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Masterpiece hidden in the attic of French chateau for 200 years because it was 'too racy' sells at auction for ...
A masterpiece hidden away in the attic of a French chateau for more than 200 years because its subject matter was considered too racy by its prudish owners has sold for almost £3 million.
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Spacey named short film fest host
LONDON, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Hollywood actor and director Kevin Spacey has agreed to preside over the MOFILM Mobile Short Film Festival in Barcelona, it was announced Wednesday.
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Artist Redmond opens new show
See the world at an art show opening this weekend. Sault Ste. Marie artist Cathy Redmond features about two dozen works inspired close to [...]
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Risqué 250-year-old painting of semi naked woman recovered from attic sells for £2.8m at auction
An unrecorded painting by an Old Master of a semi-naked woman, consigned to the attic because it was considered too risqué for display by its prudish owners, has sold for more than £2.8 million at auction.
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Artist draws upon African travels for show
ASHEVILLE – Asheville painter Benjamin M. Betsalel’s new exhibition stems from his recent travels in West Africa and Central Europe and his response to, he said, “the difficult times that face us all.”
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Cambridge arts groups thinking creatively as economy sours
As the economy stumbles, Cambridge arts organizations are getting creative with their fundraising: they’re starting online auctions; raising voluntary membership fees; and tapping new grant sources, among other initiatives.
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Looking Ahead
December 7 Salzburg Opera in HD Roméo et Juliette Oklahoma City Museum of Art Noble Theatre With its four duets for the title couple Charles Gounod's Roméo et Juliette is one of the most famous love tragedies in opera literature.
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Beyonce to perform at Essence Fest in New Orleans
Beyonce is the first artist lined up for next year's Essence Music Festival in New Orleans. Organizers of the festival announced Tuesday the singer has confirmed her participation....
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2009 IGF Mobile Competition Reveals Record Number Of Entries
The organizers of the Independent Games Festival Mobile have revealed a total of 107 entries for the second year of the event, more than doubling the amount of entries seen in the inaugural competition. The entries were bolstered with a strong showing from the emergent iPhone and iPod Touch platform, but entries spanned platforms including mobile phones, DS, PSP and the Zune. The event ...
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Who is the Kelly Girl
Interview with New Zealand artist Kelly Thompson about fashion, photography and doing winter-for-summer.
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Art Basel Miami
Art Basel Miami Beach, one of the most important art shows in the United States and a cultural and social highlight, is set to open.
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NES is More: Blip Festival 2008
Chip music is just now reaching its prime, but really it started some time in the late 1980s and early '90s, when people like me, after playing Zelda for five hours straight, would bounce around the house proclaiming its theme song in wild yells of "dun dun, dun-dada-dum!"
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Victorian pier for sale: £100000
A Victorian pier boasting sunset views and its own amusement pavilion is expected to fetch £100000 when it goes to auction.
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Christie's HK Asian sales miss target,crisis weighs
HONG KONG, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Auction house Christie's sold $146 million worth of Asian artwork in its Hong Kong autumn sales concluded Wednesday, around 35 percent below its pre-sale estimate as the financial crisis shrunk demand for Asian art.
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Documenta Art Show Names Christov-Bakargiev Director for 2012
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Documenta, the contemporary art show that takes place every five years in the German city of Kassel, named Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev as director of the 2012 event.
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Beyonce to perform at Essence Fest in New Orleans
Beyonce is the first artist lined up for next year's Essence Music Festival in New Orleans.
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artnet and Art Basel Miami Beach Announce Continued Online Partnership for This Year’s Fair
artnet and Art Basel Miami Beach are pleased to announce the continuation of their exclusive co-operation this year. Users can once again access Art Basel Miami Beach, the most important international fair for contemporary art, online on artnet.com beginning December 3. Approximately 4,000 works of art by over 250 exhibiting galleries will be featured on artnet, the leading online platform ...
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Artists united
HIBBING — Student artists at Hibbing Community College have banded together. About 12 art students have formed a Student Art Guild this fall and are having their first sale during the Culinary Art Department’s Holiday Banquet Thursday at Hibbing Community College (HCC).
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East Polk County will host several holiday events this weekend
Elizabeth Taylor of Elizabeth's Design Studio decorates a Christmas tree sponsored by her for the Ridge Art Associations Festival of Trees fundraiser which is scheduled for 7 p.m . Thursday at the new Winter Haven airport terminal.
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Rockwell gallery is on the market; a tough sell
ARLINGTON — The Norman Rockwell Exhibition and Gift Shop has been for sale for the past three years, but the housing economy has made selling it tough, said owner Joy Hinrichsen.
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Grammy Award nominations hit prime-time Wednesday with TV special
Country star Taylor Swift will be among the performers at Wednesday's Grammy Awards TV concert special. ONLINE EXTRAS • Official Grammy Award Web site • Multimedia artist Phil Hansen created the official artwork for this year's Grammys. You can see...
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Romero Britto Invited to Exhibit Iconic Art at the Louvre Museum in December
Modern-day pop culture phenomenon Romero Britto has been invited by the head of the Brazilian Delegation to the Louvre Museum, Bia Duarte, to exhibit in the Louvre Museum in Paris, France this winter.
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artnet and Art Basel Miami Beach Announce Continued Online Partnership for This Years Fair
NEW YORK & BERLIN----artnet and Art Basel Miami Beach are pleased to announce the continuation of their exclusive co-operation this year. Users can once again access Art Basel Miami Beach, the most important international fair for contemporary art, online on artnet.com beginning December 3.
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King of blues keeps flame alive
B.B. King is a humble man. Listen to what the blues master had to say about the $15 million museum bearing his name in the small Mississippi Delta town where he sweated for a few cents a day picking cotton nearly eight decades ago.
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Artist's Avenue
Art studio junior Gabriel Alarid can sometimes be found dragging huge paintings of heads across campus. He also draws faces with black string and gel medium, a move influenced by Jackson Pollock's drip paintings. In 2003, a fire destroyed all his belongings, including his first sketchbook, at his apartment in Denver.
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