets to check menus and stuff, a more reasonable itinerary : the SAM Sculpture Park, Matt's In the Market, ZigZag ...
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Manga Nominated for France's Angoulême Comics Awards
The Gallery - Robin Ha A world of colorful patterns and macabre story lines await as we profile the work of Robin Ha! 2008-11-22 Hey , Answerman! Answerman tackles fanboys complaining about translation issues, running anime convention panels and offers up a new Hey, Answerfans question.
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Bakelite exhibit at the Castle Museum of Saginaw County History
Matthew Stephens The Saginaw NewsThe Castle Museum, 500 Federal, is opening a Bakelite exhibit from the collection of Reindert Groot, right, of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Left is Hugh Karraker of Redding, Conn. the great-grandson of Leo H. Baekeland who created...
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Miami art dealer arrested for forged paintings
A prominent New York art dealer was arrested on selling forged paintings.
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News Middle East
The world's largest collection of Islamic art has gone on display in the Gulf state of Qatar. The $300 million Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, the capital of Qatar, was unveiled on Saturday before Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, and 1,000 dignitaries from around the world.
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Al Jazeera English - News
The largest collection of Islamic art in the world has gone on display in the Gulf state of Qatar. The country's new $300m Islamic art museum exhibits p riceless artefacts covering over a thousand years of Islamic history.
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
Last night's Eli Broad LAT op-ed is a game-changer. Here's what it all means -- for now. (I can't remember the last time an art world news story changed so fast.
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Local centre serving up a bowl of art
The Soup and Sustenance Exhibition is worth the visit to the Portage and District Arts Centre. The impressive show is stirring up a lot of interest among art enthusiasts!
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