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Indiana Jones - the aging CGI debutante
LOS ANGELES - Indiana Jones' return to the big screen after 19 years underscores how much visual effects have evolved. When the first three Indy films were made in the 1980s, the visual effects were done optically, i.e. photographically or in post-production.
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8:57 p.m. -- Artist will visit Boise with Hurricane Katrina exhibits, give workshop on wearable art
A photograph of a kneeling woman, beautiful in her despair, is framed by a
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Tamayo painting sells for $7.2 million, sets record for Latin American art
NEW YORK - Rufino Tamayo's "Troubadour" was auctioned Wednesday for $7.2 million, more than doubling the Mexican painter's previous high and setting a new world auction record for Latin American art.
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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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The Shelburne Heritage Street Festival and Classic Car Show is going to be even bigger and better than last year, with new entertainers and events, a mascot and an attempt at a Guinness World Record all being planned.
Orangeville Citizen |
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Henson: now National Gallery quizzed
Police study at least 79 Bill Henson photos in Canberra galleries.
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Vietnamese culture presented in Holland
VietNamNet Bridge - Folk dances, traditional music and handicrafts are being presented at the 50th Pasar Malam Besar and Tong Tong Festival at the Malieveld Stadium in The Hague, Holland from May 21 to June 1.
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Fine art exhibition of six north-central province
VietNamNet Bridge - An exhibition of fine art works by artists from six north central provinces has recently opened at Ho Chi Minh Museum, Hue central city.
Vietnam Net |
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UBC mum on report art thieves used pepper spray
The University of British Columbia is refusing comment on a CBC television report that thieves who broke into the Museum of Anthropology and stole $2 million worth of gold artworks used bear spray and wore gas masks while committing their crime.
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Michael Kors a victim in Fire Island burglaries
Three teenage burglars sneaked off into the night with a flat-screen television, an abstract painting, iPods and cameras from homes on a secluded Fire Island community -- including one belonging to fashion designer Michael Kors -- only to be caught before they could get their prizes onto the mainland, Suffolk police and a caretaker of two of the homes said.
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Va. college gets $7M for Latin American painting
LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) - The first of 4 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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Sculpture unveiled at Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library
The Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library has a permanent reminder of former Friends of the Library Board member Dick Holiman’s love of the reading as a copper sculpture was unveiled in the library on Wednesday, which he helped paid for.
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Top Scoops
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions, and composed our masterpieces. Never will the world know all it owes to them, nor all they have suffered to enrich us - Marcel Proust
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11:45 a.m. - Coconut Jams art and music festival Saturday for the family
11:45 a.m., May 29 — U’Zeum, the Children’s Discovery Museum of Guam, and Guam’s first children’s discovery museum, will kick off the summer with a festival of art and music event – Coconut Jams, Art in the Park and Music Festival – from noon to 6 p.m. on Saturday at the Plaza de España in Hagåtña.
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Va. college gets $7M for Latin American painting
Associated Press - May 28, 2008 10:03 PM ET LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) - The first of 4 paintings auctioned by Virginia's Randolph College to raise money has sold for more than $7.2 million.
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From Domenichino's Brush, the Met's Latest Masterwork
When the great art collections of the Gilded Age were being amassed — the very ones that went on to form the core of the Metropolitan Museum of Art — everyone wanted to invest in Renaissance Italy and 17th-century Holland, but few collectors showed any interest in the Italian Baroque. For that reason, to this day, the Met's holdings of the Bolognese, Roman, and Neapolitan schools are somewhat ...
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Out of Postmodernist Flash, Innocent Pleasures
Picture an installation of Contemporary East Asian art, and something distinctly Postmodernist comes to mind — something along the lines, say, of Takashi Murakami's eye-jolting, cartoonlike characters, or Cai Guo-Qiang's simulated exploding cars. In this company, the paintings of the South Korean artist Oh Chi-Gyun (b. 1956) take surprisingly innocent pleasure in one of the conventions of ...
The New York Sun |
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2008 Taiwan Culinary Exhibition Kicks Off With Fine Dining Exhibit
The Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) on Wednesday launched the "Fine Dining Exhibit" with the aim of raising Taiwan's international profile and attracting more tourists.
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2008 TAIWAN CULINARY EXHIBITION KICKS OFF WITH FINE DINING EXHIBIT
Food The Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) on Wednesday launched the "Fine Dining Exhibit" with the aim of raising Taiwan's international profile and attracting more tourists.
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Kim Jong Il Gives On-the-Spot Guidance to February 8 Vinalon Complex
Pyongyang, May 28 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il gave on-the-spot guidance to the February 8 Vinalon Complex. He first went round the Revolutionary Museum of the February 8 Vinalon Complex.
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Gala Auction Feels a Chill From Wall Street?s Slump
At the 2008 Robin Hood Foundation benefit, hedge fund managers donated $56.5 million to charity. But many of the market wizards are making less these days and they are giving away less, too.
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Wall Street Journal 05/28/08
A Return To Classic Painting?
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Va. college gets $7M for Latin American painting
Wed, May 28, 2008 (6:32 p.m.) 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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Robert Rauschenberg's legacy: adventurous works between art and life
His paintings, collages and sculptures encourage others to celebrate "messy reality"
Contra Costa Times |
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Living room can be both glam and inviting
It can be tough for newlyweds to suddenly become decorating gurus. So whatever your style and no matter where you live, here are some tips on how to make the room you live in the most look gorgeous and glamorous. Couch placement Museum-like, look-but-don't-touch living rooms are so over. What you want is for people to feel invited and welcomed into the room. The placement of ...
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