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Sat, 7 Nov 2009 16:30:00 GMT

Fla. police: Graffiti artist left work incomplete

PALM BAY, Fla. -- Police in Florida say a graffiti artist who apparently ran out of paint midway through a spray-painted creation left a note to potential critics to explain the unfinished work. Palm Bay police Officer Dan Fisher says the artist painted
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 16:30:00 GMT

Fla. police: Graffiti artist left work incomplete

Palm Bay police Officer Dan Fisher says the artist painted the words 'ran out of purple' on the white concrete wall. The note was next to an incomplete bright purple piece that read 'Solo.' Fisher says the artist would likely face a criminal mischief
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 16:28:00 GMT

Fla. police: Graffiti artist left work incomplete

PALM BAY, Fla. -- Palm Bay police Officer Dan Fisher says the artist painted the words "ran out of purple" on the white concrete wall. The note was next to an incomplete bright purple piece that read "Solo." Fisher says the artist would likely face a
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 16:28:00 GMT

Fla. police: Graffiti artist left work incomplete

PALM BAY, Fla. - Police in Florida say a graffiti artist who apparently ran out of paint midway through a spray-painted creation left a note to potential critics to explain the unfinished work. Palm Bay police Officer Dan Fisher says the artist painted
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 16:24:00 GMT

Art's a home improvement item, too

More on Repairs and renovations When the previous owner of her Toronto home left a couple of mousetraps behind, Bethany Rae didn't think much about it. The following spring, however, a mouse appeared in her kitchen and Rae went to... Wood floor doesn't
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 16:23:00 GMT

Charnwood Museum Hosts Royal Photographic Society Members' Exhibition

The exhibition opens to the public on Saturday 7th November and is on until 24th December 2009. The Royal Photographic Society, founded in 1853, is the foremost Photographic Society in the world and its aim is to promote excellence in the Art and Science
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 15:50:00 GMT

Pulitzer-Prize winning poet to read at museum event

Claudia Emerson, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her work "Late Wife," will read from her works Nov. 15 at 2 p.m. at the Manassas Museum. Emerson is one of eight distinguished women honored in the "Virginia Women in History: 2009"
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 15:28:00 GMT

Arts and Souls: spotlight on artists

Sackville is the home to many creative minds, and Rob Lyon is no exception. He has been part of the Sackville community for sixteen years, a time span that has allowed him to grow and mature as an artist. Lyon grew up in southern Ontario, where he
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 15:13:00 GMT

The annual Fine Arts Hallowe'en party

October is upon us once again, and naturally that means that Hallowe’en is fast approaching. It wouldn’t be Hallowe’en in Sackville without the annual Fine Arts Hallowe’en party at George’s, but for those who have never been to, or even heard
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 15:12:00 GMT

Decorating with Art

New York designer Larry Laslo created this sophisticated retreat in Miami for a Colorado couple whose art collection is as edgy and kicked-back as their lives. Written by Beth Dunlop • Photographed by Ken Hayden • Produced By Linda O’Keeffe and
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 15:09:00 GMT

Niavaran to host exhibition on women in the fine arts

Tehran Times Are Desk TEHRAN -- After a ten-year hiatus, the Niavaran Cultural Center will host the 6th Manifestation of Feeling Exhibition beginning November 26. The fortnight’s exhibit will highlight the place of women in fine arts. The previous five
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:48:00 GMT

Art news in brief

Spanish festival to screen Iran’s “Frontier Blues” TEHRAN -- Iran’s “Frontier Blues” by Babak Jalali will be going on screen at the 47th Gijón International Film Festival that will be held from November 19 to 28 in Spain. The film, which
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:48:00 GMT

Curator hopes sixth India-Australia ODI to be a high-scoring

Guwahati, Nov 7 : On the eve of the sixth ODI between India and Australia, Chief curator of Assam Cricket Association (ACA) Sunil Kumar Barua said that he hopes the game would be a high-scoring tie. Barua said that a lot of effort has been put in to make
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:42:00 GMT

Wetland Park painting sets world record

World record: The Wetland Park has set a new Guinness World Record for creating the world's longest painting. The Wetland Park has set a new Guinness World Record for creating the longest painting in the world. On October 17, to mark the start of the
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:40:00 GMT

Ascendant to Resell Ravenflow Visualization Solution for IBM Rational Requirements Composer

(Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Ravenflow, a developer of visual requirements definition software, and Ascendant Technology (Atech), a Premier IBM systems integrator, announced the immediate availability of Raven Visual Analyzer for IBM Rational
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:35:00 GMT

Koen Vanmechelen's chicken art is something to squawk about

Sometimes when the Belgian conceptual artist Koen Vanmechelen is being philosophical, he ponders a profound question of our time: "Did the chicken come to me, or did I come to the chicken?" What led him to dedicate his life to the chicken, to breeding it
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:16:00 GMT

Feting Fellini: French museum highlights Italian master's work

PARIS -- Federico Fellini, once viewed by some as a mere farceur, has become a classic. The Jeu de Paume is honoring the Italian film director with a vast exhibition, aptly named "La Grande Parade." Processions, masquerades and clowns are leitmotifs in
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:16:00 GMT

Philip Kennicott on '1934: A New Deal for Artists' and Depression nostalgia

The visitors comment book at the Smithsonian American Art Museum's exhibition "1934: A New Deal for Artists" has taken on a distinct note of nostalgia. "America needs another public works art program now," wrote Gene, from Maryland, after looking at
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:15:00 GMT

In art we lust: At second blush, classic works rise to full erotic potential

Forgive me, readers, for I have sinned. Whenever I've gone by Titian's great "Venus With a Mirror," sitting topless in the Renaissance rooms at the National Gallery of Art, or Canova's marble "Naiad," lounging a floor below in the no-kini of a classical
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:15:00 GMT

Rockwell Group Europe to Design the New W Paris-Opera

Rockwell Group Europe (“RGe”) has teamed up with Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide to design the W Paris-Opéra, W Hotels’ debut in France. Diego Gronda, Managing and Creative Director of RGe, the Madrid satellite office of New York’s Rockwell
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:55:00 GMT

Kentucky Derby Museum staff pulls together in recovery effort

Nearly three months after being inundated with floodwater and sewage, life is nowhere near back to normal for the staff of the Kentucky Derby Museum. Since Aug. 4, the day Louisville was pounded by more than six inches of rain in just over an hour,
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:55:00 GMT

Manure sculpture sells for thousands

A sculpture of a New Zealand Government Minister, made from cow manure, has been sold on an internet auction site for about US$2,000. The bust is the hollow head of New Zealand's Environment Minister, Nick Smith. It was created as a protest by an artist,
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:51:00 GMT

Lion art auction a success

Nairobi - Conservationists in Kenya raised around $170 000 at a sale of 49 life-size lion statues overnight, the auctioneer said on Saturday. Individual statues went for prices ranging from around $1 100 to over $13 000.'We've raised in the region of 12
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:48:00 GMT

Getting primed for your painting

HOT HOME PRODUCTS SPECIAL TO THE STAR Related Vicky's blog More on Repairs and renovations Renovations are messy and chaotic. Throw in five kids under the age of 12 and a dog, and well, you'd have to call it sheer lunacy. Art's a home improvement... What
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:44:00 GMT

Worship artists praise Delirious? on release of Greatest Hits album

Delirious? released its History Makers: Greatest Hits CD worldwide on Friday on Kingsway with EMI CMG Distribution. The album includes the definitive Delirious? songs that inspired a generation of worshippers to live life “out loud”, and that
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:42:00 GMT

Tribute to Trans-Am at the Petersen Museum

- Review It’s three years since RM’s first London sale. In 2007 the Mercedes-Benz marque dominated the headlines. This year, a 2006 CLK GTR Roadster was the top-selling car at £616,000, followed by the 1950 Aston Martin DB2 Team Car achieving an
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:28:00 GMT

Museum reopens after refit

Oxford's Ashmolean Museum has opened its doors to the public for the first time since its �61m refit.The oldest public museum in the UK has more than doubled its display space with the creation of 39 new galleries. Housed in a new building north of the
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:05:00 GMT

Bartok Duke Bluebeard's Castle / Stravinsky The Rite of Spring, English National Opera, London Coliseum

Nature and nurture - and all the dark and unexpected places in between. Some - Duke Bluebeard's cellar - you may never want to return to; others might invoke smiles, even laughter. English National Opera's audacious double-bill turns expectation on its
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:02:00 GMT

BRIEF: Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre to renovate rectory for dorm space

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre has purchased property in Lawrenceville to serve as a student dormitory for an influx of out-of-state high school-age dancers coming to study at its school. The ballet will convert the former rectory of the St. John the Baptist
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 12:50:00 GMT

Greenwich auto magnate's daughter charged in art fraud scheme

The daughter of local auto magnate Malcolm Pray was charged in an art insurance-fraud scheme Thursday after police say she attempted to trick her stepfather into cooperating with a plan devised to collect nearly $60,000 from an insurance company. Natasha
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 12:49:00 GMT