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This weekend, the Western Art Association hosts its 36th annual Ellensburg National Art Show & Auction. via Yakima Herald-Republic

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Opening FastX2 Take your time here, bro: If a baboon and a crocodile were to meet in a death match on the beach, which would win? Need more information? Well, you won't find out who prevails in this epic battle ... via Riverfront Times

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Comments A nightmarish Francis Bacon painting sold for a record 43.14 million last night at an auction in New York. via Daily Mail

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“The children have really enjoyed it. They have worked in small groups painting and really love the opportunity to work with an expert.”

MOVEMENT was the theme of a puppet making exercise at the Grove Primary School when an artist came to visit. via Malvern Gazette

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"On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting." - Jackson Pollock The Corrigan ... via Art Knowledge News

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“It's urban art, contemporary art. Now it's considered pure art”

A collection of original art by noted psychedelic artists, depicting some of the biggest names in rock 'n' roll, fetched about $795,000 at an auction Wednesday, a spokesman for the auction house said. via CBC News

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Burton Barr Central Library will host an exhibit of artist-made books and mixed media art by Cara McAneny titled "Beginnings" June 2 - 29, at the library's @Central Gallery, 1221 N. Central Ave. via City of Phoenix

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The Idyllwild Earth Fair 2008 starts at noon Saturday, May 17, at Town Hall and ends at 5 p.m. As has been the case for the past 19 years, the event is free and open to the public. via Idyllwild Town Crier

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“I was doing it for $10 or $15 apiece. I thought I was getting rich.”

DAYTON - In a business that's attracting older car buffs and creating new fans with the young, Don Boeke is among the masters. via ZanesvilleTimesRecorder.com

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“Lots of early manuscripts were completely erased, all the words and images were scraped off them and they were reused”

Islander Suzanne Moore has painted and hand-lettered entire books that now rest in collections of libraries as prestigious as the Library of Congress. via Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber

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If there is a recession looming, no one seems to have informed the art world. On Tuesday the British painter Lucien Freud broke the world record for money paid for a work by a living artist when his monumental ... via The First Post

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu visited the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum on Tuesday where a portrait of the South African human rights activist was unveiled. via PR-inside.com

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“It's very rewarding. I'm still discovering things every day.”

Artist Robert Rauschenberg, whose use of odd and everyday articles earned him regard as a pioneer in pop art but whose talents spanned the worlds of painting, sculpture and dance, has died, a his gallery ... via NOLA.com

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“Rien ne se perd, rien ne se cree, tout se transforme”

- The Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal is launching the first edition of the Triennial of Quebec Art this summer, an exhibition devoted to the current state of contemporary Quebec art.

To be held every three years, the Triennial is the most ambitious Quebec art exhibition of its kind ever presented, says the museum.

Works of more than 30 artists will be on view from May 24 to Sept. 7. The range of media includes painting, sculpture, photography, performance, video and installation. Read more

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“So many of the holocaust survivors are gone or will be gone shortly”

A major art collection looted by the Nazis is on display for the first time, an exhibition that tells the tragic story of a pre-eminent art dealer who died fleeing the Nazis and the successful fight by his ... via Hartford Courant

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Web produced by: Jessica Noll Rain did not ease up for mothers last Sunday, therefore the art show that was scheduled for Mother's Day, has been rescheduled for May 18. via Kypost.Com

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NEWSCHANNEL 13 and 92.9 The New Peak FM have teamed up to bring you "Southern Colorado's Hunkiest Bachelors." We have introduced you to three different bachelors every Monday over the last three weeks and on ... via KRDO-TV Colorado Springs

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Guests admire one of the designs at Bengal Gallery. Photo: Mumit M. A three-day exhibition of the Projects from an open design competition for extension of Islamia Eye hospital is being held at the Bengal ... via The Daily Star

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SALISBURY -- Salisbury University's 'B.F.A. Art Show,' featuring about 160 works by 24 graduating seniors with majors in Fine Arts, is on display at the University Gallery through May 18. via The Daily Times

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"An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation." - Joseph Conrad MOSCOW - Following Sotheby's 2007 and the recent 2008 ... via Art Knowledge News

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If you love reptiles, Saturday, May 17 is the day to come to the San Bernardino County Museum in Redlands. via Inland Empire California

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“Cypress trees held this land together”

MADISONVILLE, La. - Darkened only by shelling from Civil War gunboats, the Tchefuncte River lighthouse has provided a beacon for boaters on Lake Pontchartrain for 171 years. via Hattiesburg American

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“My husband gave me a gift of art lessons with Dawna Ramsour right before I retired”

COSHOCTON -Watercolor artist, Mary Lou McConnell, often gets lost in her art. 'I recently came across a quote from Twyla Tharp in a little book I have that says how I feel about painting,' said McConnell. via Coshocton Tribune

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“They were painted very quickly, didn't have a high level of finish like previous art works that were historical or religious in subjects.”

They were scorned for painting outside metaphorical lines. For shunning a more finished style for spontaneously fresh impressions of modern-day living. via Oshkosh Northwestern

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“Staple Agony-II (Plastic Memory)”

London, May 8: Christie's sale of South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art here June 11 will feature 112 works including noted Indian artists like F.N. Souza and Tyeb Mehta. via Newkerala.com

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Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida painted Las Tres Velas on the beach of El Cabaal during the summer of 1903. via Art Knowledge News

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Winner ... Vincent Fantauzzo poses in front of his piece. Photo: AFP Latest related coverage See what Ledger beat Audio slideshow: The complete crop of this year's Archibald Prize finalists. via The Sydney Morning Herald

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“There are already 238 pairs of sister cities between China and Japan after the first established in 1973. "The first pair - China's Tianjin and Japan's Kobe - ushered in a new era in the international exchanges of China's local cities”

"The most pressing task for China-Japan relations, I think, is to enhance mutual trust and friendship," Jing Dunquan, vice-president of China-Japan Friendship Association , told China Daily just before ... via People's Daily

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"An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation." - Joseph Conrad Miller G. Brittain Retrospective at the Art Gallery of Nova ... via Art Knowledge News

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BRIS AVROHOM of Old Bridge will host its annual Lag B'omer Fair from 11 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. May 18. via Courier News

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“A mask is a personification of daily life. It also contains an essence of human character.”

Traditional art is getting a modern twist at a new exhibition of paintings by veteran artist Nguyen Xuan Tiep. via VietNamNet

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The Museum of Modern Art presents a comprehensive retrospective of the films of Peter Hutton, an artist noted for his luminous and meditative portraits of cities, waterways, and landscapes. via Huliq.com

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“You will never be the same after a visit to the Velveteria”

Acupuncture is not just for people. It's also for cities -- if the city is Portland. via CNN

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A beautification fundraising event designed to restore pride "one flower at a time" will be held May 17 on State Street in Binghamton. via Press & Sun-Bulletin

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“She was so unassuming, kind, very easy to talk to and approachable”

Kim Schuessler was honored when one of her paintings was chosen as the program cover for The Congressional Club's First Lady's Luncheon in Washington, D.C. honoring Laura Bush. via Dalton Daily Citizen

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Britain invented the steam railway, but France has better pictures and more skilful engineers The Railway by Edouard Manet. via Guardian Unlimited

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“I travelled to Hoa Binh Province's Kim Boi area, where I saw a Muong ethnic mother carrying her son sitting near a river. The landscape surrounding them was attractive and I decided to draw them and bring the painting here for this occasion”

Nearly a half-century since their graduation, painters who were in the same class at the Viet Nam Fine Arts College have a chance to meet with each other during a group exhibition on display in Ha Noi. via VietNamNet

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“Eau Sauvage", the first unisex perfume, also owed a lot to dandyism. The feminine floral note in "Eau Sauvage”

Legendary dandy Oscar Wilde once declared "One should either be a work of art or wear a work of art," a sentiment endorsed by designer Christian Dior, who acknowledged dandyism as a significant influence on his ... via The Tocqueville Connection

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“Rather than a literal search for extraterrestrial intelligence, this question might be seen as a metaphorical quest to explore what it means to be human in this radically unmoored world”

Is there life on Mars? It's a rhetorical question, of course, says Douglas Fogle, curator of the 2008 Carnegie International titled "Life on Mars," which opens this weekend at the Carnegie Museum of Art. via Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

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“You're fighting to survive in the barrio and I think that might have had something to do with my personality, my makeup. I knew I was doing something that had never been done in World War II.”

Ohana Gabaldon holds a painting depicting her deceased husband, Guy, as he captured Japanese soldiers in World War II, by artist Henry Godines at her home in Old Town, Fla. via Tri-cityherald.com

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“Anyone is also welcome to stop in here at RHDD Alternatives (925 Chestnut Street) to see Andy's artwork or any of the work by the other 17 artists we have who work here”

For Andrew Huebner, working as an artist has made a huge difference in his life. via Central Ohio

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The Jewish Museum presents Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976 from May 4 through September 21, 2008. via Art Knowledge News

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“The portrait in Manteo is a variance of that famous portrait”

Until recently, an oil painting of Queen Elizabeth I had been hanging, unprotected and barely noticed, in the gift shop at The Elizabethan Gardens gatehouse. via WCNC

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TRADERS in Taunton's Bath Place are gearing up for an arts festival from Thursday, May 8 until Saturday, May 17. via Somerset County Gazette

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“Painting With Verticals, Cadence 3 (2006)”

The 2008 Spoleto Festival USA poster, to be featured in its original horizontal format, is 'Painting with Verticals, Cadence 3' by Bridget Riley. via Post and Courier

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For Brown's painting is deeply rooted in art history, its iconography, its myths and clichs. via Art Knowledge News

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“People see it now almost as traditional art, whereas it was so revolutionary in its own time”

Artists from France, more than any other country, are most closely associated with the Impressionist style of painting because the beloved movement developed there in the late 19th century. via Battle Creek Enquirer

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“And I was like, - Oh my Gosh! I want to do that so bad.'”

Camielle Aylwin works on a painting at the Left Bank Art Fest on Marco. The 15-year old Marco native aspires to go to an art school for college. via Naples Daily News

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“My style is realistic, with as much impressionistic color as possible. I like to combine wide brushes for sweeping strokes in the background with small, soft brushes for subtle details in my center of interest”

Local artist Jennifer Black is presenting a new collection of oil paintings like this sample of her work at Hamlet Fine Art Gallery. via The Post and Courier

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