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Lake Elmo Regional Art Center growing its presence

LAKE ELMO - Residents who attended last week's Lake Elmo City Council meeting found a bit more than zoning maps adorning the walls. A French sidewalk scene, a painting of thick woods and several other pieces of art hung prominently behind the council members, allowing attendees to admire the art in between listening to discussions over water-rate policies and wireless telecommunications ...

Les Jolis Welcomes “French Touch”

Opening this week at Les Jolis Trésors — Long Beach’s latest contemporary art gallery to open on East Broadway — is “French Accent, French Touch,” a new exhibit featuring the works of three distinct artists.

Art Exhibits

The Creamery Arts Center, 411 N. Sherman Parkway, home of the Springfield Regional Arts Council, presents an invitational exhibition, "Open Doors," featuring work of local artists created on doors or with a door theme. Work on display through Saturday. 862-2787, www.SpringfieldArts.org. Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays.

Erika Greenberg-Schneider and Dominique Labauvie: The art of living

The art of living... By Megan Voeller When an exhibition of French sculptor Dominique Labauvie's work opens at the Tampa Museum of Art on Aug. 13, his graceful steel pieces won't have traveled far to be on display. Just a few miles north of the museum, in a converted warehouse in Tampa Heights shared by Labauvie, his wife, printmaker Erika Greenberg-Schneider, and their teenage daughter, the ...

Mystery of family’s art unraveled: Stolen during World War II

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A cache of art stolen at the end of World War II is finally back where it belongs, after a 65-year odyssey featuring a transatlantic smuggling, a secret hideaway and — in the end — a little browsing on the Internet. It was last possessed by Beth Ann McFadden of Cornelius, N.C., who, while growing up in New Jersey, heard about the war booty her great uncle kept hidden behind a ...

Tom Long: 'Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky' review: Commerce and art collision hurt by posturing

With a cast that includes French, Russian and Danish actors, not to mention a director from the Netherlands, "Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky" fairly reeks of upper-class pretension. It's painfully posed at times, but elegantly erotic at others.

Devil may wear Prada, but Virgin Mary dons Louis Vuitton

The devil may well wear Prada, but at a biennial exhibition of sacred art in Italy, a statue of the Virgin Mary is donning Louis Vuitton, local newspaper Il Centro reported on Thursday.

MoMA’s ‘Original Copy,’ Photos Meet Sculpture

“The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today,” which opens at MoMA on Sunday, is brainy and bookish and gives us new ways of looking at art.

Virgin Mary dons LV

ROME - THE devil may well wear Prada, but at a biennial exhibition of sacred art in Italy, a statue of the Virgin Mary is donning Louis Vuitton, local newspaper Il Centro reported on Thursday. The veil traditionally covering the Virgin's head bears the French luxury brand's trademark 'LV' logo in golden letters decorating bags - many of them counterfeit - around the world.

French Police Search Home of L'Oreal Heiress Bettencourt's Daughter

The search was taking place today at the house in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office, who declined to be named, said by telephone.

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