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Cate Blanchett defends art exhibition of nude photos of girls aged 12 and 13
Actress Cate Blanchett has attacked Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd after he branded an exhibition of naked photographs of young girls as "revolting".
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Randolph College in Virginia gets more than $7M for painting at auction to raise school funds
LYNCHBURG, Va. - The first of four paintings auctioned by Virginia's Randolph College to raise money has sold for more than $7.2 million. Rufino Tamayo's "Troubadour" was bought Wednesday night by an anonymous telephone bidder at Christie's Latin American art auction.
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Roosevelt Elementary School students learn the importance of all types of art.
All year long students at Roosevelt Elementary have been hard at work creating beautiful pieces of art. At first glance its look like Roosevelt Elementary has turned into an art museum.
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Bourne films viewed as art in New York
One of the Museum of Modern Art’s latest film acquisitions isn’t an art-house experiment by Andy Warhol or Michelangelo Antonioni. It’s the spy-action blockbuster The Bourne Identity and its sequels.
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Artist to exhibit work
MONMOUTH BEACH - Oakhurst artist Pat Halsey will exhibit her paintings at the Monmouth Beach Cultural Center from June 4-21. An artist's reception is planned to be held 6-8 p.m. June 13 at OceanAvenue center. The public is invited to attend the event.
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By The Associated Press LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) -- The first of four paintings auctioned by Virginia's Randolph College to raise money has sold for more than $7.2 million.
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Marblehead Museum announces additional Civil War Museum open houses
The Marblehead Museum & Historical Society is pleased to announce additional open house dates for the G.A.R. Meeting Room & Civil War Museum on the second floor of the Old Town House at Market Square.
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Va. college gets $7M for Latin American painting
The first of four paintings auctioned by Virginia's Randolph College to raise money has sold for more than $7.2 million.
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Still Painting on Walls, but No Longer an Outlaw
A love of graffiti has gained Steve Powers notoriety on the streets, fame in the art world and a long arrest sheet. It has also earned him a Fulbright scholarship.
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The Guardian (UK) 05/28/08
Time To Retire Trafalgar's Plinth Art? "The Fourth Plinth has popularised modern art at the expense of robbing it of what makes it modern in the first place. It has taken the excitement of British art a decade ago and co-opted it."
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GECDSB to auction off equipment, school supplies
The Greater Essex County District School Board is doing its spring cleaning. On Saturday the board will hold an auction to dispose of equipment and school supplies from across the system that have been gathering dust for several years, said Penny Allen, the board's superintendent of business.
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Clark Art taps firm to design space at MoCA
Wednesday, May 28 NORTH ADAMS — An architectural firm has been named to design the newest gallery space for the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
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A lesson in weaving 'pla ta phian' from 'lan' leaves. Durian and mango from Thailand proved popular as ever.
The ninth edition of the Thai Festival held recently at the Yoyongi Park in Tokyo proved a smashing success as Japanese young and old turned out in big numbers even as intermittent rain threatened to dampen start of this annual two-day cultural and food extravaganza.
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Festival lights a fire of identity
A GROUP of young people from the southern suburbs of Wollongong had some lessons with a difference last week, when they learned the art of fire twirling as part of the Southside Festival.
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Lion in the living room, silo in the school
After years of painting murals for family and friends, Upper Freehold's Dana Gale has decided to turn her creative talents into a business. Gale, 47, started working on murals about 10 years ago, and one she painted in her children's playroom won an honorable mention in a Better Homes and Gardens annual makeover and renovation contest.
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Debate rages as works of art are deemed teen porn
Adebate over censorship versus art raged in Australia yesterday, nearly a week after police shut down an exhibit by a leading Australian photographer and confiscated portraits of nude teenagers. The exhibit by Bill Henson was shut down before it could even open last Thursday night.
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Breast cancer survivor event happening June 1
A Roosevelt member of the Machestic Dragons Princeton Breast Cancer Survivor Dragon Boat Team seeks other area residents to join the festivities at the Paddle for Pink Dragon Boat Festival 9 a.m.-4 p.m. June 1 at theMercerCounty LakeMarina in WestWindsor.
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Allentown Art Guild has new installation at bank
TheAllentownArt Guild has a new art installation in The Bank on SMain Street in Allentown. Every three months, the guild hangs a new exhibit of members' works in the bank's lobby. The present show includes paintings, drawings and photographs and will be up until the first week in August.
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On May 22, three city officers teamed up with a third-grade class at the school to decorate baseballs as part of the ‘‘Art’s A Ball!” public art project sponsored by the Frederick Arts Council.
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In doing so, the festival will be the largest event held in the park since it was completed in 2006 and the first one to take up its entire length ‘‘and test the limits of the facility,” said Richard Griffin, Frederick city’s director of economic development.
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Sasquatch 2008: R.E.M., Modest Mouse, M.I.A.
Day one of the NW festival had blue skies turned cloudy and great performances from dozens of bands
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Messiah Lutheran Church will be holding its 18th strawberry festival.
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Educating Public On Archiving, Preserving Local Published Work
Bandar Seri Begawan - An Awareness Programme on the archiving and preservation of books and local published works was held yesterday at the Art Gallery of the Royal Customs and Excise Building in the capital.
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In Photographs, Capturing an Eternal Italy
Gallery owner Keith de Lellis made repeated visits to Italy between 1980 and 1984, each time buying 30 to 40 photographs until he had an archive of more than 1,000 images. Since then, he has periodically culled his collection and presented themed exhibitions such as "Paesaggio: Italian Landscape Photography," which was reviewed in these pages three years ago. Now the Keith de Lellis Gallery has ...
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Chit Chat
There will be a Living Artist Exhibition on Sunday, June 8 at Tathra Public School starting at 5pm. The auction starts at 7pm and the preview time is Sunday 10am - 1pm for the over 18 event. Ticket price is $20 per head available at the door or for more information email at info@livingartist.org.au.
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