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Access to Art Crafts and Artists at the Design Tower

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 7:51:00 PM

The Design Tower an historic and protected stone building in Dublin's docklands, Grand Canal Quay, is the home to several gifted award-wining artists and craftspeople; jeweller Linda Uhlemann, cer ...   Full Story

Japan's Ainu Fuse Tradition, Hip-Hop for Awareness

Monday, December 03, 2007 12:34:00 PM

TOKYO—When Tsubasa Okitsu was growing up in northern Japan, he was ashamed of his heritage as an Ainu, an indigenous ethnic group that has long suffered discrimination in a country where many take pri ...   Full Story

New Research Reveals Gems in British Art Galleries

Saturday, December 01, 2007 12:12:00 PM

LONDON—An unknown and much abused 17th century painting that shows the earliest known view of the front of the Flemish artist Rubens' house in Antwerp is just one of the art gems discovered in new ...   Full Story

Papunya Art Exhibition Opens in Canberra

Saturday, December 01, 2007 12:05:00 PM

Three decades ago indigenous artists from the Papunya region in the Northern Territory created paintings that would go on to transform the art world.   Full Story

U.S. Painting Goes From Trash to $1 Million Treasure

Friday, November 30, 2007 12:12:00 PM

An oil painting by Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo that was plucked from a sidewalk trash heap several years ago sold for more than $1 million Tuesday at Sotheby's auction of Latin American art.   Full Story

Sotheby's Puts New Rowling Book on Display

Thursday, November 29, 2007 12:15:00 PM

LONDON—Southeby's auctioneers displayed a rare copy of J.K. Rowling's book The Tales of Beedle the Bard last week, ahead of a charity auction on Dec. 13 when the work is expected top fe ...   Full Story

Capturing Construction on Film

Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:07:00 PM

NEW YORK—Berlin photographer Roland Horn recorded the construction of Berlin's new central train station, the Berlin Hauptbahnhof, over a period of eight years. Horn's photographs offer us ins ...   Full Story

The Met Shows Many-Splendored Tapestries

Wednesday, November 28, 2007 12:35:00 PM

NEW YORK—Following the groundbreaking international loan exhibition "Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art five years ago, the Met has opened an equally ...   Full Story

Early Elizabeth I portrait fetches $5.3 million

Wednesday, November 28, 2007 12:30:00 PM

The earliest known full-length portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, thought to have been commissioned to help the English monarch "advertise" herself to potential suitors, sold last week for $5.3 million.   Full Story

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