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The uncertainty in global stock markets is prompting Asian investors to look for new opportunities, with works of art becoming increasingly popular.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Christie's on Tuesday kicked off a fortnight of major London art sales with a bang, hitting or exceeding the most optimistic pre-sale expectations and extending 2011's record-breaking run into the new year.
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After more than a year of sounding Richmond's diverse communities, a group of artists is presenting an art show that attempts to express the city's heart and soul.
The show's interactive exhibits, called Touchable Stories, start today and run through May 13. The artwork captures the city's...(more)
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The MIT student who walked into Logan International Airport wearing a computer circuit board and wiring on her sweat shirt claimed it was harmless artwork. But to troopers who arrested her at gunpoint, it was a fake bomb.
Nineteen-year-old Star Simpson was charged Friday with possessing a...(more)
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The Serpentine Gallery in London announced on Tuesday that the architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron and the artist Ai Weiwei -- the brain trust behind the Beijing National Stadium, aka the Bird's Nest -- will collaborate again to create the 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion.
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LONDON (AP) -- Christie's says three top works from the late Hollywood star Elizabeth Taylor's art collection have sold at auction in London for nearly 14 million pounds ($22 million)....
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Each new work of art in the city's public art collection exists to inspire appreciation, but over the last year, many pieces have been drawing the wrong type of attention. Increasingly, sculptures, monuments and a...
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At the Jingletown annual Holiday Art Walk in Oakland earlier this month, most artists were ready to make a deal
A recently laid off jeweler, for example, marked her $50 cut-leather necklaces down 10 percent for faster sales. Jon Zax, a digital artist, says he and other...(more)
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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 representative said Tuesday. He was 82.
Rauschenberg died Monday, said Jennifer Joy,...(more)
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The Intiman Theater, which has been under financial duress for a year, said it has raised over $1 million in pledges and would present a four-play season in the summer.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Thomas W. Gaehtgens, an internationally respected art historian, has been appointed director of the Getty Research Institute, it was announced Tuesday....
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Artists, too, are singing the blues in these economic hard times, telling Congress that layoffs and art organization closures are hurting communities across the country....
