Topic: ART - on June 10, 2004 at 2:12:00 PM CEST
Museum treasures on show online
Thousands of unseen exhibits from three of the UK's leading museums will today be made available by the launch of a new science website.
For the first time, more than 30,000 objects from the collections of the Science museum, the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television and the National Railway museum will be accessible at
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Topic: ART - on June 10, 2004 at 11:43:00 AM CEST
Künstler fertigte aus seinem Sperma ein Gemälde von George Bush an
Im Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York konnten Kunstliebhaber bis vor kurzem ein ganz besonderes Bild betrachten. Ein Künstler, dessen Name bisher unbekannt ist, fertigte Bilder von Bush und Clinton an.
An insgesamt vier bedeutenden Kunstmuseen wurden die Bilder zur Ausstellung an die Außenwände geklebt. Auf einem Schild neben einem Bild des derzeitigen US-Präsidenten war jedoch ein ungewöhnlicher Hinweis angebracht.
Dort konnte man nachlesen, dass in dem 20 mal 40 Zentimeter Bild nicht nur Acryl sondern auch 'der Samen des Künstlers' eingearbeitet wurde.
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Topic: ART - on June 8, 2004 at 6:25:00 AM CEST
"100 Jahre Bloomsday": Auch Österreich feiert mit
Auch in Österreich gibt es am und um den 16. Juni, dem hundertsten "Bloomsday", zu Ehren seines Schöpfers James Joyce (1882 - 1944) zahlreiche Veranstaltungen, wie Ausstellungen, Lesungen, Filmvorführungen, Performances.
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Topic: ART - on June 7, 2004 at 2:24:00 PM CEST
Sound of Bloomsday comes 100 years later
You wait a century for a recording of every word of Ulysses and then 54 CDs of James Joyce's masterpiece come along at once.
Rival versions - one on 22 CDs, the other on 32 - of the complete text are launched this month to mark the anniversary of the book acknowledged as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century but also as one of the most started, least finished, books in the world.
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Topic: ART - on June 6, 2004 at 12:37:00 AM CEST
Artist Covers Bed With 312 Pounds Of Ham
Some see it as appetizing, some see it as a waste of food, and others think it's just plain weird.
An artist who is best known for his work with cheese has ventured into a different medium. In a street-level gallery of a Manhattan hotel Thursday Cosimo Cavallaro performed his latest work -- 312 pounds of processed ham covering a four-poster bed.
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Topic: ART - on June 5, 2004 at 9:14:00 PM CEST
Magicians Take Sides Over Houdini Exhibit
The secret of Harry Houdini's signature "Metamorphosis" escape trick is out of the bag. A new exhibit, "A.K.A. Houdini," opened Wednesday at the Outagamie Museum, revealing how Houdini, handcuffed inside a sack and locked in a trunk, somehow managed to switch places with an assistant on the outside. (IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW HOW, DO NOT READ THE NEXT PARAGRAPH.)
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Topic: ART - on June 4, 2004 at 5:46:00 PM CEST
Why Stalin loved Tarzan and wanted John Wayne shot
The Soviet dictator was also a film buff who'd teach Eisenstein how to make movies. Simon Sebag Montefiore delves into the newly opened Politburo archives
Every one of Stalin's houses had its own private cinema, and in his last years, the cinema became not only his favourite entertainment but also a source of political inspiration. It was one of the venues from which he ruled the Soviet Empire: this was cinematocracy - rule by cinema.
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Topic: ART - on May 31, 2004 at 1:39:00 PM CEST
Frank Zander zeigt Ausstellung der etwas anderen Art
Frank Zander ist überwiegend durch seine Partysongs wie 'Oh, Susi' oder 'Ich trink auf dein Wohl, Marie' bekannt. Auch als Moderator war der ehemalige Grafikstudent im Fernsehen zu sehen.
In Berlin wird er am Dienstag eine Ausstellung der besonderen Art in einer Galerie zeigen. 'Das wird ein Happening. Es gibt Ibiza-Schnaps und ich fahre mit der Kutsche vor.', kommentiert der Künstler selbst.
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Topic: ART - on May 30, 2004 at 4:56:00 PM CEST
Controversial Gallery Owner Attacked
he got death threats after she displayed controversial paintings of US forces in Iraq at her San Francisco shop. Now, some believe, someone's anger over an artist's work has led to an attack on both a gallery owner and free speech.
The attack on the gallery owner is frightening enough, but she says trying to silence freedom of expression is even more dangerous.
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Topic: ART - on May 29, 2004 at 11:44:00 AM CEST
Police Weed Out Art Exhibition
A Swedish art exhibit featuring cannabis plants may have to be canceled after police confiscated the plants in a drugs bust.
The exhibition, due to open on Saturday in the university town of Lund and titled "Counterclockwise Circumambulation," was partially destroyed when police cut the plants to take them away as evidence, artist Sture Johannesson said.
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Topic: ART - on May 29, 2004 at 10:26:00 AM CEST
Wireless web gets a set of wheels
Wireless hotspots are springing up in buildings and homes all over the world but one New York artist has literally taken the idea onto the streets, turning his bicycle into a wi-fi hub.
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Topic: ART - on May 26, 2004 at 8:42:00 PM CEST
JPEG Baby (a love song)
A Love Song for the 21st Century DER Sommer-Hit !!!!!
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