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Garden for Sale, Gnomes and All
The auctioneer Colin Stair recalls the first time he visited Salander-O'Reilly Galleries's grand East 71st Street townhouse. "I was struck by Mr. Salander's incredibly good taste. It was easy to see why he had so many high-profile clients," he said. These days, nobody knows more about the furnishings of that limestone townhouse than Mr. Stair: He's been chosen to administer the June 7 sale of ...
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Australia board rules that debated nude teen portraits are not pornography
Photographs of nude teenagers that prompted police to close a gallery exhibit in Australia's biggest city and launch an obscenity investigation were cleared Friday by censors as non-pornographic.
AP via Yahoo! Philippines News |
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How Private Museums Are Changing The Art Market
"Unsurprisingly, at Art Basel an increasing number of collectors are buying not just for themselves but to build a museum collection. The trend is changing the dynamic of the market--and its unwritten rules for buyers and sellers."
Arts Journal |
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Religious Group Protests Student Art Show
"A Roman Catholic watchdog group is protesting a student art exhibition in which religious symbols including a crucifix and rosary are depicted in sexually explicit paintings."
Arts Journal |
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Greek Orthodox Church hosts annual festival
Greek dance, music, art and crafts will be on display this week when Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church hosts the annual Greek Festival this week.
The Journal News |
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Fairfield U. to create new art museum
A new art museum will be created within Fairfield University's Bellarmine Hall as a result of a $2.5 million donation from alumnus and trustee John Meditz, of New Jersey, it was announced Thursday.
Connecticut Post |
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Art show seeks entries
Clinton County Club Show will hold its art show July 17 to 20 in DeWitt, Iowa, and invites entries. Open creative arts classes for the upcoming show are crocheting, knitting, embroidery, crewel, quilting, painting, food, canning and food preservation, woodworking, counted thread, home accents and country, metal, outdoor décor, clothing, crafts, fine arts, holiday, photography and recycle.
Quad-City Times |
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Free family fun at Figge
Figge Art Museum will have free admission from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday for Family Fun Day. Programming will introduce artistic and cultural traditions of India to celebrate When Gold Blossoms: Indian Jewelry from the Susan L. Beningson Collection, on exhibit through Aug. 24.
Quad-City Times |
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Dwayne Hickman to feature his latest love: Painting
Dwayne Hickman will be in Lake Arrowhead Saturday for an exhibit of his paintings. But he will, no doubt, also talk about Dobie and Maynard, characters played by him and Bob Denver on "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis."
The Press-Enterprise |
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Temple goes high-tech to preserve 'golden' past
KYOTO--Canon Inc. has embarked on a cultural project of grand proportions. It will make high-resolution copies of a series of mid-Edo Period (1603-1867) paintings for all 50 sliding doors of the Rokuonji temple, known as the temple of the Golden Pavilion.
Asahi.com |
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Artisan's fair a new feature of River John Festival
RIVER?JOHN – A large artisan’s fair will be held in July during a seaside village’s annual summer celebration, River John Festival days.
The News |
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Perceptions: Western Museums Want To Take Art
"Events and anxieties in Bangladesh tell us how Western museums are seen outside the west: as terrifying places with insatiable appetites for works of art. They are also seen as the arm of a more powerful state, with infinite funds and power at their command.
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Friends prepare tribute to girl hit by truck (+photos)
At the start of the week Breeze Brunton was laughing with her mates, helping them with their maths and draft copies of social studies essays. Yesterday they were sketching and painting her face on a card, in preparation for her funeral.
The New Zealand Herald |
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Funny how his color explodes
The invitation for the public opening (6-9 tonight) of an exhibit of paintings by Murray Whisnant lists him as “an architect, designer, inventor, furniture maker and artist.” All true, although his inventions tend to the wacky rather than the practical. Murray also ranks as one of Charlotte's funniest people, whose wit has graced the Observer's letters to the editor page and public forums. ...
The Charlotte Observer |
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The art of film
ONE of New York’s 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.
The Star |
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Garrard Best Play Contest announced
The Five Civilized Tribes Museum in Muskogee announces the Garrard Best Play Contest. The contest is open to all playwrights with five tribe’s heritage. Plays must reflex the culture, heritage or traditions of one of the Five Civilized Tribes.
Muskogee Phoenix |
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Mountaineering Museum in Golden hosts 'Views of the Himalaya'
Mountain to Mountain, a Breckenridge-based organization dedicated to promoting education and community development in remote mountain communities, along with the Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering Museum, will open the 'Views of the Himalaya'...
Summit Daily News |
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PM: Hillary Institute Inaugural Dinner Speech
Address at The Hillary Institute Inaugural Dinner Christchurch Art Gallery Christchurch 7.30 pm
Scoop.co.nz |
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HRD To Hold Photography Workshop
Bandar Seri Begawan - HRD Services Global Education Link will be holding a photography workshop featuring photographer Saiful Nang from Malaysia from June 21-22.
BruDirect.com |
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CHANDLER: Rewarding puzzles
Susanne Kuhn's big paintings hanging in the Large Works Gallery at MCA/Denver delve into internalized landscape, art history and the manipulation of perspective and plane.
Rocky Mountain News |
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12 singers chosen for TV singing contest final
VietNamNet Bridge – After two qualifier rounds in Hanoi and HCM City, the organising board of Vietnam Television’s prestigious singing contest named Sao Mai Diem Hen (Morning Star – Rendezvous) has announced the 12 competitors for the final round.
Vietnam Net |
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Catholic group protests student paintings
A Roman Catholic watchdog group is protesting a student art exhibition in which religious symbols including a crucifix and rosary are depicted in sexually explicit paintings.
AM New York |
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'Not surprising' no charges laid over NGA Henson collection
Former director of the National Gallery of Australia Betty Churcher says it is not surprising no charges will be laid over the gallery's collection of photographs by artist Bill Henson.
ABC via Yahoo!7 News |
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Newsweek 06/04/08
What Defines A Copy? "What exactly is an exhibition copy? If the artist oversaw its creation, why isn't it an original? The Cai exhibit, which drew huge crowds to the Guggenheim, raises questions that many museum goers have probably never considered.
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