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Canine TV action star discovers that life is the best reality show
'Bolt' tells the story of a pampered celebrity a television action star who is cast out of his cocoon of fame and privilege and forced to deal with the challenges of the real world. The digitally animated real world, that is, in which the hero, amore
Piers Brendon's 'The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire 1781-1997'
The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire 1781-1997. By Piers Brendon. Illustrated. 786 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $37.50. In 1764 Edward Gibbon sat 'musing amid the ruins of the Capitol' in Rome, and it was there, he wrote in a haunting passage, 'whilemore
Antnio Lobo Antunes's 'What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?'
What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire? By Antnio Lobo Antunes. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. 585 pages. W. W. Norton & Company. $19.95; 14.10. There are novels out there as vertiginous as the dread K2, steep with degrees of difficulty that put readersmore
Surabi Art Theatre Creates Nuisance
Because of the declining patronage to theater the government had to step in to rescue it. The Surabhi Art Theater was given the Lalita Kalathoranam premises behind the Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University premises at the Public Gardens in Nampally. Themore
Sotheby's launch course in art business management
Damien Hirst at Sotheby's. Photograph: Felix Clay In the eye of an economic storm, buying art has so far remained a safe haven. But even the art world is beginning to feel economically challenged, and bemused business managers are keen to gain amore
WOMAD 2009 Feature Artist Speed Caravan
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WOMAD Feature Artist U Shrinivas
Press Release: Womad (India) 13-15 March Taranaki Brooklands Park & TSB Bowl of Brooklands, New Plymouth Visit website for more information The virtuosity of Shrinivas on electric mandolin gives this unlikely instrument respectability and credence inmore
EA names Winifred Phillips as the composer of the original score for SimAnimals
Electronic Arts Inc (EA) (Nasdaq:ERTS), an interactive, entertainment software company, announced on Thursday (20 November) that the composer, Winifred Phillips, will score the theme music for the new video game, SimAnimals. Phillips is an American musicmore
Free admissions bring high costs to local museums
BEIJING - 'Now that it's free, I'm bringing all my friends,' former soldier Zhang Xiaozhuang, 50, said here on Friday as he got ready to enter the city's military museum. It was Zhang's second visit. This time around, Zhang, who hails from Beijing'smore
Scotland?s Largest-ever Public Exhibition & Auction of Contemporary Scottish Paintings
Scotlands largest ever public exhibition & auction of contemporary Scottish paintings is being staged at McTears Auction Galleries in Glasgow 13th -22nd November. The Scottish ContemporaryArt Sale 2008 is a brand new event with a stunning collection ofmore
Govt to construct museum in Kogelo
The government will construct a multi million shillings museum at the Nyang'oma Kogelo home of the United States of America president elect, Barrack Obama's grand parents, tourism minister, Najib Balala has said. Already, Balala said, his ministry hadmore
Catwalk make-up artist Pat McGrath on the new 3D lips?
Newsflash! Party-season lips are about to go bigger! We've been racking our brains as to how exactly to bring our beauty look bang up to date in time for Christmas - and who better to ask than catwalk make-up artist Pat McGrath? Her top-secret tip? Themore
Remembering Rene Magritte Paintings
Rene Magritte was a Surrealist painter who was born in Belgium in 1898. In his paintings he wanted people to look at ordinary things in different ways. He sometimes painted objects in places were they didnt usually belong, like in Time Transfixed inmore
Weird Makeup Artist Trick of the Day
... Just picked up five minutes ago, and worth passing along: If you have REALLY dry lips?not just chapped, but dry-to-the-point-of-flaky-skin dry (sorry, gross, but it must be said): VISINE+ Q-TIP + SHIMMERY CHAPSTICK. Put the Visine on the Q-tip, rubmore
The naked truth about nudes
The last critic to write seriously about the nude in art was Kenneth Clark, the posh, brilliant art historian whose television series Civilisation is still . Clark's book The Nude got him satirised by Monty Python in a sketch about an art critic whomore
Devey to head Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Devey, 37, succeeds Steven Monder, the longtime orchestra president who retired in June. Devey begins his duties Jan. 20. The president is responsible for keeping the symphony, with revenues of $34 million, on an even financial keel, and working with themore
Givol Choir graces Tel Aviv
Nicolas Berggruen, an eccentric billionaire American investor, comes from a rich heritage of blending art and business. His father, Heinz, was an influential German-Jewish art dealer and collector that worked with many prominent painters, including Pablomore
Extraordinary Art Auctions in Italy for Design, Modern and Contemporary Art -- November 25, 2008
MILAN, Italy, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- At Pandolfini's Auction House, in Florence and Milan, two of the most important art auctions in Italy will take place. Two catalogues will be published for these auctions in Italy. The first, devoted to Design,more
Extraordinary Art Auctions in Italy for Design, Modern and Contemporary Art -- November 25, 2008
Pandolfini Auction House has organized at the new office in Milan (Italy) the auction sessions devoted to Design, Modern and Contemporary Art. MILAN, Italy, Nov. 21 MILAN, Italy, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- At Pandolfini's Auction House, in Florence andmore
Plans to construct museum in Kogelo
The government will construct a multi million shillings museum at the Nyang'oma Kogelo home of the United States of America president elect, Barrack Obama's grand parents, tourism minister, Najib Balala has said. Already, Balala said, his ministry hadmore
Rome museums shut down by one-day strike? 1 hr ago
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UN Human Rights Council spends $23 million on ceiling art
ceiling mural at the UN Human Rights Council's European headquarters tells you all that is necessary about this agency headed by that role model of human rights, Libya. Yes, you read that correctly--$23 million. Yes, headed by Libya. The U.N. Humanmore