$1m Hogarth in Qld cupboard
Courrier Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday
A PORTRAIT believed to be an 18th century British masterpiece worth about $1 million has been uncovered by chance - in a Queensland cupboard.
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$1m masterpiece in cupboard
Courrier Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday
A PORTRAIT believed to be an 18th century British masterpiece worth about $1 million has been uncovered by chance.
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I Love Liverpool
P. Viktor (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Liverpool is without doubt one of my favourite cities in the world. I am perhaps biased in this as I have a long-running relationship with the city. My father was born and raised there as well as my grandmother and...
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Animations & Campaign Posters in Art
Creative Media Diploma Yasemin Cakli (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
For our art project we had to create a campaign that relates to a child’s right form the UNICEF website (www.unicef.org.uk/). In order to promote our campaign we had to design poster using inspiration from the Tate gallery exhibition 'Rodchenko and Popova'. Here are a few that our group designed: Now using these posters we are going to create an animation that relates to our campaign and that...
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Disasters and accidents postcards
Postcard Mania (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Humans have it seems always taken malicious delight in the misfortune of others. The Germans have a word for this - Schadenfreude. Many of the disasters to befall humankind in the early part of the twentieth century, from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and subsequent damage from fires through the 1912 sinking of the RMS [...]
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Happy Holidays
Sparkleknits (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
D and I are just back from a rather wonderful week in Cornwall. We were pretty lucky with the weather and although it was cold, it was clear and just about the perfect weather for wandering along deserted beaches and staring wistfully out at the sea. As you can see from the photo, my Flicca cardigan got its very first outing in public, accompanying me to St Ives where we took in the sea air and visited...
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Helen D (Blackbird) added the blog post 'The Unreal God And Aspects Of His Non-Existent Universe exhibited at A-ha's O2 gig in London'
Art reviw Alex Stalenbertg (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Helen D (Blackbird) added the blog post ' The Unreal God And Aspects Of His Non-Existent Universe exhibited at A-ha's O2 gig in London '
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Tormented Caravaggio and Bacon connect in Rome show
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
ROME (Reuters) - Portraits by Italian master Caravaggio and Irish-born 20th-century painter Francis Bacon stand side-by-side in new exhibition connecting their tormented views of humanity despite contrasting approaches to realism.
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Counterfeit Condom Factory Found In China • Jaycee Dugard's Family Needs Help [Leftovers]
Jezebel (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
• Chinese officials are cracking down on an illegal condom factory in the Hunan province, which produces "counterfeit" condoms that offer little to no protection. To make matters worse, the condoms... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Tate lands first female director
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Tate Britain appoints its first female director, Dr Penelope Curtis, currently curator of the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds.
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Historical Photos & Street View Mashup
Google Maps Mania (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Then & Now Then & Now is another entry from the MashupAustralia contest. The map is a mashup of historical photographs from Flickr and Google Maps Street View. In essence the site places historical photographs on Google Maps and shows the same location as it is now via Google's Street View imagery. Unfortunately there are a lot of false results produced and many of the photographs end up with...
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J.M.W. Turner and Politics
Gordon Frickers' Blog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
A one hour illustrated lecture was given last night at Plymouth University by Professor Sam Smiles on the painter J.M.W. Turner. As J.M.W. Turner has been a hero of mine since my early days as a student in the 1960’s at Maidstone College of Art and Turner is also known for his marine painting, I had [...]
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FO and Pattern: Belfry scarf
Bog Knits (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
I would normally name my projects after their recipients, like I did for Anastasia , Aleisha and Rhiannah . However I am not entirely read to go down in (this blog's) history, so this scarf is named after a line in Suzanne Vega's song "In Liverpool" . The chorus goes: Except for the boy in the belfry He's crazy, he's throwing himself Down from the top of the tower Like a hunchback in heaven...
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Comprehensive Solo Exhibition for Katharina Fritsch at Hamburg's Deichtorhallen
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
HAMBURG.- Since the artist’s inaugural exhibition of the K 21 in Düsseldorf in 2001, Deichtorhallen are the first to present a comprehensive solo exhibition of Katharina Fritsch (born in Essen, Germany in 1956). The work show, set up in cooperation with Kunsthaus Zürich, will be exclusively presented in Germany at Deichtorhallen Hamburg. As one of the leading female artists in Germany...
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Unemployed march in Dublin for jobs and home assistance
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
*NOVEMBER 2ND, 1932: * ---Quote--- A deputation representing the Limerick unemployed waited upon Mr O'Donovan, private secretary to the Free State...