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CNNSotheby's $180 Million Take Buoys Hope For Art Market - 9 Hours ago
Sotheby's reported total sales of $181.8 million on Wednesday night Five works that sold for more than $10 million Publisher: Weaker dollar, inflation driving many to art as an asset class Christie's
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FDR's stimulus for artists: No cause for nostalgia - 9 Hours ago
'Do we need another public art program for the 2009 great recession?' asked someone named Robbie. 'Yes.' Open for comment since the show was unveiled in February, the book sits surrounded by a colorful
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Painting a street green has not stimulated jobs - 14 Hours ago
The block is part of one of the biggest initiatives ever undertaken by the federal government, a nationwide push to improve the energy efficiency of buildings. But as the national unemployment rate crosses
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An artist drawn to fowl play - 15 Hours ago
'Did the chicken come to me, or did I come to the chicken?' What led him to dedicate his life to the chicken, to breeding it and studying it, traveling the world for it? Was it the egg-as-prison metaphor
  
    



Book World: Lloyd Rose reviews 'Angel Time' by Anne Rice - 3 Hours ago
ANGEL TIME By Anne Rice Knopf. 272 pp. $25.95 "There were omens from the beginning," Anne Rice's "Angel Time" begins. It's a nice first sentence for a mystical thriller: forebodings of doom, promises
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In art we lust: At second blush, classic works rise to full erotic potential - 3 Hours ago
Forgive me, readers, for I have sinned. Whenever I've gone by Titian's great "Venus With a Mirror," sitting topless in the Renaissance rooms at the National Gallery of Art, or Canova's marble "Naiad,"
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Philip Kennicott on '1934: A New Deal for Artists' and Depression nostalgia - 3 Hours ago
The visitors comment book at the Smithsonian American Art Museum's exhibition "1934: A New Deal for Artists" has taken on a distinct note of nostalgia. "America needs another public works art program
  
    



Feting Fellini: French museum highlights Italian master's work - 3 Hours ago
PARIS -- Federico Fellini, once viewed by some as a mere farceur, has become a classic. The Jeu de Paume is honoring the Italian film director with a vast exhibition, aptly named "La Grande Parade." Processions,
  
    



Koen Vanmechelen's chicken art is something to squawk about - 3 Hours ago
Sometimes when the Belgian conceptual artist Koen Vanmechelen is being philosophical, he ponders a profound question of our time: "Did the chicken come to me, or did I come to the chicken?" What led him
  
    


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Bartok Duke Bluebeard's Castle / Stravinsky The Rite of Spring, English National - 4 Hours ago
Nature and nurture - and all the dark and unexpected places in between. Some - Duke Bluebeard's cellar - you may never want to return to; others might invoke smiles, even laughter. English National Opera's
  
    



A toast to Vermeer's muse - 5 Hours ago
I've never met Ektoras Binikos, but his cocktail recipes have been intriguing me for many a year, and I'm sure that you, too, would be pretty fascinated by a guy who tried to incorporate dried blood into
  
    



ART Excel (All Round Training in Excellence) for kids 8-13 Yrs age - 9 Hours ago
at The Art of Living Center, Santa Clara, CA Give your children the tools they need to become successful in life. Skills learned Physical: Stretching, Yoga Mental and Spiritual: Specific breathing exercises,
  
    


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Taiwan Peking opera troupe to stage Eileen Chang's novel in Beijing - 11 Hours ago
BEIJING, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Taiwan Peking opera 'A Tale of Golden Locks,' based on a novel of renowned writer Eileen Chang, will be staged at the National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Beijing
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Petaluma Art Galleries November Art Walk - 13 Hours ago
Tags: art education culture Fri. Nov. 13, 2009 Aurora Colors Gallery Demo on fused kiln-formed glass. Dimensions Galleria Clay and print techniques with Diana Crain Gallery One Jewelry trunk show with
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Holiday (Anniversary, Art Opening) Party! - 14 Hours ago
at Suite Five Salon, San Francisco, CA Where: SUITE FIVE SALON, 305 Grant St., 5th fl., San Francisco Press Contact: Jennifer Crane, 415-362-5005 Please join SUITE FIVE SALON in celebrating the holidays,
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Men at arms - 16 Hours ago
Linda Colley on the neglected 18th-century landscape painter, Paul Sandby One of the last watercolours on show in this exhibition is of Mr Whatman's Turkey Paper Mills in Kent. Painted by Paul Sandby
  
    



David Flusfeder: I've been framed - 16 Hours ago
David Flusfeder's Aunt Anne suddenly took up painting in her 50s and he promised to look after her pictures if she became too frail. That time has come, but he didn't expect quite so many ... About 35
  
    



This week's exhibition previews - 16 Hours ago
While the Millais Gallery at Southampton Solent University searches for new premises (its existing site having been given over to lecture rooms due to swelling student numbers), the gallery staff continue
  
    



Getting primed for your painting - 110 Minutes ago
HOT HOME PRODUCTS SPECIAL TO THE STAR Related Vicky's blog More on Repairs and renovations Renovations are messy and chaotic. Throw in five kids under the age of 12 and a dog, and well, you'd have to
  
    



Fla. police: Graffiti artist left work incomplete - 31 Minutes ago
PALM BAY, Fla. - Police in Florida say a graffiti artist who apparently ran out of paint midway through a spray-painted creation left a note to potential critics to explain the unfinished work. Palm Bay
  
    
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