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Dali lithograph donated to charity
A Wheat Ridge, Colo., couple said they want to be sure an anonymous donor who gave their non-profit a Salvador Dali lithograph meant to part with the item.Bud and Gretchen Weidknecht, who run the Carpenter's Cupboard non-profit, said a woman dropped off an old artist's portfolio that was found to contain a Salvador Dali lithograph from 1977, during the artist's surreal period, The Rocky Mountain ...
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Fate of Westdale sculpture up in air
There could be a plan in the works to save the controversial Westdale sculpture from being destroyed. Westdale Middle School students helped to build the sculpture, which sits at the intersection of Claycut and Jefferson Highway, 22 years ago. Supporters have until July 1 to remove it, or the fire department will tear it down to make room for a new fire station.
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The Menil gives drawing its due
The Menil Collection's How Artists Draw exhibits hints of what's to come at its new institute.
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Dali lithograph donated to charity
WHEAT RIDGE, Colo., May 8 (UPI) -- A Wheat Ridge, Colo., couple said they want to be sure an anonymous donor who gave their non-profit a Salvador Dali lithograph meant to part with the item.
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Museum tops tourist attraction list
The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum has kept Edinburgh Castle off the top spot of Scotland's busiest tourist attractions for a second year running.
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Museum Scotland's top attraction
New figures show Scotland's most visited attraction is Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
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Permas Jaya holds community-based weekend event
JOHOR BARU: Lee Kwan Bing’s first experience in painting a plaster figurine turned into sweet success as he emerged champion at a creative colouring contest here.
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10 spectacular garden events
Reach for your diary - unmissable plant fairs, flower festivals and open days are taking place throughout the summer.
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'Superheroes' at the Met
Superheroes are big these days thanks to blockbusters like "Iron Man." But what works on the big screen doesn't work as well in the halls of an art museum.
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Weisman unearths a rarely seen cache of New Deal art
To help put people back to work during the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt launched a "New Deal" in 1933. To mark that event's 75th anniversary, the Weisman Art Museum is throwing a coming-out party: From its holdings of about 1,000 art works from that era, more than 100 are coming out of storage for the exhibit "By the People, for the People."
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BIDDING...
Harry Zbytek, right, and Kathy Grazikdei, a middle school counselor at Cheektowaga Central, contemplate their bids at last Friday's Art is Charity event at the Cheektowaga Senior Center. The event, featuring art created by students from Cheektowaga Central, Cleveland Hill, Depew, John F. Kennedy and Maryvale raised money for Renaissance House.
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Home improvement scammers targeting elderly, police warn
Cheektowaga police are reminding residents of the Latin phrase "caveat emptor," or "let the buyer beware," when they consider hiring home improvement contractors to perform work this spring. Spring is a popular time for residents to clean their yards or make other improvements to their properties such as painting their homes or sealing driveways.
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Court backs artist over naked goddess
BOMBAY Criminal charges against India’s leading living artist for an allegedly obscene painting of a Hindu goddess have been quashed in a ruling that said religious extremism risked pushing the country into a “pre-Renaissance era”.
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Cannes: The decline of the world’s leading film festival
Flash back to Cannes 1996. The party for Danny Boyle's Trainspotting provides an excuse for hedonism on a scale excessive even by festival standards. In one hall, Leftfield are playing to a celebrity audience including Leonardo DiCaprio, Mick Jagger and Damon Albarn. The noise is deafening. Outside, by the pool, footage of Sean Connery as James Bond is on permanent loop on a big screen as ...
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This exhibit is history, yet very much alive now
"Artevation," an exhibit combining art and historic preservation, opens 7-9 p.m. tonight at The Queen's Art Gallery, 1212 The Plaza. Put together by Historic Charlotte, the show of work by nine local artists honors National Historic Preservation Month and the late urban planner and artist Warren Burgess. Pen and ink and water color drawings of Burgess, who carried his sketchbook when he walked ...
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Why Hollywood's bad girls are rarely fashion victims
Links between film, fashion, crime and violence are explored in a festival that will examine how fashion and style in film glamorise criminal behaviour.
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Contemporary art “to connect” to China
The Art Newspaper publishes news affecting the visual arts and culture worldwide. It is part of a network with editorial offices in London, New York, Turin, Paris, Madrid and Athens and correspondents in more than 30 countries
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SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival Award Nominees Announced
ACM SIGGRAPH announced today the award nominees for the SIGGRAPH 2008 Computer Animation Festival to be held in Los Angeles this summer. Nominees were chosen from more than 900 submissions from around the globe, presented by both professional studios and students alike. An esteemed panel of jury members reviewed each submission to compile some of the greatest works submitted this year.
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Joan Bakewell: Giant white horses and the dangers of 'plop' art
An irresistible chance is now ours to renew the debate about public art. With the unveiling this week of plans for the Ebbsfleet Landmark, people must already be polishing their preferences.
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With wall-to-wall touring and a Juilliard degree in progress, pianist Joyce Yang is all about work, work, work
A conversation with the 21-year-old Joyce Yang is like streaming the second movement of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, the masterpiece she’ll play this weekend with the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra. It’s a wave of serenity amid a life that’s the same heady pace as the concerto’s famous first movement.
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“I see a new, pervasive and global condition of fundamentalist violence directed against dissident images and thought”
On 19 March, the San Francisco Art Institute opened a major exhibition by the Algerian-French artist, Adel Abdessemed, titled “Don’t Trust Me”. Abdessemed is an internationally renowned artist whose recent work was featured at the 2007 Venice Biennale, among many other venues in Europe and around the world.
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Impressive start for talented Nu group
It was one of those ideas dreamt up over lunch at a restaurant, which developed over several more meals into the launch of a new 13-piece group. Ensemble Nu, with the support of Tura New Music, got off to an impressive start this week with a sold-out debut concert at the WA Art Gallery.
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CHILDS: New exhibit to be unveiled Mother's Day
The Cobblestone Museum will show off its National Historic Landmark buildings Sunday at the annual open house.Visitors can drop in for a stroll along the open air museum’s well-kept grounds between 1 and 5 p.m. Admission is free.
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SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival Award Nominees Announced
CHICAGO----ACM SIGGRAPH announced today the award nominees for the SIGGRAPH 2008 Computer Animation Festival to be held in Los Angeles this summer. Nominees were chosen from more than 900 submissions from around the globe, presented by both professional studios and students alike.
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Wheat students compete
Wheat Middle School eighth-grader Destini Vicencio brought home the school’s first gold medal in UIL academics after her participation in the 2008 Quad-County contest, held at Crowley’s H.F. Stevens Middle School.
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