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Christie's sets record with Asia art sales
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Global auction house Christie's sold a record $310.7 million (157 million pound) worth of Asian art at its Hong Kong spring sales this week, cementing the region's reputation as one of the most promising in a thriving international market.
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Cops: Utah art thief nabbed
Police say they've caught the culprit in a recent string of art gallery thefts - a former gallery employee with a criminal history. The man, who police declined to identify as charges are pending, had previously worked at the Repartee Gallery in Salt Lake City.
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'Bourne' films viewed as art
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.
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Chronicling the voice of an oppressed nation
For Estonians, the Laulupidu (song festival) held every five years is more than a cultural mecca for thousands: It's a chance to honor how a populace in unison often held this oppressed nation together over decades of Soviet rule and eventually spurred it to win its freedom. As chronicled in the gripping if flawed documentary The Singing Revolution, Estonia's turbulent 20th century is on one ...
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Abstractions, inspirations at a Mount Holly gallery
The works of Marc Chagall and Paul Klee inspire the abstract paintings of multi-media artist Remedios "Medy" Quiroz.
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Art Pick 'Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967'
The relationship between contemporary art and rock music is explored through more than 100 works by 56 artists and artist collectives featured in Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967. The exhibition opens to the public Friday at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami.
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If all the Mars to-do around town — and the world — has got you hungry for a taste of other bits of the universe, ...
If all the Mars to-do around town — and the world — has got you hungry for a taste of other bits of the universe, you're in luck. "Beyond: Visions of Planetary Landscapes" is currently on view at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
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Students bring new meaning to still life
Caravaggio's Doubting Thomas: Students from San Anton School reproduced his famous paintings by posing as photographic models.
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Christie's sets record with Asia art sales
Global auction house Christie's sold a record $310.7 million (157 million pound) worth of Asian art at its Hong Kong spring sales this week, cementing the region's reputation as one of the most promising in a thriving international market.
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Dance festival season ushers in summer
For those who just moved to the area from Chicago, New York or other sites of blistering June-August heat, be forewarned: Summer in the Bay Area is a complex state of mind.
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DPP to investigate Henson photos
A DECISION on whether to charge controversial photographer Bill Henson and art gallery owner Roslyn Oxley will now take weeks, after police today decided to refer their brief of evidence to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for a second opinion.
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Critic's Pick Douglas Carter Beane
Tony Award nominee Douglas Carter Beane will find out on June 15 whether he'll take home a Tony for the deliciously tongue-in-cheek script he wrote for the musical Xanadu. But this weekend, Beane will be in South Florida, where he'll be honored with the first Ovation Award given during the annual Lavender Footlights Festival. Celebrating work with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender themes, ...
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Oasis Supports 2008 Fashion in Film Festival
Oasis announce their collaboration with the second London Fashion in Film Festival 2008, 'If Looks Could kill', as part of their commitment to supporting emerging talent and design (PRWeb May 30, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/05/prweb978384.htm
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Photo exhibit at the Bundy
WAITSFIELD -- The photographs of Amalia Elena Veralli and Henry Erickson will be on display at the Bundy Center for the Arts, off Route 100 in Waitsfield, today through August 3. There will be an opening reception today, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. A native New Yorker, Amalia Elena Veralli has called Vermont her home for the past 30 years. Her photographic journey includes study at the School of Visual ...
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Get Out Guide
Adaptive Bike Clinic: Try your hand at biking "adaptive bikes," designed for people with disabilities. Helmets required. Call to pre-register. Clinic 9 a.m.-noon, ride noon-1 p.m. Sun, Eastbank Festival Plaza, Southeast Main Street and Water Avenue; 503-241-0850
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beyond the multiplex
QDOC -- It's quality over quantity as the Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival marks its second year.
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Art and fashion
MONTPELIER -- Montpelier is overflowing with art in June as the summer Art Walk series starts on June 6, a Montpelier Fashion Week activity. In addition, as part of the Art Walk, participants can preview 20 "SculptCycles," sculptures made with recycled bicycle parts, which will be on display around downtown all summer long. The fun and celebration continues on June 7 during the Montpelier ...
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Art Openings, Events and Museums
Admission is free unless otherwise noted. "Tai Chi for 1,000" community performance: The closing event of Horatio Hun-Yan Law's project "China-on-Willamette." Participants of all ages and experience are welcome.
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The show goes on By Kathryn Dailey The Reporter-Herald
Twenty-five years ago, the founders of Sculpture in the Park joked that they could only lure their fellow sculptors to participate in the show by promising them a good party. More than two decades later, Dan Ostermiller, George Lundeen, George Walbye and Fritz White met downtown at the Chop House – the same building that housed their old watering hole where they planned the beginning of ...
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2008 ROSE FESTIVAL CALENDAR
The following is a list of many of the Rose Festival events; details are subject to change. For more information and updates, contact the Portland Rose Festival Association at 503-227-2681 or online at www.rosefestival.org. All area codes in listings are 503 unless otherwise noted.
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No plans? Here are 10 things to do this weekend
Wicked, an RPO jazz concert, the Greek Festival and a showing of the original Superman are among the things to do this weekend.
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Best Bets
Time is running out to see two lingering works from the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art's massive ecological exhibition, "Weather Report: Art and Climate Change."
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RoofTop Comedy Fest debuts in Aspen
ASPEN When HBO pulled the plug on its U.S. Comedy Arts Festival last year, ending a 13-year run that brought most every big name in the funny business to Aspen, some prominent players made noise about filling the laughter void.
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Lifelike statues hit the streets
STAMFORD - It took two days, 14 workers, two trucks, two forklifts and a crane, but as of yesterday afternoon, 53 life-size sculptures depicting human figures had been installed in downtown Stamford.
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Man gets 8 months for stealing metal art
A man charged with stealing valuable art objects from a sculpture park south of Baraboo and selling them for scrap must serve eight months in jail and pay about $2,000 in fines, fees and restitution after his conviction and sentencing Thursday. Howard J. Henn, 55, appeared in Sauk County Circuit Court to face misdemeanor counts of theft and receiving stolen property stemming from an incident on ...
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