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Detroit Free Press - Some are studied by schoolchildren and art students; others appear in the background of wedding and engagement photos. A half-dozen sculptures sprinkled throughout the Sterling Heights City Center grounds for the past two years will be replaced with ...

Bloomberg - Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) -- While the advent of a market for Chinese contemporary art fostered an international audience, in China, Beijing's Dashanzi district has led the way in giving the works a wider public audience. That role is cemented today with ...

Belfast Telegraph - If you hadn't already discovered Fionn Regan, you may recognise the Irish singer-songwriter from his nomination for this year's Mercury Music Prize, when he delivered a breathtaking performance of his song "Be Good or Be Gone". That he compared being ...

Daily Telegraph - A photograph of two young girls owned by Sir Elton John and seized from an art exhibition is not an indecent image, the Crown Prosecution Service has ruled. The picture, by the American photographer Nan Goldin, was removed from the exhibition at the ...

Forbes - LONDON, October 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Royal College of Art and Brioni, Italy's leading menswear luxury brand have sealed a three-year academic partnership agreement with the purpose of passing on the teachings of sartorial techniques to a new ...

New York Times - A drawing of the mummified, tattooed head of a Maori warrior at the Museum of Natural History at Rouen in Normandy. Mayor Pierre Albertini of Rouen, left, and Ambassador Sarah Dennis of New Zealand signed an agreement to return the head to New ...

International Herald Tribune - FERRARA, Italy : 'Great and splendid is Florence, yet the worth of all her heaped-up treasures does not equal Ferrara's jewels," declares a character in Goethe's drama on the life of the Ferrara court poet Tasso. Of all Italy's glittering Renaissance ...

International Herald Tribune - BRUSSELS, Belgium : Sixteen dinner guests sit at a long, narrow table discussing the ozone layer in a hodgepodge of languages, from English to Dutch to Japanese. The buzz of their exchanges fills a cavernous gallery at the BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts ...

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - (October 26, 2007) — Jon Karafin of Rochester has turned the city's Public Safety Building into something of a laboratory. With the help of a group of Rochester After School Academy students, Karafin is constructing a 25-foot-high experimental ...

Oregonian - All phone numbers listed are area code 503. Cinema 21: 616 N.W. 21st Ave. (223-4515). Admission: $4-$7. Details: www.cinema21.com. "Bladerunner: The Final Cut" (1982, 117 min.) See review. Mon-Thu. Check Web site for times. 4:30, 7 and 9:25 p.m. Fri ...