http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=12&catid=54News Feed for - Arts-and-culturehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96640089&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=542009-11-27T11:21:00BBC4 was due to show Sadlers Wells production Eternal Damnation in a pre-watershed slot over Christmas The BBC has dropped plans to broadcast a ballet after discovering that it included graphic scenes Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96659350&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=542009-11-27T12:56:00Take a look at the most powerful news wins from across the globe. PRAGUE (Reuters Life!) - Glitzy new shops, fast food restaurants and trendy bars have replaced Prague's former monochrome socialist-era Reuters Indiahttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96581112&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=542009-11-27T13:04:00The BBC has withdrawn part of a ballet inspired by Sergei Diaghilev from its Christmas television schedule after discovering it featured a deformed Pope who rapes nuns. The corporation announced last Telegraphhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96658993&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=542009-11-27T12:32:00So what if he picked up a pencil and draws from life? There are far better artists out there to honour with an associateship It's very hard to tell the good from the bad. It's so much easier to know why Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96671801&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=542009-11-27T15:28:00By Josh Ward Contemporary artist Skran Moral has long been an outspoken critic of women's place in Turkish society. And she has often feared for her safety as a result. Her work is now on display in Berlin Spiegel Onlinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96669085&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=542009-11-27T14:54:00As the Standard's Louise Jury reported yesterday : Former Evening Standard editor Veronica Wadley has been appointed to a top-level arts panel weeks after being rejected as the best candidate to chair Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96667298&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=542009-11-27T13:51:00world: crossing continents with guardian.co.uk // // // // See the world: crossing continents with (14 pictures) 1 / 14 · 1 / 14 Andrew Esiebo lives and works in Nigeria. This photograph, from his ongoing Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96665041&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=542009-11-27T13:28:00THE Brumby Government has banned a group linked to the Church of Scientology from Victoria's public schools after it sponsored an art prize. The Government acted after learning from the Herald Sun that Herald Sunhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96664059&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=542009-11-27T13:19:00Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The team from Indonesia used angle grinders to reshape the bronze intruments Oxford University has had to bring in experts from Java in Indonesia BBChttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96662675&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=542009-11-27T13:07:00Telegraph Travel has joined forces with Superbreak, the UK's leading Short Break Operator, to offer readers the chance to win three one-night breaks to London â?? complete with tickets to three of the Telegraphhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96660683&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=542009-11-27T12:49:00Paintings by the Duke of Rothesay have gone on display at an arts exhibition featuring the work of a surrealist once commissioned by Ricky Gervais. Prince Charles has loaned two of his watercolours to BBChttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96654693&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=542009-11-27T11:47:00: Jonathan Jones: Emin says that this paper was 'spiteful' over her complaints about tax. Hasn't she read our reviews? 14 Nov 2009: In recent years, Damien Hirst has been less an artist than head of a Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96489677&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=542009-11-27T11:57:00San Francisco War Memorial Opera House San Francisco CA 301 Van Ness Ave.San Francisco Chroniclehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96645493&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=542009-11-27T09:07:00Artist Chris Gilmour has made sculptures sold around the world using only cardboard and glue. Mr Gilmour's pieces are made without even a supporting structure of metal or wood. His sculptures include Telegraphhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96631667&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=542009-11-27T06:09:00Morgan Hill CA 80 E. 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So Herbert, 24, was thrilled when he beat 300 applicants to win a "creative invite" on Talenthouse.com San Francisco Chroniclehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96620311&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=542009-11-27T02:55:00by Xinhua Writer Ma Guihua PHNOM PENH, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- As some 200 artists and media practitioners converge here for the weeklong Mekong Festival beginning on Monday, their attention has gone far Xinhua News Agencyhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96618025&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=542009-11-27T02:17:00Paintings by the Duke of Rothesay have gone on display at an arts exhibition featuring the work of a surrealist once commissioned by Ricky Gervais. Prince Charles has loaned two of his watercolours to BBChttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96617697&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=542009-11-27T01:57:00(CBC)Three topless female protesters tested the limits of artistic freedom Thursday at a protest outside the B.C. legislature against government cuts to the arts. The chanting women painted green, with CBC Sudburyhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96611667&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=542009-11-27T01:02:00Comedian and actor Ricky Gervais is a fan of Michael Forbes' work Paintings by the Duke of Rothesay have gone on display at an arts exhibition featuring the work of a surrealist once commissioned by Ricky BBChttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96650283&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=542009-11-27T13:57:00Strike action kept the landmark Pompidou modern art centre shut for a fifth day Friday as culture ministry unions threatened to close down the Louvre and other Paris museums to protest planned job cuts. France24http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96674456&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=542009-11-27T15:50:00Robin Fernsell. A partial view of Fernsell's gallery. Pair of Maine thumb-back Windsors with very well-preserved paint, $3500. Fernsell said, 'I don't like to buy things that need work. I don't know how Antiques Digesthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96674440&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=542009-11-27T15:50:00An 8' x 7' bound book of 22 Native American pictographs in pencil, colored pencil, and ink sold to a phone bidder for $34,365. Doug Deihl said a collector bought it and added that it may end up in a museum Antiques Digesthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96674411&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=542009-11-27T15:50:00Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, former director of the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich, has been appointed director of the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Washington. The Frye was established in the 1950's as a private Antiques Digesthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96669613&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=542009-11-27T15:01:00Striking workers at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Canadian War Museum have rejected the latest offer from their employer. Late Thursday night, 96 per cent of the 420 striking guides, interpreters CBC