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Travel Postcard: 48 hours for art-lovers in Canberra
Got 48 hours to spend in the Australian capital of Canberra? Canberra is home to some of the country's top museums and art galleries, giving visitors who enjoy cultural activities the chance of a busy weekend.
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Art in Review
Martín Ramírez at the American Folk Art Museum, ?I Am a Man? at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Zaha Hadid at Sonnabend and more.
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Eli Broad Plans Another Art Space
Eli Broad, the philanthropist whose gift financed a new contemporary-art building this year at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is planning to build another exhibition space for his vast collection.
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ART BYPASS SAVES CROOKS
A hole-in-the-wall gang may have made a smart decision when they bypassed a high-security SoHo gallery displaying $250 million worth of art - and instead smashed their way into an apartment next door. They scored only $7,000 and a laptop after...
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Argentine art stands out in lackluster Latam sale
Argentine art drew record prices at Christie's auction house to become the standout in an otherwise lackluster Latin American art sale.
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Eli Broad's Museum to Keep Art Out of `Basement' (Update2)
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire art collector and philanthropist Eli Broad may build a Beverly Hills gallery so his contemporary photos, paintings and sculptures don't sit in a ``museum basement.''
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Eli Broad's Museum to Keep Art Out of `Basement' (Correct)
(Corrects third paragraph to show Broad meant to say he doesn't want to join Museum of Contemporary Art's board.) Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire art collector and philanthropist Eli Broad said he wants to build a Beverly Hills gallery for his artwork so the collection of contemporary photos paintings and sculptures doesn't wind up in a ``museum basement.''
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Eli Broad’s Museum to Keep Art Out of ‘Basement’ (Update1)
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire art collector and philanthropist Eli Broad said he wants to build a Beverly Hills gallery for his artwork so the collection of contemporary photos paintings and sculptures doesn’t wind up in a “museum basement.”
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Were the World Mine (2008)
Tanner Cohen, left, and Nathaniel David Becker in “Were the World Mine,” inspired by “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Model Karolina Kurkova world's sexiest woman: report
Lingerie model Karolina Kurkova has been voted the world's sexiest woman by E! entertainment television, beating sultry actresses Angelina Jolie and Scarlett Johansson for the honor.
NATO ready to help Africa, but is not world's policeman: chief
NATO is ready to strengthen its ties with Africa, but Africa should come up with solutions to its problems and not expect NATO to police the world, its secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Thursday.
World stocks down amid fears of deep recession
World stocks fell sharply Thursday as fears of a deep global recession gripped markets and sent oil prices below $50 a barrel to levels not seen in more than three years.
World Bank Arm Backs Small Palm Growers on Climate (Update1)
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- The International Finance Corp. , the World Bank's investment arm, said it will help lenders in Indonesia to finance small-scale palm oil growers to encourage so-called sustainable practices and forestall climate change.
Google to shut down virtual world Lively at year-end
The Internet giant, which launched the site less than five months ago, says it wants to focus on its core search business. Not all Google Inc. endeavors turn into gold. Lively, a virtual world the Internet giant launched less than five months ago, will be shut down at the end of the year so Google can focus on its bread-and-butter search business.
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