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Tobacco group's art collection fetches record price (AFP via Yahoo! News)

An art collection put together by British American Tobacco over five decades to liven up its factories and "inspire" workers was sold for a Dutch record 13.6 million euros, Sotheby's said Tuesday.

BAT art collection fetches record price (BigPond News)

An art collection by British American Tobacco has sold for a Dutch record ($A20.39 million).

BAT art collection fetches record price (Sky News Australia)

An art collection by British American Tobacco over five decades to liven up its factories was sold for a Dutch record ($A20.

Science and art exhibit presses global-warming awareness (Detroit News)

Kids will cotton to "Cape Farewell: Art & Climate Change" the minute they're startled by the immense crashing that erupts every 20 minutes. "Cape Farewell" is part of the ongoing "Artology" collaboration between the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Cranbrook Institute of Science, where the show is hung.

BAT Makes $18.5 Million in Sotheby’s Biggest Dutch Art Sale (Bloomberg)

March 9 (Bloomberg) -- British American Tobacco Plc , Europe’s second-largest cigarette maker, made 13.6 million euros ($18.5 million) last night in what Sotheby’s said was the highest total for an art auction in the Netherlands.

British government, HIV/AIDS advocates warn decreased aid budgets could lead to reversals in HIV/AIDS treatment progress (News-Medical-Net)

Recent gains in the global fight against HIV/AIDS could be reversed as the "global economic downturn pinches poor countries' budgets and donors show signs of backing away from their promise to provide universal access to AIDS treatment," the British government together with Medecins Sans Frontieres warned Tuesday, Reuters AlertNet reports.

Abbas Tyrewala hires 'The Hurt Locker' art director (New Kerala)

New Delhi, March 11 : Filmmaker Abbas Tyrewala has hired David Bryan, who was the supervising art director for multiple Oscar winning movie 'The Hurt Locker', to work on his next movie '1-800-Love'. The latter says working on a Bollywood movie is a great experience.

Tobacco group's art collection on sale (AFP via Yahoo! News)

An art collection put together by British American Tobacco over the last 50 years to liven up its factories and "inspire" workers, will be auctioned in Amsterdam on Monday, Sotheby's said.

BAT art collection fetches record price (thewest.com.au)

An art collection by British American Tobacco over five decades to liven up its factories was sold for a Dutch record ($A20.39 million), Sotheby's said.

Jenny Holzer, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (Independent)

We live in a jaded world where we are bombarded by information, much of it in the form of text. It must have been quite different when Jenny Holzer was setting out in the 1970s. She made her name in the pre-digital media stone age on the cutting edge of the New York underground art scene, pitching for the attention of passers-by with fly posters carrying a few well-chosen words pursuing ...

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