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Visual Arts

Welcome to Britain: A welcome with a difference

When the British artist Paul Day unveiled his nine metre-high bronze statue of two lovers locked in an embrace at London's brand new St Pancras International station last year it was lambasted as "kitsch", "overblown" and...

Sir Anthony Caro: Light for darkness

Reduced to a shell in the Second World War, the choir of a Gothic church in northern France was bricked up and hidden from view for half a century. Its resurrection, at the hands of the abstract sculptor Sir Anthony Caro,...

Solved: mystery of The Ugly Duchess - and the Da Vinci connection

Subject was suffering from rare disease, say experts, and painting is not a copy She is one of the most popular paintings in the National Gallery, whose rather unfortunate looks inspired illustrations for Lewis Carroll's...

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Let’s imagine that you have, in your family, a pretty landscape that everyone thinks is by Signac. There is simply no sure-fire way of authenticating art, once the artist has died. “We have never seen a fake Dalí print that...

Show offers introduction to work of documentary photographer Gordon Parks

WILMINGTON, Del. - From the streets of Harlem to the pitiful slums of Brazil, Gordon Parks focused his lens - and his life - on subjects that many people would prefer to ignore. But the images that...

Atlanta museum showcases masterpieces from Louvre

His mane bristling, the roaring lion bares his teeth as he pins down a defiantly hissing snake, every hair and rippling muscle in the big cat's body faithfully captured in bronze. Sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye's attention to...

Oct 10, 2008 Michigan?s Mackinac Parks to Create Island Art Museum

Mackinac State Historic Parks recently began the development of an art museum and learning center in the 1830s-era Indian Dormitory on Mackinac Island, due to open in the summer of 2010. The project has been funded by the...

Iran Sees Art Boom Even as Artists Struggle to Get Paid

TEHRAN — The art industry in Iran is booming despite heavy economic sanctions that make it almost impossible for internationally successful artists to get paid. The U.S. and European Union have imposed sanctions against a...

Duck stamp entries await seal of approval

The Federal Duck Stamp art contest of 2008 is being held in Bloomington -- the first time it's been held in Minnesota. IF YOU GO What: The Federal Duck Stamp art contest will run through Oct. 18. Where: Contest art is on...

Gourds, Art, and Movie Making

ABQ arts gives us lots of information. The gourd show seems to upgraded to a new more complex expression. These art traditional art forms equisite check this show out or find the online gallery. In Santa Fe all the movie makers...

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