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Exhibit is a new horizon at Mass MoCA
NORTH ADAMS — Mary Temple paints the light to expose the shadow. At Mass MoCA yesterday, she spent her time applying white paint on a slightly darker shade of white paint.
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Ledger artwork wins people's vote
A portrait of the late actor Heath Legder wins a top art award in Australia, voted for by members of the public.
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U.S. art buyers defy economy at Sotheby's auction
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American art collectors defied a sinking U.S. economy on Wednesday, making up nearly 70 percent of buyers at a Sotheby's New York sale that saw records smashed for work by artists Edvard Munch and Fernand Leger.
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Ledger portrait the 'People's Choice' in Australian art show
A portrait of late Hollywood actor Heath Ledger has been voted the most popular painting in Australia's prestigious Archibald Prize art show.
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Frame of mind
Art-iculate: Supreet Bhamrah, 27 is Technical Director with Framebox. Contest Win iPod shuffles!! Q) Currently the industry has how many artists ? A) 40,000 B) 50,000 C) 70,000 sms HNC to 54242 *Conditions apply
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Ridgeland youth's family portrait a winner
A Ridgeland youth has won first place in a national art contest for children growing up in military families.
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David Downton Artwork Celebrates The Wyndham Grand Collection
The Wyndham Grand Collection, an ensemble of one-of-a-kind hotels in unique destinations around the world, was celebrated here today with the unveiling of commissioned illustrations by British artist David Downton.
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Happy Mother's Day
A shoulder to cry on, an open ear and lots of support is what makes moms great. In Toronto Community News' Mother's Day contest, we asked youth 10 to 13 to write a letter of thanks to their moms. Th...
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Wave of Mutilation: The 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
Things keep getting weirder and weirder at Robert De Niro's international film funhouse, properly known as the Tribeca Film Festival.
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The art of conservation
When it comes to water conservation in Boone, Andrea Gimlin agrees that every drop counts. But so does artwork. In that respect, the town of Boone has picked a new set of winners for its third annual Every Drop Counts Poster Contest.
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Art collectors defy US downturn at Sotheby's
The top rungs of the contemporary art market have continued to buck the recession as paintings by Edvard Munch and Fernand Leger set new auction records for both artists in New York.
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New crop of artists present at art college
The halls of an institution that has been turning out students for more than 100 years will be turned into an exhibition of the talent it produces this weekend. All of the classrooms at Ontario Coll...
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U.S. art buyers defy economy at Sotheby's auction
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American art collectors defied a sinking U.S. economy on Wednesday, making up nearly 70 percent of buyers at a Sotheby's New York sale that saw records smashed for work by artists Edvard Munch and Fernand Leger.
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U.S. art buyers defy economy at Sotheby's auction
American art collectors defied a sinking U.S. economy on Wednesday, making up nearly 70 percent of buyers at a Sotheby's New York sale that saw records smashed for work by artists Edvard Munch and Fernand Leger.
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Newscope/American Indian artist to be featured May 17 at Van Meter State Park
The third of nine American Indian symbols to be painted for a permanent exhibit will be completed on May 17 at Van Meter State Park near Miami. The featured artist will give a presentation at 10 a.m. in Missouri's American Indian Cultural Center at the park.
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Slater field of festivals continues to flourish
Slater's fleet of festivals continues to grow, according to city officials. Mayor Stephen Allegri reported to the city council Tuesday, May 6, about recent events, each of which was successful in its own way, he said, in bringing people to town, and he previewed events coming this summer.
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Dutton man has talent for carving wood
On Silver Clay Line, Cyril Heidt is turning tree stumps into works of art. Heidt has been making a serious effort toward wood carving all winter. Heidt has carved out five new wood sculptures using nothing but a chainsaw and tree stumps in the past few months.
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Lisbon High art community worries about program's future
LISBON — Art teachers Pam Ouellette and Elaine Cyr helped students plaster panels of pen and ink sketches, photographs and Impressionist-style paintings over shelves of books in the library at Lisbon High School on Wednesday.
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ZEALOUS ZINE / 'Kick Out the Jams': No-concept art project throws open door on creativity, spawns gallery show
"Hot and Cold," the zine art project devised and executed by artists Chris Duncan and Griffin McPart- land, does a few things differently. First, the artists decided at the outset to put out only 10 issues, so they count downward. (The current issue is No. 2.)...
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Man to be sentenced for art heist
A GOLD Coast man will be sentenced today for the theft of more than a dozen paintings from a studio in 2004, including a work that the owner claimed was a Cezanne worth $50 million.
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Museum earns national accreditation
The Desert Caballeros Western Museum recently received subsequent accreditation from the American Association of Museums in Washington D.C.
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Folk art, local scenes are basis of painter's long career
Truth be told, when people first started calling local artist Dolores Hackenberger "Grandma Moses," she was insulted. Putting asi
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Berkeley Opera Presents Ravel and Bartok’s One-Act Masterpieces
This Friday Berkeley Opera opened the second opera of its 29th season, with two one-acts from the early 20th century, Béla Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle (A kékszakállú herceg vára) and Maurice Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges.
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'Son of Rambow': a little film among friends
Nick Goldsmith and Garth Jennings, the duo behind the crazy English coming-of-age film "Son of Rambow," were in town for the recent Philadelphia Film Festival. And Goldsmith, an inquisitive Londoner on his first visit to the U.S. city, picked up that day's edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Portrait Of Heath Ledger Wins Australian Art Award
A portrait of Hollywood star Heath Ledger painted weeks before his death has won an Australian art award. The painting features a bare-chested Ledger staring from the canvas as two images of the actor whisper into his ears.
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