Arts News
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Dakar -
Mamadou Boye Diallo, an art curator with a penchant for heart-shaped glasses, calls Dakar's working-class Medina neighbourhood an open-air museum.
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London -
Korean pop superstars BTS helped launch a global public art project in London on Tuesday inspired by their message of inclusivity and involving renowned artists including Antony Gormley and Tomas Saraceno.
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Shanghai -
A company run by Bruce Lee's daughter is suing a Chinese fast food chain for allegedly using an image of the late martial arts film star without permission.
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Ghent -
The grass is greener, the sky is cleaner and dozens of tiny details have been exposed to delight art historians and inspire the devotion of the faithful.
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Mexico -
The verdict is in: the painting of Emiliano Zapata wearing nothing but a pink sombrero and heels can stay.
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Mexico -
A controversial painting of Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata has pitted his family and supporters against the work's artist and the LGBT community in a contentious dispute that erupted in heated protests Tuesday.
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New York -
Performance artist David Datuna waited two hours until "I was hungry" before eating a pricey banana artwork in Miami, he explained with laughter on Monday after returning to New York.
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London -
This year's prestigious Turner Prize will be shared by all four shortlisted artists after they formed a collective to show solidarity at a time of global "political crisis", in a shock win announced Tuesday.
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Toronto Symphony Orchestra CEO Matthew Loden is uniquely positioned to observe how digital media is shifting audience expectations of classical music, and how reaching out to a larger community can benefit cultural institutions.
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Oxford -
Billed as "one of the most exciting artists of our time", Ai-Da differs from generations of past masters in one inescapable way: she is a robot.
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Moscow -
A Moscow court on Tuesday sent a man who attacked a painting of Ivan the Terrible to a penal colony for two and a half years, news agencies reported.
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Prague -
A Prague art gallery has unveiled a brass bust of the late Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.
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Sydney -
A former French spy hailed as a genius for an engineering feat that made building the Sydney Opera House possible has died aged 97, officials said Monday.
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Montr -
French fashion designer Thierry Mugler presented Tuesday at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts the first ever retrospective of his 35-year career, including outfits and sketches.
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Weimar -
Bauhaus, the design school that left its mark on everything from teapots to tower blocks and iPhones to Ikea, marks its centenary this year, touching off a politically charged debate about its lasting impact.
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Yerevan -
Armenia on Sunday holds snap parliamentary polls that were sparked by reformist Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan last month.Here are five points on the culture and history of the tiny landlocked mountainous nation located in the South Caucasus.
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Los Angeles -
A US museum has vowed to fight a decision by Italy's highest court which this week ordered that a prized bronze statue at the center of an epic legal dispute be returned to Italy.In a statement, the J.
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Abidjan -
Ivory Coast became the latest country to ask France to return works of art Wednesday, days after Paris said it was willing to hand back artefacts looted from Africa.
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Greenvale -
The Tilles Center for the Performing Arts has been nominated for two "Best of Long Island" awards in the 2019 competition.
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Vienne -
The world's first-ever monograph exhibition dedicated to 16th century Flemish master Pieter Bruegel the Elder opens Tuesday in Vienna, bringing together half of all of his extant works, organisers said.
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Paris -
More than 300 works from two key periods in Pablo Picasso's early years go on display in Paris on Tuesday, the first time they have been brought together in the city where the Spanish master took his first steps toward revolutionary new territories of ...
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Birmingham -
Using Botox, beta-blockers and the stillness of the night, Graham Short produces miniature engravings like nobody else.
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Jerusalem -
Photographer Ron Amir spent years visiting African migrants in the Israeli desert to understand the new world they had created. He came back with a provocative set of pictures -- without people in them.
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Kuala Lumpur -
The Malaysian government came under fire Thursday for ordering the removal of two LGBT activists' portraits from an exhibition, with campaigners labelling it an attack on the "dignity" of the gay community.
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Rennes -
Italian mosaics, once all the rage in France, fell into neglect and ruin by the 1970s, when homeowners began covering them up with parquet floors or even linoleum.
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Kiev -
A boy flees his war-scarred hometown, leaving his mother behind. A gay youth struggles for acceptance from his parents. A gang harasses a young black footballer.
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London -
The artist Christo on Monday unveiled 7,506 coloured barrels floating on a lake in central London, a puzzling installation designed to stimulate debate as much as the senses.
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Paris -
A site for a controversial art installation and memorial to the victims of the 2015 Paris attacks by US artist Jeff Koons has still not been found, the culture ministry said Monday.
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Bakou -
Azerbaijan holds a snap presidential election on Wednesday boycotted by the opposition and expected to extend the autocratic rule of President Ilham Aliyev.Here are five points on the culture and history of the Caspian Sea nation.
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Rio De Janeiro -
Rio de Janeiro's Modern Art Museum is selling one of its most prized works, a Jackson Pollock painting, to help stay afloat.
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Renata Bee's driftwood creation, Vancouver, Canada.
Tapa cloths, part of 'Pacific Worlds' at the Oakland Art Museum. (Courtesy of Oakland Art Museum). Nancy Ewart/Examiner.com
Model of a library in Lyon’s Miniature Model and Cinema museum (detail 15"x10")
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Three Theatres, Marseille France
The fourth annual Luminato arts festival officially kicked off at downtown Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square.
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Chukwuma described this art piece as a console, part of his furniture works with afro –contemporary arts.
The fourth annual Luminato arts festival officially kicked off at downtown Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square.
With paint donated from Sonoma Paint Center and others, participants in the "splatter paint party" had a fun time creating a grand piece of art that was later divided up into various sizes and sold to raise money for the "Art for Elders" program at Vintage Sonoma.
Blue Star Museums logo. National Endowment for the Arts
Model of a bar in Lyon’s Miniature Model and Cinema museum (detail 15"x10")
Model of a laundry in Lyon’s Miniature Model and Cinema museum (15"x10")
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Model of a laundry in Lyon’s Miniature Model and Cinema museum (detail 8"x5")
Program for the 2010 winter season at the Célestins Theatre, Lyon France
Model of a boarding school dorm in Lyon’s Miniature Model and Cinema museum (detail 10"x7")
Bono at the Annual Meeting 2008 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 24, 2008 Wikimedia
The Célestins Theater in Lyon France (detail)
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