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Lets Start a Pussy Riot – in pictures
Yoko Ono's Meltdown Let's Start a Pussy Riot is a new collaborative art book curated by German-born performance artist Emely Neu. When three members of Pussy Riot were imprisoned last year, Neu staged a mini-festival to raise funds for the women, and started a blog for the public to submit artworks, which in turn evolved into a book. The first half provides an overview of Pussy Riot, ...
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Nibali Wins Stage 20 to Close In on Overall Giro Victory
TRE CIME DI LAVAREDO, Italy ...
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Dance contest to help Childrens Law Center
COVINGTON, Ky. - Jennifer Mearns quips that she's going to win the Children's Law Center's Dancing with the Stars competition because she's going to embarrass herself the most."We selected (a dance) that's a little out there," Mearns says in a YouTube video promoting the May 30 event. "I'm going to embarrass myself for the good of the ...
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Iranian student at Chicago film school wins Cannes short film prize
Anahita Ghazvinizadeh won $19,500 for her work on the 21-minute movie "Needle," about a sixth-grade girl torn between her divorcing parents, the Chicago Tribune reported Saturday. "Piano" director Jane Campion served as the jury president of the Cinefondation short film competition. Ghazvinizadeh had previously directed the short film "When the Kid Was a Kid" ...
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Bynes I need to get another nose job
Troubled actress Amanda Bynes has returned to Twitter.com after her Thursday night arrest drama to proclaim her innocence and declare she needs "another nose job". The Hairspray star was booked on Thursday for marijuana possession and reckless endangerment, after allegedly throwing a bong out of the window of her 36th-storey apartment in Manhattan as police arrived following a report ...
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Alumni all over Canada lament loss of Mount Royal theatre program
For Mount Royal University, it will be one less diploma program and fewer part-time instructors to pay.For Calgary's cultural community, it will create one gaping hole in a delicate ecosystem.And ...
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Vivid Sydney timelapse a spectacular canvas of light covers city landmarks - video
Some of Sydney's famous landmarks, such as the Opera House, Museum of Contemporary Art and the city's Circular Quay, are transformed into a spectacular canvas of light as Vivid Sydney takes over the city after dark. Vivid Sydney is an annual event where immersive light installations and projections illuminate the city from 24 May until 10 June. In recent years the event has attracted ...
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The 10 best art auctions – in pictures
Over the past decade, street art has begun to gain acceptance and respect in the art world, appearing not only outside the walls of our art institutions, but within them too. Works by Banksy, Haring and Blu have become must-haves for art collectors and celebrities. The first auction dedicated solely to this previously overlooked art form was at Bonhams in February 2008. The sale was a huge ...
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Joyful Noise in Silent Barn an Alt-Arts Mecca in Brooklyn
The Silent Barn, which its Twitter page calls an "auto-didactic cooperative performance space," does attract the weird and the surprising: noise bands, 'zine librarians, urban agriculturists, piata sculptors, jellyfish experts, makers of digital art. But five months after taking over the former offices of George Cho Contractors and establishing itself in the mainstream and ...
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Art Basel fair in Hong Kong attracts global celebrities
Hong Kong International airport and spot two huge billboards heralding the Asian debut of the world's most prominent art fair, Art Basel. Amid a PR frenzy that drew the likes of supermodel Kate Moss and Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, it seemed that even the torrential rain and 18,000 lightning strikes across the territory hours before the VIP preview on Wednesday were just part of the ...
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Postcards from Mr Bingo hate mail thats first class – in pictures
Mr Bingo , referring to the vintage postcards he embellishes with insults and sends out. 'People order them for themselves or their loved ones: wives, girlfriendssometimes even their mum.' Mr Bingo had the idea when he was 'feeling a bit naughty' one evening. He promised an offensive missive to the first person who responded to a tweet and was swamped. Comparing the ...
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Giro dItalia 2013 stage 20 - live
Four brutal climbs in the last 140km, although they are a bit shorter than the previous day's monsters. The penultimate climb, Passo Giau is the hardest, and a long-range attack here could win the stage. Lavaredo is the summit where Eddy Merckx won his first Giro in 1968, and if there are small time gaps at the top of the standings, it will witness an intense ...
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Aaand here it is Me and my diploma
Canadian fans of The National have two reasons to rejoice. The Brooklyn-based indie rockers will release their sixth album, Trouble Will Find Me, on May 21 following that up with three dates in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. As an added bonus in Toronto ...
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France begins withdrawing from Mali
France began the first stage of a withdrawal from Mali Saturday in what it says is a plan to pull out most of its troops and equipment by the end of the year. A convoy carrying unneeded equipment and vehicles left a French base outside the capital, Bamako, headed for Abidjan ...
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Equity At 100 More Than Just A Broadway Baby
His statue may be a Theater District landmark now, but George M. Cohan caused no small amount of trouble for Actors' Equity early in its history. The union marks its 100th anniversary this ...
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Days of Bulgarian Cinema Begin in Rome
Bulgaria's caretaker Culture Minister, Vladimir Penev, is opening Saturday the sixth edition of the Days of Bulgarian Cinema in Rome, Italy. The event will take place in the "Cinema Home" - Villa Borghese. The program will start with the showing ...
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Imagine on Broadway set to seek charter
FORT WAYNE – In the face of a forced shutdown, Imagine Schools on Broadway held an emergency board meeting Friday to consider avenues for keeping the charter school open this fall, including reapplying for a charter through Ball State University.Ball State, which sponsors charter schools, decided this month not to renew the charters of three Fort Wayne schools – Imagine Schools on ...
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ArteBA 2013 art fair kicks off in Argentina
A visitor attends the "ArteBA 2013" art fair, in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, on May 24, 2013. The fair is the most important contemporary art show in Argentina, with 82 galleries from Latin America, the US and Europe displaying 500 artists' works, according to the organizers. (Xinhua/Martin ...
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Making The Mandela Tapes
It was a fall-off-your chair moment. Verne Harris, head of programming at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, had just said I could use a vast collection of Mandela's audiocassettes for free. Looking back to that moment in February 2012 in Johannesburg, South Africa, I am reminded that journalism and filmmaking are 95 per cent grinding and frustration and five per cent breakthrough and ...
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Couples dedication to modern dance just keeps on giving
ISADORA OPEN: No one could question the dedication of Nicola Follows, who danced here with Paras Terezaki and Anna Wyman's troupes, owned her own Main Dance company, and headed a $4.3-million fundraiser that resulted in the Davie-at-Granville Dance Centre at Scotiabank Dance ...
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My friendship with Patrick Caulfield
As an exhibition of Patrick Caulfield's work opens at Tate Britain, the playwright David Hare recalls his friendship with the painter whom he came to respect as the artists' ...
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The real thing Patrick Caulfield at Tate Britain - in pictures
With the Turner-nominated artist, who died in 2005, the subject of a retrospective at Tate Britain in London, we've gathered together some of his most notable works for you. Many feature Caulfield's signature mode, which was to embed photorealist depiction within abstract or simplified ...
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Pro Imaging Golf Classic Brings Industry Players Together For Networking Friendships
Tucson, AZ - After a long, cold winter for many east of the Mississippi, 23 teams soaked up sunshine and 80-degree weather to play in the 23rd annual Pro Imaging Golf Championship. This year the digital players traveled west to the magnificent Hilton Tucson El Conquistador Golf & Tennis Resort located in the Sonora Desert Terrain at the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains. The two-day ...
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ClearBags Releases Airsafe Product Line
El Dorado Hills, CA March 15th, 2009--ClearBags announced the launch of a new product line of Airsafe Art Boxes that meet the stringent product protection requirements of the largest shipping carriers. "Ever have a customer tell you they buy your products for the packaging you use? Well at ClearBags, we hear it all the time! Many artistic professionals are so impressed with our outer ...
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Brand Loyalty Among Digital Camera Buyers Falls Significantly
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., Aug. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- As increasing digital camera model offerings challenge perceived product differentiation among consumers, only 26 percent of digital camera buyers say they would purchase the same camera brand in the future -- down from 35 percent in 2005, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2006 Digital Camera Satisfaction Study(SM) released today. ...
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Morocco recieves aid as part of EU ties
Morocco has taken another step forward in its several years long pursuit of closer ties with the EU, receiving a vote of confidence from the continent’s organizing body in the form of aid, which will be used to pursue areas of development needed to modernize and reform the country.
Morocco is to receive Euro 580 million (roughly MAD 6 billion) from the European Union over the next four years, according to a joint agreement that was signed between Morocco and the EU recently, which it is hoped will provide the country with the means to further integrate itself with the European economy. Read more
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