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French school film is the Class act in Cannes
The Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or was won by the French production Entre les murs (The Class) last night. The film, directed by Laurent Cantet, used teachers and students to chronicle a year in the life of an inner-city school. "The film we wanted to make had to be a reflection of French society – multiple, many-faceted, complex," said Cantet. "Sometimes also with friction that the film ...
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The 5-minute Interview: Julian Schnabel, Artist and film-maker
Julian Schnabel, 56, is from Brooklyn, New York. He won the director's award at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and a Bafta for best adapted screenplay for his film 'The Diving Bell And the Butterfly', which is released on DVD next month.
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Works On Paper At Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery
Toi o Tahuna fine art gallery is holding an exhibition of works of paper by contemporary New Zealand artists in their Church Lane gallery.
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Two centuries of the latest fashion - Exhibition to give a rare glimpse of a world renown clothing collection
In a coup for the Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra will be one of the first regional galleries in New South Wales to host a world renowned collection of exquisite vintage clothing and accessories.
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Tourism city shaken
DUJIANGYAN, China: A sculpture proclaims Dujiangyan the "top tourist city in China." But at the ancient irrigation works, a World Heritage site, the ticket office is now a smashed reminder of a devastating earthquake.
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Cannes top of The Class
CANNES: The French film The Class, a frank tale about classroom life using real students and teachers at a junior high school, won top honors yesterday at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Mobile Fiber Arts Museum rolls through Austin
The exhibit features a collection of pieces from fiber artists from around the state.
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Orange Street Arts Festival draws thousands
Orange Street was transformed into an outdoor art gallery this weekend. The 13th annual Orange Steet Arts Festival featured the work of more than 70 artists. Full story...
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Mobile Fiber Arts Museum rolls through Austin
Fiber artists showed off their crafts in the Mobile Fiber Arts Museum at the State Capitol Sunday. The exhibit features a collection of pieces from fiber artists around the state.
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An existential quest
Emerging artist Dustin Cauchi addresses the question of 'the relationship between being and non being'. Louis Laganà reviews his first personal exhibition.
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Sculptor Molding Faces for Crandall Canyon Mine Memorial
Work is nearing completion on a monument for those who died in the Crandall Canyon mine disaster last year. Sculptor Karen Jobe Templeton has been working on clay relief faces of the nine who died in August -- six miners trapped after the mine collapsed and three who died trying to rescue them.
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5:52 p.m.: Fort Wayne museum plans $5.5 million expansion
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — The Fort Wayne Museum of Art will undergo a $5.5 million expansion and modernization to help turn it into one of the nation’s top exhibit spaces for American art.
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At Glittery Cannes, a Gritty Palme d?Or
At the closing ceremony of the 61st Cannes Film Festival, the red carpet was overrun by teenagers when the French film ?The Class? (?Entre les Murs?) won the Palme d?Or.
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My Account
CANNES, France - The French film "The Class," a frank tale about classroom life using real students and teachers at a junior high school, won top honours Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Home Notes
Quilters Put Hands to Work SPRINGDALE - Members of Quilters United in Learning Together of Northwest Arkansas will demonstrate the art of hand-quilting from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History. "We will be working on a pieced quilt with appliqued center and borders," says Marilyn Teeter, a QUILT member. "The quilt will be set up on a large floor frame, similar to the ...
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Young Filipino artists outshine masters in int'l auction
MANILA, Philippines - Except for “Still Life, White Moon at the Vineyard” by senior artist Federico Aguilar Alcuaz that fetched S$25,200 (P756,000), the top 10 Filipino artworks which got sold for more than their estimated prices at the recent Borobudur auction in Singapore were all made by artists under 40.
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Zobel’s ‘Noche Clara’ goes for P6M at Christie’s
MANILA, Philippines - At the Christie’s auction of Southeast Asian Modern & Contemporary Art held in Hong Kong last Saturday, a 1960 work by the late modernist artist Fernando Zobel was the most expensive Philippine artwork sold at P6 million.
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Pinoy sculptor strikes gold in art Olympics
MANILA, Philippines - A stainless-steel work by Filipino sculptor Joe Datuin that reinterprets the traditional Olympic logo into a flight of the athletic spirit has won the grand prize for sculpture in the international Sport and Art Contest in connection with the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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French classroom drama wins Cannes' top prize
The French film "The Class," a frank tale about classroom life using real students and teachers at a junior high school, won top honors Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I Madonnari Shakes Off Cool Weather
Though early morning rain threatened to put a damper on the chalk art festival, by mid-afternoon the sun was out and the chalk dust flying.
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Last known U.S. born WW I veteran honored at Liberty Memorial
KANSAS CITY — As the last known living American-born veteran of World War I, Frank Woodruff Buckles is upgrading his place in the history books. The 107-year-old veteran was an honored guest at the Liberty Memorial this weekend where he toured the National World War I Museum for the first time.
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Chattanooga Who-Fest Wraps Up at Renaissance Park
In Downtown, the annual Who-Fest wrapped up Sunday at Renaissance Park. read more
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Bilan Win Lifts Town and Country
26 May 2008 By Francesca Mereu / Staff Writer With his Eurovision victory Saturday night, Dima Bilan provided the country with its first win in the song contest and his hometown in the republic of Karachayevo-Cherkessia with a street and a school bearing his name.
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Texas League Reaches 100,000,000 Fans
The Texas League will pass a milestone in attendance on Sunday afternoon. The league came into Saturday's game needing 31,981 fans to pass the 100 million mark. Attendance figures have been recorded for Texas League contests dating back to 1922, although the league traces its origins back to 1888.
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Cannes : les premières récompenses décernées en attendant le palmarès officiel
Les premières récompenses du Festival international du cinéma de Cannes ont été décernées samedi dernier dans la soirée, en attendant le palmarès de la sélection officielle.
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