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Chinese vase fetches 20 times offer price
A Chinese 18th-century vase fetched 2.15 million kronor ($269,000), more than 20 times its starting price at Stockholm’s Auktionsverk, the world’s oldest auction house. The vase, dated 1784 from the
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More than 1,000 artists are taking part in 1111, the largest art show in Calgary's history
What happens when you find 1,111 Calgary-based artists -- be they professional, independent, underground, marginalized or street artists -- and put their wares together in one gigantic display of free art for the people?
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As movie gets made, school gets fundraiser
Ross William Hamilton/The OregonianThree landscape paintings by Robyn Bachman hang in Garrison's Fine Wines in preparation for an art auction Dec. 4. The auction will benefit the Glencoe Elementary School Foundation. Travis Fantz (left), who runs Garrison's Fine Wines, talks...
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A Chinese 18th-century vase fetched 2.15 million kronor ($269,000), more than 20 times its starting price at Stockholm’s Auktionsverk, the world’s oldest auction house.
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Sculpture of fallen police tracking dog to be dedicated
A dedication ceremony for a sculpture of a Vancouver Police Department tracking dog killed last year will be 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.
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Art teacher leaves studio behind after three decades
Rhonda Popko, the artist who has taught the Des Plaines Park District's Young Artists program for 29 years, held her last children's class there Nov. 19.
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From pottery to sculpture
TALENT — Art will continue to thrive in a space that was a hub for Southern Oregon potters for nearly 30 years.
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Creativity blooms: Dried flowers become lovely wreaths in minutes
As flower blossoms fade and seed pods burst forth, Lowell farmer Holly Keithley harvests her treasures. Her home-grown plants provide the palette for her decorations and wall hangings. Recently, she conducted a workshop at the Westchester History Museum in Chesterton to teach others how to make wreaths from her floral bounty. Keithley brought in a tub filled with dried flowers, herbs and other ...
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Garfield Farm Candlelight at the Inn set for Dec. 6 and 7
There is nothing more festive for a winter's evening then the aroma of hot spiced tea, the taste of fresh baked tea breads, and lively fiddle and dulcimer tunes at Garfield Farm Museum on December 6 and 7 during its annual Candlelight Reception from 3-7 p.m.
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Today: H 2 /L -1
Globe Studios Annual fall show and sale ( www.globestudios.org ); 141 Whitney Pl., Kitchener; to Nov. 30. Harbinger Gallery 21st annual Christmas show; 22 Dupont St. E., Waterloo; to Dec. 24; 519-747-4644.
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Aprill's after-Thanksgiving recipes
So once Thanksgiving is over, what's a person to do with the leftovers? My advice? Use this challenge to tap your creative side and make cranberry sauce sculpture. Who knows? Maybe you'll even get some artsy-fartsy sucker to buy it.
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Holiday Artisan's Market
With the holidays rolling around, the Museum of the Coastal Bend will present its second annual Holiday Artisan's Market on Wednesday.
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Great art to go under the hammer
Nearly 1,300 artworks will go under the hammer at the 2008 Council Autumn Auction at Beijing International Hotel Conference Center on December 7-8.
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Saul Steinberg: Illuminations (6 pictures)
The illustrations of Romanian-born American artist and satirist Saul Steinberg are on display in England for the first time in a show entitled Illuminations. Steinberg worked for many years at The New Yorker, creating editorial illustrations and cover designs.
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Rice pips Lloyd Webber with Academy loan
SIR Tim Rice is lending four works from his private art collection to an exhibition on the Pre-Raphaelite John William Waterhouse. Sir Tim's famous writing partner Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of the biggest collectors of Pre-Raphaelite art in Britain.
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Va. art show supports hospital
CHINCOTEAGUE -- The 22nd annual Deborah Waterfowl Show will take place Friday and Saturday at Chincoteague High School.
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CALENDAR: Around town
THURSDAYCOMMUNITYWestervelt Warner Museum of American Art: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. 8316 Mountbatten Road N.E., with new gift shop also open. E-mail krichter@warnermuseum.org.FRIDAYARTS
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Medals of wartime air ace who led Venice attack up for sale
The medals of a wartime flying ace who was given the delicate job of leading an attack on enemy ships in Venice docks without destroying the city's historic buildings and priceless works of art are being sold at auction next week.
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Best Bets
A World AIDS Day Commemoration Art Show by Florence native Donnie Wilson, aka Christopher Colt, will be 5-8 p.m. Monday at Tomlinson/Sims Advertising, 250 S. Poplar St., Florence. Wilson, a graduate of Rogers High School and alumni of the University of North Alabama, died of AIDS in 1992. For details, call 766-2823.
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Organizers consider pottery festivals successful
SEAGROVE, N.C. (AP) - Organizers of competing pottery festivals in Seagrove say attendance was strong at the weekend events. The Seagrove Pottery Festival was held for the 27th time last weekend while the Celebration of Seagrove Potters competed with its brand new show just a half-mile away.
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A day's invitation to art
Kids of all ages and their parents are invited to a free day of art fun Saturday at the S.C.R.A.P. Gallery on the fairgrounds in Indio.
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War and Peace
You know you've got a big-deal exhibition on your hands when the Wall Street Journal covers it in a splashy feature. Indeed, "The Aztec World," the Field Museum's ambitious exhibition of Aztec...
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Shopper: Great Accessory Gifts Await at Museums
Sweater from the mall? Bor-ing. Another DVD? Maybe not.
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Rwanda: Trade Expo - 600 Regional Exhibitors Register for Today's 'Jua Kali' Expo
The East African Jua Kali expo, an informal sector promotional event opens today at the Gikondo show ground in Kigali.
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Traces of Memory (2008-11-29 - 2008-12-07)
At the Imbarcadero Rooms of the Ferrara Museum of the Estense Castle ‘Traces of memory’ presents works - spoiled from the routines, conventions, acumulation of practicalities; liberated and delivered into the primary, sensitivity of self, of the elements. The freshness of English Gardens, the deep blue of the Mediterranean Sea, hellenic Temples, the dancing Genie even when at rest, are composing ...
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