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NEW YORK.- Sotheby’s New York will present its sale of Indian and Southeast Asian Works of Art on September 19, 2008, featuring an extraordinary selection of fine Indian Miniatures, and a broad offering of precious objects from the region, some extremely rare and all with impeccable provenance, many rarely available at auction. The sale includes 118 lots, estimated to sell for $2.3/3.2
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NEW YORK, NY.- Galleries, shops, and dining areas at The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be open to the public on September 1 (Labor Day), the next "Met Holiday Monday." This special viewing day is also the last chance for visitors to see two popular exhibitions: Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy, which has already had more than 400,000 visitors since it opened on May 7, and
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HONG KONG.- Chinese ink painting has a long history. From its ancient beginnings in decorating Neolithic pots, traditional Chinese ink painting reached its height in the Tang dynasty. The continuous re-interpretation of this art form links present-day society to ink art, keeping it alive, and expanding it beyond the two dimensional confines of ink on paper or silk.
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LARAMIE.- Internationally known artist John Henry will be onsite Monday, Aug. 25, and Tuesday, Aug. 26, to install his new sculpture, "River High," near the Laramie Recreation Center on Boulder Avenue.
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WEST MIDLANDS.- Explore the story of contemporary glass showing the influence of Wolverhampton on glassmaking in China and around the world.
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A great building (or a really terrible one, for that matter) hits you in the gut. It provides a kind of aesthetic jolt that is essentially irreversible -- regret-proof. The problem for architects, as for critics, lies not in saying the wrong thing but in saying it the wrong way....
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A sculpture was unveiled yesterday in downtown St. John's to pay tribute to the art of the city. Located at the intersection of George Street and Becks Cove, the sculpture, named "A Time" was crafted by local artist Morgan MacDonald.
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MADRID.- Following its extraordinary Spanish sale results in 2007, Christie's announced its 2008 Spanish Art sale in Madrid on 2 October 2008. Celebrating its 5th anniversary, the sale will include a leading selection of art works by the most renowned Spanish artists of all ages: from Old Masters Paintings to Impressionist and Modern Art, to Post War and Contemporary Art.
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"The dispute is not only spectacular because of the valuable paintings, but also because of the people involved. The heirs are all German and Swedish citizens of Jewish ancestry. They are demanding that the paintings be returned by museums where American Jews such Ronald S. Lauder, the cosmetics heir, art collector and president of the World Jewish Congress, wield great influence."...
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GLASHGOW.- Glasgow University Chapel presents Hannah Frank A Glasgow Artist 100th Birthday Exhibition, on view through Sunday, October 12 2008. This year sees the 100th birthday of the Glasgow artist Hannah Frank, a GU student of the late 1920s. To celebrate the event, the University Archives, The Interfaith Chaplaincy and the Department of Art History is staging a full scale
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ST. LOUIS.- St. Louis native John Ezell is one of contemporary theater's most influential scenic designers. Over the last five decades the Washington University alumnus has created hundreds of sets for major regional, national and international companies and festivals. Next month the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts' Des Lee Gallery will
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AUGUSTA, GA. Organized by the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina, Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art opens to the public on Saturday, August 23, and remains on view through Sunday, October 19, at the Morris Museum of Art. This groundbreaking exhibition offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of plantation images in the American South.
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Some statues are returning"The Iraqi authorities have no plans to rehabilitate statues that glorified the former regime but the municipality is restoring monuments that pay tribute to such figures as Abu Jaafar al-Mansur, the Abbasid caliph and founder of Baghdad."...
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The Portland Art Museum is offering college students another year of admission for just $10. The College Student Pass offers a year's access to the educational resources, galleries and special exhibitions at the museum for the regular price of a single adult admission ticket.
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A retired Massachusetts lawyer has been found guilty of possessing six valuable paintings that had been stolen from a home in 1978....
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BIELEFELD, GERMANY.-Yoko Ono, born in 1933 in Tokyo, is one of the pioneers of Conceptual Art. In 1952, she became one of the first women in Japan to study philosophy. In 1953 she took composition courses at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY, and studied creative writing at Harvard. In the mid-1950s, Yoko Ono lived in New York City, where she knew John Cage, and many other artists and composers. In 1960, she rented a loft on Chambers Street, and together with La Monte Young, organized a series of concerts, attended not only by young musicians and artists, including Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Fluxus founder George Maciunas, but also by Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Pegg
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AUBURN.- Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a Mandala sand painting August 21 to 24, 2008 at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. From all the artistic traditions of Tantric Buddhism, that of painting with colored sand ranks as one of the most unique and exquisite. Millions of grains of sand are painstakingly laid into place on a flat platform over a period
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GETTYSBURG.- The Gettysburg Foundation and the National Park Service will welcome visitors -- for the first time in more than a century -- to a complete "Battle of Gettysburg" Cyclorama experience, beginning September 26 at the new Museum and Visitor Center at Gettysburg National Military Park. A three-day Grand Opening weekend not only celebrates the completion of the
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CARTERSVILLE — The Booth Western Art Museum announces the opening of “Western American Art South of the Sweet Tea Line II.” The exhibition, which contains 74 works of art from 37 locations across six Southern states, showcases seldom seen Western Art from private collections, museums and galleries. Guests will be able to view the artwork through Nov. 30.“Western American Art South of the Sweet ...
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