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Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber in legal row over 6.6 million pounds painting
London, November 29 : Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber has been involved in a legal row after his foundation was accused of buying a 19th century masterpiece with the help of nearly 1million pounds of taxpayers' money.
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Honey, the Conservatory of Flowers shrunk the city!
The latest exhibit at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers features something for everyone -- greenies, train buffs, plant nerds, model makers and those who appreciate art.
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Frank Gehry's Complex Legacy
If you call a building "Gehryesque," even people who don't follow architecture closely will know what you mean. It is a building by Frank Gehry, the world's most famous living architect, and it probably looks like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, a curved and sinuous space wrapped in Gehry's...
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'After Hours' at the Hirshhorn
Hirshhorn, "After Hours," Nov. 7: "After Hours" is all about smashing through the stodginess of a typical museum experience. Instead of skulking around the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden on the Mall in silent reverence, try dancing around its courtyard like a maniac. Looking at the 2,800 p...
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Fight Club, 'Fixation'
Fight Club, "Fixation," Nov. 14: Getting to Fight Club, an underground skateboarding, art and music space near the Convention Center, involved stumbling down a brick, high-heels-unfriendly alley and waiting in a long line. In the rain. Until the opening of "Fixation," a photography exhibit that w...
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'Bam Bam Dilla' at Art Whino Gallery
Adidas Originals store, "Bam Bam Dilla: Traveling Riddims," Nov. 21: The Art Whino gallery seems to devote as much energy to partying as it does to selling art. (Whino/wino, get it?) This was the first of two parties thrown by the gallery to celebrate the opening of "Bam Bam Dilla: Traveling Ridd...
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Style Invitational Contest: Week 793
Breed El Gato Malo with Smokin Stogies and name the foal Five Lives Left.
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Saudi Artists Find Diplomatic Immunity at French Embassy
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudis and foreigners crowded into a gallery at the French Embassy to view paintings and sculptures by seven Saudi women artists, the latest opening in a growing art scene in the conservative kingdom.
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Fashion, Fun and Sounds of Sweden
For us, an ideal day might just be brunch, a museum and wantonly neglecting all chores and errands.
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Saturday Art exhibit
'COLLISION' AT SAILBOAT BEND See art by Lisa Rockford plus photography, mixed media and live musical performances at the exhibit Collision, this month's Gallery Night event.
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Plenty of free, family fun at winter festival
Entertaining the family can be expensive, especially close to the holidays and in the midst of an economic downtown.
Redmond Reporter |
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Noche top editorial cartoonist
Standard Today art director Dario Noche won top prize in the Editorial Cartoon Contest of the Carbon Cutting Congress versus Climate Change held last Nov. 20 at Malacañan Palace.
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Getting to know Amorsolo’s women
There are two things that make men tick, they say: women and art. And Amorsolo’s Women: Concealed and Revealed has both—the skin-deep, ‘‘real beauty’’ of Filipino women, and the still-life artworks that immortalize them.
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Holiday art gallery features local artists, benefits Loveland charity Loveland Reporter-Herald
Poag & McEwen Lifestyle Centers announces the upcoming opening of “Art on the Promenade” at The Promenade Shops at Centerra, I-25 and U.S. 34.
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50 Polish Nativity sets at LDS Museum
This holiday season at the LDS Church History Museum, in downtown Salt Lake City, visitors will enjoy a unique and unprecedented experience — the museum will have on display a world-class collection of 50 hand-crafted Polish Nativity scenes on loan from Walter Whipple, professor of Slavic languages at Brigham Young University.
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Sculptures are reflections of South Dakota
An extensive Washington Pavilion exhibit that includes some megasculptures has been capturing the attention of visitors from youngsters to senior citizens. A Sioux Falls couple recently took their time walking through the sculptures by Dale Lamphere, pausing at each exhibit to read the titles. Some works they passed by tower 10 feet or higher above visitors, pieces made from naturally found ...
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As I Lay Dying to play Jan. 26 at Ramkota
Grammy-nominated metalcore band As I Lay Dying will play Jan. 26 at the Ramkota Exhibit Hall with Protest The Hero, The Human Abstract and My Children My Bride. Tickets went on sale Friday. As I Lay Dying has taken home the San Diego Music Award's 2006 Artist of the Year as well as being voted 2006's Metal Gods by MTV2.
The Argus Leader |
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$7M Institute for Marine Mammal Studies to open soon on Coast
Dolphin lovers at the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies are flipping over their new state-of-the-art museum and research facility expected to open within the next few weeks.
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First Night organizers working at full speed
When Mayor Thomas M. Menino visited a supermarket yesterday to buy his First Night button, a festival organizer shook his hand and asked how he was doing.
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Boisean a finalist in Art of Manliness award
A 26-year-old Boise man has been chosen as a finalist in the Art of Manliness Man of the Year contest, sponsored by Old Spice and the Art of Manliness blog.
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Dubai Creek to Have Dh50 Billion First Modern Art Museum in ME
29 November 2008 DUBAI -- Dubai Creek will have the region's first Museum of Middle East Modern Art (MOMEMA) by 2011. A Dh50 billion Dubai Properties' landmark project will cover an area of 25,000 sqm and serve as a hub of multicultural understanding and a tourist destination.
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Art Museum to expand
The Steamboat Art Museum is poised to take over additional space in the city-owned Rehder Building as Vectra Bank leaves for new digs in the Howelsen Place development just down Lincoln Avenue.
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MMA to host winter workshop
A snowstorm of creativity will be blowing through Meridian's Museum of Art next week. The museum will host a children's holiday workshop entitled "Art Blizzard," which will coincide with the Merry Meridian celebrations downtown.
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DAILY EXPRESS NEWS
Kota Kinabalu : Sabah's tourism promotion drive will receive a major boost when more than 200 professional photographers from Asia and US descend here for the 21st FAPA (Federation of Asian Photographic Art) Congress from Nov. 30-Dec 3.
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New store in Hinckley
Handmade soaps, local artwork available. Peninsula kicks off festivities Hikes, train rides and concerts in Penninsula
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