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French docudrama 'The Class' wins Palme d'Or at Cannes
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 honors Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival.
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RCMP to release more information into B.C. museum art theft
RCMP are expected to release more information today into a theft that has shocked the Canadian art world.
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Many sticking closer to home this Memorial Day
WASHINGTON — It seemed like a can't-miss tourist attraction that would pull in visitors to the nation's capital: a new Madame Tussauds wax museum.
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Senior citizens can visit museums for free every Monday
SINGAPORE : Senior citizens above 60 can now visit six museums for free every Monday. Participating museums are the Asian Civilisations Museum, Memories at Old Ford Factory, the National Museum of Singapore, Peranakan Museum, Singapore Art Museum and Singapore Philatelic Museum.
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Event of the Week: Dreams of the Sublime and Nowhere
This exhibition includes many new works of photography and video art by Iceland’s most outstanding artists, building on their disparate ideas about nature as a phenomenon.
Iceland Review |
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Nigeria: Fryde Okoh, Still in Search of Adam Through Art
Fryde Okoh , one of Nigeria's revered fine artists, painter and sculptor, is a firm believer that art is a natural gift of God which age cannot prevent the artist from practising.
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Artworks can be seen in Viger Square, métro stations
Claude Théberge was the Quebec graphic design artist, illustrator and sculptor perhaps best known for his bizarre but popular acrylics of bright, candy-coloured umbrellas.
Montreal Gazette |
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Ngoc Anh to compete in ASEAN Golden Vocalist 2008
Nhan Dan- Singer Ngoc Anh and Hong Ngat will take part in the ASEAN Golden Vocalist Contest to be held in Vietnam in October. Ngoc Anh, who is known from a television singing contest, will compete in the light music and Artist of Merit Hong Ngat will sing folk songs.
Nhân Dân |
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Senior citizens can visit museums for free every Monday
SINGAPORE : Senior citizens above 60 can now visit six museums for free every Monday.
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To help the City of Olymp
To help the City of Olympia select public art for the new City Hall, the Olympia Arts Commission has appointed five people to serve as a Citizens Advisory Panel.
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Library exhibit ruined by vandalism
LENOX — Police are investigating the cause of an estimated $1,200 damage done to an art exhibit installed outside the Lenox Library only hours before its ruin.
Berkshire Eagle |
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RCMP to release more information into B.C. museum art theft
VANCOUVER - RCMP are expected to release more information today into a theft that has shocked the Canadian art world.
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10th painting exhibition for street and disabled children
VietNamNet Bridge - The exhibition was opened on May 26 at Equatorial Hotel, 2/242 Tran Binh Trong, District 5, HCM City by Bach Viet College and HCM City Art Association.
Vietnam Net |
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Thai students present lacquer paintings in Hue
VietNamNet Bridge – An exhibition of 18 lacquer paintings by four Thai students opened at New Space Art Foundation in the central city of Hue on May 24.
Vietnam Net |
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UAE hosts Picasso exhibition, showcases his Arab influence
Abu Dhabi, May 26 : An exhibition of paintings by Pablo Picasso tracing the various stages of his career will open Tuesday in the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the first time, WAM news agency reported.
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Refitting the Huntington mansion's jewels
John Murdoch wants visitors to luxuriate in the textures, colors, artworks and objets d'art that make up one of the great Gilded Age estates west of the Mississippi, an Italianate villa that Henry Huntington once called his ranch.
International Herald Tribune |
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Library exhibit ruined by vandalism
Monday, May 26 LENOX — Police are investigating the cause of an estimated $1,200 damage done to an art exhibit installed outside the Lenox Library only hours before its ruin.
Berkshire Eagle |
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Conference Center in growth mode
Salem Conference Center is one of the premier meeting facilities in Oregon, hosting conferences, corporate meetings, exhibitions and social events year-round.
Salem Statesman Journal |
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Billboards project reveals provocative visions of peace
USF professor of visual arts Richard Kamler has organized a unique public art show called the Seeing Peace Billboard Project, composed of his and nine other international artists' visions of peace.
The San Francisco Examiner |
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Brown School artists 'fake' it
PEABODY and mdash; Brown School fifth-graders know that imitation is the highest form of flattery. As part of art teacher Deb Whitmore's annual "Fabulous Fakes" project, these budding artists pick a postcard representing one of Harvard University's vast collection of paintings by the world's masters and reinterpret it in their own way.
The Salem News |
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Oil Refineries Subsidiary, Carmel Olefins, Addresses Ministry of Environment's Demand
Oil Refineries Ltd. announced that, following its announcement on May 20, 2008, with regard to Carmel Olefins Ltd.'s , the Company was notified by CAOL, that, in turn, CAOL informed the Ministry of Environmental Protection of its intention, in coordination with the Company, to temporarily close all of CAOL's facilities for a duration of 9 days, starting from May 25, 2008 .
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All change at the steamie
ONE of Glasgow's oldest surviving bath houses is to be transformed into a £1.2million gallery and art school. John Mullen plans to turn the dilapidated building near Glasgow Cross into a New York-style artist space.
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Painting of Guelph sells
A painting of a back country road in Guelph sold for $57,500 at a live auction last week. Alexander Young (A.Y.) Jackson painted the pastoral scene, called "Country Road, Guelph, Ontario," in 1957.
Guelph Mercury |
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Artists Back 'Naked Kids' Photographer
Australia's arts community has defended a photographer whose exhibition of images of naked children was shut down.
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And They're Off!
SAN FRANCISCO ( Map , News ) - USF professor of visual arts Richard Kamler has organized a unique public art show called the Seeing Peace Billboard Project, composed of his and nine other international artists’ visions of peace.
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