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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - In the history of currency, earplugs have, unsurprisingly, never been widely used or accepted. So when a man offered Belgian artist Delphine Boël 10,000 earplugs for her print "The Source of Identity" at the Truc Troc contemporary art exhibit in 2006, her reaction...(more)
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How did Dutch artist Leon Keer create a 3D illusion on a street in chalk? The same way they created perspective in Renaissance FlorenceThe wife of 15th-century Italian artist Paolo Uccello used to beg him to come to bed. She was fed up of him staying...(more)
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Mies Van der Rohe masterpiece in Brno, seen as an exemplar of modernist architecture, to reopen after £5.7m restorationIt was completed in 1930, a Modernist masterpiece by the legendary German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.But Villa Tugendhat suffered badly during the turbulence of the second...(more)
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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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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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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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MADRID (AP) -- Spain on Tuesday mourned the death of Catalan painter and sculptor Antoni Tapies, one of the world's top contemporary art figures. He was 88....
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Mr. Tàpies grounded his work in the brute reality of the Spanish street and in the turbulent political dramas of his youth in Catalonia.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Auction houses pinching themselves after bumper 2011 sales are now turning their attention to 2012, amid cautious optimism that the two-year bull run for top works of art will continue.
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Mr. Kelley’s art mined the abjection and gross-out anarchy associated with youth culture.
