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series concluded, having achieved a remarkable total of £251,047,957 ($497,450,648) –the highest total for any series of Summer Sales ever staged by the company in Europe. 15 new artist records were set (including many for works by leading artists 2008-07-05 05:22:54  Francis Bacon's Study for a head of George Dyer achieved £13.7 ($27.4) Million at Sotheby's Contemporary Sale © Sotheby's Images 2008-07-05 05:22:54 Source Art Knowledge News NEW YORK The image of Ted Koppel interviewing world leaders is so ingrained that it feels odd to see him wearing a hardhat for a nervous trip into a Chinese coal mine, or sitting in a Chongqing karaoke bar where teenage girls are hired to "entertain" 2008-07-07 05:04:57  In this image released by the Discovery Channel, Ted Koppel poses with a coal miner in Datong, in the Chongqing province of China, for a four-part series examining contemporary China called, "Koppel on Discovery: The People's Republic of Capitalism," premiering Wednesday July 9 at 10 p.m. and continuing through Saturday, July 12, on Discovery Channel. 2008-07-07 05:04:57 Source Kansas City Star The ArtsKC Fund has announced its 2008 grants to arts organizations and art programs. Twenty established arts organizations received $413,425 in Ovation Grants, which are earmarked for operating expenses. Forty-five smaller arts projects 2008-07-14 22:03:39  The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College is one of 20 organizations to receive ArtsKC funding for the first time. 2008-07-14 22:03:39 Source Kansas City Star On May 11, 2004, Steve Kurtz awoke to find his wife Hope dead in their bed. But that was only the beginning of his ordeal within hours, he found himself at the center of a bioterrorism investigation even Kafka would have dismissed as too paranoid a 2008-07-14 04:31:26  Artist Steve Kurtz poses for a portrait in his gallery exhibit at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo, NY. 2008-07-14 04:31:26 Source Time The image of Ted Koppel interviewing world leaders is so ingrained that it feels odd to see him wearing a hardhat for a nervous trip into a Chinese coal mine, or sitting in a Chongqing karaoke bar where teenage girls are hired to "entertain" male 2008-07-06 18:05:00  In this image released by the Discovery Channel, Ted Koppel poses with a coal miner in Datong, in the Chongqing province of China, for a four-part series examining contemporary China called, "Koppel on Discovery: The People's Republic of Capitalism," premiering Wednesday July 9 at 10 p.m. and continuing through Saturday, July 12, on Discovery Channel. 2008-07-06 18:05:00 Source Miami Herald We have officially entered the depths of summer here in NYC, and local art museums have really turned up the heat with a provocative line-up of environmentally charged exhibitions. The New Museum on the Bowery just opened its much-anticipated, After 2008-07-19 16:24:36  After Nature The New Museum, After Nature exhibition, After Nature show, After Nature contemporary art, After Nature environmental art, After Nature Werner Herzog, After Nature Massimiliano Gioni, eco-art NYC, environmental art NYC, documentary film the Gulf War, Werner Herzog Lessons of Darkness 2008-07-19 16:24:36 Source Inhabitat The band chants lyrics in Hebrew while a guitarist prances on stage to a pulsing rock beat. If it looks and sounds like a "new day" for Jewish music - well, that's what the band's name, Yom Hadash, means in Hebrew.
Marshfield-based Congregation Shirat 2008-07-24 05:20:04  The band Yom Hadash, led by cantor Jon Nelson, lends a contemporary beat to traditional Jewish music. They’re performing this Saturday in Scituate. 2008-07-24 05:20:04 Source Boston Globe In the last couple of years a flurry of exhibits has tackled the issue, including ̶ 2008-07-24 23:37:00  The “Human/Nature” exhibit features large-scale color photographs by 10 contemporary European photographers. “Verdun 1916, Le Mort Homme” (2001) is one of three present-day images of World War I battle sites by Bart Michiels. 2008-07-24 23:37:00 Source Kansas City Star Valencia, Spain - This exhibition forms part of the agreement that Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM) and Shanghai International Culture Association subscribed, which last year presented at IVAM an exhibition of contemporary painting made by 2008-07-30 04:50:23  Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM) hosts an exhibition of contemporary Chinese art made by five artists of the Shanghai School using the same tools their ancestors, such as ink, brush and paper to propose new techniques - Photo: Biel Aliño 2008-07-30 04:50:23 Source Art Knowledge News "Recognize! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture," at the National Portrait Gallery through Oct. 26, includes "Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five."
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"Blue," at the Textile Museum, showcases pieces from around the world, 2008-07-25 06:08:52  Recognize! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture," at the National Portrait Gallery through Oct. 26, includes "Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. 2008-07-25 06:08:52 Source The Washington Post So everybody is thinking what does the modern furniture genre brings? It is well known that there is a lot of modern contemporary furniture available today as well as loads of information form both off line and online resources to give you a first hand
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Since Chinese art has become red hot in the international contemporary art market, many of the most prominent Chinese pieces are being bought by foreigners and exhibited overseas.
Guan Yi, a Chinese ex-business man who made millions in chemical
A call for 2D and 3D submissions for a group exhibition featuring the works of emerging artists from TX, LA, MS, AL and FL. This exhibition will open Jan. 3, 2009 during the upcoming biennial, Prospect 1: New Orleans, "the largest biennial of
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The Museum of Modern Art presents Premiere Brazil!, its sixth annual exhibition of contemporary Brazilian cinema, July 17 through 31, 2008. A collaboration between MoMA and the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, this series introduces New York
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(TrendHunter.com) In Aritzia stores in Canada, shopping for fashion is made even more special with artsy shopping bags. The shopping bags are the retailer's medium to highlight the works of their favorite artists, as well…
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Tanya Tagaq
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After the 2005 release of her first debut CD Sinaa, Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq continues to dazzle audiences with her ongoing collaboration with Icelandic singer/songwriter Björk in recording the
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NEW YORK CITY - Aicon Gallery, 206 5th Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, presents a group show of contemporary Pakistani miniaturists; artists Ayesha Durrani, Ahsan Jamal, Amjad Ali Talpur, Farida Batool, and Sumaira Tazeen. These artists are being
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Benchmark contemporary art sales in London last week ended the first half of the 2008 auction season on a buoyant note.
As expected, trophy pieces led sales. Francis Bacon's typically distorted "Three Studies for Self-Portrait" (1975) fetched $34.1
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Tanya Tagaq
Auk/Blood (Ipecac Records, 2008)
After the 2005 release of her first debut CD Sinaa, Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq continues to dazzle audiences with her ongoing collaboration with Icelandic singer/songwriter Björk in recording the
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 The Word of the Day in quotes.  We’re trying just to exploit the qualities of that building and make a contemporary intervention that balances the space with Pace’s program of contemporary artI call my artistic style Contemporary Renaissance because, at this point, if you look at the paintings, they’re very reminiscent of old classics and classical realism, but the subject matter is contemporary, very modernSource Art on the lakefront
 I would do anything to help Jeffrey make the Glenbow part of the [contemporary art] community again ... A lot of us wanted to make sure that we could do something to support this idea that contemporary art is on the agenda again.It won't just be copies of historical spaces or historical parks. It will be something like a contemporary view, a contemporary sense of our historyPerhaps today's chasm of incomprehension is because contemporary dance and contemporary visual arts have headed off in different directions; or perhaps it's down to something deeper, an altogether different zeitgeist.Source When Disciplines Diverge
connect contemporary people with Shakespeare and engage with the world as we know it, mining Shakespeare for inspiration but also drawing from contemporary writers and artists to re-examine his workThe Oriental pictures were kind of contemporary, and the pictures from South America and Central America were stark ... There was one from the Orient, I think Japan, that was very small but contemporary and funky -- very fun.This is the first time I have tried to fuse different genres of art though it is very common in the world of contemporary dance globallyWe're trying to bring a completely contemporary and entertaining perspective on an intellectual action hero true to his origins where he was more of an action guy originally.The principal problem of the Middle East ... is the failure of the contemporary state system.Source What Is the Arab World
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