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Archbishop Says Picture Belongs in a Church
Britain?s top Roman Catholic leader has asked the National Gallery in London to give up a 15th-century painting, saying that the work instead belongs in a cathedral.
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The Paintings and the Price Came Down
A new broker suggested a more aggressive purge of possessions and a price of $935,000 to sell a one-bedroom in London Terrace Gardens, on West 24th Street.
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Get your art gallery fix this week with these shows
While you’re out shopping this week for Christmas, take in these area art exhibits.
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Chicago Festival Ballet returns with 'The Nutcracker'
Most everyone knows the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, whose encounter with three spirits leads him to see kindness in the world, himself and the Christmas season.
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Artist finds 'Man's Place' at Ferrari
Fort Myers artist Jeffrey Scott Lewis still has a painting of a chihuahua he completed at age 12.
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Deer crashes art gallery
A deer in downtown jackson? We don't know how it got there, but police say that's what smashed the plate glass in the Lamar Life Building on Capitol Street across from the Governor's Mansion.
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Museum-site petition draws more interest
Carlos Zukowski has some questions about a petition signed by more than 500 people who oppose the proposed Fayetteville Museum of Art being built in Festival Park.
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Festival flora has its roots
In the 4th century, Pope Julius I decided to change the face of holidays forever when he deemed Dec. 25 as the official date of Christmas. This date was chosen to coincide with Rome’s traditional winter festivals. Seasonal plants were a mainstay at these early winter parties and marked the season of giving.
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Art on show at the abbey
PAINTINGS in oil, watercolour and mixed media go on display at Buckland Abbey next month. Pathways is an exhibition of recent paintings by CanzArt, which comprises artists from West Devon and East Cornwall.
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CMU artist insists 'Sky' isn't falling
Engineers will visit Carnegie Mellon University next week to find out why "Walking to the Sky," a sculpture in front of Warner Hall, swayed alarmingly in the wind Tuesday.
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Gallery Listings
Painting MFA Thesis Show
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Home Calendar
Dec. 1 Christmas with Haskell Eargle: Floral designer Haskell Eargle will create holiday arrangements and gifts using berries and foliage that you may find in your own garden, as well as spring bulbs available for sale from the Charlotte Garden Club. His works of art will be sold at the end of the program, with proceeds benefiting the Garden Club and the Mint Museums. Refreshments ...
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Holiday Home Tour Among Options
Music, an art event, a film and a Christmas holiday home tour are some of the entertainment events planned this weekend.THE FILM "UNA NAVIDAD EN PUERTO RICO" screens today at the Polk Museum of Art. It is presented by the Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce of Polk County, and screens at 1:30 p.m.Free with museum admission.
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Caravaggio experimented with photography
The 16th century Italian painter Caravaggio may have used fireflies to create primitive photographs, an art historian says in the journal Stile Arte.ANSA said Roberta Lapucci, conservation chief at Florence's SACI institute, has proposed in her article that the painter developed a firefly powder as a tool and converted his studio into something of a camera obscura.The Italian news agency said ...
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Warren Holiday Festival swarms streets
WARREN ? Downtown streets were swarmed with people in the minutes leading up to the tree lighting during Friday night?s Holiday Festival. Due to the high turnout of patrons lured out of their ?
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Greenwood artists entering their work in international competition
Zbigniew and Emilia Fitz show of some of their art. The Fitzes are entering their work in an international contemporary art competition through a London art gallery.
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Caravaggio experimented with photography
ROME, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- The 16th century Italian painter Caravaggio may have used fireflies to create primitive photographs, an art historian says in the journal Stile Arte.
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Stretch Your Dollar: Bank Offers Museum Freebies
Chicago has a lot of great museums. And, as CBS 2's Anne State reports, many of you have something in your wallet that can get you into some of them for free, if you go the first full weekend of the month. It's another way to stretch your dollar.
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Lifelike figures modeled after Leonardo da Vinci's ‘Last Supper' masterpiece could see light of day
Stunning life-size wax figures of Jesus and his Apostles patterned after Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece “The Last Supper” have been in a warehouse for 11 years.
The Kansas City Star |
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Kansas City's own ‘Last Supper' sculpture
Kansas City has a massive sculpture of “The Last Supper” of its own, and it attracts several hundred visitors a year.
The Kansas City Star |
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Modern art house to rise in Dubai Creek
Dubai Creek, a project of the Dubai Properties will be the home for the region's first Museum of Middle East Modern Art by 2011, Khaleej Times has rpeorted. The landmark project, covering an area of 25,000 sqm will be designed by UNStudio.
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Johnson County Community Calendar November 29-December 2
A VERY FIFTIES CHRISTMAS: The house is decorated for the holidays. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Nov. 29; 1-4 p.m. Nov. 30, Dec. 2-5, 1950s All-Electric House, Johnson County Museum of History, 6305 Lackman, Shawnee. $1-$2. www.jocomuseum.org (913-715-2570)
The Kansas City Star |
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Seeing green
Celebrate the holidays with musical performances by school and community groups, the Albany County Student Art Exhibition, holiday activities in the Shelton Studio, a visit with Santa Claus and a silent auction for specially-decorated trees and other holiday items.
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Man dies whose clenched fist became emblem of the left
New York Times Frank Cieciorka, a graphic artist, art director and watercolorist whose woodcut rendering of a clenched-fist salute was the model for the New Left's most ubiquitous emblem, died on Monday at his home in Alderpoint, northeast of Garberville.
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Business hosts touring art exhibit
About 70 percent of the original works of art created by Wisconsin inmates, recently shown in the "Other Side of the Fence" exhibit at the Seippel Homestead and Center for the Arts, are now on display in the office of French Realty, 111 E. Burnett St., Beaver Dam. Realtors Brian French, a current member of the Beaver Dam Area Arts Association board of directors, and Sabine French, a BDAAA ...
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