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RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition winner announced
Arts Hub (United Kingdom) 28 Aug 2008
Jennifer McRae has been selected as this years RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition winner, with her watercolour ‘David by the window, Spencer’s Belle Vue’.
Kounter Kulture launches at London Art Week
Arts Hub (United Kingdom) 28 Aug 2008
An edgy and exciting new art fair is set to burst onto London’s arts scene this October.
Gormley returns to Guernsey
Arts Hub (United Kingdom) 28 Aug 2008
Award-winning artist Antony Gormley will visit Guernsey’s Castle Cornet in late September for a conference examining ‘Art and Islands in Today’s Global Economy’.
EAC Over 60s Art Awards
Arts Hub (United Kingdom) 28 Aug 2008
The EAC Over 60s Art Awards has attracted an outstanding quality of entries from a cross section of older people throughout the UK.
Damoah to spark more controversy with her art
Arts Hub (United Kingdom) 28 Aug 2008
Adelaide Damoah, best known for her 2006 exhibition, ‘Black Brits’, will unveil her latest exhibition entitled ‘Supermodels’ this coming October.
A Muppet A to Z
The Age (Australia) 27 Aug 2008
The Jim Henson retrospective at ACMI next month is part of a renewed fascination with all things Muppet.
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- Film/ TV/ Radio
Glory days of gory tales
The Age (Australia) 27 Aug 2008
Our schlock-horror Ozploitation movies are rediscovered.
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- Film/ TV/ Radio
Fringe ticket sales fall by 10%
BBC News (United Kingdom) 27 Aug 2008
Ticket sales at this year's Edinburgh Fringe were down by almost 10% - the first fall in eight years.
Casting Asia as a player in the A-list art game
International Herald Tribune (Singapore) 27 Aug 2008
Asian contemporary art has seen its star rise markedly in recent years. Yet the region has yet to produce art fairs to rival those in the West like Art Basel in Switzerland, Frieze Art Fair in London, the Armory Show in New York and Art Basel Miami Beach.
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- Visual Arts & Crafts
Mortier hopes to run both NYC Opera and Bayreuth
Yahoo! News (USA) 27 Aug 2008
Gerard Mortier says his application to run the Bayreuth Festival in Germany will not change his plans to run the New York City Opera starting with the 2009-10 season.
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- Performing Arts
- Music
BMI tops in performance revenues
Variety (USA) 27 Aug 2008
BMI has become the first copyright organization to top $900 million in annual music performance revenues, besting last year's mark by 7.2%.
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- Music
The day English classical music died
The Times (United Kingdom) 27 Aug 2008
Composers have struggled to find a popular audience since the death of Vaughan Williams.
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- Music
Major studio film shoots in Los Angeles grind almost to a halt
The Los Angeles Times (USA) 27 Aug 2008
Production was ramped up in anticipation of a possible actors strike, with most big-budget movies for next year wrapping by June 30.
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- Film/ TV/ Radio
Shakespeare’s Globe to release music through own label
The Stage (United Kingdom) 27 Aug 2008
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre is set to launch its own record label in order to reach new audiences across the world.
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- Performing Arts
- Music
Music groups assess cutbacks' damage
The Star (Canada) 27 Aug 2008
The Canadian music community, bewildered by the federal government's recent decisions to cut some $20 million in arts funding, is starting to assess the potentially devastating damage to their business.
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- Music
Crying Censorship
The New York Times Blogs (USA) 27 Aug 2008
Salman Rushdie, self-appointed poster boy for the First Amendment, is at it again.
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- Writing & Publishing
Lawsuit Over Disputed Warhol Will Go Forward
The New York Sun (USA) 27 Aug 2008
A suit involving the artist John Chamberlain and a work that may or may not be by Andy Warhol will go forward, after a judge denied Mr. Chamberlain's attorney's request for summary judgment.
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- Visual Arts & Crafts
The Angel of the North: welcome to the age of the 'enginartist'
The Telegraph (United Kingdom) 27 Aug 2008
A stunning giant sculpture three times the size of 'The Angel of the North' will for the first time see an engineer given equal billing with an artist.
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- Visual Arts & Crafts
Chicago art collector dies
The Chicago Tribune (USA) 27 Aug 2008
Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman, the doyenne of Chicago's collectors of modern art and one of the most cosmopolitan figures on the scene, died Friday at age 94.
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- Visual Arts & Crafts
The man who saw the future
The Guardian (USA) 27 Aug 2008
In the 1970s, visionary architect Paolo Soleri built an extraordinary eco-city in the Arizona desert. Did it work? Steve Rose tracks down a guru who now finds himself back in demand.
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- Design
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