<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.congoo.com/css/rss.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Culture News - Congoo</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=12&amp;catid=-1</link><description>News Feed for - Culture</description><item><title>Grace Kelly's wardrobe to go on display at V&amp;A museum in London</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96227198&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=-1</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T10:52:00</pubDate><description>Some of the most famous outfits worn by Grace Kelly, the most elegant leading lady of her era, are to go on display in a new exhibition at the V&amp;A museum in London. Roya Nikkhah, Arts Correspondent The </description><source>Telegraph</source></item><item><title>Charles Saatchi hunts for new star on artists' answer to X Factor</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96227202&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=-1</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T10:52:00</pubDate><description>A tractor wheel on a treadmill and broken glasses on a concrete floor are some of the bizarre artworks in a new reality television show in which Charles Saatchi seeks the next great contemporary artist. </description><source>Telegraph</source></item><item><title>Jeanne-Claude, 1935-2009: Co-creator, along with husband Christo, of large-scale </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96176811&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=-1</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T08:30:00</pubDate><description>too sad. i can't believe her death hasn't garnered more press. their work is stunning and important. we'll miss you, jeanne-claude!</description><source>Chicago Tribune</source></item><item><title>St Winifred's choir reunites for charity version of 'There's Noone Quite Like Grandma'</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96217836&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=-1</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T07:32:00</pubDate><description>Members of the St Winifred's School Choir, most of them grown up and with children of their own, have reunited to record a new version of the track, which spent two weeks at Number One in 1980 and has </description><source>Telegraph</source></item><item><title>Elisabeth Soderstrom , 82; Swedish opera singer</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96105771&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=-1</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T06:58:00</pubDate><description>During a career of more than 50 years, Miss Soderstrom was renowned for the subtlety of her performances and was considered one of the foremost actors on the operatic stage. Her dramatic skill made her </description><source>Washington Post</source></item><item><title>Painting outside the lines of the law</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96207671&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=-1</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T06:52:00</pubDate><description>All the world's an art gallery to some folks -- no matter what City Hall says. Just the other day an 18-foot-tall dinner fork was set in concrete in a Pasadena traffic median by conspirators wearing fake </description><source>Los Angeles Times</source></item><item><title>The Habit of Art | Theatre review</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96204053&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=-1</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T04:15:00</pubDate><description>Lyttelton, London  WH Auden, the Oxford oracle, is peeing into his washbasin. He's waiting for a rent boy to arrive in his college rooms; he's stuck over his stanzas; he looks not so much like a bag person </description><source>Guardian.co.uk</source></item><item><title>Postcard art: Having a cool time. Wish you were here</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96193325&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=-1</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T01:05:00</pubDate><description>They don't look much like contemporary art-lovers. There are no sharp suits, silly haircuts or bold spectacle frames. Instead, the queue snaking outside the Royal College of Art (RCA) is made up of a </description><source>The Independent</source></item><item><title>Picasso, Warhol... Burton?</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96197304&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=-1</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T01:16:00</pubDate><description>The creator of Edward Scissorhands wins fine art status with a show at MoMA in New York Tim Burton with his work at MoMA in New York last week. Photograph: Jemal Countess/ 'Is there a doctor here?' asks </description><source>Guardian.co.uk</source></item><item><title>Juried Annual 2010 @ Pro Arts</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96197649&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=-1</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T01:22:00</pubDate><description>at Pro Arts at the Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA Exhibition: November 24, 2009 - January 15, 2010 Artists' Reception: Thursday, December 3, 6 â?? 8 pm Artist Talk: Thursday, January 14, 6 PM Pro Arts </description><source>San Francisco Chronicle</source></item><item><title>Artists cast as saviours of British cinema</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96192921&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=-1</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T00:17:00</pubDate><description>After the success of Steve McQueen and Sam Taylor-Wood, the UK Film Council aims to fund debuts by a new crop of artists turned film-makers First came Turner prize-winner Steve McQueen's gritty film Hunger, </description><source>Guardian.co.uk</source></item><item><title>The Kansas City Star, Mo., Debra Skodack column: New giving circle responds to the </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96109695&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=-1</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T09:41:00</pubDate><description>(The Kansas City Star - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- A group of people has come together this year to help people who have fallen on hard times, and it is focusing on one area: </description><source>TMC Net</source></item><item><title>Teaching with dance, art</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96227840&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=-1</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T11:01:00</pubDate><description>(The News Tribune - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- WHER | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- For Skeet Jensen, the celebration Saturday of the National Day of the American Indian </description><source>TradingMarkets</source></item><item><title>'Christmas is ' an opera by Gita Nasta</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96227508&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=-1</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T10:55:00</pubDate><description>In early December this wonderful Christmas Opera by Gita Nasta, Director of Music at the International School of the Algarve, comes to the Lagoa Auditorium. 'Enchanting, there is no other way to describe </description><source>The Portugal News</source></item><item><title>Azores synagogue to get facelift, museum, library</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96227565&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=-1</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T10:56:00</pubDate><description>The synagogue in the capital of the Azores Islands, one of Portugal's oldest, will be refurbished and house a Jewish museum and library, according to an accord signed this week, the Lusa News Agency reports. </description><source>The Portugal News</source></item><item><title>Director David Lynch unveils his art at Surrealist museum</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96223325&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=-1</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T09:11:00</pubDate><description>David Lynch's artworks in the 'Dark Splendor' show at the Max Ernst Museum in Bruehl range from black-and-white photographs of snowmen to color pin-ups of women to intricate lithographs of nudes in compromising </description><source>Deutsche Welle</source></item><item><title>Art Museum brings home two Bruce Nauman gems</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96222689&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=-1</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T08:55:00</pubDate><description>There can be little doubt that the Bruce Nauman show at the 53d Venice Biennale, closing today, will reverberate in significant ways for the artist, the Biennale, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which </description><source>Philadelphia Inquirer</source></item><item><title>Art price depends on many factors</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96221074&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=-1</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T08:37:00</pubDate><description>Now that the art market is beginning to look up, there is a lot of interest in understanding the intricacies of the market. The pricing of artworks has been a component that often requires a greater understanding </description><source>Economictimes</source></item><item><title>Art: Michener gives another Bucks painter his due</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96221167&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=-1</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T08:41:00</pubDate><description>The James A. Michener Art Museum has been admirably assiduous in calling attention to Bucks County painters of merit who have drifted beyond the historical spotlight, to the point where their names and </description><source>Philadelphia Inquirer</source></item><item><title>GEN ART STYLES FINALISTS ANNOUNCED</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96210126&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=-1</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T05:28:00</pubDate><description>Gen Art, the organization centered on promoting emerging talent in fashion, film, music and visual arts, has announced its 25 finalists for its 11th Annual Style International Design Competition. The </description><source>Sportswear International</source></item></channel></rss>