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Kim Jong Il Enjoys Art Performance
Pyongyang, May 18 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il enjoyed an art performance given by members of the art groups of families of servicepersons of KPA units 963, 966 and 233 who participated in the first contest of the second-term of art groups of families of servicepersons.
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Exhibition commemorates Bastion Point resolution
Remembrance is the theme of Bastion Point – 30 Years On, an exhibition at the Central City Library from 19 to 30 May.
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New York Photo Festival Plans Expansion in 2009
Visitors were still touring exhibits at the first New York Photo Festival when its organizers announced plans for next year's festival, scheduled to take place May 14 to 24, 2009..
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North students show off their artsy side
With a paintbrush in hand, Amanda Blakeslee painted a mural Thursday night on the wall of Oshkosh North High Schools art classroom.
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Farewell for slain Art Car curator is more like a festival
In tribute to his zany sense of humor and zest for life, a sendoff for Tom Jones, the beloved photographer killed in a crash just hours after the Art Car Parade a week ago, included artists, bikers, roller skaters and musicians.
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The Secret Rivalry Behind Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel
"The artist was awarded the commission unaware that he was the target of a conspiracy hatched by Donato Bramante, the architect of St Peter's Basilica, and the painter Raphael, who persuaded Pope Julius II to oblige Michelangelo - a sculptor with little painting experience - to take on the commission.
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Association for Women in Architecture
LOS ANGELES─Deeply influenced by her grandfather, a Ph.D. in organic chemistry and an oil painter, Heather Hoeksema, an emerging environmental artist, is constantly forging new neuron passage...
The Epoch Times |
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Qatar to host GCC’s biggest sports and fitness exhibition
Staff Reporter SOME of the world’s leading companies in the areas of sports and fitness will participate in the GCC’s largest sports, health and wellbeing exhibition to be held in Qatar.
Gulf Times |
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Abramovich brings home the Bacon for $86m
CHELSEA owner Roman Abramovich has been revealed as the mystery collector who bought two record-breaking paintings last week.
Irish Examiner |
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Abramovich ‘is £60m mystery art buyer’
Roman Abramovich, the Russian billionaire, is the mystery buyer of two paintings which together sold for more than £60m, according to reports.
The Herald |
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High art as Sotheby's dealer makes attempt on Everest
IN EVERYDAY life, he cuts a suave figure as head of Scottish pictures at auction house Sotheby's. But in his other life as a climber, André Zlattinger is on the edge of
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Hundreds turn out to honor art car museum curator
The family of the curator of Houston’s famed Art Car Museum, Tom Jones, had a private funeral for the 51-year-old last week, but Sunday afternoon a very public memorial service was held at the museum.
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Experts fall out over Van Gogh's 'last painting'
Portrait stashed in a bank vault in Athens could be last painting Vincent van Gogh produced
Guardian Unlimited |
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Experts fall out over 'last painting'
Portrait stashed in a bank vault in Athens could be the last painting the Dutch master produced
Guardian Unlimited |
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Grayson Perry turns curator for new British culture show
Unpopular Culture is a mysterious and surprising exhibition. It's curated by the artist-potter-transvestite, Grayson Perry. All its exhibits paintings, sculptures, documentary photos are drawn from the extensive collection of the Arts Council. It's just begun its tour of England and Wales at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill. And it's had a lot of publicity. But if you went into it unprimed, ...
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British surrealism's greatest hoard, hidden in retired GP's house, to go on show
More than 200 treasures of couple who befriended artists to be put on show at the new Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
Guardian Unlimited |
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Layers Of History Are Visible In Picketwire Canyon
Located in southeast Colorado, Picketwire Canyonlands has prairie chickens, dinosaur footprints, pioneer fort remains, Native American rock paintings and beautiful views. Colorado Getaways recently featured this surprisingly rich section of Comanche National Grasslands.
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Philip Hensher: Now we've all signed up to the freak show
This'll do for an amusing final item on the ITV news, they must have thought. A painting of a fat lady with no clothes on had sold for $33m, and, guess what, here's the fat lady herself to be interviewed. "Fat Sue, as she's affectionately known," gushed Katie Derham before cutting to that splendid woman, Sue Tilley. "In the words of Roy Castle, Sue, you're a record breaker!"
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Denver Artist Finds Inspiration In The Ordinary
The annual summer sale for the Art Student League of Denver is set for June 14 and June 15 at the league's building at Second and Grant.
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Thousands of visitors crowded in front of museums on Saturday night
“The night of museums” brought together over 4,000 institutions, largely from France.
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Israeli Images
“Real Time: Art in Israel, 1998-2008,” at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, is one of six exhibitions to be rolled out over the coming months, one for each of the decades of the state’s existence, each in a different museum across the country.
New York Times |
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Artists Absorb Israel?s Six Decades, and Move On
?Real Time: Art in Israel, 1998-2008,? at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, is an ambitious, sometimes macabre and often witty show.
New York Times |
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Capturing local daily scenes
THE watercolour paintings now on display at the Jiiva Fine Art gallery will bring a sense of nostalgia to those who view them. For, they depict familiar local daily scenes and scenery that many people may not pay particular attention to, but which, fortunately, have caught the eye of the artists and were transformed into works of art.
The Star |
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Bahrainis honoured at camera expo
BAHRAINI Khalid Mohammed Adam took the first prize $1,500 (BD567) Canon gift voucher in a competition held at the Camera Classic 2008 exhibition.
Gulf Daily News |
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Skills of the finest craftsmen
THE Amitabul Buddha is said to be the perfect aesthetic blend of crystal art and Eastern artistic elements, exemplified by the appropriate ratio of the body, fine details of the face and the delicately sculptured drapery and lotus seat.
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