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Painting in the Park at Lori Bookstein Fine Art (Art Daily)Carolyn Harris-Park, River and Monument II. NEW YORK.- Lori Bookstein Fine Art hosts "Painting in the Park," a celebration of New York City's most valuable assets—its numerous parks—and the painters who have immortalized them over the course of the last century. |
Riciano Art Gallery to hold painting contest (The Log Cabin Democrat)The Riciano Art Gallery 2008 painting contest will accept entries until July 31. Entry fee is $20 per painting. Contest categories comprise oil, acrylic, pastel and watercolor. |
Art in the city this weekend (New York Daily News)Embark on a surrealist adventure at MoMa's "Dali: Painting and Film." If you're craving something more mod, check out the Met for "Pop Art: Works on Paper." |
Goldie oil painting brings 'remarkable' price (Stuff)A Goldie oil painting of a Maori chieftainess astounded art experts in Auckland last night when it sold at auction for $323,000. |
Art's Real Thing Was Never Sold on Success (Washington Post)LOS ANGELES -- Back in the star-drunk, money-laundering days of the '80s art scene in New York, painter Chuck Connelly was accosted by a good-looking young woman at a downtown restaurant opening. |
Sculpture by Painters - Painting in Dialogue with Plastic Art at Museum Frieder Burda (Art Daily)Paul Gauguin, Parau Api. Gibt's was Neues, 1892. Oil on canvas, 67 x 91 cm. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister. Photo: Jürgen Karpinski, Dresden. |
Buying frenzy lights up the Iranian art market (AFP via Yahoo! News)The prices have soared by a factor of 20 within two years, the galleries are packed with prospective buyers and the works are both modern and daring., but this is not s description of the art scene in New York, Paris or London, but Tehran. |
Spain's Prado stirs controversy declaring famous Goya oil painting is not a Goya after all (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)MADRID, Spain - For years Spain's famed Prado museum had its suspicions about one of its most prized Goyas. Now the museum says it is certain the painting is not by the 18th-century master. |
Local artist’s painting is chosen for exhibition (Vermillion Plain Talk)Local Vermillion artist, Jeanette Williams has had her acrylic painting, “Spirit Mound” chosen for exhibition in the national Horizontal Grandeur fine art exhibition. This exhibition, held at the Stevens County Historical Museum in Morris, MN will run from July 11 until Oct. 31. |
Oil painting worth £15,000 stolen (BBC News)A painting of a woman by a Spanish impression is stolen from an art gallery in Northumberland. |
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