Art News
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Bellevue -
ARTSfair, an annual outdoor art festival presented by the Bellevue Art Museum, gives visitors the chance to behold and admire many unique sculptures, paintings and photo pieces created by accomplished local artists.
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Aomori -
Around 8,000 residents of the town Inakadate in Aomori Prefecture banded together to create some incredible art using simple arrangementsof rice.
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Edmonton -
The 2014 Whyte Avenue Art Walk taking place this weekend turns the Old Strathcona neighbourhood into an outdoor art gallery.
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Bentonville -
For many decades, untold numbers of people were entertained within the walls of the venerable Meteor Theater. Now a local entrepreneur, who turned his passion into a rocking business, is restoring the building and featuring new and vintage guitars.
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London -
The National Portrait Gallery opened today an exhibition that explores the life and work of Virginia Woolf, one of Britain's most celebrated writers of all times.
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London -
Sculpture in the City is currently on in London, with some cutting edge contemporary works from leading artists popping up around town. One such installation involves a death metal band playing in an airtight, soundproofed box until the air runs out.
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A Lenin statue has returned to a onetime model communist city in Poland but the monumental hero of Soviet days is now a small, lurid green man urinating from atop a black plinth.
In the Media
by Maja Czarnecka (AFP)
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Los Angeles -
Invitations to join The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have been sent out. This time around, 271 artists and executives have been invited to join.
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Edmonton -
The Works Art and Design Festival, an annual event in Edmonton, explores some Aboriginal themes in this year's festival.
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Perspective can do some tricky things to the human mind. In this case it is used to create a piece of art that changes based on where you look at it from. Watch the video yourself and decide whether it is spectacular or not.
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Cairns -
Prolific Australian artist Rose Rigley has created a lovingly luminous testament to the special position dogs hold in our lives.
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New York -
A Spanish star will shine at the UNIX Gallery in NYC from June 12 to July 12, as the work of artist Eugenio Merino goes on show in his “Always Shameless” exhibition. This despite legal battles by the artist to defend his freedom of speech in Spain.
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Specific links between medicines used to manage HIV in pregnant women, and the prevalence and type of birth defects, have been found in a new study.
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New York -
The Cambodian government officially received two 10th century Khmer Empire artifacts looted from the country over forty years ago.
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Zurich -
H.R. Giger, an artist known for his dark, macabre works and most famous for designing the creatures and sets of the "Alien" series of movies, has passed away at age 74.
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Berlin -
The late German recluse who hoarded a priceless art trove, some of it suspected Nazi loot, left two wills, a court said Tuesday, adding however that they "complement each other".
In the Media
by AFP
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America's Neptune Society is known as a reputable cremation provider for when those dear to us pass away. Since 2007, however, customers have also had the option of having their ashes scattered on the seabed — on an artificial reef.
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New York -
"WHITEWASH" is a gallery show at Jeffery Leder Gallery. It is a tribute to 5 Pointz Aerosol Art Center and a response to its destruction. The show is curated by Marie Cecile-Flageul.
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New York -
Three men were charged in New York in connection with a $33 million scam over two decades making and selling paintings purportedly by world-famous artists but which were in fact fakes.
In the Media
by AFP
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Los Angeles -
Michael Cullen’s first full-length album, “Love Transmitter,” has received critical acclaim for its dark lyrics and brooding sense of melody. The synth pop singer/songwriter notes ABBA, AC/DC, the Beatles and David Bowie as his early influences.
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Edmonton -
Ryan Wispinski has an eye for detail. Not just an eye, but a talent for creating images within images in most of his pieces of art.
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Caledon -
This month, the Bartlett Gallery at the Alton Mill Arts Centre in Caledon, Ontario hosts Out of the Cage, an exhibition of 25 paintings by Mendelson Joe.
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Munich -
Around another 60 artworks, including pieces by Monet and Renoir, have come to light at the Austrian home of an elderly German recluse whose earlier discovered art hoard is suspected to contain Nazi-looted works.
In the Media
by Ralf Isermann (AFP)
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Edmonton -
The annual spring exhibit of Ukrainian art in Edmonton features the life and work of Taras Shevchenko, a noted poet, artist, and humanitarian.
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Toronto -
The work of two wildly different artists is paired for a new exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario. While it's ambitious, Francis Bacon and Henry Moore: Terror and Beauty disappoints with a false sense of connection between the artists.
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New York -
A Las Vegas billionaire is suing a respected Swiss curator accused of standing behind the authenticity of a painting purportedly by American artist Mark Rothko which turned out to be fake.
In the Media
by AFP
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A New York artist has made an astronomical technological breakthrough. Ion Pompian, located in a gallery six floors above Broadway has developed a tool that turns people’s brainwaves into 3D-printed sculptures.
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Rome -
Italy's top art detectives, global experts in finding stolen works, launched a smartphone app Wednesday to get people to collaborate on cracking crimes.
In the Media
by AFP
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Rome -
Two paintings worth millions of euros by the French artists Paul Gauguin and Pierre Bonnard, stolen in London in 1970 then abandoned on a train, have been recovered in Italy.
In the Media
by Laure BRUMONT (AFP)
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San Francisco -
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco will be showcasing a large collection of Native American art beginning May 3rd thanks to a gift of approximately 200 objects and a large endowment from Thomas W. Weisel, a local financier.
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Art Image
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Using the city of Toronto as a photography backdrop
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Pavement artist, Lyon France 2010
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By permission of Florentijn Hofman
Florentijn Hofman's Fat Monkey (São Paulo, 2010)
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An image from Ai Wei Wei's retrospective exhibition at the AGO.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s “Chrysanthemums.” Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL
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Box Office Mojo
"Frozen" is coming soon.
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Images about the presentation of the new book, written by Italian journalist and writer, Roberta Maresci. The book speaks about life and artistic career of famous singer, dancer, showgirl and anchorwoman TV, Raffaella Carrà. The same book was presented inside of Art Fashion and Design Academy, based in Rome.
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High Museum of Art, Atlanta
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An art piece from used recharge cards
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Ukrainian Art Spring Exhibit featuring the work and memorabilia of Taras Shevchenko.
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Art work is on display throughout the festival grounds.
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High Museum of Art, Atlanta
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Using the city of Toronto as a photography backdrop
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by Janusz Überall
A photo by Edward Burtynsky on display at the Nicholas Metivier Gallery in Toronto
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Carol Matson's work is on display at Arcadia Gallery in Toronto.
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Adam Brown
The Great Work of the Metal Lover artwork
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